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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Jul 30, 2025
Extended Early Bird Ends: Dec 28, 2024

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Xiao-Guang Yang
CAS, China
Title: Quantum dot DFB lasers for silicon-based photonics integrated circuits
Prof. Xiao-Guang Yang is the director of China Instrument and Control Society (CIS) and young director of Chinese Materials Research Society (CMRS). He received his BS degree in physics from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) in 2005 and Ph. D degree in electronic engineering from Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOSCAS) in 2011. Now, he serves as a professor in IOSCAS and University Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), as well as the deputy director of key laboratory of semiconductor materials science, CAS. He has authored more than 80 papers relating to low-dimensional III-V compound materials and photonic devices.
Prof. Feng Chen
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Title: Femtosecond laser Print Nature-Inspired Superwettability Surfaces
Feng Chen is a full professor of Electronic Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University, where he has severed as the director of Shaanxi key laboratory of Photonics Technology of Information (PTI), deputy director of the International Joint Research Center for Micro/Nano Manufacturing and Measurement Technologies. He joined Chinese Academy of Science in 1991, where he was promoted to a full professor in 1999. In 2002, Dr. Chen joined the Xi'an Jiaotong University as a professor and a group leader. His current research interests are Femtosecond laser microfabrication, Bionic microfabrication and Ultrafast photonics. Dr. Chen took charge in over 30 research projects including the National Key Research and Development Program, key projects of NSFC, the National key scientific instruments and equipment development of China, etc, gave over 100 Plenary, Keynote and invited talks at academic conferences, and has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers.
Prof. James Hamilton
University of Wisconsin-Platteville, USA
Title: Will be announced soon.
As a Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, James Hamilton, in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, was founding director of the UW System NCCRD Nano Research Center, has received WiSys Innovation Scholar Awards, was a Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, a UW System Fellow for Women in Science, and was selected by students for the Tau Beta Pi Teaching Excellence Award. Following a BA and graduate work at UMaine-Orono in Inorganic Chemistry and Surface Science, he completed a Ph.D. in 1994 at UW-Madison in Physical & Analytical Chemistry, specializing in Coherent Nonlinear Optics, Spectroscopy & AMO Physics. His current research specializes in contamination control on precision optical and aerospace surfaces, instrumentation development, nanoparticle thermodynamics, and nanocomposite materials. Lecturing on his research and collaborating all over the world, he has founded two companies, Xolve Inc. & Photonic Cleaning Technologies, the manufacturer of First Contact Polymer, which has sales in 79 countries.
Dr. Ivana Validžić
University of Belgrade, Serbia
Title: Additional Lighting Effects for Photovoltaic Improvements in the Performance of Solar Cells
Dr. Ivana Validžić is a research professor at the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences of the National Institute of the Republic of Serbia. After graduating from the Faculty of Physical Chemistry at the University of Belgrade, she obtained her PhD in 2004 at Utrecht University’s Van Hoff Laboratory, the Netherlands. She is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed publications and the books “Reverzibilni sistemi na nanometarskoj skali” (2005) and “Advances in the Photovoltaic Field through Light Manipulation” (2022). Her research interests include the synthesis of Sb2S3 semiconductor, the design of new solar cells based on non-doped and doped semiconductor Sb2S3, and the development of optics to improve the photovoltaic response of solar cells generally, through light manipulation.
Prof. Sharath Sriram
Title: Will be update soon
Professor Sharath Sriram is a science and research leader creating and delivering breakthrough technologies in nanoelectronics, sensors, and medical technologies. He jointly leads the Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. The team are focussed on translating technology for healthcare, to bring science fiction to reality. Sharath led and coordinated a $60 million multi-user, inter-disciplinary research facility for micro- and nano-fabrication. He is currently leading medical device prototyping and scale-up manufacturing initiatives, as Director of the Discovery to Device Facility. He is the President of Science & Technology Australia and an active contributor to science policy with a focus on innovation and long-term strategy, research translation and commercialisation, and support for early- and mid-career researchers.
Prof. Hamed Alipour-Banaei
Islamic Azad University, Iran
Title: The Role of Optical Integrated Circuits Based on Photonic Crystals
Professor Hamed Alipour-Banaei is an academic staff that worked on optical integrated circuits based on photonic crystals and developed them to optical communication systems such as optical switches and etc. Also, his research field focuses on Photonic Crystal based biomedical sensors and devices for detecting parameters of human. His H-index is 38 currently in Scopus and among between 2 percent scientist list in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 years. He received his Ph.D. degree from university of Tabriz in Electronic and Photonic Engineering at 2009 in Iran.
