Dr. Alex Kazemi a world recognized Micro Technologist, and materials scientist is the CEO and President of ARK International LLC is focusing on development of fiber optics, miniaturized fiber components, fiber optic sensors, and micro/nano technology of laser components for aviation, aerospace and space applications. He is developer of the lightest fiber optic cable in aviation history, World 1stfiber optic sensor for rocket engine, U.S. 1stfiber optic delivery system for micro welding oflaser chips, and leading-edge technologies. He is The Boeing Company Fiber Optic Architect, Associate Technical Fellow, and worked for 25 years for Boeing as well as 10 years for telecom, lasers, sensors, and MEMS industries. He also taught physics and materials science for several years at University of Southern California. Currently he is the Principal Consultant for development of new generation of fiber optics and sensors to the Boeing Company. He has authored/edited 8 books and one book chapter in the area of photonics, lasers, sensors, fiber optics, micro and nano technologies, plus published over 48 papers in International Journals and hundreds of presentations throughout of conferences and technical community's world-wide. In recent survey by "Research Gate" organization over 1000 of his peers reviewed his published papers. In 2018, 2019 and 2021 three separate International Awards were presented to him for the phenomenal presentation for his research on fiber optic sensor and lasers. He has been Chairman of SPIE International Conferences in Photonics Applications for Fiber Optic Sensors and Lasers for 8 years and Chairman, Chief Scientific Committee and Chief Editor of Excel Global International Conference on Lasers, Optics, Photonics, and Sensors in 2021.He has bestowed hundreds of recognitions, awards and patents.

Professor Murshid is pushing the state-of-the-art in optical fiber bandwidth using hybrid optical architectures. His contributions include the addition of two new degrees of photon freedom to optical fiber multiplexing techniques, spatial domain multiplexing - also known as space division multiplexing (SDM), and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photon-based multiplexing. Earlier publications relevant to these endeavors include Optics and Laser Technology article on SDM, FIO presentation on OAM, and SPIE paper on SDM & OAM. His current research revolves around combining these technologies for communication architectures exceeding 100Tb/s. In summary, Professor Murshid is the Inventor of SDM in Optical Fibers - US Patent US7174067B2 Inventor of OAM in Optical Fibers - US Patent US8396371B2 Awards: Named one of Florida's five most influential scientists, Florida Trend magazine, November 2004 Teacher of the Year, College of Engineering, Student Government 2000-2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, 1997-1998.

Dr. Sun received his B.Eng. (1982) from the Zhejiang Institute of Technology and his M.S. (1985) from the Zhejiang University, both in Hangzhou, China. He earned his Ph.D. (1989) at the Florida State University with Prof. Jack Saltiel. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Josef Michl (1989-91) and Prof. Marye Anne Fox (1991-92) at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined Clemson faculty in 1992.

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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 over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >9,000 citations, five edited books, two book chapters, >50 issued or pending patents, >170 invited presentations (including 1 tutorial, >20 plenary and >30 keynote talks). Dr. Yue is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE). He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access, Editor Board Member for three other scientific journals, Guest Editor for >10 journal special issues. He also served as Chair or Committee Member for >80 international conferences, Reviewer for >60 prestigious journals.

Professor Sukhdev Roy received the B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics degree from Delhi Univ. in 1986, M.Sc. Physics from DEI, in 1988, and PhD. from IIT Delhi in1993. He joined the Dayalbagh Educational Institute in 1993, where he is at present the Head of the Department of Physics and Computer Science. He has been a Visiting Professor at many universities that include, Harvard, Waterloo, Wurzburg, Regensburg, Osaka, City University and Queen Mary University of London, TIFR, Mumbai and IISc. Bangalore. He has also been an Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy and is a Member of the Global Panel of MIT Technology Review. Prof. Roy has made significant contributions in Photonics that encompass nano-bio-photonics, silicon and neuro photonics, fiber optics, and optical computing. His experimental and theoretical research on nano-bio-photonic systems that includes low-power and high frequency optogenetic control of neural spiking, defines a new paradigm of technological convergence and innovation and opens up fascinating prospects for energy-efficient, ultrafast and low-cost all-optical information processing, sensing, energy conversion and healthcare. He has won a number of awards and fellowships that include, the, AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers in 2001, JSPS Invitation Fellowship, Japan in 2004,H.C. Shah Research Endowment Prize by Sardar Patel University in 2006, 1st IETE B.B. Sen Memorial Award in 2007, IETE-Conference on Emerging Optoelectronic Technologies Award in 2012, IETE-M. Rathore Memorial Award in 2016, the Systems Society of India's National Systems Gold Medal in 2016, and the Distinguished Alumni Award by the Dayalbagh Educational Institute in 2021. He also has been awarded seven best paper awards in international and national conferences. He has published 175 research papers in reputed journals and conference proceedings and 11 book chapters. He chaired the 8th World Conference and Expo on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Philadelphia, USA in 2020. He has delivered more than 100 invited talks in India and abroad that include Keynote Addresses and Plenary Talks at International Conferences that include the prestigious International Year of Light commemorative Keynote Address, at the 38th Convocation of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS), in 2015 and at the Annual Meeting of American Physical Society in 2008. He was the Guest Editor of the March 2011 Special Issue of IET Circuits, Devices and Systems Journal (UK) on Optical Computing. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access and is a member of the Editorial Board of Optics and Photonics Journal. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE and SPIE, and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, India, IETE (India), and the Optical Society of India. He is listed in the recent Stanford researchers study of Top 2% in World Ranking of Scientists-2020, in Optoelectronics and Photonics.

