Shuji Nakamura obtained B.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokushima, Japan in 1977, 1979, and 1994, respectively. He joined Nichia Chemical Industries Ltd in 1979. In 1993 and 1995 he developed the first group-III nitride-based high-brightness blue and green LEDs. He also developed the first group-III nitride-based violet laser diodes (LDs) in 1995.

Since 2000, he has been a professor of Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.

Dr. Heike Riel is IBM Fellow, Head of Science & Technology and Lead of IBM Research Quantum Europe&Africa. She leads the research agenda and operation of the Science & Technology department aiming to create scientific and technological breakthroughs in Quantum Computing and Technologies, Physics of Artificial Intelligence, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and to explore new directions to computing. She is a distinguished expert in nanotechnology and nanosciences and focuses her research on advancing the frontiers of information technology through the physical sciences. Her research has contributed to advancements in OLED display technology, molecular electronics and semiconductor nanoscale materials and devices. She received the master’s in physics from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the PhD in physics from University of Bayreuth and an MBA from Henley Business College (UK). After an internship at the Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, she joined IBM Research – Zurich in 1998 as a PhD student in the field of organic light-emitting devices for display applications. In 2003, she became a Research Staff Member and, in 2008, she became manager of the Semiconducting Nanowire Research group at IBM Research – Zurich. Until 2015, she managed the Materials Integration & Nanoscale Devices (MIND) group. From 2015 till end of 2018, she had been at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center leading the Physical Sciences Department and then the IoT Technology and AI Solutions Department. She has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and filed more than 50 patents. She has received several prestigious honors, e.g., elected member of the Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences and the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences; she was awarded the APS David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, the Applied Physics Award of the Swiss Physical Society, was honored as APS Fellow, received an honorary doctor by Lund University and was awarded the 2022 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award.

Federico Capasso is the Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University, which he joined in 2003 after 27 years at Bell Labs where his career advanced from postdoctoral fellow to Vice President for Physical Research. He has made important contributions to optics and photonics, nanoscience, materials science and quantum electrodynamics, including the bandgap engineering technique leading to his invention of the quantum cascade laser, research on metasurfaces including the generalized laws of refraction and reflection, high performance metalenses and “flat optics” in general, and fundamental studies of the Casimir force, including the first measurement of the repulsive Casimir force.

He is a coauthor of over 500 publications and holds 70 US patents.

His awards include the Balzan Prize in Applied Photonics, the IEEE Edison Medal, the IEEE David Sarnoff Award, the American Physical Society Arthur Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, the King Faisal Prize, the AAAS Rumford Prize, the Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society, the European Physical Society Quantum Electronics Prize, the Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Materials Research Society Medal, the Jan Czochralski Award for lifetime achievements in Materials Science, the Rob Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America, the Matteucci Medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Academia Europaea, the Accademia dei Lincei, a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).He holds honorary doctorates from Lund University, Diderot University, the University of Bologna and University of Roma, Tor Vergata.

He is a board member of Metalenz (https://www.metalenz.com/), which he cofounded in 2016 and is focused on bringing to market metalenses and cameras for high volume markets.

Yasuhiko Arakawa received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1975, 1977, and 1980, respectively. In 1980, he joined The University of Tokyo as an Assistant Professor and became a Full Professor in 1993. He is currently a Specially-Appointed Professor of the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, The University of Tokyo, and also Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo. His major research interests include physics, growth, and photonics application of quantum dots. He authored more than 800 papers in scientific journals and gave about 400 invited papers including more than 80 plenary/keynote talks at international conferences.

He received numerous awards including ISCS Quantum Devices Award in 2002, Leo Esaki Award in 2004, IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Award in 2004, the Fujiwara Award in 2007, the Prime Minister Award in 2007, the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2009, IEEE David Sarnoff Award in 2009, the C&C Award in 2010, ISCS Heinrich Welker Award in 2011, OSA Nick Holonyak Jr. Award in 2011, JSAP Isamu Akasaki Award in 2012, Japan Academy Prize in 2017, and IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal in 2019. IN 2017, he was elected as a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and Fellows of OSA, JSAP, and IEICE.

Professor Jagadish is a Distinguished Professor and Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Research School of Physics, Australian National University. He has served as Vice-President and Secretary Physical Sciences of the Australian Academy of Science during 2012-2016. He is currently serving as Past President of IEEE Photonics Society, Past President of Australian Materials Research Society. Prof. Jagadish is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Physics Reviews (IF: 12.74) and serves as an Editor of 3 book series and serves on editorial boards of 19 other journals. He has published more than 940 research papers (660 journal papers), holds 5 US patents, co-authored a book, co-edited 15 books and edited 13 conference proceedings and 18 special issues of Journals. He has won the 2000 IEEE Millennium Medal and received Distinguished Lecturer awards from IEEE NTC, IEEE LEOS and IEEE EDS. He is a Foreign Member of US National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, The World Academy of Sciences, US National Academy of Inventors, Indian National Science Academy, Indian National Academy of Engineering, European Academy of Sciences, Indian Academy of Sciences, AP Akademi of Sciences, IEEE, APS, MRS, OSA, AVS, ECS, SPIE, AAAS, FEMA, APAM, IoP (UK), IET (UK), IoN (UK) and the AIP. He received many awards including IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology, IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award, OSA Nick Holonyak Jr Award, ISCS Welker Award, ISCS Quantum Device Award, IUMRS Somiya Award, UNESCO medal for his contributions to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies, IEEE EDS Education Award, AOS Beattie Steel Medal and Lyle Medal from Australian Academy of Science for his contributions to Physics. He has received Australia’s highest civilian honor, AC, Companion of the Order of Australia, as part of 2016 Australia day honors from the Governor General of Australia for his contributions to physics and engineering, in particular nanotechnology. Jagadish and his wife Vidya have created an endowment to support visiting students from developing countries to carry out research for up to 3 months at ANU Physics to gain research experience and develop collaborative linkages.

Yuri Kivshar received PhD in 1984 in Kharkov (Ukraine). From 1988 to 1993 he visited and worked at several research centers in the USA and Europe, and in 1993 he moved to Australia where he established Nonlinear Physics Center. His research interests include nonlinear physics, metamaterials, and nanophotonics. He is Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, OSA, APS, SPIE, and IOP. He received several international awards including Pnevmatikos Prize in Nonlinear Science (Greece), Lyle Medal (Australia), Lebedev Medal (Russia), The State Prize in Science and Technology (Ukraine), Harrie Massey Medal (UK), Humboldt Research Award (Germany), and 2020 SPIE Mozi Award (USA).

Dr Jun Wang is the CTO of Suzhou Everbright Photonics Co. and a distinguished professor of Sichun University.

He received a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Physics from McMaster University, Canada in 1997. Since 1992, he has been studying or working on compound semiconductor materials and diode laser devices in several companies and institutions, including SLI, Spectra-Physics, Lasertel ，nLight and Everbright Photonics. He has led or participated in a number of research and development programs in the area of high power semiconductor lasers. He has more than 30 publications reporting record results on efficiency, output power and reliability of diode lasers.

Oliver Ambacher received his diploma and doctor of natural sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians and the Technical University of Munich with distinction in 1989 and 1993. In 1993 he got a job as a research assistant at the Walter Schottky Institute at the Technical University of Munich, where he dealt with the growth of gallium nitride and its alloys with the help of molecular beam epitaxy and chemical vapor deposition. In 1995 he focused the research work of his group on the processing of GaN-based electronic and optical components. He was significantly involved in the implementation of the first UV detectors, surface acoustic wave components, microwave amplifiers and sensors as well as in the research of polarization-induced effects in GaN-based hetero- and quantum structures. In 1998/99 he was offered the Feodor Lynen grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Cornell University (USA) to deepen his work in the field of AlGaN/GaN transistors for high-frequency power amplifiers. Following his habilitation in experimental physics in 2000 and his promotion to senior assistant in 2001, he was appointed professor for nanotechnology at the Technical University of Ilmenau a year later. In 2002 he was elected director of the Institute for Solid State Electronics and two years later he was appointed director of the Center for Micro and Nanotechnologies. Since October 2007, Oliver Ambacher has been a professor at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg and head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics, where he is currently involved in the development of quantum sensors and electronic components for quantum computers.

Alan Willner (Ph.D., Columbia) worked at AT&T Bell Labs and Bellcore, and is the Sample Chaired Professor of Engineering at USC. He received the following: Member US National Academy of Engineering; Int’l Fellow UK Royal Academy of Engineering; IEEE Eric Sumner Award; Ellis Island Medal of Honor; Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from White House; IET JJ Thomson Medal; Fulbright, Guggenheim, and Packard Foundation Fellowships; OSA Forman Eng. Excellence Award; IEEE Photonics Society Eng. Achievement Award; SPIE President’s Award; Fellow National Academy of Inventors; IEEE Globecom Best Paper Award; and Eddy Best Technical Paper Award from Pennwell. He is Fellow of AAAS, IEEE, IET, OSA, and SPIE. His activities include: Co-Chair of US National Academies’ Committee on Optics and Photonics; President of OSA and IEEE Photonics Society; Editor-in-Chief of Optics Letters, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, and IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics; Member of the US Army Science Board; and CLEO General Co-Chair.

Manijeh Razeghi received the Doctorate d’état ES Sciences Physiques from the Université de Paris, France, in 1980.

Manijeh Razeghi was the Head of the Exploratory Materials Laboratory at Thomson-CSF (France) during the 80’s where she developed and implemented modern metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) vapor phase epitaxy (VPE), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), GasMBE, and MOMBE for entire compositional ranges of III-V compound semiconductors from deep UV to THZ.. Developing these tools was fundamental in enabling her to achieve high purity semiconductor crystals with a consistency and reliability that was often unmatched, thereby leading to new physics phenomena in InP and GaAs based semiconductors and quantum structures. She realized the first InP Quantum wells and Superlattices and demonstrated the marvels of quantum mechanics in the low dimensional world.

She joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in Fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is on the editorial board of many journals, and is an Adjunct Professor at the College of Optical Sciences of the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

She has authored or co-authored more than 1000 papers, more than 34 book chapters, and 20 books, including the textbooks Technology of Quantum Devices (Springer Science Business Media, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A. 2010) and Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering, 4th Edition (Springer Science Business Media, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A. 2018). Two of her books, MOCVD Challenge Vol. 1 (IOP Publishing Ltd., Bristol, U.K., 1989) and MOCVD Challenge Vol. 2 (IOP Publishing Ltd., Bristol, U.K., 1995), discuss some of her pioneering work in InP-GaInAsP and GaAs-GaInAsP based systems. The MOCVD Challenge, 2nd Edition (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2010) represents the combined updated version of Volumes 1 and 2. She holds more than 55 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has an H -index of 95.

Dr. Razeghi is a Fellow of MRS, IOP, IEEE, APS, SPIE, OSA, Fellow and Life Member of Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Fellow of the International Engineering Consortium (IEC). She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bun shah Award in 2004, IBM Faculty Award 2013, the Jan Czochralski Gold Medal in 2016, the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering, and many best paper awards. She is an elected life-Fellow of SWE, IEEE, and MRS.

Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France, until 1979. After serving as a Professor of electrical engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of Nanophotonics. He hold guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018. In 2018 he assumed the directorship of the “Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at CIOMP, Changchun.

He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,the EU Academy of Sciences, a ForeignMember of the Russian Academy of Sciences,the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE. He is recipient of multiple international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, the Japanese Oyo Buturi Award of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, and the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG, to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St.Petersburg University of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He has authored more than 1500 papers, 61 patents, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited exceeds 65,000 and his Hirsch factor is 111. His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructured photonic and electronic devices, and energy efficient data communication.

Professor Omatsu received his Ph.D. degree in applied physics from the University of Tokyo. He has been pioneering versatile structured light sources and their applications towards nano/micro structures fabrication. He have published >150 journal articles and performed >100 invited presentations in conferences (h-index is 35 (Google Scholar)).

He is currently playing a role as an Editor-in-Chief, OSA Continuum, OSA publishing. Also, he is serving as a Visiting Professor of Xinjiang Normal University, China, Ajou University, Korea and Macquarie University, Australia.

He was awarded prize for Science and Technology, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. He is also a OSA Fellow, SPIE Fellow and JSAP Fellow.

Akhlesh Lakhtakia was born in Lucknow, India on July 1, 1957. He obtained a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics Engineering from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India in 1979; Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City in 1981 and 1983, respectively; and a Doctor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering from the Banaras Hindu University in 2006. In 1983, he joined the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University, where he was elevated to the rank of Distinguished Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics in January 2004. In 2006, he became the Charles Godfrey Binder (Endowed) Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics. In 2018, he received the highest rank at Penn State: Evan Pugh University Professor.

Dr. Lakhtakia has published more than 900 journal articles; has contributed 33 chapters to research books and encyclopedias; has edited, co-edited, authored or co-authored 22 books and 30 conference proceedings; has authored or co-authored 400+ conference papers; has reviewed for 175 journals; serves on the editorial boards of four electromagnetics journals; and served as the first Editor-in-Chief of the online Journal of Nanophotonics published by SPIE from 2007 to 2013. He serves as an international lecturer for the International Commission for Optics, SPIE, and the Optical Society of America; was twice Visiting Professor of Physics at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Visiting Professor of Physics at the University of Otago, Visiting Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, Visiting Fellow in Mathematics at the University of Glasgow, Honorary International Professor National Taipei University of Technology, and the Otto Mønsted Guest Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Danish Technical University; and headed the IEEE EMC Technical Committee on Nonsinusoidal Fields from 1992 to 1994.

Dr. Lakhtakia was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1992), SPIE (1996), the UK Institute of Physics (1996), the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (2009), the American Physical Society (2012), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2016), the Royal Society of Chemistry (2016), and the Royal Society of Arts (2017). He was named to the inaugural class of Outstanding Reviewers by the Optical Society of America in 2012. He also served as the 1995 Scottish Amicable Visiting Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He received the PSES Outstanding Research Award in 1996, the PSES Premier Research Award in 2008, and the PSES Outstanding Advising Award in 2005. For his research on sculptured thin films and complex-medium electromagnetics, he received the Faculty Scholar Medal in Engineering in 2005 from the Pennsylvania State University, and was the sole recipient of the 2010 SPIE Technical Achievement Award. Nanotech Briefs recognized him in 2006 with a Nano 50 Award for Innovation. Sigma Xi bestowed on him the Walston Chubb Award for Innovation in 2016. The University of Utah made him a Distinguished Alumnus in 2007 and the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) in 2014. IIT(BHU) conferred on him an “Alumnus of the Century” award in 2019.

His current research interests lie in the electromagnetics of complex materials including chiral and bianisotropic materials, sculptured thin films, chiral nanotubes, nanoengineered metamaterials, surface multiplasmonics, engineered biomimicry, bone nano-refacing, and forensic science. His research accomplishments have been discussed on CNN and in a NOVA movie.

Professor Xiang Zhang is currently the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong (HKU).

Prior to joining HKU in July 2018, he was the inaugural Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chair Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Director of the Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center (SINAM). He has also served as the Director of Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

Professor Zhang is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and of Academia Sinica, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE).

Professor Zhang received his PhD from UC Berkeley (1996), MS from the University of Minnesota and MS/BS from Nanjing University, China. He was an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University (1996-1999), and associate professor and full professor at UCLA (1999-2004) prior to joining Berkeley's faculty in 2004.

Professor Zhang's current research focuses on materials physics, metamaterials and nano-photonics. He has published over 340 journal papers including 70 publications in Science and Nature family series. He has given over 330 Keynote, Plenary and Invited talks at international conferences and institutions. He was a Co-Chair of the NSF Nano-scale Science and Engineering Annual Grantee Conferences in 2004 and 2005, and has served as Chair of the Academic Advisory Board for the Research Center for Applied Science (RCAS), Academia Sinica.

In 2008, Professor Zhang's research was selected by Time Magazine as one of the "Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of the Year" and "50 Best Inventions of the Year", Discover Magazine's "Top 100 Science Stories" in 2007, and R&D Magazine's top 25 Most Innovative Products of 2006. His research has been frequently featured in international media, including the BBC, CNN, ABC, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. More recently, his research team’s work on “Casimir effect” at UC Berkeley was selected as one of the Top 10 Breakthroughs for 2019 by Physics World.

Professor Zhang is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (1997), the SME Dell K. Allen Outstanding Young Engineer Award (1998) and the ONR Young Investigator Award (1999). He was awarded the Chancellor's Professorship by UC Berkeley (2004-2009), named Rohsenow Lecturer at MIT (2009) and William Reynolds Lecturer at Stanford (2012), and in 2017, chosen for the Pearsall Distinguished Lecture at Duke, the Hall Engineering Lecture at Vanderbilt, and the Towers Distinguished Lecture at Michigan Tech. In 2011, he was awarded the Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship by the Materials Research Society (MRS), the Miller Professorship by UC Berkeley, and named Distinguished Visiting Scientist (DVS) by the University of Toronto. He was awarded the Fitzroy Medal in 2014, the Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award in 2015, the Max Born Award from the Optical Society of America in 2016, the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics in 2016, the Excellence Award in Scientific Leadership in 2016, and the A. C. Eringen Medal from the Society of Engineering Science in 2017.

Ray Chen is the Keys and Joan Curry/Cullen Trust Endowed Chair at The University of Texas Austin. Chen is the director of the Nanophotonics and Optical Interconnects Research Lab, at the Microelectronics Research Center. He is also the director of the AFOSR MURI-Center for Silicon Nanomembrane involving faculty from Stanford, UIUC, Rutgers, and UT Austin. He received his BS degree in Physics in 1980 from the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, his MS degree in physics in 1983, and his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1988, both from the University of California. He joined UT Austin in 1992 to start the optical interconnect research program. From 1988 to 1992 Chen worked as a research scientist, manager, and director of the Department of Electro-Optic Engineering at the Physical Optics Corporation in Torrance, California.

Chen served as the CTO, Founder, and Chairman of the Board of Radiant Research, Inc. from 2000 to 2001, where he raised 18 million dollars A-Round funding to commercialize polymerbased photonic devices involving over twenty patents, which were acquired by Finisar in 2002, a publicly traded company in the Silicon Valley (NASDAQ:FNSR). He also serves as the founder and Chairman of the Board of Omega Optics Inc. since its initiation in 2001. Omega Optics has received over five million dollars in research funding. His research work has been awarded over 145 research grants and contracts from such sponsors as Army, Navy, Air Force, DARPA, MDA, NSA, NSF, DOE, EPA, NIST, NIH, NASA, the State of Texas, and private industry. The research topics are focused on four main subjects: (1) Nano-photonic passive and active devices for bioand EM-wave sensing and interconnect applications, (2) Thin film guided-wave optical interconnection and packaging for 2D and 3D laser beam routing and steering, (3) True time delay (TTD) wide band phased array antenna (PAA), and (4). 3D printed micro-electronics and photonics. Experiences garnered through these programs are pivotal elements for his research and further commercialization.

