Yong Chen (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Bath, Bath, U.K., in 2013. After that, he joined the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K., where he is currently a Senior Research Fellow. His work on the development of novel hollow core fibres played a pivotal role in the foundation of Lumenisity Ltd., a spin out company from the ORC, focusing on commercialising hollow core fibres technology. He is currently the Advanced Fibre R&D Manager for Lumenisity. He has coauthored more than 100 publications, with a current H-index of 23. His research interests include design, fabrication, and characterization of microstructured optical fibers, postprocessing of conventional and microstructured fibers, mode converters, and nonlinear fiber optics.