Recently, in accordance with the Measures for the Selection of Fellows of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering (Trial), the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering, following an expert review, announced its list of 18 proposed Fellows for 2026. Professor Wang Yiping of College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering at Shenzhen University has been elected as a 2026 Fellow of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering (CSOE Fellow).

Wang Yiping is a Chair Professor and doctoral supervisor at College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, a Fellow of Optica (OPTICA Fellow), a Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society (COS Fellow), and a Fellow of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering (CSOE Fellow). He also serves as Director of the Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of the Ministry of Education and Director of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Research Center for Optical Fiber Sensing Technology.

Professor Wang graduated from Xi’an Technological University in 1995 with a degree in Precision Instrumentation and received his Ph.D. in Optical Engineering from Chongqing University in 2003. He subsequently conducted research at Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a postdoctoral researcher, Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a postdoctoral researcher, the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena, Germany, as a Humboldt Scholar, and the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom as a Marie Curie Fellow. In 2012, he joined Shenzhen University as a Distinguished Professor, where he established an innovative research team in optical fiber sensing and the Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Research Center for Optical Fiber Sensing Technology.

Professor Wang has long been engaged in research on optical fiber sensing technologies and their applications. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the First and Second Prizes of the Ministry of Education’s Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Shenzhen Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Sichuan Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of the Guangdong Optical Society’s Optical Science and Technology Award, the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, the German Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, and the European Union Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Incoming Fellowship.

He has served as principal investigator for 32 projects, including projects under the National Key Research and Development Program, the XXX Special Project of the Science and Technology Commission of the Central Military Commission, and key projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published 610 academic papers, which have received more than 12,000 citations, with an H-index of 56. Twenty-two of his papers have each been cited more than 100 times, with the most-cited paper receiving 450 citations. He holds 70 granted invention patents, including six U.S. invention patents. He also serves on the editorial boards of Applied Optics and Photonic Sensors, and is Vice President of the Guangdong Optical Society.

Founded in 2014, the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering is a non-governmental academic organization composed of scientific and technological professionals in optical engineering and related fields. It is committed to bringing together scientists, engineers, scholars, and students in China and abroad to promote and advance scientific and technological development in optical engineering and related disciplines.

The title of Fellow of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering is conferred upon members who have made significant and creative contributions and achievements in optical engineering and related scientific and technological fields. Fellows are selected in accordance with the Measures for the Selection of Fellows of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering (Trial).