Stewart Aitchison received a BSc and a PhD from the Department of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, in 1984 and 1987 respectively. His PhD dissertation research was on optical bi-stability in semiconductor waveguides. From 1988 to 1990 he was a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at Bellcore, Red Bank NJ. His research interests there were in high nonlinearity glasses and spatial optical solitons. He joined the University of Glasgow Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 1990 and was promoted to a Personal Chair as Professor of Photonics in 1999. His research in Glasgow focused on the use of the half band gap nonlinearity of semiconductors for the realization of all-optical switching devices and the study of spatial soliton effects. He also worked on the development of quasi phase matching techniques in semiconductors, monolithic integration, optical rectification, and planar silica technology. His research group developed novel optical biosensors, waveguide lasers and photosensitive direct writing processes based around the use of Flame Hydrolysis Deposited (FHD) silica. In 1996 he held a Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Fellowship and carried out research on spatial solitons as a visiting researcher at the CREOL, University of Central Florida. Since 2001, Professor Aitchison has held the Nortel Chair in Emerging Technology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. His current research covers all-optical switching and signal processing, optoelectronic integration and optical bio-sensors. From 2004-2007 he was the Director of the Emerging Communications Technology Institute at the University of Toronto, where he established a $30 million open access facility for micro and nano-fabrication. From 2007-2012 he served as Vice-Dean Research for the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto. Since 2013 he has been the Associate Scientific Director for the Canada – India Network Centre of Excellence, IC-IMPACTS where he is responsible for the mobile health research theme. Professor Aitchison is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow the Institute of Physics.

James Harris is the James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor, emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics and Materials Science at Stanford University. His recent research focused onnovel materials and the physics and application of ultra-small structures to new photonic devices. He has provided the key materials and device technologies for interdisciplinary teams to develop an implantable retinal prosthesis, for ultra-high-efficiency multi-junction solar cells with world record solar to hydrogen generation through water splitting, demonstration ofelectron acceleration in an integrated dielectric laser accelerator (SLAC on a Chip) and vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and single photon detectors, for today’s smart phones for facial recognition and laser range finding for autonomous vehicles. He has supervised the PhD of 138 students and received a number of awards for his work, including election to the National Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Shen Zexiang is Professor of Physics. He is Associate Dean for interdisciplinary research, Graduate College, Nanyang Technological University. He is also Co-Director, Centre for Disruptive Photonics Technologies. He also holds a joint appointment at School of Materials Science and Engineering. His current research work involves spectroscopic and theoretical study of graphene, 2D materials and hybrid perovskites using ultra Low wavenumber Raman spectroscopy, photoluminescence and time resolved spectroscopy in combination with high pressure and low temperature. His other research direction is electric energy storage using graphene composite materials. He is winner of NTU Nanyang Award for Research and Innovation, Gold Medal for Research Excellence by Institute of Physics Singapore, Honorary Professor of Moscow State University. He is a Global Highly Cited Researcher with more than 42,000 citations and H index 101.

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.

I have received my M.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Genova, Genova, Italy, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K., in 1999. Since 2003, I am with INRS-EMT, Varennes, Canada. I am author and coauthor of more than 1,000 papers published in international scientific journals and conference proceedings. My current research interests include integrated and quantum optics, as well as Terahertz science and applications. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the AAAS, of the IEEE, of the American Physical Society, of the Optical Society, of the SPIE, and an E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellow, as well as a recipient of the NSERC Synergy and Brockhouse Awards. I served as a Chair and Technical Committee Member for several OSA, IEEE, and SPIE sponsored meetings.

David J. Moss is Director of the Optical Sciences Centre at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, since 2016. He was with RMIT University in Melbourne, 2014-16, the University of Sydney 2004 - 14 and was a senior manager and scientist with JDS Uniphase in Ottawa Canada from 1998-2003. From 1994-98 he was a Senior Research Fellow with the Optical Fiber Technology Centre at Sydney University prior to which he was a visiting Scientist with Hitachi Central Research Laboratories in Tokyo, Japan,1992-94. From 1988-92 was with the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in Physics and BSc from the University of Waterloo. He won the 2011 Australian Museum Eureka Science Prize and Google Australia Prize for Innovation in Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the IEEE Photonics Society, the OSA (now the Optica Society) and the SPIE (International Photonics Society). His research interests include optical microcombs, integrated nonlinear optics, quantum optics, microwave photonics, optical neural networks, optical networks and transmission, 2D materials including graphene oxide for nonlinear optics, optical signal processing, nanophotonics, biomedical photonics for cancer diagnosis and therapy, and other areas.

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.

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.

Kerry Vahala is the Jenkins Professor and Professor of Applied Physics at Caltech. He is known for his studies of devices called optical microcavities and their application to a wide range of subjects including miniature frequency and time systems, microwave sources, parametric oscillators, astrocombs and gyroscopes. Vahala also made early contributions to the subject of cavity optomechanics and demonstrations of chip-based devices to cavity QED phenomena. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the IEEE and the OSA. Vahala received the IEEE David Sarnoff Medal for his research on quantum-well laser dynamic, an Alexander von Humboldt Award for his work on ultra-high-Q optical microcavities, a NASA achievement award for application of frequency combs to exoplanet detection, and was co-recipient of the OSA Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award for a 2-photon optical clock.

Jerome V Moloney is a Professor of Mathematics and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona and is Director of the Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences, an internationally recognized research center in applied mathematics. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America and a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in physics. Research interests span a wide range of photonics and nonlinear optics fields including ultrashort, high power femtosecond pulse propagation; computational nanophotonics, fiber laser modeling, many-body physics of semiconductor optical properties and modeling semiconductor passive and active devices. He has published 500 papers in peer-reviewed journals, secured over $45M in research funding and has given over two hundred invited papers at national and international conferences.

Oliver Graydon is chief editor of Nature Photonics, a leading journal from Springer-Nature that publishes high quality research in the areas of optical science, photonics and optoelectronics. Oliver joined Nature Photonics as launch editor in 2006 following 10 years of experience in science publishing at the UK’s Institute of Physics. He has a PhD degree from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre and a BSc degree in Physics from Imperial College London.

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.

Dr. Xueding Wang is a Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Radiology at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. Before working as an independent principle investigator, Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. at Texas A&M University and Postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan. Dr. Wang has extensive experience in development of medical imaging and treatment technologies, especially those involving light and ultrasound. Sponsored by NIH, NSF, DoD and other funding agencies, his research has led to over 150+ peer-reviewed journal papers. Dr. Wang was the recipient of the Sontag Foundation Fellow of the Arthritis National Research Foundation in 2005, the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Academy of Radiology Research in 2013, and was elected to the fellow of AIMBE in 2020. He is also sitting on the editorial boards of scientific journals including Photoacoustics, Ultrasonic Imaging, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Medical Physics, and Scientific Reports.

Arseniy Kuznetsov received his double PhD degree from University Paris 13 (France) in 2005 and from Institute of Applied Physics RAS (Russia) in 2006. Since 2007 till 2011 he worked at the Laser Zentrum Hannover (Germany) as Humboldt Research Fellow. Since October 2011 till now he has been working in A*STAR, Singapore first in the Data Storage Institute and now in the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering. He is currently appointed as Principle Scientist I, Manager of Dielectric Nanoantennas Program, Director of Nanoantenna-SLM Program and Head of Advanced Optical Technologies Department. Current activities of his group are devoted to development of novel nanodevices based on dielectric nanoantennas and metasurfaces. He is an author of over 80 journal papers (incl. Science, Nature Nanotechnology etc.) and a co-inventor of 15 filed patent applications. For his pioneering research on optically resonant dielectric nanostructures and dielectric nanoantennas, he was awarded 2016 IET A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize, 2017 NRF Investigatorship Award and 2020 IPS World Scientific Physics Research Medal and Prize. In 2020 he was also elected to be an OSA Fellow.

