Tie Jun Cui (M’98–SM’00–F’15) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1987, 1990, and 1993, respectively. In March 1993, he joined the Department of Electromagnetic Engineering, Xidian University, and was promoted to an Associate Professor in November 1993. From 1995 to 1997 he was a Research Fellow with the Institut fur Hochstfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE) at University of Karlsruhe, Germany. In July 1997, he joined the Center for Computational Electromagnetics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, first as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and then a Research Scientist. In September 2001, he was a Cheung-Kong Professor with the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Currently he is the Chief Professor of Southeast University. He is also Founding Director of the Institute of Electromagnetic Space, Southeast University. Dr. Cui’s research interests include metamaterials and computational electromagnetics. He proposed the concepts of digital coding and programmable metamaterials, and realized their first prototypes, based on which he founded the new direction of information metamaterials, bridging the physical world and digital world. Dr. Cui is the first author of books Metamaterials – Theory, Design, and Applications (Springer, Nov. 2009) and Metamaterials: Beyond Crystals, Noncrystals, and Quasicrystals (CRC Press, Mar. 2016). He has published over 500 peer-review journal papers, which have been cited by more than 33000 times (H-Factor 89; Google Scholar), and licensed over 80 patents. Dr. Cui was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, in 1995, received a Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science in 1999, was awarded a Cheung Kong Professor by the Ministry of Education, China, in 2001, and received the National Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2002. Dr. Cui received the Natural Science Award (first class) from the Ministry of Education, China, in 2011, and the National Natural Science Awards of China (second class, twice), in 2014 and 2018, respectively. His researches have been selected as one of the most exciting peer-reviewed optics research “Optics in 2016” by Optics and Photonics News Magazine, 10 Breakthroughs of China Science in 2010, and many Research Highlights in a series of journals. His work has been widely reported by Nature News, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, Discover, New Scientists, etc. Dr. Cui is the Academician of Chinese Academy of Science, and IEEE Fellow. He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and Guest Editors of Science China - Information Sciences, Science Bulletin, IEEE JETCAS, and Research. Currently he is the Chief Editor of Metamaterial Short Books in Cambridge University Press, the Associate Editor of Research, and the Editorial Board Members of eLight, PhotoniX, Advanced Optical Materials, Small Structure, and Advanced Photonics Research. He presented more than 60 Keynote and Plenary Talks in Academic Conferences, Symposiums, or Workshops.

Guoliang Huang is a James C. Dowell Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. Dr. Huang works in the broad area of Solid Mechanics and Architected Materials in particular the new frontiers of structural dynamics, topological mechanics, wave propagation, and dynamical behaviors of composite materials, both man-made and formed naturally. His recent research has been focusing on addressing challenges in development of passive and active metamaterials for wave propagation and noise control, mechanical topological insulator, vibration and sound mitigation, flow/structure interaction, aerodynamics, structural health monitoring, energy harvesting, bio-sensing, and among others. Dr. Huang is a renowned scholar in the emerging field of elastic and acoustic metamaterials and metacomposites. His work has pioneered a new class of active metamaterials with sensing, actuation and information processing and response and space-time modulated metamaterials for mechanical nonreciprocity. Dr. Huang has published more than 130 first class international journal papers in those fields(include Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Advanced Materials, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, et al.), one book, three chapters in book, and around 100 international conference publications. His research projects are funded by NSF, AFOSR, ARO, ONR, NASA, ARPA-E and major industries. He gave many plenary/keynote talks in many international and national conferences and served as organizing committee members. He is the fellow of international association of advanced materials (IAAMs) and he serves as Associate Editor of Wave Motion.

Andrew Webb is the Director of the High Field Imaging Centre in the Department of Radiology at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. On his sabbatical year he is the acting Director of the Clinical Imaging Research Center in the Stephens Family Clinical Imaging Center at Carle Foundation Hospital. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge and was previoulsy a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In addition to over 330 peer-reviewed publications he has authored four academic text books on medical imaging and biomedical instrumentation. He is the current President of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology. In 2010 he founded the Nadine Barrie Smith trust at UIUC which supports four student fellowships per year for women in science and engineering.

Dr. EUGENE O. KAMENETSKII received diploma of Engineer in Electrical Engineering and the PhD degree in Physics and Mathematics from the Electrical Engineering Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1969 and 1986, respectively. He is presently with Ben Gurion University of Negev, Israel as a Head of Microwave Magnetic Laboratory. He is an author (co-author) of 180 refereed journal and conference papers. He is an editor of 3 books: "Electromagnetic, magnetostatic, and exchange-interaction vortices in confined magnetic structures", Research Signpost Publisher (2008), “Fano Resonances in Optics and Microwaves”, Springer (2018), and ”Chirality, magnetism, and magnetoelectricity: Separate phenomena and joint effects in metamaterial structures”, Springer (2021). He is a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy (USA) since 2007. Research interests: Magnetic waves and oscillations, spectral theory of artificial atomic structures, metamaterials for microwave and optics applications, microwave microscopy, and microwave biosensing. Recent scientific results: During last several years, in our Microwave Magnetic Lab we study effects of interaction of EM fields with magnetostatic oscillations – magnetostatic magnon polaritons – observed in small ferrite particles. We have obtained very interesting and promising results on microwave chiral magnon polaritons. Our results concern both fundamental studies and unique applications, such as chiral-field microwave microscopy, microwave biosensing of enantiomeric liquids.

