OPTICSMEET2023

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 was holding 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” at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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, and a honorary member of the Ioffe Institute of the RAS. 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 Oyo Buturiand MOC Awards of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPGto mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St.Petersburg AlferovUniversity of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He has authored more than 1600 papers, 71 patents and patent applications, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited exceeds 68,000 and his Hirsch factor is 113 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructured photonic and electronic devices, and energy efficient data communication.

Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 322 journal papers, more than 677 Conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications including 38 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012. He obtained Gold Medal and The Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014 held at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2014, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20-22 Feb 2014. He is a Member of EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS) since July 2017. He got A Slottow Owaki Prize of SID in 2018 http://www.ee.ust.hk/ece.php/enews/detail/660. He is 2019 Distinguished Fellow of IETI (International Engineering and Technology Institute). http://www.ieti.net/news/detail.aspx?id=184 http://www.ieti.net/memberships/Fellows.aspx Since 2018 he works as Professor in the School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering in Foshan University, Foshan, China. 2020-2024 Vice President of Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) Since 2021 distinguished Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Since March 2022 he is A Fellow of National Academy of Technology for his contributions to Information Electrical and Electronic Research : http://www.usnat.org/fellows.html

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 fellowto Vice President for Physical Research. He has made contributions to optics and photonics, nanoscience,materials science, including the bandgap engineering technique leading to his invention of the quantum cascade laser, MEMS based on the Casimir effect and the first measurement of the repulsive Casimir force, research on metasurfaces includingthe generalized laws of refraction and reflection,“flat optics” such a high performance metalenses and Matrix Fourier optics used to demonstrate single shot ultracompact polarization sensitive cameras. 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. His awards include the Yves Medal of Optica (formerly Optical Society), the Balzan Prize in Applied Photonics, the King Faisal Prize,the IEEE Edison Medal,the American Physical Society Arthur Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, the AAAS Rumford Prize, the Enrico Fermi Prize, the European Physical Society Quantum Electronics Prize,the Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Materials Research Society Medal, the JanCzochralski Award for lifetime achievements in Materials Science, the Rob Wood Prize of Optica. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Academia Europaea, the Accademia dei Lincei, 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, University of Bologna and University of Roma, Tor Vergata.

Dr. Jin Wang received her PhD. in Quantum Optics from the University of Queensland Australia in 2001. Dr. Wang is an associate professor of Physics in the University of Michigan at Dearborn. Her current research involves quantum optic phenomena using photons in various states of coherence and entanglement, interaction free measurement, confocal distance measurement, and simulation of quantum systems

Tsvetanka Babeva is currently Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Optical Materials and Technology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. She received her M.S. in physics, major applied optics at Sofia University in 1994 and PhD in Physics of condensed matter at Central Laboratory of Photoprocesses, Bulgarian Academy of Science in 2003.In 2007 she was awarded Arnold F. Graves fellowship and spent 2 yearsas a postdoctoral researcher in Centre of Industrial and Engineering Optics at Dublin Institute of Technology (now TechnologicalUniversity of Dublin), Ireland. Her professional experience includes 28 years as a researcher, supervision of PhD and master students, post-doctoral researcher etc., participation as a team member of more than 20 projects and team leader of 9 scientific and infrastructural projects.She has co-authored more than 100 papers (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0961-7499), h-index 14 and has more than 130 participations in national and international conferences. Her present research is devoted to optical characterization of thin films, wet method of films deposition, developing of porous materials and photonic structures for optical sensing applications.

Gia Quyet Ngo is working at the Institute of Applied Physics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. He does research focusing on 2D materials, optical fibers, gas sensing and nonlinear optics. Their current project are detecting toxic gases using functionalized optical fibers and optimizing the growth of 2D materials on fibers.

Popescu A. was born 1950 in Rep. of Moldova, former USSR. He received master of sciences from Kishinev Polytechnic Institute in 1972. His Ph.D. was achieved from Moscow Lomonosov State University in 1978 in radio-physic, included quantum, specialized in nonlinear optics. From 1977 he works in the Institute of Applied Physics, Moldovan Academy of Sciences, were in 1987 he was appointed head of the Laboratory of Photonics, principal scientist. In 2003 he achieved Dr. Habil. from the Institute of Applied Physics, Moldovan Academy of Sciences. Habilitation was in physics and technology of semiconductors, specialized in physics and optics of amorphous chalcogenide materials. From 2008 A. Popescu activates at the National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics INOE 2000 in rank one senior researcher position. Is specialized in photonics and optoelectronics. He is author of over 140 peer-reviewed publications, 63 in ISI database, 1 monograph, and a total of 11 patents.

