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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.

Manijeh Razeghi received the Doctorate d’état ES Sciences Physiques from the Université de Paris, France, in 1980. Manijeh Razeghi was the Head of the Exploratory Materials Laboratory at Thomson-CSF (France) during the 80’s where she developed and implemented modern metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) vapor phase epitaxy (VPE), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), GasMBE, and MOMBE for entire compositional ranges of III-V compound semiconductors from deep UV to THZ.. Developing these tools was fundamental in enabling her to achieve high purity semiconductor crystals with a consistency and reliability that was often unmatched, thereby leading to new physics phenomena in InP and GaAs based semiconductors and quantum structures. She realized the first InP Quantum wells and Superlattices and demonstrated the marvels of quantum mechanics in the low dimensional world. She is on the editorial board of many journals, and is an Adjunct Professor at the College of Optical Sciences of the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. She has authored or co-authored more than 1000 papers, more than 34 book chapters, and 20 books, including the textbooks Technology of Quantum Devices. She holds more than 55 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has an H -index of 95. Dr. Razeghi is a Fellow of MRS, IOP, IEEE, APS, SPIE, OSA, Fellow and Life Member of Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Fellow of the International Engineering Consortium (IEC). She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bun shah Award in 2004, IBM Faculty Award 2013, the Jan Czochralski Gold Medal in 2016, the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering, and many best paper awards. She is an elected life-Fellow of SWE, IEEE, and MRS.

Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France, until 1979. After serving as a Professor of electrical engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of Nanophotonics. He 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. 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 Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 1600 papers, 61 patents, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited exceeds 64,000 and his Hirsch factor is 112 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructured photonic and electronic devices, and energy efficient data communication.

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Shihe Yang received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Rice University. He did post-doctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Toronto before joining the faculty at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he became a full professor. He is currently Professor at Peking University, Shenzhen Graduate School. His research interests include chemistry and physics of clusters, nanomaterials, energy conversion and photoelectric conversion. His current interest is focused on solar energy and photoelectric nanoscience and nanotechnology. He is the author/co-author of over 620 international journal publications and ~30 patents with over 45,000 citations and h-index > 110. His scientific research has been recognized by, among others, two State Natural Science Awards.

Mohamed-Slim Alouini (Fellow IEEE and Fellow OSA) was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1998.,He served as a Faculty Member at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar, Education City, Doha, Qatar, before joining the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, as a Professor of electrical engineering in 2009. His current research interests include the modeling, design, and performance analysis of wireless communication systems

Lute Maleki is a Founder, and President and CEO of OEwaves, Inc. The Company is focused on the development of advanced sensors and communication components and systems based on microwave photonics technologies for Department of Defense and other government and commercial customers. Before re-joining OEwaves in April 2020, he was at GM/Cruise Automation, responsible for the development of LiDAR for autonomous navigation. Prior to that, he was at OEwaves serving as President and CEO. In 2014, he co-founded and served as the CTO of Strobe, a LiDAR company spun out of OEwaves and acquired by GM/Cruise in 2017. Prior to joining OEwaves, Lute was a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where he created and led the Quantum Sciences and Technologies Group. His technical areas of interest at JPL included development of atomic clocks based on ion traps and laser cooled trapped atoms; ultra-stable photonic oscillators; the opto-electronic oscillator (OEO); photonic signal distribution systems; study and development of whispering gallery mode micro-resonators and their applications; development of sensors based on atom wave interferometers; and tests of fundamental physics with atomic clocks. He is an inventor of over 65 U.S. Patents and applications, and has authored and co-authored over 130 refereed publications, and over 200 conference proceedings. Dr. Maleki is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics. He received the IEEE Rabi Award, IEEE Sawyer Award and NASA’s Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal for the development of the Trapped Ion Frequency Standard.

Lorenzo Pavesi is Professor of Experimental Physicsat the Department of Physics of the University of Trento (Italy). Born the 21st of November 1961, he received his PhD in Physics in 1990 at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne (Switzerland). In 1990 he became Assistant Professor, an Associate Professor in 1999 and Full Professor in 2002 at the University of Trento. He leads the Nanoscience Laboratory (25 people), teaches several classes at the Department of Physics of the University of Trento. He founded the research activity in semiconductor optoelectronics at the University of Trento and started several laboratories of photonics, growth and advanced treatment of materials. He was the first president and founder of the IEEE Italian chapter on Nanotechnology. He has directed37PhD students and more than 30 Master thesis students. His research activity concerned the optical properties of semiconductors. During the last years, he concentrated on Silicon based photonics where he looks for the convergence between photonics and electronics. He is interested in active photonics devices which can be integrated in silicon by using optical nolinearities and modified material properties. His interests encompass also optical sensors or biosensors and solar cells. Recent development is toward integrated quantum photonics and neuromorphic photonics. In silicon photonics, he is one of the worldwide recognized experts, he organized several international conferences, workshops and schools and is a frequently invited speaker. He manages several research projects, both national and international. He is an ERC grantee. He is a frequently invited reviewer, monitor or referee for photonics projects by several grant agencies. He is an author or co-author of more than 500 papers, author of several reviews, editor of more than 15 books, author of 2 books and holds 7 patents. He is chief speciality editor of the section Optics and Photonics of Frontiers in Physics and founding editor of the series Photonic Materials and Applications, a joint initiative of SPIE and Elsevier. Moreover he sits in the editorial board of the ETRI Journal and of the journals Sensors and Applied Sciences: Optics and Lasers. He is in the advisory board of Glass-to-Power and of Sybilla, two Italian start-up.In 2001 he was awarded the title of Cavaliere by the Italian President for scientific merit. In 2010 and 2011 he was elected distinguished speaker of the IEEE- Photonics society. He is fellow of the IEEE, of SPIE and of the SIF. He holds an H-number of 59 according to Scopusand Web of Science, and of 71 according to Google Scholar.

Hoon Sohn received his B.S. and M.S. (1994) degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul Korea and Ph.D. (1999) from Stanford University, California, USA, all in Civil Engineering. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) from 1999 to 2004 as a Technical Staff Member and in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University for 2004-2006 as an Assistant Professor. He is now Professor at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), and the Director of 3D Printing Nondestructive Center sponsored by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in Korea. Over last twenty-five years, his research interest has been in the areas of structural health monitoring, nondestructive testing, sensing technologies and data analytics. His research interests include guided waves, noncontact laser ultrasonics, structural health monitoring, nondestructive testing, smart materials and sensing, and statistical pattern recognition to name a few. He has published over 190 refereed journal articles, over 370 conference proceedings, and 11 book & book chapters. His developed technologies are licensed and commercialized by private companies, resulting in over 1 Million USD licensing agreements. He is currently SPIE Fellow, member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK), and member of Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST). He was selected as one of 100 most promising individuals in Korea in 2012 by Donga Daily Newspaper, which is one of the three major newspapers in Korea. He was also the recipient of SHM Person-of-Year Award at 2011 International workshop on SHM, 2008 Young Scientists Award from KAST and 2017 Young Engineers Award from NAEK, 2017 KAIST Best Research Award in Korea. His work has been funded by the Boeing Company, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Display, US Air Force Research Laboratory, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (US AFOSR), US National Science Foundation, National Research Foundation of Korea, Korea Agency for Defense Development, Hyundai & KIA Motors, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Bombardier, POSCO, Daewoo Construction, and Foongsan FNS.

Olga Korotkova (OK) has received her B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the Samara State University (Russia) in 1999 and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Central Florida, FL, in 2002 and 2003, respectively. She worked at the University of Rochester, NY, with Prof. Emil Wolf from 2004 to 2007 until she joined the Department of Physics, University of Miami, FL as an Assistant Professor. OK was promoted to the Associate Professor in 2012 and the Full Professor in 2018. She published more than 200 research papers and 2 monographs on classical statistical optics. OK's immediate research interests are in structured coherence states of light and in interaction of optical fields with turbulent natural media: atmosphere, oceans and soft biological tissues. She is an OSA Fellow.

Erik Bakkers is a professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology The Netherlands. He obtained his PhD degree in nanoelectrochemistry at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.He founded a research group at Philips Research in Eindhoven, in 2000, focused on anowires. His current research focuses on quantum materials, to detect and manipulate Majorana states, and in hexagonal silicon, to demonstrate and exploit the predicted direct bandgap in this material. His awards include the Technical Review Award from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Vici Grant, European Research Council Consolidator Grant, European Research Council Advanced Grant and the Science AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize

Sergey Ivanov’s current position is a Director of Ioffe Institute. He is a world known expert in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and semiconductor physics. His research interests spread for physics and technology of advanced low-dimensional structures based on a wide spectrum of III-V, II-VI, and III-Nitride semiconductors for photonic and electronic applications. He is a co-author of above 590 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 10 book chapters with total citations above 7000, he gave about 45 invited and plenary talks at the International conferences. Among his principal results is the developing of original self-consistent thermodynamic approach to description of different phenomena in MBE of III-V and II-VI compounds, which formed a basis for performing by his group pioneering studies of advanced photonic heterostructures for wide spectral range - from mid-IR to deep-UV. For many years, he served as the IAC and IPC member of regular International conferences in his research areas as well as organized and co-chaired several of them in St. Petersburg: PLMCN4, II-VI-2009, ISGN4, EuroMBE 2017, IWUMD4.

Jimmy Xu, currently a Professor of Engineering and Physics and holder of the Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. 1932 University Professor Chair at Brown University, USA. Before coming to Brown University in 1999, he was the James Ham Chair Professor at the University of Toronto and Director, Nortel Institute of Telecommunications; he was made a Fellow of AAAS, APS, IEEE, IoP and Guggenheim, served as an advisor to a number of government research institutions and a number of companies, and as Editor, IEEE Trans. on Electronic Devices, Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA JPL, World-Class University Professor at the Seoul National University.

Prof. Liu received his Ph. D degree from Université Laval, Canada, in 2005, and jointed Nankai University in 2007 as a full professor. Now, he is serving as the director of Institute of modern optics, member of the standing committee of Chinese Optical Society and vice president of Optical Society of Tianjin. Prof. Liu’s research interest mainly focuses on the ultrafast laser optics, THz science and technology, and applications. Has led and successfully executed more than 20 research projects financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program, National manned space program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Special Support Plan for Talent Development in Tianjin and open research funds of State Key Laboratories.He has already published more than 160 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. The total citation number of these publications is more than 7400. Prof. Liuhas gave more than 40 invited talks in international conferences worldwide. He is also committee member of serial of international conferences, including International Symposium on Filamentation, Asian Symposium on Intense Laser Science, High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena, etc. Based on his excellent achievement obtained during the past few years, Prof. Liu was awarded the ‘Wang Daheng’s Optics Prize for middle-aged and youth of the Chinese Optical Society’, Tianjin’s Outstanding Contribution Expert, first class provincial award of Natural Science

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Liam O’Faolain’s research group focuses on developing efficient lasers and innovative sensors based on nanophotonics and integrated photonics. He spent 15 years at the University of St Andrews, before moving his research group to Cork Institute of in 2016. He is the author/co-author of more than 100 journal papers. His ”h"-factor is 42. He is currently supervising 13 PhD students and 5 postdoctoral research fellows. He has supervised 4 PhD students and 8 postdoctoral fellows in the past. He is a principal investigator in the SFI IPIC (Irish Photonic Integration Centre). He co-ordinates the ERC Proof of Concept project HERCULES, the OPTHAPHI Marie Curie European Joint Doctorate Training Network and the H2020 PASSEPARTOUT project.

