Yikai Su (Ph.D. in EE) graduated from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA in 2000. He worked at Crawford Hill Lab of Bell Laboratories in the summer of 1999 (MTS-I), and from 2001 to 2003 (MTS). From 2004 he has been with the faculty of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Currently he is a full professor, the director of the optical transmission and integrated photonics lab, and the director of the center for advanced electronic materials and devices. His research area covers silicon photonic devices, optical transmission, switching, and analog processing. He has over 300 publications with >3000 citations (scopus search), and holds ~50 patents. Prof. Su served as an advisory board member of Advanced Optical Materials (2015- ), an associate editor of APL Photonics (2015- ) and OSA Photonics Research (2013- ), a topical editor of Optics Letters (2008-2014), and a guest editor of IEEE JSTQE (2008/2011). He is the chair of the IEEE Photonics Society Shanghai chapter. He also served as a TPC member of a large number of international conferences including CLEO, ECOC, OFC, etc..