Prof. Nam Kim received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1988. Since 1989, he has been a Professor with the School of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Visiting Researcher with Dr. Goodman’s Group, Stanford University. In addition, he attended Caltech as a Visiting Professor from 2000 to 2001. His research interests include 3D display and visualization systems, 3D medical imaging systems, 3D image processing and applications based on stereoscopic and light field techniques such as holographic and integral imaging, diffractive optics, and optical security systems.

Shinichiro Hayashi received the Ph.D. degree in physics from Meiji University, Japan, in 2004. From 2004, he was with RIKEN, Japan, as a Researcher. In 2016, he joined the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, as a Senior Researcher. His research interests include terahertz wave generation and measurement using nonlinear optics and their applications.

Prof Dr Samir Nammour • Director of the post-graduate: Laser Application in Dental Medicine, Dept. of Dental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Liege, Belgium • Chairman of the European Inter-University Master : Oral Laser Application (EMDOLA) • Associate Editor of the journal Photo-biomodulation, Photomedicine and Laser Surgery • Editor-in-Chief of the “ Section: Lasers in Dentistry”, “Dentistry” Journal • Chairman of International relations of the World Federation for Laser Dentistry (WFLD) • Former President of the World Federation for Laser Dentistry (WFLD).

Faical Mselmi currently works at the Department of physics at the university of sfax applied physics laboratory. Faical Mselmi does research in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. Their current projet are synthesis new materials that could serve as an amplifier for silica-fibers and developing python script for simulating optical spectra using Racah theory.

Prof Dr Vladimir Valentinovich Egorov has his expertise in theoretical molecular and chemical physics. Education: National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Faculty of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (1966 – 1972), Moscow, USSR. He has completed his PhD from Theoretical Department of Institute of Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences (1981), and he has completed his Dr Phys&Math Sci degree from Institute of Physical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences (2004). He is leading researcher at FSRC “Crystallography and Photonics”, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Prof Egorov is working on the development of a fundamentally new physical theory ‒ quantum-classical mechanics and its applications in physics, chemistry, biology and biomedicine.

Kenji Murakami received his BE in Electronic Engineering from Osaka Prefecture University in 1976, and his ME and Ph.D. in Engineering from Osaka University, Japan in 1978 and 1983, respectively.He joined Shizuoka University in 1985 as an Assistant Professor of Research Institute of Electronics, and was a Professor of the Department of Engineering, Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technologies from 2014 and retired due to the age in 2019. Now he is a Specially Appointed Professor of Organization for Innovation and Social Collaboration, Shizuoka University. He was a Research Associate of the Pennsylvania State University, USA in 1983-1985, and a Visiting Scientist of the Max-Planck Institute of Solid State, Stuttgart, Germany in 1998 and 2000. His research interests are the research and development of energy conversion materials such as piezoelectric ceramics, dye-sensitized solar cells and mechanoluminescent materials. He is a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, and the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science.

Prof. Boris Luk’yanchuk graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. He got his PhD from P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1979. He published 5 monographs and above 280 original papers.Luk’yanchuk is Honorary Professor at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. He is a Fellow of Optical Society of America. He got anIES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2004, Singapore, 2004; President`s Science Award, Singapore 2013; and Institute of Physics Singapore (IPS) gold medal and award, Singapore 2016.

Dr. Kahouadji has a PhD in physics, option: physics of materials since April 2017, teacher researcher at A.Mira university of Bejaia –Algeria-, faculty of technology. He is working on nanomaterials based on rare earth orthophosphates in collaboration with two laboratories: Laser Department/ Nuclear Research Centre of Algiers (CRNA), Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade. Since approximately 7 years his research is entirely devoted to the development of luminescent materials and scintillators for medical and nuclear applications . He has managed 4 master project as director and 1 PhD thesis in progress. He has published more than 18 international papers. He is Editorial Board Member in International Journal of Materials Science and Applications (IJMSA).and Journal of Modern Polymer chemistry and Materials, Reviewer for Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal (ASTES). has about 6 international and 3 national oral communications.

