Xuewen Shu received his Ph.D. degree in optoelectronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2000. From 2000 to 2001, he was a visiting research fellow in the Photonics Research Group at Aston University, Birmingham, U.K. Then, he spent two years with Indigo Photonics Ltd., UK, as a Photonics Development Engineer and a Senior Engineer, from 2001 to 2003. From 2003 to 2013, he worked as a Senior Research Fellow with the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies at Aston University, UK. In 2013, he joined the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology as a Full Professor. He has published over 300 papers in major international journals and conferences and also holds over 30 patents. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Sensors Letters and other two journals. He was elected to Fellow of OPTICA (Formerly OSA) in 2023, Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2021. His research interests include fiber gratings, optical fiber communications, fiber lasers and optical fiber sensors.