Dr. Raj Das leads the ‘Advanced Mechanics and Materials’ group in the Aerospace Engineering and Aviation discipline of the School of Engineering of RMIT University in Australia. He is also an honorary academic in the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr Das is a principal investigator of the ‘Sir Lawrence Wackett Aerospace Research Centre’ of RMIT University, and also an adjunct academic of the University of Quebec, Canada. He serves as the Chair of the ‘National Committee on Applied Mechanics’ of Engineers Australia. Dr Raj Das has more than 10 years of experience in design, analysis and optimisation of aerospace materials and structures with a focus on computational simulation, composite structures, failure analysis, and damage tolerance optimisation for civil and defence applications. Dr Das has a PhD from Monash University, Australia in Structural Optimisation and Failure Analysis. Dr Das has previously worked in the University of Auckland, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and the University of Manchester. Dr Das has published more than 250 papers in international journals and conferences in collaboration with several universities, institutes and industries. Dr Das has been granted several national and international awards and fellowships, including the ‘Jim & Hazel D. Lord Emerging Faculty Fellowship’, ‘Research Excellence Award’, and ‘AUEA Emerging Researcher Award’ by the University of Auckland. He has received the ‘CONICYT award’ from the Government of Chile, ‘Certificate of Merit Award’ from the International Association of Engineers, Hong Kong, ‘UQAC Visiting Fellowship’ from the University of Quebec, Canada, and ‘Visiting Researcher Fellowship’ from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Prof. Dr. Ekmel Ozbay received M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford University in electrical engineering, in 1989 and 1992. He worked as a postdoc in Stanford University and he later worked as a scientist in Iowa State University. He joined Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) in 1995, where he is currently a full professor in Physics and EEE Departments. In 2003, he founded Bilkent University Nanotechnology Research Center (NANOTAM) where he leads a research group working on nanophotonics, nanometamaterials, nanoelectronics, and GaN based devices. He is the 1997 recipient of the Adolph Lomb Medal of OSA and 2005 European Union Descartes Science award. He worked as an editor for Optics Letters, PNFA, SPIE JNP and IEEE JQE journals. He has published 525+ articles in SCI journals. His papers have received 17500+ SCI citations with an h-index of 61. He has given 165+ invited talks in international conferences. He is also the CEO of a spin-off company: AB-MicroNano Inc., which is founded to commercialize the technologies developed in NANOTAM.

Yeshaiahu (Shaya) Fainman is Cymer Chair and Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He received the Ph. D. from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1983. He is directing research of the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics group at UCSD and made significant contributions to near field optical phenomena, inhomogeneous and meta-materials, nanophotonics and plasmonics, and non-conventional imaging. His current research interests are in near field optical science and technology withapplications targetting information technologies and biomedical sensing.He contributed over 320 manuscripts in peer review journals and over 540 conference presentations and conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of the OSA, IEEE, SPIE, and a recipient of the Miriam and AharonGutvirt Prize, Lady Davis Fellowship, Brown Award, SPIE Gabor Award, OSA Emmett N. Leith Medal and OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize.

Long Li is a professor of Xidian University. He is the member of microwave branch of Chinese Institute of Electronics, senior member of IEEE, and an executive director of metamaterials branch of Chinese Materials Research Society. He received the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of the Ministry of Education of China, and Shaanxi Outstanding Youth Fund. Prof. Li is the Director of Key Laboratory of High-Speed Circuit Design and EMC, Ministry of Education, China, and the Dean of Hai-Tang No.9 Academy of Xidian University. His main research directions include electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces, new antennas and microwave circuits, electromagnetic compatibility, wireless power transfer and RF energy harvesting, and so on.

Mohsen Rahmani is an Associate Professor at Nottingham Trent University. His research activities span over nonlinear nanophotonics, flat optics, near-infrared imaging, bio-sensing, etc. He has obtained his PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2013, followed by postdoc fellowship at Imperial College London, and the Australian Research Council Early Career Fellowship at the Australian National University (ANU). In 2020, he moved to the Nottingham Trent University as a Royal Society Wolfson Fellow, and has recently been awarded by the UK Research and Innovation Fellowship. Associate Professor Rahmani has delivered 20+ invited talks, seminars and keynotes in international conferences, and has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers (H-index=31). He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and prizes including the Australian Eureka Prize, Early Career Medal from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and the Australian Optical Society Geoff Opat Award. He is a senior member of the Optical Society of America and IEEE.

