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 School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. Dr. Yue’s current research interest is intelligent photonics, including optical communications, optical perception, and optical chip. He has published ~300 journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >12,000 citations, one book, six edited books, two book chapters, >60 issued or pending patents, >200 invited presentations (including 1 tutorial, >30 plenary and >70 keynote talks). Dr. Yue is a Fellow of SPIE, a Senior Member of IEEE and Optica. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and Frontiers in Physics, Editor Board Member for four other scientific journals, Guest Editor for >10 journal special issues. He also served as Chair or Committee Member for >100 international conferences, Reviewer for >70 prestigious journals.

Simarjeet Saini is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He completed his doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2001 under the guidance of Professor Mario Dagenais. Professor Saini’s Ph.D. thesis was on design and development of a new platform technology for monolithic integration of photonic devices called Passive Active Resonant Coupler (PARC). The resulting technology led to the foundation of a start-up company called Covega Corporation in Jessup, Maryland. Professor Saini worked as the Lead Optoelectronics Device Engineer at Covega, and later, as a Lead Applications Engineer. He led the design and development of Covega’s single angled facet chips, semiconductor optical amplifiers and high power lasers. In August 2004, Professor Saini co-founded Altanet Communications, a start-up company that focused on ethernet based metro area networks with less than 5 ms restoration time using intelligence in the optical domain. Professor Saini’s research interests include: optoelectronics components for datacom and telecom, high speed optical networks, tunable mid-IR lasers, nanophotonics chem-bio sensors, and microwave photonics. He holds 5 US patents and has 5 more in various stages of application, of which 3 have already been commercialized.

David Cooke, Ph.D. received his doctorate from Duke University, Durham, NC, US. He has worked in the semiconductor industry for over 20 years in a wide variety of capaities including quaility assurance manager, technical marketing manager and in sales. Dave's focus has been on wet chemistries and MOCVD, specifically metal organic precursors. He is currently working for Vital Materials, where he supports customers with their MO needs and works with customers with a collaborative approachh to help develop novel precursors for next generation applications. He is passionate about the semiconductor industry and is always looking for opportunities to help customers meet their immediate and long-term needs

Professor Dr. Angela Amphawan received her PhD in optical communications from University of Oxford, UK. She then won the prestigious Fulbright Award to work on optical devices and networks at the Research Laboratory of Electronics and MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. She currently leads the Photonics Laboratory at Sunway University. Before joining Sunway University, she was Deputy Vice Chancellor of University Malaysia of Computer Science & Engineering, and previously, Director of the Optical Technology Research Laboratory at University Utara Malaysia. Prior to that, she lectured at Multimedia University and served as Computing Officer at University of Oxford, UK. She is currently on the National 5G Task Force for development of 5G infrastructure. She also serves on the IEEE Photonics Society. In addition, she is on the Editorial Board of the APL Photonics Journal under the American Institute of Physics and several other international journals. In addition, she has served as Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee and International Scientific Committee for numerous international conferences. She has given keynote addresses at several Fulbright and IEEE events. She has won the International Academic Award by the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, several Excellent Service Awards, Teaching Awards, Best Paper Awards and exhibition medals. She is also a recipient of the distinguished Telekom Malaysia scholarship. Her research has been funded by the Fulbright Foundation, Telekom Malaysia and Ministry of Higher Education.