Dr. Soller has 25 years of experience in the research, development, and commercialization of guided-wave and fiber sensing systems. He joined Luna Innovations in 2002 as a research and development engineer, making significant contributions to multiple of Luna's industry-leading sensing and measurement solutions. After holding multiple technical and business leadership positions over the years he became Chief Operating Officer in 2021. In October 2022 he was named Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development. He has multiple issued patents and dozens of journal and conference publications. He received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse and a doctoral degree from the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester.

I am an MD, Ph.D., Post Doc in Medical Laser, and Adjunct lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. I have been using photobiomodulation (PBM) for wound healing particularly nonhealing diabetic wounds and burn ulcers, since 2003. I have published 29 international papers and 2 books in this field. I have run several workshops and training courses on PBM in both academic and non-academic courses and have delivered several oral and poster presentations at international conferences.

Heinz Siesler is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, with expertise in vibrational spectroscopy for chemical research, analysis and process control. He has 250+ publications (4 monographs), 2 patents (1998/2016) and received several academic awards (1994 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award (USA), 2000 Tomas Hirschfeld Award (USA), 2003 Buechi NIR Award (Germany), 2011 Science Kärcher Award (Germany), 2012 Fellow of the Society of Applied Spectroscopy (USA), 2017 Honorary Life-time Member of the Society of Applied Spectroscopy (USA)). Prior to his academic position he gained industrial experience in the R&D Department of Bayer AG, Germany. He also worked as lecturer (Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa) and Post-Doc (University of Cologne, Germany), after receiving his PhD in Chemistry (University of Vienna, Austria). Specific research focuses in the last two decades were 1. imaging of biopolymer blend structure on the micro-/nanometer scale and 2. miniaturization of vibrational spectrometers for on-site measurements.

Boris Gramatikov is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Department of Ophthalmology. He obtained his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Biomedical Engineering in Germany, and his Ph.D.in Bulgaria. He has completed a number of postdoctoral studies in Germany, Italy, and the United States. He joined the faculty of the Biomedical Engineering Department of Johns Hopkins in 1996 and has been working in the Laboratory of Ophthalmic Instrumentation Development at The Wilmer Eye Institute since 2000. His areas of expertise include electronics, optoelectronics, computers, computer modeling, signal/image processing, data analysis, instrumentation design, biophotonics, ophthalmic and biomedical optics, and polarization optics, all applied to the development of diagnostic methods and devices for ophthalmology and vision research. His team has developed a series of pediatric vision screeners. He has over 120 publications, 41 of which are in high-impact peer-reviewed journals. He serves as a reviewer and editorial board member with a number of technical and medical journals. Boris is the Director of Continuing Education of the Baltimore Section of the IEEE.

Niloy Dutta is a professor of physics at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. He was Director of Optoelectronic Device Research at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. He is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and, a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. He received the Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award in 1995 and Bell Laboratories President's Award in 1997.

Dayan Ban is a Professor of Nanotechnology Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He received a B.Sc. and M.A.Sc at the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2003. During 2001-2002, he was a visiting scientist at Nortel Networks Optical Components, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Ban was on staff at the Institute for Microstructural Sciences of the National Research Council, Ottawa, from Sept. 2002 to Oct. 2005. He was a visiting scientist with the Research Lab of Electronics at MIT in 2009. Dr. Ban is a senior member of IEEE/LEOS and a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario. He has over 20 years experience in designing, fabricating, and characterizing optoelectronic devices as well as in scanning probe microscopy technique. Dr. Ban has authored or co-authored over 240 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and has contributed 2 book chapters and 12 patents/patent applications.

Professor Stephen James leads the optical fibre sensors research theme within the Centre for Engineering Photonics at Cranfield University, UK. He undertook his PhD at the University of Southampton, studying optical phase conjugation in photorefractive materials, and joined Cranfield University in 1993 as a post-doctoral researcher to develop 3D laser velocimetry instrumentation. As his academic career at Cranfield progressed, he worked on a number of optical measurement techniques, including speckle interferometry and optical fibre sensors. His current work encompasses the development, design and application of optical fibre-based sensors and instruments for sensing physical and chemical measurands, with a strong focus on their practical deployment. The instrumentation and sensors designed by the Centre have been field trialled in applications including flight testing on fixed-wing aircraft and rotorcraft, tramway component health monitoring, composite material production process monitoring, foundation pile characterisation, and measurements of transient loading in superconducting magnets.

