Xiang Zhang received the Ph.D. degree from the University of California (UC) Berkeley, CA, USA, in 1996, the M.S. degree from the University of Minnesota, MN, USA, and the M.S./B.S. degree from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. He worked as an Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA, from 1996 to 1999, and as an Associate Professor and a full Professor at the University of California (UC) Los Angeles, CA, USA, from 1999 to 2004, prior joined Berkeley faculty in 2004. He has been the inaugural Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chaired Professor at UC Berkeley and the Director of National Science Foundation Nano-Scale Science and Engineering Center. He has been the Director of Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as a Member of Kavli Energy Nano Science Institute. He has been elected as a Member of US National Academy of Engineering, Academia Sinica (National Academy of Republic of China), and Fellow of four scientific societies: The American Physical Society (APS), The Optical Society of America (OSA), The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and The International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE).(Based on document published on 27 April 2016).

Ali Adibi is the director of Bio and Environmental Sensing Technologies (BEST) and a professor and Joseph M. Pettit chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. His research group has pioneered several structures in the field of integrated nanophotonics for both information processing and sensing. He is the author of more than 140 journal papers and 400 conference papers. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nanophotonics, and the nanophotonic program track chair of the Photonics West meeting. He is the recipient of several awards including Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Packard Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, and the SPIE Technology Achievement Award. He is also a fellow of OSA, SPIE, and AAAS.

Douglas H. Wernerreceived the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and the M.A. degree in mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), University Park, in 1983, 1985, 1989, and 1986, respectively. He holds the John L. and Genevieve H. McCainChair Professorship in the Pennsylvania State University Department of Electrical Engineering. He is the director of the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab (CEARL: http://cearl.ee.psu.edu/) as well as a faculty member of the Materials Research Institute (MRI: https://www.mri.psu.edu/) at Penn State. Prof. Werner was presented with the 1993 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Best Paper Award and was also the recipient of a 1993 International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award. In 1994, Prof. Werner received the Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory Outstanding Publication Award. He was aco-author (with one of his graduate students) of a paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagationwhich received the 2006 R. W. P. King Award. He received the inaugural IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Edward E. Altshuler Prize Paper Award and the Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Awardin 2011 and 2014 respectively. In 2018, he received the DoD Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. He also received the 2015 ACES Technical Achievement Award,the 2019 ACES Computational Electromagnetics Award, and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society 2019 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award. He was the recipient of a College of Engineering PSES Outstanding Research Award and Outstanding Teaching Award in March 2000 and March 2002, respectively. He was also presented with an IEEE Central Pennsylvania Section Millennium Medal. In March 2009, he received the PSES Premier Research Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the IET, the OSA, the ACES, and the PIERS Electromagnetics Academy.He is also a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), SPIE, and URSI.Prof. Werner is a former Associate Editor of Radio Science, a former Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, aformerEditorial Board Memberof Scientific Reports(aNature subjournal),an Editorial Board Member for EPJ Applied Metamaterials,Editor for the IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory & Applications, a member of URSI Commissions B and G, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. He holds 20patents, has published over 900technical papers and proceedings articles, and is the author of 6 books and 35book chapters (withone book andseveral additional chapters currently in preparation). His research interests include computational electromagnetics(MoM, FEM, FEBI, FDTD, DGTD, CBFM, RCWA, GO, GTD/UTD, etc.),antenna theory and design,phased arrays (including ultra-wideband arrays), high power microwave devices, wirelessand personal communication systems (including on-body networks), wearable and e-textile antennas, RFID tag antennas, conformal antennas, reconfigurable antennas, frequency selective surfaces, electromagnetic wave interactions with complex media, metamaterials, electromagnetic bandgap materials, zero and negative index materials, transformation optics, nanoscale electromagnetics (including nanoantennas), fractal and knot electrodynamics, and nature-inspired optimization techniques (genetic algorithms, clonal selection algorithms, particle swarm, wind driven optimization, and various other evolutionary programming schemes).

SUN Xiaowei, who currently is the Chair Professor of EEE(Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) at Southern University of Science and Technology of China. He was the principal investigator for 18 scientific research programs supported by the Singapore government. He edited and co-edited 5 books and 3 books were published worldwide. His papers were published in world top journals like Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Applied Physics Letters, etc. From the SCI database, his entire publications have been cited over 12000 times, other citations over 17000 times with an H index of 67. Prof. SUN Xiaowei had served as chair and co-chair for 35 international academic conferences, with over 50 times of invited reports and talks. Prof. SUN Xiaowei set up and is the chair of SID Singapore and Malaysia branch, chair of Energy Photonics, co-founder and vice-chairman of Singapore-China Association for Advancement of Science and Technology and he is the editorial member of International Journal of Nanotechnology and other international journals.