Chen’s group at UT Austin has reported its research findings in more than 970 publications, including over 100 invited papers and 74 patents. He has chaired or been a program-committee member for more than 130 domestic and international conferences organized by IEEE, SPIE (The International Society of Optical Engineering), OSA, and PSC. He has served as an editor, coeditor or coauthor for over twenty books. Chen has also served as a consultant for various federal agencies and private companies and delivered numerous invited talks to professional societies. Chen is a Fellow of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE. He was the recipient of the 1987 UC Regent’s Dissertation Fellowship and the 1999 UT Engineering Foundation Faculty Award, for his contributions in research, teaching and services. He received the honorary citizenship award in 2003 from the Austin city council for his contribution in community service. He was also the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Teaching Award, and the 2010 IEEE HKN Loudest Professor Award. 2013 NASA Certified Technical Achievement Award for contribution on moon surveillance conformable phased array antenna. During his undergraduate years at the National Tsing Hua University he led the 1979 university debate team to the Championship of the Taiwan CollegeCup Debate Contest.

Chen has supervised 30 postdocs and graduated 51 PhD students from his research group at UT Austin. Many of them are currently professors in the major research universities in the world.

Professor Din-Ping Tsai is currently Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2019-).He was Distinguished Professor of National Taiwan University, Director General of the Taiwan Instrument Research Institute (2008-12), and Director of Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinicain Taiwan (2012-2019).He is an elected Member of International Academy of Engineering (IAE), and Academician of Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM). He is an elected Fellow of AAAS, APS, IEEE,OSA, SPIE, Electro Magnetics Academy (EMA), The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), and Taiwan Physics Society (TPS) respectively. He is author and coauthor of 320SCI papers, 65 book chapters and conference papers, and 38 technical reports and articles. He was granted 68 patents in USA, Japan, Canada, Germany, China, and Taiwan for 45 innovations. Twenty of his patents were licensed to industrial companies. He was invited as an invited speaker for international conference or symposium more than 275 times (12 Plenary Talks, 48 Keynote Talks). He received many prestigious recognitions and awards including “2019 Global Highly Cited Researchers,” Web of Science Group (Clarivate Analytics); China’s Top 10 Optical Breakthroughs in 2018,” (2019); “Mozi Award” from International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE) (2018);“Futuretech Breakthrough Award,” MOST, Taiwan (2018, 2017); etc. He currently serves as an Editor of Progress in Quantum Electronics (Elsevier), and Light: Advanced Manufacturing, respectively; and Associate Editor of Journal of Lightwave Technology (IEEE&OSA).

Yasuhiro Koike is highly regarded internationally as the inventor of Graded-Index Plastic Optical Polymer (GI POF) which has enabled high-speed optical communications. He also invented highly scattered optical transmission (HSOT) polymer, Zero-Zero Birefringence Polymer and Super BirefringentPolymer. HSOT enables twice the luminance of conventional LCD and has greatly contributed to the low power consumption of LCD backlight and was applied to major laptop computers such as Sony, SHARP, etc.Zero and Super Birefringence Polymers dramatically improve the quality of display by eliminating the distortion and degradation of colors of LCD as well as OLED.

Koike has made remarkable results through numerous research projects such as FIRSTprogram funded by the Cabinet Office of Japan during 2010-2014, ERATO, ERATO-SORST funded by JST during 2000-2010.

He was a Visiting Researcher at AT & T Bell Laboratories in 1989-1990.He has been Professor at Keio University since 1997. He has been the General Chair of International POF Conference since 1992. He was conferred as an Honorary Doctorate of Eindhoven University of Technology. He is a recipient of International Engineering and Technology Award of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), the Fujiwara Award, and Medal with Purple Ribbon awarded by Emperor of Japan, SID Special Recognition Award, etc.

Tie Jun Cui is the Chief Professor of Southeast University, Nanjing, China, and the academician of Chinese Academy of Science.He authored two books and published over 400 peer-review journal papers, which have been cited by more than 30000 times (H-index 85, Google Scholar). He proposed the concept of digital coding metamaterials, and realized the first programmable metamaterial and information metamaterial. Dr. Cui received the National Natural Science Awards of China in 2014 and 2018, respectively. His researches are widely reported by Nature News, Science, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, New Scientists, etc. Dr. Cui is an IEEE Fellow.

Furong Zhu is a Professor in the Department of Physics, Director for Research Centre of Excellence for Organic Electronics, and Associate Director for Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He received his BSc and MSc in Physics from Fudan University, Shanghai China, in 1983 and 1987. He completed his Ph.D in Applied Physics at Charles Darwin University in Australia from 1990-1993. He did his post-doctoral research in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Kyoto University in Japan from 1993-1995, and was a Research Fellow with the Department of Physics at Murdoch University in Australia from 1995-1997 working on silicon thin films derived from plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition for device application. He joined Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore in 1997. Prior to HKBU, he was a Senior Scientist and a Program Manager leading the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and organic photovoltaic R&D activities at IMRE. His research interests include device physics, surface science, nanostructures and semiconducting materials-oriented research for applications in organic electronics.

In 2019, he established a start-up company, Crimson Vision Technology Limited in Hong Kong. Crimson Vision Technology Limited is committed to continuously developing and improving on organic photodetector technologies, unlocking more efficient and greater photosensitivity in near-infrared wavelength range for a plethora of applications in non-invasive fast and portable detection.

Zhigang Chen earned his Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College and was promoted to the rank of Senior Research Staff Member at Princeton University before joining the faculty at San Francisco State University in 1998. He is currently a specially-appointed professor at Nankai University, China. His research interests include nonlinear photonics, topological phenomena, structured light and biophotonics. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society. He has served as an Editor/Guest Editor for several journals including Optics Letters, Light Science & Applications, Science Bulletin, and Advances in Physics X, and as a Chair/Organizer for many conferences including the Program/General Co-Chair for CLEO-Fundamental Science.

Zubin Jacob is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Purdue University. He is the winner of the DARPA Director’s fellowship (2019), National Science Foundation CAREER award (2017), DARPA Young Faculty award (2017) and Purdue ECE Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award (2018). He was also recognized as one of the outstanding teachers in the Purdue College of Engineering in Fall 2019. He served on the editorial board of Journal of Optics and Scientific Reports from 2016-2018 and was the technical committee chair for nanophotonics at the IEEE Photonics meeting 2018 and OSA CLEO 2019-2020. More details on his research can be found at www.electrodynamics.org

Yong Zhang received his B.S. and M.S. from Xiamen University and Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in Physics. He joined National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 1994 as a postdoc and was a Senior Scientist before he moved to University of North Carolina at Charlotte as Bissell Distinguished Professor with Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 2009. He is an Adjunct Professor of Department of Physics and Optical Science. His research interests include electronic and optical properties of semiconductors and related nanostructures, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, impurity and defects in semiconductors, and novel materials and device architectures for energy and related applications (e.g., photovoltaics, solid-state-lighting, electronic-photonic integrated circuits), using various optical spectroscopy techniques and large-scale first-principles and empirical electronic structure modeling methods. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Dr. Xiaosheng Fang is professor in Department of Materials Science at Fudan University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP), Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. After then, he was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, as well as a research scientist at the International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS). He was a visiting scholar at MIT and Harvard University in 2009 and 2016,respectively. His current research topic mainly focuses on inorganic semiconductors and high-performance photodetectors. He is listed as Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science 2014.

Jordi Martorell is a UPC professor and since 2005 head of the organic nano-structured photovoltaics group at ICFO-The institute of photonic sciences. In the past, Jordi Martorell mainly focused his research into the experimental study of new optical concepts to shape the properties of photonic materials, a field where he made several breakthrough contributions. In 2011, Jordi Martorell took a major turn in his research activities and began to focus the core of his research to study novel nano-photonics configurations to obtain an optimal performance from renewable energy systems for converting sunlight into electricity or solar fuels. Among many contributions made by Jordi Martorell to enhance sunlight harvesting by applying different kinds of nano-photonic configurations, it is worth highlightingthe demonstration ofoptically ergodic light trapping mechanisms to obtain an optimal light harvesting in solar cells, a world record performance for semi-transparent single junction organic solar cells, and the design and implementation of a new cavity concept capable to confine electromagnetic energy in a non-harmonic two-resonant mode.

Ali Adibi is the director of Bio and Environmental Sensing Technologies (BEST) and a professor and Joseph M. Pettit chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. His research group has pioneered several structures in the field of integrated nanophotonics for information processing, communications, and sensing. He is the author of more than 170 journal papers and 400 conference papers. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nanophotonics, and the nanophotonic program track chair of the Photonics West meeting. He is the recipient of several awards including Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Packard Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, and the SPIE Technology Achievement Award. He is also a fellow of OSA, SPIE, and AAAS.

My scientific interests rely on theoretical light-matter interactions, in particular, theoretical linear and nonlinear Plasmonics and Nanophotonics. I started my scientific adventure as a Physics undergraduate student at the University of Pisa. Later, thanks to my love for travelling I decided to move to Spain for a Ph.D. program. I enjoyed it in Madrid at the Spanish research council (CSIC). The story followed with a postdoc in Amsterdam and a Marie Curie fellowship at the Imperial College London. In June 2014, I started my group at the Imperial College London in the Condensed Matter Theory section, and recently I accepted an offer in Spain at the CSIC and at TII in Abu Dhabi.

Dr. Zhe Shen received both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in optical engineering from Nankai University, and Ph. D. with Prof. Yaochun Shen from University of Liverpool. He is an associate professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He was a member of SPIE and is currently a member of COS and a senior member of CSOE. He has served as a reviewer for more than 15 reputed journals. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and has been served as an editorial board member of American Journal of Optics and Photonics. His research interests include Optical tweezers, Plasmonics, Metasurfaces, Beam shaping, SERS.

Andrey Sukhorukov is a Professor at the Research School of Physics, Australian National University. He graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) and received a PhD degree from the Australian National University. He was subsequently awarded internationally competitive Queen Elizabeth II and Future Fellowships by the Australian Research Council. He is also a recipient of the Humboldt Fellowship, which supported research stays at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany. Prof. Sukhorukov leads a research group on nonlinear and quantum photonics with an overarching aim to address the key challenges in science and emerging technologies, spanning from imaging and communications to precision optical measurements. His research targets the fundamental aspects of miniaturisation of optical elements down to micro- and nano-scale while achieving advanced functionalities beyond the capabilities of traditional optics. In particular, he works on the development of new concepts for tailoring light-matter interactions in nano-structured materials for generation, manipulation, and detection of light down to few-photon levels in the regime of quantum optics. In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) for “pioneering contributions to nonlinear and quantum integrated photonics, including frequency conversion and broadband light manipulation in waveguide circuits and metamaterials.

Rikizo Ikuta received the Ph.D degree in science from Osaka University, Japan in 2011. He is currently an assistant professor in Osaka University, Japan. His main research field is quantum information processing especially quantum communication and quantum internet, and quantum optics.

Dr. Zhenguo Lu is a Principal Research Officer, Team Lead of Photonics and Project Leader of National Challenge Program “High-Throughput and Secure Networks (HTSN)” at Advanced Electronics and Photonics (AEP) Research Centre of National Research Council (NRC), Ottawa, Canada. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of both University of Ottawa and Concordia University in Canada since 2006. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 1992, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Research Fellowship to conduct research for the Institute of Semiconductor Electronics, RWTH Aachen, Germany for two years. Then he worked at Terahertz Research Centre of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA from 1995 to 1997. Dr. Lu came to NRC as a Research Officer in October of 1997. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Lu was the Director of R & D of BTI Systems Inc., Ottawa, Canada. He has re-joined NRC as a Senior Research Officer in April of 2002. Dr. Lu is an expert in the field of photonics devices and their applications in optical coherent networks, data center networks, 5G & beyond wireless networks and satellite communications. He has published over 250 refereed journal and conference proceeding papers, and 8 US patents. He has given over 50 invited talks in the international conferences, universities and industry companies.

Dr John Buckeridge is from Cork in Ireland, and received a first class BSc in Physics from University College Cork in 2004. He completed his PhD there under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Fahy on the topic of modelling defect scattering in dilute nitrides. After graduating in 2011, he moved to the Department of Chemistry in UCL to work with Profs. Richard Catlow, Aron Walsh and David Scanlon, using a variety of modelling techniques to investigate the fundamental properties of materials used in energy conversion devices. His expertise includes atomic scale and multiscale computational modelling of semiconductor materials, with a focus on defect properties. In 2019 Dr Buckeridge was appointed Lecturer in Energy Engineering and Materials Devices at the School of Engineering, London South Bank University. He is co-chair of the EPSRC Collaborative Computational Project in Quantum Computing.

Nicoletta Granchi (born in 1992) graduated (cum laude) in Physics at the University of Florence in 2018, with the dissertation “Double membrane photonic structures for sensing applications”, under the supervision of Prof. Francesca Intonti and Prof. Massimo Gurioli. In september 2018 she resulted winner of the research scholarship “Electromechanically tunable ordered and disordered photonic systems” at the European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS) under the supervision of Prof. Francesca Intonti. She is currently a PhD student at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, affiliated with the LENS Laboratory in Florence. Her main research interest is the investigation of the near-field and far-field properties of photonic nanostructures as photonic crystal cavities, Mie resonators and photonic disordered structures.

He is currently Full Professor of the Department of Fundamental Chemistry of the Federal University of Pernambuco, researcher 1A of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He was a visiting researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-CNRS-Meudon-Bellevue-France in 1986, visiting professor at the Chemistry Institutes of UNESP-Araraquara, USP-São Paulo in1994, 1996 and 1998, University of Santander-Bucaramanga-Colombia in 1998; Guest Professor of the European Erasmus Mundus Program, University of Aveiro-Portugal in 2005; visiting professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Wroclaw-Poland in 2015; visiting professor at the Federal University of Paraiba, 2016 and 2017; visiting professor at the Department of Chemistry of the National University of Singapore, April 2018. He has given 38 invited lectures in international conferences, noticeably the lectures delivered in the International School on Lanthanide Spectroscopy in Krutyn-Poland in 2015 (dedicated to his 60’s) and in 2016. He was the executive coordinator of the National Network of Molecular Nanotechnology and Interfaces-RENAMI and the National Institute of Science and Technology : Nanotechnology for Integrated Markers, INCT-INAMI. He was twice a member of the Advisory Committee of the Chemistry area of CNPq. Member of the Advisory Committee of CAPES in the area of Chemistry and member of the first Advisory Committee of FACEPE. He was awarded the Prof. Ricardo Ferreira Award for Scientific Merit (awarded by FACEPE-Pernambuco State Foundation for Science and Technology) and the Prof. Paulo Duarte medal to the scientific merit granted by ABQ (The Brazilian Association of Chemistry). He had a Special Issue of the International Journal of Luminescence dedicated to his 60’s.

Dr. Maria Vasilopoulou received her degree in Physics from the University of Athens and her PhD in Functional Materials for Nanolithography from the Chemical Engineering Department of the National Technical University of Athens. Then she worked, as a postdoctoral researcher, at the National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos(NCSRD) where she developed organic and inorganic materials for application as interfacial layers in organic solar cells and light emitting diodes. She is currently a senior Researcher at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of NCSRD. Her research activity focuses on the area of the organic and halide perovskiteoptoelectronic devices and mainly on organic/organic and organic/inorganic interfaces characterization. She has published more than 110 scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings and holds five patents.

Witold Trzeciakowski was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1952. He obtained M.Sc. degree in Solid-State Physics, Warsaw University in 1974. He received his Ph.D. at the Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University in 1980. In 1989 he received the degree of Docent from the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences and in 2000 the title of Professor of Physics.

He worked from 1974 till 1980 as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University and then moved to the Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences where he has been working until now. In 1983 he spent a few months at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Grenoble (France), in 1986-1988 he worked as a research associate at the National Research Council (Ottawa, Canada), in 1989 he spent 3 months at State University of New York (Buffalo, USA), in 1991-1992 at the LENS laboratory at the University of Florence (Italy), in 1993-1994 at the IXL laboratory of the Bordeaux University (France) and in 1996-1997 he was a visiting professor at the Department of Physics, University of Valencia (Spain). He participated in two European Projects and in one NATO research project.

His main scientific activity was in semiconductor physics, both theoretical and experimental. His recent research concerned laser diode physics, including using pressure for wavelength tuning, and the application of laser diodes in dermatology.

Ehsan Sooudi (S’10; M’13) received his B.Sc. & M.Sc. degrees (both in electrical engineering) from Sharif University of Technology and Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran Iran in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in physics (minoring optoelectronics) from University College Cork, Cork, Ireland in 2013.

Since 2012, he has been at the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Processing Analysis (CAPPA), Cork Institute of Technology and Irish Photonic Integration Centre at Tyndall National Institute, as a Photonic Researcher. He has been working on the development of photonic devices and systems for life-science and telecommunications. In 2018, he joined Alcon Laboratories in Ireland working on qualification of optical metrology systems for medical devices. He is currently with Infinera Corporation in Sunnyvale, CA, working on development of next generation InP based photonic integrated circuits for telecom/datacom applications. His research interests include quantum dash/dot mode-locked lasers, frequency comb generation, optical metrology and applications of mode-locked lasers in coherent optical communications. Dr. Sooudi is a semifinalist for the Corning Outstanding Student Paper Award at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) 2012 and a selected presenter at Royal Society scientific meeting in 2015. He has authored and co-authored 30+ scientific papers and is regular reviewer for IEEE & OSA journals.

Alexander Fuerbach was born in Vienna, Austria. He obtained a Master’s degree in Engineering in 1999 and a PhD degree in Photonics in 2001 from Vienna University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Ferenc Krausz. He then joined the company Femtolasers Produktions GmbH where he was responsible for the development of advanced ultrashort-pulsed Ti:Sapphire laser systems. In 2004 he returned to academia and moved to Australia to take on a position as Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, studying ultrafast pulse propagation effects in novel optical fibres.

