Rodrigo Martins, Portuguese nationality, was born in Nova Lisboa, Angola. He got a 1974 Honours degree in Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications, and applied Electronics from U. Luanda, Angola/ PT. In 1977 he got an MSc degree in Semiconductor Materials, from the University of Dundee, Scotland. Thesis title: Photoconductivity in P-Doped and Undoped Amorphous Germanium. Supervisor W. Spear, 1977 Euro physicist award. In 1982, a Ph.D. in Energy conversion and Semiconductors from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Thesis title: a-Si: H solar cells processing and characterization. In 1988 he got a Habilitation in Semiconductor Materials and Microelectronics, from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Lesson title: Density of states in disordered semiconductors. Full Professor at FCT-NOVA since 2002 in the area of Materials Engineering, with specialty Materials for Energy, Microelectronics, and Nanotechnologies.

Dr. Yiping Zhao received his B.S. degree in Electronics from Peking University in 1991，and MS degree in condensed matter physics from Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1999. He is currently a Distinguished Research Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy in University of Georgia, Fellow of SPIE (the International Society of Optics and Photonics), and Fellow of AVS (American Vacuum Society). Prof. Zhao is the author or co-author of more than 300 peer reviewed journal papers, 30 conference proceeding papers, 2 books, 9 book chapters, and 12 US patents. His major research interests are nanostructures and thin films fabrication and characterization, plasmonic nanostructures, chemical and biological sensors, nano-photocatalysts, antimicrobial materials, nanomotors,and nanotechnology for stroke treatment.

Prof. Ki Tae Nam is currently a Professor at Seoul National University. His research field of interest is bio-inspired nanomaterials (protein-like inorganic materials, peptide nanomaterials) and artificial photosynthesis (water oxidation, CO2 reduction). Prof. Nam got his B.S (2000) and M.S (2002) degrees from the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at SeoulNationalUniversity. In 2007, he obtained a Ph.D. degree at MIT and his Ph.D. thesis about the virus-based battery was recognized with the best Ph.D. thesis award. Between 2007 and 2010, he spent three years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow, working on peptide mimetic materials. In 2010, he come back to Seoul National University and now is a full professor in the Materials Science & Engineering Department. Recently in 2017, he was awarded the Young Faculty Award (Presidential award) by the Korean President. Also, he has received various prestigious awards such as Ten major nanotechnologies in 2018 (Ministry of Science and ICT), In 2018, the Best National R&D Achievement (Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning). In 2017 Ten Leading Young Scientists (Korean Academy of Science and Technology and YTN Science) 2017.

Constantin Simovski, a professor, defended his Ph.D. thesis in 1986 at the Polytechnic University of Leningrad (USSR) and his Habilitation thesis in 2000 at the same university, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. In 2001 he became a full professor at ITMO University in St. Petersburg. Since 2008, he has been with the Helsinki University of Technology, presently at Aalto University. Full professor at Aalto University since 2012. Recent research areas: plasmon resonances in fluorescence and spontaneous Raman scattering, light-trapping structures for thin-film solar cells, radiative heat transfer, thermophotovoltaic generators of electricity, theory of homogenization and electromagnetic characterization of metamaterials and metasurfaces, novel radiofrequency coils for magnetic resonance imaging, new physical approaches in wireless power transfer, label-free subwavelength imaging.

Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 317 journal papers, more than 668 Conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications including 36 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012. He obtained Gold Medal and The Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014 held at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2014, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20-22 Feb 2014. He is a Member of EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS) since July 2017. He got A Slottow Owaki Prize of SID in 2018 http://www.ee.ust.hk/ece.php/enews/detail/660. He is 2019 Distinguished Fellow of IETI (International Engineering and Technology Institute). http://www.ieti.net/news/detail.aspx?id=184 http://www.ieti.net/memberships/Fellows.aspx Since 2018 he works as Professor in the School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering in Foshan University, Foshan, China. 2020-2024 Vice President of Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) Since 2021 distinguished Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Daoud is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Technology Graz, Austria, with a Dipl-Ing degree (BS and MS) in Chemical Engineering and received his Ph.D. in flexible bilayer photovoltaic cells from the University of Sheffield, UK. Dr. Daoud current research is mainly focused on the areas of energy harvesting and smart wearable technologies. His group is developing approaches for harvesting free or waste energy, such as light and kinetic energies. Being intermittent sources, it is equally important to finding storage solutions for this form of energy. Therefore, the group is interested in the modeling and design of compatible flow batteries. He has received international renown and several awards for his pioneering research on wearable solar self-cleaning and kinetic energy harvesting technologies. His research has been featured in Nature (2004) and Science (2008) and broadcasted through interviews with major international media, such as Reuters (2014), BBC (2015), and SCMP (2017). He has been invited to present Plenary and Keynote lectures at international conferences and is currently serving as the Chief Editor of Wearable Electronics, Frontiers in Electronics, and Editorial Board member of the Journal of Power Sources Advances.

