Lei Zhou

Fudan University, China

Lei Zhou is a professor at Fudan University, China. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 at Fudan University, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Tohoku University from 1997-2000 and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2000-2004. He joined the Physics Department of Fudan University in 2004. He received the Distinguished Young Scholar Fund from the NSF of China in 2007 and became a Chang Jiang Scholars Program chair professor in 2009. He was recognized as an APS Outstanding Referee in 2017 and an OSA Fellow in 2019. His research interests focus on metamaterials, plasmonics and nanophotonics.

Din Ping Tsai

City University of Hong Kong, China

Din-Ping Tsai is currently Chair Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. He received Ph.D in Physics from University of Cincinnati, USA in 1990. He worked at Micro Lithography Inc., California, USA, Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Center, Toronto, Canada, and National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan from 1990 to 1999. He joined National Taiwan University (NTU) as an Associate Professor in 1999, and became Professor and Distinguished Professor of Department of Physics at NTU in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He served as the Director General of the Instrument Technology Research Center (NARL) located in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan from 2008 to 2012, and the Director of Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan from 2012 to 2019. His current research interests are near-field optics, nano-photonics, plasmonics, meta-materials, bio-photonics, green photonics, quantum photonics and their applications. He is Distinguished Research Fellow of Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica now. He is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Physical Society (APS), Electro Magnetics Academy (EMA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), Optical Society of America (OSA), International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE).

Ya Cheng

School of Physics and Electronics Science, East China Normal University, China

Ya Cheng is Professor and Dean of the School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, and Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained his BS from Fudan University, Shanghai, in 1993 and PhD from the SIOM in 1998. He developed slit-beam and spatiotemporal shaping techniques of femtosecond laser pulses for improving the spatial resolution in 3D micromachining, as well as photolithography-assisted chemomechanical etching for fabricating dense PICs on LN. Professor Cheng has co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and co-authored/co-edited 5 books. He has given ~150 invited talks at international conferences and served as the chair or committee member of numerous international conferences. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK.

Daoxin Dai

College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China

Daoxin Dai is the Qiushi Distinguished Professor and the Dean of the College of Optical Science and Engineering of Zhejiang University (ZJU). He received the B.Eng. degree from the Department of Optical Engineering of ZJU in 2000 and obtained the Ph. D. degree from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Sweden) in 2005. Later he joined in ZJU as an assistant professor, became an associate professor in 2007 and a full professor in 2011. He worked at Bowers Group in the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) as a visiting scholar during the years of 2008-2011. Prof. Dai has published over 230 refereed international papers and he has been one of Most Cited Chinese Researchers (from Elsevier’s report) since 2014. He has been invited to give more than 100 plenary/tutorial/keynote/invited talks at many prestigious international conferences including OFC 2016/2021. He is a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA).

Baohua Jia

School of Science, RMIT University, Australia

Baohua Jia is currently a Professor in School of Science at RMIT University. She is also the Director, Centre for Translational Atomaterials and a Research Leader at Swinburne University of Technology. She received her BSc and MSc degrees from Nankai University, China. She was awarded a PhD (2007) from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. She is now the President of Australia-China Advanced Materials and Manufacture Association and Fellow of Optical Society. Dr Jia’s research focuses on ultrafast laser imaging, spectroscopy and nanofabrication of novel photonic nanostructures and their applications for clean energy related research. Dr. Jia has co-authored more than 200 scientific publications in highly ranked journals and prestigious international conferences. She has delivered more than 50 keynote/invited talks at prestigious international conferences and serves multiples professional committees. She has received numerous prizes and awards.

