Yinlan Ruan

Yinlan Ruan received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1991 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, in 2006. She joined Accelink Technologies as a photonics product developer in 1996. In 2005, she joined the Centre of Expertise in Photonics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She has authored or coauthored over ten journal publications and 14 conference papers. Her research interests include special glasses for mid-infrared applications, high nonlinear materials, microstructured fibers, environmental and biological sensors, planar nonlinear waveguide, and photonics crystal devices for all-optical processing. Dr. Ruan is a member of the Optical Society of America. She was the recipient of the 2005 Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Award and the 2005 Chinese government award for outstanding self-financed students abroad.