Prof. Dr. Angela Amphawan is currently leading the Photonics Research Laboratory. Prior to this, she was the Deputy Vice Chancellor of University Malaysia of Computer Science and Engineering. She was a recipient of the Fulbright Award at the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She holds a PhD in optical engineering from University of Oxford, UK. Her research projects have been funded by the U.S. Department of States, German government, Malaysian Ministry of Education and Telekom Malaysia. She has won several Best Paper Awards and exhibition medals. She serves on the editorial board of the APL Photonics Journal with the American Institute of Physics and is on the National 5G Task Force. She was previously on the editorial board of Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies and Publicity Co-Chair for the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. She has given keynote addresses at several Fulbright and IEEE events. Her research focus is on optical communications and sensing, covering optical fibers, free-space optics, radio-over free space optics, digital imaging, and Internet-of-Things.