Dr Chao Wang (PI)

Dr Chao Wang is currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Engineering, Mathsmatics and Physics (EMP), University of Kent, UK. His research interests lie in microwave photonics, ultrafast optical imaging, optical sensing, and optical smart computing for communications, biomedical and industrial applications. He is the Head of Instrumentation Photonics and Control (IPC) Research Group.

Prior to joining Kent, he was a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Photonics Lab at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. He received his BEng degree in Opto-electronic Engineering from Tianjin University, China, his MSc degree in Optics from Nankai University, China, and his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada.

He has been granted several international and national research awards, including IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship (2009), IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowship (2010), SPIE Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering (2008), Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2009), Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (2009), and EU Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (2014).

His research activities have been funded by EU Marie-Curie Actions, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of UK, Innovate UK, the Royal Society, the UKRI Catapult programme, and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada.

He has published more than 200 journal articles and conference papers (including several invited papers and Best Paper Awards). He is a member of IEEE, Optica and IET, a Fellow of Higher Education Acadmy (HEA) of UK. He also serves as an active reviewer of many leading photonics journals of Optica, IEEE, Nature, SPIE, IET, Elsevier and Wile. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (2019-2022), and served as the Guest Editor of Special Session on Microwave Photonics in SPIE Optical Engineering. He was the Publication Officer of IEEE Photonics Society UKI Chapter.

📧 Email: c.wang@kent.ac.uk