Wei Du

Wei Du received the B.S. degree in Physics from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2003, and Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. He was a postdoctoral research associate at several institutes including Arizona State University, Shizuoka University (Japan), Washington State University, and University of Arkansas. In 2017, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Physics at Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA as an assistant professor, where he received the Outstanding New Faculty Award in 2019, the President’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2020, and the Outstanding Advisor Award in 2022. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Arkansas. He has published more than 100 articles in refereed journals and 150 articles in conference proceedings. He has also given/contributed presentations and invited talks at prestigious conferences such as CLEO, SPIE Photonics West, and IEEE Photonics Conference. He chaired numerous conference sections including IEEE Summer Topic, IEEE Si photonics Conference, etc.

For JLT, he is handling submissions on the following topics:

• Group-IV photonics
• Mid-infrared technologies
• Semiconductor optoelectronics
• Waveguide for photonic integrated circuits
• Photonic crystal lasers
• Nanophotonic devices