In late 2005 he was awarded an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship which allowed him to establish his own research group at Macquarie University in Sydney where he has been ever since. He is currently Associate Professor and Higher Degree Research Director within the department of Physics and Astronomy.

Alexander Fuerbach’s principal research interests are focused on the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with solid matter for photonic device fabrication and the development of waveguide and fibre laser systems, particular in the mid-infrared spectral region.

Rajeev J. Ram has worked in the areas of physical optics and electronics for much of his career. In the early 1990’s, he developed the III-V wafer bonding technology that led to record brightness light emitting devices at Hewlett-Packard Laboratory (Lumileds) in Palo Alto. While at HP Labs, he worked on the first commercial deployment of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers. He developed semiconductor lasers without population inversion, semiconductor lasers that employ condensation of massive particles (polariton lasers), and threshold-less lasers. Since 1997, Ram has been on the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member of the Research Laboratory of Electronics and the Microsystems Technology Laboratory. He has served on the Defense Sciences Research Council advising DARPA on new areas for investment and served as a Program Director at the newly founded Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy. His group at MIT has developed energy-efficient photonics for microprocessor systems, microfluidic systems for the control of cellular metabolism, and record-efficiency light sources. He co-founded AyarLabs which provides optical I/O for integrated electronics and erbi Biosystems which develops microbioreactors for automated cell culture. He is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow, a Bose Research Fellow at MIT, and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and IEEE Fellow

Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto earned his PhD at Macquarie University in 2014. Now, he is a Marie-Curie Researcher at the Plasmon Nanotechnologies unit of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova. He has some experience in most of branches of nano-optics, including theory, design and implementation of optical experiments, scattering, fluorescence, and nanofabrication.

Haider Zia is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands since 2017, heading research in novel nonlinear pulse compression and supercontinuum generation techniques in integrated photonics. He recently demonstrated a new method that has the potential to substantially reduce power requirements in nonlinear spectral generation by alternating the sign of dispersion to overcome stagnation mechanisms in normal and anomalous dispersion waveguides. Prior to that he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering physics, M. Sc in optics at the University of Toronto and his Ph. D. in physics at the Max Planck Institute for the structure and dynamics of matter, at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchotronen (DESY) in Hamburg. His research interests include nonlinear pulse compression, supercontinuum generation, integrated photonics, optical frequency combs and pulse propagation theory.

Dr. Niv Recieved his Ph.D. from the Technion (Israel) in 2008. Since 2014 he is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Physics of the Ben-Gurion University (Israel). Avi Niv specializes in Solar cell optics, thermodynamics of radiative systems, and nano and nonlinear optics.

Stephanie Law received her B.S. in Physics from Iowa State University and her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, after which she held a postdoctoral position in the Electrical Engineering department at Illinois. She joined the faculty in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware as the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in 2014 and is currently an Associate Professor at UD. She has won the North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Young Investigator award, the Department of Energy Early Career award, the AVS Peter Mark Memorial Award, the International Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy Young Investigator Award, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE

Professor Gu is Executive Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He was Distinguished Professor and Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor at RMIT University, a Laureate Fellow of the Australian Research Council and University Distinguished Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology, all at Australia. He is an author of four standard reference books and has over 500 publications in nano/biophotonics. He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering as well as Foreign Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is also an elected fellow of AIP, OSA, SPIE, InstP, and IEEE. He was President of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences, Vice President of the Board of the International Commission for Optics (ICO) (Chair of the ICO Prize Committee) and a Director of the Board of the Optical Society of America (Chair of the International Council). He was awarded the Einstein Professorship, the W. H. (Beattie) Steel Medal, the Ian Wark Medal, the Boas Medal and the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation. Professor Gu is a winner of the 2019 Dennis Gabor Award of SPIE.

George Barbastathis received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1993 from the National Technical University of Athens (Πολυτεχνείο) and the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1994 and 1997, respectively, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech.) After post-doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he joined the faculty at MIT in 1999, where he is now Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He has worked or held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (密西根交大學院) in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. His research interests are in machine learning and optimization for computational imaging and inverse problems; and optical system design, including artificial optical materials and interfaces. He is member of the Society for Photo Instrumentation Engineering (SPIE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).In 2010 he was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA).

Armando Ricciardi received the Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Naples “Parthenope”, in 2011. He spent a half of his Ph.D as visiting student at the Microphotonics Group of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of St Andrews University, UK. From 2011 he was a Postdoc Research Assistant at the Engineering Department of University of Sannio in Benevento (Italy) where he is now Assistant Professor of Electronics. His research interests mainly encompass light interaction with complex structures and media, photonic crystals, metamaterials and plasmonics. His current research activity mainly focuses on the development of optical fiber devices based on the Lab-on-Fiber technology for biochemical and biomedical applications.He is co-author of about 40 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 3 international patents, and several tens of proceedings of conferences where he wasinvited speaker on several occasions.

Jonghwan Lee is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Brown University. His research focuses on developing optical and photonic technologies for biomedical research and clinical applications. Prior to joining Brown, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and faculty member in Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He earned a BS in Physics and PhD in Neural Engineering at Seoul National University, South Korea. He is the recipient of NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award, and Tau Beta Pi Excellence in Research Award.

Doctor of Science from the AC Optics Research Center (CIO) in September 1997. Titular Researcher "C" of the Department of Computer Science of the Center for Research in Mathematics (CIMAT), where he works since 1997. Member of the Mexican Society of Mathematics and Member by Invitation of the Mexican Academy of Computation. He has made academic stays at the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2001-2002), at the Department of Mathematics at Florida State University (Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, 2008-2009) and at the Center National Supercomputer of the Potosino Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (Academic Coordinator, 2017-2018). His research interests are in the topics: Vision and Image Processing, Numerical Optimization, Machine Learning. With applications in Optical Metrology, Remote Sensing Data Analysis, and Medical Image Analysis. He has published more than 50 articles in indexed journals including Optics Letters, OLEN, IEEE-PAMI, IEEE-Transactions on Image Processing, and IEEE-Transactions on Medical Imaging, and Medical Image Analysis; to mention a few. He has a similar number of articles in international conferences such as: CVPR, ECCV, ICPR and BMVC. He is a member of the steering committee of the Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT) and of program committees for CVPR, NIPS, ACCV, ICPR, ECCV, ICRL, ICML to name a few. He has been responsible for more than 20 national and international research and technological development projects.

Ori Katz is an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Ori has received his PhD in Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2011, where he studied temporal and spatial ultrashort pulse shaping for nonlinear microscopy and spectroscopy in complex media. Ori performed his postdoctoral research at Institut Langevin and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris, working on optical and photo-acoustic imaging in complex media. Ori is leading the Advanced Imaging Lab, whose research isfocused on the challenge of high-resolution imaging and sensing in complex scattering media. This research, situated at the interface between physics and engineering utilizes tool from several different disciplines using both acoustics and optics, and advanced computational algorithms, to solve applied real-world problems, such as deep tissue imaging.

Frank Bertram is currently an Associate Professor at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg in Germany. His research is focused on the highly spatially resolved structural and optical characterization of nanostructures, in particular on nitride-based quantum structures. He spent his Postdoc at Arizona State University (USA). He was invited as visiting researcher at Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai (Japan) as well as Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore) and in the School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing (China). He has published over 190 scientific papers and has given more than 50 invited talks.

Sebastian Lourdudoss obtained M.Sc. in chemistry from (St. Joseph’s College, Trichy) Madras University, India, in 1976 and Ph.D. in chemistry from Faculté Libre des Sciences de Lille, France, in 1979. In 1980 he joined KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, to work on chemical absorption heat pumps and thermochemical energy storage. He changed his field of interest to semiconductors in 1985 when he had moved to Swedish Institute of Microelectronics, where he started to develop epitaxy of III-V compound semiconductors for fabricating optoelectronic devices. In 1993 he moved back to KTH where he is currently a professor in Semiconductor Materials. He has contributed to the development of semi-insulating III-V materials including III-nitrides for discrete and/or integrated device fabrication and buried heterostructure lasers for high speed data- and telecom applications. His current interests are integration of III-Vs on silicon, high power buried heterostructure quantum cascade lasers and semiconductors for non-linear applications. Prof. Lourdudoss was a laureate of Fondation de France, Paris in 1978, a team member that won “gold foot” from Nyteknik magazine for the breakthrough in Information Technology in 1999 and a winning team member of an innovation program Vinn nu from Vinnova (Sweden’s Innovation Agency) in 2013. He was the recipient of IPRM (Indium Phosphide and Related Materials) award in 2017. He was Sir C.V. Raman visiting professorship lecturer at University of Madras in 2018. He is also acting as an overseas professor at Anna University, Chennai, India and an Adjunct Professor at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India. Prof. Lourdudoss is a member of SPIE and a senior member of IEEE. He has published 300 papers in international journals and conferences and 3 book chapters. He owns 3 patents and has edited 2 books and 2 journals.

Yuzhi Shi received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2018. He joined Nanyang Technological University in 2013 and became a research fellow in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2018. He has innovated many revolutionary optofluidic manipulation techniques, such as bacteria and virus screening and binding, chiral particle sorting, multipole‐assisted giant optical forces on Mie‐resonant particles, etc. His research interests include the optical trapping and sorting of nanoparticles and biomolecules, optofluidic devices, extraordinary light‐matter interactions, and dielectric nanophotonics.

Zhen-Sen Wu (M’97–SM’04) received the B.Sc.degree in applied physics from Xi’an JiaotongUniversity, Xi’an, China, in 1969, and the M.Sc.degree in space physics from Wuhan University,Wuhan, China, in 1981.He is currently a Professor at XidianUniversity,Xi’an, China. From 1995 to 2001, he was invitedmultiple times as a Visiting Professor to Rouen University,France, for implementing joint study of twoprojects supported by the Sino-France Program forAdvanced Research. His research interests includeelectromagnetic and optical waves in random media, optical wave propagationand scattering, and ionospheric radio propagation.

Dmitry Fedyanin is a senior research fellow at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). He received the M.Sc. degree in 2012 from MIPT and obtained his Ph.D. in 2013. He was awarded the Medal of the Russian Academy of Science and received the European Material Research Society Young Scientist Award. Dmitry does research in Electrical Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. His current research is focused on nanoscale and quantum optoelectronics for data-processing, communication, and sensing applications.

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Pedro Pereyra is a Distinguished Professor at UAM (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), campus Azcapotzalco. He received his BSc from UMSA, La Paz, Bolivia, and his MSc and PhD from UNAM, Mexico in 1983, and post-doctorate at Max-Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg (1984-1986). He has been associated to UAM since 1978, Professor in 1986, and appointed as Distinguish Professor in 2006. Since 1987, he is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) and since 2005 at its highest level. He was awarded, on three occasions, with the UAM Research Prize. Associate and Senior Associate of the ICTP, Trieste, Italy (1995-2007). He was visiting Professor at Ohio University (1997-1999), Universidad de la Habana (2002), and University of Regensburg (2011-2013). Since 2004, he has been member of the ICSNN Steering Committee. Coauthor of the first analytical and general solution to the Theory of Nuclear Reactions, and the Poisson Distribution of Scattering Matrices, coauthor of the Multichannel Approach to Disorder Conductors and the DMPK Equation. Coauthor of the Random Matrix Approach to Dissipative TwoLevel Systems. Using the Transfer Matrix Representations in the Quantum Scattering Theory, he developed the Theory of Finite Periodic Systems, and introduced a new class of non-commutative orthogonal polynomials in the multichannel transfer matrix method. He applied the TFPS to spintronics, transmittance of electron and electromagnetic wave packets through periodic structures, metamaterials, etc., and showed that the phase time describes well the experimental results of photon tunneling time through superlattices. In recent years, he became interested in optoelectronics and, based on the TFPS, he developed the quantum approach for the calculation of the optical response in semiconductor superlattices, in particular to explain the optical response of blue emitting diodes. He published of the order of 100 papers and the book Fundamentals of Quantum Physics (2012, Springer).

Mahmoud Rasras is an Associate Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). He received a PhD degree in physics from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium where his doctoral research was pursued at IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronic Center). Dr. Rasras has also more than 11 years of industrial research experience as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, NJ, USA. Prior to joining NYUAD. he was a faculty member and the former Director of the SRC/GF Center of Excellence for Integrated Photonics at Masdar Institute, UAE. He authored and co-authored more than 130 journal and conference papers and holds 34 US patents. His research interest covers high-order optical filters, Ge and plasmonic-enhanced photodetectors, in addition to 2D-materials integrated in Silicon Photonics (SiPh) platform. Dr. Rasras is an Associate Editor of Optics Express, Guest Editor – MDPI, and a Senior IEEE Member.

Prof. Afanasev is the Gus Weiss Professor of Theoretical Physics in the George Washington University in Washington, DC. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics (1990) from Kharkov National University (Ukraine). He is an author of over 140 scientific papers and an editor of two books, Radiation Acoustics and Physics with CEBAF at Jefferson Lab. He is a member of American Physical Society, Optical Society of America and American Nuclear Society, where he served until recently on Executive Committee for Accelerator Applications. His research expertise is in two broad areas: (a) Nuclear and accelerator physics and (b) Quantum electrodynamics and quantum optics. He made research contributions in the field of nuclear physics and tests of Standard Model with high-power spin-polarized electron accelerators and free-electron lasers. In the quantum area, his most recent results are on the unique properties of “twisted waves” of light and matter, methods of their generation and detection, and their applications across several disciplines. He is an expert in Monte Carlo methods for simulations of particle transport and radiation processes and an active member of GEANT4 collaboration in CERN. Prior to joining GWU faculty in 2011, Prof. Afanasev worked for 17 years in scientific research positions at Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab, where he led several research teams as a co-spokesman of experiments with high-power electron beams and a free-electron laser. He was elected to Jefferson Lab’s Users Group Board of Directors and served as liaison between theory and experiment communities.

Gianluca Ruffato obtained his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Padova with a thesis on the design and integration of plasmonic gratings for sensing devices. Since 2019 he is a researcher at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Padova University. His major research interests include the design, simulation, and integration of innovative optical elements to tame and customize the properties of structured light beams, focusing in particular on applications to high-resolution microscopy, computer-generated holography, and classical and quantum communications. He has made important contributions to the development of miniaturized high-performance diffractive optics and metasurfaces for mode-division multiplexing and optical manipulation of orbital angular momentum beams.

Carlos Ríos is a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT in Prof. Juejun Hu’s Photonic Materials group. Carlos received a DPhil (PhD) degree in 2017 from the University of Oxford (UK) as Clarendon Scholar, an MSc degree in 2013 in Optics and Photonics from the KIT (Germany) as an Erasmus Mundus scholar, and a BSc in Physics in 2010 from the University of Antioquia (Colombia). His scientific interests are focused on the study and development of new technologies driven by the synergy between nanomaterials and photonics. Carlos has extensively studied Chalcogenide Phase-Change materials for integrated photonics, and some of his results represent the pioneering work for this emerging field.

Dr. Xinchao Lu is an Associate professor in Institute of Microelectronics, CAS. She is the senior membership of OSA. Dr. Lu received the Ph. D. degree from the college of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University in 2009. After being a Post-Doctoral at the department of Physics, UMBC from 2010 to 2011, Dr. Lu joined the Institute of Microelectronics, CAS. Dr. Lu’s research interest lies in surface plasmons and applications in plasmonic microscopy andplasmonic biosensors. Her research is evidenced by 40 published articles in top-tier peer-reviewed journals, with a total of 1,178 citations and an h-index of 14 by Web of Science.

Karel Žídek is the leader of the group of computational spectroscopy at the research center TOPTEC, IPP CAS, Czech Republic. The group focuses on the topics of computational imaging, hyperspectral imaging and ultrafast spectroscopy. KŽ gained his MSc and PhD title at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. His work was devoted to the ultrafast processes in the silicon nanostructures. After his PhD defence in 2010, he pursued his carrier as a postdoc at the Dept. of Chemical Physics, Lund University (Sweden). He focused on the study of electron dynamics in light harvesting materials and photosynthetic complexes. Since 2016, he has started to build his own group at the research center TOPTEC, where he is currently affiliated.

She received double Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Sao Paulo State University, Brazil, and Université Laval, Canada, in 2018. In the same year, she joined Prof. Sogaʼs Group as Postdoctoral Research Fellow until 2020, and then joined the Molecular Engineering and Nano Objects (IMNO) team in the Univ. Montpellier as a postdoctoral fellow researcher from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Her research activities lie at the interface between the synthesis of rare earth-based (molecular/nano)materials and biomedical applications. She is currently involved in the design of rare earth-based multifunctional nanoplatforms for bioimaging, photodynamic therapy (PDT), magnetic/light-induced hyperthermia, and temperature measurement techniques.

B. Imran Akca (Avci) got her BS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey in 2006 with a focus on photonics and medical imaging. She received her PhD degree from the Integrated Optical Microsytems Group at the University of Twente, The Netherlands in 2012. During her PhD research she applied her strong integrated optics knowledge into an emerging imaging modality, i.e. optical coherence tomogprahy (OCT) to reduce the cost and size of these bulky systems. She was one of the few researchers working on portable, cheap and compact OCT systems in the world. Between 2013- 2015 she was a postdoctoral researcher at Prof. Yun’s research lab at Harvard Medical School. She worked on a novel functional imaging system called OCT vibrography for assessing corneal biomechanical properties. In 2015, she received VENI grant and came back to the Netherlands as a postdoctoral researcher at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Prof. Ton G. van Leeuwen’s group. In 2016, she received Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship. As of September 2017, she is an assistant professor on the tenure track at the VU University Amsterdam, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Biophotonics and Medical Imaging Group. Her research combines integrated optics with different imaging and sensing modalities in order to realize novel portable, affordable and higher sensitivity devices.

Paloma Arroyo Huidobro received her PhD from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) in 2013 in the group of Francisco J. García Vidal. In 2014 she joined Imperial College where she held a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship between 2016 and 2018. In 2019 she took up an FCT Fellowship from the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation in Lisbon, where she is currently a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, based in Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon. Her work is devoted to developing theory of metamaterials and nano-scale light-matter interactions, with a recent focus on topological nanophotonics and time-modulated metamaterials.

