Xiaoyi Bao is the Canada Research Chair professor (Tier I) in Fiber Optics and Photonics in Center for Research in Photonics, physics department, University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests range from study of nonlinear effects in fibers to make fiber device, fiber lasers and fiber sensing instrumentation for physical, chemical and bio sensing, fabrication of micro and nano-fibers and structured fibers using specialty fibers. She is a fellow of Royal Society of Canada (RSC), OSA and SPIE.