Dr. Hiroaki Minamide is currently a Team Leader of Teraphotonics team and a Group Director of Terahertz research group of RIKEN, Japan. He is also a visiting professor at Chiba University.　He joined RIKEN in 1999, and after working as a researcher and deputy team leader, he has been working as the team leader since 2010 and as the group director since 2020. He received the B.S. degree in communication engineering, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1993, 1996, and 1999, respectively. His research interests include high-power THz-wave generation and extremely sensitive THz-wave detection using nonlinear optics and their unique THz applications. He is a member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Optical Society of America (OSA), The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), The Optical Society of Japan (OSJ), The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), and The Laser Society of Japan as a senior membership.

Guixin Li is currently a Professor in Nanophotonics, at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China. He was awarded the 2019 Qiushi Outstanding Young Scholar of China. He has published 80 peer-review papers in high-impact journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, Nature Reviews Materials and so on. He serves as the Panel Member of the Metamaterials Research Society of China.

B.T.P.Madhav was born in India, A.P, in 1981. He received the B.Sc, M.Sc, MBA, M.Tech degrees from Nagarjuna University, A.P, India in 2001, 2003, 2007, and 2009 respectively. He received his Ph.D. in the field of antennas from K L University in 2015. From 2003-2007 he worked as a lecturer and from 2007 to 2011 he worked as Assistant Professor and from 2011 to 2015 he worked as Associate Professor and from Aug-2015 he is working as Professor in Electronics and Communication Engineering. He has published more than 190 papers in International, National Journals, and Conferences. He is a reviewer for several international journals including Elsevier and Taylor and Francis and served as a reviewer for three international conferences. His research interests include antennas, liquid crystals applications, and wireless communications. He is a life member of ISTE, IACSIT, IRACST, IAENG, UACEE, and fellow of IAEME. He is the editorial board member for 15 journals. He is acting as Sub-Editor for IJST.

Prof Sahab Dass joined DEI in the year 1986 as Assistant Professor where he is currently serving as Head, Department of Chemistry. The interdisciplinary research group on Solar Water Splitting for Hydrogen Generation comprising of Physicists, Biologists and Engineers has initiated innovative modification strategies like (a) swift heavy ion irradiation (SHI), (b) bio‐inspired catalysts, (c) introduction of plasmons and conducting polymers, (d) exploiting DFT studies to study the heterojunction and doped semiconductor systems for their use in PEC application and (e) basic studies to understand the charge transfer mechanism across the electrode electrolyte interface vis‐a‐vis morphology of nanostructured semiconductor electrode. Prof. Dass has co-authored more than 120 publications in scientific journals of repute and has successfully supervised fourteen Ph.D. students while three are working at present. He is the recipient of the Young Scientist Award for best paper presentation conferred by ISCA (Indian Science Congress Association) in 1985. Prof. Dass was honoured with the visiting Professorship in the NANOCAT, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur for three years from 2013-2016. Prof. Dass was appointed Member of Editorial Board of General Chemistry journal in 2019 and Bronto Library of Energy Science & Technologyin 2020. The group lead by Prof.Dass signed an MoU with Indian Oil R &D Center, Faridabad in 2014 to upscale the Solar Hydrogen Generation by Photoelectrochemical route. Over the years Prof. Dass has delivered many invited talks at national and internationalmeetings which include: talkin NREL, US, 2018; Uppsala University and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, 2017; University of Utah, Salt lake City, US, 2016; Northeastern University, Boston, USA and University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur in 2012; Institute of Material Science and Engineering, Singapore, 2011; University of Cologne (Germany), University of Waterloo(Canada), University of Maryland and University of California at Santa Barbara (USA), 2010, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, 2007. The partners in the International Collaboration with the DEI group includes University of Maryland, College Park, University of Utah, Arizona State University, University of California, Berkley, University of Cologne, Germany, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and University of Glasgow, Scotland. The group has completed DST-NSF collaborative research project with University of Maryland and UGC project under Indo-US 21st Century Knowledge Initiative with Arizona State University on PEC water splitting. He has successfully completed six federally funded research projects with financial outlay of Rs 4.34 crores while one worth Rs 3.49 Crores is ongoing.