Wendell T. Hill, III holds the rank of Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, with appointments in the Institute for Physical Science and Technology and the Department of Physics, and is also a fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI). He is currently the director of the graduate Chemical Physics Program at Maryland. He earned his BA from the University of California, Irvine, in 1974 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1980, both in physics. He was an NRC postdoc from 1980-1982 at National Institute for Standards & Technology (NIST, then the National Bureau of Standards) before joining the faculty of the University of Maryland. Hill’s honors include Presidential Young Investigator of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Fellows of The American Physical Society (APS), The National Society of Black Physicists and The African Scientific Institute, and has been profiled as a ScienceMaker profiled The HistoryMakers. His research interests are broad with publications ranging from high-energy particle physics to ultracold atoms; he wrote the introductory chapter on electromagnetic radiation for the Encyclopedia of Applied Spectroscopy, published in 2009 by Wiley and is the co-author of the physics text “Light-Matter Interaction: Atoms and Molecules in External Fields and Nonlinear Optics,” published in 2007 by Wiley. His current research falls into three areas within atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics,with a focus on the quantum behavior of matter: (1) ultrafast dynamics using femtosecond and attosecond lasers to probe and control electrons in atoms as well as electrons and atoms in molecules; (2) ultra-intense dynamics using petawatt laser to investigate relativisticelectron motion and the nature of the quantum vacuum; and (3) ultracold, degenerate gases, with a particular interest in using these unique phases of matter as quantum simulators to probe fundamental quantum processes. Dr. Hill currently is a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the Centro de Lasers Pulsados in Salamanca, Spain as well as several advisory committees of long-standing conferences. He serves on the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which is chargedwith looking after the health of physics and astronomy in the US. He has held visiting positions at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Instituto Venezalano de Investigaciones (Venezuela), the Université de Paris-Sud, (Orsay, France),NIST,and JILA at the University of Colorado. Hill has been a member of numerous program committees for national and international conferences, has served on a number ofpermanent and ad hoc committees for APS, the Department of Energy, the Optical Society of America (OSA), NAS, andNSF. He was the program officer for the Experimental AMO program at NSF (2010-2012 academic years). He was a founding member of the National Advisory Committee of the APS Bridge program and has been instrumental in the production of reports for the National Academy of Sciences, APS and NSF promoting physics and community action for improved health of physics (AMO in particular) in the US as well as the engagement of more members of underrepresented groups in physics.

Daan Lenstra (Amsterdam, 1947) is theoretical physicist (M.Sc., University of Groningen, 1972; Ph.D., Delft University of Technology, 1979). He researched topics in quantum optics, condensed matter, semiconductor diode lasers, nonlinear dynamics in optical systems, analogies between optics and microelectronics, optical phase conjugation, all-optical ultrafast signal processing and organic laser diodes.

Daan Lenstra was associate professor at Delft University of Technology (1979-1984), Eindhoven University of Technology (1984-1991), part-time professor at the University of Leiden (1989-1991) and professor of theoretical quantum electronics at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (1991-2006). He waswith COBRA Research Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology (2000-2006), from 2004 to 2006as Scientific Director of COBRA. He was Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology (2006-2010).

Prof.Em. Lenstra is now with the Department of Electrical Engineering,Eindhoven University of Technology. His research involvestopics in nonlinear dynamics of integrated semiconductor lasers and organic diode lasers.

Daan Lenstra (co)authored more than 500 publications in international scientific journals and conference proceedings. He (co)edited 10 books and successfully supervised 24 PhD students.

Alex Hayat is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Technion. He received his PhD from the Technion in 2011. His PhD research led to the observation of semiconductor two-photon emission and two-photon gain, and various applications in quantum devices, winning the Young Author Award from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, PhD Thesis Prize from the European Physical Society, and the Hershel Rich Innovation Award. In his postdoctoral research (2011-2013) as a Banting Fellow at the University of Toronto and as a Global Scholar at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, he demonstrated high-temperature superconducting tunnel diodes and high-temperature superconductivity in topological insulators. He received the Howard Alper Prize from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Polanyi Prize in Physics from the government of Ontario. He joined the Technion in 2014 and received the Gutwirth Research Award, Alexander Goldberg Research Prize and Alon Fellowship.

Daniel Ramos holds a Distinguished Researcher position at the Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology (IMN-CSIC). He obtained his PhD degree in Physics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2009) carrying out his research at the Bionanomechanics Lab at Microelectronics Institute of Madrid (IMM-CNM-CSIC). After that period, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Nanodevices Lab, Yale University (2009-2010), and the Laboratory for Nanoscale Optics, Harvard University (2011-2013) financed by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant from the European Union. His research activities are mainly focused on the interplay in between phonons and photons in optomechanics with special attention to the energy exchange from electromagnetic field and nanomechanical resonators with applications in novel sensing schemes.

Dr. Ganapathi (Ganesh) Subramania received his Ph.D from Iowa State Universitywith Co-Majors in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering. Afterspending a yearin MIT as a postdoctoral researcher he joined Sandia National Laboratories inAlbuquerque where he is currently a Senior member of technical staff.His research focuses on experimental study and realization of nanophotonic structures (e.g., photonic crystals, metamaterials and plasmonics) for controlling light-matter interaction important for sensing, light emission, quantum information science and topological behavior. He has published over 50 publications and technical reportsand has been awarded four US patents for his work. Ganesh is an SPIE Senior member and has beenserving as a Chair of the annual SPIE Conference Active Photonic Platforms for over a decade. He is currently also an Associate editor ofthe SPIE Journal of Nanophotonics.

Theodore Goodson III (b: April 05, 1969) received his BA in liberal arts from Wabash College in 1991 and his Ph.D. from U of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1996. He was a postdoctoral assistant at the University of Chicago and Postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University (physics). He served on the faculty at Wayne State University from 1998 to 2004 and move to the University of Michigan where he is the Richard Barry Bernstein Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Applied Physics. Dr. Goodson’s research centers on the investigation of ultra-fast, nonlinear optical, and quantum optical properties in organic multi-chromophore and metal cluster systems for particular optical and electronic applications in the condensed phase. This has included contributions to the understanding of ultra-fast exciton migration in organic dendrimers and novel molecular aggregates, correlations of ultra-fast dynamics in organic polymers with photovoltaic performance, the nature of ultra-fast electronic processes in in small (magic number) metal clusters, ultra-fast two photon effects for the determination of DNA-drug binding modes, ultra-fast nonlinear optical detection of remote IEDs, ultra-fast processes of the aggregation process in the formation of amyloids, the interaction of organic molecules with non-classical (entangled) light, the quantum optical response of biological macromolecules. His research has been translated in to technology in the areas of two-photon organic materials for eye and sensor protection, large dielectric and energy storage effects in organic macromolecular materials, the remote detection of energetic (explosive) devices by nonlinear optical methods, quantum optical communications and remote chemical sensing, tissue imaging and photodynamic therapy with small metal clusters. He has published over 170 scientific papers and one book (Solar Fuels) and has given more than 250 invited talks. Professor Goodson has been awarded numerous awards.

Dr Elena del Valle completed her PhD at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in 2009, in the field of cavity-QED with quantum dots. Then, she pursued postdoctoral research, first, with a Newton International Fellowship at the University of Southampton, second, with a Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Technische Universität München. She then investigated more fundamental quantum optical problems such as the single-atom lasing or frequency-resolved temporal correlations. In 2014, she was awarded a Marie-Curie Fellowship back at the UAM, followed by a Ramón y Cajal tenure track position. Dr Elena del Valle is now a lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her current research interests focus on the generation of quantum light (single and N-photon states, squeezing, entanglement) and the problem of quantum measurement and detection. She also enjoys musical composition and singing.

Dr. Mikko J Huttunen received his PhD degree from Tampere University of Technology (Tampere, Finland) in 2013. During years 2014-2017, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher first in the Aalto University (Finland), and second in the Max Planck – University of Ottawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics (Canada). Currently he holds a lecturer’s position and leads a research group in the laboratory of Photonics at Tampere University (Finland). His research interests are currently focused on nonlinear optics and metamaterials, but include also computational aspects of electrodynamics, machine learning, multiphoton microscopy and 2D materials.

Simeon Bogdanov is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD from the group of Manijeh Razeghi at Northwestern University and carried out his postdoctoral work in the group of Vladimir M. Shalaev at Purdue University. His research interests cover quantum nanophotonics, metamaterials, and semiconductor physics. His achievements include the fabrication of InAs/GaSb superlattice photodetectors operating at 10 µm with the world's best sensitivity for this material system and the realization of the brightest room-temperature single-photon source based on a single nitrogen-vacancy color center in diamond. He serves as a reviewer for journals such as Nature Communications, Optica, Advanced Optical Materials, Optics Express, Nanophotonics, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Dr. Hossein Alisafaee is an assistant professor in the department of physics and optical engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana. His experiences include working in industry as an optical engineer and a postdoctoral research at University of Arizona. He has received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is currently the director of center for applied optics sciences (CAOS) at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and the head of optical sciences and engineering (OSE) lab, where he focuses his research on optical metamaterials, quantum photonics, laser-based lidars, and illumination engineering. He teaches courses on Optical System Design, Laser Systems, Optical Engineering, and Automotive Lighting. He has mentored student teams in winning national and international awards. He holds six patents and has published more than 40 journal and conference papers. He is also the chair of Polarization Technical Committee of Optical Society of America (The OSA) where he leads an executive committee to serve the community by panel discussions, webinars, and similar activities in top conferences of the field.

Mikhail Vasilevskiy was graduated from N. I. Lobachevskiy University in Gorkiy, USSR, in 1981 and received his PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the same University in 1985. He completed a Habilitation in Physics at the University of Minho (Portugal) in 2004.

At present, he is a Professor of Physics at the School of Sciences of the University of Minhoin Portugal and a researcher of its Centre of Physics where he also serves as Director. He also is an Associate Staff Member of the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Braga.

His scientific interests are focused on the Physics of Semiconductor Nanostructures, in particular, quantum dots and 2D materials (theory and modelling of their optical and electronic properties). He authored or co-authored one book, several boo chapters and over 160 papers published in peer-reviewed journals.

Joseph Shinar received his PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Following postdoctoral positions at the University of California in Santa Barbara and at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, he joined the Ames Laboratory of the US Department of Energy and Iowa State University (ISU) in 1985. He is currently a Senior Physicist at the Ames Laboratory, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at ISU, and Courtesy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at ISU. In 2004 he was electedFellow of the American Physical Society and received the ISU Foundation Outstanding Achievement in Research Award (only one awarded per year). His research focuses on studies of luminescent organic semiconductors, particularly exciton dynamics, OLEDs, organic photovoltaic devices, and analytical (including (bio)chemical) applications of OLEDs.

Ruth Shinar is a Senior Scientist at the Microelectronics Research Center (MRC) and an Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. She received her PhD in Physical Chemistry from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemistry of the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1979 to 1982 and a Research Fellow at the Chemistry Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel, before joining the MRC in 1985.Since 2007 she has been chairing the SPIE conference on “Organic and Hybrid Sensors and Bioelectronics,” which is part of the Symposium on Organic Photonics + Electronics of the annual SPIE Meeting on Optics + Photonics.Her current research interests include OLED fabrication and characterization,organic and hybrid electronics - based (bio)chemicalsensing platforms,and organic & hybrid solar cells and photodetectors.

Manuel Campos-Garcia is a researcher in the Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), México. He has a teaching experience of 25 years in the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM. He received his BS degree in physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1995. He received his MS degree and PhD degree in Physics, respectively, in 1999 and 2005, both from the UNAM. He is a national researcher for the National System of Researches, Mexico. He held a postdoctoral position at the National Institute of Optical and Electronic Astrophysics (INAOE) in 2009-2010. His research interests include optical metrology, and instrumentation. His research has environmental and health applications, participates in the design and construction of parabolic trough concentrators, and develops corneal topographers based on null screens.

Prof. Dr. Martin Virte (07-08-1987) is professor with the Brussels Photonics (B-PHOT) group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He received his master’s in engineering with a major in Photonics from the French “Grande Ecole” Supélec (now CentraleSupelec) in 2011 and obtained the PhD degree in Engineering Science and Photonics in 2014 in the frame of a joint PhD between Supélec and the VUB. In 2015, he received a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Since 2018, he is a professor with VUB B-PHOT. His research focuses on the nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor lasers, from new laser designs, to applications of laser dynamics.

He has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council in 2020 for his project COLOR’UP dealing with multi-color lasers and their application to all-optical processing.

Martin Leahy is the Chair of Applied Physics at NUI Galway, Distinguished Visiting Professor at ICFO Barcelona and a serial entrepreneur having been technical and/or managerial lead of several successful spin-out companies in biophotonics and energy. Since his return to academia he has provided leadership as founding Director of the National Biophotonics and Imaging Platform, founding its education board and founding and chairing the International Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School (BIGSS). He has presided over several large research projects involving several international organizations. His main research interest is in the advancement of existing technologies such as laser Doppler and laser speckle as well as the development of new modalities such as TiVi and cmOCT for 2D, 3D and 4D imaging of the microcirculation. His group has invented the heart rate app which is now in use by more than 200 million people as well as cmOCT to image the microcirculation, nano-sensitive OCT to sense nanostructure and multiple reference OCT to achieve a 100-fold reduction in size and cost. More recently, his group have developed a label-free superresolution microscope. He has secured more than €14M in external R&D funding since 2007 and his citation rate is rapidly rising since his return to academia. He is the coordinator of STARSTEM and partner in two other H2020 projects. Since 2010 he has delivered 50 international invited lectures and published more than 50 senior author journal articles and more than 500 patents cite his work. Professor Leahy retains a healthy involvement in industrial R&D, collaborating with start-ups like Compact Imaging and iThera and multinationals like Covidien and Fujifilm.

Stavroula Foteinopoulou is a Research Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from Iowa State University and has held post-doctoral positions in U. of Namur (Belgium) as well as the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of FORTH (Greece). Prior to joining the Univ. of New Mexico, she was a Lecturer at the University of Exeter (UK). Her work in theoretical photonics focuses on conceiving new structured materials for extraordinary light control across the EM spectrum and has attracted to-date more than 3100 citations (source google scholar). Stavroula is the holder of one US patent, a senior member of both OSA and SPIE and serves as an associate editor for the OSA Optical Materials Express (OMEX) Journal and the Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications (JEOS-RP). She has also been the Chair of the annual SPIE conference Active Photonic Platforms for the last ten years. In 2016 she was recognized by the American Physical Society (APS) as an outstanding referee, which is a lifetime award.

Kazuhiro Ohkawa is a professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. He is the principal investigator of the Energy Conversion Devices and Material (ECO Devices) laboratory. Also, he is a Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics. He received the Ph. D. degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He worked for Panasonic, University of Bremen as a lifelong honorary professor in Germany, and Tokyo University of Science.His research interests are crystal growth mechanism and optical devices. He has developed a nitride MOVPE simulation. It becomes a useful technology for LED/LD and electronic device companies. He invented nitride photocatalyststhat work as water splitting or artificial photosynthesis.His group developed a novel flow-channel of MOVPE. This MOVPE technology made it possible to grow high-In-content high-quality InGaN and resulting in red LEDs. He served as a technical advisor to approximately 20 companies in the fields of LEDs& LDs, MOVPE, and photocatalysis.

Prof. Dr. Francisco M. Morales defended his PhD Thesis at Universidad de Cádiz (UCA) in 2003 with extraordinary award and European Mention. From 2003 to 2005, he was granted scholarships from EU Marie Curie Program, Max Planck Society and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and worked at renowned institutions in Germany. At UCA, he obtained a position as Assistant Professor in 2005, and as “Ramón y Cajal” researcher in 2006. In 2007, he obtained the habilitation as Associate Prof. in Materials Science and Metallurgic Engineering, for which he accessed in 2008; and accredited and accessed to Full Professorship at 2014 and 2017, respectively.

Dr. Morales is author of 112 publications (96 indexed, JCR h-index of 18), 1 book, 2 patents, 2 software and 133 conference communications (74 talks, 7 invited). He has actively taken part of 44 national and international research projects and grants, being principal or co-principal investigator in 24 of them. Also, he participated in 13 contracts with industry, leading 10. Since 2006, Dr. Morales supervised 10 ended theses (3 BSc, 4 MSc, 4 PhD) among 30 contracts or grants for scientists, technicians and admin staff, in addition to 5 assistant students, and 7 trainees in companies. Since 2017, he advised 5 PhD theses (director in 2 of them). His research is mainly focused on the application and development of TEM techniques for the study of a great variety of materials.

In addition to international management responsibilities, at UCA he holds positions of (i) Coordinator of the “Laboratory for Microscopies Sample Preparation”; (ii) Responsible for the “Materialography” homologated technical service; (iii) Director of the Institute of Research on Electron Microscopy and Materials (IMEYMAT), since 2014; starting to act as (iv) Member of the Faculty of Sciences Management Board in 2016; (v) Member of the UCA University Governing Council in 2017; and (vi) Managing Editor of the Electronic Journal B-IMEYMAT ISSN 2659-6717 in 2018.

Dr. Yangjing Wen is a principal engineer of Futurewei Technologies at Santa Clara, California, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and was a senior research staff member at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Institute for Infocomm, Singapore. Dr. Wen's research interest ranges from photonic systems to subsystems. Recently he has focused his research and development activities on low-cost high-performance optical transponders based on advanced modulation and detection technologies, for short reach optical networks, like data centers. Dr. Wen has authored/co-authored over 160 research publications with 1 book, 20 patents, and others including leading journal articles, conference papers, and standards meeting presentations.

Wataru Yashiro (ResearcherID: K-5564-2014) is an associate professor of IMRAM, Tohoku University from 2012. He received phD degree in 2000 from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He was a research associate of Japan Society for JSPS, AIST,NIMS, and GSFS, the University of Tokyo, Japan. In 2005, he became an assistant professor of GSFS, the University of Tokyo, and moved to Tohoku University in 2012.

Yashiro is a specialist of X-ray optics (X-ray imaging, dynamical X-ray diffraction, and X-ray surface crystallography). He received 4 remarkable awards, and has published 109 papers including PRL and Optica. He is the leader of a project of CREST funded by JST from 2017 and is developing a new frontier of X-ray tomography.

P.C. Ku received his BS from the National Taiwan University and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, both in Electrical Engineering. He was awarded the Ross Tucker Memorial Award in 2004 as a result of his PhD research. He was with Intel before joining the University of Michigan where he is currently a professor of electrical engineering and computer science. His research interests are primarily in the area of optoelectronic devices and their applications. In 2010, he cofounded Arborlight that was dedicated to solid-state lighting system design and application. He received the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2010.