Mario F. S. Ferreira graduated in Physics from the University of Porto, Portugal, and received the Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1992 from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he is now a Professor at the Physics Department. Between 1990 and 1991 he was at the University of Essex, UK, performing experimental work on external cavity semiconductor lasers and nonlinear optical fiber amplifiers. His research interests have been concerned with the modelling and characterization of multi-section semiconductor lasers for coherent systems, quantum well lasers, optical fiber amplifiers and lasers, soliton propagation, polarization and nonlinear effects in optical fibers. He is actually the leader of the Optics and Optoelectronics Group of the I3N-Institute of Nanostructures, Nano modelling and Nanofabrication. He has written about 400 scientific journal and conference publications, and several books, namely: Optics and Photonics (Lidel, 2003, in Portuguese), Topics of Mathematical Physics (Editora Ciência Moderna, 2018, Brazil, in Portuguese), Optical Fibers: Technology, Communications and recent Advances (Ed., NOVA Science Publishers, 2017), Advances in Optoelectronic Technology and Industry Development (CRC Press, 2019), Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers (John Wiley & Sons, OSA, 2011) and Optical Signal Processing in Highly Nonlinear Fibers (CRC Press, 2020). He was the Guest Editor of four Special Issues of Fiber and Integrated Optics (Taylor & Francis): Fiber Optics in Portugal (2005), Nonlinear Fiber Optics (2015), Optical Fiber Sources and Amplifiers (2020) and Quantum Communications (2020), a joint Special Issue of Optics Express and Applied Optics (OSA) on Optical Sensors and Sensing 2019, and a Special Issue of Fibers (MDPI) on Optical Fiber Communications (2020). He is a Senior Member and a Travelling Lecturer of both of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, He served in various committees of OSA and of SPIE, as well as in the organizing and scientific committees of various international conferences. Actually, he serves also as an Associate Editor or as an Advisor Board Member of several international journals in the area of optics and photonics.

Dr. Ali Masoudi is a senior research fellow at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton and leads the distributed optical fiber sensing group at the ORC. He received his Ph.D. in 2015 for his work on distributed acoustic sensors. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Masoudi designed and developed portable DAS units which he subsequently used in several industrial collaborations with entities such as Network Rail, BT, and Carbon trust. The DAS unit has also been used in several interdisciplinary collaborations with other research institutes such as the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). So far, he has secured more than £2.5m of research funding as PI/Co-I/Research Co-I from various research councils and industrial partners. He has authored 3 patents, published more than 60 papers in scientific journals and international conferences, and has presented his research as an invited and keynote speaker on 7 different occasions. He is currently a guest editor for a special issue of Sensors Journal and serving as a member of the Technical Program Committee for Optica Sensing Congress.

Dror Malka received his BSc and MSc degrees in electrical engineering from the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2008 and 2010, respectively, in Israel. He also completed a BSc degree in Applied Mathematics at HIT in 2008 and received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Bar-Ilan University (BIU) in 2015, Israel. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering at HiT. His primary research fields are nanophotonics, super-resolution, silicon photonics, and fiber optics. He has published around 50 refereed journal papers and 50 conference proceedings papers.

Prof. Jiang GUO is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Dalian University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 2013. After graduation, he joined RIKEN as a researcher. In October 2015, he became a scientist at A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology, and Research). He has been actively engaged in developing and applying new optical aspheric and microstructure grinding and polishing processes for over a decade. He has published more than 80 journal papers in the top journals in the fields of manufacturing, optics, precision instrumentation, material processing, and electrochemistry. He holds more than 50 international and national invention patents. He presided over more than 20 projects, such as the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Youth Fund, the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the National Key Research and Development Program. He has won more than 10 academic awards, such as the Revitalization Award of the Japan Machine Tool Promotion Association and the Outstanding Research Achievement Award of the Chinese Students Association in Japan. He is currently a senior member of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, a member of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (EUSPEN), the American Society for Precision Engineering (ASPE), and the Asian Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (ASPEN), etc. He is also the reviewer for over 50 SCI journals. He serves on the editorial board and youth editorial board of several international journals and as a reviewer for over 50 international journals.

Dr. Jose Marques-Hueso is an associate professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. His research focuses on the use of optical materials, laser manufacturing, spectral conversion, and engineering applications. He received his MSc in physics from the University of Valencia and he completed his Ph.D. at the Institute of Materials Science of the UV, on the development of nanophotonic and plasmonic devices. In 2011, he joined Heriot-Watt University as a research associate and obtained a position as an assistant professor in 2017. He has been an associate professor since 2021. He has led public and industrially funded projects and carried out consultancy for laser manufacturing processes. He has published over 80 publications.