Prof. Dr. Yan Zhang, dean of Beijing Key Lab for Metamaterials and Devices. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Harbin Institute of Technology and doctor degree from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science. He has worked at Yamagata University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Stuttgart University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and University Konstanz. His research interests include terahertz imaging and spectroscopy, surface plasmonic optics, and optical information processing. He has published more than 300 pre-reviewed papers and delivered more than 50 invited talks at international conferences. He is a fellow of Optica.

Dr. Yu Sheng Lin received his Ph.D. degree in the Institute of Nanoengineering and Microsystems at the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan, in 2011. From 2012 to 2014, he joined the department of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a senior research fellow. Currently, he is an associate professor at the school of Electronics and Information Technology at Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou, China. His research interests include N/MEMS, metamaterials, nanophotonics, and microfluidics, for sensors, optoelectronics, and biomedical applications. He has more than 160 referred archival publications (>100 SCI journal papers and >60 conference proceeding papers). The H-index from Google Scholar is 32.

Dr. Qin is currently an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University, China. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University, China, in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 2010. He is serving as an Associate Editor of Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, and an Editorial Board Member of Nanotechnology Reviews. His research interests include structural dynamics, rotor dynamics, and condition monitoring, aerospace engineering, nanocomposites, vibration control, and energy harvesting. Dr. Qin has published more than 90 SCI-index journal papers.

Xiangwei Zhao is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, Southeast University. He graduated from Zhejiang University with a Ph.D. degree in 2006 and then joined Southeast University. He has been a visiting scholar at Osaka University (2008), Michigan University Ann Arbor (2011), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2011), and Harvard University (2013). His research focus on biomedical detection and analysis, including nanophotonics, spatial transcriptomics, POCT, etc.

Patrizia Livreri is an Associate Professor at the University of Palermo, Department of Engineering, Italy, and a Visiting Professor at the San Diego State University (CA), USA. Patrizia Livreri received her Master's Degree (cum laude) in Electronics Engineering, and her Ph.D. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Palermo in 1986 and 1992, respectively. She is an author or a co-author of more than 200 scientific publications. Her current research interests include Nanoantennas for Sensing and Energy Harvesting, She supervised or co-supervised about 30 sponsored research projects. Prof. Livreri is the Principal Investigator for the Microwave Quantum Radar Project granted by the Italian Ministry of Defence with the Radar and Surveillance Systems RASS Laboratory, Pisa, at the Italian National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications, CNIT, Italy.

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Xin Xie received his PhD.D. degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He is currently an associate professor at the School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China. His research interests include nanophotonics, metasurfaces, and plasmonics.

Yuanguo Zhou received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic Science, Institute of Electromagnetics and Acoustics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, in 2017. From 2014 to 2015, he was a visiting student with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. From 2015 to 2016, he was a visiting student with the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. He is currently an Associate Professor with the College of Communication and Information Engineering, Xian University of Science and Technology, China. He has authored over 50 papers in refereed journals and 50 papers in conference proceedings. His current research interests include computational electromagnetics and optics, metamaterials, inverse scattering, and deep learning technologies.

Dr. Yan-Feng Wang is currently an associate professor in Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, China. He is working on wave propagation in phononic crystals and metamaterials/metasurfaces. He has 50+ peer-reviewed journal papers, including 2 ESI highly cited papers and 1 ESI hot paper. He also has 6 Chinese patents.

Jingjing Zhang received her Ph.D degree from Zhejiang University, China in 2009. She has been an H. C. Orsted Postdoctoral Fellow and assistant professor at Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, a Newton International Fellow at King's College London, UK, and a senior research fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Currently, she is a professor at State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, China. Her research interests include metamaterials, nanoplasmonics, and designer surface plasmons.

Chu-Cai Guo is affiliated with the College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China He received his doctorate in Optics, at the National University of Defense Technology in China. The thesis title includes Theoretical and Experimental Research on Planar Photonics Crystals. Advisor in his doctorate: Prof. Jia-Rong Ji. He had a joint Ph.D. at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; KAIST in Daejeon, Korea. Advisor: Prof. Yong-Hee Lee. He had completed his post-graduation in Optics at the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, China. Advisor in his post-graduation: Prof. Yong-Hee Lee. He is an associate professor at the National University of Defense Technology, China since Dec. 2017 under the title Study of graphene-like 2D materials and nano-photonics devices. He is a Post-Doctor in Prof. Yong-Zhen Huang’s Group at the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences from Jan. 2011- Jan. 2013. He is a lecturer at the National University of Defense Technology from Jul. 2010 - Dec. 2010. His activities included the concept of Reviewer for Light: Science and Applications, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Optics Materials Express, JOSAB, Applied Optics, and so on.

