Prof. Dr. Sai T. Chu obtained his BSc in 1984 with Honors in Computing and Computer Electronics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, his MSc in Physics in 1986, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1990, both from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He spent three more years at the University of Waterloo after graduation as a Research Assistant Professor and as the lead researcher of the 'Modeling, Analysis and Design of Optical Waveguide Devices' project at the Canadian Institute of Telecommunication Research Centre. In 1993 he joined Professor Y. Kokubun's laboratory at the Yokohama National University as a JSPS Research Fellow and started his research in the fabrication of planar lightwave circuits (PLC). After a brief return to Canada as an Assistant Professor at the Wilfrid Laurier University in 1995, he returned to Japan in 1996 as the Associate Project Leader of the 'Three-dimensional micro-photonics' project at KAST, the project was funded by the Kanagawa Prefecture. In 1999 he moved to the US and spent one year at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a Guest Researcher in the Quantum Process Group. In 2000 he co-founded Little Optics Inc. with his colleagues Brent Little and John Hryniewicz in Annapolis Junction, Maryland. Dr. Chu returned to his birthplace in the fall of 2010 and joined the City University of Hong Kong as an Associate Professor.