Hang Lu

About

Hang Lu is a final-year Ph.D. student at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working in the Photonics Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Boon S. Ooi. Her research focuses on engineering optoelectronic devices and photonic integration circuits for applications in optical communication, illumination, and hardware security. She has hands-on experience in optical design and modeling, nanofabrication, and experimental device prototyping, and has led the development of integrated optoelectronic devices and chips for secure and scalable photonic applications. Hang has published in Light: Science & Applications, npj Nanophotonics, and APL Photonics, with her work featured as a cover article in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. She also has experience in designing augmented-reality (AR) display systems and is broadly interested in advanced photonic integration and device–application co-design.

Education Profile

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at KAUST, 2022- present
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, Aug. 2021- 2022
• BEng. in Electronical Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, Sept. 2017 - Jun. 2021
• She took part in the Visiting Student Research Program (VSRP) at KAUST during 2020/11-2021/02.