Dr. Rongqing Hui

Deane E. Ackers Professor,

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, the University of Kansas

3026 Eaton Hall, 1520 West 15th Street, Lawrence, KS  66045

Director, Center for Communication, Networking and Photonics (CCNP),

Institute of Information Science (I2S), the University of Kansas.

222 Nichols Hall, 2335 Irving Hill Road, Lawrence, KS  66045

 Telephone: (785) 864-7740 

 Email: rhui@ku.edu

 

Education

Ph.D.,  Electrical Engineering, 1993, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

M.S, Electrical Engineering,    1988, Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecomm., China

B.S,  Electrical Engineering, 1982, Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecomm., China

 

Academic Positions

2007 -               The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

2002 -2007       The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

1997- 2002       The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

1982- 1985       Anhui University, Hefei, China, Assistant Lecture, Department of Physics.

 

Government and Industry Experience

04/06 – 12/07  Program Director, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. EPDT Program: Electronics, Photonics and Devices Technologies

1994 – 1997 Bell-Northern Research (then Nortel networks), Ottawa, Canada.

Member of Scientific Staff. Research areas: high speed optical systems R&D, WDM optical networks and optical amplifiers.

1990-1991    Italian Telecommunication Research Center (CSELT), Torino, Italy. Engineer.  

                     Research areas: polarization insensitive coherent optical transmission system.

1989-1990       Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy (a research institute of Italian Post & Telecommunication Ministry). Research Fellow. Research areas: nonlinear effect in semiconductor laser devices such as four-wave mixing, bistability and injection locking.

Research Interests

NOVEL PHOTONIC DEVICES
Semiconductor lasers, optical amplifiers, optical switches, short optical pulse generation, new materials

Optical communication Systems
fiber-optic systems, wavelength division multiplexing, nonlinear phenomenon in optical fiber, bandwidth efficient modulation formats, polarization effects, system performance evaluation, system topology

OPTICAL/RF MEASUREMENT AND BIOSENSORS

   In-service monitoring of optical system performance, multiphoton bioimaging, ultrafast fiber-optics

Societies and services

Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (2006 – 2013)

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications (2001 – 2007)

Technical committee member of Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 04, 05, 06, 07),

Fellow, OSA (OPTICA)

Senior Member, IEEE

University Service and Award

   Winner of Miller Award for Distinguished Research, The University of Kansas, 2002

Winner of Bellow Scholar Award for Distinguished Research, The University of Kansas, 2012

 

 

Books:            Fiber Optic Measurement Techniques, by Rongqing Hui and Maurice O’Sullivan, Academic Press, 2009, (ISBN 978-0-12-373865-3)

                       

                        Introduction to Fiber-optic Communications, by Rongqing Hui, Academic Press, 2019, (ISBN 978-0128053454)

 

Publications

Patents

 

Google scholar link: 

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c273BNoAAAAJ&hl=en