Giuseppe Leo (born in 1966) received his Laurea degree (cum laude) in EE at La Sapienza, Rome (1990), and his PhD in Physics at Paris-Sud University (2001). He has been with Roma Tre University as assistant professor (1992-2002) and associate professor (2002-2004), and visiting scientist at CSELT (1994-1995) and Thomson-CSF (1998). Since 2004 he has been full professor at Université de Paris (formerly Université Paris Diderot), where he has coordinated the Nonlinear Optical Devices group of MPQ Laboratory since 2006 (5 permanent research staff and ≈15 PhD/postdocs) and directed the Denis Diderot School of Engineering, which he founded in 2010. His research is in nonlinear optics, with a focus on AlGaAs integrated optics, and his present interests include quantum and nonlinear nanophotonics. OSA Fellow since 2019, he has coordinated and/or participated in several national and EU research programs (presently ANR NOMOS, NANOPAIR and NANO-APPEARANCE; ASTRID SPAIN; FET-OPEN METAFAST). Prof. Leo served as co-chair in SPIE Photonics West and OSA MICS conferences, and is member of the editorial board of Opto-Electronic Advances. He published >115 articles, 2 books and 13 book chapters, he gave >265 conference presentations (of which 85 invited and 3 keynote), and registered 4 patents (>3k citations, h-31).

Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT)/ECE School, Director of Georgia TechLorraine, the European Campus of GIT in France, Co-Founder and Co-President of Lafayette Institute a platform of Innovation and Technology Transfer. He was a leader in creating the Joint International Research Lab between GIT and CNRS and then has served as director for 3 terms.

He worked in R&D as senior researcher and group leader at CNET /France Telecom (France) for more than 8 years and one year at Optoplus/Alcatel (France) as Optoelectronic Materials Group Manager. In 1999, he joined Bell-Labs at Lucent Technologies (USA), as Epitaxy and materials characterization Manager for Optical Fiber Communication. He kept this position with Agere Systems (USA), and then he worked as R&D and Fab Manager at TriQuint Semiconductor (USA).

Dr. Ougazzaden joined Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005. His current research activity is in the field of wide bandgap semiconductors, 2D materials and related devices for optoelectronic applications. He has authored more than 450 international scientific papers and communications and holds 26 patents.

In 2019 he was awarded of “Légion d’honneur” the highest decoration in France. In 2015, he was named recipient of the first international Stellab Award from PSA Peugeot Citroen. He was awarded the Medal of the city of Metz in 2014. He is the recipient of Georgia Institute of Technology Steven A. Denning Award 2013 for Global Engagement. He received France Telecom Best Research Award 1990 for his main contribution to the development of the first laser semiconductor at 1.3-micron for fiber telecommunication in France and its transfer to Alcatel.

He served as chair and organizer in the 14th International Conference on Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy 2008 and as member of program committee in various international conferences. He is consultant with international companies and corporations.

Daniel Flamm studied physics at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and received his PhD in 2013. His work focused on fiber optics, digital holography and modal decomposition. Since 2014 he has been developing novel material processing strategies based on ultrashort pulsed lasers for TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik GmbH. In 2019 he became manager of the technology field “optical design” of the entire TRUMPF group.Besides being reviewer for several leading journals he has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications inscientific journals and international conferences and is the inventor of 20 patents.

Dr. Antreas Theodosiou is the director and founder of the Lumoscribe LTD in May 2018 and also Postdoc fellow in Photonics and Optical Sensors Laboratory in Cyprus University of Technology. He finished his PhD in the Cyprus University of Technology in 2018 with specialization in photonics and optical sensors. His research includes inscription and development of optical sensors using femtosecond laser systems, waveguides, Bragg gratings, Mach-Zehnders, Fabry-Perot cavities, in polymer, silica, and other novel optical materials, and various applications using optical fibre sensors. In addition, has experience working with demodulation algorithms for complicated Bragg gratings spectrums, and monolithic fibre lasers. He has published 40 journal papers in high impact factor papers such as Optics Letters, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Materials Express and others and more than 50 papers in international conferences.

Sasan Fathpour is a Professor at CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2005. His current research interests include heterogeneous integrated photonics, nonlinear integrated optics, silicon photonics, and unconventional photonic platforms operating in the mid-wave- and near-infrared and visible wavelength ranges. His CREOL team’s research at has been highlighted in Nature Photonics, Optics and Photonics News, Laser Focus World, photonics.com and several other trade magazines and professional websites.

Prof. Fathpour has received the US National Science Foundation(NSF) CAREER Award (2012) and the Office of Naval Research(ONR) Young Investigator Program Award (2013). He has been Guest Editor of SPIE’s Journal of Nanophotonics (2014-15), Symposium Co-Chair of the 2015 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, and Chair (2014-2016) and Vice-Chair (2012-2014) of Short Courses at the Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics, CLEO. He has been a technical program committee member of several conferences, including CLEO (2016-18) and Frontiers in Optics (FiO 2016), IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC) (2017), IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (2017), IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) (2017–2019), and European MRS (2019).

Prof. Fathpour is a co-author of about 180 publications, including 36 invited journal papers and conference presentations, 6 book chapters and 3 patents. He co-edited the book Silicon Photonics for Telecommunications and Biomedicine, CRC Press (2012). He is the cofounder of Partow Technologies, LLC. He is a Fellow of OSA, a Senior Member of IEEE and SPIE and a Member of MRS.

Prof. Thomas F Krauss holds a degree in Optical Engineering (Cologne, Germany 1989) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Glasgow, UK 1992). He was appointed Chair of Optoelectronics at the University of St Andrews (2000) and Chair of Photonics at the University of York (2012). His research interest is the interaction of light and matter and related functional devices, such as using novel nanophotonic concepts for the understanding and detection of biological processes. He has held major leadership roles (Head of Physics at St Andrews 2009-2012, Head of the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance 2011, Strategy Champion for Technology at York 2015-2019) and has led major EU and UK research consortia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute of Physics and the Optical Society, and was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award in 2015.

Gabriella Cincotti is a Full Professor at the Engineering Department, University Roma Tre, Rome Italy; she leads the Photonics Research Group and is in charge of the courses of Photonics and Biophotonics. She is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), and has been nominated IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer 2020-2021. She was an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Photonics Society (2017-2019) and served as an Associate Editor of Optics Letters (2008-2014) and as Deputy Editor of Optica (2017-2020). She has authored or co-authored over 300 research papers in leading journals and conferences. Her main research interests are in the field of planar lightwave circuits, photonic devices and subsystems for high-speed optical signal processing. Recently, she moved part of her research interests toward super resolution imaging and point of care testing for biomedical and microbiological applications.

Born in the Netherlands and PhD at the Univ. of Amsterdam in 1995. Currently he is professor at the department of physics of the University of Florence, affiliated with the LENS laboratory in Florence, and president of the National Metrology Institute INRIM in Turin. His research interests lie in the fundamental properties of complex photonic materials and their practical applications for energy, environment, and health. In particular, he has played a pioneering role in the development of the field of disordered photonics, random lasers, and recently started to explore adaptive/intelligent photonic materials and nano robotics. Of his many scientific papers on these topics, over 20 papers were published in the Nature and Science journals (of which many cover stories) and many of his ideas were granted a patent. He appreciates teaching based on innovative methods similar to peer-instruction and speaking the general public on scientific topics. Received the Ugo Campisano award in 2004, the premioTartufari for physics in 2014, and the Enrico Fermi prize in 2015.

Jian Wang received the Ph.D. degree in physical electronics from the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2008. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Optical Communications Laboratory, University of Southern California, USA, from 2009 to 2011. He is currently a professor at the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He is the director of the department of Optoelectronic Devices and Integration (OEDI), Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He leads the Multi-Dimensional Photonics Laboratory (MDPL). His research interests include optical communications, optical signal processing, silicon photonics, photonic integration, orbital angular momentum, and structured light. He has published over 200 refereed international journal papers on Science, Science Advances, Nature Photonics, Light: Science & Applications, Optica, Laser & Photonics Reviews, ACS Photonics, Research, PhotoniX, Optics Express, Optics Letters, etc. He has authored and co-authored over 150 international conference papers on OFC, ECOC, CLEO, etc. He has also given about 100 tutorial/keynote/invited talks in international conferences including the invited talk at OFC2014 and tutorial talk at OFC2016. He is currently the Topical Editor of Optics Letters, Topical Editor of Chinese Optics Letters, and Area Editor of Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. He is also a frequent reviewer of Nature Photonics and Nature Communications.

Nathalie Vermeulen received her M. Sc. Degree in electrical engineering with majors in photonics from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Brussels, Belgium) in 2004, and obtained the Ph.D. degree from VUB in 2008. She currently holds a Tenure Track professor position in the Brussels Photonics group at VUB. In 2013 she obtained a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her NEXCENTRIC research project on graphene-enhanced nonlinear photonic chips, and between 2013 and 2017 she coordinated a European Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) project called GRAPHENICS. Since 2018 she is involved in the Belgian Excellence of Science (EOS) project CHARMING as a principal investigator working on nonlinear-optical interactions in fibers for biomedical applications.

Dr Jiajia Zhou is currently an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). In 2013, she received her PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University under the supervision of Prof. Jianrong Qiu. After PhD, she took a Lectureship and joined the China Jiliang University. At the end of 2016 she joined UTS’s research Institute for Biomedical Materials & Devices (IBMD), under the leadership of Prof. Dayong Jin. She is the winner of the Sturge Prize and finalist in Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for Outstanding Early Career Researcher in 2019. Her publication record consists of more than 90 peer-reviewed papers, including seven papers in Nature (2),Nature Photonics (3), Nature Methods (1) and Nature Communications (1). Herwork has attracted more than 3,300 citations with a google h-index of 29. Her research interest focuses on lanthanide nanophotonics, spectroscopic physics, and sensing technologies.

Frédéric Grillot is a Full Professor at Télécom Paris one of the top French public institutions of higher education and research of engineering in France and a Research Professor at the University of New-Mexico. His current research interests include, but are not limited to, advanced quantum confined devices using new materials such as quantum dots and dashes, light emitters based on intersubband transitions, nonlinear dynamics and optical chaos in semiconductor lasers systems as well as microwave and silicon photonics applications. Dr. Grillot has served diligently and successfully to the general optics community and the OSA in particular as an Associate Editor of Optics Express. As of now, he has published 104 journal articles, 3 book chapters, and more than 200 contributions in major international conferences and workshops. Dr. Grillot is a Fellow Member of the SPIE as well as a Senior Member of the OSA and the IEEE Photonics Society.

Cid B. de Araújo is Emeritus Professor at the UniversidadeFederal de Pernambuco (UFPE) at Recife (Brazil). He receiveda B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the UFPE andMaster of Science and Doctor of Science degrees in Physics fromthe Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Hewas a research associate at Harvard University (Massachusetts),visiting scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center(New York), visiting researcher at the École Polytechnique(Palaiseau, France), the Université Paris-Nord (France), and visiting researcher andinvited professor at the Universitéd’Angers (Angers, France) on various occasions. At thebeginning of his carrier he worked on microwave spectroscopy and optical propertiesof magnetic materials. His research over the last 40 years has been concentrated inlaser spectroscopy of materials, nonlinear optics, and photonics. de Araújo guided 71 graduatestudents and 20 post-doctors. Currently he is supervising 06PhD students and 02 Pos-docs.Hehas authored or co-authored about 350 scientific andtechnical papers in international journals, 14 book chapters, one book edited as well as about 540contributed and invited conference communications. He has also written for science popularization journals, bulletins of professional societies and scientific newsletters.

He was a member of the editorialboard of Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Optical Materials, andBrazilian Journal of Physics, and he has been a reviewer for various internationalscientific journals. Presently he is member of the Advisory Board of APL Photonics (2019-2021).

de Araújois fellow of The Optical Society (OSA), fellow of TheWorld Academy of Sciences (TWAS), member of the Brazilian Academy ofSciences, and member of the Brazilian National Order of Scientific Merit. He was the recipient of the Galileo Galilei Award2003 presented by the International Commission for Optics (ICO). de Araújo participated inthe Membership Advisory Committee for Physics of TWAS, the Commission onQuantum Electronics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics(IUPAP), the International Council of the OSA, the Committee for the GalileoGalilei Award of the ICO, several organizing committees of national and internationalconferences, and various research financial agencies of Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela,and Chile. He was vice-president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences for theBrazilian Northeast Region from 2006 to 2018.

He is member of the Brazilian Physical Society (SBF),Brazilian Materials Research Society (B-MRS), Brazilian Society for Optics and Photonics (SBFoton) and The Optical Society (OSA).

Boon S. Ooiis a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He received the Ph.D. degree in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Glasgow (Scotland, U.K). He has served as afaculty member at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)and Lehigh University (Pennsylvania, USA).His research interest includes the study of III-V and III-Nitride based materials and devices, and their applications in optical sensor and optical communications. He has served on the technical program committee or organizing committees of CLEO, OFC, PW, IPC, ISLC and IEDM. He is Associate Editor of Optics Express and IEEE Photonics Journal. Ooiis an elected fellow ofthe U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He is a Fellow of OSA, SPIE and IoP (UK).

I received the Ph.D. degree on December, 2008 in optical Engineering from the College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defence Technology, China. My research is aimed towards the propagation of laser beam in atmosphere, adaptive optics, modulation of optical field with large scale and high power.

Ronen Rapaport is a Professor at the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Ronen has received his PhD in Physics from the Technion, Israel in 2001, where he studied the physics of exciton polaritons. Ronen then became a principle investigator (MTS) at the Optical Physics department, Bell Laboratories, where he conducted research in various fields related to quantum nano-structures of semiconductors until 2007. Since 2007 Ronen is leading the Nanophotonics of quantum structures Lab, with research efforts ranging from many-body quantum physics of cold quantum liquids of excitons and polaritons in low dimensional quantum structures, to light-matter coupling of quantum emitters, and nano- and quantum-optical device physics.

Sergio Lechago holds a PhD in nanophotonics and is currently combining his work as senior researcher at the Polytechnic University of Valencia with his work in DAS Photonics SL as R&D engineer. During the past 8 years, Dr. Lechago has directly participated in several EU-funded projects (FP7-Phoxtrot, FP7-Mermig, H2020-Exanest) as well as in many others within national and regional research frames. He has co-authored publications in some of the most relevant journals in the field of optics and photonics (Nature’s Light Science & Applications, ACS Photonics, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Journal of Lightwave Technology as well as highlights in Nature photonics). His scientific and industrial interests are related to silicon photonics, integrated optics, plasmonics, reconfigurable nanodevices or the use of smart-material-based applications at the nanoscale.

Prof. Zhongyang Li is a full professor in the Department of Electronic Science and Technology at Wuhan University (China). His research interests focus on the visible spectrum engineering and light field steering and manipulation with metasurfaces at the nanoscale. As the first/co-first/corresponding author, he has published high-impact work in Science, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, ACS Photonics and Advanced Optical Materials, etc. Prof. Li received the Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Northwestern University (US) in 2017. His awards and honors include the National High-level Young Talents (China), Extra-Outstanding Overseas Chinese Students Award (Global Five), the Ryan Fellow from International Institute for Nanotechnology, Optics and Photonics Education Award from The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), etc.

Professor Weimin Sun is the dean of the College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, China. He is the ViceChairman of Physical Society and the ViceChairman of Optical Society, Heilongjiang Province,China. He has authored and coauthored more than200 journal and conference papers and 30 patents.Hisresearch interests include astrophotonics, biophotonics, fiber integrated components,and optical sensors.

Xiaotian Li received the B.Eng. degree in applied physics and M.Sc. degrees in optical engineering from the College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2003, and 2006, respectively. Then, he worked in Fourth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology(FAAST), from 2006 to 2009, and received outstanding youth award of the FAAST. He received Ph.D. degrees in optical engineering from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in 2013. He is currently an Associate Research Fellowin Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jilin, China. He is peer reviewers of multiple SCI journals such as Optics Express, applied optics and analytical chemistry. And he is the member of the technical committee of the International Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics, chairman of the technical committee of the Int'l Laser and Optoelectronics Conference, and a Council Member of Jilin society of analysis and testing technology. The correction methods of grating ruling error proposed by him have effectively improved the accuracy of grating ruling machines in China. In addition, he has undertaken several national nature science Foundation projects of China in spatial heterodyne Raman spectroscopy field. He proposed mosaic-grating spatial heterodyne Raman spectrometer technology, and cone diffraction echelle heterodyne Raman technology, which are expected to improve the performance of existing instruments such as high throughput, high resolution and wide band. He has obtained 28 authorized invention patents, including 12 first-inventor patents. and he published more than 40 academic papers in Optics Express and other authoritative journals, including 16 first author or corresponding author papers. He received the first prize of science and technology progress of Jilin Province, and the youth civilization of Jilin Province. His current research interests include spatial heterodyne Raman spectroscopy, diffraction grating and spectrometer technique.

Dr. Xiaolong Hu is a professor in the School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronic Engineering at Tianjin University. He obtained his B. S. and M. S. from Tsinghua University in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and obtained his Ph. D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyin 2011.Professor Hu’s research focuses on nanophotonic devices and nanofabrication, and is also relevant to mode-division multiplexing technology and stretchable electronics. In his Ph. D. thesis work at MIT, He did early demonstration of a fiber-coupled SNSPD system with efficiency exceeding 20%, applied the SNSPD system in quantum optic measurement with collaborators, and proposed waveguide-integrated SNSPDs (IEEE TAS 2009). Recently at Tianjin University he uncovered two mechanisms of device timing jitter of SNSPDs, proposed and demonstrated fractal SNSPDs with low polarization sensitivity, proposed superconducting nanowire multi-photon detectors enabled by current reservoirs. He co-invented a nanofabrication process to seamlessly integrate commercial electronic and optoelectronic components into mechanically stretchable systems, and established and experimentally validated a model describing Rayleigh scattering in few-mode optical fibers. In 2020 he published his book, Smoothing a Critical Transition: Nontechnical Knowledge and Techniques for Student Researchers, which intended to bridge the gap between the classrooms and the laboratories and help students transit towards researchers.Professor Hu is a member of the Optical Society of America, IEEE, and SPIE. In 2013, he was awarded OSA Outstanding Reviewer Award; in 2014, he was awarded Peiyang Scholarship by Tianjin University; in 2016, he was honored as Young Talents of Science and Technology by Tianjin City. He is now serving as an associate editor of OSA Continuum.

