Haowen Shu is currently an Assistant Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Electronics, Peking University. His research focuses on silicon-based integrated optoelectronic information systems, including device performance optimization and system architecture design, with applications in data-center communications, microwave/millimeter-wave photonic signal processing, high-performance sensing, and computing. His current research interests include ultra-broadband optoelectronic devices and on-chip signal processing systems.
In recent years, he has published more than 50 journal and international conference papers in related fields, including three papers in Nature as a first or co-first author. He received the 7th Innovation Paper Award from the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering, was selected for the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents in 2020, and was named an Academic Rising Star in Microwave Photonics in China in 2022.
He has served as the principal investigator of several research projects, including a Young Scientist Project under the National Key R&D Program of China and a Young Scientists Fund project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Academic Papers: (# Equal contribution; * Corresponding author.)
[1] Haowen Shu#; Lin Chang#; Yuansheng Tao#; Bitao Shen#; Weiqiang Xie; Ming Jin; Andrew Netherton; Zihan Tao; Xuguang Zhang; Ruixuan Chen; Bowen Bai; Jun Qin; Shaohua Yu; Xingjun Wang*; John E. Bowers*; “Microcomb-driven silicon photonic systems,” Nature, 605(7910), 457–463 (2022).
(Selected as one of the Top 10 Advances in Optics in China 2022 and a Major Scientific and Technological Advance in Information and Communications; featured in Physics Today.)
[2] Yunhao Zhang#; Haowen Shu#; Yijun Guo#; Peiqi Zhou#; Luyu Wang#; Jianyang Cai; Liyuan Yao; Linshan Yang; Linze Li; Tianyu Long; Zhouze Zhang; Changhao Han; Kaihang Lu; Yu Sun; Zhaopeng Xu; Jun Qin; Yeyu Tong; Zhixue He; Xi Xiao; Lei Wang; Baile Chen; Shaohua Yu*; Xingjun Wang*; “Integrated photonics enabling ultra-wideband fibre–wireless communication,” Nature, 651, 348–355 (2026).
[3] Zihan Tao#; Haoyu Wang#; Hanke Feng#; Yijun Guo#; Bitao Shen#; Dan Sun; Yuansheng Tao; Changhao Han; Yandong He; John E. Bowers; Haowen Shu*; Cheng Wang*; Xingjun Wang*; “Ultrabroadband on-chip photonics for full-spectrum wireless communications,” Nature, 645, 80–87 (2025).
(Selected among China’s Top 10 Scientific and Technological Advances of 2025 by members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Top 10 Advances in Optics in China 2025, and the Top 10 Research Advances in Semiconductors in China 2025; featured in a Nature Research Briefing and Physics World.)
[4] Ruixuan Chen#; Haowen Shu#; Bitao Shen#; Lin Chang#; Weiqiang Xie; Wenchao Liao; Zihan Tao; John E. Bowers; Xingjun Wang*; “Breaking the temporal and frequency congestion of LiDAR by parallel chaos,” Nature Photonics, 17, 306–314 (2023).
(Selected as a Major Scientific and Technological Advance in Information and Communications 2023 and one of the Top 10 Socially Influential Events in Optics in China 2023.)
[5] Bitao Shen#; Haowen Shu#; Weiqiang Xie; Ruixuan Chen; Zhi Liu; Zhangfeng Ge; Xuguang Zhang; Yimeng Wang; Yunhao Zhang; Buwen Cheng; Shaohua Yu; Lin Chang; Xingjun Wang*; “Harnessing microcomb-based parallel chaos for random number generation and optical decision making,” Nature Communications, 14(1), 4590 (2023).
[6] Changhao Han#; Zhao Zheng#; Haowen Shu*; Ming Jin; Jun Qin; Ruixuan Chen; Yuansheng Tao; Bitao Shen; Bowen Bai; Fenghe Yang; Yimeng Wang; Haoyu Wang; Feifan Wang; Zixuan Zhang; Shaohua Yu; Chao Peng*; Xingjun Wang*; “Slow-light silicon modulator with 110-GHz bandwidth,” Science Advances, 9, eadi5339 (2023).
[7] Zihan Tao; Bitao Shen; Wencan Li; Luwen Xing; Haoyu Wang; Yichen Wu; Yuansheng Tao; Yan Zhou; Yandong He; Chao Peng; Haowen Shu*; Xingjun Wang*; “Versatile photonic molecule switch in multimode microresonators,” Light: Science & Applications, 13, 51 (2024).
(Back cover.)
[8] Changhao Han#; Qipeng Yang#; Yan Zhou#; Zhao Zheng; Yunhao Zhang; Haoren Wang; Yu Sun; Junde Lv; Yimeng Wang; Zhangfeng Ge; Yichen Wu; Lei Wang; Zhixue He; Shaohua Yu; Weiwei Hu; Chao Peng; Haowen Shu*; John E. Bowers*; Xingjun Wang*; “Exploring 400 Gbps/λ and beyond with AI-accelerated silicon photonic slow-light technology,” Nature Communications, 16, 6547 (2025).
[9] Haowen Shu#; Lin Chang#; Chenghao Lao#; Bitao Shen#; Weiqiang Xie; Xuguang Zhang; Ming Jin; Yuansheng Tao; Ruixuan Chen; Zihan Tao; Huajin Chang; Shaohua Yu; Qifan Yang; Xingjun Wang*; John E. Bowers*; “Submilliwatt, widely tunable coherent microcomb generation with feedback-free operation,” Advanced Photonics, 5(3), 036007 (2023).
[10] Zihan Tao#; Yuansheng Tao#; Ming Jin; Jun Qin; Ruixuan Chen; Bitao Shen; Yichen Wu; Haowen Shu*; Shaohua Yu; Xingjun Wang*; “Highly reconfigurable silicon integrated microwave photonic filter towards next-generation wireless communication,” Photonics Research, 11(5), 682–694 (2023).
(Editor-in-Chief’s Pick, 2023.)
Projects Presided:
Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST), Young Scientist Project of the National Key R&D Program of China, RMB 5 million, Principal Investigator, ongoing.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Excellent Young Scientists Fund, RMB 2 million, Principal Investigator, ongoing.