San-Liang Lee received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in 1995. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) in 1988 and became a Full Professor in 2002 and a Chair Professor in 2019. He was the Vice President of the university from 2011 to 2014. He served as the Dean of Academic Affairs Office, NTUST, from 2008 to 2010. He was the Chairman of the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering for 2005-2008. He was the Director of the program office for the National Innovative Education Program on Image Display Technology, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, from 2005 to 2009. He is currently the Director of the research program on Silicon Photonics and Integrated Circuits sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Taiwan. He is also the director of the Photonics Division, Department of Engineering and Technologies, MoST.He was a visiting scientist in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2010 to 2011. He served as the Electronic Section Editor of the SCI-indexed Journal, Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers from 2007 to 2012. Since 2013, he serves as the Associate Editor of IEEE ACCESS Journal. He received the Outstanding Research Award of 2018 from MoST. His research interests include semiconductor optoelectronic components, photonic integrated circuits, nanophotonics, and optical networking technologies. He has published more than 250 referred papers in international journals and conferences and holds >30 patents. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Dr. Daoud is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Technology Graz, Austria, with a Dipl-Ing degree (BS and MS) in Chemical Engineering and received his PhD in flexible bilayer photovoltaic cells from the University of Sheffield, UK. Dr Daoud’s current research is mainly focused on the areas of energy harvesting and smart wearable technologies. His group is developing approaches for harvesting free or waste energy, such as light and kinetic energies. Being intermittent sources, it is equally important to find storage solutions for this form of energy. Therefore, the group is interested in the modelling and design of compatible flow batteries. He has received international renown and several awardsforhispioneering research on solar self-cleaning and kinetic energy His researchhas featured in Nature (2004) and Science (2008) and broadcasted through interviews by major international media, such as Reuters (2014), BBC (2015) and SCMP (2017). He has been invited to present Plenary and Keynote lectures at international conferences and is currently serving as the Chief Editor of Wearable Electronics, Frontiers in Electronicsand Editorial Board member of the Journal of Power Sources Advances.

Ehab Awad has received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical engineering from the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP), USA. He has received his B.Sc. and additional M.Sc. in Electrical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt. He is currently a Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the UMCP, USA. He is currently a senior member of the IEEE photonics society and Optica (formerly OSA, Optical Society of America). He has plenty of leading patents and publications in several international journals and conferences. He is the recipient of the Almarai award for his distinguished and innovative research work on nanoplasmonics. Several of his research works have received spotlights through international media. He is a principal investigator with research expertise and interests in nanophotonics, optical plasmonics, optical metamaterials, silicon photonics, optical fibers, optical communications, optoelectronic devices, lasers, and infrared sensors.

Prof. Carmel Rotschild is a professor at the Mechanical engineering department, Technion, Israel, and the head of the optical engineering course of study. His research on thermodynamics of radiation ans solar energy was selected as the most important work for solar energy in the year 2016 by the Optical Society of America.Prof. Rotschild is a founder in Luminescent solar power company, working on 24/7/365 solar electricity solution based on a modular CSP with an innovative heat engine.Prof. Rotschild has more than 50 patents and 35 papers. Along his careerProf. Rotschild won few prestigious awards including the Fulbright, Alon, and Adams fellowships, the Krill prize (given by the Wulf foundation), two innovation awards, an ERC starting grant. He is also a founder of RealView imaging, a company providing a real-time holographic display, which currently has 20 employees.

Alejandro is ICREA Research Professor. He is an experimental physicist with broad interests and expertise in solid-state physics, optical spectroscopy (Raman scattering, photoluminescence, etc.), nano-science and technology, thermoelectricity, the physics of low-dimensional materials (quantum wells, wires and dots), highly correlated electron systems, and high-pressure techniques.

Mario Dagenais received the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Rochester in 1978 working in Quantum Optics under the direction of Professor Mandel. He made the first observation of photon antibunching. He was a Research Fellow at Harvard University from 1978 to 1980, where he worked in nonlinear optics with Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen. From 1980 to 1987, he worked at GTE Laboratories. He joined the University of Maryland in 1987 where he has been Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1991. He has more than 300 archival and conference publications. He has co-chaired several national and international meetings. He was associate editor for Optics Letters, Applied Optics and IEEE Photonics Journal. Professor Dagenais was VP membership for the Americas for the IEEE Photonics Society. Professor Dagenais is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of the Electromagnetic Society.

Since receiving my PhD from the University of Alberta in 2017 under the supervision of Professor Zubin Jacob, I have worked primarily as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Alejandro Rodriguez's research group at Princeton University, studying a variety of subjects orbiting the central themes of computational modelling and optimization in electromagnetics. As of this last July, I have officially joined Polytechnique Montréal as a faculty member in the Department of Engineering Physics, and am actively looking to hire both student and postdoctoral researchers with broadly overlapping interests.

Kaichen XU is currently a ZJU-100 Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University (ZJU). He is a member of the State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power & Mechatronic Systems and senior member of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society. He received the PhD degree from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2018 and then moved to Osaka Prefecture University (OPU) as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow in Japan. His research mainly includes multifunctional flexible electrodes/sensors and systems’ integration, advanced laser manufacturing. In the past five years, over 20papers have been published in Adv. Mater., Adv.Funct. Mater., Adv. Sci., ACS Nanoetc. including 16 papers as the first and corresponding authors. 2 articles were recognized as ESI hot/highly cited papers. He was invited to serve as a Corresponding Expert ofEngineering, a journal launched by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Editorial Board of Opto-Electronic Engineering. He isindependent reviewers for over 40 journals (over 150 times).

Dr Marcel Donnet is a chemical engineer with a PhD in Powder Technology. He has been carrying out academic as well as applied research for more than 20 years in interdisciplinary domains including powders, fluids, chemical, medical and dental technologies. Over the 18 last years, the research passion was mainly directed to dental technologies to offer best clinical option for both user and patient. It is within the frame of these researches that powder and laser technology met together for patient benefits.

Angela D. V. Di Virgilio has received her degree in Physics and has been for 2 years post-doc at the Purdue University to work on CDF, the experiment that later on has discovered the Top quark. Since 1986 she is INFN researcher in Pisa. From 1985 she has been active in the research for gravitational wave detection, with special attention to the low frequency detection. In 1994‐2005, she has been responsible of the Low Frequency Facility, satellite experiment of Virgo, which has measured with very high precision, the noise of the suspension around 10Hz. The low frequency research has been determinant for the discovery of the first gravitational wave signal GW150914, which was detected between 36 and 250Hz, this detection has been honoured with the Breakthrough price 2016 and the Nobel in 2017. Her interest in ring‐laser development and study has began in 2007. Since the beginning she has been responsible of the research activity in Italy. She has been the proposer of GINGER, for the LenseThirring test on Earth with 0.1% precision, one of the General Relativity test feasible on Earth and based on the use of ring lasers gyroscopes. Her activity is highly interdisciplinary; she is the responsible of the prototype GINGERINO operational inside the underground laboratory of the GranSasso, which is taking data for seismology studies.

Ondrej Havelka is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences in Engineering at the Technical University of Liberec (Czech Republic). His main field of interest is the development of complex nanomaterials employing ultrafast lasers, which leads him to seek to shed light on the questions behind custom designing solutions for our society's needs. Thus, his research interests expand to a wide variety of nanomaterial-application sectors such as antibiotics degradation, development of intelligent fluids, and reclamation of pure water from oily polluted sources. During his scientific career, he received the Czech Republic's Minister of Education Awards in 2019 and 2021. Besides, he is a delegate in the European Council for Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers.