Prof. M. De Cesare, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher in Applied Physics at CIRA (Italian Aerospace Research Centre) and a Professor in Aerospace Physics Methodologies at the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli". He is also PM&SEM in Novel Physics Methodologies for Aerospace Applications and an SEM in Airborne-gamma measurements for Natural and Anthropogenic Environmental Monitoring. His principal applications are based on the development of novel technologies for material and plasma applications in the re-entry vehicle phases. The Diagnostic Methodologies and Measurement Techniques Division at CIRA tests innovative structures for space re-entry vehicles and sustained hypersonic flight and for aeronautical subjected to high thermal gradients. It develops and perfects advanced experimental methods and tools: IR-thermography technique, Spectroscopy, Laser, and Ion Beam Analysis applications. The laboratory carries out its tests in two large CIRA facilities, the SCIROCCO and GHIBLI plasma wind tunnels, which simulate the extreme conditions encountered during space re-entries and hypersonic flight. This allows the laboratory to validate newly developed design methods and to study very advanced TPS material.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Katerina Lazarova has been a scientist at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for the last 9 years. In 2013 she began her doctorate in the field of photonic crystals and optical sensors based on zeolites and porous materials. In 2016 she became a chief assistant at the IOMT-BAS and from 2019 to 2021 was a postdoctoral fellow with a scholarship in the same field. Currently, Dr. Lazarova is an Associate professor. Author of more than 40 articles, with awards for presentations in scientific forums and participation in numerous scientific projects in collaboration with other scientific organizations.

Gita REVALDE - Dr.Phys., professor, Institute of Technical Physics, Riga Technical University, a leading researcher at the Institute of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy of the University of Latvia. Directions of scientific research: atomic physics, quantum physics, ion physics, low-temperature plasma, determination of volatile organic compounds and heavy metal pollution in the environment, disinfection using UV, light sources, methods: laser spectroscopy, mathematical modeling, CRDS, TDLAS. Currently, studies are being conducted for the determination of VOCs in air and exhalation, in the development of UV light sources for disinfection and other applications. The experience of a project manager, supervisor, and chief executor in about 20 projects: National Research Programmes (NextICT), COVID-19 mitigation, ECOSOC, ESF, ERDF, and ERASMUS projects, managed and monitored large-scale infrastructure projects. Administrative experience as director of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education and Science (2007-2012), rector of Vent spills University of Applied Sciences (2013-2016), deputy rector of Riga Technical University (2013), director of the Latvian Council of Science (2020), and president of the Almaty University of Telecommunication and Energy. Expert of the Agency "Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating", expert of the Latvian Council of Science "Physics and Astronomy", expert of the Serbian Council of Science, member of the Latvian Physics Society, and member of the Latvian Union of Scientists.

Dr. Nikos Malliaropoulos is a Consultant in Sports and Exercise Medicine based at the Sports Clinic Barts and the London and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at QMUL Centre of Sports and Exercise Medicine Academic Department. He has been Director of the Sports injuries clinic of the Track and Field Hellenic Association in Thessaloniki, from 1986 - 2019 and was Chief Medical Officer of the Hellenic Olympic Team XXVIII Athens Olympics 2004. Additionally, Nikos was Director of the Medical Services of the First South Eastern European Games 2007. He is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. He is a Founding member of the European College of Sports and Exercise Physicians - ECOSEP and current Secretary in General, a Fellow of the International Federation of Sports Medicine FIMS, and a Member of the British Sports and Exercise medicine Association-BASEM. Nikos was also a Balkan Judo Champion - 6th DAN in Judo and Aris Judo Team Head Coach. His main clinical interests are in the Diagnosis, Management, and Rehabilitation of sports injuries and musculoskeletal pathologies. One of his main areas of expertise is Hamstring and Judo Research. He has significant experience in MSK ultrasonography and interventional procedures since 2000. Special interests are all soft tissue Injuries including Hamstring and troublesome muscle Injuries, Tendon Injuries, Ankle and Knee Injuries, Bone stress Injuries, and Low back pain. His main management approaches are Specific Exercise prescription as a treatment for musculoskeletal pathologies; Ultrasound guided injections, Extra Shock Wave Therapy - ESWT, and Laser therapy for musculoskeletal pathologies.