Vasili Perebeinos is a Professor of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Buffalo. He joined UB in 2018 from the faculty at an English speaking Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Moscow, Russia, where he was since June 2014, after spending 11 years at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY as a Visiting scientist (for 2 years) and Research Staff Member (for 9 years), prior to 2 years at the condensed matter theory group at Brookhaven National Lab as a Research Associate. He received Diploma in 1997 in Physics with excellence from the Moscow State University and PhD degree in 2001 in Physics with Council Commendation from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. During his research career, he become a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2013. He has received three times the highly competitive “IBM Research Technical Accomplishment” award in 2005, 2006, and 2008 for “achievements that are significant scientific or base technology accomplishments or have demonstrated significant impact on IBM’s business”, best paper award by the IBM Materials Research Council in 2012, best performance recognition at Skoltech in 2015. Perebeinos’s research and teaching interests are in the area of advanced materials and nanostructures for electronics and optoelectronics, specifically 1D carbon nanotubes and novel 2D materials, which offer new opportunities in electronic and optoelectronic applications. His research aims to provide theoretical guidance for the experimental efforts to expedite the development of such devices with new functionalities including, but not limited to photo detectors, nanoscale light emitters, and quantum technologies. He is the author or co-author of over 80 journal articles, one book chapter, two review articles, and one US patent. His work was cited over 14,000 times (h-index 50 – google scholar).

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

Anders Mikkelsen received his PhD degree in Physics from Århus University in 2001. He then moved to Lund and is now Professor and head of division of Synchrotron Radiation Research as well as vice-director of 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.

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. He is currently a specially-appointed professor at Nankai University, China. Dr. Chen’s research interests include nonlinear photonics, topological phenomena, structured light and biophotonics, and he has published over 200 papers in refereed journals with an h-index over 60. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society. He has served as an 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 Program and General Co-Chair for CLEO-Fundamental Science.

Dr. Campbell is an internationally known expert in inertial fusion, high-energy-density physics, high-power lasers and their applications, and advanced energy technologies including Generation IV nuclear fission reactors and biofuels. He has won numerous awards including the Department of Energy's E. O. Lawrence Award, the American Nuclear Society's Edward Teller Award, the American Physical Society's John Dawson Award, the Department of Energy's Excellence in Weapons Research Award, and the Leadership Award of Fusion Power Associates. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, American Physical Society, and the European Institute of Physics. He has published over 200 articles in scientific journals and holds five patents including the design of the first laboratory x-ray laser. He has given numerous invited and plenary talks at both national and international conferences. He is the originator of the Inertial Fusion Science and Applications Conference. Dr. Campbell has been a member of numerous committees providing advice and strategy, including the Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency, National Academy of Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Berkeley National Laboratory, University of Texas, the National Research Council of Canada, Missile Defense Agency, and Lockheed Martin Corporation. He served on the Board of Evans and Sutherland Corporation and has worked in various scientific and leadership positions at both federal laboratories and the private sector including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, General Atomics, Logos Technologies, and Sandia National Laboratories. He has received his degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and the University of Western Sydney

After his EE MSc degree (with honors) at the Univ. of Palermo in 1981, in 8/1983 Gaetano Assanto entered the PhD program in ECE at the University of Palermo, then at the U. of Iowa and later at the University of Arizona. In 1/1985 he joined the Optical Sciences Center of the U. of Arizona as Research and Teaching Assistant in nonlinear integrated optics. He completed his Ph.D. in 12/1986. From 1/1987 to 7/1988 he was Research Engineer at the Center for Electronic Research in Sicily. In 7/1988 he joined the Univ. of Arizona as Research Scientist, and from 9/1990 to 10/1992 the Center for Research in Electro Optics and Lasers, Orlando, Florida as Senior Research Scientist. Since 11/1992 teaches Optoelectronics with the EE Dept.of the University of Rome "Roma Tre", where he has also given courses in Integrated Optics and Nonlinear Optics. Dr. Assanto has given his course of Optoelectronics also at the Univ. of Rome "Sapienza" and at the Univ. of Rome "Tor Vergata". In October 1999, thru a national selection, he qualified for a Full Professorship in Electronics. He is a Fellow of the OSA, Fellow of IEEE-Photonics Society, member of the association of Novel Optical Material and Application (NOMA), the Italian Society for Optics and Photonics (SIOF), the Italian Association for Electrotechnics (AEI), the Italian Institute of Physics of the Matter (INFM), the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), the Interuniversity Consortium for the Structure of Matter (CNISM), the Italian Group of Electronics (GE), the Italian Society for Liquid Crystals (SICL), the Italian Society for Optics and Photonics (SIOF), the European Optical Society (EOS) and the European Physical Society (EPS). He is/has been in the editorial board of the J. Optical Society of America B, IEEE Photonics Journal, Laser Physics Review, Trends in Applied Sciences Research, Research Letters in Optics, International J. of Optics, J. of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials (JNOPM), Photonics Letters of Poland, Optics Letters, Nature Scientific Reports. In 2009-2011 was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (two terms). He serves as Expert Evaluator for the European Union, the Academy of Science of Finland, the Romanian Academy of Sciences, the Italian Ministry for Education, the Italian-Israeli Foundation; he serves in scientific committees for international conferences such as CLEO-Europe, IQEC, IEEE-LEOS, SPIE, ICTON, NOA, NLGW, NLO etc. and is author/coauthor of more than 900 publications, contributed and invited papers in journals, books and conferences. .

Prof. Radan Slavíkreceived the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in optics and optoelectronics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czechia, in 1996 and 2000, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree from the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia, in 2009. From 1995 to 2000, and from 2004 to 2009, he was with the Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences. From 2000 to 2003, he was with the Centre d’Optique, Photoniqueet Laser, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Since 2009, he has been with the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, U.K., where is currently leading Coherent Optical Signals research group. His researchinterestsincludeopticalandoptics-assistedsignalprocessing,study of environmental sensitivity of optical fibres, and hollow-core optical fibres and their applications in telecommunications, metrology, and sensing. He is a Fellow Member with the Optical Society of America.

Yang Yue received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and optics from Nankai University, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, USA, in 2012. He is a Professor with the Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Dr. Yue’s current research interests include intelligent photonics, optical communications and networking, optical interconnect, detection, imaging and display technology, integrated photonics, free-space and fiber Optics. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers and conference proceedings, three edited books, >50 issued or pending patents, >90 invited presentations.

Prof. Murukeshan Vadakke Matham graduated from the University of Calicut, India with Physics Major. He obtained his M.Sc. and M.Phil. Degrees in Physics with specialization in Quantum Electronics from the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India. He pursued his doctoral degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and at the University of Oldenburg, Germany with the DAAD Fellowship award and was awarded Ph.D. in 1997 from IIT Madras (India). Since 1997, he has been attached to the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore where he is currently working as an Associate Professor. He has more than 25 years of professional experience (full time), which includes 3 and half years of postdoctoral experience and 20 years of teaching experience. He has published heavily, with over 190 international journal papers, over 150 international conference proceedings papers/presentations, 1 co-authored book and 6 book chapters (3 on Biomedical Optics and 3 on Nanoscale Optics and Fabrication). He has supervised 19 PhD students and 4 Master students till date and currently supervising 6 PhD students. His major expertise falls in the areas of imaging and instrumentation pertaining to Bio- and Medical optics, Micro and Nanoscale Optics, and Optical Metrology. A large part of his research and development led to 22 patents and 11 innovations disclosures and have attracted significant amount of innovation and potential industry funding. Prof. Matham is well-known in the biomedical-optics and optical instrumentation field and provided numerous keynote/plenary speeches (28 so far) and invited talks (~50) in international conferences. Naturally, his ~30 years of research yielded ~ 190 papers in archival journals and more than 150 conference proceedings papers. He has achieved many recognitions in his career which includes Fellow of Institute of Physics (UK), DAAD Fellowship (Germany), Singapore prime ministers Technology Challenge Award, Rolls Royce Innovator Award ( UK), TCT Exchange Fellowship award (attached to University of California, Davis), MEXT Visiting Researcher Japan, Erudite Professor ( India), Chair Professorship award in nanoscience and Technology (India), senior member of SPIE and OSA, to name a few. He is currently serving as the Director of Centre for Optical & Laser Engineering (COLE), and Deputy Director, The Photonics Research Institute, NTU.

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

Dr. Eduardo F. Fernández obtained his PhD at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 2012. Nowadays, he is Ramon y Cajal Researcher and PV manager at the CEACTEMA of the University of Jaén (Spain). He has more than 10 years of experience in the field of photovoltaics working in several prestigious institutes, universities and private companies. Dr. Fernández has published over 80 papers indexed in ISI JCR, and presented +50 contributions in the most relevant international conferences and workshops. Dr. Fernández is also member of +5 academic and scientific societies, and co-inventor of several patents.

Alois Lugstein received his PhD from the Technical University of Vienna in 1998 and the habilitation in Solid State Electronics from the same University in 2013. Since 2014 he is Assoc. Prof. at the Technical University of Vienna leading a group on nanowire technology and electronics. His work focuses on low dimensional Si- and Ge-based materials and nanomaterials, their integration in electrical and optical nanodevices and further electronics transport and MOS device physics. In particular, he is currently involved in the synthesis and characterization of silicene and germanene. He has published more than 140 papers, holds 2 international patents and has an h-index of 32.

Yongli Zhao received Ph.D. degrees from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China, in 2010. Now, he is a full professor of institute of information photonics and optical Communications at BUPT. During Jan. 2016 to Jan. 2017, he was a visiting associate professor at UC Davis. Now, he is a Fellow member of IET, senior member of IEEE, and senior member of OSA. His current research focuses on software defined optical networks, elastic optical networks, datacenter networking, machine learning in optical networks, optical network security, and quantum key distribution networking.Up to now, he has published more than 400 international journal and conference papers. He has published 8 books and 3 independent chapters in different English books.

A.P. obtained the Ph.D. degree in physics at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis (Nice, France) in 1997. After a Post-Doc at ULB (Brussels, Belgium), he obtained in 2000 an Assistant-Professor position at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. At that time he started to work on nonlinear optics with partially coherent waves. Motivated by a close interaction with experimentalists, he obtained in 2005 a full research position at CNRS at the University of Burgundy (Dijon) where he started to develop the research theme on optical turbulence. In 2013 he was promoted Research Director at the CNRS. His research interests are optical wave turbulence, kinetic equations, Vlasov and weak Langmuir turbulence, condensation of classical waves, thermalization and the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem, shock and collapse singularities, disordered nonlinear wave systems.

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

Paolo Ansuinelli received the MSc. (2016) degree from La Sapienza University of Rome, and has been a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher with the Delft University of Technology (2017-2021). His current research interests are predominantly focused on methods for the inspection and metrology of targets formed by lithographic processes.

