Gang-Ding Peng

Professor in Photonics and Optical Communications

	Telephone:	+61 (2) 9385 4014
	Facsimile:	+61 (2) 9385 5993
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	Room:	309, EE Building
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Qualifications

	B.Sc. in Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, 1982
	M.Sc. in Applied Physics, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 1984
	Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 1987

Awards and Honours

	Science and Technology Achievement Award (Second Prize), from the National Education Council, China, 1987
	Young Lecturer Achievement Award, Jiao Tong University,1988
	Australian National University Postdoctoral Fellowship,1988
	Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship from Australian Research Council,1992
	Australian Academy of Science --Scientific Visiting Fellowship (to US, Canada and Mexico),2000
	Anthony Mason Fellowship --Scientific Visiting Fellowship (to China),2001
	Guest Professor, School of Optoelectronics, Chongqing University,2003
	Visiting Professor, Osaka University,2004
	Guest Professor, School of Electronics and Information, Zhejiang University,2005

Membership of Professional Societies

Optical Society of America, Member

Employment

	Jiao Tong University (Shanghai, China), Lecturer, 1987-1988
	The Australian National University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1988-1989
	The Australian National University & Sydney University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1990- 1991
	The University of New South Wales, Lecturer, 1991
	The University of New South Wales, Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, 1992-1996
	The University of New South Wales, Lecturer, 1997
	The University of New South Wales, Senior Lecturer, 1997-2002
	The University of New South Wales, Associate Professor, 2002-present

Teaching Areas

	Optical fibre communications
	Photonics
	Telecommunications

Professional Activites

	Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee, The 7th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, Sydney, Australia, 2007.
	Member, International Program Committee, The 7th International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2007
	Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2007
	Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks / Advances and Trends in Fibre Optics, Chengdu, China, 2006
	Overseas Associate Editor，Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP), (2005-2006)
	Member, Local Organisation Committee, International Conference of Polymer Optical Fibres, HK, 2005
	Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, Bangkok, Thailand, 2005
	Session Chair, Microwave & Optical Devices Session, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Hangzhou, China, 2005
	Member, International Program Committee, The IASTED International Conference on Optical Communications Systems and Networks (OCSN 2004), Banff, AB, Canada, 2004
	Co-Chair, Conference on Advanced Sensor Systems and Applications in Photonics Asia, Shanghai 2004
	Co-Chair, International Symposium on Advances and Trends in Fiber Optics and Applications, Chongqing, 2004
	Members, Technical Program Committee, APCC/MDMC, Beijing 2004

Research Interests

1. Special silica optical fibres and devices
	Rare earth doped fibres, fibre amplifiers and fibre lasers
	Polarisation maintaining fibres, twin-core fibres, Electro-optic fibres,
	Fibre couplers, fibre Bragg gratings & long period fibre gratings
2. Application-specific polymer optical fibres and devices
	Laser dye-doped polymer optical fibres, photosensitive polymer fibres
	Electro-optic polymer optical fibres, liquid-crystal-doped polymer fibres
	Polymer fibre Bragg gratings & long period fibre gratings
3. Optical fibre sensors
	Optical fibre hydrophones, fibre grating strain sensors
	Polymer optical fibre sensors
4. Planar photonic and waveguide devices
	Waveguide gratings, amplifiers
	Biosensors
5. Optical fibre communication systems, WDM systems, office and home networks
6. Photonic signal processing techniques
	Interferometer modulation and demodulation
	DSP techniques, Optical instrumentation

Research Projects, Grants and Industrial Contracts

Selected Publications