Dr. Konstantinos (Kosta) Falaggis is an assistant professor at the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Falaggis’ current research interests are in Physical Optics, Imaging, and Metrology techniques employing coherent, partial-coherent, and incoherent light. In particular, Dr.Falaggis’s research encompasses Computational Methods that improve or enable novel approaches to Precision Metrology. Current research areas are the Metrology of Freeform Optics, Laser Powder Bed Fusion (additive manufacturing), and in-situ metrology systems. Dr. Falaggis earned his Ph.D. in Multi-Wavelength Interferometry and High Dynamic-Range Sensors at the University of Leeds, UK, where he was working within the group of Catherine Towers and David Towers (2006-2011). Dr. Falaggis was a post-doctoral research associate (2012-2015) within Malgorzata Kujawinska group at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. There he focused his research on Holography, Phase Retrieval Techniques, and Computational Wave-propagation techniques. In November 2014, Dr. Falaggis was awarded the “Outstanding Young Scientist stipend†by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Between August 2015 and July 2017, he worked at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (2015-2016) in Puebla, Mexico, and the Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education (2016-2017) in Ensenada, Mexico. Since August 2017, he has been a faculty member at UNC Charlotte. Since then, Dr. Falaggis has been serving since 2018 as the Deputy Site Director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Freeform Optics. In January 2020, Dr. Falaggis became an associate editor of Optics Express and served in 2021 as the Lead Editor of the Feature Issue on Freeform Optics in Optics Express. Most recently, in 2021, Dr. Falaggis got awarded the Maxheim Faculty Fellowship Award.

Robert E. Tench was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA in 1957. He received a BA degree in Physics with High Honors from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA in 1978 and a PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 1985. He has carried out research, development, and manufacturing of lightwave systems, fiber optical amplifiers, and fiber lasers at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Agere Systems, the National Security Agency, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Cybel LLC, and RET and Associates LLC. He has nine issued or pending patents, over 90 conference and journal publications, and has placed over a dozen lightwave products into manufacture. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Cybel LLC in Bethlehem, PA, USA, where he is responsible for research, development, and manufacturing of 2000 nm band fiber optical amplifiers and fiber lasers. Dr. Tench is a Senior Member of Optica and the IEEE, and a member of SPIE and Sigma Xi.

Tao Wang received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Université de Nice- Sophia Antipolis in 2016 for his theoretical and experimental work in semiconductor laser dynamics. From 2013 to 2016, he worked as a Ph.D. student in the Institut Non Linéaire de Nice (now the Institut de Physique de Nice). Following this, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Canada, in the research group of Prof. Roberto Morandotti. At the end of 2017, Tao Wang joined the school of Electronics and Information at Hangzhou Dianzi University as an associate professor, where he carry out research in the fields of laser physics and optical sensing (based on the interaction between light and matter). Dr. Tao Wang is a member of the Optical Society of America. He has over 50 scientific peer-reviewed publications and conference proceedings and several patents. Dr. Tao Wang has a broad research interest in the fields of nanophotonics, in particular, innovative microcavity laser design aiming at sensing application.

Jin-hui Chen received the B.S. degree in Materials Physics (2013) and the Ph.D. degree in optical Engineering (2018) from Nanjing University. From 2018 to 2020, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in School of Physics of Peking University. Now, he is an associate professor in School of Electronic Science and Engineering at Xiamen University. His research interest includes microcavity optics and fiber optics.

Isaac Sackey is an optical communications systems R&D engineer in the Submarine and Core Systems Group at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany. Dr. Sackey has been with the institute since 2011, and he primarily works on optical coherent transmission systems, parametric amplification in nonlinear materials, and on silicon photonics. Further research works include coherent ising machines and neuromorphic computing. He was a guest lecturer at the Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin (University of Applied Science). Dr. Sackey received his Bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, in 2002. He obtained his Master’s degree in electronics engineering from the Hochschule Bremen (Bremen University of Applied Sciences), Germany, in 2010. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, in 2016. From July 2003 to January 2009, he worked with Hospital Engineering Limited, Ghana, as an Electronic Engineer. Currently, he is a project manager at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany.

Professor David Lancaster is the EOS Chair in Laser Physics and directs the Laser Physics and Photonics Devices lab group at the University of South Australia. A seasoned laser professional, he has worked in the photonics field for 24 years after completing a PhD in experimental laser physics at Macquarie University, and an undergraduate Science Honours degree majoring in Physics (UNSW). Post PhD he worked as a Postdoc in the US at Rice University developing mid-IR laser sensors for the detection of trace methane and formaldehye in NASA spacecraft. In 2000 he moved to the Australian Defence Science and Technology organisation as a Senior Research Scientist to develop laser counter measures and multi-function laser sensors. In 2010 he moved back to academia and joined the University of Adelaide as a full-time researcher, and then in 2015 moved to the University of South Australia to establish the ‘Laser Physics and Photonics Devices Labs’. Research application area includes defence, mining, surgery, remote sensing and communications, and advanced manufacturing. He has published over 80 international journal papers, and a co-founder and CTO of ‘Red Chip Photonics Pty Ltd’.

Professor Mo Mojahedi received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico (UNM), Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM), in December 1999 (with distinction). For his Ph.D. work he received the Popejoy award which is the highest honor given every three years to the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation across Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry at UNM. From February 2000 to June 2001, he worked as a Research Assistant Professor at CHTM in collaboration with the Department of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2001 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. From September 2007 to January 2010 Prof. Mojahedi was the director of the University of Toronto’s Emerging Communications Technology Institute (ECTI) – an interdisciplinary Open Research Facility dedicated to micro- and nanotechnology and fabrication. During his term as the ECTI Director, he built a state-of-art Electron Beam Lithography facility; one of only two such advanced facilities in Canada. Professor Mojahedi has been recognized by the University of Toronto Faculty Council for his distinguished and exemplary service. He is a Fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society) and the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. His research interest span both fundamental and practical applications in photonics and electromagnetics, which include structured light (light by design), nano-photonics, optical and plasmonic sensors, imaging and microscopy, wave matter interaction, and dispersion engineering.

Alireza Marandi is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Caltech. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2013. Before joining Caltech, he held positions as a postdoctoral scholar and a research engineer at Stanford, a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Informatics in Japan, and a senior engineer in the Advanced Technology Group of Dolby Laboratories. Marandi is a Senior Member of OSA and IEEE and has been the recipient of NSF CAREER award, the AFOSR YIP award, and the Young Scientist Prize of the IUPAP. He is named the 2019 KNI-Wheatley Scholar.

Dr. Blumenthal is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB, Director of the Terabit Optical Ethernet Center and heads the Optical Communications and Photonics Integration group. He is Co-Founder of Packet Photonics Inc. and Calient Networks. He holds 23 patents and has published over 480 papers in the areas of optical communications and optical packet switching, integrated ultra-stable and ultra-narrow linewidth lasers, optical gyro sensors, photonic integration integrated circuits, integrated atom cooling photonics, nano-photonics and microwave photonics. He is co-author of Tunable Laser Diodes and Related Optical Sources (New York: IEEE–Wiley, 2005). Dr. Blumenthal is a 2020 recipient of the OSA C. E. K. Mees Medal, a 2017 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He is recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award and an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award. Blumenthal received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder (1993), the M.S.E.E. from Columbia University (1988) and the B.S.E.E from the University of Rochester (1981).

Dr. Longxing Su is a research assistant professor in School of Physical Science and Technology at Shanghaitech University, China. He received his joint-supervised Ph.D. degree from the Sun Yat-Sen University and UC Riverside in 2015. His current research topic mainly focuses on inorganic/organic semiconductor based optoelectronic devices, photoelectronic synergetic catalysis, and power devices.

Elena Sergeevna Kozlova, (b. 1989) received Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics in Samara State Aerospace University (2011). She received her PhD in 2014. She is researcher of Laser Measurements laboratory at the Image Processing Systems Institute – Branch of the Federal Scientific Research Centre “Crystallography and Photonics” of Russian Academy of Sciences and Associate Professor of Computer Science department at Samara National Research University. Scientific interests: diffractive optics, FDTD method, near-field optics.

