Professor Chiang received the B.E. (first-class Honours) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1982 and 1986, respectively. After spending six months in the Department of Mathematics, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, he joined the Division of Applied Physics (also known as the National Measurement Laboratory), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia, in 1986, and worked there as a Research Scientist/Senior Research Scientist till 1993, where he established a fiber-optics laboratory and initiated research in the areas of optical fiber sensors and nonlinear fiber optics. In 1987, he received a Japanese Government Research Award for Foreign Specialist and visited the Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tsukuba City, Japan, for six months. From 1992 to 1993, he worked concurrently for the Optical Fiber Technology Centre (OFTC) of the University of Sydney. He joined the City University of Hong Kong in August 1993, where he is a Chair Professor. Professor Chiang has published over 360 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, as well as several book chapters. His research areas cover various aspects of the optical fiber and waveguide technology, including theory and modelling, measurement and characterization, device and sensor development, and nonlinear optical effects. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a recipient of the Croucher Award for 2000-2001, a recipient of 2005 K. C. Wong Education Foundation Sponsorship, and a Chang Jiang Chair Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.