Li-Yang Shao (Senior Member, IEEE) received a Ph.D. degree in optical engineering in 2008 from Zhejiang University, China. He was with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Research Assistant/Associate working on fiber grating devices and sensors from 2006 to 2009. Then, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electronics, Carleton University in Canada. In 2011, he returned to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for another postdoctoral research project. In 2012, he was granted the Endeavor Research Fellowship from the Australian government and worked with the Interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratory at the University of Sydney. In 2013, he joined Southwest Jiaotong University as a Full Professor. In 2017, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology. In 2018, he was appointed the Associate Dean of the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He has authored or coauthored more than 160 papers in refereed international journals/conferences with more than 3600 citations. His research interests include fiber devices and sensors, distributed fiber optic sensing, microwave photonics for sensing, and smart sensing systems for industrial application.