Lasers, Optics & Photonics

Biography

Shien-Kuei (Peter) Liaw received double PhD degrees from National Chiao-Tung University in photonics engineering and from National Taiwan University in mechanical engineering, respectively. He joined the Chunghua Telecommunication, Taiwan, in 1993. Since then, he has been working on optical communication and fiber based technologies. Prof. Liaw joined the department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) in 2000. He has ever been director of the Optoelectronics Research Center and the Technology Transfer Center, NTUST. He was a visiting researcher at Bellcore (now Telcordia), USA for six months in 1996 and a visiting Professor at University of Oxford, UK for three months in 2011. He owned six U.S. patents, and authored or coauthored for 250 journal articles and international conference presentations. He earned many national honors such as Outstanding Professor of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2015; the winner of The 7th Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Paper Award in 2009; 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. He has been actively contributing for numerous conferences as technical program chair, international advisory committee, session chair and invited speaker. He serves as an Associate Editor for Fiber and Integrated Optics. Currently, Dr. Liaw is a senior member of IEEE, OSA and SPIE. Currently, Dr. Liaw is a distinguished Professor of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Vice President of the Optical Society (OSA) Taiwan Chapter and Secretary-General of Taiwan Photonic Society.

Research Interest

Optical sensing, optical communication, fiber optics devices and reliability testing.