Prof. Dr. Z. Balevicius received his Ph.D. degree in 2008 in spectroscopy and laser technology at the Institute of Physics, Vilnius/Lithuania. He had postdoctoral research at NanoTechnas - Centre of nanotechnology and Materials Science, Faculty of Chemistry, Vilnius University. Now, He is the head of the Plasmonics and Nanophotonics lab., Department of Laser Technology, SRICenter for Physical Sciences and Technology. In addition, Z. Balevicius works as a professor in the Department of Electronics, at the VilniusTechuniversity. He is a co-author of more than 45 scientific publications with high-impact factors. Prof. dr. Zigmas Balevicius focused his research on plasmonics, nanophotonics, spectroscopic ellipsometry, surface spectroscopy, lasers, optical measurement systems, optical bio-and gas sensing, and optics in the life science

Prof. Pralay Kumar Karmakar completed his Ph.D. at the Centre of Plasma Physics Institute for Plasma Research (CPP-IPR), Guwahati, India. The award was conferred by Gauhati University. He joined Tezpur University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Tezpur University, Tezpur, India. He is interested in diversified research areas, such as Astrophysical plasmas, Cosmic fluid dynamics, Stability analyses of complex media, Nonlinear dynamics, etc. Six scholars have earned Ph.D. degrees under him. He has very good publications in reputed journals, books, etc. He has been serving as an editorial board member in several globally reputed scientific journals for a period more than a decade.

Andrea Cusano is a Full Professor of Electronics, Optoelectronics, and Photonics at the University of Sannio. His research interests are focused on the suitable merging of optical fibers and nanotechnologies and were the pioneer of the “Lab on fiber Technology” concept, nowadays recognized as an hot topic in nanophotonics. He published over 400 papers in prestigious international journals and communications in well-known international conferences worldwide; he has close to 20 national and international patents currently in charge of prestigious industrial companies. He is co-author of more than 70 invited chapters published in international books, invited papers, keynote, and plenary lectures in prestigious scientific international journals as well as international conferences. He is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Optics and Laser Technology (Elsevier) and Results in Optics (Elsevier). He was also co-founder of several spin-off companies focused on the development of fiber optic sensing systems for industrial and life science applications: “OptoSmart S.r.l.” in 2005, “MDTech” in 2007, “OptoAdvance” in 2011, Mantid S.r.l. in 2017, Often Medical in 2019. In 2020, he was appointed as Technical Director of the Research Infrastructure (C-NOS: Optoelectronics and Photonics Technologies for Life Science Applications)

Jyoti Rajput belongs to Punjab, India. She received her Ph.D. degree from NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, India in 2019. She is currently an Associate professor of Physics at Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. Her research focused areas deal with laser-induced electron acceleration in vacuums and plasmas including Direct Laser Acceleration, Laser Beat Wave acceleration, Plasma Beat Wave acceleration, harmonic generation, and THz radiation. She has published around 23 research articles in various international SCI journals and presented her research work at various international conferences/workshops. She is also a member of different renowned associations/societies e.g., PSSI, ISCA, etc. She is also a reviewer of esteemed journals. She is guiding five Ph.D. scholars at present.

Reza kamarian is a graduate of Electrical Engineering at the Azad University of Iran. He published his first article before graduating with a bachelor's, He is currently conducting research in Optics, Crystal photonics, and Nanophotonics, He is enthusiastic to research interdisciplinary areas. He is a member of the OSA

Juan Jose Encinas C was born in Lima, Peru. He is a Mechatronic Engineer. Session Chair and participant of the 4th North American Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Conference-IEOM 2019 in Toronto, Canada. He received a certificate for attendance and presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Automation Engineering and Intelligent Manufacturing-ICIMA 2018 in Penang, Malaysia. He participated in the X International Symposium on Innovation and Technology-ISIT 2019 in Cusco, Peru. Member of the steering and technical committee of the ISIT. He participated as part of the Peru Section of the IEEE in the XXVI International Congress of Electronics, Electricity, Engineering and Computing-INTERCON 2019 in Lima, Peru. He with experience in research, development and innovation in the fields of mechatronics, medical robotics, telemedicine, aerospace engineering and bioengineering. Researcher in programming by IPCEM agents. Lecturer and Consultant in Mechatronic, Spatial and Biomedical Technologies. He is also a consultant in information and communication technologies in the Peruvian government sector.