Mao Yuan is a Research Scientist at Photonics Laboratory in the Division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He received hi Ph.D. degree in Department of Electronic and information engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University 2013 in Hong Kong. During his Ph.D., he focused on the distributed optical fiber sensors based on Brillouin scattering.