| Prof. Chao LUThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Prof. Chao LU obtained his BEng in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 1985. He received his MSc and PhD degree from University of Manchester, UK in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University(NTU), Singapore in 1991 as a Lecturer and has served there as Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor until 2006. From June 2002 to December 2005, he was seconded to the Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, as Program Director and Department Manager leading a research group in the area of optical communication and fibre devices. Since April 2006, he has been with the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Professor. He serves as a Visiting Professor to the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University(NTU) from Dec 2013 to Dec 2014. Over the years, he has published more than 300 papers in major international journals such as Optics Express, Optics Letters, IEEE Photonic Technology Letters and IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology. He has presented many papers and has given a number of invited talks in major international conferences. He has been organizer or technical program committee member of many international conferences. His research interests are in the area of optical communication systems and networks, fibre devices for optical communication and sensor systems. In addition to academic research work, he has had many industrial collaborative research projects and has a number of awarded patents. He is a Fellow of OSA. |
| Prof. Changyuan YuThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Prof. Changyuan YU received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, USA in 2005. He was a visiting researcher at NEC Labs America in Princeton, USA in 2005. He then joined the faculty of National University of Singapore (NUS) in 12/2005, where he served as the founding leader of Photonic System Research Group in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering till 12/2015. He was also a joint senior scientist with Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore in this period. And he was a visiting professor with Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia in 2007. In 12/2015, he joined the faculty of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he is now a full professor in Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, while he also continues as an adjunct faculty member of NUS. His research focuses on photonic devices, subsystems, optical fiber communication and sensor systems, and biomedical instruments. He has been the PI/co-PI/co-I of 50+ research projects with over 10 million US dollars fund from the government agencies and industries of Singapore, Hong Kong, mainland China, USA, and Australia, and supervised 20+ postdocs and 40+ PhD students. He has authored/co-authored 10+ patents, 6 book chapters, and 600+ journal/conference papers (100+ keynote/invited, including OFC in USA). He served in technical program committee (TPC) or organizing committee for 100+ international conferences, and Telecommunications Standards Advisory Committee for Singapore government. His group won 8 best paper awards in conferences and the national championship (biomedical area) in the 3rd China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in 2014. He is an Optica/OSA fellow. |
| Prof. Han ZhangShenzhen University, China Professor Zhang Han is a Distinguished Professor at the College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, and has achieved outstanding results in the field of ultrafast laser technology and its applications. He received his Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, conducted postdoctoral research at the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, and previously held a faculty position at Hunan University before joining Shenzhen University in 2013. His research focuses primarily on ultrafast laser sources (developing high-power, broadband femtosecond/attosecond pulsed lasers), ultrafast laser computing (developing efficient photonic computing architectures combined with machine learning), and ultrafast laser therapy (exploring precision applications in ophthalmology, tumor ablation, and other medical fields). Professor Zhang was selected for the "Thousand Young Talents Program" of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and received the "Excellent Young Scientist Fund" from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He has been honored with multiple awards, including the Guangdong Provincial Youth Science and Technology Award, the Guangdong Provincial May Fourth Youth Medal, the Guangdong Provincial Ding Ying Science and Technology Award, and the Shenzhen Youth Science and Technology Award. His research achievements have also earned him several prizes, including the First Prize of Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Award, the First Prize of Guangxi Technological Invention Award, the First Prize of Shenzhen Natural Science Award, and the Second Prize of the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award. He has led a number of major national, provincial, and municipal research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China, key projects of the NSFC, the Guangdong Provincial Basic and Applied Basic Research Major Project (Cornerstone Program), and the Shenzhen Peacock Team Project. He is recognized as a leading scholar in ultrafast optics with capabilities in both theoretical innovation and industrial application. |
