Jia-Ming Liu is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his PhD degree in applied physics from Harvard University in 1982. His research interests are in the areas of non-linear optics, ultrafast optics, photonic devices, optical wave propagation, nonlinear laser dynamics and chaotic communications. Dr Liu has written more than 150 scientific publications and holds 8 US patents. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America.