Profiles

Juan M. Marin is a Doctoral Candidate in Electrical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Colombia in 2021. He is currently a postgraduate researcher with KAUST Photonics Laboratory.

His research focuses on the development of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) as a fundamental asset for the next generation of fiber-based telecommunication networks, endowing optical fibers with multi-parameter sensing and pattern recognition capabilities enabled by machine learning algorithms. In addition to this, his work envisions incorporating fiber optics into the Internet of Things (IoT) by enabling simultaneous power delivery and energy harvesting in fiber-optic networks.

Fiber-optic sensors; Optical Networks; Applied Machine learning; Signal Processing

Yue Wang is a Ph.D. candidate at the Photonics Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), under the mentorship of Prof. Boon S. Ooi. She earned her B.Eng. in Electronic Science and Technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2020. She received her master's degree in Electrical Engineering from KAUST in 2021.

Yue Wang's research focuses on semiconductor optoelectronics, high-speed color-converting luminescent devices, and optical wireless communication. She specializes in characterizing color-converting materials, designing and fabricating luminescent optoelectronic devices, and developing optical wireless communication systems.

Yue Wang has explored emerging luminescent materials such as perovskites, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and organic fluorophores, enabling Gb/s visible light communication and wavelength-division multiplexing with enhanced channel capacity. To relieve the stringent requirements of pointing, acquisition, and tracking in underwater optical wireless communication channels, she employed scintillating fibers and luminescent solar concentrators for wide field-of-view, high-speed photodetection. Her work also extends to optical amplification, where she has developed a high-gain visible-light amplifier based on perovskite quantum dots, potentially addressing the optical loss during long-distance optical data transmission.