Mariama R. S. Dias is an Assistant Professor at the University of Richmond. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from The Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil, in 2014. During her Ph.D., she held visiting researcher appointments at the Ohio University, The Free University of Berlin, and The University of Wuerzburg. Before arriving at UR, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland holding the Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellowship. Dr. Dias lab currently research topics that focus on metallic, oxide, and semiconductor nanostructures with potential applications in optics, plasmonics, nanoelectronics, and energy harvesting devices.

Roger Zemp is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alberta. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Davis in 2004. His research interests include photoacoustic imaging, biomedical optics, virtual histology, and novel ultrasound-optical hybrid imaging technologies.

Prof. C. H. Tan obtained his BEng and PhD in Electronic Engineering at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University Of Sheffield (TUOS) in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He was a Research Associate in 2001-03, appointed as a Lecturer in 2003 and has been a Professor in Optoelectronic Sensors since Jan 2014. He has taken on leadership roles within TUOS, including the Director of Research for Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and the Deputy Director of Research&Innovationsfor the Faculty of Engineering. Since 2019 he has been the Head of Department for Electronic and Electrical Engineering. His research includesadvanced modelling of avalanche process, high quantum efficiency single photon avalanche diodes, APDs with lowest excess noise and APDs with very weak temperature dependence of breakdown voltage. He has led various research projects from the UK Ministry of Defence, Engineering, and Physical Science Research Council and EU. Some of the technologies he developed have been transferred to industry via several knowledge transfer projects to design infrared photodiodes and avalanche photodiodes. He has published more than over 100 journal papers and has delivered several invited talks in international conferences. He has carried out editorial roles for Optics Express, IET Optoelectronics and MRS Advances. In 2020 he co-founded a spin-out, Phlux Technology Limited, to commercialise a key breakthrough in low noise avalanche photodiodes. He is currently a Director of Phlux Technology Limited

Monia Najjar received the M.S degree in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D degree in communication systems (Optical Communication) from the Higher School of Engineering of Tunis. She joined the Higher Institute of Computer Sciences of Tunis El Manar (ISI), as Assistant Professor, in 2004. From 2013 until 2017 she was associate professor. In 2018 she became full Professor and director of Higher Institute of Computer Sciences of Tunis El Manar. She has been a reviewer for many international journals and conferences. Her main research interests are optic communications: Dynamic bandwidth allocation, passive optical devices, photonic crystal structures, encoders, optical memories, biosensors and WDM networks. She successfully tutored and co-tutored more than 10 PhD students. She has authored/co-authored more than 30 papers in journals and more than 40 conference contributions. She is a member of the Technical Program Committee of more than 10 conferences and general co-chair of GIIS 2020. She has attended many events and conferences as guest speaker.

Santiago Royo, PhD, is currently professor at Universität Polytechnic de Catalunya and Director of the CD6 -Centre for the Development of Sensors, Instrumentation and Systems, a Research Centre devoted to research and innovation in the field of Optical Engineering. He is also member of the Board of Stakeholders of Photonics21, and co-secretary of the Spanish Platform for Photonics Fotónica21. He is author of over 80 peer-reviewed publications, 6 book chapters, and a total of 17 patents, 11 of them licensed to four different companies. He is co-founder of three photonics-based spin-off companies: SnellOptics (2002,Terrassa, Spain), devoted to marketingqualityplasticoptical components;ObsTechSpA (2012, Santiago, Chile) commercializing systems for internet-controlled telescopes, and Beamagine SL (Castellbisbal 2016), commercializing lidar and advanced imaging solutions. He has participated and led research projects involving different optical metrology techniques for the last 20 years, both with public and private funding

Ting Wang received his PhD from University College London. He then joined MIT International Design Centre for silicon photonic research in Singapore. He started his academic career by taking Associate Professor position in the Nanoscale Physics and Devices Laboratory at Institute of Physics (Chinese Academy of Sciences) with commissioning the first III-V/IV hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy reactor for silicon photonics in China. His current research interest focuses on the silicon photonic heterogeneous integration by using Molecular Beam Epitaxy, including the development of novel optoelectronic devices including on-chip integrated lasers, detectors, and modulators. Wang is a pioneer of silicon based III-V lasers, acknowledged as one of the initial inventors of InAs quantum-dot laser on Si for monolithic silicon photonic integration. Wang has published over 100 papers and one book in the field of silicon photonics and semiconductor lasers, including Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, and Laser & Photonics Reviews, while holding several patents on integrated silicon photonics.