Philippe Lalanne

Institut d'Optique d'Aquitaine, CNRS, France

Philippe Lalanne is a professor at the Institut d'Optique (Paris) and the research director at CNRS. He received the Agrégation de Sciences Physiques and the M.S. degree in Solid State Physics in 1986, the Ph.D degree in Physics in 1989 and the Habilitation à direct des Recherches in 1996 from the University of Orsay. After his first-year researches in the field of Optical Information Processing in the group of Pierre Chavel, he spent a sabbatical year in the group of Mike Morris at the Institute of Optics, Rochester in 1995. Since then, he has been involved in computational electrodynamics and in applications of subwavelength optical structures for diffractive optics, plasmonics, photonic crystals, integrated optics, microcavities and metamaterials. He is a member of the European Optical Society, the Optical Society of America, the IEEE LEOS and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and of SPIE.

Mengkun Liu

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, USA

Mengkun Liu is an associate professor at the Physics Department of Stony Brook University (2015-). He got his Ph.D. in 2012 from Boston University, after which he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in UC San Diego from 2012-2014. His research interests include physics of correlated electron systems, low-dimensional materials, infrared and terahertz nano-optics and ultrafast time-domain spectroscopy. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

N. Asger Mortensen

Center for Nano Optics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

N. Asger Mortensen is a full professor at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), while also holding a D-IAS Chair of Technical Science at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study. Prior to that he was a full professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He is an elected fellow of American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA), International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), Institute of Physics (IOP), and European Academy of Sciences (EurASc).

Junsuk Rho

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea 

Junsuk Rho is a Mu-Eun-Jae Endowed Chair Professor and Young Distinguished Professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea, with a double appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with designated emphasis in Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley (2013), M.S. in Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2008) and B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea (2007). Prior joining POSTECH, he conducted postdoctoral research in Materials Sciences Division & Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, and also worked as a principal investigator (Ugo Fano Fellow) in Nanoscience and Technology Division & the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory, USA. He has been developing a new concept of novel optical nanomaterials having extraordinary and unprecedented eletromagnetic properties based on fundamental physics and experimental studies of deep sub-wavelength light-matter interactions.

Jung-Tsung Shen

McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Jung-Tsung Shen is an associate professor at the Mckelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Prof. Shen received his PhD in Physics in 2003 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on theoretical and computational investigations of electron-hole plasma, laser-gain profile, and metamaterials. Since 2003, Professor Shen worked at Stanford University in the Ginzton Laboratory, focusing on photon transport in nano-photonics, metamaterials, plasmonics, and thermal and energy transport in nano-structures.

Yunfeng Xiao

School of Physics, Peking University, China

Yunfeng Xiao is distinguished Boya Professor at Peking University. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2002 and 2007, respectively. After a postdoctoral research at Washington University in St. Louis, he joined the faculty of Peking University in January 2009. He was promoted a tenured associate and a full professor in 2014 and 2018, respectively. His research interests lie in the fields of whispering-gallery microcavity optics and photonics. He was elected as OSA fellow in 2019.

Jing Zhang 

Institute of optoelectronics, Shanxi University, China

Jing Zhang is the Director of the Institute of Optoelectronics and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Photon Devices, Shanxi University, China. He received the B.S. (1995) in optoelectronics from Wuhan Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He got his Ph.D. degree in Optics form Shanxi University, China, in 2001. His research interests include the research of continuous variable quantum information, ultra-cold atoms, and laser technology. He has published more than 100 papers, published more than 100 papers in Nature, Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. A, etc. He was selected as The Optical Society (OSA) Fellow in 2018, American Physical Society (APS) Fellow in 2019, and won the second "Science Exploration Award" in 2020.

Weili Zhang

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, USA

Weili Zhang is currently professor and graduate coordinator in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University and adjunct professor at Tianjin University. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Optics from Tianjin University, China, in 1987 and 1993, respectively. He joined the Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong as a Postdoctoral Research Associate from 1993 to 1995. Dr. Zhang became a faculty member at Tianjin University in 1992 and Oklahoma State University, United States in 2002. His research interests include terahertz optoelectronics, nano- and micro-structured materials optics, and ultrafast phenomena. Dr. Zhang has published more than 350 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He currently serves as Associate Editor of PhotoniX, Topical Editor of Chinese Optics Letters, and Editorial Board Member of a number of peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA).