Dr. Khaled Habib holds a PhD in Chemical and Materials Engineering from the Optical Science and Technological Center of University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, 1988. Mr. Habib was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Chemical Engineering Dept., and Materials science Dept., of the Technical University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany, 1991-1992. Mr. Habib is currently a full research professor/a senior research scientist with the Materials Science and Photo-electronics Lab., at KISR in Kuwait. He specializes in “Laser optical interferometry as non-destructive testing (NDT) methods of materials evaluation in corrosive media, corrosion, and Nano-structures of metallic glasses”. Mr. Habib has in his credit more than 144 articles in international refereed journals in his area of specialization. He is a fellow of the international Society of Photo- electronics and Optics (SPIE).

Lingjie Kong received his PhD degree in Optical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing. After that, he continued the postdoctoral research at Harvard University, Janelia Research Campus/Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Purdue University, sequentially. Since 2017, he joined the faculty of the Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University. His research interests include biomedical optics and its applications. Specifically in neurophotonics, he has developed multiple techniques for imaging faster, deeper, and wider. Besides, he has proposed novel concepts and techniques of optical sensing and intelligent prognosis. So far, he has published >60 papers, including those in high-impact journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Methods, Science Advances, and Nature Machine Intelligence.

Prof. Zhongqi Pan received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, all in Electrical Engineering. He joined the University of Louisiana (UL) at Lafayette in 2003, and currently is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also holds BORSF Endowed Professorship in Electrical Engineering II, and BellSouth/BoRSF Endowed Professorship in Telecommunications. Dr. Pan’s research is in the area of optical fiber communications, including photonic devices, wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) technologies, optical performance monitoring, coherent optical communications, and space-division-multiplexing (SDM) technologies. He has authored/co-authored over 200 publications on optical devices, nonlinear optics, and fiber communications systems, including 12 books/book chapters.

Wanyang Dai is a Distinguished Professor in Mathematics School of Nanjing University, Chief Scientist at Su Xia Control Technology, President & CEO of U.S. based (Industrial 6.0) SIR Forum, President of Jiangsu Probability & Statistics Society, Chairman of Jiangsu Big Data-Blockchain and Smart Information Special Committee, Editors of over 20 international journals ranging from pure mathematics to its applications (e.g., Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Wireless Engineering and Technology), General Chairs and plenary/keynote speakers of over 70 IEEE/ACM, mathematics & statistics, and international conferences; (Was) a Review Committee Chair in mathematics/stochastic analysis of National Natural Science Awards (the national highest awards)

Qiang He received the Ph.D. degree in computer application technology from the Northeastern University, Shenyang, China in 2020. He also worked with School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore as a visiting PhD researcher form 2018 to 2019. He is currently an Associated Professor at the College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. His research interests include machine learning, social network analytic, data mining, health care, infectious diseases informatics, etc. He has published more than 40 journal articles and conference papers.

Jupen Ding received an MSc and Ph.D. from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. In 2013, he joined the Key Laboratory of Wireless-Optical Communications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China. In 2017, he worked for one of the world’s top 500 enterprises. Then, he joined Xinjiang University, in China. He has published more than fifty journal and conference papers and holds more than twenty national and international patents. He is a senior member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the Chinese Optical Society, and the China Institute of Communications.

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.

Associate researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, member of the Shanghai Laser Society, and member of the Shanghai Society of Infrared and Remote Sensing. Mainly engaged in optical thin film technology and its engineering applications, serving as the chief designer of optical thin films for multiple aerospace remote sensing optical payload model projects. The main research directions include ultra far infrared (~100 microns) optical thin film materials and technology research, micro nano optics and spectral control, numerical quantization of thin film device spectra, phase and polarization state control of optical thin films, wide spectral color separation and out of band suppression, high integration optical thin film devices, and the application of new thin film devices in hyperspectral imaging systems. In recent years, more than ten papers have been published in domestic and foreign journals, and more than ten invention patents have been applied for and authorized.

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.

The series editor is Aloysius F. Hepp, Chief Technologist at Nanotech Innovations and an independent consultant based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He earned a PhD in Inorganic Photochemistry in 1983 from MIT and retired in December 2016 from the Photovoltaic & Electrochemical Systems Branch of the NASA Glenn Research Center (Cleveland). He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University in 1992–3. He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement medal in 1997. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Albany and Cleveland State University. Dr. Hepp has co-authored nearly 200 publications (including six patents) focused on processing of thin film and nanomaterials for I–III–VI solar cells, Li-ion batteries, integrated power devices and flight experiments, and precursors and spray pyrolysis deposition of sulfides and carbon nanotubes. He has co-edited twelve books on advanced materials processing, energy conversion and electronics, biomimicry, and aerospace technologies.