Prof. Koichi Shimizu
Professor, School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, China
Short Biography: Koichi Shimizu received M.S. (1976) and Ph.D. (1979) degrees, from University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He was Research Associate in University of Washington 1974-79. He was an Assistant-, an Associate- Professors, and a Professor in Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan in 1979-2016. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Hokkaido University, Japan, an Invited Research Professor of Waseda University, Japan and a Professor of Xidian University, Xi’an, China. He has been engaged in the studies of biomedical engineering including those of wave propagation in biological media, optical measurement, biotelemetry and biological effects of electromagnetic field. He served as an associate editor of IEEE Trans. ITB in 1999–2007. He has been a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, and an editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Nature. He is a member of IEEE, OSA, ISOB, IEEJ, IEICE and JSMBE. He received Research Promotion Award (1981), Best Paper Award (1995) and New Technology Development Award (2020) from Japan Society for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Prof. Yang Yue
Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.
Short Biography: 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, and an Editor Board Member for three other scientific journals. He also served as Guest Editor for ten journal special issues, Chair or Committee Member for >80 international conferences, Reviewer for >60 prestigious journals.
Prof. Yan Zhang
Professor, dean of Beijing Key Lab for Metamaterials and Devices.
Short Biography: He received his bachelor and master degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology and doctor degree from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science. He has worked in Yamagata University, Japan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Stuttgart University, Germany, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, and University Konstanz, Germany. His research interests include terahertz imaging and spectroscopy, surface plasmonic optics, optical information processing. He has published more than 260 prereviewed papers and delivered more than 50 invited talks in the international conferences. He is a fellow of OSA.
Prof. Qiao Wen
Professor, Shenzhen University, China
Short Biography: Qiao Wen received a B.Eng. degree in optoelectronics science and technology and an M.S. degree in optics, both from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, and a Ph.D. degree in optical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Since then, he has devoted his career to laser R&D, particularly ultrafast lasers. He is currently an Associate Professor with Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. He has authored or coauthored more than 20 patent applications and more than 50 journal and conference papers. His current research interests include solid-state lasers, fiber lasers, and their applications.
Prof. Zai-Fa Zhou
Professor, Key Laboratory of MEMS of the Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
Short Biography: Zai-Fa Zhou is currently a Professor at Southeast University of China. He received his PhD degrees in microelectronics and solid state electronics from Southeast University in 2009. After graduation with the highest honor, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, and received the New Century Excellent Talents Award by the Ministry of Education in 2011. He was appointed as the deputy director in 2012 and the executive deputy director in 2018 of the Key Laboratory of MEMS of the Ministry of Education. His current researches include modeling and simulation of the micro/nano fabrication processes, in situ extraction of material parameters for MEMS/NEMS, MEMS design methods, etc..
Prof. Alexander Konoshonkin
Professor, National Research Tomsk State University, Russia.
Short Biography: Director of Electromagnetic Scattering Research Center; V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS. His research interests include Physical optics, Geometrical optics, Light scattering, Theoretical model for interpretation of lidar sounding of cirrus clouds.
