Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Then he was appointed to a Principal Scientist position at the HML/SNCI of theMax Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France. After serving as a Professor of electrical engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of Nanophotonics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018. In 2018 he assumed the directorship of the "Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics" at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the EU Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, a Life Fellow the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, and of the American Physical Society. He is recipient of multiple international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, the Japanese Oyo Buturi Award of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, and the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG, to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St. Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 1600 papers, 61 patents, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited exceeds 65,000+ and his Hirsch factor is 111 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructured photonic and electronic devices, and energy efficient data communication.

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.

Manijeh Razeghi received the Doctorate d’état ES Sciences Physiques from the Université de Paris, France, in 1980. Manijeh Razeghi was the Head of the Exploratory Materials Laboratory at Thomson-CSF (France) during the 80’s where she developed and implemented modern metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) vapor phase epitaxy (VPE), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), GasMBE, and MOMBE for entire compositional ranges of III-V compound semiconductors from deep UV to THZ.. Developing these tools was fundamental in enabling her to achieve high purity semiconductor crystals with a consistency and reliability that was often unmatched, thereby leading to new physics phenomena in InP and GaAs based semiconductors and quantum structures. She realized the first InP Quantum wells and Superlattices and demonstrated the marvels of quantum mechanics in the low dimensional world. She joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in Fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is on the editorial board of many journals, and is an Adjunct Professor at the College of Optical Sciences of the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. She has authored or co-authored more than 1000 papers, more than 34 book chapters, and 20 books, including the textbooks Technology of Quantum Devices (Springer Science Business Media, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A. 2010) and Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering, 4th Edition (Springer Science Business Media, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A. 2018). Two of her books, MOCVD Challenge Vol. 1 (IOP Publishing Ltd., Bristol, U.K., 1989) and MOCVD Challenge Vol. 2 (IOP Publishing Ltd., Bristol, U.K., 1995), discuss some of her pioneering work in InP-GaInAsP and GaAs-GaInAsP based systems. The MOCVD Challenge, 2nd Edition (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2010) represents the combined updated version of Volumes 1 and 2. She holds more than 55 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has an H -index of 95. Dr. Razeghi is a Fellow of MRS, IOP, IEEE, APS, SPIE, OSA, Fellow and Life Member of Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Fellow of the International Engineering Consortium (IEC). She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bun shah Award in 2004, IBM Faculty Award 2013, the Jan Czochralski Gold Medal in 2016, the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering, and many best paper awards. She is an elected life-Fellow of SWE, IEEE, and MRS.

Jimmy Xu, currently the Chales C. Tillinghast Jr. 1932 University Professor of Engineering and Physics at Brown University, USA. Prior to coming to Brown in 1999, he was the James Ham Professor of Optoelectronics at the University of Toronto, Canada. A fellow of AAAS, APS, Guggenheim, IEEE, IoP, he received a number of awards and prizes, including the 1994 Steacie Prize of Canada. Professor Xu is interested in nanoscale science and technology, quantum electronics and photonics, sensors, semiconductor lasers, electro-optics, and collective behaviors of large coupled systems such as neuromorphic computing. His ongoing research includes carbon nanotubes; diamond nanowires, Silicon lasers, active metamaterials, quantum materials, synthesis and non-lithographic fabrication and study of quantum-arrays made from metals, superconducting, molecules and semiconductors; DNA conductivity; physics of redox processes in proteins and cells.

Zhigang Chen is a specially-appointed professor at Nankai University and a professor at San Francisco State University. His research interests include nonlinear optics, topological photonics, and optical manipulation, with more than 250 papers in referred journals and numerous citations. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has served as an Editor/Guest Editor for several journals including Light: Science & Applications and Optics Letters, and as a Chair/Organizer for many conferences including General Co-Chair for the CLEO-Fundamental Science.

Bahram Jalali is the Director of the Photonics Laboratory, the Fang Lu Endowed Chair in Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA with joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering, and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Columbia University in 1989 and was with the Physics Research Division of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey until 1992 before joining UCLA. He is a member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Fellow of IEEE, OSA, APS, AIMBE, and SPIE. The recipient of the R.W. Wood Prize from the Optical Society of America for the first silicon laser, Bahram has received the Aaron Kressel Award from IEEE, and the Achievement Medal from IET (U.K), and the Pioneer in Technology Award from the Society of Brain Mapping & Therapeutics. Bahram was the Founder and CEO of Cognet Microsystems, a company that pioneered CMOS ICs for optical networks and which was acquired by Intel in 2001. In 2005, he was elected into the Scientific American Top 50 and MIT Technology Review Magazine Top 10.

Jannick Rolland is the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering at the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester and CTO of LighTopTech, she co-founded. At the University of Rochester, she is the Director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) that focuses on graduate education and Director of the R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering that engages undergraduates in optical design, fabrication, and metrology. She earned a Diploma from the Institut D'Optique in 1984, and MS (1985) and PhD (1990) degrees in optical science from the University of Arizona. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she focused on learning vision and computer graphics while designing stereoscopic head-worn displays for medical visualization. She also headed the Vision Research Group for Medical Displays (1992-1996). In 1996, she joined the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida (1996-2008) where she built the Optical Diagnostics and Applications Laboratory (ODALab). In 2009, she joined the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester as the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering. Professor Rolland served on the editorial board of the Journal Presence (MIT Press) (1996-2006), associate editor of Optical Engineering (1999-2004), and is currently associate editor of Optics Letters. She is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, SPIE, and NYSTAR. She is the recipient of the 2014 OSA David Richardson Medal and the 2017 Edmund A. Hajim Outstanding Faculty Award.

David J. Moss is founding Director of the Optical Sciences Centre at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. From 2016 to 2020 he was Director of the Centre for Microphotonics at Swinburne. From 2004 to 2014 he was with the University of Sydney and before that was a manager and senior scientist at JDS Uniphase in Ottawa Canada from 1998-2003. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in Physics and BSc from the University of Waterloo. He currently has over 20,000 citations on Google Scholar with an h index of 92. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA and SPIE.

Dr. Emmanuel Stratakis is a Research Director at the Institute of Electronic structure and laser (IESL) (www.iesl.forth.gr) of the Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (FORTH) (www.forth.gr ). He received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Crete in 2001 from the Physics Department, University of Crete. After graduating, he joined as a visiting Researcher the IESL-FORTH working on the ultrafast laser engineering of materials and as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete. In the fall semesters of 2006 and 2008, he was appointed as a visiting Researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley. In 2007 he was elected Researcher at IESL-FORTH where he is leading the "Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- processing" laboratory (http://stratakislab.iesl.forth.gr ; https://www.iesl.forth.gr/en/research/ULNMP-Group). His research interests are in the fields of (a) Laser-matter interaction; (b) Ultrashort pulsed laser processing of biomimetic surfaces ; (c) Laser processes for organic & hybrid electronics; (d) Laser engineeering and diagnostics of Graphene and related 2D materials; (e) Advanced photonic processes in photovoltaic and energy storage devices; (f) Photo-assisted synthesis of nanocrystals; (g) Applications on non linear imaging in materials science and biology; (h) Laser assisted biofabrication for tissue engineering applications (i) Multipurpose 3D printing complemented with subtractive manufacturing. He has over 220 SCI publications and more than 8000 citations, h-index=48 (Scopus), and he has coordinated many National and European grants. He has delivered more than 50 invited and keynote lectures and has been organizer and chair in major international scientific conferences. He has been an Editor of the journals 'Optoelectronic Advances', 'Materials Today (Bio)', 'Applied Sciences' and 'International Journal of molecular Sciences'. Since 2015, he is the Director of the Nanoscience Facility of FORTH, part of the NFFA-Europe EU Infrastructure, where he is a member of the General Assembly. He is a National expert in the High-Level Group of EU on Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Biotechnology, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of COST. Since January 2020 he is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Biomimetic (www.biomimetic.gr).

Luk’yanchuk graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia under supervision of Prof. Abrikosov. Luk’yanchuk got his PhD from Lebedev Physical Institute, 1979. Later he worked in General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is an Honorary Professor at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. During 1999-2019 Luk’yanchuk was working in Data Storage Institute in Singapore where he got IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2004, President`s Science Award 2013, and Institute of Physics Singapore (IPS) gold medal and award, 2016. Scientific interests of Luk’yanchuk are related to laser matter interactions. He published 5 monographs and about 300 original papers.

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 in 1993. He joined the Dayalbagh Educational Institute in 1993, where he is at present a Professor in the Department of Physics and Computer Science. He has been a Visiting Professor at many universities that include, Harvard (USA), Waterloo (Canada), Würzburg and Regensburg (Germany), Osaka (Japan), City University and Queen Mary University of London (UK), TIFR, Mumbai and IISc. Bangalore (India). In 2016, he was a Visiting Professor at the 2018 Nobel Laureate Prof. Donna Strickland's Lab. in Univ. of Waterloo, Canada. He is also an Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy and 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 six 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 (U.K.) 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 (USA) 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 Stanford University's coveted Top 2% in World Ranking of Scientists-2020, in Optoelectronics and Photonics.

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 Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Dr. Yue’s current research interests include intelligent photonics, optical communications and networking, optical interconnect, detection, imaging and display technology, integrated photonics, free-space and fiber optics. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >8,000 citations, four edited books, >50 issued or pending patents, >100 invited presentations. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access, and an Editor Board Member for three other scientific journals. He also served as Guest Editor for eight journal special issues, Committee Member and Session Chair for >50 international conferences, Reviewer for >60 prestigious journals.

Dr. Qing Gu is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Dallas since 2016, directing research in the Nanophotonics Lab (www.utdallas.edu/nanophoton/). She received the Bachelor degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, San Diego in 2014, both in Electrical Engineering. Her research interests include the design, fabrication and characterization of nano- and micro- scale photonic devices (such as lasers, waveguides and sensors), novel light-emitting materials and optical cavity configuration, and integrated photonic circuits. She is the author of book “Semiconductor Nanolasers” by Cambridge University Press, published in 2017. She is a recipient of the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award in 2019 and National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2020.

Alex de Marco obtained his PhD at EMBL in Heidelberg, focusing on developing methods for cryo-Electron Tomography and Subtomogram Averaging to allow large-scale structural studies on heterogeneous and pleomorphic samples. After graduation, he immediately joined FEI Company (now ThermoFisher Scientific) and was responsible for the development of hardware and software solutions for Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM). Currently, Alex is an Associate Professor at Monash University. Here his main focus is on developing new methods and technologies (from optics to image processing) to obtain molecular resolution imaging in biological samples.

Associate Professor Mohsen Rahmani is the Leader of the Advanced Optics &Photonics Lab at Nottingham Trent University. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Fellow and a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellow. His research activities span over light-matter interactions with various type of nano-materials, e.g. metallic, dielectric and semiconductor nanoparticles, in the linear and nonlinear regime for applications in flat optics, near-infrared imaging, bio-sensing, etc. He obtained his PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2013, followed by a postdoc fellowship at Imperial College London, and the Australian Research Council Early Career Fellowship at the Australian National University (ANU). In 2020, he moved to Nottingham Trent University. Rahmani has been invited to present his research findings at >35 international conferences, and he has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers, with over 3k citations (H-index=31). He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and prizes, including the Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Academics (Australian Oscar of Science), Early Career Medal from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Australian Optical Society Geoff Opat Award.

Hai-Yao Deng received a PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2012 with a thesis in ferroelectrics. Beside thesis, I also worked on subjects such as high temperature superconductors and polymer dynamics as well as open quantum systems. Shortly after obtaining PhD, I joined National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan as a post doc doing research on graphene systems, where I was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). After spending some time in Exeter (~ 3 years, Josephson resonators) and Manchester (~ 1 year, van der Waals materials), I came to Cardiff University as a Lecturer in 2019. As a physicist, I have great fun in finding out the workings of Nature. My research interests are broad (check my publications), currently focused on physical boundary effects, topological insulators and complex systems (e.g. glasses and networks), and they all contribute in one way or another in painting a coherent picture of Nature for me.

Dr Kang Li is a senior research fellow. His current research focus is on novel light source (OLED/Pled, UV, laser phosphors) and solid lasers (solid, semiconductor, and fiber laser etc.) and their application for industrial, biomedical, and telecommunication. Dr Li has more than 10 years’ experience of working in laser technology, optical design, nonlinear optics, fiber laser, optical imaging, and UV laser lithography. He has strong experimental investigations including high power laser system design, method and problem solving. He has extensive experience of characterization of optoelectronics device using laser metrology (interferometer), high resolution microscopy, photoluminescence, E-beam, and SEM. He has proficiency in database handling and simulation including programming in Matlab, FDTD, COMSOL and OriginPro 8. He has an extensive publication (>50) and patent portfolio (>10) generated during his extensive career working at Swansea University and University of South Wales. He is a peer reviewer for highly impact journal publications in optics field and for Innovate UK/EPSRC proposals. He is also member of Optical Society of America and MInstP. Dr Li holds a PhD in Optics from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and BSc in Optoelectronics from Changchun University of Science and Technology, China.

Vasilis Apostolopoulos, received his PhD degree at the University of Southampton at 2003 where he is now an associate professor. He has worked at the University of Cambridge and the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne. He is interested in developing THz time domain spectroscopy and its interface with optical systems such as integrated optics, metamaterial devices and microfluidics. He is also interested in Laser sources, specifically vertical external surface emitting lasers and their applications for nonlinear processes such as generation of Kerr micro-combs.

Mário 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, Nanomodelling 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.

