Dr. Xu Wang is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences, Heriot Watt University, UK. He completed his PhD studies in Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and has been awarded the Telecommunications Advancement Research Fellowship by the TAO of Japan in 2002 and 2003. He is also serving as an Invited Advisor of NICT and an Advisory Professor with Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunication, Chongqing, China. He has published 185 papers in various journals. Moreover, he has filed five patents and delivered over 30 invited talks at international conferences. His skills and expertise include Optical Fibers, Optics, Fiber Bragg Gratings, Coherence, WDM, Optical Communication, Real-Time Imaging, and his interests include Fiber Optic Communication Networks, Optical Code-Division Multiplexing, Optical Packet Switching, Application of Fiber Gratings, Microwave Photonics, and Fiber Optic Signal Processing.