Chao Lu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Chair Professor
Speaker Bio
Prof Chao Lu obtained his BEng in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 1985, and his MSc and PhD fromUniversity of Manchester in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. NanyangTechnological University, Singapore as Lecturer in 1991 and has been an Associate Professor since January 1999. From June2002 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, helping to establish a research group in the area of opticalcommunication and fibre devices. Since April 2006, he has been a Professor in the Department of Electronic and InformationEngineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests are optical communication systems and networks, fibredevices for optical communication and sensor systems.