Green Photonics and Smart Photonics

 Shien-Kuei Liaw received doctorate degrees in electro-optical engineering and mechanical engineering from National Chiao-Tung University (Taiwan) and National Taiwan University (Taiwan) in 1999 and 2014, respectively. In 1993, he joined the Chung-Hua Telecommunication Institute, Taiwan. Since then, he has been working on optical communication and fiber-based technologies. He was a visiting researcher at Bellcore (now Telcordia), USA, in 1996 for six months and a visiting professor at Oxford University, UK, in 2011 for three months. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) in 2000. He has been director of Optoelectronics Research Center and Technology Transfer Center in NTUST. He has been an active member in the technical programs committee and has invited speakers and held session chairs for many international conferences. He has bagged quite a few national honors and awards, such as Outstanding Professor of the Chinese Institute of Elec- trical Engineering in 2015; the best project award of 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. Prof. Liaw has authored and coauthored over 250 international journal articles and conference presentations. He also serves as an associate editor for Fiber and Integrated Optics. Currently, Prof. Liaw is a distinguished professor of NTUST and the Taipei Chapter Chair, IEEE Photonics Society.

 Gong-Ru Lin received B.S. degree in Physics from Soochow University in 1988 and M.S. and Ph.D degrees in electro-optical engineering from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in 1990 and 1996, respectively. He has ever been the faculty with National United University, Tatung University, National Taipei University of Technology, and National Chiao Tung University from 1997 to 2006. Since 2006, he joined the Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics (GIPO), and also the jointly appointed professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University. Prof. Lin has a broad research spectrum covering ultrafast fiber lasers, semiconductor laser diodes, fiber-optic communications, and silicon and carbon nanophoton- ics. He was the Taipei Chapter Chair of IEEE Photonics Society. He served as the associate editor of “Journal of Lightwave Technology”, “IEEE Photonics Journal” and “Current Nanoscience”. He received outstanding research awards from the National Science Council in 1997, 1998, and 2000. In 2011, he received the three-year Distinguished Research Award from the National Science Council. To date, Prof. Lin has been promoted as a senior member of IEEE in 2004, the Fellow of SPIE (FSPIE) in 2008, the Fellow of IET (FIET) in 2009, the Fellow of IOP (FInstP) in 2010, and the Fellow of OSA in 2013. Currently, he is the OSA traveling lecturer and the SPIE visit lecturer. In 2015, he was elected as the distinguished professor of National Taiwan University.