Runhua Li has received his B.S. in Optoelectronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1988, M.S. in Quantum Electronics from Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science in 1991 and Ph.D. in Optics from Sun Yat-Sun University in 1997. He worked in Sun Yat-Sen University as a research assistant since 1991 and was promoted as an associate professor in 2000. During 2001-2005, he visited University of Arizona (USA), University of Tennessee at Knoxville (USA) and University of Victoria (Canada) as a visiting scholar. He joined School of Physics and Optoelectronic, South China University of Technology as a professor since 2005. His research interest is laser spectroscopy and he has published more than 100 research papers in related areas. His current research interest is realizing convenient and sensitive elemental analysis of conducting and non-conducting materials with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), and developing high repetition rate laser-ablation spark-induced breakdown spectroscopy as a new analytical tool in the field of elemental analysis.

I am a Postdoctoral Associate of Prof. Steven G. Johnson's group in the Mathematics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I work at the interface between optimization, artificial intelligence, numerical methods for partial differential equations (PDEs), and scientific computing. In my early academic career, my areas of applications are mostly in inverse design (i.e. large scale optimization) of nanophotonics. I am interested in collaborative, interdisciplinary problems where research outcomes are larger than the mere sum of the contributions from each discipline. My philosophy is to develop methods through impactful applications rather than focusing on methods development alone.

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. Dr Masanobu Haraguchi was born in 1962. He received his bachelor and master degrees in electronic engineering from Osaka University. He was received the Ph. D. degree from the Osaka University in 1993. From 2009, he is a Professor at Tokushima University. He is interested in characteristics and applications of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) at nano metal structures. He is working on the research areas of SPPs from 1987 and metamaterials from 2008. Recent his main interests are metamaterials, channel-type plasmonic waveguides, and their application.

Dr. Florian Döring is CEO and founder at XRnanotech, 2019 – present Founder Fellow at Paul Scherrer Institut, 2018 – 2020 Master of Business Administration at IUBH International University of Applied Sciences Bad Honnef, 2017 – 2019 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Laboratory for Micro and Nanotechnology • Paul Scherrer Institut, 2012 – 2016 PhD in Physics at University of Göttingen and 2010 – 2012 M.Sc. in Physics at University of Göttingen and University of Helsinki.

Minoru Watanabereceived B.S. and M.S. degrees in Opto-Electronic and Mechanical Engineering from Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and a Ph. D. degree in Computer Science and Systems Engineering from the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan, in 2005. He joined Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Zama, Japan, in 1994, where he was a development engineer of embedded systems until December 1999. He was a Research Associate at the Department of Control Engineering and Science during January 2000--2003, and in the Department of Systems Innovation and Informatics during 2004--2006, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan. He is currently an Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan. His current research interests are programmable devices and optically reconfigurable gate arrays. Dr. Watanabe is a member of IEEE, the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers of Japan, the Japan Society of Applied Physics, and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers.

Dr. Alessandro Greborio is co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Lithium Lasers srl, ever since the company was founded in 2019. He earned his PhD in Engineering on high power ultra-short pulsed laser sources at the University of Pavia (Italy). His passion for ultra-short pulsed lasers design took him first to Austria and then to Switzerland. He worked as R&D scientist for 2 years at Spectra-Physics (Rankweil) and for 5 years at NKT-photonics (Zurich). Today his focus as CEO lies on bringing to the market new laser solutions able to satisfy new requirements for ultra-short pulsed lasers as well as to bring this technology to a more mature level of industrialization.

Gerwin Gelinck received his Ph. D. degree in Physical Chemistry from the Technical University in Delft, The Netherlands, in 1998. In that same year Gerwin joined the Philips Research as a Senior Scientist. In 2002 he was co-founder of Polymer Vision, an internal start-up company in the Philips Technology Incubator. From 2002 to 2006 he was Chief Scientist of Polymer Vision. In 2007 Gerwin joined Holst Centre, a collaborative research initiative by imec and TNO, where he managed the research program on organic and oxide transistors and its applications. Since 2019 he is CTO of TNO/Holst Centre. He is also part-time professor in the group of Molecular Materials and Nanosystems (M2N) of the Applied Physics Department at the University of Eindhoven. His research interests include various aspects of the physics, technology and applications of organic and oxide transistors, polymer photodetectors, ferroelectric and piezoelectric polymers and actuators.

PhD in Materials Engineering in 2004 at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Since 2010, researcher at the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Brera (Italy) and since 2007 adjunct professor at the Politecnico di Milano. The research activity focuses on the development of functional organic materials for optical applications, in particular for astronomical instrumentation. Photochromic materials and photopolymers for holography are the two main interests.

I’m a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde. I have a broad range of research interests, most of which fall under the banner of electromagnetic theory: to date I've enjoyed working on chiral light-matter interactions, conserved quantities like electric charge and optical angular momentum, atomic and molecular structure, ball lightning and dinosaur morphology. As a theorist, I'm always on the lookout for experimental collaborators. I’m passionate about public engagement and education

Dr. Donaldson’s research interests are primarily associated with photonics and quantum communication technologies. Throughout his research career, he has worked on a range of next-generation quantum communications technologies, including quantum digital signatures, quantum amplification, quantum random number generation, and single-photon array detectors. His main research interests include: Novel photonic and optical devices for optical ground stations. Satellite and high-altitude platform based quantum communications. Quantum communication technology for space. As part of his Research Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering, Dr Donaldson is working with industrial partners to transfer technology from in-lab demonstrations out into industry.

Dr. Alexander Khmaladze received his Ph.D. from the University of South Florida, where he developed and assembled a dual-wavelength digital holographic microscope, which he used in live cell studies. He published a number of papers on digital holographic phase imaging. He then accepted a postdoctoral position at the Chemistry Department of the University of Michigan, where he built a multiplex CARS imaging system, which was used to rapidly acquire and process hyperspectral images of live cells. He also studied mechanisms of nano-particle penetration of cellular membrane for drug delivery. He then worked on the application of near-infrared Raman Spectroscopy to monitoring of tissue constructs implanted in mice, with the ultimate goal of applying this technique to human patients. Dr. Khmaladze joined the physics department of SUNY at Albany in September 2014. Currently, his lab has several digital holographic microscopic setups, 3D Cell imaging tomographic microscope, and a portable Raman microscopic system. His research interests include Raman spectroscopy and microscopy, three-dimensional digital holographic imaging, microscope design, hyperspectral imaging of live cells and biological tissue imaging

Christophe Levallois received the Ph.D. degree in physics and optoelectronics from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), Rennes, France, in 2006. During his thesis work, he studied Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSEL) based on InP materials. After a postdoctoral position in the field of optoelectronics and micro-optics in the Photonic group of the CNRS-LAAS in Toulouse, he joined the CNRS-FOTON Laboratory located at the INSA in Rennes in 2008 as an Associate Professor. He is mainly involved in cleanroom activities on III-V semiconductors. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 articles published in scientific journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include the design, the processing of photonics devices (VCSEL, lasers, and solar cells), and the electro-optic characterization of III-V semiconductors and photonic devices.

Michael Atlan was hired in 2008 as a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in experimental optical physics, instrumentation, and computational imaging. He works at the Langevin Institute (CNRS UMR 7587), and the Quinze-Vingts National Eye hospital (INSERM CIC 1423) in Paris. He develops coherent-light instrumentation and numerical processing methods for laser Doppler vibrometry, and blood flow imaging in low-light. His expertise is focused on methodologies involving optically-acquired digital holograms for sensitive coherent imaging at high throughput. He is the project manager of the versatile real-time digital hologram rendering software Holovibes, and the co-author of peer-reviewed journal articles, patents, and book chapters on the subject of holography.

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

Ken Masamune received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. in Precision machinery Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1993, 1995 and 1999, respectively.From 2000 to 2005, he was a lecturer and associate Professor of Tokyo Denki University, and from 2005 to 2014, he was an associate professor of the University of Tokyo, Graduate school of Information Science and Technology. From 2014, he is currently full professor of Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Faculty of Advanced Techno Surgery (FATS), Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, and visiting professor of Waseda University, Joint Graduate School of Tokyo Women’s Medical University and Waseda University, Cooperative Major in Advanced Biomedical Sciences. His research interests include medical devices/robotics, mixed reality and clinical information systemsin medicine, and medical device regulatory sciences. Dr. Masamune is a board member of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery, the Japan Society of Computer Aided Surgery, Robotics Society of Japan, Society for Life Support, the Society for Nursing Science and Engineering, etc.

Agostino Iadicicco received the electronic engineering degree (cum laude) and the Ph.D. in optoelectronics in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Engineering of the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy and serves as the Associate Editor for the IEEE Sensors Journal. Since 2002, his research activity has been focused on the development of new fiber optic and photonic sensors for wide range of applications. Currently he is involved in the design, realization and testing of novel gratings in standard and unconventional fibers including polarization maintaining and photonic bandgap fibers and on the development of in-fiber SERS probe. His work in this area encompasses the development and practical application of sensors for the measurement of a range of physical, chemical, and biological parameters.

Jesús del Hoyo received the M.Sc. degree in fundamental physics and the Ph.D. degree in physics from Universidad Complutense in Madrid (UCM), Spain, in 2011 and 2016 respectively. His Ph.D. work, developed at the Institute of Optics (CSIC), was focused on waveguide direct laser writing in dielectric materials. He worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at Femto-St (CNRS-UBFC), Besançon, France, focused on the laser material processing using Gauss-Bessel ultrashort laser pulses. Currently, he is a Postodctoral Fellow at the Optics Department (UCM). His current research interests include ultrafast laser micromachining, characterization using polarization properties, development of sensors and numerical simulation of light propagation.

CAIMING SUN received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, China, in 2008. He has more than 10 years of R&D experience ofoptoelectronics, optical communications, nanophotonics, and nanofabrication. He is currently a researcher at Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing (IRIM), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shenzhen, China, and an associate professor at Robotics Research Center, Peng Cheng Laboratory (PCL), Shenzhen, China. His research interests include LiDAR technologies for robotics, underwater wireless optical communications, and Si photonics.

Prof. Zhongqi Pan received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, all in Electrical Engineering. He has worked as a Lecturer and Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University, and a Medical Image Processing System Engineer at 301 Hospital, Beijing. He joined the University of Louisiana (UL) at Lafayette in 2003, and currently is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also holds BORSF Endowed Professorship in Electrical Engineering II, and BellSouth/BoRSF Endowed Professorship in Telecommunications. Dr. Pan’s research is in the area of optical fiber communications, including photonic devices, wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) technologies, optical performance monitoring, coherent optical communications, and space-division-multiplexing (SDM) technologies. He has authored/co-authored over 180 publications on optical devices, nonlinear optics, and fiber communications systems, including 12 books/book chapters. He also holds 5 U. S. patents and 1 China patent. He has received the award for Excellence in Academic Advising in 2012 and Outstanding Academic Advisor Award in 2006 from UL Lafayette, and National Invention Award in China in 1998. Dr. Pan is an OSA and IEEE senior member. He has served as a member of OSA’s External Relations Advisory Committee. He also has served as the guest editor for several Special Issues for Applied Sciences, the Committee member and the session Chair for SPIE Photonics West, Subcommittee Co-Chair for the International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Communications Systems, the IEEE Photonics Global Conference, and the IEEE Annual Wireless & Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), and as reviewers for numerous IEEE and OSA journals

Dr. Ming Yan received a B.S. in Electronics Engineering (2007) and a Ph. D degree in Optics (2012) at East China Normal University (Shanghai, China). He was a postdoc researcher at Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching Germany, 2013-2017), and then joined the State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University in 2017 as an associate professor.Hewas appointed a full professor in 2019. His research interests includefiber lasers,optical frequency combs,laser spectroscopy and imaging.

