Biography

Sze Yun Set (Fellow, OPTICA, Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. 1st-class honours from the University of Southampton, U.K. in 1993, and the Ph.D. from the Optoelectronics Research Centre of the same university in 1999. He was a JSPS post-doctoral fellow at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, from 1998 to 2001. After spending a year as a Senior R&D Engineer at Micron Optics Inc., Atlanta, GA, USA, he joined a University of Tokyo startup Alnair Labs Corporation, as an R&D Manager. He was appointed as the CEO and CTO of the company from 2005 to 2015. Dr. Set joined RCAST, the University of Tokyo, as an associate professor in 2016. He was elected a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge, and an Academic Associate at the Cambridge Graphene Centre, The University of Cambridge, UK, from 2021-2022. His research areas include short-pulsed fiber lasers, carbon-nanotube/graphene photonics, LIDAR, 3D laser imaging, bio-imaging, and optical sensing. Apart from supervising graduate students from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems and the Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, he also teaches two graduate courses in entrepreneurship. He has contributed to more than 250 referred journal and conference publications and 12 issued patents.
Dr. Set is a fellow of the OPTICA (formerly OSA), a Distinguished Lecturer and Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society, and a Director of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP).