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. He has been a consultant to several industrial and governmental 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 five hundred papers, to which over three hundred are referred. He has served as an associate editor editorial board member and guest editor for various international journals. He is the author and co-author of nine books. Dr. Yu is a life fellow of IEEE and a fellow of OSA, SPIE, and PSC.