After receiving her MSc. in Physics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, Angela joined the CSIR’s National Laser Centre on a Ph.D. studentship in 2008. Her Ph.D. research involved measurement techniques for optical fields carrying orbital angular momentum. She received her Ph.D. in June 2012 and subsequently commenced a Postdoctoral Fellowship followed by a Senior Researcher position at the CSIR’s National Laser Centre. After 10 years at the CSIR, Angela joined the University of the Witwatersrand where she is currently a Lecturer in the Physics department and a research group member of the Structured Light Lab. Angela’s research interests lie in developing digital beam shaping and measurement techniques with the ultimate aim to address industry-based problems such as enhancing additive manufacturing processes.

N.S.Kopeika was born in Baltimore in 1944. Raised in Philadelphia, he received B.Sc.,M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, 1968, and 1972, respectively. He and his family moved to Israel, and he began his career at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev as a Lecturer in 1973. He chaired the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for two terms [1989-1993], and was named Reuven and Francis Feinberg Professor of Electrooptics in 1994. He was the first head of the Department of Electrooptical and Photonics Engineering 1999-2005, which grants graduate degrees only. He and Shlomi Arnon were awarded the JJ Thomson Award by the IEE in 1999 for their outstanding paper. In 2001 he was awarded the Glant Prize for excellence in teaching. He has published about 200 papers in international reviewed journals and over 160 papers at various conferences. Recent research involves development of a novel inexpensive focal plane array camera for terahertz imaging. He is a Fellow of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. Other areas of research include: interactions of electromagnetic waves with plasmas, the optogalvanic effect, environmental effects on optoelectronic devices, imaging system theory, propagation of light through the atmosphere, imaging and wireless communication through the atmosphere, image processing and restoration from atmospheric blur, imaging in the presence of motion and vibration, lidar, target acquisition, and image quality in general. He is the author of the textbook A SYSTEM ENGINEERING APPROACH TO IMAGING published by SPIE Press [first printing 1998, second printing 2000], and is topical editor for Marcel Dekker for the topic "atmospheric optics" in their ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OPTICAL ENGINEERING. He also co-authored with Natan Blaunstein, Shlomi Arnon, and Arkadi Zilberman the book APPLIED ASPECTS OF OPTICAL COMMUNICATION AND LIDAR, published in 2010 by CRC Press, and edited with Natan Blaunstein the book OPTICAL WAVES AND LASER BEAMS IN THE IRREGULAR ATMOSPHERE, published in 2018 by CRC Press. He retired officially in 2013 and is still active.

Yasha (Alex) Yi, Ph.D, is currently Professor and PhD program chair with University of Michigan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dearborn campus and Energy Institute, Ann Arbor campus. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, and was a Post-Doctoral Associate with the Electronic Materials Processing Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, where he was involved in research on integrated nano optoelectronic materials and devices. He had extensive research experiences with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory. He is also a Professor Affiliate with the Microsystems Technology/Microphotonics Center at MIT. He has authored more than 100 journal papers, has edited one book and written 3 book chapters, and holds 13 U.S. patents and one international patent. He has led several government/industry-funded projects, has been at review panel for NSF, DOE and DOD, and has been a reviewer for leading journals. His awards include MIT presidential fellowship, MIT Rosenblith fellowship and UM distinguished research award. His research interests are solid-state electronics and photonics, semiconducting devices, photovoltaics and energy-related optoelectronic devices, solid-state lighting (LEDs), bioinspired nano optoelectronic structures, nanoelectronics/MEMS, and intelligent vehicle and artificial intelligence. He is a senior member of both IEEE and OSA. He is currently serving as Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (a Nature Research journal), Editorial Board Member for Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics (a Springer Research journal) and the Vice Chair of the IEEE Southeast Michigan Section.

Avishay Eyalhave received his B.Sc. in EE from the Technion in 1989 (with distinction)his master’s from Ben-Gurion University in 1993, and Ph.D. from Tel-Aviv University (TAU). During 1999-2001, hespent three years as a Fulbright scholar at CALTECH, Pasadena. In 2002 he returned to TAU, where he is currently a Full Professor in the department of Physical Electronics. His fields of interest include: polarization related phenomena, fiber optic communications, bio-photonics and fiber optic sensing. In recent years much of his research was focused on developing new fiber optic methods for distributed acoustic and vibration sensing (DVS and DAS). In particular, he studied characterization methods of DAS and its performance limitations. Prof. Eyal is a topical editor of the Optical Society of America journal Optics Letters and the head of the undergrad Electrical Engineering program of TAU.

Dr. Artur Martirosyan completed his PhD in the year 1985 at the age of 28 years from Institute for Physical Research.In 2012, he defended his doctoral dissertation and received the degree of Doctor of Phys.-Math. Sciences. He is the Senior Researcher at the Institute for Physical Research. He has published about60 papers in reputed journals and conferences proceedings. His research interests include optics, lasers, object tracking, remote sensing, plasma physics, non-destructive testing.

HaiyiBian received his Doctor degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 2006. After that, he did postdoctoral research in Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Science. Now he is a lecturer in Huaiyin Institute of Technology. His current interests include optical coherence tomography, Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy.

Lu Zhang is a full-time research associate professor in Zhejiang University. He received bachelor degree from Southeast University in 2014 and PhD degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019. He was a visiting PhD student since 2016 to 2017 at KTH Royal Institute of Technology sponsored by China Scholarship Council (CSC). Since 2018, He was a visiting research engineer at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Kista High-speed Transmission Lab of RISE AB. His research interests include ultra-fast THz communications, THz sensing, fiber-optic communications, digital signal processing algorithms for optical and THz transmission systems. He has authored and co-authored more than 70 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and international conferences. Besides, he has received several awards in top conferences, such as the best student paper in ACP2014, IEEE travel grant in ONDM2018, and he has been invited to give a talk at ICOCN2018, ICFT2020, etc.

Dr. Xiaolong Hu is a professor in the School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronic Engineering at Tianjin University. He obtained his B. S. and M. S. from Tsinghua University in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and obtained his Ph. D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyin 2011.Professor Hu’s research focuses on nanophotonic devices and nanofabrication, and is also relevant to mode-division multiplexing technology and stretchable electronics. In his Ph. D. thesis work at MIT, He did early demonstration of a fiber-coupled SNSPD system with efficiency exceeding 20%, applied the SNSPD system in quantum optic measurement with collaborators, and proposed waveguide-integrated SNSPDs (IEEE TAS 2009). Recently at Tianjin University he uncovered two mechanisms of device timing jitter of SNSPDs, proposed and demonstrated fractal SNSPDs with low polarization sensitivity, proposed superconducting nanowire multi-photon detectors enabled by current reservoirs. He co-invented a nanofabrication process to seamlessly integrate commercial electronic and optoelectronic components into mechanically stretchable systems, and established and experimentally validated a model describing Rayleigh scattering in few-mode optical fibers. In 2020 he published his book, Smoothing a Critical Transition: Nontechnical Knowledge and Techniques for Student Researchers, which intended to bridge the gap between the classrooms and the laboratories and help students transit towards researchers.Professor Hu is a member of the Optical Society of America, IEEE, and SPIE. In 2013, he was awarded OSA Outstanding Reviewer Award; in 2014, he was awarded Peiyang Scholarship by Tianjin University; in 2016, he was honored as Young Talents of Science and Technology by Tianjin City. He is now serving as an associate editor of OSA Continuum.

Prof. Sivan received a PhD in Physics from Tel Aviv University in 2009. He has been leading a group of theoreticians in Ben-Gurion University since 2012, studying a wide variety of problems in nanophotonics. These include fundamental studies of the optical, electronic and thermal response of metals and semiconductors, and in particular, of the steady-state nonlinear thermo-optical response of metals, on one hand, and the ultrafast dynamics of heat in these systems on the other hand. His group is also leading cutting edge computational work on modal expansions for nanophotonic systems, which are significantly faster than existing commercial software. Finally, Sivan's work also addresses practical problems such as developing techniques for super-resolution microscopy, ultrafast switching and extreme manipulations of short pulses. Most notable are Sivan's recent work on the re-interpretation of plasmon-assisted photocatalysis, which were shown, in many famous cases, to be of pure thermal nature.

Takeshi Suzuki is an assistant professor at the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), the University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan. He received his Ph. D. degreein physics from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan in 2013. After that, he worked at the University of Colorado, Colorado, USA between 2013 and 2015and at the University of Michigan, Michigan, USAbetween 2015 and 2016 as a postdoctoral researcher. Since 2016, he has worked at the current institute.
His research interest isinvestigation of nonequilibrium profiles appearing in various solid state materials,which include photo-induced phase transitions andultrafast carrier dynamics. He mainly uses the laser-based time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy combined with high harmonic generations as anexperimental technique. His targeting materials cover carbon-based 2D materials, van der Waals materials,andstrongly-correlated materials.

Mukesh Kumar Sharma received the B.Eng. degree (with Honors) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from University of Rajasthan, India, in 2007, the M.Tech. degree (with Gold medal) in Optoelectronics from SGSITS, Indore, India, in 2012 and the Ph.D. degree in Physics and Optoelectronics from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India in 2018. He was a Research Assistant with Optoelectronics Devices Group, Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CEERI), Pilani, India, during 2007-2009, where he was involved in research on integrated silica-on-silicon and polymer based optical devices. His Ph.D. research involved design and development of liquid crystal core waveguides for photonic applications. His research interests include photonics, liquid crystal devices, active plasmonic metasurfaces, Guided-wave optics, and nonlinear optics. He is currently a Postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Tal Ellenbogen’s Group (Nanoscale Electro-optics Lab) in Department of Physical Electronics, Tel-Aviv University (TAU), Israel, where his current research is focused on development of active hybrid liquid crystal-plasmonic metasurface platform based nanoscale optical devices. He has authored more than 25 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and has been a reviewer for several leading journals including Advanced Optical Materials (Wiley) and Optical and Quantum Electronics (Springer Nature).

Dr. Guohua Xie obtained his Ph.D. degreefrom Jilin University (China) in 2011, investigating active matrix organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and demonstrating the first prototype of QVGA OLED microdisplay in China. From August 2011, Dr. Xie carried out his postdoctoral researchat TU Dresden (Germany), sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, investigating the stability of OLEDs. From January 2013 to January 2015, Dr. Xie worked for an interdisciplinary project funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK) at the Organic Semiconductor Center of the University of St Andrews, quantifying the spatial coherence lengths of OLEDs for the first time. Since January 2015, he is an associate professor at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Wuhan University (China)to carry out the interdisciplinary research of organic optoelectronic materials and devices. Dr. Xie has coauthored more than 160 peer-reviewed publications.

Prof. Satishchandra Ogale did his Ph.D. from Pune University, India in 1980 and is currently the Director, Research Institute for Sustainable Energy (RISE), The Chatterjee Group’s (TCG) Centres for Research and Education in Science and Technology (TCG-CREST), Kolkata, India. He is also anEmeritus Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India. Previously he also held positions as Chief Scientist at the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL, Pune), Visiting Professor and Senior Scientist at University of Maryland, College Park, USA (1996-2006), and Faculty (1980-99) and Chair (1992-95) of the Physics Department at Pune University. He is an experimental physicist and materials scientist, and currently works on different aspects of Clean Energy.

Prof. Ogale has over 500 research publications in reputed International journals including Nature, Nature Materials, Science, Physical Review letters, Advanced Materials, Energy and Environmental Science, etc. and he has to his credit nine granted US patents based in research done in India. He has edited or co-edited three books for Springer, Wiley and Elsevier.

Prof. Ogale has worked as Visiting Professor/Scientist at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Bell Communications Research, New Jersey, Universities of Lyon and Rouen, France, FOM Institute, Amsterdam. Heis on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Energy and Environmental Science, Sustainable Energy & Fuels, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces and Scientific Reports.

He has won several national awards/recognitions in India. More recently he was one of the team leaders of a UK-India multi-institutional Solar Energy project which was awarded the International Newton Prize by the British Council. He is also an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Science.

Dr. Feng Qiu obtained his Ph.D. degreefrom KUT, Japan, in 2011, investigating mid-infrared telecommunicationand demonstrating the first swift ion implantation chalcogenide glass waveguides in the world. From October 2011, Dr. Qiu carried out his postdoctoral researchat Kyushu University, Japan, investigating high-speed electro-optic polymer modulators. Now, he is a Principal Investigator at Westlake University, China, carrying out the interdisciplinary research of photonic integrated devices and circuits.

Thierry Talierciois a full professor at the University of Montpellier. He is head of the NanoMIR group and the Electrical Engineer teaching department since September 2019. He is a specialist of all-semiconductor plasmonics for infrared applications and of the optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures. He currently study the interest of heavily doped semiconductors for bio-sensing and active plasmonics in the mid-IR and THz spectral range. He is author/co-author of 122 publications in refereed journals including 48 communications in international conferences. He has been involved in the management of more than twenty national or international projects.

Prof. Jietai Jing is professor at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. His main research field is quantum optics, especially the generation of quantum light sources, including quantum entanglement, and their application in quantum information and metrology. He has worked in this field since his PhD study in 1999 and has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Communications and Physical Review Letters. He got his PhD in Shanxi University in 2004 for generating tripartite entanglement in continuous variable regime and then he did postdoctoral research on generating entanglement from optical parametric oscillator above threshold at University of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Then he moved to University of Maryland for postdoctoral research on studying entanglement from cavity QED system from 2006 to 2008. In 2008, he got a professorship at East China Normal University. Since working independently, he has made great achievements in the experimental studies of quantum information and metrology with four-wave mixing processes in atomic ensemble. His group has constructed a series of novel quantum light sources, including orbital angular momentum multiplexed continuous variable bipartite entanglement, tripartite entanglement, reconfigurable hexapartite entanglement, interference induced quantum correlation enhancement and multi-beam quantum correlation. Recently, His group has realized high-capacity multi-channel deterministic quantum teleportation protocol by using orbital angular momentum multiplexed entanglement. These series of experimental results have important application prospects in quantum communication and quantum precision measurement. He has been recognized by a number of awards, including New Century Excellent Talents of Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai Oriental Scholar, Shuguang Scholar and Pujiang Scholar. He has been selected as senior member of OSA.

Jeroen Kalkman studied physics at the Free University Amsterdam. He holds a PhD degree in Physics from Utrecht University. His PhD research was performed at the FOM Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics in the Photonic Materials group on the topic of 'Controlled spontaneous emission in erbium-doped microphotonic materials'. After spending two years in industrial research at Philips NatLab in Eindhoven, he moved back to academia and worked in the department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam. There he developed his interest in optical coherence tomography (OCT). Currently, he is at the Delft University of Technology, Department of Imaging Physics, where he leads a research group on optical tomography. He has published almost 50 peer reviewed papers, has 9 patent applications, and received various research grants.

Prof. Gilad Marcus received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, in 2006, all in physics. From 2007 to 2012, he was a Humboldt research fellow with the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, where he developed various few cycle OPCPA and studied strong field phenomena. In 2012, he joined the Department of Applied Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His current research spans over few topics including resonance and intense HHG, Pushing high field physics towards keV energies, infrared laser development and nonlinear laser plasmas interactions.

Dr Zheng Gong is a Professor and Chief Scientist at the Institute of Semiconductors, Guangdong Academy of Sciences(GDAS). He worked in the UK for more than 12 years before he joined GDAS. He used to be a research fellow at the University of Strathclyde in the UK, a R&D manager at mLED LTD in the UK, and a research scientist at Oculus @ Facebook, respectively.

Dr. Gong’s main research interests are focused on Semiconductor materials and devices, and particularly Micro-LED display technologies. he published about 100 papers and filed about 50 patents across these disciplines, including 8 PCT patents. Most recently, His team at GDAS developed a technique termed as “tape-assisted laser transfer”for wafer-level transfer of Micro-LEDs, which incurred wide interest from the display Industry.

Dr. Dapeng Zhou is a professor at Dalian University of Technology in Dalian, Liaoning, China. He obtained his PhD degree (2011) from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. After his graduation, Dr. Zhou worked as a postdoctoral fellow for two years at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Then, he worked as a research scientist in fiber-optic industry in Canada for 5 years before joining the School of Physics as a faculty member at Dalian University of Technology in 2017. Dr. Zhou is interested in the research in the field of nonlinear fiber optics, particularly focusing on research and development of optical fiber sensors and fiber lasers.

Shuqin Lou is currently a full-time Professor in the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. She got Ph.D degree of information and communication engineering in Beijing Jiaotong University in 2005. Her Master degree and Bachelor degree were both gotten from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Her current research interests include microstructured fiber, fiber components, fiber laser and fiber sensor system. She has held more than 20 researchprojects in her research areas. Up to now she has published more than 220 journal papers and 60 conference papers and ten books. She has gotten 19 patents authorized.

Dr. Sudip Chakraborty is currently leading MATES (Materials Theory for Energy Scavenging) Group, embedded in Discipline of Physics, IIT Indore as Assistant Professor of Physics. His current group consists of 6 Ph.D. and 4 Project students. After his PhD in modelling quantum dots for efficient solar cell, he moved to Max Planck Institute, Düsseldorf in early 2011 as Max Planck Postdoctoral Fellow. In early 2013, he joined Uppsala University and worked there till February, 2019 as a Senior Researcher, while 4 Ph.D students got their degree under his co-supervision, before he joined IIT Indore. He primarily work on Materials Modelling for Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, Catalysis and Battery. He has served as potential reviewer for European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant and National Science Funding (NSF), while he was the co-chair of three consecutive European Materials Society (EMRS) Fall Meeting between 2014 and 2016. He has been invited to be the Guest Editor for two International journals: Frontiers in Chemistry and Catalysts. Presently, he has more than 100 International publications, having total citations of 2100 and 27 h-index, with accumulated Impact factors of 570. He also holds Visiting Faculty position in University of Cologne, Germany. For more information, have a look here: https://sudiphys.wixsite.com/ceslab-sudip/research-publications

Mikael Karlsson holds a PhD degree in Materials Science from Uppsala University. In his PhD work he developed new techniques to fabricate refractive and diffractive optical elements in GaAs and diamond using plasma etching. The PhD work was awarded with the Bjurzons premium for excellent PhD thesis at Uppsala University within the faculty of natural- and engineering science. After spending two years in the industry, working with advanced micro-optical elements in thin polymer foils, he moved back to the academia and worked as a project leader in the Uppsala Berzelii Technology Center for Neurodiagnostics. There he developed biosensors based on infrared spectroscopy to analyze proteins relevant in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Currently, he is at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Uppsala University, where he leads a research group on diamond optics. His research is currently focused on applications within astronomy (direct imaging of extrasolar planets) and life sciences (early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases). In these projects he use own developed advanced diamond micro- and nanostructuring techniques to fabricate diamond optical components working in the infrared wavelengths. He has published 50 peer reviewed papers, has 1 approved patent, and received various research grants. He is also the co-founder of two companies, where he is still active.

