Jiayang Wu
Swinburne University of Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xidian University
Research areas: Engineering · Electrical and Electronic Engineering · Photonic and Optical Devices · Advanced Photonic Communication Systems · Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
0000-0003-1115-610X
About
Dr. Jiayang Wu received the Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in December, 2015. After that, he joined Swinburne University of Technology in July, 2016. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Optical Sciences Centre and an Associate Investigator for ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS). He is also a Senior University Lecturer teaching undergraduate / honours courses in physics and mathematics.
After over 10 years' accumulation, Dr. Wu has gained considerable experience and developed extensive expertise about advanced optical devices and materials. His current research fields include integrated photonics, 2D materials, nonlinear optics, and thermal photonics. As of November 1st of 2026, he has 115 publications in SCI journals, highlighted by Nature, Nature Reviews Chemistry, Advanced Materials, Advances in Optics and Photonics, Science Bulletin, Advanced Functional Materials, Nature Communications, Light: Advanced Manufacturing, Applied Physics Reviews, Small, Laser & Photonics Reviews, and Nano Letters. He is also an inventor on 15 filed technological patents.
In 2021, Dr. Wu was named by the Australian’s Research magazine as the top researcher in the field of Optics & Photonics (only 1 person). Since 2021, he has been consistently named among the world’s top 2% of scientists in the Stanford University–Elsevier citation database, and since 2025, he has been recognised in both the career-long and single-year impact lists. In 2026, he was ranked 2nd in Australia and 60th globally in Research.com’s Rising Stars of Science. He also received the Swinburne Early Career Researcher Award in 2021 (which included funding for a full PhD scholarship) and the Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award in 2025 and 2026.
Dr. Wu is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the Optica. He is currently serving / has served as an associate editor for npj Nanophotonics (2024-2028) and PhotoniX Synergy (2026-2028), as well as a guest editor for Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2021, 2023) and Journal of Optics (2019). He has served as chair for the technical program committee (TPC) of Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) 2024, and the TPC member for SPIE NanoPhotonics Australasia (2017), Australian and New Zealand Conferences on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP) 2019, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR) 2020, Advanced Photonics Congress (APC) 2021-2023, OECC 2025-2027, and International Conference on Optoelectronic Integration (COINT) 2025, 2026. He has also served as a referee for over 60 articles in SCI journals, mainly including Nature, Nature Photonics, Nature Electronics, Nature Physics, Nature Reviews Electronic Engineering, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Small, Laser & Photonics Reviews, and Optica.
Dr. Wu is currently supervising / has supervised 6 postdoctoral researchers, 18 Swinburne PhD students, 10 visiting PhD students, 3 honours students, and 6 undergraduate students (for Grand Challenges in Science course). His students have received many prestigious awards during their PhD studies, including the IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowships (in 2019, 2021, and 2022, 10 recipients globally per year), the Wanda Henry Prize (in 2020, 1 recipient across Australia and New Zealand per year), the Swinburne HDR Woman Researcher of the Year Award (in 2021 and 2022, 2 recipients at Swinburne per year), and the Swinburne Iain Wallace Award (in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2024, for the top PhD thesis).
Employment
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Swinburne University of Technology Senior Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow2016 - Present
Education
- 2010 - 2015
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Xidian University B. Eng.2006 - 2010
Projects & Funding
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ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science Australian Research Council2023 - 2029
Publications (281)
- AI-Guided Design of Photonic Integrated Directional Couplers in High-Dimensional Spaces Save
- Highly Reconfigurable Microwave Photonic All-Pass Filters based on Optical Microcombs Save
- Topology‐Inverted Mapping: From Optical‐Energy Flow to Inverse‐Faraday Magnetization Save
- Enhanced Self‐Phase Modulation in Silicon Nitride Waveguides Integrated With 2D MoS2 Films Save
- Reconfigurable Microwave Photonic Filters with Ultrasteep Roll‐Off Based on Optical Microcombs Save
- AI-guided optimization of integrated waveguide polarizers with 2D reduced graphene oxide [Invited] Save
- Silicon Photonic Waveguide Polarizers Integrated With 2D MoS2 Films Save
- Enhanced Thermo-Optic Performance of Silicon Microring Resonators Integrated with 2D Graphene Oxide Films Save
- 2D material integrated photonics: Toward industrial manufacturing and commercialization Save
- Performance Analysis of Microwave Photonic Spectral Filters based on Optical Microcombs Save
- ADKGD: Anomaly Detection in Knowledge Graphs with Dual-Channel Training Save
- Graph Diffusion Network for Drug-Gene Prediction Save
- Integrated photonic polarizers with 2D reduced graphene oxide Save
- Ultrahigh bandwidth signal processing and neuromorphic computing based on integrated Kerr microcombs Save
- Modeling of Complex Integrated Photonic Resonators Using the Scattering Matrix Method Save
- 2D Graphene Oxide: A Versatile Thermo‐Optic Material Save
- Photonic RF Channelization Applications of Microcombs Save
- Silicon photonic waveguide and microring resonator polarizers incorporating 2D graphene oxide films Save
- 2D Graphene Oxide Films Expand Functionality of Photonic Chips Save
- Advanced Applications of Kerr Micro-combs Save