The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently announced its list of new fellows for 2023.

Perry Shum, Chair Professor of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), was selected and became the department’s seventh IEEE Fellow.

This selection is another honor for Prof. Shum after previously being elected as a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA), the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), and the Chinese Optical Society (COS).

In addition, he has also been elected as the 2023 Chair-elect of the IEEE Photonics Society, and will undertake the role until 2025.

Prof. Perry Shum is also President of the IEEE Photonics Society Guangdong Branch.

Previously, he served as the Vice President of the IEEE Photonics Society. He was also Director of the Network Technology Research Centre (NTRC), Centre for OptoElectronics and Biophotonics (OPTIMUS), and Centre for Optical Fibre Technology (COFT), and Associate Chair of Academic at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

His research interests focus on silicon photonics, optical sensing, and laser technologies, and he has published more than 900 peer-reviewed papers.

The IEEE is an international society of technical professionals, with more than 400,000 members in more than 160 countries.

IEEE Fellow is the highest honor awarded by the society to its members, and it is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting for this prestigious grade elevation.