Sulaiman Wadi Harun received the B.E degree in Electrical and Electronics System Engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan in 1996, and M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in Photonics Technology from University of Malaya in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He has nearly 20 years of research experiences on the development of optical fiber devices including fiber amplifiers, fiber lasers and fiber optic sensors. He also involved in exploiting new nanomaterials such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, black phosphorous, topological insulators, zinc oxide nanostructures for various fiber lasers and sensors applications. Recently, he has received a prestigious MyLab grant amounting of RM 2M from the ministry of higher education to work in high power fiber laser. Prof. Harun has published more than 900 articles in reputable ISI journals and his papers have been cited more than 8000 times with an h-index of 40, showing the impact on the community. He is also serving as an academic editor to International Journal of Optics, which is indexed in both ISI and Scopus databases. He has successfully supervised more than 70 PhD students to completion. Currently, he is also working as an adjunct Professor in Airlangga University, Indonesia and Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam. He received a prestigious award of Malaysian Rising Star 2016 from the Ministry of Higher Education for his contribution in international collaboration. He is the Fellow of Malaysian Academic of Science, and the founder and honorary advisor for the Optical Society of Malaysia.