Jian Wang (M’12) received the Ph.D. degree in physical electronics from the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2008. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA, from 2009 to 2011. He is currently a professor at the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. He is the Assistant Director of Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics. He is also a Chutian Scholar Distinguished Professor in Hubei Province. He gained supports from the New Century Excellent Talents in University in 2011 and China National Funds for Excellent Young Scientists in 2012.

Jian Wang is the member of IEEE, OSA, SPIE and COS. He has more than 150 publications including 2 book chapters, 1 special issue, 2 review articles, 29 invited talks/papers, 6 postdeadline papers, and more than 70 journal papers published on Science, Nature Photonics, Scientific Reports, Applied Physics Letters, Optics Express, Optics Letters, etc. He is a frequent reviewer of Scientific Reports, Optics Express, Optics Letters, etc. He has devoted his research efforts to photonic integrated devices and high-speed optical communications and optical data processing.