Executive Dean of School of Physics, Hefei University of Technology, China

Research Interests: Fiber optic devices and systems, fiber nonlinear effects, and optoelectronic integrated devices and systems

Professor with School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
SPIE Fellow, Senior Member of IEEE and Optica

Research Interests: Intelligent photonics, including optical communications, optical perception, and optical chip

National Distinguished Professor of China with the Southwest Institute of Technical Physics, China

Research Interests: Kinetic processes, molecular and atomic physics, solid-state lasers, semiconductor lasers, gas lasers, image processing, micro-laser processing, special waveguides, and optoelectronic technology

Professor with Xi’an University of Technology, China
Foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

Research Interests: Wireless laser communication theories and techniques

Professor with School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, China

Research Interests: Optical communications; optical fiber sensors; optoelectronics devices; fiber grating technology; specialty fiber optics

Professor with Peng Cheng Laboratory, China

Research Interests: High-speed optical fiber communication and communication signal processing

Professor of School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology

Research Interests: High-speed optical fiber communication and communication signal processing

Professor with School of Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia
Fellow of Optica and an elected Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3)

Research Interests: Fundamental light and nanomaterial interaction

Professor with Department of Precision Instruments and Machinery, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Research Interests: Laser micro and nanofabrication, micro and nanotechnology, advanced precision manufacturing, laser interference technology

Professor of School of Electronics and Information Technology (School of Microelectronics), Sun Yat-sen University, China

Research Interests: Optical communication system, photonic integrated chip and intelligent optical signal processing

Professor of Department of Fundamental & Theoretical Physics, Australian National University, Australia
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and Fellow of Optica, APS, SPIE, and IOP

Research Interests: Nonlinear physics, metamaterials, and nanophotonics

Professor of School of Electronics and Information Technology (School of Microelectronics), Sun Yat-sen University, China
OSA (currently OPTICA) fellow

Research Interests: Fiber optic communication, distributed fiber optic sensing, optical performance monitoring, short distance optical communication system, fiber optic sensor

Professor of University of Science and Technology of China, Winner of National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholars of China

Research Interests: Quantum information, quantum optics, nonlinear optics and atomic optics

Professor with Department of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, China
Optica (formerly OSA) Fellow, SPIE Fellow, IET Fellow

Research Interests: FSO communications, fiber-FSO convergence, UWOC systems, and FSO-UWOC integration

Professor with School of Optics and Electronics Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
OSA & IEEE Senior Member, Wuhan Section Affinity Group Chair, WIE, IEEE

Research Interests: Fiber sensors, multicomponent trace gas detection, high sensitivity optical fiber acoustic detection technology, high resolution fiber sensor demodulation technology

Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
OSA (currently OPTICA) fellow

Research Interests: Nano-photonics; nano-plasmonics; high-capacity optical communication; organic lasers

Professor with School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Research Interests: Quantum information processing, quantum secure communication and quantum computation

Professor with School of Mechanical Engineering and Electronic Information, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China

Research Interests: The applications of distributed fiber optic sensing, fiber optic communications, fiber optic lasers and optical frequency combs in high-speed information processing and sensing

Professor at the University of Haute-Alsace, France

Research Interests: QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks

Professor with Peng Cheng Laboratory, China

Research Interests: Digital signal processing and machine learning for optical communications

Associate Professor of School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Research Interests: All-optical regeneration, amplification, reserve cell computing, and silicon-based photonic functional chips based on the non-linear effect of optical fibers

Associate Professor of University of Southampton, UK

Research Interests: High power pulsed fiber lasers and mid-infrared lasers (optical parametric oscillators, Raman lasers and supercontinuum laser sources)

Associate Professor of Department of Mathematics, Physics & Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University at Newcastle, UK

Research Interests: Photonics including the design and fabrication of fibre Bragg grating devices for sensing and optical communications; hetero-core fibre structures for novel fibre optical couplers and sensors; nonlinear effects in photonic crystal fibre, microsphere, nanofibres

Associate Professor with Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Research Interests: Silicon photonics

Associate Professor with Pervasive Communication Research Center, Purple Mountain Laboratories, China

Research Interests: Advanced digital signal processing and novel techniques in radio-over-fiver, microwave photonics, and optical communications

Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland

Research Interests: Quantum optics, entanglement dynamics, quantum state tomography in the presence of noise

School of Optical Information and Energy Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, China

Research Interests: Quantum light sources, light-atom interaction