Prof. Xiankai Sun received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from California Institute of Technology in 2010. From 2010 to 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Associate and then an Associate Research Scientist in Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. Since 2014, he has been with The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is currently a Professor of Electronic Engineering and an Associate Director for Center of Optical Sciences.
Prof. Sun is an expert on chip-scale integrated photonic, electronic, and mechanical devices and systems. His current research focuses on novel photonic and optomechanical nanodevices for both fundamental research and practical applications. He is also an Associate Editor of Optica and an Editorial Board Member of Advanced Photonics Nexus. He was honored as a finalist of the prestigious Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists by New York Academy of Sciences in 2013 for his contribution to “experimental research of nanoscale optomechanical systems.” He also received the Early Career Award 2015/16 and Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) Award 2023/24 from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong and the Young Researcher Award 2022/23 from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is an Optica fellow.
For JLT he is handling submissions on the following topics:
• Integrated optics
• Nanophotonics
• Optoelectronics
• Optomechanics and optoacoustics
• Optical physics