LiPEI, Professor of Beijing Jiaotong University, her current research interests include high speed optical telecommunication network, optical fiber sensor, ROF, key technology of optical fiber communication，optoelectronic integration and so on. She has been a leader of more than 10 projects in China, include National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar, Hi-Tech research and Development Program of China, New Century Excellent Talents Project of Ministry of Education, and so on. She has authored/co-authored more than 200 journal and conference papers, and more than 100 patents and software copyrights in her research field.

Dr. Kun Huang,professor in East China Normal University.He received PhDs from École Normale Supérieure - Paris and East China Normal University in 2015, then did post-doctoral research in Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University. He has published more than 45 academic research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, and Optica. His current research interests include single-photon detection, quantum state preparation,fiber lasers, mid-infrared generation and frequency-comb spectroscopy.

Dr. Mable Fok is currently an Associate Professor and an Distinguished Faculty Fellowat the College of Engineering at University of Georgia. She received her B.S., MS, and Ph.D from the Chinese University of Hong Kong studying photonic signal processing for high-capacity optical communications. She finished her postdoctoral training at Princeton University in network security and neuromorphic processing prior to joining University of Georgia. Her research lab – WAVE Lab, aims to bring fiber optics and photonics techniques to inter-disciplinary areas, by understanding, designing, building a wide range of novel photonics-based systems and bio-inspired photonic systems. She has published over 200 journal and international conference papers and hold 3 US patents. Her work has been funded by National Science foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), UGA Office of the Vice President for Research, and Oak Ridge Associated Universities. Dr. Fok is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award, University of Georgia Creative Research Medal, Excellence in Research Faculty Award, Research Mentoring Award,and Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.

Dr. Nadzeya Kukhta is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, in the group of Prof. Christine Luscombe. She received her PhD in Materials Engineering at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, under the supervision of Prof. Juozas Vidas Grazulevicius. Nadzeya's PhD research focused on the investigation of structure-property relationships of purely organic semiconductors for the OLED, OFET and OPV applications. Upon the reception of her Doctor degree, Nadzeya continued pursuing an academic career as a postdoctoral researcher at Durham University, UK, in the group of Prof. Martin R. Bryce. Throughout her 3-year position at Durham, Nadzeya has been designing, synthesizing and investigating photophysical properties of the emissive compounds exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) phenomena. Nadzeya's current research interests include stretchable electronics, mixed conductors, bioelectronics and liquid crystals.

Xiaofeng Shi received the M. Sc. Degree (2005) and PhD degree (2012) from Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China. During Sep. 2010 to Sep. 2011, she did research as a Ph.D. student in Technical University Berlin , Germany. Currently, she is working as an associate professor at Ocean University of China, China. In recent years, she has devoted herself to the application of optics in marine research. She has published more than 20 scientific papers in Opt. Express, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Applied spectroscopy, etc. Her main research interests include: Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS), Optical Manipulation and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT).

Hui Li received the Ph.D. degree and became a lecturer of the School of Instrumentation and Optoelectronic Engineering, Beihang University, China, in 2009. She obtained an Associate Professor at Beihang University in 2015. She was awarded excellent young engineer of Beijing in 2020. She has authored or coauthored more than 40 articles in journals and conferences. Her research interests include optical sensors, integrated optics, signal detection, signal processing and robust control.

Sheila Edalatpour is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine.She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Thermal Sciencesfrom the University of Utah in 2016. Her research is focused on radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale. She is interested in developing computational models that enable fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of radiative heat transfer at nanoscale, as well as experimental demonstration of thermal radiation phenomena at the nanoscale.Sheila’s work has been published in several peer-reviewed journal papers as well as conference papers and presentations. Her research is supported by the National science Foundation and the Department of Energy. She is arecipientof the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the University of Maine’sCollege of Engineering Early Career Research Award, as well as the University of Maine Faculty Mentor Impact Award.

Ni Chen received the B.S. degree in software engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Chungbuk National University and Seoul National University, Korea, respectively. She is currently a Research Fellow at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. From 2014 to 2016, she was a Research Scientist with the University of Hong Kong, and from 2016 to 2017, and she was an Associate Professor with the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2018 to 2019, she was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Her research interests include three-dimensional optical imaging and display.

Marko Gutke completed his Master's degree in Photonics at Wildau University of Applied Sciences, Germany, in 2019, with a thesis on the simulation, fabrication and evaluation of polymer lenses for Chip-on-Board LEDs. He is currently working on techniques for Raman and optical spectroscopy of polymers, graphene and graphene transfer.

Daniel RICCI leads the Fibre Optics section and is deputy group leader of the Electrical Engineering Group (Engineering Department) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland. He received his M.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Perugia, Italy, in 2001. From 2001 to 2005 he was Technologist and Project Engineer in the field of optoelectronics at the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). During the same period he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Perugia. He joined CERN in 2005 to work in the R&D and subsequent deployment of 36,000 radiation tolerant optical links for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS): one of the biggest experiments of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. He was appointed in his current position in 2009. Mr. Ricci has over 20 years’ experience in the field of fibre optics. His research interests include radiation resistant fibres and fibre sensing for radiation environment, for which he authored several scientific publications. The team he is responsible for manages the deployment and operation of the optical fibre infrastructure at CERN, entailing the management of industrial contracts for large-scale productions and collaborations with industrial and research strategic partners worldwide.

Marcelo Nalin received his PhD in Chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry of São Paulo State University in Araraquara, Brazil and from Université de Rennes, Rennes, France in 2002. Dr. Nalin did post-doc at Université Paris Sud, Paris XI, Orsay France (2003), at Institute of Physics – UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil (2004) and at Université Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (2019). He is an Associated Professor and the head of the Glasses Special Lab Group at Institute of Chemistry of São Paulo State University in Araraquara, Brazil since 2013. He is member of the Technical Committee TC20 (Photonic Glasses and Optical Fibers) of ICG. His research interest concerns new glass compositions with potentential applications in photonics an magneto-optical devices.

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Ran Gao received the Ph.D. degree in electronic science and technology from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2015. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology. His research interests include fiber optical sensors, optical waveguide, and measurement instruments.

Xiaobei Zhangreceived the Ph.D. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2009. He is currently working as a Professor at Shanghai Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University. His major research interests are specialty fiber devices, resonators and optoelectronics.He has been a leader of more than 10 projects in China and Shanghai, including National Natural Science Funds forExcellent Young Scientists. Heserves as Associate Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Applied Sciences. He has authored/co-authored more than 80 journal and conference papers in his research field.

Ugo Tricoli earned his PhD at Heidelberg University (Germany) in 2015. Now, he is a permanent researcher at ONERA (The French Aerospace Lab) in the Optical unit. He has some experience in optics, including radiative transfer theory and diffusion processes (optical or thermal) in complex media as the Earth atmosphere or biological tissues.

Junqi Liu, is currently a professor at the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a post professor in materials physics and chemistry in the college of materials science and opto-electronic technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his PhD degree in materials science and technology from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and joined the faculty of the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. In recent years, his research has focused on quantum cascade lasers and published more than 130 papers in peer reviewed journals and >20 invited presentations at academic conferences. He has been granted more than 30 patents.

Haibo Liu received the B.Eng. degree in mechanical design, manufacturing and automation and the Ph.D. degree in mechatronic engineering from Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian, China, in 2006 and 2012, respectively. Currently, he is a full professor and doctoral supervisor of school of mechanical engineering at DUT.He is IEEE member, ASME member, senior member of Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME).His main research interests includeoptical precision measurement, on machine/in-situ measurement-machining integration, and digital machining technology.He has published over 50 peer-reviewed SCI international journal papersand over50authorized or pending patents.His scientific research achievementshave been recognized by two first prizes of science and technology progress in Liaoning Province(3/10, 4/11), one first prize of science and technology progress in China's machinery industry (6/10).

Gunter Larisch received the Diploma (M.sc. equivalent) degree in applied physics from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, in 2011 and a Ph.D. in science in 2017. 2017-18 he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. In 2018 he accepted an Associate Professorship at the “Bimberg Chinese-German Center for Green Photonics” at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and as head of its High-Frequency Lab. He still is a guest scientist at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. The number of publications is 42 with a Hirsch factor of 18.

Dr. Liu Hong He obtained his M. Eng and PhD from the Dept of Mechanical Engineering of National University of Singapore. He has joined Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research Singapore since 2003. His research interest is mainly focused on the development of advanced nanopatterning technologies for tunable metasurfaces and nanpphotonics devices, artificially engineered materials and nanoplasmonics, optical nanolithography and etc. Currently Dr Liu Hong is heading the Nanofabrication Department in IMRE to advance the science and engineering of structured materials at micro and nanoscale and offer nanofabrication R&D services.

Zhao Xiong is Associate research fellow,Research Center of Laser Fusion,China Academy of Engineering Physics. Graduated in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University,Beijing,China. The objectives of his research are (Ⅰ) to understand assembly,installation and integration of large laser facility, (Ⅱ) to develop key processes and tools forming the foundation for XX-Ⅲ Laser Facility’s long-term LRU production and maintenance strategy and (Ⅲ) to explore multi-step alignments and close-loop of “assembly-measurement -adjustment”.

Dr. Wei is currently a principle researcher at Huawei German Research Center. He received a PhD from the University of Wales in 2010. Dr. Wei’s research interests include optics communications, photonics switching/signal processing,advanced modulation/coding, digital signal processing, algorithms, and machine learning. Heedited one book and (co-)authoredover 150 peer-reviewed journal/conference papers including more than 10 invited. He holds several US/Europe patents.Dr. Wei is a Marie Curie fellow and a senior member of IEEE

Shuguang Li received the B.S. degree in Physics from Shanxi Normal University, China, in 1988, the M.S. degree in Physics from Jilin University, China, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in Optoelectronics from Yanshan University, China, in 2004. Since 2000, he has been with the Department ofPhysics of Yanshan University.Since 2007, he has been a Professor in the Department ofPhysics of Yanshan University. From September 2012 to March 2013, he was avisiting scholar atInstitute of Optics, University of Rochester. His main research interests are "Special Fiber and New Photonic Devices" and "New Fiber Sensors Based on Microstructure Fiber".Li's research achievements include more than 160 papers and 10 invention patentshe has made contributions tothe design and fabrication of photonic crystal fiber or microstructured fiber. Dr. Li is a member of the Optical Society of America, a member of the Chinese Physical Society, a member of the Chinese Materials Research Society.

Dr. Park is the director of Future & Basic Technology Division, ETRI. In 1996, he received his Ph. D in Physics from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. From 1996 to 1997, he worked on large scaled photonic integrated circuits in microelectronic science lab of Columbia University as a postdoctoral research fellow. From 1990 to 1999, he was with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul Korea, as a member of research staff, where he was engaged in research on the functional photonic devices.Since1999, he has joined the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Korea, where he has been continuing his research on photonic devices. He was in charge of WDM photonic devices team and next generation photonic device team in ETRI. He demonstrated various photonic devices for the optical communications. He opened the terahertzphotonics research center at ETRI, leading terahertz research for the past 10 years. His current focus is the pioneering of terahertz technology applications. He is a SPIE fellow and a member of the SPIE photonics west and advanced laser technologycommittees.

