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Dr Qiang Wu

Associate Professor

Department: Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering

Qiang Wu

Dr. Qiang Wu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Physics & Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University at Newcastle. He is also an adjunct professor in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Before joining Northumbria University, he was a Stokes Lecturer with the Photonics Research Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland.

He was a Senior Research Associate with the Optoelectronics Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, from 2004 to 2006, where he was involved in research on polymer optical waveguides. He was a Research Associate with the Applied Optics and Photonics Group, Heriot-Watt University, from 2006 to 2008, where he was involved in research on laser joining in micromanufacturing. He is a committee member of Holography and Optical Information Processing committee, The Chinese Optical Society. He is an Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports (Nature Group, 2016 Impact Factor 4.259) and Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal (2016 Impact Factor 2.512).

His current research interest lies in Photonics including the design and fabrication of fibre Bragg grating devices for sensing and optical communications; hetero-core fibre structures for novel fibre optical couplers and sensors; nonlinear effects in photonic crystal fibre, microsphere, nanofibres, visible light communication and its application for sensing, and surface plasmon resonant for highly integrated nanophotonics devices and their applications for biosensing. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles in academic journals and international conferences and holds three patents. He has been highlighted and interviewed by the journal Electronics Letters with the objective of understanding the background and rationale for his research on singlemode-multimode-singlemode fibre structures.

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Campus Address

Room E409
Ellison Building
Northumberland Road
NE1 8ST

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • A slot shape microstructured optical fiber for high sensitivity pressure sensing, Xue, P., Fu, Y., Wu, Q., Ng, W., Binns, R., Liu, Q. 15 Mar 2025, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Carbon Dioxide Sensing Based on Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Absorption Spectroscopy Combined with the Informer and Multilayer Perceptron Models, Zhang, K., Wu, T., Shen, L., Wu, Q., Chen, W., Ye, C., He, X. 11 Feb 2025, In: Analytical Chemistry
  • Cascaded fabry-perot interferometer with thin film based on Vernier effect, Chen, L., Wu, Q. 21 Feb 2025, In: Scientific Reports
  • Closed loop acquisition of multi-levels humidity sensors by spontaneous optimization TiO2/Ti3C2Tx heterojunction without artificial intervention, Yang, Z., Liu, W., Yuan, L., Chen, W., Ma, G., Xu, J., Wu, Q. 12 Feb 2025, In: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
  • Combination of virtual optical vernier method and peak position recognition without envelope fitting: a general method for sensor sensitivity enhancement, Bei, G., Wei, T., Ma, H., Zhang, L., Yao, Y., Wang, M., Yuan, J., Wu, Q. 1 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Convolutional Neural Network-Enabled Optical Fiber SPR Sensors for RI Prediction, Liao, X., Yang, H., Wu, Q., Liu, J., Hu, Y., Zhang, Y., Liu, W., Fu, Y., Pike, A., Liu, B. 15 Feb 2025, In: IEEE Sensors Journal
  • Enhanced Force Sensing Utilizing a Glass-Supported WGM Microbubble Resonator, Shen, Y., Wang, Z., R., A., Wang, Z., Jibon, R., Rout, A., Cai, B., Wu, Q., Semenova, Y. 1 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Flexible surface acoustic wave technology for enhancing transdermal drug delivery, Zhang, J., Bahar, D., Ong, H., Arnold, P., Zhang, M., Jiang, Y., Tao, R., Haworth, L., Yang, X., Brain, C., Rahmati, M., Torun, H., Wu, Q., Luo, J., Fu, Y. 1 Apr 2025, In: Drug Delivery and Translational Research
  • High-performance fiber-optic hot-wire flowmeter based on surface plasmon resonance and PDMS, Liu, W., Pu, S., Zhang, C., Huang, S., Xu, T., Wu, Q. 24 Feb 2025, In: Optics Express
  • High-sensitivity whispering-gallery mode sensor for simultaneous measurement of humidity and temperature, Zhang, C., Pu, S., Liu, W., Xu, T., Huang, S., Wu, M., Yang, Z., Ji, Y., Wu, Q. 15 Jan 2025, In: Optics Letters

  • Haili Ma Bacterial cellulose and molecular imprinting polymers based novel optical fibre biochemical sensor Start Date: 01/10/2023
  • Adeel Faruq Skin Patch Based Optical Microfibre Interferometer Biosensor Start Date: 01/10/2023

  • Technologies PhD June 30 2004
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2016


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