Dr. Iftimia received his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Bucharest, Romania, and his postdoctoral training in biomedical optics at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine MGH/Harvard Medical School. He has over twenty years of experience in research in an academic-industrial environment, leading large programs related to cancer diagnosis and therapy guidance. His technical expertise is in optical imaging and spectroscopy, focusing on technology development, image analytics, and automated image analysis through machine learning. He has industry experience, transitioning projects from idea to prototype to the product through thorough project planning and execution. He works with clinicians from various hospitals across the US and Europe, performing preclinical and clinical translational research. Dr. Iftimia is the author of over 100 peer-review publications, several book chapters, and the main editor of a book. In recognition of his contribution to the biomedical optics field, Dr. Iftimia was elected as an OSA fellow in 2017 and an SPIE fellow in 2021.

Mircea Mujat received his Ph.D. at the University of Central Florida, College of Optics and Photonics in 2004. He continued his activity as a Research Fellow with Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and is currently a Principal Research Scientist with Physical Sciences, Inc. His current research interests include high-resolution optical imaging (i.e., optical coherence tomography, optical frequency domain imaging, adaptive optics, phase contrast imaging, confocal and polarization microscopy), polarized light scattering, and biomedical applications of lasers.

Dr. Marilena Giglio studied Physics at the University of Bari, Italy, and graduated with an MS in 2014 (cum laude) and a Ph.D. in 2019. In 2012 she visited the group of Prof. van Leeuwen at the Academic Medical Center of Amsterdam, The Netherlands as a trainee. In 2016 she joined Prof. Tittel's group of visiting Researchers at Rice University, Texas. After a 2-year Post-Doc at the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy she's currently an Assistant Professor in the same institution. She has published 34 research articles (Scopus), 1 review, 1 book chapter, and more than 30 proceedings. She co-invented 1 patent.

Associate research fellow, Research Center of Laser Fusion, China Academy of Engineering Physics. Graduated in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. The objectives of his research are (Ⅰ) to understand assembly, installation, and integration of large laser facility, (Ⅱ) to develop key processes and tools forming the foundation for High Power Laser Facility’s long-term LRU production and maintenance strategy, and (Ⅲ) to explore multi-step alignments and close-loop of "assembly-measurement -adjustment".

Oomman K. Varghese received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics from Mahatma Gandhi University and a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), India. He conducted postdoctoral research in the University of Kentucky and the Pennsylvania State University and then worked as a Process Development Engineer in First Solar, USA. He is currently an Associate Professor and Chairman of the Graduate Program in the Department of Physics, University of Houston (UH), Texas. His group's research primarily aims to develop nanoscale materials and heterostructures and investigate their unique properties for solar energy conversion and medical applications. He has contributed to over 110 peer-reviewed articles, one book, two book chapters, and three patents. His publications have received over 37,000 citations (Google Scholar h-index - 74). In 2011, Thomson Reuters ranked him 9th among 'World's Top 100 Materials Scientists' in the past decade. In 2014, 2015, and 2016 he received the title 'Highly Cited Researcher' and had his name listed in Thomson Reuters' World's Most Influential Scientific Minds. He is a recipient of the UH College of Natural Science and Mathematics John C. Butler Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is among the top 2% of scientists in the world per the Stanford University Report, 2020.

Andrea Zifarelli received the M.S. degree (cum laude) in Physics in 2018 from the University of Bari and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Bari in 2022. His research activities were mainly focused on the development of spectroscopic techniques based on laser absorption for the analysis of complex gas mixtures by employing quartz tuning forks as sensitive elements. This investigation was performed by using innovative laser sources as well as developing new algorithms for multivariate analysis approaches. Currently, his research activities are carried out at the PolySenSe Lab, a joint-research laboratory between the Technical University of Bari and THORLABS GmbH.

Dr. Faktorovich has authored multiple peer-reviewed research publications, book chapters, and books on laser eye surgery and laser physics, including the definitive textbook on the use of femtosecond laser technology in all-laser LASIK or IntraLASIK. The book has been reviewed in the American Journal of Ophthalmology and received praise from fellow surgeons as “a necessary book to read for any refractive surgeon”. Dr. Faktorovich is the founder and remains the Chair of the Annual San Francisco Cataract, Cornea, and Refractive Surgery Symposium dedicated to continuing education of the Bay Area eye doctors in refractive surgery and other aspects of advanced patient eye care. Dr. Faktorovich is the Founding Director of Pacific Vision Institute. Under her leadership, Pacific Vision Institute brings the latest advances in laser technology to patients and trains physicians in laser applications to eye surgery.

Lei Wang is currently a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Barbara. Lei Wang graduated from Shandong University (China) with a bachelor's degree in Physics in 2014. After that, he continued his graduate studies at Shandong University and the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he focused on developing high power quantum cascade lasers (QCLs), including semi-insulating InP regrowth and phase-locked arrays of QCLs. He joined the UCSB iPL in 2017 as a Ph.D. student. He is focusing on QD laser development and laser integration for silicon photonics.

