Anhui Liang

About

Prof. Anhui Liang is a National Distinguished Expert，the second highest level professor，Deputy Director of University Academic Committee, YanGo University, Dean of Electronic Information and Interdisciplinary Research Institute，Head of Discipline. He held several important positions in USA and China, e.g. Senior Member of Technical Staff, Tyco Submarine Systems Ltd. (former AT&T Bell Labs’s Submarine unit) in USA; Chief Scientist, FiberHome Technologies Group (i.e. Wuhan Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications or WRI), which is the third biggest communication system company in china and was with about 38 thousand staffs; Deputy Director of University Academic Committee, Director of Optical Communication and Biological Optics Research Center, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Head of Optical Engineering Discipline, Dean of Optical Fiber Communications and Biophotonics Cutting-Edge Research Institute, Guangdong University of Technology etc. He held several senior research positions in multiple US companies as well, e.g. Tyco Submarine Systems Ltd. (former AT&T Bell Labs’s Submarine unit), Stratalight Communications (Acquired by Opnext), Fujitsu Network Communications, Infinera, Emcore, FutureWei Technologies (Huawei’s North America Division) etc. He was a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellows in Prof. Akira Hasegawa’s Group, Osaka University. He has published more than 100 journal papers, plenary talks, keynote speak, invited talks and patents etc. He has made significant contributions in the fields of communications (including optical fiber communications), AI, quantum mechanics, vision, Meridians in Chinese Medicine, biological fibers, and golden ratios and interdisciplinary research fields etc. He gave eight super large internet lectures in his interdisciplinary research areas, and about 700 thousand audiences attended. The number of audiences to attend his internet seminars is the largest in academic internet lectures in science and technology fields given by single person in China. The interview with him and other 6 experts by Baidu Scholar received 180 million of internet exposures in the first month of the video release in 2021. He received more than 10 awards and honors, including China Overseas Chinese Contribution Award; Yearly Person of “Scientific Chinese” etc. His research and development contributions have been widely used in commercial systems worldwide. He received about 7 million US dollar of grants (including projects from China‘NSF’ etc.) from China.
He has been widely reported by many national level newspapers, internet and TV channels, e.g. People’s Daily, People’s Weekly, Science and Technology Daily (first title on first page), China Daily Website, Jiangshu Satellite TV Interview, Top China (cover report）, Management and Research on Scientific and Technological Achievements (cover report) etc.
He is board members and the vice board chairman of several academic organizations, e.g., the vice board chairman of Chinese Scientists Think Tank on Material and Devices, the board member of Haizhi of Jiangshu Provinces and the Dupty Director of ICT Subcommittee, the board member of Silicon Valley Technology Council, the board member of Oversea Talents in Hubei Provinces, the board member of High Level Oversea Talents in Wuhan City, the Consultant of Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Hebei Provinces.
He has been reviewers in many important national committees (e.g. National Science & Technology Awards, National Distinguished Experts, Changjiang Scholars, Ten Thousand Talent Plan, Key R&D Plan of Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 863 etc.), and he has been leaders of many province and city level review committees (e.g. head of review committee, Shenzhen Science & Technology Awards, key reviewer of Shenzhen’s Peacock Plan, key reviewer of Shenzhen’s Main Project etc.).
He helped to organize many international conferences as chairs, technical program chairs, or session chairs!
The famous journal Science listed 125 Questions: What Don’t We Know (in 2005) and 125 Questions: EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY (in 2021), and all of these questions are very important questions. He has made significant contributions in answering 9 of these key questions. He initiated and host a well known internet seminar series on the Science 125 Questions: What don’t we know, and these are the biggest single person academic internet seminar series in science and technology fields in China. Their internet seminar series are quite influential in China.

Employment

• Yango University

Education

• Chinese University of Hong Kong Ph. D.
  1994 - 1996
• Tsinghua University MS
  1986 - 1988
• University of Electronic Science and Technology of China BA
  1982 - 1986

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