Wei Jiang

Wei Jiang

Wei Jiang (IEEE Senior Member) is a Professor at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University. His research focuses on silicon photonics, photonic crystals, nanophotonics, and their applications in optical interconnects, optical communications, LIDAR, and optical computing. He also serves as Associate Director of the Precision Photonics Integration & System Application Research Center of the Ministry of Education of China. He has demonstrated the first high‑speed photonic crystal modulator on silicon and pioneered half‑wavelength pitch waveguide integration for optical phased arrays.

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.

Lianshan Yan

Lianshan Yan

Lianshan Yan received B.E. and Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University and the University of Southern California (USC), respectively. He is currently the director of the Key Laboratory of Photonic-Electronic Integration and Communication-Sensing Convergence (Ministry of Education) and the director of Center for Information Photonics & Communications (CIPC) at Southwest Jiaotong University, China. Prof. Yan is a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA). He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of Light: Advanced Manufacturing (2020-). He received the IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award (2011-2013) and IEEE LEOS Graduate Fellowship (2002). He is also the winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China and the Chair Professor of Cheung Kong Scholars Program. He was the Chair of Optical Fiber Technology Technical Group of OSA (2015-2018) and an associate editor of IEEE Photonics Journal (2009-2015).

Hongyan Fu

Hongyan Fu

Hongyan Fu (Optica Fellow) is an Associate Professor at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, where he also directs the Nano‑fabrication Platform. His research focuses on integrated photonics, optical wireless communication, and LiDAR. He previously led optical communications research at Huawei's Central Research Institute. He has authored over 400 technical papers and serves as Technical Program Co‑Chair of ACP 2022. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Life Member of SPIE.

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).

Yan Zhang

Yan Zhang

Prof. Yan Zhang is a Full Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Department of Physics, Capital Normal University. He serves as the Director of the Key Laboratory of Terahertz Optoelectronics (Ministry of Education) and Beijing Key Laboratory of Metamaterials and Devices, and is a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA).  His research focuses on terahertz spectroscopy & imaging, terahertz metasurface devices, and optical information processing. He has published over 400 peerreviewed papers in journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Communications and Physical Review Letters, with an Hindex of 64 and over 14,000 Google Scholar citations. His research group has received several national innovation awards for industryuniversityresearch collaboration.