Invited speaker: Dr. Weiping Huang
Hisense Corporation, China
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Wei-Ping Huang received his bachelor’s degree in electronics from Shandong University in 1982 with provincial and national honors. He earned a master’s degree in 1984 from the University of Science and Technology of China and a Ph.D. degree in 1989 from MIT, both in electrical engineering.
Dr. Huang has held faculty positions at the University of Waterloo in Canada (as an assistant professor in 1989, an associate professor with tenure in 1992, and a full professor in 1996). From 1999 to 2013, he served as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University in Canada. He also worked at Nortel (Canada) and NTT (Japan), and provided consulting services for numerous companies in North America and Asia. In 1995, he founded Apollo Photonics Inc. to commercialize his academic research on modeling and simulation of photonic devices and integrated circuits. The company was acquired in 1999. Subsequently, he co-founded Ligent Photonics Inc., a joint venture with Hisense Co. aimed at developing optical transceivers. Today, this company—now known as Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technologies Inc.—is a leading global supplier of optical transceivers for access networks, wireless communications, and cloud datacenters, with revenues exceeding 500 million USD in 2015. Dr. Huang currently serves as Chief Scientist at Hisense Electric Co. and Chairman of Qingdao Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technology Co. Additionally, he holds the position of Dean of the School of Information Science and Engineering at Shandong University.
He is internationally known for his contributions and expertise in photonic devices and integrated circuits. He has authored and co-authored over 300 research papers and holds 7 U.S. patents. He was elected as a Cheung Kong Scholar by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and the Li Ka Shing Foundation, Hong Kong, in 2000, and received the 1000 Talents Award from the Chinese government in 2013.
Topic: Pervasive Optical Connectivity: What We Can Expect from Photonic Integration
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