Sawyer D. Campbell was born in Normal, IL. He received the B.S. degree in physics from Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, in 2008, the M.S. and PhD degrees in optical sciences from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He began his fascination in optical physics working under Profs. Rainer Grobe and Q. Charles Su in the Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit (ILP) at Illinois State University as an undergraduate researcher performing experimental studies of laser light scattering in turbid media. He then studied under Prof. Richard W. Ziolkowski at the University of Arizona performing computational studies of plasmonic and metamaterial structures in the visible, infrared, and microwave regimes culminating in the defense of his dissertation entitled "Studies of active and passive plasmonic core-shell nanoparticles and their applications." He is currently an Assistant Research Professor in the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab (CEARL) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State Univeristy. Dr. Campbell has extensive experience in the computational modeling and inverse design of metamaterial- and transformation optics-based devices at RF, infrared, and optical frequencies. Additionally, he is an expert in the application of multi-objective and surrogate-assisted optimization techniques to challenging problems in both the RF and optical regimes. He has published over 50 technical papers and proceedings articles and is the author/coauthor of 2 book chapters. He is a member of the IEEE, the APS, the OSA, and SPIE and is the past Chair and Current vice-Chair/Treasurer of the IEEE Central Pennsylvania Section.

Marco Rahm received his doctorate in natural sciences in 2006 from the TU Kaiserslautern (Germany). In the same year, he joined the research group of Prof. Dr. David R. Smith at Duke University (USA) as a research associate. In 2008, he was appointed as a junior professor in physics at the TU Kaiserslautern (Germany) and at the same time became the head of a Fraunhofer Attract group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques in Freiburg (Germany). Since 2012, he is a full professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at TU Kaiserslautern (Germany) and a member of the State Research Center OPTIMAS. Currently, he serves as the head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.

Teik-Cheng Lim won a Faculty of Engineering Annual Book Prize for his undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and was subsequently awarded the NUS Research Scholarship to pursue his PhD at the same university. Upon earning his doctorate, Dr. Lim worked at NUS for a few years before joining SIM University (UniSIM). He is currently Associate Professor and Head of PhD (Engineering) programme at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). Dr. Lim is the author of Auxetic Materials and Structures (2015) and Mechanics of Metamaterials with Negative Parameters (2020), both published by Springer Nature.

Dr. Liu Hong He obtained his M. Eng and PhD from the Dept of Mechanical Engineering of National University of Singapore. He has joined Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research Singapore since 2003. His research interest is mainly focused on the development of advanced nanopatterning technologies for tunable metasurfaces and nanophotonics devices, artificially engineered materials and nanoplasmonics, optical nanolithography and etc. Currently Dr Liu Hong is heading the Nanofabrication Department in IMRE to advance the science and engineering of structured materials at micro and nanoscale and offer nanofabrication R&D services.

Yuto Moritake received the M. S. and Dr. Eng. Degrees from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Innovative Photon Manipulation Team (conducted by Prof. Takuo Tanaka) in RIKEN, Japan. Since 2017, he is an assistant professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is currently engaged in the research and development of nanophotonics, metamaterials, plasmonics, and nanofabrication.

Muhammed A. Unutmaz, Research Assistant at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University. He has received his BSEE degree from Hacettepe University (HU) in 2013, and MSEE and PhD degrees from Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University (AYBU) in 2017 and 2021, respectively. Prior to his PhD, he worked in different research labs in HU and Middle East Technical University. During this time, he familiarized with video/image processing, radar and telecommunication signal processing, and RF systems. He also contributed to the development of a terahertz measurement setup in AYBU. He also founded and chaired the student society of Ham-Radio of HU. He is also selected for Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher Scholarship in 2020. In his PhD, he has given three invited talks in international conferences, and he is the co-author of six journal papers.

Dr Shumei Chen is currently a Professor at the School of Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China. She worked as the Marie Curie research fellow at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom from 2017 to 2019, postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University from 2014 to 2017. She obtained her Ph. D degree at the Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2014. Her research interest is focused on the nonlinear light-matter interactions in optical metamaterials and metasurfaces. She has published over 30 peer reviewed papers with total citations over 2000.

Tobias Stauber is a Tenured Scientist at the Material Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain. His research focus is on electronic phases and nano-photonics in two-dimensional materials. He is the co-author of 100 ISI-classified articles with more than 10,000 citations and h-factor > 35. He further acts as co-editor for “New Journal of Physics” and “European Physical Journal B”.

Dr. Hong-Wei Wu is an associate professor at Anhui University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on spoof plasmonic structures; optical metamaterials; and photonic time crystals. He receivedthe Ph. D. degree in optical physics in physical school of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.

