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Prof. Changyuan YU

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Prof. Changyuan YU received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Univ. of Southern California, USA in 2005. He was a visiting researcher at NEC Labs America in Princeton, USA in 2005. He joined the faculty of National Univ. of Singapore (NUS) in 12/2005, where he served as the founding leader of Photonic System Research Group in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering until 12/2015. He was also a joint senior scientist with A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in this period. He was a visiting professor with the Univ. of Melbourne, Australia in 2007. In 12/2015, he joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., where he is now a full professor in Dept. of Electronic and Information Engineering, while he also continues as an adjunct faculty member of NUS. His research focuses on photonic devices, optical fiber communication and sensor systems, and biomedical instruments. He has been the PI/co-PI/co-I of 50+ research projects with 10 million+ US dollars funded, and supervised 10+ postdocs and 20+ PhD students. He has authored/co-authored 6 book chapters and 500+ journal/conference papers (100+ keynote/invited, including OFC in USA). He served in organizing or technical program committees (TPC) for 80+ international conferences and the Telecommunications Standards Advisory Committee for Singapore government. His group won 7 best paper awards in conferences and the national championship in the 3rd China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in 2014.

Research Keywords & Expertise

Optical sensor
Biomedical instrumenta...
Optical Communication
Optical fiber communic...
Photonics and optical ...

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Optical Communication
Optical sensor
Optical fiber communication and network
Photonics and optical processing

Short Biography

Prof. Changyuan YU received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Univ. of Southern California, USA in 2005. He was a visiting researcher at NEC Labs America in Princeton, USA in 2005. He joined the faculty of National Univ. of Singapore (NUS) in 12/2005, where he served as the founding leader of Photonic System Research Group in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering until 12/2015. He was also a joint senior scientist with A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in this period. He was a visiting professor with the Univ. of Melbourne, Australia in 2007. In 12/2015, he joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., where he is now a full professor in Dept. of Electronic and Information Engineering, while he also continues as an adjunct faculty member of NUS. His research focuses on photonic devices, optical fiber communication and sensor systems, and biomedical instruments. He has been the PI/co-PI/co-I of 50+ research projects with 10 million+ US dollars funded, and supervised 10+ postdocs and 20+ PhD students. He has authored/co-authored 6 book chapters and 500+ journal/conference papers (100+ keynote/invited, including OFC in USA). He served in organizing or technical program committees (TPC) for 80+ international conferences and the Telecommunications Standards Advisory Committee for Singapore government. His group won 7 best paper awards in conferences and the national championship in the 3rd China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in 2014.