The Next Frontier: Biophotonics
Profile
The micro-optics group in Nanyang Technological University was established in 1999 and headed by Dr Larry X-C Yuan of Photonics Research Centre (PhRC) in the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering. Since its establishment, the group has grown from strength to strength, participating actively in micro-optics research areas within the international optics and photonics community. The group's core expertise lies in optical materials; design and fabrication of discrete and integrated elements and systems-related issues at micro- and nano-scale for optical manipulation; and surface plasmon resonance sensing and imaging applications.
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Dr Larry X.-C. Yuan (袁小聪), SPIE Fellow Associate Professor Deputy Director of Photonics Research Centre School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Singapore
Tel: +65 6790 5635 Fax: +65 6793 3318 Email: excyuan@ntu.edu.sg
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Curriculum Vitae
Larry X.-C. Yuan studied optical engineering in Tianjin University between 1981 and 1988, and he was awarded the bachelor degree in 1985 and the masters degree in 1988 respectively. He was later awarded a Hong Kong KC Wong Education Foundation Scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. degree in physics at King’s College London, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1994, with specific focus in nano-scale optics. Between 1994 and 1999, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University, where he implemented research projects on nano-optics and super-resolution microscopy.
He joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in September of 1999, where he established the micro-optics group in the Photonics Research Centre (PhRC). Since 2000, his group has been active in micro-optics research area in the international optics and photonics community, including optical materials, design and fabrication of discrete and integrated elements and systems-related issues at micro- and nano-scale for optical manipulation, sensing and imaging applications. In January of 2006, he was elected as Fellow of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering for his contributions in micro-optics.
Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in NTU, as well as the deputy director for the Photonics Research Centre. In addition, he holds a concurrent appointment as the program director of the "Biophotonics" initiative within PhRC. He has actively been involved in various technical program committees and Singapore local sections of SPIE and the Optical Society of America (OSA). He has published numerous referred journal publications and invited articles.
