Dr. Yiping Wang, Distinguished Professor, Director of the Guangdong & Hong Kong Joint Research Center for Optical Fiber Sensors, School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, China. He is also the director of the Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems (Ministry of Education), China. He received his PhD in Optical Engineering from Chongqing University in 2003, and then was employed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Postdoctoral Fellow), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Postdoctoral Fellow), Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Humboldt Fellow, Germany) and University of Southampton (Marie Curie Fellow, UK). His research focuses on optical fiber sensing and applications. In 2012, he became a distinguished professor of Shenzhen University, and established a fiber-optic sensing innovation group and the Guangdong & Hong Kong Joint Research Center for Optical Fiber Sensors.