Manijeh Razeghi 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 one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, pioneering in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has authored or coauthored more than 1000 papers, more than 31 book chapters, and 18 books. She holds 55 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bunshah Award in 2004 and many best paper awards. Dr. Razeghi is an elected Fellow of SWE (1995), SPIE (2000), IEC (2003), OSA (2004), APS (2004) IOP (2005), IEEE (2005) and MRS (2008). And IBM teacher of excellence 2013, and the 2016 Jan Czochralski Award. She is editor , associate, and Board member of many journals, including Nano Science and Nano technology.

Pioneer in the area of III-V compound semiconductors and optoelectronic devices from the deep ultraviolet to the far infrared spectral bands, including in particular InP and GaAs based semiconductors and devices, which were at the heart of the optical fiber telecommunication revolution of the late 20th Century and the rise of the information age.

Prof. Vladislav E. Bougrov, Director of School of Photonics, Head of Chair of Light Technologies and Optoelectronics at the ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia, a leading Russian University in the filed of Photonics, Photonics Materials, and Quantum Informatics; 42 years old; Master degree in optoelectronics from Department of Optoelectronics chaired by Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Zhores Alferov, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI"; Ph.D. in 1999 and D.Sc. in 2013 in physics from Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; holder of the prize of the Government of Russian Federation in science and engineering; highly qualified in material physics and engineering of semiconductor optoelectronics devices; author of more than 60 papers in reputed journals, inventor in more than 100 patent applications, including more than 30 granted patents; extensive experience with dynamic management of growing international start-up companies, founder of Optogan.

III-nitride based semiconductor heterostructures, ultrahigh performance light-emitting diodes (LEDs), development of novel MOCVD growth technique, advanced laser device structures, bulk materials growth: gallium nitride and gallium oxide.

Dr. Douglas R McCarter, Dhc, is the Technical Integrator of McCarter Machine & Technology Inc. , founded in 1981. McCarter’s patented and proprietary silicon processes achievements were documented by published technical papers and over 50 oral presentations. In turn, McCarter has won many awards, mentioned in Forbes.com, Kiplinger Letter, Entrepenuer.com, Nasa Tech Briefs, Missile Defense Briefs Open and Classified, and recognized as the current world expert in precision silicon components. McCarter has served as member of editorial staff of Advanced Optical Technology, in Munich Germany since 2012. In 2016, Dr. Babin, Congressman District 37 and leader of Nasa Funding, endorsed McCarter and staffers are working directly with backing of the development of McCarter Silicon Space Systems. In addition to over 3000 hours of Technical Schools, McCarter has been directly mentored by the late Frank Anthony, Bell Labs and past 10 years Roger Paquin Perk & Elmer retired Materials Expert.

Inventor of processes to enable the use of Silicon in Optics and Opto-mechanical structures. McCarter’s Silicon Components are Modular, Scalable and Producible. In particular, McCarter has developed a glass frit bonding process for building meter class systems for ground, flight or space missions.

Branislav Vlahovic is Director of the National Science Foundation Computational Center of Research Excellence, NASA University Research Center for Aerospace Device, and NSF Center Partnership for Research and Education in Materials at North Carolina Central University. In 2004, he was awarded by the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina Oliver Max Gardner statewide award for his research and contribution to science. He has published more than 300 papers in peer reviewed journals.

Computer simulations of nanostructures, tunneling and charge transfer between nanostructures, pulsed laser deposition of nanostructures, nonlinear optics, detectors and devices based on quantum confinement, nanophotonics, semiconductor structures, and photovoltaics.

Mahmoud Fallahi is a professor in the college of optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toulouse and LAAS-CNRS, in 1988. He joined the National Research Council of Canada in 1989 and became a member of technical staff as a Research Scientist during 1992-1995. He joined the University of Arizona as an Assistant professor in 1995. His research has been extensively published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, reported in invited talks and published in international conference proceedings. He has authored or co-authored several book chapters, patents and invention disclosures. He has served as Conference Chair and Program Committee member in several international conferences in the field of semiconductor lasers and integrated optics. Since August 2014 he has been with the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Program Director of the photonics program in the ECCS Division of Engineering Directorate. As a Program Director he is promoting and managing translational research in the field of optics and photonics.

He has over 28 years of active research in the field of photonic components, integrated optics and heterogeneous integration. His recent research interests are in high power semiconductor lasers, tunable sources, nonlinear frequency generation, photonic integrated circuits, micro/nanofabrication, and hybrid organic-inorganic components for heterogeneous integration.

Devki N. Talwar conducts research on defects in semiconductor materials used in various electronics and opto-electronics applications. He has been with IUP for almost twenty nine years, and is the author of more than 130 refereed journal articles, three book chapters, and review articles. His expertise in the sophisticated Green’s function technique is considered very useful for providing information on the electronic and vibrational properties of defects in semiconductors, quantum wells, and superlattices. He is recognized by the international community as a prolific researcher.

Electronic, Vibrational and Optical properties of Nano-structured Semiconductor materials and Superlattices

Ortwin Hess is a theoretical physicist in condensed matter quantum optics. He currently holds the Leverhulme Chair in the Blackett Laboratory (Department of Physics) at Imperial College London. He heads a team of researchers working on light-matter interaction in quantum nano-photonics, plasmonics and metamaterials, semiconductor nano-photonics and nano-laser dynamics and is Co-Director of Imperial’s Centre for Plasmonics & Metamaterials. He obtained the PhD degree from the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) in 1993, while spending extended time (1990 – 1992) in Edinburgh (UK). After a post-doc at the University of Marburg (Germany) he obtained his Habilitation in Theoretical Physics at the University of Stuttgart in 1997. He was Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1997/98) and at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (1999/2000). Before moving to Imperial College in January 2011 he was from 2003 to 2010 Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter and Optical Physics at the University of Surrey (Guildford, UK).

• quantum nano-photonics (nanoplasmonics, plasmonic nano-lasers, quantum plasmonics) • optical, electronic and phononic metamaterials, • ultrafast semiconductor nano-photonics and nano-laser dynamics.

Shien-Kuei Liaw received double doctorates in photonics engineering from National Chiao-Tung University in 1999, and in mechanical engineering from National Taiwan University in 2014, respectively. He joined the Chunghua Telecommunication, Taiwan, in 1993. Since then, he has been working on optics communication and fiber based devices. He joined the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology since 2000 and served as the directors of Optoelectronic Center and Technology Transfer Center, respectively. Currently, he is a distinguished Professor at the same university and Taipei Chapter Chair of the IEEE Photonic Society. He was an academic visitor of University of Oxford, Nanyang Technological University, Tsing Hua University and Bellcore (now Telcordia). He has been awarded about 37 patents and has published 240 journal articles and international conference presentations. His research interests are in optical sensing, optical communication and reliability testing. He is a senior member of IEEE, OSA and SPIE.

optical sensing, optical communication and reliability testing

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, and Technical University, Vienna, Austria. He is also CEO of the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA. Ephraim is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); IEEE Life Fellow; Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS), the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) . Dr. Suhir has authored about 400 publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering (he is the third Russian American, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award); and 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products.

Probabilistic Methods in Reliability Engineering; Analytical (Mathematical) Modeling in Applied Science and Engineering; Photonics, Fiber Optics, Mechanics of Optical Fibers; Shock and Vibration Analyses and Testing; Thermal Stress Analysis, Embedded Systems; “Human-in-the-Loop”: Human-Equipment-Environment Interaction;