Dr. Growden received a BS, MS, and PhD in electrical and computer engineering from The Ohio State University in 2010, 2015, and 2016, respectively. After finishing his PhD, he remained at OSU for 2.5 years as a postdoctoral researcher and a co-P.I. for multiple National Science Foundation grants and then joined the US Naval Research Laboratory as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow for 1.5 years before transitioning to a federal employee in 2020. He has over 10 years of experience with III-nitride-based semiconductor device design/modeling, fabrication, and characterization. His focus is on quantum tunneling phenomena and their applications in wide-bandgap high-speed (sub-THz/THz) and optoelectronic devices. He has authored or coauthored over 35 articles/proceedings, 1 book chapter, and 2 patents.

Dr. Haider Zia is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Twente in the Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics group. His current research focus is on nonlinear spectral generation and pulse compression in the integrated photonics setting.

Dr. Jose Maria Escalante holds a degree in Physic from University of Seville and a master degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Polytechnic University of Valencia, where later also obtained his Phd in Telecommunication Engineering developing his thesis in Nanophotonic Technology Center. Laterly he has worked in different research institutes in France such as CEA or CNRS and in Spain such CEAM Foundation or Technology Institute of Energy. He has more than 10 years of experience in different fields and he is author and co-author in more than 21 articles in international journals (ISI JCR, index h = 12) and 25 contributions in congresses, as well. His current research interests are predominantly focused on non-linear physics of waves, quantum optics and semiconductors lasers.

Feng Qibo obtained the Bachelor and Master degrees from Hefei University of Technology in 1983 and 1986, respectively, completed the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from Tsinghua University in 1993, major in Optical Engineering. Currently, he is chair professor in the Discipline of Optical Engineering of Beijing Jiaotong University. He used to be the dean of the faculty of science from 2005 to 2017. His research interests mainly focus on Optical Measurement Technologies and Instrumentation, advance monitoring technology and equipment for railway. He has published more than 150 journal papers and achieved more than 50 Chinese patents including 7 international patents for inventions. He has acted as the principle investigator (PI) for presiding more than 100 research funding, including 1 National Major Scientific Instruments Project from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 Key-Project, 863-project and 2 General Projects from NSFC. He has awarded the 1st and 2nd prizes in the Science and Technology Award from the Ministry of Education, PRC, and General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, China respectively. He also was awarded for the 2nd prize in national teaching achievement, the 1st and 2nd prizes in teaching achievements in Beijing.

Shixiang Xu is born in 1965, completed his PhD in 1998 from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China. In 2006, he was awarded Shanghai Pujiang talent Fund. His current position is a professor of Shenzhen University, and his research interests include ultrashort pulse laser, ultrafast imaging and pulsed terahertz optics. Now, he also serves as a member of Laser Professional Committee of Chinese Optical Society, and one of the Councils of Guangdong Optical Society of China. Up to date, he has published more than 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals and authorized more than 30 patents.

Antreas Theodosiou received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 2011 and his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Communication systems in 2013 from Frederick University in Cyprus and his PhD with specialisation in Photonics and Optical Sensing from the Cyprus University of Technology in 2018. He is the founder and CEO of the start-up company Lumoscribe LTD and participate in various national and international research projects. He is author and co-author of more than 40 high impact factor journal papers and more than 60 conference papers. His current research interests includes development of monolithic fiber lasers and optical fibre sensors using femtosecond lasers.

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

Yi Liu received his Ph. D degree from Peking University, China in 2006. He worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Ecole Polytechnique, France from 2006 to 2009. From 2009, he was hired as a permanent researcher of French scientific research center, in Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée. In 2016, he became a joint professor of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China. His cuent research interests focus on the interaction of intense femtosecond with gas molecules, and the secondary radiations from air plasma such as lasing of air, Terahertz radiation

Dr Kai Chen completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand, in 2015 and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Ultrafast Spectroscopy Research group under Prof. Justin Hodgkiss at VUW.Currently, he isa staff scientist in Robinson Research Institute at VUW and associate investigator at the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, New Zealand. His research interests are ultrafast spectroscopyand advanced optoelectronic materials.He has developed several ultrafast spectroscopic tools and used them to study photoexcitation dynamics in various material systems, including organic semiconductors, molecular materials, conjugated polymers, quantum dots, and perovskites. Since 2013, he has co-authored more than 30 journal articlesin the relevantfields.

Xin Yan received Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China, in 2014. He is currently an associate professor of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications at BUPT. His major research interests include semiconductor nanowires, nanoheterostructures, nanophotonics, nano-optoelectronics, brain-like optoelectronics, and photonic Integration. He has published more than 120 international journal and conference papers and co-authored 10 patents in these research areas. He has served as an associate editor or review editor for several journals including Materials Express, Micro & Nano Letters, and Frontiers in Photonics.

Dr. Xu is a full Professor of Air Force Engineering University since 2019. Currently, he is also a guest professor of Hengyang Normal University. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed first-author and co-author journal papers in Nature Materials, Nature Photonics, Light: Sci. Appl., Proceedings of IEEE, Advanced materials, ACS Photonics, Advanced Optical materials, Photonics Research, IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagations, Physical Review Applied, Physical Review B, Annalen der Physik, Applied Physics Letters, Optics Express, Scientific Reports, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE, Transactions on Magnetics and IEEE Microwave Magazine, etc. He has also published 3 Chinese books, 1 English books and 2 English book chapters. He served as an editor of AEU Int. J. Electron. Commun since 2014, a guest editor for Special Issue “Metamaterial Circuits and Antennas” of ‘International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering’ in 2018, and served as an invited reviewer for more than 20 leading journals including Light Science & Applications, etc. He has owned 24 China patents and has given more than 21 invited talks. He served as a special session chair 16 times and a TPC co-chair/member more than 16 times in international conferences. His research interests include passive/active metamaterials/metasurfaces, and their applications to novel microwave functional devices and antennas. Dr. Xu received the 8th China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award in 2013. He won the best Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award at Air Force Engineering University in 2014 and later received the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award from Military, Shaanxi Province, and Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE). He has hosted several programs such as the National Science Foundation of China, the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China Scholarship Fund, and First-Class General and Special Financial Grant from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. He receives the URSI GASS Young Scientist Award, URSI AP-RASC Young Scientist Award, and URSI EMTS Young Scientist Award and ACES Young Scientist Award in 2019 and several Scientific and Technological Progress Awards like Gold Award of National technological invention. He was awarded outstanding scientific and technological worker of CIE in 2018, a Young Talent from China Association for Science and Technology in 2017, Young Scientist Nova from Shaanxi Technology Committee in 2016. He was also the receipt of Excellent Paper Award in metasurface multifunctional devices at the 23th Annual Youth Conference of CIE in 2017, in helicity control of metasurface at PIER Symposium in 2018, Outstanding Paper Award from Nature Light Science & Applications in 2019, The 14th Excellent Scientific Paper Award from Shaanxi Government in 2019, Annual Excellent Research Paper Award in Conformal metasurface from CIE in 2020, and a co-recipient of three Best Paper Awards such as in bifunctional metasurfaces at the A3 Metamaterials Forum in 2017. Dr. Xu is now also a Fellow of IET and a Senior Member of CIE.

Mohammad Ismail Hossain, Ph.D.,is presently carrying out his postdoctoral research as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Hong Kong. Dr. Hossain is also serving the department of Applied Physics of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong as a Research Associate.Besides, he supports Prof. Akhtar’s Photovoltaic group in the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) of UniversitiKebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia as a Research Associate.His current research focuses on perovskite-based high-efficiency solar cells, multispectral-image-sensors, metasurfaces, LEDs, Omnidirectional UV reflectors thin-filmmaterials for optoelectronic device applications.Hehas authoredmore than35 SCI journal articles, where some of his recent high-qualityworks are published in prestigious journals in the field, such as Nano Energy, Small Methods, Nano-Micro Letters, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, etc. His research outcomes are presented at almost all major scientific conferences (total: >28, includingPVSEC, MRS, SPIE, PVSC, IEEE, Nanoenergy) in photovoltaic materials and energy research. He was awarded for both poster and oral presentations during the Nanoenergy conference in 2019. Dr. Hossainhas earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Jacobs University Bremen (JUB), Germany. He completed his bachelor's degree at the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) of American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB). He was a Research Specialist in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of University of Connecticut (UCONN), USA. He has been affiliated as an Assistant Professor of the EEE department, AIUB (Currently On Leave). Before his academic career, he served the communication department of Radiant Corporation, Bangladesh as a Project Engineer.

Dr. Zhenzhu WANG received a Ph. D degree in Optics (2011) at Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of sciences (Hefei, China). He was ever a visiting researcher at Chiba University (Japan, 2009, 2013) and at Institute of Atmospheric Optics (Russia, 2016,2018), and joined the Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of sciences in 2004. He was appointed an associate professor in 2015. His research interests include algorithm development for lidar measurement of aerosol and cloud, Lidar system development, Multi-sensor remote sensing of aerosol and cloud, and radiative transfer calculation related to lidar products.

Houkun Liang received the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2011. From 2011 to 2014, he worked as research scientist in Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. From 2016 to 2019, he worked as principal investigator in Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore. In 2019, he joined Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, as a full professor. Dr Liang’s current research interests include mid-infrared ultrafast lasers,nonlinear optics and random lasers.

Denis Garoli, born in Padova, get a master Degree in Physics in the 2003 at Padova University. He awarded the PhD in Space Science and Technology at University of Padova. In 2011 he get a master Degree in Biotechnology at Padova University. From 2009 to 2014 he worked as senior scientist at Laboratory for Nanofabrication of Nanodevices (University of Padova) and from 2014 up to now, he’s working as researcher at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). From September 2020 he is working also as Assistant Professor at Free University of Bozen (Italy). He is interested in several research topics such as: material science, nanofabrication, plasmonics, biosensing, single-molecule detection and manipulation.

Luigi Sirleto is a research scientist, working at National Research Council of Italy. In september 2001, he spent 2 months at Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Twente, (NL). In July 2003, he spent 9 months, as a visiting scientist, at Electrical Engineering Department of UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)-USA. In september 2006 he founded the Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics Lab at Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI) of CNR and he has led the research activities of the same, until now. He is co-author of over 190 papers, mostly on nonlinear optics and photonics devices. He has served as a reviewer of many international journals and as a committee member of many national and international conferences.

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

Maria Antonietta Ferrara received the degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy, in 2003. In April 2008 she got the Ph.D in Electronic Engineering with a thesis on Spontaneous and Stimulated Raman Emission on Nanostructured Silicon. Actually, she carries out her research at the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems of the National Research Council of Italy, in Naples, Italy. Her research interests are in fields of digital holography, polarization sensitive digital holography, volume holographic optical elements, optical sensors, silicon optoelectronics, nonlinear integrated optics devices with particular care for the stimulated Raman scattering in nano-structured silicon, nonlinear microscopy.

