Dr. Jiayang Wu received the Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in December, 2015. After that, he joined Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) in July, 2016. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Optical Sciences Centre and an Associate Investigator for ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS). He is also a Senior University Lecturer teaching undergraduate / honours courses in physics and mathematics.

After over 10 years' accumulation, Dr. Wu has gained considerable experience and developed extensive expertise about advanced optical devices and materials. His current research fields include integrated photonics, 2D materials, and machine learning. As of October 1st of 2026, he has 112 publications in SCI journals, highlighted by Nature, Nature Reviews Chemistry, Advanced Materials, Advances in Optics and Photonics, Science Bulletin, Advanced Functional Materials, Nature Communications, Applied Physics Reviews, Light: Advanced Manufacturing, Small, Laser & Photonics Reviews, and Nano Letters. He is also an inventor on 15 filed technological patents.

In 2021, Dr. Wu was named by the Australian’s Research magazine as the top researcher in the field of Optics & Photonics (only 1 person). Since 2021, he has been consistently named among the world's top 2% of scientists in the Stanford & Elsevier citation database), and since 2025, he has been recognised in both the career-long and single-year impact lists. He also received the SUT Early Career Researcher Award in 2021, the Early Career Researcher – Swinburne University Postgraduate Research Award in 2021, the Rising Star of Science Award in 2022, and the Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award in 2025 and 2026.

Dr. Wu is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the Optica. He is currently serving / has served as an associate editor for npj Nanophotonics (2024-2028) and PhotoniX Synergy (2026-2028), as well as a guest editor for Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2021, 2023) and Journal of Optics (2019). He has served as chair for the technical program committee (TPC) of Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) 2024, and the TPC member for SPIE NanoPhotonics Australasia (2017), Australian and New Zealand Conferences on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP) 2019, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR) 2020, Advanced Photonics Congress (APC) 2021 - 2023, OECC 2025 - 2027, and International Conference on Optoelectronic Integration (COINT) 2025, 2026. He has also served as a referee for over 60 articles in SCI journals, mainly including Nature, Nature Photonics, Nature Electronics, Nature Physics, Nature Reviews Electronic Engineering, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Small, Laser & Photonics Reviews, and Optica.

Dr. Wu is currently supervising / has supervised 6 postdoctoral researchers, 18 PhD students at SUT, 10 visiting PhD students, 2 honours students, and 6 undergraduate students (for Grand Challenges in Science course). His PhD students have received many prestigious awards and fellowships, including the IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowships in 2019, 2021, and 2022 (10 recipients globally each year), the Wanda Henry Prize in 2020 (1 recipient in Australia & New Zealand each year), the SUT HDR Woman Researcher of the Year in 2021 and 2022 (2 recipients in SUT each year), and the SUT Iain Wallace Award in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2024 (for outstanding PhD research).