Shilong Pan received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2010, he was a “Vision 2010” Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa, Canada. He joined the College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2010, where he is currently a Full Professor and an Executive Director of the Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, the Ministry of Education.

His research has focused on microwave photonics, which includes optical generation and processing of microwave signals, analog photonic links, photonic microwave measurement, and integrated microwave photonics. Prof. Pan has authored or co-authored over more than 260 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 200 papers in conference proceedings.

Prof. Pan is currently an associate editor of Electronics Letters, a Topical Editor of Chinese Optics Letters, and is the vice chair of IEEE MTT-22 Microwave Photonics. Prof. Pan has also served as a Chair of a number of international conferences, symposia, and workshops, including the TPC Chair of the International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks in 2015, TPC Co-chair of IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP) in 2017, and the General Co-chair of IEEE MWP 2021. 

Prof. Pan is a Fellow of OSA, SPIE and IET, and a senior member of IEEE. He was selected as an IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2019 and was a recipient of IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2021.