Dr. Yeyu TONG
童業煜

Assistant Professor
Senior Member, IEEE

Principal Investigator

Biography

Prior to joining HKUST(GZ) in May 2022, he was an R&D Engineer working on silicon photonics at Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (imec) in Belgium. He completed his Ph.D. at the Chinese University of Hong Kong supervised by Prof. Hon Ki TSANG and his B.Eng at UESTC. He was a visiting researcher of Prof. John E. Bowers group at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2019. He has authored and co-authored over 100 publications including Nature, Science, Nature Communications, Optica, and Laser & Photonics Reviews. He has four top-scored conference papers including OFC 2019, OFC 2024, ECOC 2025, and OFC 2026. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and listed in “World's Top 2% Scientists”. His research interests include silicon photonics, optical communications, optical signal processing, optics for AI and AI for optics.

Professional Services

Senior Member, IEEE
Member at large, IEEE Council on EDA, Guangzhou Chapter
Organizing Committee: Photonics 2025
Organizing Committee: Photonics 2024
Organizing Committee: Optics 2023
Topic Program Committee: 7th Micro-Nano Optical Technology and Application Conference 2023
Organizing Committee: Optics 2022

Awards & Recognitions

Top-Scored Paper, OFC 2026
Top-Scored Paper, ECOC 2025
Top-Scored Paper, OFC 2024
Top-Scored Paper, OFC 2019
Overseas Research Attachment Program, CUHK Faculty of Engineering 2019
Reaching Out Award, HKSAR Government 2019
Postgraduate Studentship, CUHK 2016–2020
Mitacs Globalink Research Internship, Mitacs Canada & CSC 2015
National Scholarship, 2012–2013

Journal Reviews (alphabetical)

ACS Photonics
Advanced Functional Materials
Advanced Photonics
Advanced Photonics Nexus
APL Photonics
Communications Engineering
Electronics Letters
IEEE TCAD
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electronics
IEEE J. Quantum Electronics
IEEE Photonics Journal
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
J. Lightwave Technol.
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B
Laser & Photonics Reviews
Nature Communications
Nano Letters
Nanophotonics
Optics Communications
Optics Letters
Optics Express
Photonics Research
PhotoniX
PhotoniX Synergy
Scientific Reports

Recent Talks & Presentations

AI-Driven Multidimensional Silicon Photonics Devices and Intelligent Photonic Processors ACP 2026, Invited, Nov 2026, Hangzhou, China

Photonic Integration for Advanced Multidimensional Optical Applications ACP 2025, Invited, Nov 2025, Suzhou, China

Enabling 448-Gbps-per-Wavelength Fiber Communications with Integrated Silicon Photonic Transceiver and Processor ECOC 2025, Top-Scored, Oct 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark

Advancing Multidimensional Multiplexing through Adaptive Reconfigurable Photonic Processing on Chip CIOP 2025, Aug 2025, Xi'an, China

High-Dimensional Optical Fiber Communications by Integrated Photonic Processors ICOCN 2024, Jul 2024, Harbin, China

Towards Tbps Single-λ Interconnect by a Multimode Integrated Optical I/O on Silicon for Few-Mode Fibers OFC 2024, Mar 2024, Top-Scored, San Diego, USA

Teaching Activities

PG course — MICS5440 Photonic Integrated Circuits Design

Spring 2023
Spring 2024
Spring 2025

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PG course — MICS5720 Photonics and Optical Interconnects

Fall 2022
Fall 2023
Fall 2024
Fall 2025

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UG course — UCUG1903 Signals and Information Technology

Fall 2026
Spring 2027