Michel MORTIER born in 1965. He is Director of Research at CNRS, Founder and Head of the Institute of Research in Chemistry of Paris – IRCP. Executive director of the CNRS foundation Academic degrees: 2003: HDR, Habilitation degree for research supervision, University Pierre and Marie Curie - Paris 1994: PhD in Materials Science, University Pierre and Marie Curie – Paris, cum laude. Research fields: solid state physics and chemistry Conception and characterization of rare earth doped materials for optical applications (laser, imaging, photovoltaic, thermal sensing): nanocomposite glass-ceramics, fluoride glasses, transparent fluoride ceramics, single nano-objects.

Johannes Schmidt is a postdoctoral researcher at the TeraFERMI beamline at Elettra Sinchrotrone in Trieste, Italy in the group of Andrea Perucchi. He received his Ph.D in Physics under the supervision of Manfred Helm at the free-electron laser FELBE at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf investigating strong light-matter interaction in the THz regime on 2D electron gases. Further studies continued the focus on 2D systems and metamaterials in the group of Miriam Vitiello at NEST Laboratories in Pisa. At the moment his research interests are in the areas of spectroscopy with longitudinal electric fields, THz non-linear optics and THz detectors.

I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Physics, a Master’s Degree in Molecular and Atomic Physics, and a Ph.D. degree in Applied Optics. I have one-year experience work as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Photonic Research Center (PRC) at University of Malaya, which began in February 2017. My study is based on design and fabrication photodetectors on the silicon based substrate with a layer of semiconductor nanoparticles such as Graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide nanoparticles as an active layer to investigate responsivity of the light and response time of the fabricated photodetectors. Moreover, other part of my study is based on fiber laser to generate Mode-Locked and Q-switched especially on D-Shaped fiber. In the recent year, I worked on fabrication of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles via laser ablation technique at various aqueous media. The size reduction of metal nanoparticles with high stability during long time storage was successfully achieved at different lase ablation duration and frequency. The nonlinear optical properties and thermal diffusivity of produced Nano-fluids containing metal Nano particles investigated using Z-Scan and thermal wave resonator cavity techniques, respectively. I considered aqueous media as stabilizer has an important role to avoid nanoparticles from agglomeration and then various media such as natural polymer (chitosan), organic compound (ethylene glycol), and water was used as colloidal stabilizers. The various volume fraction was achieved by ablating the metal plates at various ablation times and laser frequencies. The obtained results indicated both optical nonlinear properties are increased by increasing volume fraction of metal nanoparticles in various solutions. The obtained results show thermal diffusivity of Nano-fluid had a good contribution with increasing the number of NPs in solution, which it’s increased by increasing volume fraction of NPs as well.

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

MahtabAghaeipour received her B.Sc. (2005)and M.Sc. (2008) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yazd University and TarbiatModares University, Iran, respectively.In 2017, She also received her Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from Lund University, Sweden.Since then, she cooperates as a research fellow with the telecommunication-photonics group at Technical University, Berlin, Germany. Her main research interests are innovative topics in nanoscience, material science, bio-optics, light-matter interaction,and semiconductor nano-scaled optical devices: Design, modeling and simulation of, e.g., sensors, solar cells, photodetectors, multi quantum wells (dots) tunable lasers and amplifiers, and silicon photonics.

Prof. Hong-Gyu Park received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea, in 1998, 2000, and 2004, respectively. He was a post-doctoral fellow with the Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, from 2005 to 2007. In 2007, he joined the Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, where he is currently a full professor. His current research interests include high-performance nanolasers, subwavelength plasmonic laser/cavity structures, nanoscale photovoltaic devices, nanowire transistors/photodetectors, and neural recording using nanostructures.

Dr. Wen-Yong Lai is a full professor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He received his PhD from Fudan University in 2007. He then joined the Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics & Information Displays, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications. His research mainly focuses on the design, synthesis, and application of organic & polymer optoelectronic materials for organic/flexible electronics. He is also interested in the exploration of novel materials and processes for printed electronics.

Dr. Sabooni has made important contributions to recent developments in two experimental setups designed for quantum information science including ultra-cold neutral atoms and cryogenically cold rare-earth-ions-doped in crystals. At Lund University, Sweden, his main goal and interest as part of the European project called QuRep can be summarized as a quantum control of interaction between coherent single photon light and an ensemble of rare-earth-ions crystal. In this area his results are competing with the highest quantum memory efficiency in the world. He has also contributed to a new research area by employing atoms with large transition dipole moment (Rydberg atoms) or placing atoms close to photonic crystals (waveguide-QED) or both. This new frontier utilizes genuine quantum dynamics at the level of single quanta to manipulate and examine highly entangled states of light and matter. The study of entanglement could help to answer problems fundamental to quantum physics and also enables a broad range of applied researches in quantum information science, quantum metrology and quantum sensing.

Takeo Minamikawa received A.E. from Ibaraki National College of Technology, Japan, in 2004, B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. from Osaka University, Japan, in 2006, 2008, and 2010. He was JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists from 2011 to 2013, Assistant Professor from 2013 to 2015, and Visiting Associate Professor from 2015 in Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. He joined Tokushima University as Associate Professor from 2015. He is also PRESTO researcher in Japan Science and Technology Agency. His research interests include Raman spectroscopy and microscopy for medical and biological applications, nonlinear phtotonics and optical-frequency-comb spectroscopy and its applications.

Mohamed Ben Farah (BEng, MSc, PhD, HDR) is a research associate in the Institute for Signals, Sensors and Communications with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. Prior to this position, Mohamed was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in information technology and signal processing in the national engineering school of Gabes at the University of Gabes in Tunisia and the head of the encryption and image processing Research Group in Laboratory of Electronics and Information Technologies at the the University of Sfax. Prior to joining the University of Gabes, Mohamed was an assistant lecturer at the University of Gafsa, Tunisia. Mohamed is a reviewer for world leading academic conferences and journals and is the Outreach Lead of the Blockchain Group for IEEE UK and Ireland. His current research interests include pervasive security for IoT devices, Machine Learning Techniques for Cyber-Security and Engineering, Signal/Image Processing as well as privacy and Encyption.

Full Professor of Physics at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo/Centro Estadual de Educação Tecnológica Paula Souza (since 1992), received her Ph.D. in Physics (1996) at University of São Paulo, with 28 years of research and teaching experience, leading pioneering research in glass photonics and novel nanocomposites for technological applications (integrated optics photonic systems, solid-state laser and photovoltaic devices), based on GeO2 and TeO2. The current research interests include plasmon assisted efficiency enhancement of rare-earth doped glasses covered solar cells, new fabrication processes of pedestal waveguides for optical amplification in the short-waveinfrared region, plasmonic effects on the optical gain of rare earth doped waveguides. Member of the Optical Society of America, Brazilian Physical Society, Brazilian Society of Photonics, Brazilian Materials Research Society, referee for financial Brazilian agencies, reviewer of several international journals with invention patent regarding glass for laser applications.; published several articles in reputed journals (2700 citations, h =28), invited book chapters, edited books, senior member of the Optical Society (OSA) and of the National Institute of Photonics/ CNPq

Professor Michel Arrigoni has completed his PhD from ENSMA, France and continued with postdoctoral studies from Industrial Materials Institute, NRCC, Canada. He is the coordinator of a group of researchers dealing with fluid/structure interaction at Institut de Recherche Dupuy de Lôme, (CNRS Lab) at ENSTA Bretagne, in Brest, France, where he is also lecturer in shock, impact and explosion effects. He has published more than 35 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member and guest editor in some journals.

Wen Luo is currently afull professor in School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of South China (USC) in China. He obtained the PhD degreefrom the Chinese Academy of Science in 2011. After staying atCollege of Science, National University of Defense Technology in Chinafor one year,he moved to the USC in China. During the period of 2015 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics. During the period from 2016 to 2017, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Strathclyde, UK. He is aPrinciple Investigator ofNational Natural Science Foundation Projects of China. He was awarded by the Youth Talent Program of Hunan Province inChina, 121 Innovative Talents in Hunan Province in China, and Hunan Youth May 4th medal of Hunan Province in China. His research interests includelaser nuclear physics and potential applications. So far, he has published over 50peer-reviewed SCI journal papers inScientific Reports, Applied Physics Letters, Optical Express, Physics of Plasmas, and Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion

Prof Chaoyuan Jin received the Ph.D. degree from University of Sheffield (UK). In 2008 he was awarded a JSPS Fellowship and worked on quantum dotswitches atKobe University (Japan). In 2010, he joined the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) working on ultrafastcontrol of cavity quantum electrodynamics based on single quantum dots in photonic crystal cavities.He joined EFFECT PhotonicsB.V in 2013. In his role as a Senior Photonics Scientist, he developed high-speed optical transceivers for short-reach optical communications based on generic photonic integration technologies. In 2015, He was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellowship, working as a Lecturer developing research programs on ultrafast photonic devices at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield (UK). He is now working at Zhejiang University (China) and Zhejiang Labas a Hundred Talents Professor. His current research focuses on nanophotonic integration, quantum materials, nonlinear optics and optical computation.

Jacopo Pedrini is a postdoctoral researcher for the Department of Materials Science at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where he received the PhD in Materials Science and Nanotechnology in 2017. The aim of his PhD was the development of both organic and inorganic nanostructures for the application to renewable energies and biological imaging. His major research interests are the characterization by means of optical spectroscopy of group-IV semiconductor micro- and nanostructures aimed at the development of high efficiency photodetectors, and the understanding and control of light-matter interaction and propagation in semiconductor photonic structures

Dr. Shawana Tabassum is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX, since August 2020. She completed her postdoctoral training from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, in 2020 and obtained her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in 2018. Dr. Tabassum earned her Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2014. Dr. Tabassum's research is focused on sensors, micro/nano-optics, microfluidic devices, MEMS/NEMS, and their applications in sustainable agriculture and environment, plant sciences, and biomedicine. She has been a recipient of several national-level, as well as international-level, awards. A few notable awards and recognition include Science Breakthrough of the Year from Falling Walls (2020), Robert J. Menges Award for Outstanding Research in Educational Development from POD Network (2020), Innovation Prize (2020) and the Best Global Impact prize (2019) from Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship, Biomedical Engineering Society’s career development award (2019), ISU Research Excellence Award (2018), the NSF Intern Supplement Award (2018), and the Best paper award finalist at IEEE Sensors conference (2016).

Joonyoung Kim received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (particularly in Fiber-Optic Communications) from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2013. He was with the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK, from 2013 to 2017 as a research fellow. From 2017 to 2020, He was with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Korea, as a senior researcher. Since 2020, He has been with the Sangmyung University, Korea, as an assistant professor. His research interests include fiber-wireless convergence system and microwave/THz photonics.

Tomasz Czyszanowski received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Lodz University of Technology, Poland, in 2000 and 2004 respectively, D.Sc. degree in physics from Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, in 2012. In 2019 he become a full professor. After receiving his M.Sc. he was a visiting researcher at CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, Alabama, where he worked mainly on optical scalar models of semiconductor lasers. His Ph.D. work involved studies on the validity limits of optical models used in simulations of semiconductor lasers. From 2005 to 2007 he was a post-doctoral researcher at Vrije University, Brussels, Belgium, on a fellowship awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science. There he analyzed the performance of photonic-crystal VCSELs. In 2012 he was appointed Associate Professor at the Institute of Physics at Lodz University of Technology, Poland. Current area of research of his research team and himself involves the modeling of GaAs-, GaN-, InP- based VCSELs, modeling, processing and characterization of irregular and coupled-cavity VCSELs, modeling of resonant, reflective and transparent subwavelength periodic structures.

