Dr.Rongqing Hui

Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,

The University of Kansas,

Lawrence, KS  66045

3026 Eaton Hall

Telephone:  (785) 864-7740 (West Campus), 

(785) 864-8814 (East Campus)

FAX:           (785) 864-4971, 

Email: rhui@ku.edu

 

Education

Ph.D.,  Electrical Engineering, 1993, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

M.S, Electrical Engineering,    1988, Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecomm., China

B.S,  Electrical Engineering, 1982, Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecomm., China

 

Academic Positions

2007 -            The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

04/06 – 12/07  Program Director, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. EPDT Program: Electronics, Photonics and Devices Technologies

2002 -2007    The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

1997- 2002   The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

1982- 1985   Anhui University, Hefei, China, Assistant Lecture, Department of Physics.

 

Industrial Experience

Fall 2004   Center for Bio/Molecular Science, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC. Sabbatical Leave. Research areas: Photonic bio-sensors, flow Cytometer

1994 – 1997 Bell-Northern Research (now part of Nortel networks), Ottawa, Canada.

Member of Scientific Staff. Research areas: high speed optical systems R&D, WDM optical networks and optical amplifiers.

1990-1991 Italian Telecommunication Research Center (CSELT), Torino, Italy. Engineer.  

                  Research areas: polarization insensitive coherent optical transmission system.

1989-1990  Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy (a research institute of Italian Post & Telecommunication Ministry). Research Fellow. Research areas: nonlinear effect in semiconductor laser devices such as four-wave mixing, bistability and injection locking.


Research Interests

NOVEL PHOTONIC DEVICES
Semiconductor lasers, optical amplifiers, optical switches, short optical pulse generation, new materials

Optical communication Systems
fiber-optic systems, wavelength division multiplexing, nonlinear phenomenon in optical fiber, bandwidth efficient modulation formats, polarization effects, system performance evaluation, system topology

OPTICAL/RF MEASUREMENT AND BIOSENSORS

   In-service monitoring of optical system performance, multiphoton bioimaging, ultrafast fiber-optics

Societies and services

Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (2006 – 2013)

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications (2001 – 2007)

Technical committee member of Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 04, 05, 06, 07),

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

University Service and Award

   Winner of Miller Award for Distinguished Research, The University of Kansas, 2002

Winner of Bellow Scholar Award for Distinguished Research, The University of Kansas, 2012

 

 

Books:         Fiber Optic Measurement Techniques, by Rongqing Hui and Maurice O’Sullivan, Academic Press, 2009, (ISBN 978-0-12-373865-3)

                            

                    Introduction to Fiber-optic Communications, by Rongqing Hui, Academic Press, 2019, (ISBN 978-0128053454)

 

Publications

Patents

 

Google scholar link: 

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c273BNoAAAAJ&hl=en

 

Fall 2024 class:

EECS 728:  Fiber-optic Measurement and Sensors