YU Changyuan
PhD (Univ. of Southern California), SrMIEEE, SrMOSA
Photonic systems, optical communications




: DE636
: Tel: +852 2766 6258 / Fax: +852 2362 8439
: http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/~cyuanyu
: changyuan.yu@polyu.edu.hk

Biography
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. He was also a joint senior scientist with Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore. In 12/2015, he joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he is now a full professor in Department of Electronic and Information Engineering. And 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. As the PI/co-PI/co-I, he secured over 7 million US dollars grants, and supervised 10+ postdocs and 20+ PhD students. He has authored/co-authored 1 US patent, 6 book chapters, 400+ journal and conference papers (84 keynote/invited, including OFC2012 in USA). He served in technical program committee (TPC) or organizing committee for 80+ international conferences, and Telecommunications Standards Advisory Committee for Singapore government. His group won 6 best paper awards in conferences and the championship in biomedical area in the 3rd China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in 2014.


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