Dr Irina Kabakova is a Senior Lecturer and Brillouin Imaging Group Leader at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. She has strong interest in developing novel microscopy and imaging techniques for uncovering micromechanical properties of cells, tissues and biomaterials. Another passion of hers is in photonic integration of Brillouin imaging setups for remote and in situ imaging applications in bioengineering and biomedical diagnostics. Previous to UTS, Irina was at Imperial College London as Imperial College Research Fellow (2015-2017) where she worked on construction of the first Brillouin endoscope and interpretation of Brillouin microscopy measurements in biomaterials and tissues.

Dr. Emiliano R. Martins completed a degree in Electrical Engineering in 2005 (USP, Brazil). He holds a Msc in Electrical Engineering (USP, Brazil, 2008) and a Msc in Photonics (St. Andrews, UK, 2010). In 2014 he completed his PhD with a thesis entitled “Light Management in Optoelectronic Devices” (St. Andrews, UK). He is currently a professor at the University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil). His main research interests are in controlling light for applications in optoelectronics, biosensors and integrated optical systems. His research activities involve photonic crystals, metamaterials and metasurfaces, plasmonics, biophotonics, photovoltaics and thin-films.

Dr. Qingli Li received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science and engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2000 and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent system from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, in 2006. From 2012 to 2013, he was a visiting scholar at Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, USA. He is currently with the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multidimensional Information Processing, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. He is the author or coauthor of more than 100 papers published in various international journals and conference proceedings and a Principle Investigator (PI) for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects. His research interests in biomedical engineering include molecular imaging, biomedical optics, and pattern recognition. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of SPIE. He has been also an Associate Editor of IEEE ACCESS, since 2018, Editorial board member of International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery.

Dr. Guoxiang Huang is now the director of NYU-ECNU Joint Institute of Physics at NYUShanghai and a professor of State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy at East China Normal University(ECNU).

He received his Ph.D. in physics at Fudan University in 1991, and was appointed as an associate professor and a full professor of ECNU in 1992 and 1994, respectively. From 1994 to 1998, he was a visiting professor of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, and Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany. He has been the head of Department of Physics, ECNU, and an associate director of State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy at ECNU. His research interests include nonlinear physics and nonlinear optics, quantum optics and quantum information.

Vanmaekelbergh‘s research deals with the opto-electronic properties of low-dimensional semiconductors, from 0-D quantum dots to quantum-dot superlattices, to2D semiconductors with honeycomb nanogeometry, hosting Dirac electrons, and topologically protected edge states, eventually. The group employs a “from start to finish” approach to quantum materials: from chemical synthesis to structural characterisation, optical spectroscopy, cryogenic scanning probe spectroscopy, and theoretical understanding, with feedback loops to optimize the material properties. The cryogenic scanning probe methods include scanning tunneling spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy and atomic manipulation. In recent years, artificial lattices are fabricated atom-by-atom as analogue quantum simulations of real 2D materials. Vanmaekelbergh has~260 publications,many in broad-interest journals such as Science, the Nature family, PRL and PRX.

Philippe Boucaud graduated from École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, now École normale supérieure de Lyon, in France. He obtained the « Agrégation de physique » in 1988. He received a master degree in condensed matter physics in 1987. He has obtained a PhD from University Paris Sud in physics and engineering in 1992. He is since 1993 research fellow at French national scientific research center (CNRS), senior research associate since 2010. He has been a visiting researcher at university of California Santa Barbara in 1999. His research activities focus on condensed matter physics, opto-electronics, and integrated photonics. He is since 2018 head of Research Center on Hetero-Epitaxy and its Applications (CRHEA - http://www.crhea.cnrs.fr/)

Dr. Cheng Wang is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in ShanghaiTech University, China. He obtained his Ph.D degree from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes, France in 2015. During his PhD period, he has researched with Télécom ParisTech, France, Technische Universit tät Berlin, Germany, and Politecnico di Torino, Italy. From 2015 to 2016, he was with City University of Hong Kong, China as a Senior Research Assistant. His research interests include modeling and characterization of quantum structured semiconductor lasers, such as quantum dot lasers, quantum cascade lasers, and interband cascade lasers, as well as their applications in optical communication and in gas spectroscopy. He has published 37 journal papers and 53 international conference papers. He is a committee member in the SPIE Photonics West Conference.

Professor Barbara Pierscionekis an active researcher in the areas of optics and biophysics of the eye investigating ageing and eye disease, use of nanotechnological applications to the eye andethico-legal aspects of Big Data. She has received support for her research with funding from Research Councils (EPSRC, BBSRC), EU, Fight for Sight, Royal Society and industry (Essilor International and Zeiss Meditec) as well as being awarded beam time grants for work in Japan at SPring-8 the world’s largest synchrotron.

Barbara graduated from Melbourne University in Australia with a PhD on the protein chemistry and opticsof the eye lens and was awarded anNHMRC research fellowshipshortly after graduating to start an independent research program on the optics and mechanics of the eye. Barbara worked at University of Melbourne, Monash University and La Trobe University before returning to the UK. She led the Vision Research group in Biomedical Science at Ulster University and as Associate Dean Research in the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University. She is currently School Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise in the School of Life Science and Education and for the School of Health and Social Care at Staffordshire University.

Barbaradirects and leads research and enterprise within these two Schools, developing new research opportunities for postgraduate research students and early career researchers, working on establishment and development of novel Research Centres and growth of national and international collaborations and partnerships.

In addition to qualifications in science, Barbara has an MBA and legal degrees including an LLM in cybersecurity. She has also worked in the criminal justice system and as a lay judge in employment tribunals.

Barbarahas published over 150 peer review papers, 4 book chapters and a book on law and ethics for the eye care practitioner.

Feng Li got his bachelor’s and master’s degree at Tianjin University in China in 2006 and 2008. He got his PhD at CNRS and the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis in France in 2013, supported by the European Marie-Curie ITN project CLERMONT4. Then he worked as a research associate at the University of Sheffield in UK from January 2014 to May 2017. Feng Li joined Xi’an Jiaotong University as a professor in June 2017, with main research interest in quantum and topological effects induced by light-matter interaction in microcavities and nanostructures.

Nirmalya Ghosh is a physicist with specialization in optical physics and photonics. He received his PhD degree from Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), a Department of atomic energy unit, India, where he had also held the position of Scientist during 1998 - 2007. Subsequently, he conducted his postdoctoral research at University of Toronto, Canada. He then joined Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India in 2010 and is currently Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata. He heads the Bio-optics and Nano-photonics (BioNap) group at IISER Kolkata. Dr. Ghosh has made several important contributions in the forefront areas of plasmonics, nano-optics, polarization optics and biophotonics. He has authored over eighty papers in peer-reviewed international journals, which have received over three thousand five hundred citations with h-index of thirty two. He has also written several invited reviews, book chapters and text book in the area of optics and photonics. He has been serving as editorial board member of a number of journals including Scientific Reports, Current Nanomaterials, Asian J. Physics etc.

Amiel A. Ishaaya received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1987 and 1995, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, in 2005, all in physics. From 1994 to 2001, he was with Elop Electro-Optics Ltd., Rehovot, working on various laser development projects. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, studying collapse dynamics of high-intensity optical beams and nonlinear interactions in photonic crystal fibers. In 2007, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, where he is currently a tenured professor. His group is conducting experimental investigations on various aspects of light-matter interactions in the high peak power pulsed regime, including development of Q-switched and mode-locked fiber sources, Sapphire fs ablation, writing fiber Bragg gratings with fs laser pulses, biological tissue laser ablation, and nonlinear parametric processes in special hollow and solid core fibers. Recently the group is engaged in investigation of new materials for fs lasing in the mid-IR. Prof. Ishaaya has also significant experience with high order mode selection, coherent combining of lasers, and Kerr self-focusing in Silica.

He has authored or co-authored over 120 papers published in journals and conference proceedings, 20 technical reports, and holds several U.S. patents, all in the fields of optics and lasers. Prof. Ishaaya is a member of the Optical Society of America and of the IEEE Photonics society.

Prof. Dr. Guo-Hong Ma obtained his Ph.D degree in Optics from Fudan University in 2001. He had been a research fellow in National University of Singapore during 2001-2005. He became a full professor at Shanghai University since 2005. Dr. Ma was awarded as “Pujiang Scholar” in 2006, and “Eastern Scholar” in 2008. Dr. Ma is the member of Optical Society of America (OSA) as well as the member of Singapore Materials Research (SMR).

Prof. Ma’s research interests cover ultrafast photonics, terahertz photonics and terahertz spintronics, he also pays attention on the control and optical manipulation of electronic spin in semiconductor and ordered magnetic system. Dr. Ma published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, and he gave more than 40 oral presentations including 20 invited talks in international conferences.

Filippo Capolino received the Laurea (cum laude) and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. Previously he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Siena, Italy till 2002. From 1997 to 1999, he was a Fulbright and then a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, MA, USA. From 2000 to 2001, part of 2005 and in 2006, he was a Research Assistant Visiting Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, TX, USA. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Fresnel Institute, Marseille, France (2003) and at the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Bordeaux, France (2010). His current research interests include metamaterials and their applications, traveling wave tubes, antennas, wireless systems, sensors in both microwave and optical ranges, plasmonics, nano optics, spectroscopy, microscopy, and applied electromagnetics in general.

Dr. Capolino received the R. W. P. King Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for the Best Paper of the Year 2000, by an author under 36. He was the founder and the EU Coordinator of the EU Doctoral Programs on Metamaterials from 2004 to 2009. He is the Editor of the Metamaterials Handbook (Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, 2009). He is a Fellow IEEE.

Dr Maciej Pieczarka is an assistant professor at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, where he has also received his PhD in physics in 2017. Previously to Wroclaw, he worked for two years as a postdoctoral fellow in Nonlinear Physics Centre of the Australian National University. He has been awarded an award for talented young Polish scientist START 2020 by Foundation for Polish Science. His scientific interests are focused on quantum fluids of light, especially the fundamental physics of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) of exciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities. His current research is dedicated to fundamental understanding of collective effects in polariton BECs and thermal stability and limitations of polariton BECs and polariton lasers in GaAs based microcavities.

Dr. Takashi Nishitsuji received the B.E., M.E., Ph.D degree in fast calculation algorithm of holography from Chiba University, Chiba, Japan in 2007, 2013 and 2016, respectively. From 2013 to 2018, he was a researcher in Information technology R&D center, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan. He is currently an assistant professor in Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include computer holography and its application. He is a member of the Optical Society (OSA), the Optical Society of Japan (OSJ), the international Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).

Søren Raza is a tenure-track assistant professor at the Technical University of Denmark, where he also obtained his PhD degree (2014). After his PhD, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern Denmark and later Stanford University. Among various honors, he was awarded the 2015 Thesis Prize for “Fundamental Aspects” by the European Physical Society. Søren Raza’s research is currently focused on manipulating light using dielectric nanomaterials, such as silicon, for creating tunable optical devices.

Neetesh Singh is a Research scientist at the ultrafast optics and laser X-ray group at Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at DESY since 2019, where he is leading the integrated linear and nonlinear photonics group. He received his Masters degree from the University of New South Wales, Sydney and PhD from the Center for ultrahigh bandwidth devices for optical system at University of Sydney in 2015. He was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Photonics Microsystems group at RLE, where he demonstrated first CMOS compatible optical frequency synthesizers. His research interest is in silicon photonics - optical frequency combs, optical frequency synthesizer, mid infrared photonics, integrated mode locked lasers.

Dr. Pallavi Jha retired as Professor and Head Department of Physics, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India, in 2019 after a teaching and research experience of 40 years. She did her M.Sc.& Ph.D. in Physics, from the University of Lucknow. She has done extensive research on electrostatic disintegration of fluids, theory and simulation of Free Electron Lasers (FEL) and is currently working on theoretical and simulation studies of laser-plasma interaction, plasma based particle acceleration and radiation generation. She was awarded Fellowship by Human Resource Ministry, Government of India for post doctoral research in USA. During 1991-92 she was Visiting Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, U.S.A. where she developed a Three Dimensional Free-Electron Laser Simulation code which is being used by the FEL community. She has successfully completed several research projects awarded by the Government of India. She has published over 65 Research papers - all in reputed peer reviewed International Journals. Her research work has been presented in National as well as International Conferences held at Rochester & Washington DC, USA, Japan, China, Singapore, Thailand, Spain and Portugal. She is continuously peer reviewing research papers published in Journals of the American Physical Society, American Institute of Physics, Cambridge University Press and Institute of Physics.

Dahi Ghareab Abdelsalam Ibrahim received his BS and MS in physics from Minia University, Egypt, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. His PhD was finished in PTB, Germany, jointly with the University of Al-Azhar, Cairo, Egypt, in the field of optical metrology with interferometry. In 2010, he went to work at Mechanical System Engineering, University of Chonbuk, South Korea. In 2014, he joined the University of Tokushima, Japan, to work in the field of optical frequency comb and terahertz technology. He is working now as a professor of optical metrology in the Engineering and Surface Metrology Lab, National Institute of Standards (NIS), Egypt.

Dr. Danveer Singh completed his Bachelor and Master (BS-MS) integrated degree program from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune in 2012. During his undergraduate program, he was awarded INSPIRE (SHE), DST scholarship. He completed his doctoral degree from IISER Pune in 2017. During his doctorate program, he was awarded INSPIRE (AORC), DST, India. He has been actively working in the field of light-matter interaction, specifically the light modulation at the nano/micro-scale dimension. His research interest focused on the area of light modulation using materials at the micro/nano dimension and currently, working on the reconfigurable meta-optics.

Dr. Xiao-Zhou Li received the B.Eng. degree in communication engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2011, and the M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. From 2016 to 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Photonic Signals and Systems Group, Institut National de la RechercheScientifique–Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Montréal, Canada; from 2018 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Optoelectronic Engineering and Instrumentation Science, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China. His research interests include ultrafast optical signal processing, microwave photonics, and semiconductor laser dynamics.

Dr. Lei Zhang received his B.S. degree from Northwest University in 2005 and M.S degree from Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precession Mechanics of Chinese Academy of Science in 2008. In 2011, he received his PhD degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Then he worked as a research fellow at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore from 2012 to 2016. Dr. Zhang is currently working as an associated professor at School of Electrical Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University. His research interests mainly focuses onlight manipulation with artificial structures based on both linear and nonlinear optical effect.

Shengxi Huang is an assistant professor in Electrical Engineering Department, Biomedical Engineering Department, and Materials Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. She earned her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, under the supervision of Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus. She then did postdoctoral research at Stanford University before joining Penn State. Shengxi is the recipient of multiple awards, including NSF CAREER Award, Johnson & Johnson STEM2D Scholar’s Award (6 awardees worldwide in 6 disciplines), Kavli Fellowship for Nanoscience, Jin Au Kong Award for Best PhD Thesis at MIT, Xerox Foundation Fellowship, Ginzton Fellowship at Stanford. Shengxi’s research interests involve light-matter interactions of 2D and quantum materials, as well as the development of new quantum emission platform and biochemical sensing technology.

Dr. Tan received the Ph.D. degree in chemical physics from the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA and the M.S. degree in optics from the Institute of Physics. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. She is a Physicist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories (OSEL), Division of Biomedical Physics (DBP). Prior to joining FDA in 2009, she was a Research Fellow in optical spectroscopy and microscopy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL). Her research interests at FDA focus on innovative optical therapeutics, especially for ophthalmic applications. She also serves as an Office Lead for the Medical Device Development Tool (MDDT) Program at CDRH.

I am Full Professor in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics at the "Roma Tre" University and Scientist at the Leibniz-Institute Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (Frankfurt Oder, Germany). I obtained my M.Sc. from "La Sapienza" University (Roma, Ita) in 1994 and my Ph.D. in Physics from "Tor Vergata" University (Roma, Ita) in 1998 his. After two post-doctoral fellowships at "Roma Tre" University and at the National Institute for the Condensed Matter, I joined Luxtera Inc.(Carlsbad, Ca, USA), the world leader in silicon nano-photonics, as senior scientist. I have been Visiting Associate Professor at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Ca, USA) in 2002-2003; Senior Visiting Academic at the Atomic Fabrication Facility of the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) in 2008-2013; Guest scientist at the Leibniz-institute Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics. My main field of research is the investigation of elemental semiconductors in view of their use in optoelectronic devices. I have coauthored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and international patents and presented my work in more than 70 talks at international workshop and conferences.

Mohammad Hafezi is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments at the University of Maryland and a fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute. He studied for two years at Sharif University before completing his undergraduate degree in École Polytechnique. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2009. His research interest includes quantum optics, topological physics, condensed-matter, and quantum information sciences.

He is known for his contributions in a number of foundational works to synthesize and characterize quantum many-body and topological physics beyond electronic systems. Examples include cold atoms, superconducting qubits, and photons, where his works on the last one have helped found the field of “topological photonics”. Currently, some of his current interests include efficient characterization and probing of many-body properties in quantum simulators. Moreover, his group is recently interested in exploring the application of quantum optics to create, probe, and manipulate correlated electron systems. He is the recipient of several awards including Sloan Fellowship, Young Investigator Award of the US Naval Research Office, and Simons Foundation Investigator.

CHANGQING CAO Doctor of Optical Engineering, Associate Professor. He completed all of his studies at Xidian University. His research interests include Optoelectronic technology and Application.

Tsampikos Kottos is Professor of Physics & Mathematics at Wesleyan University. He received his Ph.D. from Univ. of Crete in 1997 and he subsequently joined the Weizmann Institute of Science as a postdoctoral fellow. Between 1999 and 2005 he was senior researcher at the MaxPlanck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Non-linear Dynamics group) in Germany. His research interests include linear, nonlinear, and non-Hermitian wave transport, Semiclassical theories and Random Matrix theories for chaotic/disorder systems, and mesoscopic physics. He has published more than 150 papers (H-index 39 -- googlescholar). In 1997 he received a US European Office of Air Force R&D Fellowship and in 2006 the International Pnevmatikos Award for outstanding achievements in nonlinear physics. In 2019 he was awarded the Wesleyan Prize for Excellence in Research. During 2013-2015 he became the Bennet University Endowed Chair, awarded to a newly tenured associate professor exhibiting exceptional achievements. In 2015 he was elected invited Researcher A at CNRS, Nice, France. In 2019 he became the Lauren B. Dachs Endowed Professor of Science and Society at Wesleyan University.

