Prof. Dr. Angela Amphawan received her PhD in optical communications from University of Oxford, United Kingdom. She is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor at University Malaysia of Computer Science and Engineering (UNIMY). Her research focus is in optical fiber communications, free-space optics, radio-over free space optics, digital holography and photonic crystal fiber. She currently serves as an executive committee member on the IEEE Joint Sensor and Nanotechnology Councils, Malaysian Chapter. She is also on the Editorial Board of the APL Photonics Journal with the American Institute of Physics. She was previously on the Editorial Board of Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies and Publicity Co-Chair for the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference International Conference (WCNC) 2016. She has given keynote addresses at several Fulbright and IEEE events. She was a recipient of the 2013 Fulbright Award at the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Due to her outstanding contributions, she was recently presented the International Academic Award by the Deputy Prime Minister. In addition, she has won four Best Paper Awards and several exhibition medals.