Prof. Jianquan Yao is an academic of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a professor at Tianjin University. He graduated from Tianjin University in 1965 and worked as a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of California in the United States from 1980 to 1982. He has been invited to give lectures and conduct collaborative research at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He is currently a professor, doctoral supervisor, director of the academic degree committee, honorary president, and director of the Institute of Laser and Optoelectronics of the School of Precision Instruments and Optoelectronics Engineering of Tianjin University. In 1997, he was made an academic of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has won second prize in the National Invention Award, the second prize in the National Education Commission and Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Awards (4 times), first prize for the Military Science and Technology Progress Award, and a special prize from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 730 papers at home and abroad, and his papers have been cited more than 100 times by scholars from many countries. In addition, he also serves as deputy director of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education and concurrently serves as deputy director of the Wuhan National Laboratory of Optoelectronics (in preparation).