Rate My Professor Wei Jin

Professor Wei Jin is the Chair Professor of Photonic Instrumentation in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He earned his BEng and MSc degrees from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1984 and 1987, respectively, and his PhD in Optoelectronics from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK, in 1991. Following his doctorate, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Strathclyde University from 1991 to 1995. He joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1996 as an Assistant Professor, advancing to Associate Professor in 1998 and full Professor in 2003. His research specializations encompass photonic crystal fiber devices, optical fiber sensors, fiber lasers and amplifiers, optical gas detectors, and condition monitoring for electrical power transformers, civil, and mechanical structures. Professor Jin holds fellowships as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (FOSA), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE), and Member of SPIE (MSPIE). He currently serves as Associate Director of the Photonics Research Institute and is involved in several PolyU research institutes including RIAIoT, RISUD, and RISports.

Professor Jin has edited four books or proceedings, authored or co-authored eight book chapters, over 280 journal papers, 190 conference papers, and more than ten patents in fiber optic devices and sensors. His works have garnered over 10,045 citations with an h-index of 51 and i10-index of 220 on Google Scholar, and over 6,995 citations with an h-index of 42 on SCIE. Notable publications include 'Creating an eco-friendly building coating with smart subambient radiative cooling' (Advanced Materials, 2020, 506 citations), 'Design and modeling of a photonic crystal fiber gas sensor' (Applied Optics, 2003, 431 citations), and 'Fusion splicing photonic crystal fibers and conventional single-mode fibers: microhole collapse effect' (Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2007, 400 citations). He has secured research funding exceeding HK$50 million, supervised or co-supervised 30 PhD students, and delivered over 90 plenary, keynote, or invited speeches. His accolades include the President Award from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1999, Research Grant Achievement Awards from the Faculty of Engineering in 2005, 2008, 2011, and 2016, Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the National Science Foundation of China in 2006, and Chiang Jiang Chair Professor award from the Ministry of Education of China in 2009. He is a Director of the Optical Society of China, Vice Chairman of its Fiber and Integrated Optics Specialty Committee, and has chaired major conferences such as the 25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors.