Prof. You He

Naval Aeronautical University, China

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Speech Title: 多源信息融合发展及展望

BIO: TBA

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Prof. Chao LU

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Fellow of OSA

Speech Title: Integrated Optical Sensing and Communication Techniques and Its Applications

BIO: Chao LU obtained his BEng in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 1985, and his MSc and PhD from University of Manchester in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He has been with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 2006 and is currently Chair Professor of Fibre Optics and director of the Photonics Research Institute there. His research interests are in the area of high capacity transmission techniques for long haul and short reach systems and distributed optical sensing 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 the Optical Society(OPTICA/OSA).

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Prof. Weisheng Hu

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Speech Title: Optical Network for Scalable AI Infrastructure

BIO: Weisheng Hu, born in Hubei in 1964, obtained a bachelor's degree from the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1986, a master degree in the Department of Metal Physics at Beijing University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China in 1989, and Ph.D. in the Condensed Matter Physics at Nanjing University, Nanjing, China in 1997. He joined the Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University of Science and Technology as an assist and lecturer from 1989 to 1994, the Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a post doctorate from 1997 to 1999, and as a professor since 1999. He was served as an associated editor of Journal of Lightwave Technology and Optics Express, and a topic editor of Chinese Optics Letters, an editor of China Communications, an editor of Frontier on Optoelectronics, an editor of Optical Communications Research (in Chinese). He has published over 500 peer journal and conference papers.

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Prof. Liyang Shao

Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Speech Title: AI-Driven Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing Technology and Its Engineering Applications

BIO: Shao Liyang is a Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology and serves as the Associate Dean of its School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is a National Distinguished Young Expert and an Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI). His research focuses on intelligent distributed optical fiber sensing and integrated space-air-sea intelligent networks, with applications demonstrated in oil and gas pipelines, rail transit, marine monitoring, and national defense. He has published 188 SCI papers, receiving over 8,300 citations with an h-index of 50, and holds more than 20 authorized invention patents.
He has led over 20 research projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His honors include the China Industry-University-Research Collaboration Promotion Award, the Zhan Tianyou Railway Science and Technology Award, and he has been consecutively listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists(both career-long and annual impact) for five years.

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