Biography

Biography: Shien-Kuei Liaw received the Ph.D. degree in photonics engineering from National Chiao-Tung University and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from National Taiwan University. He joined Chunghua Telecommunication, Taiwan, in 1993. Since 1993, he has been working on optical communication and fiber based technologies. He was a Visiting Researcher with Bellcore (now Telcordia), USA, in 1996. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), in 2000. He has been the Director of the Optoelectronics Research Center and the Technology Transfer Center, NTUST. He was a Visiting Professor with the University of Oxford, U.K., in 2011. He is a Distinguished Professor and the Vice Chairman of the ECE Department, NTUST. He owned seven U.S. patents. He has authored or coauthored for more than 250 journal articles and international conference presentations. He is a Senior Member of OSA and SPIE. He received many national honors, such as the Outstanding Professor of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2015, The 7th Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Paper Award, in 2009, the Best Project Award of the National Science and Technology Program for Telecommunication, in 2006, the Outstanding Youth Award of The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, and the Outstanding Youth Academic Award of the Optical Engineering Society of the Republic of China. He has been actively contributing for numerous conferences as a Technical Program Chair, the International Advisory Committee, a Session Chair, a Keynote Speaker, and the Invited Speaker. He is also the Vice President of the Optical Society (OSA) Taiwan Chapter and a Secretary-General of the Taiwan Photonic Society. He serves as an Associate Editor for Fiber and Integrated Optics.

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