The Board of Directors of Optica, Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide, recently elected 121 members from 24 countries to the Society’s 2026 Fellow Class. Professor Fu Hongyan from Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (SIGS) was selected for his outstanding contributions to integrated photonics and their applications for communications and sensing, including optical wireless communications and LiDAR.
Optica (formerly OSA), Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide, is the society dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving and dissemination of knowledge in the field. Optica Fellows are selected based on several factors, including outstanding contributions to research, business, education, engineering, and service to Optica and our community.
About Professor Fu Hongyan
Professor Fu Hongyan is currently a tenured-associate professor at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (Tsinghua SIGS). He received the B.S. degree in electronic and information engineering from Zhejiang University and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering with specialty in photonics from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
His research focuses on integrated photonics and its related applications in communications and sensing, including optical wireless communication and LiDAR.
Professor Fu was a founding member of the Central Research Institute at Huawei, where he led advanced optical communications research from 2010 to 2017. He served as Project Manager for the All-Optical Networks (AON) initiative, which later became a company-wide flagship research program. This project encompassed the full spectrum of next-generation optical communication technologies, ensuring Huawei maintained its industry-leading position. He also represented Huawei at multiple industry and academic standards bodies and forums.
Professor Fu was an active contributor at IEEE 802.3 Ethernet and Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) where he was an OIF Speaker from 2012 to 2013. He actively participates in organizing several photonic conferences, such as co-chair of International Nano-Optoelectronics Workshop (iNOW2019) and technical program co-chair of the 2022 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP2022). He is a senior member of IEEE and life member of SPIE. He is a founding advisor of Optica/IEEE Photonics Society/SPIE Student Chapters at Tsinghua SIGS.
He serves as the associate editor of Frontiers in Photonics and reviewers for Nature, Science, etc. He has authored/coauthored over 400 journal or conference papers, 3 book chapters, over 80 granted/pending China/Europe/Japan/US patents.
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Edited by Chen Jundou
Reviewed by Nie Xiaomei & Lin Zhoulu