Yijie Shen is currently a Marie S.-Curie research fellow of Nanophotonics & Metamaterials Group (Nikolay I. Zheludev group) in Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, funded by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie MULTIPLY Fellowship. He received the Ph.D. degree in optical engineering at the Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and automation from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. During Mar. 2019 to Jun. 2019, he was invited as a visiting researcher in School of Physics: Structured Light Laboratory (Andrew Forbes group), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), Johannesburg, South Africa, and also invited as a visiting researcher in National Laser Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa. He is a member of the Chinese Optical Society (COS) and Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and an invited member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), specially a fellow member in the Systems and Instrumentation Group in which. He won the Wang Da-Heng Optics Award (COS, China) in 2019. He is a national first-grade computer aided designer and cartographer in China. He is also a senior reviewer of journals Opt. Lett., Opt. Express, IEEE Photon. J., J. Opt., etc., who especially won the IOP and OSA Outstanding Reviewer Awards in 2020, and was invited as a member in the Journal of Optics Advisory Panel. He has published more than 40 papers in high-impact journals including Light: Sci. & Appl., Optica, Phys. Rev. A, Opt. Lett., Opt. Express, with more than 300 citations. His Research Interests include optical angular momentum, structured light, metamaterial and nanophotonics, quantum optics, ultrafast nonlinear optics.

Hongyan Fu is currently an associate professor at Data Science and Information Technology Research Center, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI), Tsinghua University. He received the B.S. degree in electronic and information engineering from Zhejiang University and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering with specialty in photonics from Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research focuses on integrated photonics and its related applications in communications and sensing including silicon photonics, optical wireless communications, and 3D sensing, etc.

From 2005 to 2010, he was a research assistant and then research associate with Photonic Research Center, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. From 2010 to April 2017, Dr. Fu was a founding member and leading the advanced optic communications research at Central Research Institute, Huawei. He was the project manager of All-Optical Networks (AON), which was later evolved to a company-wide flagship research project that covers whole aspects of next generation optical communication technologies to guarantee Huawei’s leading position. He was also a representative for Huawei at several industry/academic standards/forums. He was an active contributor at IEEE 802.3 Ethernet and Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) where he was an OIF Speaker from 2012 to 2013. Dr. Fu is member of IEEE and life member of OSA, SPIE. Since 2017, he is the advisor of OSA Student Chapter at TBSI, Tsinghua University. Since 2020, he is the advisor of IEEE Photonics Society Student Branch Chapter and SPIE Student Chapter at TBSI, Tsinghua University. Dr. Fu has authored/co-authored more than 150 journal or conference papers, 1 book chapter, over 50 granted/pending China/Europe/Japan/ US patents.

Sangsik Kim is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Texas Tech University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He was also a postdoctoral researcher in ECE at Purdue University, where he received an MS and a Ph.D. He received his BS in ECE from Seoul National University, South Korea. His research interest is on the development of novel photonic devices and their applications, seeking to bridge the gap between new science and future technology.

Davide Calonico is a physicist, PhD in metrology at Polytechnic University of Turin. Head of « Quantum Metrology and Nanotechnology » Division at INRIM, the Italian metrological institute, he is mainly involved with quantum technologies, time and frequency primary metrology, laser cooled atomic clocks. He developed a national fibre-optic backbone, 1800 km long, devoted to the dissemination of atomic clock standards and the implementation of quantum communications and technologies. DC coordinates the project Piquet, focusing on nanofabrication and quantum technologies, based on a 500 m2 clean room laboratory.

DC is the chair of the Working Group on Advanced Time and Frequency Standard within the bodies of the Convention of the Metre, and he has been the Scientific Committee chair of the European Time and Frequency Forum and the International Frequency Control Symposium.

I am a professor in Physics Department of Fudan University, China. I received the B.S degree from Peking University in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree from Institute of Physics，Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China in 2001. From April 2001 to December 2003 and from May 2005 to December 2005, I worked in Institute for Semiconductor Physics, University Linz, Austria. From April 2004 to April 2005, I worked in Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany. Since 2006, I worked in Physics Department of Fudan University. My research focuses on the controlled formation of various nanostructures on Si substrates, and the exploration of the unique properties and the applications of those nanostructures. I has authored or coauthored 80 journal articles and 2 book chapters.

Liam O’Faolain is one of the leading authorities on disorder and loss in Photonic Crystals and has made a number of key breakthroughs in the field. His research group focuses on developing efficient lasers and innovative sensors based on nanophotonics and integrated photonics. He spent 15 years at the University of St Andrews, before moving his research group to Cork Institute of Technology in 2016, see www.cappa.ie . He is the author/co-author of more than 100 journal papers. His ”h"-factor is 42. He is currently supervising 13 PhD students and 5 postdoctoral research fellows. He is a principal investigator in the SFI IPIC (Irish Photonic Integration Centre). He co-ordinates the ERC Proof of Concept project HERCULES, the OPTHAPHI Marie Curie European Joint Doctorate project and the H2020 PASSEPARTOUT project (commencing January 2020), and is host of the TERRIFIC Marie Curie Individual Fellowship.

Received his Ph. D from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada in 2008. After graduation he worked as post doctoral fellow in the same group. In October 2009, he joined the department of physics and the institute of optical sciences at the University of Toronto where he works as a research fellow. In September 2011, he was appointed as an assistant professor at the Department of Physics, the American university in Cairo (AUC). He is now a professor and chair of the Department of physics at AUC, His research interests include design optimization and fabrication of active and passive nanophotonic and plasmonic devices and systems, silicon photonics, optical interconnects, integrated on- chip optical systems, lab on chip, nano-antenna, metamaterials, and solar cells. The main applications include biomedical systems, energy harvesting, and telecommunications. He authored more than 300 technical papers in highly ranked journals and conferences. He also holds 2 patents, a book, and book chapter in these areas.

Dr. Swillam is an editor of many physics and photonics journals He is also a senior member of the IEEE Photonic society since 2010, SPIE and OSA. He is the founder and the advisor of the optical society of America and SPIE chapters at the AUC and the vice president of the Egyptian Unit.

Dr. Swillam currently holds few national and international grants in the area of energy and sensing application, and on chip devices for telecommunications with a total value of more than 3 Million USD. He received various awards and fellowships including the Early Career award from the applied computational electromagnetic society and IEEE, the State Award for advanced technology in 2013 and Misr -Elkhair best publication award in science in 2012, Ontario ministry of research (MRI) fellowship in 2011, NSERC post-doctoral fellowship 2009, and the Dean’s graduate student award of knowledge translation and innovation from McMaster University in 2009. He is also the recipient of best student paper award from IEEE/LEOS Ottawa section for Photonics North 2007 and from ACES 2009.

Olivier Spitz received the Ph.D. degree from Université Paris-Saclay, France, in 2019, and is now postdoctoral researcher with Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France, working on applications of mid-infrared quantum/interband cascade lasers. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California Los Angeles, USA, and at TU-Darmstadt, Germany. His research interests include non-linear dynamics, free-space communications and neuromorphic photonics.

Lino Misoguti received his M. Sc degree in Applied Physics in 1994 and Ph.D degree in Material Science and Engineering in 1999 from University of São Paulo at São Carlos. His Ph.D research involved nonlinear optical measurements in new organic crystals. From 1999 to 2001 in his Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS), University of Michigan and JILA,University of Colorado, he worked with ultrafast lasers. Currently he has a permanent Professor position at the São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil, were his main research interest lie in ultrafast laser pulse applications for nonlinear optics, fundamental understanding of nonlinear effects, developing new methods for nonlinear optical measurements, etc. He is member of the Brazilian Physics Society (SBF), The Optical Society (OSA) (Senior Member) and IEEE.

Michele Merano received the Ph.D degree in Physics at EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland) where he worked in the group of Prof Benoît Deveaud. Then he did two post docs one at the Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée (Palaiseau, France) with Prof. Gérard Mourou and one at the Quantum Optics and Quantum Information group (Leiden, The Netherlands) with Prof. Han Woerdman. From 2011 he is professor of optics and condensed matter physics at University of Padua (Italy). His major research interests include light matter interaction, beam optics and optical manipulation. He has made important contributions to optics and materials science including the observation of the Goos-Hänchen effect in metallic reflection, the observation of angular deviations in specular reflection of a light beam, and the discovery of the role of the radiation-reaction force in the optical response of 2D materials.

Fuxing Gu received his B.S. degree in 2006 and Ph.D. degree in 2012 from Zhejiang University. He is currently an associate professor of the Laboratory of Integrated Opto-Mechanics and Electronics (http://iome.usst.edu.cn/), University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China.His research interests includemicro/nanofiber optics and opto-mechanics, microcavity and 2D-material optics. For example, he has proposed the theory of silicon-oxygen bond activation energy that generates dangling bonds on micro/nanofibers, developed a movable evaporated source to tune the bandgap of semiconductor nanowires in a wide range, a suspended near-field coupling technique in nanowires, and periodical spatially modulating the gain in microcavities. Moreover, he has realized polymer and metal nanowire sensors with ultrahigh sensitivity, fast response and low power consumption, low-threshold single-mode lasers in polymer microbottle cavities, and room-temperature semiconductor monolayer exciton lasers. He has published a total of more than 40 SCI indexed papers, such as Science、Sci. Adv.、Light: Sci. & Appl.、J. Am. Chem. Soc.、Nano Lett. etc., in which have received a total of over 1600 citations.

Yu Luo received the B.E. degree in Electronic & Information Engineering from Zhejiang University, China, in 2006, and Ph.D. in physics from Imperial College London, UK, in 2012. He then remained in Imperial College London as a research associate after graduation. In 2015, he joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, as an assistant professor. Prof. Luo’s research interests focus on the design of metamaterials and plasmonics from fundamental aspects to various practical applications. He is well known internationally in the field of plasmonics and metamaterials worldwide. His recent work has results in a number of high-impact journal publications in Nature, Science, PNAS and PRL and has been highlighted by many scientific magazines and public media, including Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, Physics World, Phys.org, BBC News, Guardian, etc.

Tong Ling is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology and Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory at Stanford University. He will join Nanyang Technological University in Singapore as an assistant professor starting from 2021. He received his Ph.D.in 2016 and B.Eng.in 2011 from Zhejiang University. He developshigh-speed interferometric imaging techniquesfor a wide range of applications across multiple fields, including biomedical imaging in ophthalmology, high-precision metrology, and applied physics.He invented the randomly encoded hybrid gratingfor versatile quadriwave lateral shearing interferometry, which was nominated for 2015 China’s Top 10 Optical Breakthroughs by the Chinese Journal of Lasers. Healso received the Wang Daheng Optics Award by the Chinese Optical Society,and the First Prize Scholarship by the China Instrument and Control Society. Recently, his research in full-field interferometric imaging of action potentials demonstrated a new approach to imaging neural activity using optical phase signals, which opens the door to all-optical non-genetic techniques for functional imaging.

Dr Fan Wang is an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow, working on nanophotonics and biophotonics research. Dr Wang was awarded the UTS Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2019) to support his research in deep tissue super-resolution imaging. Dr Wang has published over 57 peer-reviewed journal articles with average impact factor over 10. Dr. Wang obtained his Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales in Australia in 2014. From 2013 to 2015, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Prof. Jagadish’s group at the Australian National University studying semiconductor nanowires. Since 2015, Dr. Wang joined the ARC center of excellence for nanoscale biophotonics at Macquarie University. From 2017, Dr. Wang joined Prof. Dayong Jin’s group in UTS to lead the biophotonics team. From 2020, Dr Wang joined the School of Electrical and Data Engineering as a lecturer to establish his nano-optoelectronics group.

Dr. Victor Krivenkov received his Ph. D. degree in laser physics from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow, Russia in 2017 with a thesis about nonlinear resonance energy transfer processes in quantum dot-based hybrid structures. Now he is a research fellow, micro-group leader, and principal investigator of research projects at the Laboratory of hybrid photonic nanomaterials of the MEPhI University. His main research interest is an experimental investigation of light-matter coupling in the hybrid systems based on plasmonic nanocavities and excitonic materials, and an application of these materials in quantum optics technologies. He collaborates with many research groups from Spain, France, and Germany.»

Mahmoud Gaafar received the B.S. degree in physics from Menoufia University, Egypt, in 2008. From 2010 to 2012, he worked in the joint institute for nuclear research (JINR), Moscow, Russia. In March 2012,he received his M.Sc. degreein physics from JINR and Menoufia University. In 2015 he received his Ph.D. degree from the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany, where he worked on the characterization and mode-locking of vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers. He is currently a research scientist at the institute of optical and electronic materials at Hamburg University of technology, Hamburg, Germany. His current research interests include the development and implementation of concepts for dynamic control of light in integrated waveguide systems.He is a member of the optical society of America (OSA) and the German physical society (DPG).

Igor Khanonkin received his B.Sc. summa cum laude in Physics in 2014 from Odessa I.I.Mechnikov National University (Ukraine). Currently, he is pursuing his PhD degree in the group of Professor Gadi Eisenstein from Electrical Engineering Department of Technion (Israel). His research interests include coherent light-matter interaction in quantum dot - based devices, ultrafast carrier dynamics in semiconductors, dielectric permittivity of anisotropicsystems, and surface-induced liquid crystals phases. He has been awarded with N. Bogolyubov scholarship and fellowships from Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Helen Diller Quantum Center, and Jacobs Foundation in his undergraduate and graduate studies.

Dr. Shiyu Xie received the B.S. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2007, and the Ph.D degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, in 2012. From 2012 to 2014, she was with Huawei Corporation as a Research Engineer leading a team to develop high performance silicon based photonic integrated circuits. In 2014, she returned to Sheffield as a Postdoctoral fellow working on next generation avalanche photodiodes. From 2016, she joined School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University funded by European Horizon 2020 Programme to establish a platform for high sensitivity planar and nanowire sensors.Since 2017, sheis a research fellow at Cardiff sponsored by the European Regional Development Fund through Welsh government Ser Cymru Fellowship Program (until to Mar. 2021), leading and developing a novelantimony-basedsolid-state material system and sensors. Dr. Xie is an author or co-author of over 30 publications in peer-reviewed journalsand conference papers, and 6 Chinese and international patents.She has received a number of prize and research awards, including Huawei Golden Network Prize and Huawei Hisilicon Research Fund, European Regional Fund, UK Royal Society Travel Fund, UK Innovate Fund and Studentship Award from Chinese Scholarship Council.

Dr. Bhaskar Kanseri is working as an Assistant Professor in the department of Physics at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He earned his PhD in Physics jointly from National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi and University of Delhi working in classical coherence and polarization studies in 2011. His PhD thesis was awarded as the best thesis by Indian Laser Association in National Laser Symposium-19. After completing his PhD, Dr. Kanseri worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow for nearly 5 years at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (Erlangen, Germany) and at Institute of Optics (Palaiseau, France). During his postdoc period, his research was primarily focused on emerging areas such as quantum optics and quantum information science.

At IIT Delhi, Dr. Bhaskar Kanseri leads a research group namely “Experimental quantum interferometry and polarization (EQUIP)”. His current research interests include developing quantum information technologies such as quantum computing and quantum cryptography, exploring quantum optics and entanglement for fundamental studies, quantum tomography, non-linear optics, spectral switching, liquid crystal based optical studies,electromagnetic optics, interferometry and coherence-polarization studies. He has published more than 40 papers in prestigious international peer reviewed journals of optical and quantum science and has presented more than 60 conference papers and proceedings. He has also delivered more than 20 invited talks in several prestigious conferences and workshops.

Dr. Bhaskar Kanseri is serving as a reviewer of several reputed journals of OSA and Elsevier. He is a life member of Optical Society of India (OSA) and Indian Laser Association (ILA) andis a member of OSA and SPIE.

Rubén Boluda-Ruiz was born in Málaga, Spain in 1986. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering (Electronics and Communications), and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain, in 2012, 2014 and 2017, respectively. In 2016, he was a visiting researcher with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. From October 2017 to December 2019, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Program, Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ). Since January 2020, he is a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Communications Engineering Department, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain. He is the author of one book chapter and has authored/co-authored over 35 journal and conference publications. His current research interests include theory and its application to design and performance analysis of free-space and optical wireless communication systems with current emphasis on multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) systems, channel modeling, cooperative communications, physical layer security aspects, among others. Dr. Boluda-Ruiz is an active reviewer for various IEEE and OSA journals. He was a recipient of the best Ph.D. Thesis in Electrical Engineering (Extraordinary Doctorate Award) by the University of Malaga (2017-2018), the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Electrical Engineering in the XVI Night of Telecommunications by the Agencia Andaluza de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (AAIT) in 2018, the TAMUQ Research Excellence Award 2018, and the recognized reviewer certificate by the OSA Publishing in 2016 and 2017.

Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza received his B. S. from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica in 2010. He received a Master and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 2012 and 2016, respectively. His doctoral dissertation was in the area of quantum coherence. He was a Research Associate in the Quantum Nanophotonics Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder from 2017 to 2018. He joined the faculty of Louisiana State University as an Assistant Professor of Physics in Fall of 2018. Now he leads the Experimental Quantum Photonics Group. His research group investigates novel properties of light and their potential for quantum technologies. He has published over 35 research articles in Nature and Science Journals, Applied Physics Reviews, Reports on Progress in Physics, Optica, and Physical Review Letters. His research is currently being supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office.

Anishur Rahman did his PhD in Photonics from the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. After his PhD, he moved to the UK to take up a postdoctoral position at the University College London where he is currently based. Anis works with levitated quantum optomechanics involving optical tweezers and lasers. In the past, he has demonstrated laser refrigeration of levitated Yb3+: YLF nanoparticles. His most recent works include optical levitation, non-linear tweezer potentials, and parametric feedback cooling using broadband light. His research interests include macroscopic quantum mechanics and entanglement.

I am an assistant professor at University of Science and Technology of Harbin, China. My research interest involves quantum and nonlinear optics with structured light or photons. Currently, I am focusing on the modal transformation of vectorial light fields during nonlinear interactions, which is the physical foundation for generation, manipulation and characterization of the spatial mode of light fields.