Philippe BEN-ABDALLAH is Research Director at CNRS in France and adjunct Professor at Sherbrooke University in Canada. He is head of the team “thermoplasmonic” of Charles Fabry Laboratory at the Institut d’Optique at Paris. He got his PhD in applied Physics at ENSMA in 1997. He held a tenured position at CNRS in 2000 and became senior researcher in 2008. His research activities are mainly on nanophysics and mesoscopic physics, plasmonics and near-field heat transfer with applications in the fields of nanoscale thermal management, energy conversion/harvesting, IR spectroscopy and data recording. He is author of more than 210 scientific communications among which 120 articles in peer reviewed journals.

Jichun Li is Professor of Mathematics and Director for Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics in U. of Nevada Las Vegas. His previous positions include Postdoc Fellow at University of Texas at Austin, Summer Research Faculty at U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and Associate Director of Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) in U. of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Research areas include analysis of finite element methods, high-order finite difference methods, RBF meshless methods, and applications in image processing and electromagnetic wave propagation. He has published over 130 SCI journal papers and 2 monographs (one on "Time-Domain Finite Element Methods for Maxwell's Equations in Metamaterials", Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol.43, Springer, 2013). Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of "Results in Applied Mathematics" (RINAM: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/results-in-applied-mathematics) and Managing Editor of "Computers & Mathematics with Applications" (CAMWA: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-mathematics-with-applications).

Sergey Kharintsev graduated from Kazan State University with a MS in Physics in 1996. He received his PhD in 1999 from Kazan State University (Russia), for solving inverse ill-posed problems in applied spectroscopy. In 2005, he joined the group of Prof. De G. With at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) as a postdoctoral researcher (project entitled “Quantitative Analysis with Nano Probes”). Since 2011 up to now, Prof. Kharintsev S. is a Head of Nano-Optics Lab at the Institute of Physics of Kazan Federal University. His research focuses on enhanced (SERS/TERS/SNOM) spectromicroscopy, nonlinear photonics, thermoplasmonics and optical metamaterials. He contributed into theoretical and experimental studies towards an adaptive electrochemical etching of TERS-active nanoantennas, an analysis of polarization states of optical near-fields beneath a tapered gold tip, local electro-optical poling of azo-benzene polymers and a photo-induced heating of a free-standing azo-polymer thin film, stimulated Raman scattering in titanium nitride square-shaped planar nanoantennas, reconstruction of Raman tensors of characteristic modes of single anisotropic molecules using TERS, among others.

Xue-Xia Yang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, in 1991 and 1994, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, in 2001. From 1994 to 1998, she was a teaching assistant and a lecturer in Lanzhou University, China. From 2001 to 2008, she was a lecture and an associate professor in Shanghai University, China. She is currently a professor and the Head of the Antennas and Microwave Research Center at Shanghai University. She has authored or coauthored over 200 technical journal and conference papers. She is also a frequent reviewer for over 10 scientific journals. Her research interests include antennas theory and technology, metasurface for antenna and microwave circuits, computational electromagnetics, and microwave power transmission. She is now the senior member of IEEE, the Committee of Antenna Society of China Electronics Institute, the Committee of Microwave Society of China Electronics Institute. She is now an associate editor for Radio Science, Journal of Shanghai University (Science edition)

Dr. Igor Bondarev is a tenured Professor of Physics in the Department of Mathematics and Physics at North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Dr. Bondarev earned his MS (1989, Physics, with Honors) and PhD (1994, Theoretical Physics) degrees from the Belarusian State University in Minsk, Belarus. He earned his DSc degree (2001, Theoretical Solid-State Physics) from the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus in Minsk. (Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics is the Habilitation Degree awarded to less than one percent of active former Soviet Union scientists holding PhDs.) In 1989-2005, Dr. Bondarev worked in the Theoretical Physics Lab of the Institute for Nuclear Problems at Belarusian State University (last occupied position – Principal Research Associate/Group Leader). At the same time, as a visiting Professor he performed research in Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Poland, and Japan, supported by DAAD (Germany), OSTC (Belgium), JSPS (Japan), and by other highly competitive visiting professorship fellowships. Dr. Bondarev has authored and co-authored over 200 research articles, including one US patent and five book chapters in collective monographs published by Nova Science, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press and American Scientific, USA. He presented his research at over 30 invited seminars and over 150 international conferences and symposia in Europe, China, Japan, Mexico, USA, and Canada. Dr. Bondarev is the recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award (Belarus, 1999-2001), NCCU College of Science & Technology Outstanding Faculty Research Award (2007, 2012), NCCU Faculty Senate Award for Scholarly Achievements (2007), NCCU Office of Sponsored Research Award for Technology Innovations (2012), and Research Grant Awards from the US National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, and US Army Research Office.

