Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong

Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong received combined B.E. degree (1st-class honor with medal award) in electrical engineering and B.S. degree in physics from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, in 1997. He received the M.S. degree in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in 2003, both in electrical engineering at Stanford University. He was a member of the Photonics and Networking Research Laboratory at Stanford University. His research field included DWDM systems, SCM optical systems, fiber nonlinearity, fiber optical parametric amplifiers, and photonic crystal fibers. He is author or coauthor of over 150 journal and conference papers. He worked in Hewlett-Packard Laboratories as Research Engineer and contributed in projects that included parallel optics and VCSEL in 1998-1999. He also worked as Independent Consultant in Innovation CORE (Sumitomo Electric Company), CA, in 2004. He was the recipient of OSA New Focus Student Award and IEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship, both in 2003. He is the Reviewer for Optics Letters, JOSAB, Optics Express, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEE Electronics Letters, and Optics Communications. Wong is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the University of Hong Kong, where he won the Best Teacher Award 2005-2006 and Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2008-2009. During the 2009-2010 academic year, he taught at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He has also been Visiting Scholar to University of California, Berkeley and San Diego, University of Vancouver, and Ryerson University. He is a Senior Member of the OSA, IEEE, and IEEE Photonics Society.

Biography Updated on 15 February 2012

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