Dr. Sci. Georgii Malashkevich is the chief researcher of the B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. About 40 years he works in the field of spectroscopy, structure, chemistry and technology of optical materials. During these years, he has discovered and interpreted a number of regularities of changes in the physical-chemical and spectral-luminescent characteristics of activated glasses depending on their composition and structure; priority results were obtained on the sensitization of luminescence of lanthanide ions by Cu(I), Sn(II), Fe(II), Fe(III) oxocomplexes and the structure of optical centers of rare-earth and transition metals in non-traditional glasses; a number of silica glasses, activated by complex Ln-containing oxide nanoparticles was created. In recent years, he has performed a number of priority works on the formation of new Ln3+ optical centers in oxide films and powders of ultradisperse diamond, sensitization of Ln3+ luminescence with silver ions and clusters, as well as hole centers of non-bridge oxygen; developed a number of new activated glasses and films with extreme characteristics. Georgii Malashkevich is the main author of more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 90 patents and inventor's certificate of the USSR, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. Under his scientific supervision, two PhDs in Physics and Mathematics and three Masters of Science have successfully defended their theses in the field of optics and spectroscopy of Ln-containing sol-gel glasses; h-index is 12.

Farid Ullah Khan is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (Photonics) at the Universidad Carlos III university, Madrid (UC3M) Spain. Prior to joining UC3M, he received his Masters (MS) degree in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunication) in 2018 from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan. Along with research work, he is also involved in carrying out teaching activities at the same university. His research interests mainly focus on the development of high resolution frequency combs based spectroscopic systems and the use of hyperspectral imaging in near IR to mid IR and THz spectral range.

Yong-Zhen Huangreceived the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1989, respectively. In 1989, he joined the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, where he worked on the tunneling time for quantum barriers, asymmetric Fabry–Perot cavity light modulators, and VCSELs. In 1994, he was a visitor at BT Laboratories, Ipswich, U.K., where he was involved in the fabrication of the 1550-nm InGaAsP VCSEL. Since 1997, he has been a Professor with the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he was the Director of the State Key Lab on Integrated Optoelectronics. His current research interests are mainly focused on semiconductor microcavity lasers, optical frequency combs and photonic integrated circuits.

David Castelló-Lurbe is a Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) senior postdoc fellow at the Faculty of Engineering of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). He received his PhD degree in physics from Universitat de València in 2014 and joined Brussels Photonics in 2015. His research focuses on nonlinear optics in guiding media, with a particular interest in the physics of supercontinuum generation. His contributions to this field include a theory describing nonlinear pulse dynamics in on-chip waveguides covered by graphene, a general measurement technique of the soliton number, a formalism to study the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation analytically, and the prediction of coherent supercontinuum from long pulses pumped in the anomalous dispersion regime. Some of these achievements have been published in Nature Communications, Laser & Photonics Reviews, and highlighted as Editors' Pick in Optics Letters.

Dr. Yijie Shen is currently a Senior Research Fellow in Nanophotonics & Metamaterials Group (Nikolay I. Zheludev group) in Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, also working as a MULTIPLY Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow funded by MULTIPLY Marie S.-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships in Photonics. 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 was recognized as an honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press in 2021. He is a national first-grade computer aided designer and cartographer in China. He is 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. He is also a member in the Journal of Optics Advisory Panel. He has published more than 40 papers in high-impact journals including Nature Communications, Light: Science & Applications., Optica, Nanophotonics, Physical Review Research, Physical Review Applied, etc., with over one thousand citations.

Tatiana Alieva is a full professor of Optics at the Faculty of Physics of Complutense University of Madrid. Her current research focuses on design, generation and characterization of optical coherent and partially coherent beams, their application for optical particle manipulation and quantitative microscopy. She has published more than 90 peer-reviewed papers, 18 book chapters, more than 130 contributions in congress proceedings, and 4 text books for undergraduate and master students. She was a chair and program committee member of several OSA and SPIE organized meetings. She served for six years as an associate editor of Optics Express and actually is a topical editor of Optics Letters.

Dr xiaoyi Wang is currently a lecturer in the Department of electronic information at Southwest Minzu University. I received my BSc degree in optoelectronic from Chengdu University of information technology, 2010, and my master degree in photonics from Royal institute of technology (Sweden, 2013) and PhD degree in semiconductor from University of Sheffield, 2018. My research interests electron/photon interacting with matters and electron/optical microscopy. I have published more than sixteen specialized paper in electron microscopy and semiconductor material physics (ie: catalysis science and technology, physical chemistry chemical physics, crystengcomm, semiconductor science and technology, journal of microscopy. Etc). I am currently a reviewer of physical chemistry chemical physics and Journal of luminescence etc. Now, I am working as a visiting scholar at Zhejiang University and China academy of engineering physics for improving and extending my research scope.

Dr. Mária Csete is a senior research fellow at the University of Szeged, Hungary; where she has received PhD in physics in 1999. She was a predoctoral fellow at the University of Ulm (1998-2000), and a visiting postdoctor at the Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT (2008-2010). Present research topics in her group (Group for Nanoplasmonics) involve plasmonic resonator configuration optimization to enhance light-matter interaction phenomena: spontaneous and stimulated light emission, nanolasing and superradiance, infrared photodetection, biosensing, lithography. Fields of her expertise are design and optimization of plasmonic architectures via theoretical methods (FEM, FDTD). She has accomplished several experimental projects on spectroscopy (SPR), microscopy (AFM) and application of laser-systems.

Dr. Ren is an associate research Professor at Fudan University. He graduated in the University of Science and Technology of China in 2012, and then worked in the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology as an assistant researcher. He did Post-Doc research in San Francisco State University and the University of Hong Kong before he took the current position. He had a broad interest in fluorescence microscopy, optical trapping and manipulation, and nonlinear optics. He had published over 50 scientific papers with a google scholar citation over 1200.

Dr. S. Oktyabrsky has received his Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics from Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia, in 1988. He joined the University at Albany – SUNY in 1998 and is currently Professor and a leader of a compound semiconductor team at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering which is now a part of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute. His primary expertise is in the molecular beam epitaxy, group III-V semiconductor technology, materials, heterostructures, electronic and photonic devices.

Benjamin Wetzel received his Ph.D. in Photonicsfrom the University of Franche-Comté (Besançon, France) in 2012. He is currently a tenure CNRS Researcher at the Xlim Research Institute (CNRS – UMR7252, Limoges, France) since 2019. He is a former Marie-Curie Fellow (EU), Helena Normanton Fellow (UK) and a ERC Starting Grant laureate (EU) possessing a numerical and experimental expertise in ultrafast photonics and nonlinear optics. His core know-hows are mostly related to ultrashort pulse manipulation and nonlinear frequency conversion processes in fibered and integrated platforms. Over the years, he reported key experimental demonstrations in fields spanning nonlinear fiber optics and integrated photonics systems, including disruptive schemes of laser mode-locking and efficient frequency comb formation, the smart & integrated control of supercontinuum generation, as well as landmark results in quantum optical states generation and ultrafast photonics instrumentation. He is an Optica Senior Member (formerly OSA) and since 2010, he has an established track-record with 50 publications in top journals, 150 conferences contributions (including > 50 invited) and 4 patents for which he received over 3600 citations.

Anders Mikkelsen received his PhD degree in Physics from Århus University in 2001. He then moved to Lund and is now Professor at Department of Physics and director of the Swedish Strategic Research Area NanoLund. Anders studies the interplay between function, structure, and growth of nanostructures, from micrometers down to the atomic scale, from seconds to attosecond and moving towards realistic synthesis and device operation environments. The aim is a better fundamental understanding of complex, dynamic condensed matter systems, as well as developing novel materials and devices for next generation computing, energy systems and products improving our lives.

Beat Neuenschwander studied physics at the University of Bern and realized in 1996 his Ph.D. at the Institute of Applied Physics in the field of diode pumped solid state lasers. From 1997 to 2002 he joined the company Numerical Modelling and since 2000 he is also at the Bern University of Applied Sciences BUAS where he lectures physics and applied laser technology. There he built up the laboratory for laser micro machining and laser surface engineering, became full professor in 2005 and is actually heading the institute for applied laser, photonics and surface technologies ALPS. His main research topic, where he published more than 70 papers, is laser micromachining with ultra-short pulses and its industrial application. He was chair of the LASE Symposium 2018-2021 and is founder member of the national thematic network NTN swissphotonics, which he headed from 2008 – 2011 as managing director. Actually, he is also serving as expert for the Swiss founding agency innosuisse.

