Minghong Yang is a professor in Optics technology at the National Engineering Laboratory for Fiber Optic Sensing Technology (Wuhan University of Technology, China.). He obtained his PhD degree in Physical electronics from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 2003. He was with Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Jena, Germany from 2003 to 2005, and then with Berlin University for Technology from 2006 to 2009. He was with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, U.S.A for half a yaer in 2013 as visiting Professor, and was with Abbe School for Photonics, Friedlich-Schiller-University, Germany as guest professor in 2014. His current research interests include optical fiber sensors, sensing materials, sensor aplications. Prof. Yang has been serving as the General Chair of the fourth International Conference of Asia-Pacific Optical Sensors (APOS 2013), and the Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal.