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.

Karlheinz Blankenbach is full professor at the University of Pforzheim, Germany, and the founder of the university's Display Lab. His main R&D activities are in the field of displays and LEDs, with most projects being automotive related. The competencies of the Display Lab are optical metrology, display systems and evaluation. He and his team have successfully completed numerous R&D projects (government and industry funded). Karlheinz has published more than 200 papers and book chapters and holds several patents. He is a senior member of the Society for Information Display (SID), a member of the Automotive/Vehicle Displays and HMI Technologies sub committee, and Chairman of SID’s International Committee on Display Metrology (ICDM) for automotive activities (IDMS standard). He has been on the board of the Display forum (DFF) since 2001 and, after nine years as chairman, has been appointed honorary chairman in 2020.

Pengfei Ji is an associate professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology. Pengfei got his Ph.D. degree at University of Missouri. As a diligent and motivated scholar, his research interests lie in the application and development of multiscale/multiphysics numerical algorithms in mechanical and thermal engineering. Presently, he focuses on the ultrafast laser manufacturing-oriented heat transfer and energy conversion (H-Tec).

Dr. Guozhen Liang is a professor in the School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 2010 and subsequently pursued a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, specializing in high-performance terahertz quantum cascade lasers, and earned his doctorate in 2015. From 2015 to 2017, he continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow at NTU, focusing on integrated mid-infrared and terahertz quantum cascade lasers. Between mid-2017 and late 2019, Dr. Liang conducted postdoctoral research at Columbia University in New York, working on visible-light phase modulators and all-solid-state LiDAR. From late 2019 to late 2024, he served as Laser Scientist in KLA Corporation. In January 2025, he joined the School of Electronic Information of Wuhan University. Dr. Liang's expertise spans integrated photonics, laser wavefront engineering, and high-performance DUV solid-state lasers. He has published more than 20 high-impact SCI journal papers, including Nature Photonics, Materials Today, and ACS Photonics, etc. Multiple works were highlighted as research breakthroughs by Nature Photonics and other media outlets. He also holds 4 U.S. patents.

Dr. O Dae Kwon received his B.S. from Seoul National University in 1969 and earned his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1978. He worked at Cornell University from 1978 to 1982, followed by Dow Research from 1982 to 1986. From 1986 to 2011, he served at POSTECH, with additional research appointments at Bell Labs (1993–1994) and UCLA (2000–2001). In recognition of his scientific contributions, he was honored as the “13th Scientist of the Year” in 1997 and received the IEEE NMDC Best Prize in 2006.