Dr. You-Chia Chang is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Photonics and Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics at University of Michigan in 2016. He also received a M. S. degree in Applied Mechanics in 2004 and a B. S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2002 at National Taiwan University. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He had also worked as an associated researcher in Material and Chemical Research Laboratories of Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan from 2004 to 2008. His research interests include silicon photonics, metasurfaces, metamaterials, and 2D materials.

Professor of Physics at Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil. Head of the Laboratory of Preparation and Characterization of Materials, working on eco-friendly routes to produce nano-scintillators, nanothermometers and related materials.

Feng Feng received his B.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China in 2009, and the PhD degree in Photonics Engineering from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, the UK in 2014. He is currently an assistant professor with Key Laboratory of Opto-electronics Information Technology of Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronic Technologies and Devices in Tianjin, School of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. His research involves using advanced wavefront shaping techniques for beam steering and modal control in multimode fibres. His current research interests also include optoelectronic device design, fabrication, and integration.

Xianzhong Chen is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences at Heriot-Watt University (HWU), UK. He is leading the Experimental Nanophotonics Group at HWU, which is dedicated to the fundamental physics of metasurface and its application in ultrathin optical devices for imaging, defence, display and information processing. His current main research interests include metalenses, holograms, optical vortex beams and polarization detection. The ultrathin nature and unusual functionalities have enabled the discovery of new phenomena and the development of novel prototype devices for future technologies. To explore the commercial applications of novel nanodevices and integrated optical systems, he has built connection with industry, including STMicroelectronics, Renishaw and Holoxica. He has published 80 papers, including Nature Communications, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, and Light: Science & Applications. His previous work on macroscopic invisibility cloaking of visible light was selected as one of the "Top 10 Breakthroughs " by Physics World and “Top 100 Stories " by Discover Magazine. Group website: http://nanophotonicslab.eps.hw.ac.uk/.

Dr. Yen is an Associate Professor in the School of Art at Minnan Normal University, and Vice Dean of the Minnan Institute of Cultural Design. He received the Diploma in Industrial Design and the M.S. degree in Industrial Design, from the Tatung Technology University (TTU), Taiwan, in 1992, 1994, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Industrial Design from the Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan in 2017. His research lies in Decision-making application of Fuzzy theory and Grey theory, TRIZ theory, Product design and development, Human factor engineering, Usability engineering, Product life cycle engineering. Recent research focuses on User experience, Product and Service design, Sustainable product design and research and development. Dr. Yen has published several papers in high-profile conferences and journals held by IEEE, IBC, and Hindawi. He holds thirty patents and two patent applications. His research has been sponsored by the Ministry of Social Science of China.

Dr. Ping Zhao received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. Presently, he is a researcher with the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience in Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. His research topics cover micro-nano photonic waveguide devices and low-noise parametric amplification for coherent optical communication, microwave photonics and signal processing. To date, he has authored or co-authored nearly 20 peer-reviewed papers and 9 patents. Besides, he has received several distinct awards including Excellent Doctoral Thesis of Hubei Provence (2015) and President Award of Huawei Network Product Line (2017).

Zhangxing Shi received his Ph.D. from College of Optical Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University, China in 2021, where he worked on the development and demonstration of nanophotonic devices. Currently, he is anassistant professor at Shandong Institute of Advanced technology, China. At Zhejiang University, the focus of his work is nonlinear optics, nanophotinic devices and plasmonics and he has been an author or coauthor of over 10 peer-reviewed journal/conference papers. His current research interests is bound states in the continuum (BIC) in artifitial micro/nanostructures and nanophotonics.

Sümeyye KILIÇ was born in Konya/Turkey and been in Glasgow/Scotland for 5 years and has gone the Primary School in Glasgow, then gone back to Konya/Turkey in 1998.She has completed her principles (primary and high School) education in Konya. After completion of high school, she was matriculated to Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Selcuk and she was graduated from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,Selçuk University in 2018. She has matriculated by Institute of Natural Science and Technology at Selcuk University for her master thesis (MSc) in 2019 andstill continues study her thesis for M.Sc.degree and about writing of thesis at Selçuk University under the supervision of Assoc.Prof.Dr. Adnan BERBER who works for Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Technology at Selcuk University.Her current studies are laser ablation, laser material interactions, pulsed laser deposition (PLD), piezoelectric materials, production of nanoparticles, thin-film coatings, metallic thin films, p-n type semiconductor thin films, solar cells, electrospinning system, nanofibers, etc.

Germán J. de Valcárcel is Professor of Optics at the University of Valencia, where he teaches quantum optics and nonlinear optics. His research touches on different topics in those fields, mainly the physics of mode locked lasers, and the nonlinear and quantum dynamics of optical cavities and other related physical systems. Some achievements of his work are the semiclassical derivation and generalization of Einstein’s rate equations for optical transitions, the prediction of Faraday patterns in Bose-Einstein condensates, the introduction of a modulation technique (rocking) yielding a phase-bistable response and squeezing of lasers and Kerrlike cavities, the quantum theory of chi-2 optical frequency combs and their coherent control, the discovery of noncritical quantum squeezing associated with the spontaneous breaking of continuous symmetries, the development of mathematical tools for the study of quantum fluctuations around periodic orbits, and the introduction and experimental verification of a master equation for laser mode locking that is valid for fast gain media and accounts for quantum coherent effects.

Simone Rascunà received the M.Sc. degree in Physic from the University of Catania in 2001. Since 2002 he works in the Research &Development organization inside STMicroelectronics for High Power Devices. From 2002 to 2010 he has been involved in the development of Silicon Superjunction Mosfets technologies. From 2010 his main research is focused on compound semiconductor for High Power Applications. As Advanced Research Manager, he heads the design and development group for Silicon Carbide Diodes. He is inventor of many patents in the field of SiC devices and coinventor of the patent for the realization of the fifth generation of the MDmesh Super junction technology. He is involved on several EU research projects, author of papers published on ISI journals and serves as referee for international scientific journals.

Received the Ph.D. degree from the Ocean University of China in 2019, and now works as an associate professor at Jiangsu University of Technology. The main research directions are underwater optical imaging , image processing, and deep underwater image processing methods.

Dr. Abu Naim R. Ahmed received B.Sc. degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE) from the Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Khulna, Bangladesh, in 2010 and the M.Sc. degree in Photonic engineering from Ghent University and Vrije University of Brussels, Belgium in 2014. Dr. Ahmed received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) from University of Delaware,2020. The topic of his Ph.D. thesis was “Thin-Film Lithium Niobate-Silicon Nitride Photonics”, where he demonstrated ultra-low voltage and high speed electro-optic modulator on thin-film lithium niobate modulator. Afterward, he joined imec USA as a photonic research engineer. He contributed to the development of foundry compatible thin-film lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits platform. Dr. Ahmed joined Analog Photonics in September 2021 as a senior photonic design researcher where he will work on active and passive silicon photonic device for optical communication and Lidar application. His research interests include silicon photonics, integrated photonic circuits, radio frequency (RF) photonics, high-capacity optical communications, and their applications. He has (co-)authored more than 15 peerreviewed publications. He is also an active reviewer for more than peer-reviewed journals in the research areas of optics and photonics, RF, electro-optics

Dr. Takao Oto is an assistant professor at Department of Informatics and Electronics in Yamagata University(Yonezawa, Japan). After receiving a PhD degree at Department of Electronic Engineering in Kyoto University (Prof. Yoichi Kawakami’s group, Kyoto, Japan) in 2014, he joinedProf. Katsumi Kishino’s group in Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan) as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2017, he took up his current position. He has studiedoptical characterization of nanostructures based on nitride semiconductors and developed red emission enhancement from InGaN based light emitters by surface plasmon coupling in plasmonic crystals.

