Benyuan Zhu is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Lightera Labs, where he works on new fibers, DWDM transmissions, advanced amplifiers, and sensing technologies development. He joined Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ USA as a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) in 1999, then became an MTS at OFS Labs. He has authored/coauthored +200 journal, conference papers, one book chapter, and held 25+ US patents, He has served as technical program committee (TPC) members or TPC chairs for the conferences of OFC, IPC, ACP. He also served as Associate Editors of the IET Electronics Letters, Optica Optics Express and IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. He is a Fellow of Optica. Benyuan Zhu received Ph.D. degree in Physics from Bath University, UK.