Wei Jin currently holds the position of Chair Professor of Photonic Instrumentation in Department of Electrical Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained his BEng and MSc from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He received his Ph.D in Optoelectronics from University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK, in 1991. From 1991 to 1995, he was employed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Strathclyde University. He joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor in 1996, was promoted to an Associate Professor in 1998 and a Professor in 2003.

Dr Jin’s research interests include photonic crystal fiber devices, optical fiber sensors, fiber lasers and amplifiers, optical gas detectors, condition monitoring of electrical power transformer as well as civil and mechanical structures. He edited 4 books/proceedings, authored/co-authored 8 book chapters, >280 Journal and 190 conference papers, and >10 patents in the area of fiber optic devices and sensors. He delivered >90 plenary/keynote/invited speeches at international/national conferences. His works were cited >6,995 times with h-index of 42 (SCIE), and >10,045 times with h-index of 51 and i10-index of 220. He secured research funds of over HK$50 million, has successfully supervised or co-supervised 30 PhD, and is currently supervising 7 Research Students.

He received the President Award of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1999 for outstanding performance in Research and Scholarly Activities, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University PTeC’s Outstanding Professional Service and Innovation Awards in 2004 for successful technology transfer, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Overseas Placement Award for Young Professors, Research Grant Achievement Awards from Faculty of Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2005, 2008, 2011 and 2016, Distinguished Young Scholar Award (Category B) from the National Science Foundation of China in 2006, Chiang Jiang Chair Professor award from Ministry of Education of China in 2009, and seven best conference paper/student paper awards.

Professor Jin is a fellow of OSA, a senior member of IEEE and SPIE, a director of the Optical Society of China and a vice Chairman of the Fiber and Integrated Optics Specialty Committee of the Optical Society of China. He was the Co-Chair of the 25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors and the Technical Chair of the 22nd International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors.