Haifeng Li joined Tyco Telecommunications. (then Tyco Submarine System Ltd.) Laboratories as a senior member of technical staff in 1998.  Since then, he has been responsible for different development projects for under sea fiber optical communication systems, such as active wavelength monitoring, and system performance monitoring.  Currently, he is in charge of the development, identification, selection and specification for varies new optical device technologies for the next generation undersea system and terminal applications of TyCom Global Networks (TGN).  His work includes design and evaluating varies optical components for different levels of EDFA gain flattening schemes, dispersion compensating devices, and narrow-band optical receiving filters using the most advanced technologies such as interleaver and arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) devices.  He also designed some most sophisticated and accurate testing systems for the insertion loss, polarization dependent loss and dispersion measurements.

 Dr. Li earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Electronic Engineering Department at Tsinghua University, China at 1989 and 1991, respectively.  His work then involved the development of narrow linewidth, large tunable range external cavity lasers.  He got his Ph.D. degree from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) at 1998.  While at UMBC, his main research interests included AWG based multi/demultiplexers, reconfigurable integrated optical add/drop multiplexers and optical crossconnect  switches, multi- wavelength monitoring circuits and wavelength addressable lasers. He was also involved in the local exchange testbed of MONET project at Bellcore during summer 1997, where he studied the performance and connectivity of AWG routers.

Dr. Wu is the founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Global Communication Semiconductors (GCS), Inc. He was the CEO and President of GCS from 1997-2001. With more than 20 years of experience in compound semiconductor industry, he raised $50+ M for GCS during last five years. Dr. Wu was responsible for setting the corporate vision and strategy, assembling the technical and management team, and providing leadership and direction to the company. GCS is the leading compound semiconductor pure-play foundry for wireless and fiber optical communication industries.

Previously, he was the program manager and principal scientist of infrared optoelectronics at Hughes Research Laboratory of Hughes Aircraft Company from 1985-1997. He led a team to develop several crucial infrared materials and processing technologies for the compound semiconductor industry. His team was awarded the National Herschel Award in 1995. He holds several key patents and has published over 80 papers and two book chapters. He was twice awarded the Electro-Optic Sensors & Technology Network Council Award in recognition of truly significant and innovative contribution at Hughes.

He was the department manager at Gould Inc. in Chicago from 1980 to 1985, where he developed GaAs PHEMT technology and transferred to production in 2 years. In 1980, he was elected as American Vacuum Scholar and the executive committee member in the Chicago Chapter of American Vacuum Society from 1982-1985. He was the founding member of Semiconductor Material Society in Chicago in 1984. He was the Chairman of Board of Chinese Christian Church of Chicago in 1982-1984 and the Chairman of Board of Chinese Christian Church of Thousand Oaks, California in 1992-1994. He is currently serving as President of Photonics Society of Chinese America in Southern California.

Dr. Wu received his B.S. degree from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in 1973 and M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from University of Illinois in 1976 and 1978. He did his postdoctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory in 1979.

Dr. Yan Yin is the founder of YY Labs, Inc. She received SBIR (small business innovation research) Phase I award from the US Department of Energy in YY Labs. After successfully completed the Phase I project by doing a bench test to prove the principle, she received Phase II award. She was the principal investigator of the project.  She has transferred two product families derived from her DOE SBIR project to Pine Photonics Communications, Inc. Now She is also VP Technology of Pine Photonics Communications, Inc. She has 44 publications. Dr. Yin was Associate Professor of Accelerator Physics for the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P.R.China. Twenty years experience in beam diagnostics for charged particle beam and optical beam. Visiting scientist for two years at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and Stanford Linear Accelerator laboratory, Research Associate for one year at the Synchrotron Radiation Center at Wisconsin University at Madison, Wisconsin, 7 year research scientist at TRIUMF, the University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada.

Larry Fong, Ph.D., is currently working with New Focus, Inc. as new product development manager.   Prior joint New Focus, Dr. Fong held a position of engineering manager at Pantronix.   He built the photonics division which offer packaging and optical test services for Fiber optics industry.  Dr. Fong worked many years in semiconductor equipment industry. He was the project lead to develop start-of-the-art high power laser thermal annealing tool at Ultratech Stepper.  He also worked for Tencor as system design engineer to develop next generation laser based wafer inspection tool for semiconductor industry.  Dr. Fong received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of New Mexico.  His reach interest is in optical properties of MOCVD grown quantum structures.  Before came to US, Dr. Fong worked at Chun-Shang Institute of Science and Technology as an associated research scientist.  His research interest is in optical instrumentation, optical testing, high power laser, and optical signal processing.