Dr. Davis is an active research physicist in the areas of High Energy Astrophysics and High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA) / High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) within the context of Fusion energy via the interaction of high power lasers with plasma (Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE)). He investigates how fusion energy is generated by very powerful objects in the universe (e.g., gamma ray bursts and supernova) and then studying the same fusion energy generation processes to scale in laser-plasma fusion energy laboratories located here on earth: actual astrophysics observations and theories are incorporated. Dr. Davis' interest in this area (HEDP, HEDLA and Fusion Energy) began while serving as faculty guest researcher and consultant to the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, USA. For example, his work, performed in collaboration at the CELIA laboratory, led to a partnership with the China - France SVOM satellite mission into space to study gamma-ray bursts: as a Ph. D candidate at the Catholic University of America (CUA), Dr. Davis performed the first measurement of cosmological time dilation (a general relativistic effect related to the expansion of the universe) for a sample of gamma-ray burst observed by the then orbiting Compton Gamma-ray Observatory. The China - France SVOM satellite is one of China's first pure science missions and France's only high energy astrophysics satellite. Dr. Davis’ research collaboration at CELIA is the only group in the Aquitaine region so affiliated with the China-France SVOM mission. This proves the communities of laboratory astrophysics and traditional astrophysics can work together to move physics forward. Dr. Davis’ research contributes to the development of clean, abundant, inexpensive source of nuclear fusion energy that does not rely on oil or coal. Additional applications are in directed energy physics (e.g., missile defense applications), laser acceleration of ions and electrons, astrophysics observations with theoretical development to explore space as well as medicine. Throughout his career, Dr. Davis has written award winning, successful proposals for contract, grant and fellowship money. His public outreach contributions include serving as an instructor for NASA – SEMAA’s Star Lab (an inflatable planetarium for educating children about the universe: extremely popular with students; many have now gone on to become scientists, engineers, mathematicians and high-tech entrepreneurs), recruiting faculty for St John's University (SJU) as well as recruiting students for a scholarship named after NASA Astronaut Dr. Ronald McNair - a physicist lost aboard Space Shuttle Challenger. Dr. Davis cherishes his work in the area of public outreach as well as policy development for the USA State Department, USA Defense Department, the French Defense Ministry and the United Nations in the areas of directed energy research, fusion energy research with applications and space exploration. When Dr. Davis graduated with a Ph. D degree in physics (1995) from the highly internationally acclaimed Catholic University of America Department of Physics, he was the only African American to earn a physics degree at the Ph. D level in the United States of America, and he was the first African American to obtain a Ph. D. degree focusing on High Energy Astrophysics. Finally, Dr. Davis is the first member of the Davis family to earn a Ph. D. degree and he did it in physics.

Nicolás Abadía received a Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Technical University of Madrid and the Royal Institute of Technology. Afterward, Nicolás obtained a joint M.Sc. in Photonics at Ghent University, the Royal Institute of Technology, and the Free University of Brussels. Dr. Abadía pursued his Ph.D. degree at the University of Paris-Sud, working in collaboration with CEA-Leti. Nicolás was a joint postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin and McGill University, working on III-V and silicon photonics devices and systems in partnership with Ciena, Lumentum, and Western Digital. Dr. Abadía is currently an assistant professor at Cardiff University and the Institute for Compound Semiconductors with research interests including integrated photonic devices and systems in III-V, silicon, and silicon nitride platforms for Dr. Abadía has received several international recognitions, including the 2016 OSA Outstanding Reviewer Recognition, the SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship, and the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship; as well as national recognitions such as the Dr. César Milstein Grant and the best thesis award by the Official College of Telecommunication Engineers and the Spanish Association of Telecommunication Engineers.

Dr. Joe Sanderson is a distinguished physicist specializing in the interaction of matter with intense femtosecond laser pulses. His research focuses on using these ultrafast lasers for imaging molecular structures and generating nanoparticles, contributing significantly to the fields of Coulomb imaging and nanotechnology. Dr. Sanderson earned his Ph.D. in Physics from University College, London, and has been recognized with several awards, including the JSPS Fellowship and the Premier's Research Excellence Award. As a faculty member at the Centre for Advanced Materials Joining, he leads the Nano and Micro Systems Lab and is actively involved in teaching courses such as Physics and Optics. Dr. Sanderson has numerous publications to his credit, exploring innovative applications of femtosecond lasers in science and engineering.

Dr. Nyi Nyi Linn is a dedicated researcher and academic with extensive experience in the fields of VANETs, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. His work focuses on the development of intelligent autonomous systems, human-robot interaction, and sensor integration for real-world applications. With a strong background in both theoretical and applied aspects of AI, Dr. Nyi Nyi Linn has contributed to several interdisciplinary projects and international publications. He is currently serving as Research Fellow at Electronic Training School, where he leads research initiatives and mentors graduate students. Dr. Nyi Nyi Linn is passionate about advancing the frontiers of AI technologies and fostering collaboration across academia and industry.