Bai-Ou Guan received the Ph.D. degree in optics from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2000. From 2000 to 2005, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, first as a Research Associate, and then as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. From 2005 to 2009, he was with School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, as a Full Professor. In 2009, he joined Jinan University, Guangzhou, where he founded the Institute of Photonics Technology. His current research interests include fiber optic devices and technologies, optical fiber sensors, biomedical photonic sensing and imaging, and microwave photonics. He has authored and coauthored more than 140 papers in the peer-reviewed international journals, and presented 50 invited talks at international and national conferences. He received the Distinguished Young Scientist Grant from Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2012. He is a member of IEEE and OSA, and has served as General Chair/Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee or Subcommittee Chair/Co-Chair for over 10 international conferences.