Dr. Guo-Wei Lu earned his Ph.D. in information engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005, followed by a post-doctoral research fellowship there until 2006. He then joined the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan as a researcher (2006-2009) and served as an assistant professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (2009-2010). Returning to the NICT, he worked as a researcher from 2010 to 2014. Dr. Lu then became an associate professor at Tokai University in Japan (2014-2020) and a senior associate professor at the University of Aizu (2020-2023). Since October 2023, he has been an associate professor at Kyushu University, Japan, while also serving as a visiting researcher at NICT since 2014. His research interests include advanced optical modulation formats, electro-optic modulators, photonic signal processing, and optical parametric amplifiers.