Prof. Dr. Angela Amphawan
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Sunway University, Malaysia
Angela Amphawan (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in optical engineering from the University of Oxford, U.K. She is currently Leading the Photonics Research Laboratory, School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University. Prior to this, she was the Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University Malaysia of Computer Science and Engineering. Her research projects have been funded by the U.S. Department of States, German Government, Malaysian Ministry of Education and Telekom Malaysia. Her research interests include optical communications and sensing, covering optical fibers, free-space optics, radio-over free space optics, digital imaging, and the Internet-of-Things. She was a recipient of the Fulbright Award at the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has also won several best paper awards and exhibition medals. She was a Publicity Co-Chair for the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. She serves on the Editorial Board for the APL Photonics Journal with the American Institute of Physics and is on the National 5G Task Force. She was previously on the Editorial Board of Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. She has given keynote addresses at several Fulbright and IEEE events.