Professor
B.Sc. (HKU), MS, Ph.D. (Columbia), Senior Member, IEEE
Email: ctshu@ee.cuhk.edu.hk
Telephone: +852 2609-8258
Resume of career
Chester Shu received his Ph.D. degree in applied physics from Columbia University, New York, USA, in 1991. His doctoral thesis focused on ultrafast optoelectronic pump-probe research using a colliding pulse mode-locked femtosecond laser. During his studies, he also worked on the design and characterization of quantum well semiconductor lasers at Siemens Corporate Research Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey. After graduation, he was engaged in research and development of integrated electro-optic modulators and waveguides on polymeric thin films at Connexus Corporation, Bothell, Washington. In 1992, he joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and later became a Professor. At CUHK, he has built a high-speed optoelectronics laboratory and has co-founded the photonic packaging laboratory. His research interest includes all-optical signal processing for next generation fiber communication networks, tunable and multiwavelength laser sources, and advanced techniques for packaging of photonic components. He has published about 250 journal and conference papers and is a contributing author of the book Quantum Well Lasers, Academic Press, New York, 1993.
Chester serves actively in the professional community. He is a topical editor of Optics Letters in the area of optical fiber communications. He is also an associate editor of the Transactions, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He is a technical committee member of many prestigious conferences including the OFC/NFOEC, the IEEE LEOS winter and summer topical meetings, the International Conference on Polymer Optical Fiber, the International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, the Asia Optical Fiber Communication & Optoelectronic Exposition & Conference, and the Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference. Chester also serves on the advisory committee of the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute 's Material and Packaging Domain. He is a founding committee member of IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Hong Kong Chapter of which he served as the chairman in 2006 and 2007.