Jérémie Grisolia is a university professor at INSA Toulouse. After graduating in physics of matter at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse (France) in 1997, he did his thesis at CEMES CNRS in Toulouse (2000), on the thermal evolution of defects introduced by ion implantation helium or hydrogen in silicon and silicon carbide. Then, he joined the Opsitech company from a spin-off from LETI CEA in Grenoble (2000-2002), where he became involved in the characterization of materials and metrology dedicated to the production from the silicon wafer up to '' the packaging of optical products such as MEMS, MOEMS, AWG mux demuxes, rows of VOA, dividers. He is currently working on the addressing of nano-objects (development of metallic and or magnetic nano-electrodes, functionalization of sites for localization ...). From 2004 to today, he has developed transport experiments for the study of the properties of silicon nanoparticles synthesized by low-energy implantation in an ultra-fine silica matrix. The research projects that he develops in the NanoTech team are articulated at the interface between physics, chemistry and nanotechnologies, around this strong idea to develop new nanotechnology processes allowing the manipulation of nano-objects, their addressing, study, and exploitation of their remarkable properties in order to achieve functional devices at room temperature. he developed transport experiments for the study of the properties of silicon nanoparticles synthesized by low-energy implantation in an ultra-fine silica matrix. The research projects that he develops in the NanoTech team are articulated at the interface between physics, chemistry and nanotechnologies, around this strong idea to develop new nanotechnology processes allowing the manipulation of nano-objects, their addressing, study and exploitation of their remarkable properties in order to achieve functional devices at room temperature. he developed transport experiments for the study of the properties of silicon nanoparticles synthesized by low-energy implantation in an ultra-fine silica matrix. The research projects that he develops in the NanoTech team are articulated at the interface between physics, chemistry and nanotechnologies, around this strong idea to develop new nanotechnology processes allowing the manipulation of nano-objects, their addressing, study, and exploitation of their remarkable properties in order to achieve functional devices at room temperature.

Dr. K. Prahlada Rao is a full time Ph. D research scholar at Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research in Applied Electronics, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India. He has done his Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India and obtained his Masters of Engineering in Microwave and Radar Engineering from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Dr. K. Prahlada Rao has been awarded Ph. D degree in May 2021 for his work on “Some Studies on Design and Analysis of Microstrip Antenna Arrays”. His areas of research interests include Microstrip Patch Antennas and Arrays, Frequency Selective Structures, Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures, Defective Ground Structures, Effect of Nanomaterials on Microstrip Antennas and Arrays, Microwave and Radar Antennas, Radar Communication, Microwave and RF Engineering, Electromagnetic Theory and Transmission Lines, Antenna Engineering, Radar Signal Processing etc. He has published several papers in national and international conferences and journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science etc. He has also a reviewer for the following journals: IEEE Access (Scopus Indexed), International Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications (Scopus Indexed), Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research (Web of Science Indexed), Frequenz (Scopus Indexed), Journal of Iranian Association of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Materials Today Proceedings, Journal of Mineral, Metal and Material Engineering, Annals of Science and Engineering Research, International Research Journal of Science and Technology. He has also delivered two talks.

Dr. Padmnabh Rai is a Reader (F) in School of Physical Sciences at UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mmbai-400098 since March 2018. He received his M. Tech. and Ph. D. degree in Condensed Matter Physics from IIT Delhi in 2004 and IIT Bombay in 2009, respectively. Dr. Rai is experienced in synthesizing carbon based materials (single crystal diamond, carbon nanotube and graphene). Carbon-based materials are being explored for photonics and plasmonics applications. Dr. Rai is also involved in teaching physics courses at graduate and undergraduate level. He has consulted industries to develop laboratory for growing single crystal diamond for gem and scientific applications.

Dr. Hari Shankar Singh was born in Sonbhadra, (U. P.), India, in 1990. He received his B.Tech. degree from the IEC College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida (U.P.), India, in 2011 and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India, in 2015. Currently, he is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India. His Ph.D. thesis has been awarded “Best Ph.D. Thesis” in 3rd IEEE UPCON 2016 conference, held in IIT (BHU), Varanasi during 09-11 December 2016. He has published 35 research papers in referred International Journals and more than 42 research papers published/presented in national and international conferences/ symposium/ workshops. His research interests include Microstrip antenna, MIMO antenna systems, Ultrawideband (UWB) antennas, Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) structure, RFID Antennas, Mobile antenna, and Multiple antennas- user interactions. He has published more than 45 papers in various peer review international journals and conferences. He is serving as referee of various referred journal.

Dr. Lokendra Singh has earned his doctorate degree in 2019 from DIT University, Dehradun, India, in 2019. He also worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the School of Physics Science and Information Technology, Liaocheng University, Shandong, China. He is currently working as an Assistant professor at the College of Engineering Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. He has strong background and experience in numerical modeling of all-optical devices using plasmonic metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguides and the development of optical fiber biosensors for the diagnosis of biomolecules. He has published more than 30 research papers in reputed journals and international conferences.