Zuyuan He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1984 and 1987, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in photonics from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1999. In 1987, he joined the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, as a Research Associate, and became a Lecturer in 1990. From 1995 to 1996, he was a Research Fellow studying optical information processing with the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. In 1999, he became a Research Associate with the University of Tokyo. In 2001, he joined CIENA Corporation, Linthicum, MD, USA, as a Lead Engineer heading the optical testing and optical process development group. In 2003, he returned to the University of Tokyo as a Lecturer, then became an Associate Professor in 2005 and a Full Professor in 2010. His research interests include optical fiber sensors, specialty optical fibers, and optical interconnects. Since 2013, he has been an Associate Editor for IEEE/OSA JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY. He was the Technical Program Committee Member in a variety of international conferences, such as CLEO, OFC, and OFS, and the General Chair of the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2014, and the Asia-Pacific Optical Sensors Conference (APOS), 2016.