Professor Xiaofeng LI received B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Communication Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University, China, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. From 2007 to 2010, he was working as a research fellow in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2010 to 2011, he was employedas a research associate in Department of Physics, Imperial College London. He began to work in Soochow University as a full professor since January 2012. He is now the dean of School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Soochow University. His interests include nanophotovoltaics, surface-plasmon physics and devices, hot-electron photodetection, optical sensing, etc. He has already authored more than 140 ISI-index journal papers and presented over 40 invited talks in conferences. Prof. Li is a senior member of IEEE and Chinese Optical Society. He is serving as an associate editor of OSA Applied Optics and IEEE Photonics journal as well as the Editorial member of several other journals.

Bal S. Virdee is Professor of Communications Technology at London Metropolitan University, UK where he is Director of Center for Communications Technology. Previously he was a research and development engineer for Philips, future product designer in RF/microwave communications systems at Teledyne Defence & Space and has taught at various UK Universities. Dr Virdee is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (MIEEE). He is often invited to chair technical sessions at international conferences. He is a peer reviewer for prestige journals and international conferences such as IET and IEEE, among others. He is in the Editorial Board of various international journals including Cogent Engineering a Taylor & Francis open access journal, Far East Journal of Electronics and Communications, and previously International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering. He was Guest Editor of International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Hindawi Publishing Corporation. He is also in the Program Committee & Conferences Co-Chair for The World Congress on Engineering. He has extensively published peer reviewed research papers and co-authored the book “Broadband Microwave Amplifiers” published by Artech House in 2004. In 2017 he co-authored six book chapters in the following books “Microwave Systems and Applications”, “Microwave Antenna Systems”, and “Metamaterials - Devices and Applications” published by IntechOpen. Dr Virdee’s research interests broadly include metamaterials, Internet of Things (IoT), UWB communications and next generation of wireless technology.

Dr. Mahmoud A. Abdalla was born in 1973. He received the B.Sc. degree, with grade of excellent with honors, (GPA=3.91), in electrical engineering from the Electrical Engineering Department, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt in 1995. He was awarded the M.Sc. degree, (GPA = 4) in electrical engineering from Military Technical college in 2000, and the PhD degree from Microwave and Communication group, School of Electrical Engineering, Manchester University, UK, in 2009. He has been with Military Technical College since 1996 where he is now a professor, the head of the the Council Committee and the electromagnetic waves / microwave group in Electronic Engineering Department. Also, he has been a Visiting Professor in Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada since 2017. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. His research is focusing on miniaturized multiband antennas/wideband microwave/ millimeter components and antennas with great attention is to employ metamaterial / EBG, structures. Also his research includes electromagnetic MIMO antennas, energy harvesting systems, smart antennas, frequency selective surfaces, radar absorber and electromagnetic launchers. He is currently an editor and a reviewer in many electromagnetic journals such as IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Transactions in Microwave Theory & Techniques, IEEE Microwave Wireless Components Letters, IEEE Transactions in Magnetics, IET Microwaves, Antenna and Propagation, IET Electronics Letters, IET Communications, Microwave and Optical Technology Letetrs, International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, Scentific Reports, AEU Int. journal of communication and electronics, Personal Wireless Communication, Applied Physics, and others. Dr. Mahmoud Abdalla is currentely a senior member of the IEEE and URSI and the European Microwave Association EuMA. Dr. Mahmoud was the recipient of Egyptian encouragement state prize award for engineering sciences in 2014. In 2019, he was the recipiant of Egyptian El-sherouq inovation award in electronic engineering. He was awarded the top 1 % Publon world wide reviewer award for 2018 and 2019. In 2020, he was named in the top 2% scientists in "A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field / "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators".

Dr. Yan-Feng Wang is currently an associate professor in Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, China. He is working on wave propagation in phononic crystals and metamaterials/metasurfaces. He has 41 peer-reviewed journal papers and 5 Chinese patents.

Dr. J. T. Andrews obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees from SGS Institute of Technology & Science (Engineering Discipline, Devi Ahilya University), Indore in 1994 and 1998 respectively. He held faculty positions at SGSITS, Indore as well as at Birla Institute of Technology, - BITS, Mesra, Ranchi. He is presently Professor and Head of Department of Applied Physics and Optoelectronics, SGSITS, Indore. He worked at the Biomedical Application Division of Raja Ramanna Center for Advanced Technology (RRCAT, Indore), Indore as well as at Institut fur Physik, Humboldt University zu Berlin, Germany. He worked for a short spell at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, and visited major R&D facilities in Europe. He is a recipient of Dr. K. S. Krishnan Award of Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai and BOYSCAST Award of Department of Science & Technology, GOI, New Delhi, Young Scientist Award from Department of Biotechnology, GoI, New Delhi and nominated for Dr. N. S. Satyamurthy Award of Indian Physics Association. He has published over 75 peer-reviewed international papers and contributed a chapter each in five books. Eight students have been awarded and four are pursuing for Ph.D. under his Guidance. More than 2.5 crores of rupees have generated through R&D Projects. Dr. Andrews’ research interests center around Optical Tweezers, Manipulation of nanomaterials, Biomedical Imaging, Non-invasive glucose measurements with Optical coherence tomography, Optical properties of Quantum dots, Quantum Optical Computer, and NDT&E using real-time holography, etc.