Di Zhu is currently a research scientist at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in A*STAR, Singapore. He received his Ph.D. (2019) and M.Sc. (2017) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and B.Eng. (2013) from Nanyang Technological University, all in Electrical Engineering. From 2019 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, working on thin-film lithium niobate photonics. He was a recipient of the Harvard Quantum Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship, MIT Jin-Au Kong thesis award, and A*STAR National Science Scholarship. His research interests include integrated quantum photonics, applied superconductivity, and nanoscale electromagnetics.

Dr. David Duché is associate professor at Aix Marseille University (AMU) at IM2NP from September 1st 2016. After a PhD at AMU in 2010 in the fields of photonic structures and organic solar cells, he studied periodic plasmonic nanostructures for achieving specific electromagnetic functions at CEA/LITEN (Grenoble - France). Since he started as associated professor, he developed optoelectrical numerical models and advanced characterizations to study solar cells, plasmonic structures and molecular diodes. He participated to the development of the rectenna thematic at IM2NP.

Dr. Lei Wei is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He currently serves as the Director of Centre for Optical Fibre Technology (COFT) at Nanyang Technological University. He received the B.E. degree from the Wuhan University of Technology in 2005 and the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Denmark in 2011. Then he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral associate. In 2014, he joined the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore as a Nanyang Assistant Professor. In 2019, he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. His main research interests are fiber-based devices, multi-functional fibers, bio-fiber interfaces, and in-fiber energy generation and storage. He also serves as the Chair of The Optical Society (OSA) Singapore Section and the Executive Committee Member of IEEE Photonics Society Singapore Chapter.

Qiang Lin is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a professor of Optics at the University of Rochester. His current research focuses primarily on nonlinear nanophotonics, integrated photonic sensing, and integrated quantum photonics. Dr. Lin is a Fellow of OSA. He received the CAREER Award from National Science Foundation in 2014, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House in 2019, and the Leonard Mandel Fellowship from the University of Rochester in 2014. Prior to joining the University of Rochester in 2011, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech from 2007 to 2010. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester in 2006, prior to which he obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Applied Physics from Tsinghua University, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively.

Zonghua Liu received the B.E. degree in applied physics and the M.Sc. degree in optical engineering, in 2010 and 2014, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, U.K., in 2018. His study areas were digital holography, image processing, and pattern identification and classification. He became a Project Researcher in the IIS with the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2019. His current research interests include underwater detectionusing optical holography and Raman spectroscopy, signal and image processing, and pattern identification and classification.

Md Bellal Hossain is currently working in the Fiber-optics and photonics engineering research group of the University of Sydney, Australia. He is also working as a casual teaching staff at the University of Sydney, where he teaches Optical Networks, Engineering Electromagnetics, Signals and Systems, and Electrical & Optical Sensor Design. His research interest includes Mathematical Modeling, Nonlinear Optics, and Photonics, Cloud Computing, etc. Up to now, he has published 42 research articles which include 23 top tier journals, 17 international conferences, and 2 Book chapters. In addition, he is a current reviewer of Applied Physics A, Journal of Optics, Sensor International, Measurement: Sensor, and Optics and Photonics Journal. Moreover, he is a current member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Optical Society of America (OSA), and Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control, and Communication (INSTICC).

Youxin (Linda) Mao received her B.S. degree in Physics and M.S. in Electronics Science from the Nankai University, China, in 1982 and 1985, and Ph.D. in Opto-Electronics from Lancaster University, UK, in 1995. From 1985 to 1992, she was a Lecturer in Electronic Engineer Department, Tianjin University, China. From 1995 to 1997 and 1997 to 1999, she was a Research Associate with the Lancaster University, and a NSERC visiting fellowship with National Research Council in Canada. As a Research Scientist, she worked in Exploratory R&D group with JDS Uniphase from1999 to 2003 and with Medical Biophysics in University of Toronto from 2003 to 2006. Since 2006, she has been a senior Research Officer with National Research Council Canada. She is the author of over 150 peer reviewed articles. Her research interests include ultra-low timing jitter quantum-dot mode-locked semiconductor lasers, PAM and QAM data format digital and coherent optical networks, high speed and high power wavelength swept laser, semiconductor laser package, fiber optics, ultra-small optical fiber probes, and optical coherence tomography.

Reinhard Voelkel received his Diploma in Physics in 1989 and his PhD in 1994 from the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, worked at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, is co-founder and CEO of SUSS MicroOptics SA, expert for Innosuisse – the Swiss Innovation Agency, member of the DGaO, SSOM, EOS, Senior Member of OSA, SPIE Fellow and member of Sand Hill Angels. He is author or co-author of more than 200 scientific publications.

Weili Zhang received B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in communication engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University, China, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. From 09/2008 to 10/2010, he was working as a research fellow in School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 09/2016 to 09/2017, he was working as a visiting scholar in Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Demark. He began to work in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China as an associated professor since November 2010, and as a professor since 2016. His research interests include random and chaos lasers, microcavity lasers, smart light control and imaging applications. He has authored/coauthored over 100 papers published in refereed professional journals and national and international conferences, he filled 10 patents and published one monograph, his paper gained 2700+ citations, and his H-index is 30. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the nomination award of "National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China", and he won the 2nd prize of natural science of the Ministry of Education. Dr. Zhang was in the editorial board committee of Optical and Quantum Electronics and is in the editorial board committee of Photonics Sensors.

Seth is co-founder, board member, Chief Executive Officer, and President of NS Nanotech, Inc. a spin-out of University of Michigan based on technology developed by Professor Zetian Mi. NS Nanotech is the world-leader in solid-state far-UVC disinfection, launching the ShortWaveLight Emitter in 2020. Until 2019 he was Chief Technology Officer of Luminit LLC, where his team launched the world’s first volume holographic combiner product for augmented reality displays. Before joining Luminit, Seth was co-founder, member of the Board of Directors, and Chief Technology Officer of QD Vision, which was acquired by Samsung. He also currently advises several start-up companies in their early technology development phases. Coe-Sullivan received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Sc.B from Brown University. He has more than 50 papers, patents, and patents pending in the fields of inorganic and organic light emitting devices, quantum dots, displays, and environmental health and safety. Dr. Coe-Sullivan has received many industry awards including Technology Review Magazine’s TR35 Award, BusinessWeek’s top young entrepreneurs, Wall Street Journal’s Innovation Award, the SEMI Award for North America, and the Presidential Green Chemistry Award. Most recently he received the Society for Information Display’s Peter Brody Award for his pioneering work bringing quantum dot technology to market, and ShortWaveLight was a top 10 product of the year in Electronic Products.

Weijian Yang is an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He received his undergraduate degree from Peking University and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering. His current research aims to develop advanced optical methods and neurotechnologies to interrogate and modulate brain activity, with a goal to understand how neural circuits organize and function and how behaviors emerge from neuronal activity. He is a recipient of the Career Awards at the Scientific Interface from Burroughs Wellcome Fund in 2016, the Early Career Award from National Science Foundation in 2019, and the Science and PINS Prize for Neuromodulation (second prize) from American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021.

Professional experience • 1992-93 – Development of technology for porous silicon preparation • Since 1994 - a member of the team in MOVPE (Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy) laboratory, which is specialized on the preparation of quantum wells and quantum dots nanostructures in semiconductor material system AIIIBV. Design and preparation of structures containing highly strained In(Ga)As/GaAs, GaSb/GaAs or In(Ga)Sb/GaSb: self-assembled quantum dots and quantum wells with the thickness of few atomic layers and their characterization. Since 2015 gaining experience with design of nitride polar heterostructures for scintillators and HEMT. Another field of interest and experience is design and evaluation of properties of nanoparticles, quantum dots and core/shell structures (TiO2, ZnS, CdS, ZnS/CdS) for catalytic applications. • Since 2014 the manager of project LABONIT for building a new MOVPE laboratory for preparation of nitride semiconductor nanoheterostructures. • Since 2017 head of MOVPE laboratory in Institute of Physics, CAS. • Coordinator or sub-coordinator of 7 scientific projects concerning III/V semiconductor heterostructures prepared by MOVPE: doctoral, junior (2006-2009), standard GACR (2016-18), 3 TACR projects (2017-2019, 2021-2024), Czech-Indian LTAIN MSMT project (2020-2022), Czech-Polish Mobility project (2020-2022).

