Gong-Ru Lin received the B.S. degree in physics from Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1990, the M.S. and the PhD degree in Electro-Optical Engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1990 and 1996, respectively. He was the faculty member of several universities in Taiwan from 1997 to 2006. He joined the Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics (GIPO) and the Department of Electrical Engineering in National Taiwan University (NTU) a full professor since 2006. He is currently directing the Laboratory of Fiber Laser Communications and Si Nano-Photonics in GIPO, NTU, Taiwan. He is the Senior Member of IEEE, the Fellow of OSA, the Fellow of SPIE, the Fellow of IET, and the Fellow of IOP. He is currently the Chair of GIPO in NTU and the Chair of IEEE/Photonics Taipei Chapter. His research interests include the fiber-optic communications, the all-optical data processing, the femtosecond fiber lasers, the nanocrystallite Si photonics, the ultrafast photoconductors and the optoelectronic phase-locked loops.