Dr. Hrishikesh Das is Materials Scientist at Applied Materials & Manufacturing, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA. He has more than 11 years of experience in Solid Phase Joining Processes. His research interests are mainly focused on Friction Stir Welding/Processing and allied solid phase processes/extrusion (ShAPE). He has published over 55 research articles in reputed international journals and is credited with couple of patents.

Qiurong Yan received the B.S. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2005, the M.S. and Ph. D. degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008 and 2012, respectively. He is a professor with school of information engineer, Nanchang University, and a winner of Outstanding Young Talents Project in Jiangxi Province. His research interests include underwater wireless optical communication, photon counting wireless communication, single photon imaging, and computational imaging. He has published more than 60 SCI and EI papers in important journals and academic conferences, including 5 top journals. As the first inventor, he authorized more than 20 invention patents. He participated in the formulation of 1 industry standard, participated in the organization of 5 domestic and foreign academic conferences, and gave more than 10 invited reports. He is a reviewer for high-level international journals such as Applied Physics Reviews, Optics Express, Optics Letters, etc.

Ivo Rendina (Italy, 1960) is the director of the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems“Eduardo Caianiello” (ISASI) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He also teaches optoelectronics at the University of Calabria (Italy) and at the Universidad de San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador. He is past-president of the SocietàItaliana di Ottica e Fotonica (SIOF), Italian branch of the European Optical Society (EOS), EOS fellow, CNR representative in the Union Radio Scientifique Internationale (URSI), chair of the Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE), chair and organizer of several international conferences, such as the series of EOS Topical Meetings on Optical MicroSystems (since 2005) and the series of Optics+Optoelectronics SPIE Conferences (since 2013). He has been responsible or coordinator of more than 35 Italian and international projects or research contracts with industry, holds 9 patents, has authored or co-authored more than 300 publications, and has given more than 20 invited and plenary talks at scientific conferences in the field of photonics, optical microsensors, and microsystems. Scopus: h-index 41, citations 4899; Google scholar: h-index 47, citations 6440.

Professor Chen is with College of Optical Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, China. He has authored tens of peer-reviewed research publications on optical instrumentation and communication. He is good at the combination of scientific research and practical application. He has professional software and hardware design skills and rich enterprise experience. Now, he works at deterministic networking for remote control of industrial machines, optometry and ophthalmic equipment.

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Neda Ghofraniha is a researcher at Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) in Italy and currently working in the fields of random photonics and microlasers. She has consolidated experience in nonlinear optics and nonlinear waves propagation and past experience in phase transitions in soft matter. Her main achievements are the first observation of nonlocal dispersive optical shock waves in liquids and the first experimental demonstration of the Replica Symmetry Breaking Theory, that is mentioned in the motivations of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 to Giorgio Parisi. In addition, she realized several micron-sized lasers made of biomimetic and lithographed organic materials, liquid droplets, and electrospun polymer fibers.

Francesco De Martini: The personal profile is that of a person who has reached a considerable age in good health and who intends to continue by deliberately adhering to an intention of decency and honesty by putting in place all the resources of intelligence and culture of which he has so far come, or will come. In possession, Science, in particular modern cosmology, as well as the continuous (and tiring!) Study of the piano (started at the age of five) is at the centre of his interests. Precisely, on the latter front, Federico Chopin and Roberto Schumann are the inspiring geniuses of the moment: Then who knows…

Dr. AOUDJIT Thinhinane is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Technologies of Troyes in the Grand Est region of France. She obtained her first master degree at the University of Science and Technology of Algiers (USTHB) in fundamental physics specializing in radiation-matter interaction. Then, she obtained in 2018 her second degree in optical and photonic engineering from the Science Sorbonne University in Paris. Following this diploma, Thinhinane joined the Light, nanomaterials, nanotechnologies (L2n - CNRS-EMR 7004) team of the University of Technology of Troyes for a PhD thesis on near-field photochemical imaging of chiral nanostructures. During her thesis, she worked a lot with different lasers like Ti:Sa for the irradiation of her samples.

Rong-Jun Xie obtained his PhD in Inorganic Non-metallic Materials at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academic of Science in 1998. After carrying out post-doctoral work at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan), National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan), and Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) research fellow at Darmstadt University of Technology (Germany), Xie joined National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) as a Senior Researcher in 2003, and was promoted to Principal Researcher in 2007 and to Chief Research in 2017. In 2018, he moved to Xiamen University as a full professor at College of Materials. Xie's research interests include (i) phosphors for lighting and displays; (ii) mechanoluminescent materials for sensing technologies; and (iii) quantum dots and emissive displays. He has contributed to over 280 published papers and over 70 invited talks, and held 45 patents.

Yiwei Dong.Ph.D. Associate Professor. Currently Dr. Dongis an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at the Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, where he directs the Advanced Manufacturing Lab (AML), He has more than 10 years of research experience focus on the Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Multi-scale modelling of heat and mass transfer for materials processing, Intelligent and adaptive control of manufacturing processes, etc., He has (co)authored over 10 conference papers, 10 patents, and approximately 50 articles, chapters, proceedings, and reports.

