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Email: eehytam@polyu.edu.hk
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Hwayaw Tam,
received the B.Sc. degree in 1985 and the Ph.D. in 1990 in
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, both from The University
of Manchester, UK. From 1989 to 1993 he was with Hirst Research
Center, GEC-Marconi Ltd. in the UK, first as a Research
Scientist, then as a Senior Research Scientist working on
wavelength-division multiplexing systems, high-speed optical
communication links and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. He also
worked briefly for Marconi-Italiana of Italy as a consultant
before joining the Department of Electrical Engineering of the
Hong Kong Polytechnic in January 1993.
Currently, he is a Chair Professor of Photonics of the
Department of Electrical Engineering at The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University. Prof. TAM is also the Director of the
Photonics Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering at the same
university.
His current research interests are fibre-optics sensors,
photonics sensor networks, optical fibre communications,
all-optical signal processing, fibre-optics devices, optical
fibre amplifiers and lasers, and optoelectronics components.
Prof. Tam has secured over HK$40 million research funding since
1995. He has published over 250 technical papers and holds six
patents in the areas of fiber-optics. Several of his inventions
also won international awards. Prof. Tam has a number of R & D
projects working with companies both locally and overseas in the
areas of optical fiber amplifiers and sensors. His group has
installed photonics sensors on the TsingMa Bridge in Hong Kong,
KCRC (HK) rail tracks, MRTC (HK) civil structure and oil tanks
in China. Prof. Tam is a Chartered Engineer, a senior member of
the IEEE and a member of IEE.