Dr. Yi is currently OSA Fellow and a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Dearborn campus and Energy Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, and was a Post-Doctoral Associate with the MicroPhotonics Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, where he was involved in research on integrated nano optoelectronic devices and systems. He had extensive research experiences with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory. He is also a Professor Affiliate with the Microsystems Technology Laboratory at MIT. He has authored more than 100 top journal papers, has edited one book and written three book chapters, and holds 15 U.S. patents and one international patent. He has led several government/industry-funded projects, has been at review panel for NSF, DOE and DOD, and has been a reviewer for leading journals. His research interests are Artificial intelligence, Renewable energy, Smart micro sensors; Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality, Solid state on-chip Lidar for autonomous driving/UAVs/Robotics; Telecommunications; and Solid state lighting. He is currently serving as the Vice Chair of the IEEE Southeast Michigan Section.

Günter Nimtz, 1959 Electrical Engineer, Dipl.Ing. FH Mannheim; 1961 Studying Physics, University Heidelberg; 1963 Studying Physics, University Vienna, Ph.D; 1974 Habilitation University of Cologne, Carrier Recombination in Narrow Gap Semiconductors; 1977-1978 Research Associate, McGill University/Montreal Since 1983 Professor II. Physikalisches Institut der Universität zu Köln; 1986 Chinese Academy of Science - Invitation to Peking, and to several branches to present Seminars on Narrow gap Semiconductor HgCdTe;1991 Invitation Int. Conference on Photo Electronics Shanghai; 1995-2005 Visiting professor at the University of Algarve/Faro, Portugal (photonics and biophysics); 2004 Shanghai University March-April as Ziquiang-specially-invited professor; 2004 Peking, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, to give lectures about Photonics; 2010 India Bangalore 25-26 November INCEMIC 2010, Society of EMC Engineers, presenting Seminars on the nano-metal film electromagnetic broadband absorber technology; 2017 February York University UK, Colloquium on the tunnel effect

Mohamed Bouazaoui is a full Professor of Physics at the Laboratory of Physics of Lasers, Atoms and Molecules, University of Lille, France. He received his PhD from Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in 1990. He has published more than 150 articles in international peer-reviewed journals(h-index of 34; >3700 citations according to Google Scholar).He is the co-inventor of 2 patents in the domain of physical chemistry of materials. His research includes: New photonic materials and devices,Radiation dosimeters, Textural and structural study of sol-gel nano-porous materials and Photo-assisted growth of metallic and semiconductors nanostructures in glasses.

Dr. Saeed Zahran (PhD) holds a position of Research Engineer at Brain Institute in Paris. He received the Master of Science in Biomedical-Engineering (2014) from Lebanese University. He obtained the PhD degree (2018) from University of Technology of Compiègne (France). He joined INSERM (Amiens, France) as Postdoctoral Researcher and spent two years in comparing the performance of Optically Pumped Magnetometers with conventional SQUID. He spent one year in INSERM (Rennes, France) as Postdoctoral Researcher working in computational model of brain activity.

Mandana Jalali is Postdoc researcher at the department of general and theoretical electrical engineering (ATE), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany since 2017. She received her PhD in optics and laser from Shiraz University in collaboration with the University of Duisburg-Essen. She has coauthored 21 publications. Her current research interests are optical biosensor, THz bioelectromagnetics, tissue microdosimetry, quantum optics, nanostructured solar cells and plasmonics.

Dr. Khaled Habib holds a Ph.D in Chemical and Materials Engineering from the Optical Science and Technological Center of University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, 1988. Mr.Habib was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Chemical Engineering Dept., and Materials science Dept., of the Technical University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany, 1991-1992. Mr. Habib is currently a full research professor/a senior research scientist with the Materials Science and Photo-electronics Lab., at KISR in Kuwait. He specializes in “Laser optical interferometry as non-destructive testing (NDT) methods of materials evaluation in corrosive media, corrosion, and nano-structures of metallic glasses”. Mr. Habib has in his credit more than 140 articles in international refereed journals in his area of specialization. He is a fellow of the international Society of Photo- electronics and Optics (SPIE),( http://spie.org/x38.xml).