Noriaki Ohmaegraduated from the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Tokyo in 2006, and received Master and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Advanced Materials Science atthe University of Tokyo in 2008 and2011, respectively. From 2011 to 2017, he was a post-doc in the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Tokyo. From 2017 to 2020, he was a research scientist in Space-Time Engineering Research Team at RIKEN center for Advanced Photonics. From 2020, he is currently an associate professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Fukuoka University.His research interests include ultra-precise optical frequency measurement and its applications based on an optical lattice clock, an optical frequency comb and an ultra-stable laser.

Masatoshi Kajita was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan. He graduated from the Department of Applied Physics, the University of Tokyo in 1981 and obtained his Ph. D. from Department of Physics, the University of Tokyo in 1986. After working at the Institute for Molecular Science, he joined Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) in 1989. In 2004, the CRL was renamed the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). In 2009, he was guest professor at the Provence Universite, Marseille, France. At NICT, he has been engaged in research of precision frequency measurement. Since 2006, he gave several proposals of precision measurement of molecular vibrational transition frequencies.

Omar. El Ogri received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering and the M.S. degree in engineering science from the Faculty of science, University of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, Fez, Morocco in 2012 and 2018, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the Department of physics, University of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, Fez, Morocco. His research interest includes Image Analysis and image security.

Dr. Liyong Ren is currently a professor in the School of Physics and Information Technology at ShaanXi Normal University. He completed his Ph. D degree in Optical Engineering at Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2004. He was once a lecturer working at Northwest University from 1995 to 2001, an associate professor and professor working at Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of CAS from 2004 to 2019, and a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow working at the University of Electro-Communications(UEC) from 2007 to 2009. His research interests include polarimetric imaging, micro/nano-optics and fiber optics, etc. In these research fields, he has published more than 110 peer-reviewed journal papers, obtained more than 10 Chinese patents, attended more than 60 international or domestic conferences and published more than 80 conference papers.He is a committee member of the High-speed Imaging & Photonics Professional Committee, the Holography & Optical Information Processing Professional Committee, and the Fiber Optics and Integrated OpticsProfessional Committeeof the Chinese Optical Society (COS). Also, he is a Senior member of SPIE, OSA and COS.

Enrico Trave is Associate Professor of Experimental Physics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His academic training took place at University of Padova, where he graduated in 2002 and received the PhD in Materials Science in 2006. After a post-doc at the Department of Physics, University of Padova, in 2008 he joined Ca’ Foscari University as Assistant Professor. His research is focused on materials with advanced optical properties, particularly nanostructured systems (nanopowders, thin films, quantum dots), and on the realization of experiments for the characterization and modeling of the optical response. In the context of collaborations aimed at the development of innovative materials for applications in telecom, bioimaging, sensor technologies, he carried out experimental activity in Germany (MPI Göttingen), France (ESRF Grenoble), India (CGCRI Kolkata, IUAC New Delhi) and Japan (Kyoto University).

Youqiao Ma received the M. Sc. degree from the Faculty of Science, Ningbo University, Zhejiang, China, in 2010. In 2015, he received his PhD degree from Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. From 2016 to 2018, he was a researcher at Dalhousie University, Canada. Currently he is working as an Associate Professor at School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. He is also the Special Lecturer in Graduate School of Engineering in Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan. He has been involved in several national and international projects. He is authored more than 40 scientific papers and 20 conference proceeding papers. His research interests include Fiber Optics, Plasmonics, Terahertz Photonics andBiosensors.

Prof. Dr. Nazim T. Mamedov is the head of the laboratory of spectroscopic ellipsometry. His research activities are related to field-matter interaction in the radio to optical frequency range. DFT-based calculations of optical properties of the materials and structures he is focused on are supplementary included in his research. He has more than 180 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Currently he is engaged in several projects related to none-magnetic and magnetic semiconductors with non-trivial topology.

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. Said Sabor is a researcher at USMBA University, Fez-Morocco. Dr. Sabor received his PhD in applied Chemical Physics entitled “Contribution to the quantum study of neutral diatomic tungsten carbide WC and its ions WCq+, q=1, 2” from the University of USMBA and Paris-EST University in 2015. From 2015to date he’s a member of the LIMAS laboratory of USMBA University. - Basic research: quantum chemistry calculations of small molecules (Computational Spectroscopy of transition metal carbides, nitrides and chalcogenides)

Prof. Farrell is the founder of the TU Dublin Photonics Research Centre, which commenced in 1995. After receiving an electronic engineering degree from University College Dublin, Prof. Farrell spent a number of years as a design engineer in industry before joining academia. He was awarded his Masters in 1983 on aspects of optical receiver design and his PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 1994 on all‐optical clock synchronization with frequency changing. Prof. Farrell was Head of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at TU Dublin between 2011 and 2014 and from 2014 – 2019 he was Dean of the College of Engineering and Built Environment at Technological University Dublin. The College is the largest provider of education in the Architecture, Engineering and Built Environment area in Ireland, operating over seven schools. In the TU Dublin Photonics Research Centre, Prof. Farrell leads a multinational team of postdoctoral and doctoral researchers focusing on several areas of optical fiber sensing research. Sensor types have included sensors for structural health monitoring for composite materials, for sensing EM field strength, sensing for chemical and bio‐sensing and also VOC gas detection. A wide variety of sensor structures have been investigated, including sensors based on fibre hetrostructures, micro‐fiber and nanofiber sensors and fibre based microresonators. He has over 400 journal and conference publications in the area of photonics, with a focus on optical fibre sensing, and has delivered invited talks at several international research conferences in recent years. He has been a supervisor for PhD and MSc students for over twenty years and has acted an external examiner on doctoral examinations on occasion. Prof. Farrell is an Associate Editor and referee for a range of Photonics journals and has been a member of a number of international photonics conference technical committees. He has led several long‐term research collaborations with research groups in China, Poland and Australia. He has been involved in a number of research networks, such as the EU COST Action on Optical Sensors. Prof. Farrell is also a visiting professor in China at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and at Harbin Engineering University. He was also Director for several years with the startup company PX Instrument Technology, focusing on the design of optical fiber system test and measurement technologies for high capacity optical transmission systems.

PhD in Physics in 2008, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, in the intersection of high energy (MeV) ion beam analysis and nanotechnologies 2008 - 2010: postdoc at Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, development of high-aspect-ratio patterning of gold and diamond for applications in X-ray diffractive optics and plasmonics 2010 - 2016: Research Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland; development of MEMS sensors and actuators 2016 - present: Senior Researcher at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia: Development of advanced electron and optical imaging methods and technologies for single molecule characterisation; development and microfabrication of microfluidic sample delivery and preparation systems; development of novel microptical elements, di ractive optics, and X-ray optics; croygenic microscopy and correlative electron, ion and optical microscopies

Dr. MohammadMahdi Ariannejad is currently a lecturer at Xiamen University Malaysia. He is a registered Graduate Engineer under Board of Engineering Malaysia (BEM), Graduate member of The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM), member of MIET and member of Malaysia Board of Technologists and member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He received his B. Eng. Electrical Engineering-Electronics from University Iran in 2010. He obtained M.Sc. (Microelectronics) from UniversitiKebangsaan Malaysia in 2013 and PhD in Photonics engineering from the university of Malaya, Malaysia in 2019.He worked as Research Assistant in Photonics research centre, University of Malaya in 2015. He has published more than 30 journals/conferences papers and books/chapters in Optical Soliton Communications, Laser Physics, photonics, Nonlinear fiber optics, and Nanotechnology. He joined Xiamen University Malaysia in March, 2020 as Lecturer at Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ultrafast laser, Multi- wavelength Laser, Optical modulator, Photonics based Microwave, Waveguide design, Mirroring resonators, Nonlinear Optics, Micro and nano fabrication (MEMS and NEMS), Silicon and polymer waveguide fabrication, Solar cell fabrication, CPU architecture, IoT and communication systems.

He completed his PhD in 1995 from Faculty of Sciences in Tunis in collaboration with the University of Paris VI in the field of electronic transport in semiconductors and his “HDR” (Ability of Direction of Research) in 2007 from College of Sciences in Sfax (Tunisia) in the field of nanotechnology. He is membership of the Laboratory of Physics of Materials and Nanomaterials applications to Environment: LaPhyMNE”. He has published more than 220 research articles and he has more than 200 contributions in national and international conferences. He is reviewer in some journals as Thin Solid Films, Materials Science and Engineering B, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids and Journal of Luminescence. He was a supervision of 24 PhD students. He spent seven years (October 2011- Jun 2018) as Visitor Professor in the College of Sciences at Al-Imam Mohamed Ibn Saud Islamic University, (Saudi Arabia). His main research interest: synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles, thin films and nanocomposites for variety of applications such as visible luminescence thermometry, solar cells, transparent electrodes, advanced catalyst supports, Hyperthermia, water treatment, energy storage and gas sensors.

Dr. Danveer Singh completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune. He has been awarded prestigious fellowships INSPIRE (SHE), DST scholarship, INSPIRE (AORC), DST Fellowship. He has been working in the field of light-matter interaction at the nano/micro-scale dimension. His research interest focused on the area of light-matter interaction and currently, working on the reconfigurable meta-optics.

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

Takayoshi Shimura received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Nagoya University, Japan, in 1987, 1989 and 1993, respectively. He was an assistant professor from 1993 to 2007, and is an associate professor from 2007 of Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. His research interests include semiconductor materials and processes for advanced electronic and photonic devices, and also x-ray imaging with innovative optics.

My name is Mariem Guesmi. I received my MSc in Quantum physic and my Ph.D in physics at the Faculty of Sciences Tunis (FST), Université de Tunis El Manar, 2092, Tunis. My work was devoted to the optical properties of Polymeric Systems. After Ph.D. defense in 2017, I pursued my carrier as a researcher at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic. I focused on the study of Hybrid Polymeric Systems for Photonics and Electronics. Since 2019, I am pursuing a postdoc at the group of computational spectroscopy in the research center TOPTEC, IPP CAS, Czech Republic. My current research interests include ultrafast spectroscopy.

