Dr Qiang Wu at Northumbria University

Dr Qiang Wu

Associate Professor

Department: Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering

Qiang Wu

Dr. Qiang Wu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Physics & Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University at Newcastle. He is also an adjunct professor in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Before joining Northumbria University, he was a Stokes Lecturer with the Photonics Research Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland.

He was a Senior Research Associate with the Optoelectronics Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, from 2004 to 2006, where he was involved in research on polymer optical waveguides. He was a Research Associate with the Applied Optics and Photonics Group, Heriot-Watt University, from 2006 to 2008, where he was involved in research on laser joining in micromanufacturing. He is a committee member of Holography and Optical Information Processing committee, The Chinese Optical Society. He is an Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports (Nature Group, 2016 Impact Factor 4.259) and Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal (2016 Impact Factor 2.512).

His current research interest lies in Photonics including the design and fabrication of fibre Bragg grating devices for sensing and optical communications; hetero-core fibre structures for novel fibre optical couplers and sensors; nonlinear effects in photonic crystal fibre, microsphere, nanofibres, visible light communication and its application for sensing, and surface plasmon resonant for highly integrated nanophotonics devices and their applications for biosensing. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles in academic journals and international conferences and holds three patents. He has been highlighted and interviewed by the journal Electronics Letters with the objective of understanding the background and rationale for his research on singlemode-multimode-singlemode fibre structures.

Campus Address

Room E409
Ellison Building
Northumberland Road
NE1 8ST

Email Qiang

Key Publications

A cascaded tapered seven-core fiber biosensor for rapid detection of the p53 protein in 293T cell lysate, Zhang, Z., Li, Z., Xie, R., Tian, Z., Yao, Y., Yang, B., Zhang, J., Ma, H., Rao, L., Wang, K., Yan, B., Sang, X., Yu, C., Fu, B., Pu, S., Yuan, J., Wu, Q. 25 May 2025, In: Talanta
A slot shape microstructured optical fiber for high sensitivity pressure sensing, Xue, P., Fu, Y., Wu, Q., Ng, W., Binns, R., Liu, Q. 15 Mar 2025, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology
Carbon Dioxide Sensing Based on Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Absorption Spectroscopy Combined with the Informer and Multilayer Perceptron Models, Zhang, K., Wu, T., Shen, L., Wu, Q., Chen, W., Ye, C., He, X. 11 Feb 2025, In: Analytical Chemistry
Cascaded fabry-perot interferometer with thin film based on Vernier effect, Chen, L., Wu, Q. 21 Feb 2025, In: Scientific Reports
Closed loop acquisition of multi-levels humidity sensors by spontaneous optimization TiO2/Ti3C2Tx heterojunction without artificial intervention, Yang, Z., Liu, W., Yuan, L., Chen, W., Ma, G., Xu, J., Wu, Q. 15 May 2025, In: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
Combination of virtual optical vernier method and peak position recognition without envelope fitting: a general method for sensor sensitivity enhancement, Bei, G., Wei, T., Ma, H., Zhang, L., Yao, Y., Wang, M., Yuan, J., Wu, Q. 1 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology
Conversion of low-grade heat from molten carbonate fuel cells to electricity by thermoradiative devices with optimized transport properties, Hu, Y., Holubec, V., Chen, J., Liu, B., Liu, J., Wu, Q., Ye, Z. 16 Jun 2025, In: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Convolutional Neural Network-Assisted Optical Microfiber Interferometer for Refractive Index Accurately Measurement, Cao, H., Hu, Y., Fang, L., Liu, B., Liu, J., Yang, H., Zhang, Y., Fu, Y., Xiao, W., Wu, Q. 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
Convolutional Neural Network-Enabled Optical Fiber SPR Sensors for RI Prediction, Liao, X., Yang, H., Wu, Q., Liu, J., Hu, Y., Zhang, Y., Liu, W., Fu, Y., Pike, A., Liu, B. 15 Feb 2025, In: IEEE Sensors Journal
Enhanced Force Sensing Utilizing a Glass-Supported WGM Microbubble Resonator, Shen, Y., Wang, Z., R., A., Wang, Z., Jibon, R., Rout, A., Cai, B., Wu, Q., Semenova, Y. 15 Jun 2025, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology

PGR Supervision

Raul Enrique Zamorano-Illanes Design and development of optical sensors for WSN Start Date: 20/06/2025
Julián Solís Torrejón Utilizing flexible and moveable solar cells as optical wireless sensors to provide indoor asset tracking within a synchronized PoE backbone network Start Date: 01/05/2025
Haili Ma Bacterial cellulose and molecular imprinting polymers based novel optical fibre biochemical sensor Start Date: 01/10/2023
Adeel Faruq Skin Patch Based Optical Microfibre Interferometer Biosensor Start Date: 01/10/2023