Dr. Yuri Gorodetski is a Head of the Nanooptics group. He obtained his B.Sc, 2003 and M.Sc degree, 2006 in Mechanical Engineering, in the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa). During his Ph.D in Nanooptics Laboratory there he was awarded for Levi Eshkol and Russel Berry scolarships. His dissertation was focused on the experimental investigation of geometric phases in plasmonic 2D meta-structures. In 2010 he joined Laboratoire de Nanostructures, Université de Strasbourg as Post-Doctoral fellow. There he studied plasmonic interactions with chiral metamaterials and developed time-resolved plasmonic leakage microscopy. He took his current position in 2014 in the Faculty of Engineering in Ariel University where he established the Ariel Nanooptics Laboratory. He holds the Assistant Professor appointment in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering departments.

Prof. Abir De Sarkar has been serving the Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali, India as Scientist-‘F’ and Dean (Academics). Prof. De Sarkar has been the recipient of the President of India, medal for the year 2000 for having topped all the postgraduate disciplines in the Calcutta University. He completed his Ph.D. in Computational Physics in 2004 from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India. He had his first postdoctoral stint at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Berlin, Germany in 2004-2005. While he had his last one jointly at the Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden and the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. In between these two points, he had worked as a Research Scientist and Engineer on A*STAR Visiting Investigator Program (VIP) between CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse, France and Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR, Singapore. Prof. De Sarkar is into scientific computing and has been pursuing research in the broad area of Computational Nanoscience. His forte is different kinds of energy conversion in nanomaterials, which includes piezoelectricity, photovoltaics, photocatalysis and thermoelectricity.In addition to different kind of energy conversion at nanoscale, Prof. Abir De Sarkar’s research group is involved in designing new materials and structures for controllable spintronics and valleytronics to meet the information processing and storage demands for the future. To his credit, he has published 82 articles in leading International Journals, such as, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Physical Review B, Nanoscale, etc. He has guided two students to the successful completion of their PhD and has mentored Postdoctoral Fellows. In recognition of hispursuit of research in 2D materials, he has been conferred the Prof. CNR Rao Award for excellence in Nanoresearch for the year 2018.

Prof. Ashish Yadav, Ph.D. His work focuses on advanced self-assembly based photonic crystals and plasmonic nano structures. Presently he is working as an Associate Professor on fabrication methods and the development of three-dimensionally ordered high quality photonic crystal films and their application as optical materials for lasing and devices. He is also interested in laser spectroscopic techniques for low threshold devices.

Dr. Bing Li is currently an associate professor in the School of Aeronautics at Northwestern Polytechnical University. He conducted his Post-Doctoral training in 2015-2018 at The University of Akron (Akron, US). He obtained his Ph.D. in the College of Engineering at Peking University (Beijing, China) in 2015. He received his Joint-Supervision Ph.D. training in the School of AMME at The University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) in 2013-2014.His primary research interests lie in the field of dynamical responses of advanced composite structures and elastic/mechanical metamaterials/metasurfaces.Hehas published over 60 research articles in top-tier peer-reviewed journals and renowned international conferences.

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

Dr.Subash is an academic veteran, technocrat cum avid researcher, Mentor, Innovation and Entrepreneurship cell. He is currently a Full time professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering & Dean, Academic & Research of Mangalam College of Engineering, Kottayam, Kerala. He is also serving as the Global Strategy Representative for India, IEEE Photonics Society, USA since 2020. He is the active senior member of IEEE and Founding Chairman of IEEE Photonics Society Madras Chapter till 2020. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering and Master of Engineering in Embedded System Technologies from Anna University, India in the year 2008 and 2011 respectively. He completed his PhD in Nanoelectronics from Anna University, Chennai in the year 2016. He enjoys teaching and research. Dr.Subash has received the fellowship from Government of Japan to represent India for two weeks “Japan – Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science (SAKURA Science Exchange Program)” which is promoted by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) during September, 2018. First Youngest Engineering College Professor from India to received this fellowship. He also received travel grant & fellowship from IEEE Photonics Society, USA to attend the IEEE Photonics Conference held at San Antonio, Texas, USA during October, 2019. He has 46 publications in International and National Journals and 28 papers in International and National Conferences in the area of Nanoelectronics, Nanoscale Device Modelling, Nanotechnology and Wireless Sensor Networks. He also filed 4 patents to his credit. He is the recognized research supervisor of Anna University, Chennai and APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala. He serves as the active member of Editorial board/ reviewer board of various international Journals. Dr.Subash has been invited to deliver more than 30 keynote speeches and invited talks across the world. He has also been active in professional bodies. He was serving as the Vice-Chairman of IEEE EDS (Electron Devices Society) Coimbatore Chapter since 2014. He also served as the Secretary of IEEE MAS Young Professionals Madras Chapter from the year 2014 to 2016. To his credit he was the founder IEEE student branch counsellor of 2 IEEE Student branches and advisor of 3 IEEE Student branches under IEEE Madras section. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to professional bodies, IEEE Madras section bestowed him with certificate of appreciation for organizing activities towards the advancement of IEEE and Engineering Professions during the year 2012. Under his leadership, IEEE Photonics Society Madras Chapter received Chapter of the year award for the year 2017, Largest Membership Increase award for the year 2019 & Most Innovative Chapter award for the year 2020 from IEEE headquarters, USA. Due to his outstanding contributions in education, research, administration and professional services, his biography was listed along with the World professional biographies @ Marquis Who’s Who in the World (33rd Edition, 2016) United States of America and also listed along with 2000 outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st century -9th Edition- International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2016.

Wen Xuan Tang received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Southeast University, China, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Queen Mary, University of London in 2012. In 2012, she joined the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her research interests include metamaterials, microwave devices and antennas. Dr. Tang has coauthored more than 40 journal articles, 1 book, and 2 book chapters. She serves as an Associate Editor for Advanced Electromagnetics and Reviews of Electromagnetics, and as a Guest Editor for EPJ Applied Metamaterials.

ZHAO JUNJUAN is working from Dec.2012- Present as a Associate Professor, Master's Supervisor at Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmental noise and vibration, Beijing Municipal Institute of Labor Protection. And she worked from Sep. 2019 - Aug. 2020, Academic Visitor, ISVR, University of Southampton, UK. Her Current Research Interests are, Acoustic materialsand metamaterials, especiallysoundabsorption and insulation materials and structures;Room acoustics and noise control; Railway health monitoring, Railwaynoise control, and Railway vibration isolation; Photoacoustic spectroscopy;

Since Fall 2017, Suprem Das is an assistant professor at Kansas State University (KSU) in Carl R. Ice College of Engineering, jointly with Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments. Prior to KSU, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University and Division of Materials Science and Engineering in Ames Lab (U.S. Department of Energy) at Ames, Iowa from 2015-2017 and one-year postdoctoral fellow in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue in 2014. He was awarded best postdoctoral award in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State and was elected as an emerging leader in Iowa State graduate and postgraduate community. He received his PhD degree in Physics from Purdue University, West Lafayette, in December 2013. At KSU he has been awarded University’s Mentoring Fellowship and has received a named faculty award as Jeffrey and Joy Lessman - Carl and Mary Ice Keystone Research Scholar. His research interest is nanoscience and nanotechnology involving novel atomic thin materials for electronics and optoelectronics. He leads an international team of researchers from US and UK (Sheffield University) to study Signal-in-the Soil (SitS) by designing graphene-based soil phosphate sensor, a NSF-UKRI funded project. His ongoing and past research have been highlighted in number of news outlets and professional magazines such as Materials Today, Electrochemical Society, IEEE Spectrum magazine. He can be reached at srdas@ksu.edu

Dr. Yijie Shenis currently a Senior Research Fellow of Nanophotonics & Metamaterials Group (Nikolay I. Zheludev group) in Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, also working as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow funded by Marie S.-Curie MULTIPLY Fellowship. He received the Ph.D. degree in optical engineering at the Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and automation from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. During Mar. 2019 to Jun. 2019, he was invited as a visiting researcher in School of Physics: Structured Light Laboratory (Andrew Forbes group), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), Johannesburg, South Africa, and also invited as a visiting researcher in National Laser Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa. He is a member of the Chinese Optical Society (COS) and Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and an invited member of the Optical Society of America (OSA),speciallya fellow member in the Systems and Instrumentation Group inwhich. He won the Wang Da-Heng Optics Award (COS, China) in2019. 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 especiallywonthe IOP andOSA Outstanding Reviewer Awardsin2020. He is also a member in theJournal of Optics Advisory Panel. He has published more than 40 papers in high-impactjournals including Light: Sci. & Appl.,Optica,Phys. Rev. Appl., Phys. Rev. A, Opt. Lett., Opt. Express, with over hundreds ofcitations.

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

Dr Thomas HUMBERT is a research engineer at LAUM (Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans, France) since january 2017. He received his PhD from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) in 2014 for experimental and numerical works devoted to the study of wave turbulence in vibrating plates. He has also completed a two-years post-doctoral fellowship at CEA (Commisariat à l’Energie Atomique) where he has studied experimentally the reciprocal interactions that occur in fluids between surface waves and vortices. In Le Mans, his researchs include : flow effects on metamaterials, impedance eduction in duct with grazing flow, sound-flow interactions in corrugated tubes and over Helmholtz resonators...

Dr. Giovanna PALERMO is a research fellow in Physics at Unical (University of Calabria) since August 2019. She received the Master Degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. in Science and Technology of Mesophases and Molecular Materials from University of Calabria, in 2012 and 2015, respectively. The main research activity is focused on the design and characterization of plasmonic materials, metamaterials and metasurfaces usable to realize high sensitivity biosensors and tunable photonic devices.

Dr. Fan Wang is an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow, working on nanophotonics and biophotonics research. Dr Wang was awarded the UTS Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2019) to support his research in deep tissue super-resolution imaging. He has also been awarded the ARC DECRA fellow (2020) to conduct his research in biological laser cooling technology. Dr Wang has published over 56 peer-reviewed journal articles. His research articles are published in premier international journals, which has resulted in a high average impact factor 10 over his publications. Dr. Wang obtained his Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales in Australia in 2014. From 2013 to 2015, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Prof. Jagadish’s group at the Australian National University studying semiconductor nanowires. Since 2015, Dr. Wang joined the ARC center of excellence for nanoscale biophotonics at Macquarie University. From 2017, Dr. Wang joined Prof. Dayong Jin’s group in UTS to lead the biophotonics team. From 2020, Dr Wang joined the School of Electrical and Data Engineering as a lecturer to establish his nano-optoelectronics group.

Dr. Tuo Liu is currently a research assistant professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his BSc degree in Acoustics from Nanjing University in 2010 and MSc degree in Physics from China University of Petroleum (Beijing) in 2013. After graduation, he worked as an acoustic engineer in industry for about 1 year. In 2018, he obtained his PhD degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before being appointed as Research Assistant Professor, he was first a research associate and then a postdoctoral fellow in the same department. Dr. Liu’s research interests focus on physical acoustics, acoustic metamaterials, non-Hermitian acoustics and other acoustics-related topics.

Dr. Arnab Banerjee completed his Ph.D. from the University of Auckland in 2018. He investigates the designing of novel structures and oscillators of mechanical metamaterial for vibration isolation, shock absorption, for resilient infrastructures. Modulation of the elastic waves in the beam, frame, grid, and more complicated structures are one of the major areas of his research. Implementation of the concept of metamaterials towards resilient infrastructure development is the main aim of Dr. Banerjee's research. Dr. Banerjee has joined in Civil Engineering Department of IIT Delhi in May 2019 as Assistant Professor. Previously, he was at the Civil Engineering Department of IIT Jammu. Dr. Banerjee was awarded Newton International post-doctoral Fellowship from Royal Society London in Dec 2018. He received the Inspire faculty award from the Department of Science and Technology, India in July 2018. Dr. Banerjee is involved in two international and two national funded research projects. He authored 20 international journals, 10 conference papers, and 2 book chapters. He reviews for more than 15 international journals. Mechanics or Metamaterials and Extreme Structures (MMMES) is a research group, comprised of one post-doctoral, ten doctoral candidates, and three master's candidates, is lead by Dr. Banerjee.

Yabin Jin currently is the Eastern Scholar Professor at Tongji University, China. He received two Ph.D.s from Tongji University and University of Lille (France) on March 2017. He joined Tongji University in September 2018 in his current position after a post-doc position at the University of Bordeaux (France) from April 2017 to August 2018. He leads a research group studying the elastic wave localization/propagation of phononic crystals/metamaterials and mechanical metastructure with multifunctional integration. He obtained 7 national or provincial projects, and published over 20 papers as the first or corresponding author in international journals including Reports on Progress in Physics, Nature Communications, Physical Review B/Applied, Nanophotonics, Extreme Mechanics Letters et al."

Dr. Chun-Chieh Chang received his B.S. and M.S. degree in physics from National Taiwan Normal University and National Taiwan University, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Wisconsin, USA. He was then appointed as a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico, USA. Dr. Chang is currently an assistant professor at National Taiwan Normal University. His current research interests are primarily focused on metamaterials and plasmonics for applications in mid-infrared and terahertz photonics and optoelectronics, as well as tailored light-matter interactions in micro- and nanostructures.

Md. Samiul Habib is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology. After undergraduate studies and master's Degree from the Electrical & Electronic Engineering Department, he was awarded a Ph.D. from the School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Australia, in 2018. During his Ph.D., he co-developed a number of numerical methods to mitigate imaging artefacts in wire array metamaterials. After completing Ph.D., he joined as an Assistant researcher at the Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, to work on metamaterial-based Hyper-Prism. In the mid of 2018, Dr. Habib returned to his home institute and in 2019, he was promoted as an Associate Professor. In 2020, he was elevated to the grade of Senior Member, IEEE. Dr. Habib has authored and co-authored over 30 publications in refereed journals, including articles in Physical Review B, OSA Continuum, Applied Physics Letters, Optics Express, Applied Optics, Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Photonics Journal and IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. His journal papers have been cited over 700 times according to Google Scholar with a h-index of 14. He also served as a reviewer in highly reputed journals. His research interest includes metamaterials, nanophotonics, plasmonics, and photonic crystal fibers. Dr. Habib is a member of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh. He now holds the position of counselor of the IEEE RUET student Branch, Bangladesh.

Fei Ding received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in optical engineering from Zhejiang University in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Nano Optics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU Nano Optics) in Denmark from 2015 to 2019. He is currently an assistant professor at SDU Nano Optics. His current research interests are in the areas of nanophotonics, applied electromagnetics, metasurfaces, plasmonics, and quantum nanophotonics, with a particular focus on innovative and extreme aspects of light-matter interaction at the nanoscale. He has authored or co-authored more than 45 scientific contributions published in peer-reviewed journal papers and peer-reviewed conference proceedings, such as Reports on Progress in Physics, Light: Science & Applications, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, and Laser Photonics Review, among which there are/were 9 ESI highly cited papers and 1 hot paper, receiving more than 2800 citations (Google Scholar) with an H-index of 20 (Google Scholar). He is serving as a reviewer for more than 15 international journals, including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Optica, ACS Nano. He was the guest editor of a special issue on metasurface for the journal of Applied Sciences. Now he is the guest editor of a special issue on plasmonic metasurface for the journal of Photonics. He received the PIERS 2018 Toyama Yong Scientist Award in 2018 and the PIERS 2019 Rome Yong Scientist Award in 2019.

Dr. Liuxian Zhao is a Postdoc Research Associate of University of Maryland-College Park, USA. He received PhD from University of Notre Dame (2018). His research has focused on Acoustic/Elastic Metamaterials, Structural Dynamics and Acoustics, Structural Health Monitoring, Energy Harvesting, Vibration Control. He has published more than 20 journal papers, and severed as a reviewer of more than 20 international journals, including MSSP, JSV, SMS, JPhysD, etc.

Dr. Amit Kumar Baghel did his PhD from Indian Institute of technology (IITG), Guwahati in the year 2020 and Bachelor of technology (B. Tech) from National Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering in the year 2014. His area of research includes metamaterial, microwave wireless power transfer for drone, aerostat, robot charging, SSPS, and antenna design. He has 3 research publication in international journal of high impact factor, 7 conferences, 3 patents, and 4 awards including president and governor awards. Presently he is working as a research associate in the IITG and also a visiting faculty in the National rail and transportation institute, India.

Dr. Tubaldi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also currently a Faculty member of the Maryland Robotics Center. She received her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University (2017), her M.S. Double Degree Diploma at Politecnico di Milano and École Polytechnique de Montréal in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering (2013), and her B.S. at Politecnico di Milano in Aerospace Engineering (2010).Her research interests sit at the interface of nonlinear dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, and soft materials science for applications in nonlinear mechanical metamaterials, soft robotics, and biomechanics. In 2020, she has been awarded the Haythornthwaite Young Investigator Award by Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation and the ASME Applied Mechanics Division. She is author of several peer-reviewed international journal papers (Physical Review E, J. of Fluids and Structures, J. of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, and Int. J. of Nonlinear Mechanics among others). She serves as Associated Editor for Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines: An International Journal. She is member of the ASME Dynamics & Control System & Structures (DCSS) Technical Committee.

Lea Sirota is an assistant professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University. Her research area includes feedback-based acoustic/mechanical metamaterials with real-time reprogrammable properties, adaptive acoustic silencing and cloaking, active imitation of artificial acoustic environment, and more. Lea completed postdoctoral appointments at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, and at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University. Her PhD is from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion.

Dr. Anthony Maho conducts research activities on inorganic (metal oxides, perovskites…) and organic (polyacenes…) materials for energy-related applications in electrochromism, photovoltaics, optoelectronics and semiconductors. He is currently affiliated to University of Liège (Belgium) and Imperial College London (UK).

• Dr. Pankaj Arora is working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus (India). Prior to that, he was a Post doctoral research fellow in the Department of Applied Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel). His research interest includes plasmonic nanostructure based optical sensors, imaging microscopy and silicon photonics.

Dr. Wenlong Gao got his Ph.D degree in Tianjin University. He was a research fellow in the University of Birmingham from 2017-2019. Currently he is a research fellow in the ultrafast nanophotonics group in the Paderborn University. His research interests include photonic topological phases in metamaterials, plasma and photonic crystals.

Shuomin Zhong received the B.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2009 and 2014，respectively. He was a visiting scholar at Aalto University, Finland, from 2019 to 2020. He is currently at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Ningbo University, Ningbo, China. His research interests include metamaterials,metasurface, artificial electromagnetic structure and their applications inantennas and absorbers.