Yuri Kivshar received PhD degree in 1984 in Kharkov (Ukraine). From 1989 to 1993 he worked at several research centers in USA and Europe, and in 1993 he moved to Australia where he created Nonlinear Physics Center at the Australian National University. His research interests include nonlinear physics, metamaterials, and nanophotonics. He is Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Optica (former OSA), APS, SPIE, and IOP. He received many awards for his research including Lyle Medal (Australia), Lebedev Medal(Russia), The State Prize of the Ukraine in Science and Technology, Harrie Massey Medal (UK),Humboldt Research Award (Germany),SPIE Mozi Award(USA),Max Born Award (Optica), and more recently 2025 Matthew Flinders Medal, a top award of the Australian Academy of Science.

Koichi Shimizu received M.S. (1976) and Ph.D. (1979) degrees, from University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He was Research Associate in University of Washington 1974-79. He was an Assistant-, an Associate- Professors and a Professor in Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan in 1979-2016. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Hokkaido University, Japan, an Invited Research Professor of Waseda University, Japan and a Professor of Xidian University, Xi’an, China. He has been engaged in the studies of biomedical engineering including those of wave propagation in biological media, optical measurement, biotelemetry and biological effects of electromagnetic field. He served as an associate editor of IEEE Trans. ITB in 1999–2007. He has been a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, and an editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Nature. He is a member of IEEE, OSA, ISOB, IEEJ, IEICE and JSMBE. He received Research Promotion Award (1981), Best Paper Award (1995) and New Technology Development
Award (2020) from Japan Society for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Si-Cong Tian received his B. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in Physics from Jilin University, China, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor at Bimberg Chinese-German Center for Green Photonics, Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research interests include high-speed vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and high-brightness semiconductor lasers.

High quality GaN based Fabry Pérot (FP) microcavity (MC) was prepared. By combining the lateral confinement effect, discrete photonic states caused by three-dimensional confinement were observed. By utilizing these MCs, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) with a minimum wavelength of 276 nm (deep ultraviolet) and a maximum wavelength of 565 nm (yellow green light) were demonstrated. This technology was also adopted to fabricate resonant cavity light-emitting diodes (RCLEDs) in the green and red spectral range.

Dr./Prof. CW WU received B.S. (2001), M.S. (2004) from Nanjing University of Science and Technology and PhD (2007) from Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a senior researcher in Chinese Academy of Sciences and a professor in Nanjing University of Science and Technology, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been engaged in the studies of mechanics of coupled fields, in particular focusing on laser-matter interactions with applications to advanced technologies of manufacturing and energy conversions. He served as member of editorial board of AIA from 2019-2022 and serves as executive editor of CEST from 2024 on.

Yatian Li received the B.S. and M.S. degrees (Hons.) from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2013 and 2015, respectively and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)in 2019. He is the Associate Researcher with CIOMP, CAS. His research interests mainly include free space optical communications, adaptive optics. He has held the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and participated in 10 projects including Key Research and Development of MOST, Military Pre-Researches. He operates to realize the uplink/downlink laser communication experiments between the GEO/IGSO and the designed Optical Ground Stations. He has published more than 20 papers (18 as first/corresponding author), and also authorized 15 patents (10 as the first inventor).He is now serving as the Guest Editor of "Recent Advances in Optical Turbulence" in. He has also been the Workshop Co-Chair of IEEE ICCT 2023, and Session Chair of IEEE ICCC 2023, IEEE ICCT 2023. He has won the Best Paper Award in EAI Wisats 2024, Shuguang Talent Program of CIOMP.