About Yi Luo’s work
From February to August 1999, Yi Luo held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong. At the time, Luo was based at Tsinghua University.
Biography
Luo Yi received his Bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University in 1983, his Master's and Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He became a professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1992. In 1995, he was funded by the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, and in 1999, he was appointed as a Distinguished Professor of the "Changjiang Scholars Award Program" of the Ministry of Education. From 1997 to 2012, he served as the Director of the State Key Joint Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics for three consecutive terms. He currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, and the Convener of the Electronic Science and Technology Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. Luo was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2021. Luo's research interest is in compound semiconductor optoelectronic devices and their integrated application technologies, including lasers, LEDs, optical modulators, optical detectors, and their applications in optical fiber communication, broadband information sensing, semiconductor lighting and other fields, and has authorized 34 invention patents.