Xiaodi Tan, graduated from the Optical Department of Shandong University in 1984,he obtained a Master’s Degree from the Optical Engineering Department of the Beijing Institute of Technology. His Doctoral thesis on "Optical Secure Holographic Storage Systems" was completed at The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, in the Laboratory of Kuroda-Shimura in 2001. He was a Senior Engineer of the Technology Division in OPTWARE Corporation, researching and developing the next generation of optical data storage systems. And he was a Senior Technology Analyst, Distinguished Engineer and Optical Technology Manager of Core Device Development Group in Sony Corporation. During 2012 to 2017, he was a professor at the School of Optoelectronics in Beijing Institute of Technology. He is currently aprofessor at theCollege of Photonic & Electric Engineering in Fujian Normal University. His research interests are in information optics& photonics: holographic storage, optical information display, optical devices, etc.

Walid Aroua received the Ph.D. degree in quantum physics from the University of El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, in 2005, with an excellent rating. Since 2006, he has been an Assistant Professor of Physics with the National Institute of Applied Science and Technology, University of Cartage, Tunis. He is a research expertise focusing on developing novel photonic nanostructures to design all-optical platforms. His research activity is concentrated mainly in the field of quantum optics.

Xia YU received her B. Eng and Ph.D degrees from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2003 and 2007, respectively. After graduation, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in NTU for two years. From 2008 to 2018, she worked in the precision measurements group in Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR). She was a senior scientist and team leader of optics in A*STAR, and an adjunct associate professor in National University of Singapore before she returned back to China in 2019. She is now a full professor in School of Instrumentation and Opto-electronic Engineering, Beihang University. She is the recipient of A*STAR Most Inspiring Mentor award 2015, A*STAR TALENT award 2017, IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2017, National Young Talent Award of China 2019. She is the principle investigator of project from National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key R&D Program of China. She is the editorial board member of Chinese Laser Press, senior member of IEEE. Her group at Beihang University focuses on fiber lasers and biophotonics.

Patrizia Livreri is an Associate Professor with the University of Palermo, Department of Engineering, Italy, and a Visiting Professor with the San Diego State University (CA), USA. Patrizia Livreri (M’94) received her Master’s Degree (cum laude) in Electronics Engineering, and her Ph.D. in Electronics and Communications Engineering both from the University of Palermo in 1986 and 1992, respectively. She is an author or a co-author of more than 200 scientific publications. Her current research interests include Nanoantennas for Sensing and Energy Harvesting, She supervised or co-supervised about 30 sponsored research projects. Prof. Livreri is the Principal Investigator for the Microwave Quantum Radar Project granted by the Italian Ministry of Defence with the Radar and Surveillance Systems RASS Laboratory, Pisa, at the Italian National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications, CNIT, Italy.

Prof.Dr. Eng. Ali H. Reshak (H-index WoS=44, Scopus=45 and 50 at google scholar, with more than 12132 citations) is a Full Professor at University of Basrah, Iraq, Full Professor at Czech Technical University –Prague- Czech Republic, and Full Professor and Principal Research Fellow at University Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia. Prof. Reshak is the winner of the Abdul HameedShoman Award. He is a Durham University senior fellow (UK) and Malaya University Principal Research fellow (Malaysia). Recently Prof.Dr. Eng. Ali H. Reshak had been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Malaysia Perlis for his achievements in Sciences and Technology. He is well recognized in the field of nanotechnology, Catalysis, Photocatalysis, solar cells, renewable energy, energy efficiency in built environment, green energy and environment, Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, electronic structure, linear, nonlinear optical properties and the other properties, rechargeable batteries, hybrid materials, alloys, biological crystals, Ionic liquid, single crystals, quantum electronics, optoelectronic materials and the devices based on them, bulk and low dimensional nanoscale materials such as nanotubes, nanowires, nonomaterials, Graphene, Graphane, Graphite and thin-films, novel multi-functional materials which can produce visible, ultraviolet and infra-red laser radiation at wavelengths that are presently inaccessible via conventional sources for many industrial, medical, biological and entertainment applications, laser design and laser applications, microscopy and spectroscopy. Prof. Reshak, expert in laser design he designed and constructed several laser systems for medical care for example; laser system for psoriasis, human skin treatment, tuberculosis treatment (TB) treatment, removing wrinkles... etc. Also expert in material engineering, biophysics, nanotechnology ... etc. Prof. Reshak has published more than 600 scientific articles, seven books, five chapters in books, five software, three international patents. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Optical Society and the European Laser Society.

