Brief Profile:

Prof. Zhang was born in Zhejiang, China. He received the BSc and MSc degrees from Zhejiang University (ZJU) in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and received the PhD degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2003. He started his academic career in ZJU as a Lecturer in 2003 and was promoted to Associate Professor of Optical Engineering in 2005. He was a Research Scholar of the Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, State University of New-York at Buffalo (UB) during the period of 2006-2008 and the Department of NanoEngineering of University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2011, respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering (currently Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Associate Professor in 2012 and now is a Professor at the same department since 2020.

Prof. Zhang received Outstanding Staff Awards from ZJU’s College of Information Science and Technology in 2005 and from ZJU’s Department of Optical Engineering in 2009. He received Award of Optics in China 2008 from Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Mar. 2009. In 2011, he received Senior Fellowship Award from International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM-I2CAM), USA. After joining PolyU, he received Merit Award in Research and Scholarly Activities (Individual) 2019/20 from PolyU’s Faculty of Engineering and received Research Grant Achievement Award from PolyU’s Faculty of Engineering in 2020 and 2022, respectively. 

Prof. Zhang is currently a management committee member of PolyU’s Photonics Research Institute and a member of State Key Laboratory of Ultra-precision Machining Technology. 

Research Interests:

* Advanced optical micro/nano-fabrication technologies

* Optical fiber-based devices, lasers and sensors

* Micro/nano-photonic devices, sensors and biochips

Associations & Activities:

* Senior Member of Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (since 2017)

* Senior Member of OPTICA (formerly OSA) (since 2015)

* Editorial Board Member of Biosensors (July 2020 - present)

* Editorial Board Member of Laser & Optoelectronics Progress (Jan 2019 - Dec 2021)

* Executive Committee Member of OSA Optical Fabrication and Testing Technical Group (2015/16; 2017/18)

* Chair of the Special Session and Workshop Committee of The 13^th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-PR 2018), Hong Kong, 29 July - 03 August, 2018; Member of the Special Sessions/Workshops Chairs of Conference CLEO-PR, OECC and PGC 2017, Singapore, Aug. 2017; TPC member of OSA Photonics and Fiber Technology Congress (Topical meeting: Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides), Sydney, Australia, Sept. 2016; TPC Co-Chair of Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Hong Kong, Nov. 2015; TPC member of OSA Advanced Photonics (Topical meeting: Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides), Barcelona, Spain, Jul. 2014; TPC member of The 3^rd Asia-Pacific Optical Sensor Conference (APOS 2012), Sydney, Australia, Jan. 2012; TPC member of The 5^th Symposium on Development and Industrialization of Optical Fiber Sensors, Guangzhou, China, 2010; TPC Co-Chair of The 2^nd Asia-Pacific Optical Sensor Conference (APOS 2010), Guangzhou, China, 2010; TPC member of The 14th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC 2009), Hong Kong, 2009.