Yutaka Fukuchi was born in Tochigi, Japan, on April 29, 1975. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Tokyo University of Science, Chiba, Japan, in 1998 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2003. In 2003, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan as an Assistant Professor. From 2003 to 2005, he was also a Co-operative Research Fellow in Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Then, he became a Junior Associate Professor of Tokyo University of Science in 2006. Since 2009, he has been an Associate Professor at this university. From 2013 to 2014, he was a Visiting Research Fellow with the High-Speed Optical Communications Group, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark. He has published over 150 papers in major international journals and conferences. His research interests are optical communications, quantum optics, nonlinear optics, and their applications. Dr. Fukuchi is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), and the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE).

Dr. Anna Chiara De Luca obtained a master’s degree in Physics (2004), followed by aPhD thesis in the field of Biophotonics at Department of Physics, University of Naples “Federico II”(2008). To broaden her expertise, in 2009, she joined K. Dholakia group at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews whereshe developed tools enabling enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for cancer cell identification. Since February 2012, following the prestigious AIRC (Italian association for cancer research) starting grant award, she joined the Institute of Protein Biochemistry (IBP) of National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and the same year she has been appointed a tenured Research Fellow by the CNR.In 2021, she became research director at IEOS, CNR. Nowadays, her team is well established in Raman and SERS spectroscopy scientific community. She has been recognized with numerous prestigious research grants, including the Investigator Grant from AIRC, Italian “future in Science” grant (FIRB), PON from Italian Ministry of Research and University, POR from Campania Region, Grant from Ministry of Health and @CNR grant.

Hello, My name is Thibaut, I am a CNRS scientist in the photonics laboratory at the FEMTO-ST institute (Université Bourgogne France-comté, UBFC) in Besançon, France. I am currently working in the nonlinear photonics group, and we investigate both theoretically and experimentally fundamental nonlinear optical effects that occur in specialty optical fibers and other tiny waveguides with the aim of investigating potential applications to all-optical signal processing, fiber-based telecommunications, narrowband coherent and broadband supercontinuum fiber lasers and optical fiber sensors. Our group has broad expertise in nonlinear fiber optics and related fields and we have done many scientific achievements in the fields of broadband fiber-based parametric amplification, supercontinuum light generation, Raman fiber lasers, passively mode-locked fiber lasers, and Brillouin light scattering in specialty optical fibers.

Mengjie Yu is the GabilanAssistant Professor at the University of Southern California (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)starting Jan 2022. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2018 from Cornell University and held research staff associate position in Applied Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University from 2015-2018. She is a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Marko Loncar Group in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University since 2018. Her future research group of “Nanoscale Nonlinear and Quantum Photonics Lab” will lead efforts in advancing the fundamental understanding of nonlinear sciences at nanoscale, as well as realize next-generation optoelectronic circuits for optical communication, computing, sensing, ranging and metrology. Her current research interests include nonlinear physics, optical frequency comb, mid-infrared spectroscopy, coherent photonic computing, and quantum photonics, enabled by advanced nanofabrication of low-loss photonic structures based on silicon, silicon nitride, and lithium niobate. Mengjie Yu is the 2020 Optica (formerly OSA) Ambassador. She was the Caltech 2019 Young Investigator Lecturer. She was selected as the Rising Star Women in Engineering in the Asian Deans Forum 2019. Currently, she serves as chair of the OSA Integrated Photonics Technical Group.

Donguk Nam is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He received his Ph.D. (2014) and M.S. (2012) degrees both in the Department of Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and had a B.Eng. degree from Korea University (2009). After working as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University for one year, he joined Inha University, South Korea, as an Assistant Professor. In 2017, he joined NTU as an Assistant Professor. His research works focus on developing and harnessing unique strain engineering techniques for the realization of unprecedented integrated light sources for optical and quantum computing technologies. His recent work has been published in high-impact journals including Nature Communications and also has been highlighted by a number of media and magazines including Optics and Photonics News.

Xiping Wu received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, U.K., in 2015. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. Prior to joining UCD, he was a Research Associate at University of Oxford. His main research interests are in the areas of 6G mobile communications, optical wireless communications (OWC), and the Internet of Things. A particular focus is on developing heterogeneous wireless networks that integrate OWC and radio frequency, empowered by software-defined networking and artificial intelligence. He has authored or co-authored over 50 publications, which have attracted more than 1300 citations. His research outputs contributed to the success of three multi-million-euro projects (FP7 GREENET, EPSRC TOUCAN, and H2020 ELIOT), where his role was a key researcher. In addition, he is a Senior Member of IEEE and was a TPC member for VTC Fall 2018, GLOBECOM 2020, ICCC 2021, and ICC 2022. He was also a nominated presenter at the Rank Prize Funds workshop in 2020 and a tutorial speaker at ICCC 2021.

Dr. Heongkyu Ju obtained his D.Phil Degree from Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 2002. After years of postdoctoral experience in Technical University of Eindhonven (Netherlands), Hanyang University, (Korea), and NTT Basic Research Laboratories, (Japan), he joined, as a faculty member, the department of Physics, Gachon University, Korea in 2007. His current research interests involve plasmonics and its applications in various fields including biomedical and environmental diagnostics, nonlinear optics, magneto-optical physics and surface enhanced spectroscopy]

Dr. Nikolai Korneev graduated from St.Petrsburg (Leningrad) State University, Russia, in 1985. In 1994 he received Ph.D. in solid state physics from A.F.Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg. Since 1994 he works as a researcher at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Puebla, Mexico. His scientific interests are theoretical and experimental studies of nonlinear propagation in fibers, photorefractives and atomic gases, interferometry, chaos theory and photoconductivity.

Dr. Ivana Validžić (born Mladenović) is a Research Professor at the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, the National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, and the University of Belgrade. After graduating from the Faculty of Physical Chemistry at the University of Belgrade, she obtained her Ph.D. in 2004 at Utrecht University's Van Hoff Laboratory in the Netherlands. She is the author of more than forty peer-reviewed publications, the author of the book "Advances in photovoltaics by light manipulation", Cambridge Scholars Publishing,accepted for publication in 2021, and a book reviewer for "New materials and nanotechnology," 2012, University of Banja Luka, ISBN 978-9993854-42-5.Research interests and work in the last decade have been connected to the synthesis of the V-VI group of semiconductors for photovoltaic applications, the development of new solar cells based on undoped and doped semiconductor Sb2S3, and the development of optics to improve the photovoltaic response of designed and commercial solar cells, as well as towards establishing low light intensity standard conditions.

Handong Sun is a professor in physics at the School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Professor Sun obtained his Bachelor of Science in Physics from Dalian University of Technology, China in 1985. He obtained his Master of Science in Optics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 1988. He achieved his Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong in 1999. Before joining NTU, he did postdoctoral research works at RIKEN, Japan and Institute of Photonics, The University of Strathclyde, UK. Prof. Sun was elected to be a Fellow of American Physical Society in 2016. His research theme exists at the interface between optical physics and material science, i.e. light-matter interaction. His current research works focus on Optical Spectroscopic Characterization, Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Plasmonics Optics, and Applications of Photonics.

Pedro Martín-Mateos is an associate professor of the Electronics Technology Department at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His research interests focus on the development of new laser-based spectroscopic techniques for analytical chemistry, environmental monitoring and biomedical research. Currently, he is working to extend the field of application of dispersion and comb-based spectroscopy, on the development of new THz spectrometers, on the performance enhancement of laser heterodyne radiometers for atmospheric sounding and on high resolution hyperspectral imaging.

