Xiangdong Zhang is a distinguished professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, China. Director of Beijing Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics & Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems. Chief Scientist of the National Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He received the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China in 2008. For many years, he has been devoted to the study of physical properties and applications of low dimensional nanostructures. He is the coauthor of more than 300 international refereed journal papers. His works have been highlighted by many scientific magazines and public media, including Physics Web, Phys. World, Science News, and so on. His current research interest includes the interaction between light and matter, quantum information, quantum computation, integrated circuit, signal processing and machine learning.

Chemist from Chemical Institute of Strasbourg (Rue Goethe), Dr es Physical-Sciences (1972) - Prof Henri Benoit, from Institute Charles Sadron (former Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules), Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg - France. Doctor honoris causa from "Gh. Asachi" Technical University in Iasi – Romania Doctor honoris causa from “Ivane Javakhishvili " Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Member of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences Honorary Member of the Ukraine Academy of Sciences Honorary Fellowship of the Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials Emeritus Professor, University of Montpellier, Institute Charles Gerhardt Montpellier - Aggregates, Interfaces & Materials for Energy (ICGM/AIME, UMR CNRS 5253). He was Full Professor @ the University of Montpellier and Head of Laboratory of Polymer Science and Advanced Organic Materials - LEMP/MAO (1972-2007), was Distinguished ‘’Michael Fam’’ visiting Professor at the School of ‘’Materials Science and Engineering’’, National Technical University, Singapore 2002-2018 and ERA Chair of EU project @ “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi, Romania (2018-2021). He is Chair of the Polyimides Conferences aka STEPI since 1987 which takes place every other 3 years at University of Montpellier; STEPI12 was in June 4-7 2023. His present activities concern High performance composites and nanocomposites, Interface/interphase, UV & EB coatings, Biomaterials, Green Chemistry and Aircrafts manufacturing. He has published 16 books and 12 patents. He has advised nearly 95 M.S. and 52 Ph.D. students with whom he has published over 450 per reviewed papers. More than 45 years’ experience in Polymer Science with 10 years in the industry: IBM USA (1981-1986), MOD UK (1975-1976), SNPA/Total France (1963-1967).

Doctor of Science. Emeritus Professor at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) of Rouen, researcher at CNRS and the University of Normandy. Honorary Professor at Shenyang University, China (North-Eastern University, ceremony held on May 30, 1997), and Honorary Professor at Xidian University, Xi'an, China. Although retired from teaching, I remain active in research, with several scientific articles published each year. As a theorist, the internet allows me to maintain numerous international collaborations, particularly with Brazil, China, the USA, and Morocco.

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