Sukhdev Roy

Sukhdev Roy

Professor Sukhdev Roy received his Ph.D. from IIT Delhi in 1993 and currently serves as Head of the Department of Physics and Computer Science at Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India. He has received the JSPS Invitation Fellowship (Japan, 2004), the Systems Society of India’s National Systems Gold Medal (2016), and the prestigious Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Award (2025–2026).He has authored 180 research papers, 11 book chapters, and holds six UK patents. He was Guest Editor of the IET Circuits, Devices and Systems Journal Special Issue on Optical Computing (March 2011) and is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access.He is a Fellow of SPIE, Optica, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences (India), IETE (India), and a Distinguished Fellow of the Optical Society of India. He has been listed in Stanford’s Top 2% World Ranking of Scientists in Optoelectronics and Photonics for the years 2020–2025.

Yang Yue

Yang Yue

Prof. Yang Yue received his B.S. and M.S. from Nankai University and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He is a Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University and the PI of iPatLab. His research focuses on intelligent photonics, including optical communications, optical perception and optical chips. He has published over 300 papers including Science, with more than 15,000 citations. He has authored two monographs, eight edited books and obtained over 50 patents. He is an Optica Fellow and SPIE Fellow, working as an Associate Editor for several journals and a guest editor for more than ten special journal issues.

Salah S. A. Obayya

Salah S. A. Obayya

Prof. Salah S. A. Obayya is a Chair Professor at Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt, where he serves as Director-General of Research Institutes and Founding Director of the Center for Photonics and Smart Materials. He is a Fellow of IEEE, OPTICA, SPIE, IET, IOP, AAS, and APS. His research focuses on green nanophotonics and intelligent computational modeling of modern nanophotonic devices. He has published 248 journal papers, 3 books, and 254 conference papers, and supervised 35 PhD students. He received the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Continental Award for Scientific Excellence (2021) and holds the UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Development in Africa (2019).

Saeed Olyaee

Saeed Olyaee

Saeed Olyaee is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University and the founder and head of the Nano-photonics and Optoelectronics Research Laboratory (NORLab), established in 2006. Olyaee has authored and co-authored more than 350 scientific publications, including 207 journal articles, 136 conference papers, and several books and book chapters. He has also led or contributed to approximately 50 university-level and national research projects.  He is a Senior Member of IEEE and has served on the editorial boards and scientific committees of several national and international journals and conferences. He has been listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists in the annual impact category for seven consecutive years (2019–2025). His research interests include laser nanometrology, optical instrumentation, photonic crystal fibers and sensors, THz materials and devices, and solar cells.