JIAN ZHAO received the B.Eng. degree in optoelectrical engineering from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2003, the M.S. degree in optics from Nankai University, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics and information engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in 2010. From 2016 to 2017, he was a visiting scholar of the CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Precision Instruments and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and leading international conferences. His current research interests include optical fiber communications, optical fiber sensing, and nonlinear optics.