Ayman M. Mostafa, anassistant professor in the Laser Technology unit, National Research Center in Egypt. Also, I am a Post-doctoral in Max-Planck-InstitutfürStruktur und Dynamik der Materie (MPSD) in Germany, Post-doctoral in Center of Imaging and microscopy (CIM) in the Zewail City of Science. Hehas received a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry & Physics in 2007 from Cairo University, Egypt. Then in 2014, he got a master in Optics & Spectroscopy from Ain Shams University, Egypt. After that in 2018, he has got a Ph.D. in physics in laser spectroscopy from Menoufia University, Egypt. In 2014, he got the best Master thesis in Physics from NRC. In 2015, he got the best young scientist project from Fulbright Egypt. In 2015, he got the best international publisher in Physics from National Research Centre. In 2016, he has chosen to be one of the best 12 scientists to simplify the complicated scientific phenomena in just 3 minutes from Famelab Egypt. He is particularly interested in laser spectroscopy and its applications. His main research interests are specialized in Pulsed laser ablation in liquid environmental (PLAL), Pulsed laser deposition (PLD), nonlinear optics, Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Laser Shock Peening (LSP), A nonlinear investigation by Z-scan technique, and 4D ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) for imaging the ultrafast dynamic of matter. Also, He specialized in using the spectroscopic investigation as FT-IR Spectrometer, UV-Vis Spectrometer, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD)

Dr. Yijie Shen is currently a Marie S.-Curie research fellow of Nanophotonics & Metamaterials Group (Nikolay I. Zheludev group) in Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie MULTIPLY Fellowship. He received the Ph.D. degree in optical engineering at the Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and automation from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. During Mar. 2019 to Jun. 2019, he was invited as a visiting researcher in School of Physics: Structured Light Laboratory (Andrew Forbes group), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), Johannesburg, South Africa, and also invited as a visiting researcher in National Laser Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa. He is a member of the Chinese Optical Society (COS) and Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and an invited member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), specially a fellow member in the Systems and Instrumentation Group in which. He won the Wang Da-Heng Optics Award (COS, China) in 2019. He is a national first-grade computer aided designer and cartographer in China. He is 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 Light: Sci. & Appl., Optica, Phys. Rev. Appl., Phys. Rev. A, Opt. Lett., Opt. Express, with more than 300 citations.

Sergey Shoydin was born in Alma-Ata, USSR, on January 12, 1952. In 1969 he graduated from the Specialized Physics and Mathematics School at Novosibirsk State University. In 1974 he received a diploma in physics from Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia. In 1974 he joined the Central Design Bureau for Precision Instruments as a Research Engineer. He was then promoted to Senior Research Engineer, and then to Lead Research Engineer. In 1984, at the Scientific Research Optical Institute. S. I. Vavilov, St. Petersburg, Russia he defended his dissertation in the specialty "Optics" he was awarded the degree of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences (PhD) in the specialty "Optics", after which he was appointed head of the research sector of the Central Design Bureau, Novosibirsk Russia. In 1993 he was invited to teach at the Siberian Geodetic Academy as an associate professor. Then in 2002 he was elected professor of the Geodetic Academy in the Department of Optics. From 2012 to the present - Associate Professor of the Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies, Novosibirsk, Russia. In 1992, he created his own company "Optic", Novosibirsk, Russia, which solves the problems of applied holography, which he still manages. Sergey Shoydin has published 5 textbooks and teaching aids, is the author of 14 patents, 119 scientific papers, and regularly participates in a number of holographic projects. Main research interests: 1) Holographic memory, materials for memory. 2) Holographic position sensors. 3) Holographic detectors of rotation. 4) Holographic sights (sights, etc.). 5) Holographic augmented reality and television.

Shilpi Chaudhary is from the Department of Applied Sciences – Physics, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh – India. She obtained her master degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and a PhD from the Department of Physics at Lund University, Sweden on a Marie-Curie Fellowship in the framework of FP7/European Nano Invent in SMALL (Surface for Molecular Recognition at Atomic Level) network. Her research interests include Spectroscopy of Surfaces/Interfaces, Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy, Development of Bio/Chemo Sensing Surfaces, Hybrid Materials. For the experimental work, she uses MAXIV Lab Lund, Sweden; Advanced Light Source, California USA; SOLEIL Paris, France, ELETTRA, Trieste, Italy, and Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy at IIT Ropar. She has been awarded a Startup Research Grant (SRG), Scheme for Young Scientists and Technologists (SYST) grant, and SERB- NPDF grant by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. She received the Young Scientist Award from International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) during Smart Materials and Surfaces (SMS) – conference, Bangkok, THAILAND and Per Westlings Minnesfond Grant from the Government of Sweden.

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

Omar S. Magaña-Loaizareceived his B. S. from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica in 2010. He received a Master and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 2012 and 2016, respectively. His doctoral dissertation was in the area of quantum coherence. He was a Research Associate in the Quantum Nanophotonics Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder from 2017 to 2018. He joined the faculty of Louisiana State University as an Assistant Professor of Physics in Fall of 2018. Now he leads the Experimental Quantum Photonics Group. His research group investigates novel properties of light and their potential for quantum technologies. He has published over 40 research articles in Nature and Science Journals, Applied Physics Reviews, Reports on Progress in Physics, Optica, and Physical Review Letters. His research is currently being supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office.

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 storage systems. And he was a Senior Technology Analyst, Distinguished Engineer and Optical Technology Manager of Core Device Development Group in SONY Corporation. He was a professor at the School of Optoelectronics in Beijing Institute of Technologyfrom2012, and currently is a professor at College of Photonic and Electronic Engineering of Fujian Normal University from 2018. His research interests are in informationoptics: holographic storage, optical information display, opticaldevices, etc. HeisaFellowofThe International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), The Director of The Chinese Optical Society (COS) and Chinese Society for Optical Engineering (CSOE), a Senior Member of Optical Society of America (OSA).

Dr. Jingsong LI received his PhD in 2008 at Hefei Institute of Physical Science (HIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China. He has job experiences as a researcher at Reims University (France), Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Germany), and Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Switzerland) for several years. In 2013, He joined Department of Physics and Materials Science, Anhui University (AHU), working on development and implementation of mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers and sensitive spectroscopy techniques for atmospheric chemistry, soil ecosystems and environmental applications, etc. Currently, Dr. Li is the director of Laser Spectroscopy and Sensing Lab. He is a member of Chinese Society for Optical Engineering (CSOE), SPIE, IEEE, OSA and EGU. He has been an invited reviewer of more than ten international SCI journals for many years. He has authored over 60 peer-refereed SCI articles and more than 30 invited conference presentations, and now in charge of several projects including two National Natural Science Foundations of China, and one National Program on Key Research and Development Project.

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

Feng Qibin received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of automatic instrumentation, Shanghai Machinery Institute, shanghai, China, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. She was a teacher of Hefei university of technology from 1995-2001. In 2006, she received Ph.D. degrees from the department of information engineering, Vienna University of Technology. Since then, she becomes a senior researcher and an associate Prof. of Academy of Photoelectric Technology, Hefei University of Technology. Her current research interests include LC display, LED backlight, DOE design

Abdallah Chehaidar is Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Sciences of Sfax (Tunisia). He holds a Doctorate in Solid State Physics from the Paul-Sabatier University of Toulouse (1995), and University Habilitation from the Faculty of Sciences of Sfax (2001). He teaches physics at all levels of the physics university course. He is the author of two educational books entitled "Mathematical Methods for Physical Sciences: Courses and Applications" and "Restricted Relativity and Introduction to Quantum Mechanics: Courses and Applications" published by the University Publication Center in Tunis. His research activities fall under the thematic Numerical Physics of the Solid State. He has published numerous articles on the study of the vibrational properties of amorphous semiconductors, the structural properties of nanoporous amorphous silicon and silicon-germanium, the luminescence spectra of doped rare-earth ions in crystals, and the optical properties of nanoparticles.

My name is Fidel Makatia from Kenyatta University, school of Engineering and Technology, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nairobi Kenya. The 2020 United Nations person of the year. I am an IEEE Photonics Society Volunteer. In April 2020, I led a team of researchers to design and develop the first ever locally designed and developed mechanical ventilator in Kenya to combat COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases. In August 2020, I was selected by the ministry of ICT, government of Kenya to be part of a team of researchers that are developing a tablet for primary school learning in Kenya. In September 2020, I led a team that won the Kenya space agency grant to develop a nano satellite to be used for agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation. The nanosatellite is called KUCUBE sat and being developed by a team of students and researchers from Kenyatta University which I lead. In November 2020, I won the United Nation person of the year award – Principal innovator. The IEEE photonics Society Kenyatta University which I lead won the prestigious chapter of the year award. I am passionate about the community and use of my skills in engineering and technology to transform the society. I believe that technology is a powerful tool that can be used to change the society.

Dr. Naveen Nishchal is an associate professor in the department of physics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna. Previously, he served at IIT Guwahati as assistant professor of physics and IRDE (DRDO) Dehradun as a Scientist ‘C’. Dr. Nishchal received his Ph.D. degree in physics from IIT Delhi in 2005. He is a senior member of OSA and SPIE. He is a life member of Optical Society of India, Indian Science Congress Association, and Lasers and Spectroscopy Society of India. Recently, he has authored a book Optical Cryptosystems (IOP, UK, 2019). He has authored/co-authored 65 peer-reviewed international journal papers, two book chapters, and 160 papers in various conferences/seminars/symposia. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of Optical Engineering (SPIE, USA) and Asian Journal of Physics (India). His areas of research interest include optical cryptography, digital holography, and interferometry.

Dr. Prithvi Singh is currently working as an Assistant Professor in department of Physics at Sir Padampat Singhania University, Udaipur, INDIA. He has an approximately twelve years of research and teaching experience. He is the principal investigator of a young scientist research project funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) on the "Quantum Mechanics Research on the Interaction of DNA and RNA Components with Various Charged Particles" funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He got his M.Sc. (Physics) qualification in 2004 from M. L. S. University, Udaipur, India and finished the Doctoral Research (Ph.D.) in the field of Atomic and Molecular Physics from SPS, University, Udaipur. He has done Postdoctoral Research work at the Center d'études Nucléaires de Bordeaux, Bordeaux University Gradignan, France. He is a theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physicist, specializing in the field of Charged particle interaction with Atoms, Ions and Molecules. He received the prestigious Professorship Award in Physics by American Physical society, USA in the year 2018. He was Visiting Professor at the Missouri University of Science & Technology, Missouri, Rolla, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, USA, Marie Curie-Sorbonne, Paris, France, Jan Kochanowski University (UJK), Kielce, Poland, Swansea University, Swansea, U.K, Ecole Polytechnique college Paris, France. He was visiting guest scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ),USA, Harvard University, USA, Max Plank Institute fur Kernphysik , Heidelberg, Germany, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, TIFR, India etc. He has also attended and presented research papers in various international conferences held in India, France, U.K., Poland, Germany, Italy, China, Spain, Japan,USA etc. He has published more than 30 research papers in various refereed international/national journals (SCI/SCOPUS) and conference proceedings. He received many time travel grants and funds for research from prestigious societies and government funding agencies such as Gordon Research, USA, American Physical Society (APS), USA, MPI Germany, Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, CSIR, New Delhi, IUPAP (International union of pure and applied Physics) etc.

Himansu Shekhar Pradhan received his Ph. D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India in the year 2017. He received M. Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology Rourkela, Odisha in 2009 and his B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology Rourkela, Odisha in 2006. He is a professional member of IEEE. He worked as assistant professor under Biju Patnaik University of Technology Rourkela, Odisha for 4 years and has undertaken the responsibilities imparting classroom teaching and providing guidance to the undergraduate as well as post graduate engineering students. Currently, He is working as assistant professor in Electronics and Communication Engineering department at National Institute of Technology Warangal. His research interests include fibre optic sensors design and optimisation, distributed fiber sensors for structural health monitoring, SPR based sensor for biomedical application, optical communication and sensing, characterization of optoelectronics devices and optical signal processing.