Chaoran Huang is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She took an engineering degree at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2012 and a PhD at CUHK in 2016, and before returning to CUHK she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University from 2017 to 2021. In 2019 she was named a Rising Stars Woman in Engineering Asia and was nominated by Princeton to compete for the Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists. She has authored more than forty peer-reviewed papers, three book chapters and one US patent, has served on the technical programme committees of several international conferences, and reviews frequently for journals published by the IEEE, the Optical Society and the Nature Publishing Group. Her research sits within photonics and information engineering, with optical computing and optical communications as its main threads.
Huang moved from a CUHK doctorate to a Princeton postdoctoral fellowship and back to CUHK, focusing on optical computing and optical communications; she takes part in the international community through reviewing and programme committees, and holds a US patent.
Achievements
- 2016 · Completed a PhD at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- 2019 · Named a Rising Stars Woman in Engineering Asia.
- 2022 · Joined CUHK's Department of Information Engineering.