Elsa Fonseca received the 5-year B.S. degree in Physics Engineering and Technology in 1995 and the M. Sc. degree in Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering in 1998, both from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. In 2007, she received her Ph.D. degree in Physics, from Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã, Portugal. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Physics, UBI. She is also a PhD member integrated in the Fiber Materials and Environmental Technologies (FibEnTech) Research Unit of UBI. Her main research interests are Digital Holography, Simulation and Development of Optical Systems and Signal Processing Applications in the areas of Image and Video Coding, Remote Sensing, Non-Destructive Evaluation and Vision Sciences. She has authored or co-authored several international refereed journals and conferences and participated in the editorial review board of several International Journals. She is also a member of the Optical Society of America - OSA.

Bettina Heise is a Senior Scientist at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria and she is a head of the OCT and Digital Imaging Technology at RECENDT, Linz. Bettina Heise did her PhD 2010 in Imaging and Image Processing and published Numerous Publications in peer reviewed optics journals.

Jin Li is Associated Professor in the College of Information Science and Engineering at Northeastern University, China since Jan. 2016. He was born in the city of Yuncheng, Shan Xi Province, China in Dec. 1983. He earned the Doctor's degree in Physical Electronics at HIT, China in 2013. He works in Laser Physics Centre of the Australia National University during the whole year of 2017 as a visiting fellow. His research interests include micro/nano-structured photonics, nanomaterials' nonlinear optics, micro/nanofiber sensors and integrated optical devices.

Dr. Munkh-Uchral Erdenebat received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in information and communication engineering from Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea, in 2011 and 2015, respectively. He is currently a postgraduate doctor researcher and project manager with School of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University. His research interests include 3D displays and microscopy, 3D image processing, 360° viewable displays, and light-field imaging based on integral imaging and holographic techniques.

Ms. Anar Khuderchuluun received her B.S. degree in Electronics and Automation Engineering from the National University of Mongolia in 2016. Since 2017, she has begun to pursue integration course of M.S. and Ph.D. to achieve Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering at Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea. Her research interests include 3D imaging and computer-generated hologram, and holographic printer.

Ms. Nyamsuren Darkhanbaatar received her B. S. degree in telecom communication from the Mongolian University of Science and Technology in 2015. And received an M.S. degree in information and communication engineering at Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea in 2019. Since 2019, she has begun to pursue her Dr. degree in information and communication engineering at Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea. Her research interests include 3D displays-based light field and holographic techniques, and AR systems.

Mariano Rivera received the degree of Doctor of Science from the AC Optics Research Center (CIO, Mexico) in September 1997. He is a Senior Researcher "C" of the Computer Science Department of the Mathematics Research Center (CIMAT, Mexico), where he works since 1997. He has done academic stays at the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2001-2002), at the Department of Mathematics at Florida State University (Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, 2008-2009) and at the National Supercomputer Center of the Potosino Institute for Scientific and Technological Research (Academic Coordinator, 2017-2018). The academic-administrative positions at CIMAT that he has held are Dean of the Postgraduate Program in Computational Sciences from 2001-2002 and from 2007-2008, Academic Dean (research) from 2011 to 2016. His research interests are in the topics of Vision and Image Processing, Numerical Optimization, Machine Learning. With applications in Optical Metrology, Remote Sensing, Data Analysis, and Medical Image Analysis. He has published more than 50 articles in indexed journals, including IEEE-PAMI, IEEE-Transactions on Image processing, and IEEE-Transactions on Medical Imaging, The Computer Journal, Medical Image Analysis, Optics Letters and Optics an Lasers in Engineering; to mention a few. Mariano Rivera has a similar number of papers in conference proceedings as CVPR, ECCV, ICPR and BMVC. He is a member of the steering committee of the Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT) and of program committees for CVPR, NIPS, ACCV, ICPR, ECCV, ICRL, ICML, ICCV to name a few. He has been responsible for more than 20 national and international research and technological development projects.

Dr Kamal Nain Chopra has done B.Sc. (University of Delhi), M.Sc. (Physics - IIT, Delhi), M.Tech. (Opto-Electronics - IIT, Delhi), and Ph.D. (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 300 in International journals (UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Netherland, and China- including, J.Opt.Soc Am, APPLIIED OPTICS, OPTICA ACTA, REV D OPTIQUE APPLIQUE, OPTIK, THIN SOLPROCEEDINGCHINESE JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, and CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS OF TAYLOR AND FRANCIS etc.) on various topics including Thin Films Optics, Lasers and Laser Components, Holography, and Modern Optics; 12 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 on Optoelectronic Gyroscopes and Applications has been published by SPRINGER NATURE. 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 of serving the Recruitment and Assessment Boards of DRDO (RAC and CEPTAM), as Chairman as well as Expert Board Member. He is a Reviewer and Editorial Board Member for some leading International Journals. His fields of Specialization are Opto-electronis, Unconventional Lasers, Optical Gyroscopes, Thin Films Designing, Fabrication, and Characterization by modern Techniques, and Specialized Optical Testing Techniques.