Dr. Shiquan TaoWest Texas A&M University, USA
Biography
Dr. Tao received his PhD in chemistry from Hiroshima University in 1996. He worked for two years as a postdoc at Tsinghua University (Beijing)?s physics department. He was a principle investigator in charge of a fiber optic sensor research program at the Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory in Mississippi State University before joining the faculty of department of chemistry and physics, West Texas A&M University, in 2007 fall. Dr. Tao?s research program is presently focused on the development of fiber optic sensors and exploring the applications of his innovative sensor technologies in environmental monitoring, food safety inspection, disease diagnosis, and monitoring industrial processes. The research program involves nanomaterial preparation, integrating nanomaterials and biomolecules into optical fibers, using fiber optic spectroscopy to probe the reactions of target compounds with sensing reagents inside optical fiber sensors. Fiber optic sensors for monitoring air pollutants, food pathogens, gamma-ray, temperature, water contaminants have been developed.
Research Interest
Innovative sensor technologies in environmental monitoring, food safety inspection, disease diagnosis, and monitoring industrial processes, nanomaterial preparation, integrating nanomaterials and biomolecules into optical fibers, fiber optic spectroscopy