Boon S. Ooi (FIEEE, FNAI, FAPS, FOSA, FSPIE and FInstP) is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at KAUST. His research interests include optoelectronic devices and systems for optical communications and sensors. To date, he has successfully trained 41 PhD students and 17 postdocs. He is an inventor of 45 issued US Patents and the recipient of the following selected awards: the Optica/OSA Sang Soo Lee Award, the Khalifa International Award, as well as several paper awards. He has served as Associate Editor of the Optics Express, Senior Editor of the IEEE Photonics Journal, and Chair or Technical Program Committee members of OFC, CLEO, IPC, ISLC, and IEDM. He is currently serving or has served on several award committees including the IEEE Fellow Committee, the SPIE Fellow Selection Committee, etc. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, and is an Editorial Board Member of the Proceedings of the IEEE.