Dr. Peng-Sheng Wei received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of California, Davis, in 1984. He has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering of National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, since 1989. Dr. Wei has contributed to advancing the understanding of and to the applications of electron and laser beam, plasma, and resistance welding through theoretical analyses coupled with verification experiments. Investigations also include studies of their thermal and fluid flow processes, and formations of the defects such as humping, rippling, spiking and porosity. Dr. Wei has published more than 80 journal papers. He is a Fellow of AWS (2007), and a Fellow of ASME (2000). He also received the Outstanding Research Achievement Awards from both the National Science Council (2004), and NSYSU (1991, 2001, 2004), the Outstanding Scholar Research Project Winner Award from National Science Council (2008), the Adams Memorial Membership Award from AWS (2008), the Warren F. Savage Memorial Award from AWS (2012), and the William Irrgang Memorial Award from AWS (2014). He has been the Xi-Wan Chair Professor of NSYSU since 2009, and Invited Distinguished Professor in the Beijing University of Technology, China, during 2015-2017.

1.Thermal science in manufacturing and materials processing 2.Interactions between laser and surfaces 3.Plasma physics 4.Controlling of surface patterns and porosity Phase change across interfaces

Huikai Xie is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Florida. He received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees all in electrical engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Tufts University, and Carnegie Mellon University, respectively. Before he joined the University of Florida in 2002, he worked at Tsinghua University (1992-1996), Bosch Corporation (2001), and Akustica Inc. (2002). His research interests include MEMS/NEMS, integrated inertial sensors, microactuators, optical MEMS, biophotonics, optical microendoscopy, microspectrometers, and micro-LiDAR. He has published over 250 technical papers and holds 30 US patents. He has served on the technical program committees of various international conferences including IEEE Transducers, IEEE Optical MEMS, and IEEE Sensors, and the editorial boards of several international journals. He is a senior member of IEEE and OSA

Optical MEMS, optical imaging, microspectrometers, micro-LiDAR

Dr. Jingsi Li is currently working as a Scientific R&D Manager in Integrated Photonics Chip Design Team at Lumentum. Lumentum is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Dr. Li has completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, focusing on design, fabrication, and characterization of integrated distributed feedback laser arrays for wavelength division multiplexing systems.

Optical Communications, Photonic Integrated Circuits

Kimberley Hall completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 2002, followed by postdoctoral studies at the University of Iowa. Since 2004, Hall has been a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science at Dalhousie University and holds a Canada Research Chair in Ultrafast Science. At Dalhousie University, Dr. Hall directs a research group focused on ultrafast spectroscopy and quantum control in semiconductor materials.

Electron spin coherence and relaxation, Quantum information, Photonic and spintronics devices, Magnetic semiconductors, Ultrafast dynamics in semiconductors, nanostructures.

Y. Fainman received M. Sc and Ph. D degrees from Technion, Israel in 1979 and 1983, respectively. Currently he is a Cymer Professor of Advanced Optical Technologies and Distinguished Professor in ECE at UCSD. He is directing research of the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics group at UCSD and made significant contributions to near field optical phenomena, nanophotonics and plasmonics, and non-conventional imaging. The research applications target information technologies and biomedical sensing. He contributed over 250 manuscripts in peer review journals and over 450 conference presentations and conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of OSA, IEEE, and SPIE, and a recipient of the Miriam and Aharon Gutvirt Prize, Lady Davis Fellowship, Brown Award, Gabor Award and Emmett N. Leith Medal.

Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics

Luís António Dias Carlos got his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Évora, Portugal, in 1995 working on photoluminescence of polymer electrolytes incorporating lanthanide salts. Currently, he is Full Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Aveiro and vice-director of the CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials (Portugal). He is member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. His current research interests include luminescent nanothermometers, luminescent solar concentrators, organic-inorganic hybrids for green photonics (solid-state lighting and integrated optics), and luminescent/magnetic nanoparticles, as new probes for multimodal imaging. He has published around 370 papers and 6 patents, which have received ca. 10,500 citations (Hirsch’ index h of 53), and co-guest editor of a RSC book on Nanoscale Thermometry (Nanoscience & Nanotechnology series) and special issues of the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology (2010) and of the Journal of Luminescence (2015).

