Professor Poon received his BA degree from the University of Chicago, Illinois, in 1995, and his MPhil and PhD degrees from Yale University, Connecticut, in 1998 and 2001, all in Physics. Professor Poon joined HKUST in June 2001. Professor Poon’s research focuses on silicon-based micro-sized resonators for optical communication applications. Research Interests Silicon photonics, optical microresonators, photonic devices, on-chip optical interconnects, integrated photonics, nanophotonics, biophotonics.