Biographical sketch

              Francis T. S. Yu received his B.S.E.E. degree from Mapua Institute of Technology

         Manila, Philippines, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the

         University of Michigan.

              During the period from 1958 to 1965, he was a teaching fellow, an instructor, and a

         lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, and a research

         associate with the Communication Sciences Laboratory at the same University. From 1966 to

         1980 he was on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Wayne

         State University. He was a Visiting Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering

         Department at the University of Michigan from 1978-1979. Since 1980, he has been a Professor

         in the Electrical Engineering Department at The Pennsylvania State University. He has been a

         consultant to several industrial and government laboratories. He is an active researcher in the

         fields of optical signal processing, holography, information optics, optical computing, neural

         networks, photorefractive optics, fiber sensors and photonic devices. He has published over 500

         papers, in which over 300 are refereed. He is a recipient of the 1983 Faculty Scholar Medal for

         Outstanding Achievement in Physical Sciences and Engineering, a recipient of the 1984

         Outstanding Researcher in the College of Engineering, was named Evan Pugh Professor of

         Electrical Engineering in 1985 at Penn State, a recipient of the 1993 Premier Research Award

         from the Penn State Engineering Society, was named Honorary Professor in Nankai University in

         1995, is the co-recipient of the 1998 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, was named 

         Honorary Professor of the National Chiao-Tung University In Taiwan, ans is the recipient of 

         the SPIE 2004 Dennis Garbor award. 

         He has served as associate editors, editorial board and guest editor to various international 

         journals—just to name a few: member of the editorial board for the IEEE Proceedings, an associate

         editor to an International Journal on Optical Memory and Neural Networks, and editorial board of 

         Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, as well as IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

               He is the author and co-author of nine books entitled: (1) Introduction to Diffraction,

         Information Processing and Holography (translated in Russian), (2) Optics and Information

         Theory, (3) Optical Information Processing (translated in Chinese), (4) White-Light Optical

         Signal Processing, (5) Principles of Optical Engineering (with I. C. Khoo) (translated in

         Chinese), (6) Optical Signal Processing, Computing, and Neural Networks (with S. Jutamulia)

         (translated in Chinese, Japanese, and being translated in Russian and Spanish), (7) Introduction

         to Optical Engineering (with X. Yang) (being translated in Spanish and Korean), (8) Entropy and

         Information Optics, (9) Information Optics (with S. Jutamulia and S. Yin), (10) Fundamental of 

         Optical Engineering (with C.C. Sun), and he also has contributed numerous invited chapters in 

         various monographs and books. He has co-edited four texts entitled: (1) Optical Storage and 

         Retrieval (with S. Jutamulia), (2) Optical Pattern Recognition (with S. Jutamulia), 

        (3) Photorefractive Optics (with S. Yin), (4) Fiber-Optic Sensors (with S. Yin). He is 

        co-editor of two SPIE Milestone Series entitled: (1) Selected papers on Coherent Optical Processing

        (with S. Yin) and (2) Optical Pattern recognition (with S. Yin). He is also a editor and co-editor 

        of eight SPIE proceedings on Photorefractive Fiber and Crystal Devices: Materials, Optical Properties, 

        and Applications.

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