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.

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Dr. Yifei Li received his B.Eng. in Optoelectronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1996. He received his MS (2001) and PhD (2003) in Electrical Engineering both from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. From 2003 to 2007, he was a research faculty with the Center for Microwave-Lightwave Engineering, Drexel University. In 2007, he joined the ECE Department of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he is currently a full professor and the director of the RF Photonics Lab. Dr. Li is a visiting faculty with the Optoelectronic Research Group in the University of California Santa Barbara. Dr. Li has six US patents in RF Photonics. He has numerous publications in renowned technical journals and international conference proceedings. Dr. Li was a winner of European Microwave Association (EuMA) Young Scientist Prize (1st prize) during the 12th Colloquium on Microwave Communications held in Budapest, Hungary. He was a winner of 2008 DARPA MTO Young Faculty Award.

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Dr. Zhongping Chen is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the OCT Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Co-founder and Chairman of OCT Medical Imaging Inc. Dr. Chen received his B.S. degree in Applied Physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1982, his M. S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1987, and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Cornell University in 1993. Dr. Chen and his research group have pioneered the development of Doppler optical coherence tomography, which simultaneously provides high resolution 3-D images of tissue structure and vascular flow dynamics. These functional extensions of OCT offer contrast enhancements and provide mapping of many clinically important parameters. In addition, his group has developed a number of endoscopic and intravascular rotational and linear miniature probes for OCT and MPM imaging and translated this technology to clinical applications. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and review articles and holds a number of patents in the fields of biomaterials, biosensors, and biomedical imaging. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), a Fellow of SPIE, and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Hadiseh Alaeian obtained her Ph.D. in 2015 in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University where she got a Ph.D. minor in Physics, as well. Her Ph.D. work focused on theoretical studies of active meta-materials brought her the Silver medal from the Materials Research Society. Upon receiving a postdoctoral award from Humboldt foundation, she moved to the University of Bonn, Germany to work on experimental studies of photon Bose-Einstein condensation during 2016-2017. She later moved to Stuttgart as a junior group leader, affiliated with both university of Stuttgart and the joint quantum center of Max Planck Institute of Solid-State systems, to work on hybrid quantum systems of atoms and photons with the ultimate goal of enhancing the coherence time of thermal Rydberg atoms. During her time, i.e.2018-2020, she supervised several bachelor and master students on experimental and theoretical atomic related projects. She is also serving as co-supervisor of two Ph.D. students. Her research has been awarded financial supports from Quantum Center (IQST) through a young investigator award and the Baden-Wurttemberg Foundation. She is the co-PI of a DPG (German Physical Society)-funded program on cavity Rydberg polaritons and another project on inverse design of quantum optical circuits. In August 2020, she joined Purdue University as an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering department as well as the Physics department where she is establishing Quantum Nano-Photonics-lab to investigate hybrid quantum systems and technologies.

Remi Leandre is director of research C.N.R.S. at the University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comte. He published around 170 papers in the field of the Malliavin Calculus, white noise analysis and stochastic differential geometry with some applications to analysis, geometry and mathematical physics. He has organized several conferences in France and published with X. Dai, X. Ma and W. Zhang two books in honour of Jean-Michel Bismut at Asterisque (French mathematical society). He received in 1988 Bronze Medal of C.N.R.S. and in 1989 Rollo Davifdson Prize for various works on hypoelliptic diffusions.

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

Zabih Ghassemlooy (Fellow, SOA; Fellow, IET; Senior Member, IEEE), CEng, BSc (Hons.) in EE Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan Univ., (1981), MSc (1984) and PhD (1987) from Manchester Univ., UK. 1987-88 as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at City Univ., UK. 1988-2004 joined Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and 2004-14 joined Faculty of Eng. & Env., Northumbria University, UK as an Associate Dean Research, and currently is the Head of Optical Communications Research Group. He is a Research Fellow (2016-) and a Distinguished Professor (2015-) at the Chinese Academy of Science. He was the Vice-Chair of EU Cost Action IC1101 (2011-16) and is Vice- Chair of the EU COST Action CA19111 NEWFOCUS (European Network on Future Generation Optical Wireless Communication Technologies, 2020-2024).He has published over 900 papers (357 journals and 8 books), over 100 keynote/invited talks, supervised 10 Research Fellows and 65 PhD students. His research interests are in the areas of optical wireless communications, free space optics, visible light communications, hybrid RF and optical wireless communications. He is the Chief Editor of the British Journal of Applied Science and Technology and the International Journal of Optics and Applications, Associate Editor of a number of international journals, and Co-guest Editor of a number of special issues OWC. He is the Vice-Cahir of OSA Technical Group of Optics in Digital Systems (2018-). He is the Chair of the IEEE Student Branch at Northumbria University, Newcastle (2019-). From 2004-06 he was the IEEE UK/IR Communications Chapter Secretary, the Vice-Chairman (2006-2008), the Chairman (2008-2011), and Chairman of the IET Northumbria Network (Oct 2011-2015).

Mohamed Henini obtained his first degree at the University of Oran, Algeria. He went to Nottingham University and was awarded the PhD degree in 1984. Mohamed has over 25 years of experience in Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) growth. His particular speciality is the physics and technology of MBE growth for III-V electronic and optoelectronic devices. He has authored and co-authored over 930 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has an h-index of 50. He is the founder of two international conferences namely, Low Dimensional Structures and Devices (LDSD) and Epitaxial Semiconductors on Patterned Substrates and Novel Index Surfaces (ESPS-NIS). He edited six books which were published by Elsevier and serves on the Editorial Board of several scientific journals. He is Editor of Journal of Alloys and Compounds (Elsevier).

Virgil-Florin Duma is Professor at the Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. He initiated (2008) the 3OM field (in Opto-Mechatronics, Opto-Mechanics, and Optical Metrology) and is head & founder of http://3om-group-optomechatronics.ro/. He received his PhD cum laude (2001), from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara (UPT), where he graduated (1991), in Fine Mechanics & Optics, valedictorian. He was awarded (2009-2010) a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship at The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, NY, USA, where he is a Visiting Scientist. He is Honorary Professor at the University of Kent, UK and PhD supervisor at UPT. Prof. Duma defended his Habilitation Thesis (2013) at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He is author of over 250 publications in journals and conferences, 15 books, and 2 patents. His research interests are in Measurements, Opto mechatronics, and Biomedical Imaging. Prof. Duma is member of OSA, Senior Member of SPIE, and Life Member of Fulbright Association.

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Prof. Arafa was selected the Year Pearson for Environment and Development in Egypt and also selected a Fellow Professor for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development in Stromstad Academi for Science and Technology in Sweden.Prof. Salah Arafa is a founder of Many Civil Society Organizations in Egypt and International and was selected as a Senior Ashoka Fellow in 2004. He is a member of the Governorates Committee at the National Council for Women and also Chair of the Egyptian Network Organization [ECCR] for Children Rights, and Vice-Chair of the African CSO Forum for Child Rights and Welfare.

Prof. R. K. Sinha received M. Sc. degree in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, in 1984, and Ph.D. degree in the area of Fiber Optics and Optical Communication Technology from the IIT, Delhi, India, in 1990. He had held various research and academic positions at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore during 1991, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani during 1992-1994, REC (now NIT) Hamirpur during 1994-1998 and at Delhi College of Engineering-DCE (now Delhi Technological University-DTU), University of Delhi during December 1998 to till date. He is currently working as Professor of Applied Physics and Chief Coordinator of TIFACCenter of Relevance and Excellence in Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (Mission REACH Program of Technology Vision 2020, Govt. of India) at Delhi Technological University Delhi since October 2002.