My research is in the field of computational optics and computational imaging with computational spectroscopy. Computational Optics is a subfield in electrical engineering that lays down principles for computational measurement and the acquisition of information about phenomena involving the interaction of light and matter. This field can be harnessed for very advanced applications in different scopes: Imaging, Spectroscopy, Flight Time Measurement (LiDAR), and many other applications. Designing a system based on computational optics relies on carefully designed, advanced optical and electro-optical components along with using integration and application of state-of-the-art mathematical theories. In my research, we develop and design optical and electro-optical components for computational sensing systems. The electro optical components can be built on interference components in micro resonators, coded aperture, waveguide and optical fibers, diffraction grating etc. These components can be combined with each other to obtain a component that best suits its task. The purpose of these components is to enable indirect measurement, as well as multiplication measurement. In addition to hardware development, different types of algorithms are designed and implemented to realize a complete sensing system.

Estefania Hernandez-Martin works at the University of La Laguna as researcher awarded by EU Next Generation. She received her Ph.D. degree in 2018 focused on neuro imaging techniques in the human brain. Her experticity is in the optical field, developing a new approach in the data processing for diffuse optical imaging compared with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Also, she has been working as research associate in both the University of California, Irvine and University of Southern California developing and optimizing algorithms to electrophysiological data sets. Her research focuses on signal processing, modelling, multivariate statistics and data interpretation for both electrophysiological and neuro imaging data sets that help to explain the behaviour of the brain.

Dr Yu Luo is an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He received his PhD in Physics from Imperial College London in 2012 and joined NTU as an assistant professor in 2015, where he was promoted to an associate professor in 2021. Prof. Luo's research interests focus on the design of metamaterials and plasmonics from fundamental aspects to various practical applications. His recent work has results in a number of high-impact journal publications in Science, Nature Physics, PNAS and PRL and has been highlighted by many scientific magazines and public media, including Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, Physics World, Phys.org, BBC News, Guardian, etc. Associate Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Deputy Director, Centre for OptoElectronics and Biophotonics (COEB), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE).

Dr. Pramod KUMAR (M. Phil Physics & Ph.D.-Laser Tech.), is working as a Principal Scientist and Research team leader at QuantLase Imaging Laboratory, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. Presently, he is as an ambassador at ideaXme, London, England. Recognizing the value of Laser technology for healthcare and research, Dr. Kumar championing its study and Invented of the "Laser-based DPI technology (Diffractive Phase Interferometry)", a novel advance technique used to screen and detect COVID-19 infection by examining the tiny blood samples. It allows the health authorities to carry out large-scale screening within a few seconds. Before joining QuantLase Lab, Dr. Kumar Joined AiFi Technologies LLC, UAE, where he held positions as a Senior Experimental Research Scientist- Quantum Physics (July 2019-March 2020). He started his research career with the M.Sc (Physics 1997) Degree from C.C.S University, Meerut, India and M. Phil. (Instrumentation Physics) degree from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee(IIT-R), Roorkee, India in 2000. In 2001, he has joined as a Research Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B), Mumbai, India where he worked on Optical Pattern formation and self-organization in a Photonic system. Dr. Pramod Kumar earned his Ph.D. (Laser Technology) degree from School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India in 2009. After completing his thesis, He has been worked as Assistant Professor in Delhi University, India from 2009 to March 2010. In April 2010, he moved to France to pursue his research work as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at LaboratoireCommun de Metrologie LNE-CNAM, Paris, Franceon the Design and Development of Signal Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator for Imaging and for the Spectroscopic purpose. To continue further his research carrier, he has worked as Post-doctoral Research Associate (2011-2014) in Femtosecond Laser Laboratory, IISER Mohali, Punjab, India. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali' which is a premier institute in India. Dr. Pramod Kumar since January 2015 when he started his Senior Laser Research Staff tenure with Laser Physics Group at Tyndall National Institute and University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. In 2017, Dr. Kumar joined as a Disordered Photonics Research Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, England, United Kingdom. He has been involving in different leadership events especially in originating various international conferences, invited lecturers, and managing well all of them. he was excellent in delivering science communication and successfully presented several talks and delivered invited lecture in various reputed academic institutions like Imperial College London, Cambridge University, Bangor University and Paris Tech, Paris etc. He was invited to visit the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena California, May 19, 2018.Dr. Kumar is a member of the Optical Society of America, American Institute of Physics, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society and SPIE America.