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA. He is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA, is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored about 500 publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products), and 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal (for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline “Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems”). Ephraim is the third “Russian American”, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. His most recent awards are 2019 IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) Field award for seminal contributions to mechanical reliability engineering and modeling of electronic and photonic packages and systems and 2019 Int. Microelectronic Packaging Society’s (IMAPS) Lifetime Achievement award for making exceptional, visible, and sustained impact on the microelectronics packaging industry and technology.

Hong Liu obtained his PhD degree from the National University of Singapore. He joined A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in August 2003 and is currently the Head of the Nanofabrication Department at IMRE. The department spearheads key applications in nano-photonics and nano-plasmonics, LED communications and environmental sensing. Liu’s research interests include micro- and nanofabrication, super resolution imaging and focusing, metamaterials and nano-photonics, and optical nanolithography. He has published more than 50 research papers on these topics and holds seven filed patents.

Oskars Ozoliņš is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He is also a Senior Scientist and Technical Lead at the Kista High-speed Transmission Lab (Kista HST-Lab), RISE Research Institutes of Sweden . Docent (associate professor) O. Ozoliņš is an Academician (foreign member) at the Latvian Academy of Science. He is also the Latvian Council of Science Expert in Committees: Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics. His research interests are in the areas of digital and photonic-assisted signal processing techniques, high-speed short-reach communications and devices, optical and photonic-wireless interconnects, and machine learning for optical network monitoring and Quality of Experience prediction. In his professional career, docent (associate professor) O. Ozoliņš has been a guest researcher at III-V Lab (Nokia Bell Labs and Thales, France), Keysight Technologies (Böblingen Germany), DTU Fotonik (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), IDLab (Ghent University – imec, Belgium), OFO (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), and FOTON laboratory (University of Rennes 1, France). In total 265 days for external stays.

Cherifi Abdelhamid currently works at the Department of Electronics, Taher Moulay University of Saida. Their current project is 'optical telecommunication, multi access, OCDMA - optical code division multi acces

As the Palmetto Net Endowed Chair in Optoelectronics, Eric Johnson serves as the head of the South Carolina Smart State Center of Economic Excellence in Optoelectronics. Before joining Clemson, Dr. Johnson held a joint appointment as a Professor of Physics and Optical Science as well as Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2006-2011), where he also served as the Director of the Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications. Dr. Johnson served a two year appointment (2008-2010) as a Program Director in the Electronics, Photonics and Device Technologies program in the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division of the National Science Foundation. His responsibilities included the management and oversight of the photonics program area. Dr. Johnson was an Associate Professor at the College of Optics and Photonics/CREOL at the University of Central Florida (2000-2007). Prior to that, Dr. Johnson was the Vice President of Research and Development at Digital Optics Corporation. Dr. Johnson has also held various other positions in industry for research, engineering, and management. Dr. Johnson has served on the Board of Directors for SPIE and has served on various committees for scholarship, conferences, and technical programs within SPIE. He has served as an Ex-Officio member on IEEE’s EDS Optoelectronic Devices Committee. Dr. Johnson was also the previous Chair for the Optics in Information Science Division of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the former OSA Technical Group Chair for Holography and Diffractive Optics. He has served as Topical Editor for OSA’s journal of Applied Optics and an Associate Editor for SPIE\'s Journal of MEMS. He is a Fellow of OSA, SPIE, and a Senior Member of IEEE. Dr. Johnson has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Huntsville, MS in Electrical Sciences from the University of Central Florida, and BS Physics from Purdue University.

Dr. Boris Zhdanov is currently a Senior Scientist at the R&D Company BVZ, Inc., that performs cooperative research with Laser and Optics Research Center (LORC) of the US Air Force Academy (USAFA). He has over 35 years’ experience in research and development on solid-state lasers, molecular lasers, alkali lasers, nonlinear optics, laser spectroscopy, atmospheric propagation, and teaching at the university level. Since 2004 he works with LORC USAFA in the field of Diode Pumped Alkali Lasers (DPAL) research and development. In 2000 – 2004 he worked with R&D Company “Directed Energy Solutions” as Principal Scientist and before this he workedwith the US Air Force Academy as a Visiting Professor.Dr. Zhdanov has over 200 publications and conference presentations. Education: MS in Physics from Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, PhD in Physics from the same university.