Jin-Wei Shi (M’03–SM’12) was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on January 22, 1976. In 2003, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, where he has served as Professor since 2011. In 2011-2012 and 2016-2017, he joined the ECE Dept. of UCSB as a Visiting Professor. His current research interests include ultra-high speed/power photodetectors, electro-absorption modulators, THz photonic transmitters, and VCSELs. He has authored or co-authored more than 4 book chapters, 150 Journal papers, 200 conference papers and holds 30 patents. In 2010 he was the recipient of the Da-You Wu Memorial Award.

Dr. Chenguang Xin is an associate professor in School of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China. Dr. Chenguang Xin earned his doctorate in optical engineering at Zhejiang University in 2018. His research interests include nanophotonics and nonlinear optics, such as nonlinear optical devices based on nanowires and micro-displacement sensors based on nanograting.He has published a dozen ofpapers on international scientific journals, among which the research on optical correlator based on single CdTe nanowire has been published on Nano Letters.

Hong-Bo Sun, received the B.S. and the Ph.Ddegrees in electronics from Jilin University, China, in 1992 and 1996, respectively.He worked as a postdoctoral researcher inSatellite Venture Business Laboratory, the University ofTokushima, Japan, from 1996 to 2000, and then asan assistant professor in Department of AppliedPhysics, Osaka University, Japan. In 2004,he was promoted as a full professor (ChangjiangScholar) inJilin University, and since 2017 he has been working in Tsinghua University, China. His research interests have been focused on ultrafast optoelectronics, particularly on laser nanofabrication and ultrafast spectroscopy. So far, he haspublished over 500 scientific papers in the above fields, which have been citedfor more than 23000times, and H factor is 76, according to ISI search report. He is currently the executive editor-in-chief(EEIC) of Light: Science and Applications (Nature Publishing Group). He is IEEE, OSA and SPIE fellow.

Debabrata Goswami, FInstP, FRSC, is presently at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) as the Prof. S. Sampath Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry. At IITK, he is also affiliated with the Center for Lasers and Photonics. He works at the frontiers of interdisciplinary research involving theoretical and experimental developments investigating the fundamental aspects of femtosecond laser-matter interactions. Over the last couple of decades, his independent research has also included the construction of novel experimental equipment. He has made important contributions to the theory of quantum computing and has uncovered new insights from the theoretical aspects of thermal lens generation and analysis. Prof. Goswami’s research has been recognized by the conferment of several academic and research accolades, some of which are the Hoechst Advanced Technology Division Industrial Affiliates Fellowship for outstanding academic record in Princeton, the International Senior Research Fellowship award of the Wellcome Trust (UK), the Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India), Thathachary Science Award (India). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics (IOP), the Optical Society of America, and the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). He is a Senior Member of IEEE. His work in ultrafast optics and light-matter interactions has also been recognized by the 2019 Galileo Galilei award of the International Commission of Optics. He is also the Chair of the Instrument Science and Technology Group of IOP London. Prof. Goswami has published over two hundred research articles, several book chapters, edited conference proceedings, and books. He is on the Editorial Board of several journals, including PeerJ and PLOS ONE, and is presently the Associate Editor of Science Advances (AAAS).

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.

Yongjin Wang is a Professor of Grünberg Research Centre, at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He received his Ph.D. Degree in microelectronics and solid-state electronics at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT) in 2005. He held various research positions in Germany, Japan, and UK with the support of Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science research fellowship, and the Royal Academy of Engineering research fellowship, respectively. Since 2011, he works with Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications as a professor. Prof. Wang discovered the simultaneous emission-detection phenomenon of multiple quantum well (MQW) diode and unveiled the mechanism of the intriguing effect for the first time. When appropriately biased and illuminated using external light, the MQW-diode can emit and detect light simultaneously. In particular, the MQW-diode can detect the shorter-wavelength light photons generated by itself due to the spectral overlap between the electroluminescence spectra and responsivity spectra. Based on this physical phenomenon, he proposed and demonstrated a variety of monolithic III-nitride optoelectronic systems, which integrates GaN MOSFET, transmitter, waveguide, and receiver into a single chip. He has over 150 technical publications including journal articles, conference proceedings, conference abstracts, book chapters; 2 issued US patents and 30 issued Chinese patents.

Andrea Tognazzi was born in 1993. He got his Ph.D. at the University of Brescia in 2020 and then became a Post-Doc for 1 year at the same institution. He is currently a Post-Doc at the University of Padova. His main research interests include metasurfaces, nonlinear optics and tunability of nanostructures.

Elisa Sani, PhD. (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9854-2892), is Researcher at National Institute of Optics, National Research Council of Italy (INO-CNR), where is Principal Investigator of the Solar Energy & Smart Materials Laboratory in Florence. Her research activity is characterized by contributions in different fields with the common keyword of the focus on optical properties of materials: from optically active media e.g. solid-state crystals and scintillators during PhD, to solid-state lasers and finally to solids, liquids and nanostructures for innovative solar energy materials, a field in which she is working from more than a decade. Her main research interests span from solids for high-temperature solar thermodynamic plants, colloidal suspensions for mid-temperature solar thermal plants, optical property tailoring of surfaces, fundamental optical constants of liquids, as well as nonlinear optical phenomena in liquids and colloids and solar-enabled hybrid power generation in different materials and by different effects. Dr. Sani is co-author of 110 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 2 book chapters and holds 3 patents. She serves as member of Editorial Board of the journals Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Energies and Applied Sciences (MDPI Publishing Group), as well as Special Issue Editor for the journal Nanomaterials (MDPI Publishing Group)

CHONGYANG LIU receivedthe Ph.D. degree in semiconductor photonicsfrom Nanyang Technological University (NTU),Singapore, in 2004. He was a Research Associatewith the Singapore-MIT Alliance Project from2004 to 2005 and a Postdoctoral Research Fellowwith the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,NTU, from 2005 to 2007. From 2007 to2009, he was a Senior Research Fellow withthe A*STAR “VIP” Program on Nanophotonicsand Nanoelectronic Integration, Data Storage Institute, Singapore. FromOctober 2009 to January 2012, he was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship (forexperienced researcher) from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for doingresearch in Technical University Berlin, Germany in Prof. Dieter Bimberg’s group. He is currently a PrincipalInvestigator/Senior Research Scientist with Temasek Laboratories, NTU. Hisresearch interests include design, simulation, fabrication, characterization,and analysis of high power quantum well lasers, ultrafast quantum dot lasers, microwave photonics as well as their integration with Si photonics. He has authored and co-authored more than120 technical articles in these fields so far.

Dr Xin Wang is an Associate Professor at Monash University (Malaysia campus). She obtained her PhD from Nanyang Technological University(NTU) in 2007. She was the research fellow at the Robotics Research Center, NTU from 2007 to 2009. She was an Assistant Professor at UniversitiTunku Abdul Rahman from 2009 to 2012. In 2012, she joined the Monash University (Malaysia campus) as a Senior Lecturer. In 2018, she was promoted to Associate Professor. Her current research interests include single-pixel imaging, optical metrology, non-destructive evaluation, image processing and deep learning.

Dr Mutiu Folorunsho Erinosho is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Namibia. He assumed office in January 2019. He teaches Engineering Mechanics, Machine Tool, Experimental and Research Methods, Mechanical Engineering Design III, Computer Aided Engineering and Manufacturing. He has supervised more than 20 undergraduate projects and co supervised 3 Masters students. His research is in the field of laser based additive manufacturing include laser material processing, characterization, surface engineering and welding. He has served as a co-investigator on a bilateral SA-Namibia research grant sponsored by National Research Foundation, South Africa. He is a registered member of the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineers (SAIMechE). Dr Erinosho has authored and co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications and he has reviewed many journal articles and student dissertation and thesis.

Dr. Bhaskar Kanseri is working as an Associate 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 48 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 22 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.