Dr Kamal Nain Chopra has done B.Sc. (University of Delhi), M.Sc. (Physics - IIT, Delhi), and M.Tech. (Opto-Electronics - IIT, Delhi), and PhD (Applied Physics - IIT, Delhi). He has served DRDO for a period of 33 years and superannuated as Scientist G, from Laser Science and Technology Centre (LASTEC), Delhi, in the year 2005. Subsequently, he has also served as Professor (Physics) in NSIT (DU) and MAIT(GGSIPU), and as Project Scientist in IIT, Delhi, in various Projects, on Topics including Photonics, Thin Films, and Optical Testing. He has about 390 publications including about 330 in peer reviewed international journals (UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and China; including J.Opt.Soc. Am., APPLIED OPTICS, OPTICA ACTA, Nouvelle Revue d'Optique Appliquee, OPTIK, THIN SOLID FILMS, and Chinese JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, on various topics including Thin Films Optics, Lasers and Laser Components, Holography, and Modern Optics; 15 Invited talks; 15 Technical reports; and 30 papers in International Conference Proceedings (e.g.Taylor and Francis, UK; and Scientific Net, Switzerland). Dr Kamal Nain Chopra has co-authored a Monograph titled, "Thin Films and their Applications in Military and Civil Sectors", DESIDOC, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, INDIA, 2010. He has authored a Monograph titled, "Unconventional Lasers: Design and Technical Analysis", DESIDOC, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, INDIA, 2017. He has also authored a Book titled, "Conventional and Unconventional Sources of Renewable Energy: Renewable Energy Sources", Lambert Academic Publishing, LAP, GERMANY, 2017. In addition, he has authored a Monograph titled, "Spintronics Theoretical Analysis and Designing of Devices Based on Giant Magnetoresistance", DESIDOC, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, INDIA, 2019. His recent book titled, "Optoelectronic Gyroscopes and Applications" has been published by SPRINGER NATURE in the year 2021. He has authored a Book titled, "Novel Emerging Techniques of business management", Lambert Academic Publishing, LAP, GERMANY, 2021. He has authored another Book titled, "Optoelectronic Instrumentation for Research in Oceanography", Lambert Academic Publishing, LAP, GERMANY, 2021. Recently, he published a monograph titled, "Infrared Signatures, Sensors and Technologies" DESIDOC, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, INDIA, 2022. He has undertaken visits to foreign universities and industries including (i) School of Thin Film Coatings, Department of Physics, St. Jerome University, Marseille, FRANCE [5 months (1984-85)]; (ii) Department of Physics, Innsbruck University, Innsbruck, AUSTRIA, including 5 days in M/s. Balzers, Liechtenstein, SWITZERLAND [10 days (1995)]; and (iii) M/s. Elettrorava, Torino, ITALY [15 days (2000)]. He has vast experience serving the Recruitment and Assessment Boards of DRDO (RAC and CEPTAM), as Chairman as well an Expert Board Member. He is a Reviewer and Editorial Board Member for some leading International Journals. His fields of Specialization are Optoelectronics, Unconventional Lasers, Optical Gyroscopes, Thin Films Designing, Fabrication, and Characterization by modern Techniques, and Specialized Optical Testing Techniques.

Dr. Naghipour received Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics (Quantum Computing) from University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran in 2015. Now he is an Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, University College of NabiAkram, Tabriz, Iran. Dr. Naghipour has published over 20 technical papers and is the author of the book Algebraic Construction of Binary Quantum Stabilizer Codes (LAMBERT Academic Publishing Co., 2016). His research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, medical information processing, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, neural networks, optimization, quantum computing, and quantum information. Dr. Naghipour is a Member of the American Mathematical Society, and a Member of the Mathematical Society of Iran. Dr. Naghipour is also a Member of the Mendeley Advisor Community and a Reviewer of IEEE Communications Letters.

BSc Physical and Chemical sciences, Hons in Applied Radiation Sciences, MSc in Applied Radiation Sciences, currently PhD in Applied Radiation Sciences (nuclear forensic SCIENCES), currently a member of South African nuclear forensic research group.

Dr. Kahouadji has a PhD in physics, option: physics of materials since April 2017, teacher-researcher at A.Mira university of Bejaia –Algeria-, faculty of technology. He is working on nanomaterials based on rare earth orthophosphates in collaboration with two laboratories: Laser Department/ Nuclear Research Centre of Algiers (CRNA), Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade. Since approximately 7 years his research is entirely devoted to the development of luminescent materials and scintillators for medical and nuclear applications. He has managed 4 master project as director and 1 Ph.D. thesis in progress. He has published more than 18 international papers. He is Editorial Board Member in International Journal of Materials Science and Applications (IJMSA).and Journal of Modern Polymer chemistry and Materials, Reviewer for Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal (ASTES). has about 6 international and 3 national oral communications. Skills and expertise: Nanomaterials Luminescent materials Photoluminescence spectroscopy Sol-Gel Synthesis Phosphors. Inorganic Scintillators. Nanocomposite Scintillators.