Dr. Siu-Fung Yu

B.Eng., Lond.; Ph.D., Cambridge, Senior Member IEEE

Associate Professor

Siu-Fung YU received the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering (first class Honours) in Electronic Engineering from London University, University College, England, in 1990 and the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Optoelectronics Engineering from Cambridge University, Robinson College, England, in 1993. He joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, The University of Hong Kong in 1994 as a Lecturer. In 2000, he worked at Agere System (formerly Optoelectronic Centre, Lucent Technologies Inc in Breinigsville PA, USA) as a member of technical staff. In 2001, he joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently an Associate Professor and programme director of joint NTU-TUM MSc Microelectronic programme. Dr Yu was also the programme director of MSc Photonic and MSc Microelectronic programme.

His main research interest includes the fundamental study, design and optimization of semiconductor lasers including distributed feedback lasers and vertical cavity surface emitting lasers. He has contributed to the development of computer models to study the dynamic behavior of semiconductor lasers. He also involved in the design and analysis of high power semiconductor pumped lasers. Currently, he has led to the design and fabrication of the 'world first' ZnO random laser diode emitted at ultra-violet range. He has published over 200 international technical papers including invited conference and journal papers, two book chapters as well as one book entitled 'Analysis and Design of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers', 2003 Wiley.

He received Hong Kong government research funding (1994 to 2000) of total about HK$3.5 millions. He also received funding (2001 to present) from NTU (AcRF), DSO National Laboratories of Singapore, MoE of Singapore (ARC), A*STAR (Singapore government) and DARPA (US Navy) of total more than S$3 millions.

Dr Yu was the executive committee member of the SPIE Hong Kong Chapter from 1996 to 2000. Dr Yu was co-guest editors of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics on May/June 2003 issue, co-guest editor of Journal of Crystal Growth on January 2006 issue and guest co-editor of the Quantum and Optical Electronics on November 2006 issue. He was the program co-chair of the Symposum N: ZnO and related materials in the 3^rd International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies held in Singapore 2005, program chair (nanophotonics) of IEEE conference on Emerging Technologies – Nanoelectronics held in Singapore 2006 and program chair (nanophotonics) of IEEE conference on Emerging Technologies – Nanoelectronics held in Shanghai 2008. He is also the committee member of the IEEE/LEOS Conference ‘Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices’ from 2004 to present.  

He was the co-recipient of the 2006 Nanyang Award for Research & Innovation for the contribution of the realization of UV ZnO semiconductor laser diodes.