Luminescent nanothermometry Applications of organic-inorganic hybrids in luminescent solar concentrators, solid-state lighting, and integrated optics Light emission of organic-inorganic hybrids, silicates, nanocrystals and metal organic frameworks Crystal-field, local coordination and energy transfer in lanthanide-based compounds Luminescent, magnetic and luminescent/magnetic nanoparticles as new probes for multimodal imaging Self-assembly and emergence of complexity in organic/inorganic hybrids

Junpeng Guo earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined Rockwell International Science Center in Thousand Oaks, California as a Research Scientist after receiving his Ph.D. and later moved to Sandia National Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff. Since 2005, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Optics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr. Guo has worked in many areas of optics, including ultrafast fiber laser, semiconductor lasers, RF/Photonics, photonics crystals, waveguide optics, micro-ring resonators and sensors. He fabricated the first high resolution micropolarizer array device, which enabled the industrial development of 3D TV displays. Currently, Dr. Guo’s research is nanostructure plasmonics, photonics, metamaterials, and spectrometer sensors. He received Alan Berman Research Publication Award in 2012 and was the sole recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Research Award of the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2016. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of Photonics Research.

Plasmonics, Metamaterials, Nanophotonics, and Sensors

Prof. Manuel Hegelich, an experimental laser physicist, very successfully joint with his group the exploration of the laser interaction with ultra-thin foils (produced at MAP). We are observing very dense laser-induced ion beams, the breakout of dense electron bunches and the production of high harmonics at different lasers, exploring this new coherent physics. The ultrashort dense secondary beams promise to have new properties in nonlinear interactions.

Interaction of ultra-intense electromagnetic fields with matter; high-energy density physics; laser-particle acceleration

Prof. Minvydas Ragulskis received his Ph.D. (Doctor of Sciences) degree at Kaunas University of Technology. In 2008 he has been a professor at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. In 2012 he has elected as Member of Lithuanian Academy of Science, in 2013 he received award from Official Expert at the Committee of National Science Awards. In 2015 he is Invited as Expert for Horizon 2020 projects (European Commission)

Optics has traditionally been an important research area for our Group. Our field in optics could be shortly described as modelling of optical effects in virtual computational environments. The utilization of three basic components – numerical models of elastic dynamically interacting bodies, a physical model describing interference effects occurring whenever optical whole field fringe based experimental techniques are used to investigate these bodies, and the construction of digital graphical representations helps to mimic realistic optical processes taking place in those systems. And not only – such tools help to interpret complex optical phenomena and help to develop new measurement techniques. We managed to propose several new measurement techniques and improvements of existing measurement techniques – time average photoelasticity; time average stochastic moire; time average geometric super moire; the generalization of Abel transform for vibrating tubes; corrections of classical formulas describing time average projection moire and time average geometric moire. The range of investigated systems is quite wide: from MEMS up to fluids, membranes, or bodies with fractal surface geometry. Investigations of optical phenomena originated new numerical cryptographic methods and initiated the development of specialized numerical techniques.

Junpeng Guo earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined Rockwell International Science Center in Thousand Oaks, California as a Research Scientist after receiving his Ph.D. and later moved to Sandia National Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff. Since 2005, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Optics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr. Guo has worked in many areas of optics, including ultrafast fiber laser, semiconductor lasers, RF/Photonics, photonics crystals, waveguide optics, micro-ring resonators and sensors. He fabricated the first high resolution micropolarizer array device, which enabled the industrial development of 3D TV displays. Currently, Dr. Guo’s research is nanostructure plasmonics, photonics, metamaterials, and spectrometer sensors. He received Alan Berman Research Publication Award in 2012 and was the sole recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Research Award of the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2016. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of Photonics Research.

Plasmonics, Metamaterials, Nanophotonics, and Sensors