Prof. Kaiyu Cui
Tsinghua University, China
Title: Spectral imaging and in-sensor computing chip based on metasurfaces
Prof. Kaiyu Cui is a Tenured Associate Professor, Bingkun Zhou Scholar in Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. She is awarded as the National Distinguished Young Scholar of China in 2022. She has published more than 90 journal papers and applied over 100 patents as the first inventor on nanophotonics, focusing on photonic crystals, metasurfaces, and optomechanical crystals. Her recent representative work includes spectral imaging and in-sensor computing chip, phonon lasing and on-chip mechanical exceptional points. Now she severs as the Young Editor of Photonics Insights and the Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports. She is the founder of Seetrum Corporation Limited, which dedicates to introducing spectral imaging chips into the high-volume application market (mobile phones and sensors).
Prof. Zhen-Nan Tian
Jilin University, China
Title: 3D Waveguide Preparation by Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing
Zhen-Nan Tian received the B.S. degree in Optical Information Science and Technology from the Department of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2007, the M.S. degree in Optics from the Department of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2014 and the Ph.D. degree in Physical Electronics at the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2017. From 2018 to 2019, he conducted postdoctoral research at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. He is currently teaching at the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China, since 2017. His current research is focused on the development and application expansion of femtosecond laser direct writing for three-dimensional compact integrated optical chip technology.
Prof. Siyuan Yu
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Title: To be confirmed.
Prof. Siyuan Yu, Fellow of OPTICA, received his bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in 1984, master’s degree from Wuhan Institute of Post and Telecommunications in 1987 (both in China), and PhD degree from the University of Glasgow, UK, in 1997. He had been a Professor of Photonic Information Systems at the University of Bristol, UK, before joining the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Prof Yu has carried out research in photonics and optoelctronics for over 35 years, focusing on innovative photonic device and integration technologies aimed at addressing key issues at systems and networking levels. He contributed to areas such as integrated high-speed optical switches, micro-cavity semiconductor lasers, all-optical logic circuits and integrated quantum photonics on various materials including III-V semiconductors, silicon nitride, and lithium niobate. In recent years he has worked on developing novel integrated photonic components, optical fibres and ultra-high-capacity optical communication technologies based on the orbital angular momentum of light. He has published more than 250 papers, co-edited a book, and has been granted several international patents. Prof. Yu is the Editor-in-Chief of the high impact journal Photonic Research, one of the OPTICA publication group journals.
Prof. Raktim Sarma
Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Title: Will Update.
Raktim Sarma is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories where currently he leads multiple projects and programs on optical computing, silicon photonics, III-V based nanophotonics, and nonlinear optics. Before that he was Senior Member of Technical Staff and a Postdoc at Sandia. Dr. Sarma received his PhD, MPhil, and MS in Applied Physics from Yale University in 2012, 2013, and 2017 respectively and BS in Physics from University of Texas at Dallas in 2010. He has authored and co-authored over 100 publications and conference papers and has multiple filed and pending patents in the areas of nonlinear metasurfaces, optical computing, and silicon photonics-based optical data processing.
Prof. Wengang Bi
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Title: To be confirmed.
Prof. Dr. Wengang Bi is an elected Fellow of Optica (formally OSA), Fellow of SPIE. After devoting his career on forefront research and development at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Agilent Technologies Inc., Philips-Lumileds, and Intel, Prof. Bi currently works at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, as a professor. His research interests include third-generation semiconductor materials and devices, colloidal quantum dots and 2D materials, and Micro-LEDs with their applications to solid-state lighting and next-generation displays.
Prof. Salah Obayya
Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt
Title: Overview of Computational Photonics: Modelling Techniques and Applications
Salah recognized Internationally with fellowships of prestigious societies of IEEE, TWAS, OSA, SPIE, APS, AAS, ACES, HEA, IEE and IOP. He has joined Zewail City of Science and Technology (ZC) since 2012 as Vice-Chairman and he is now Director-General of Research Institutes at ZC. Prior to ZC, He spent 15 years in UK Universities, with his most recent position was “Chair” of Photonics, University of South Wales. He recently won African Union Kwame Nkrumah Continental Award for Scientific Excellence, the top ranked prize in Africa last year, OPTICA award for the 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Advocacy Recognition, and UNESCO Chair-holder.
Prof. Armin Grasnick
IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Title: Optical elements in autostereoscopic displays
Dr. Armin Grasnick is Professor of Augmented & Virtual Reality at IU International University of Applied Sciences. With a background in technical optics, he has founded a few companies focused on 3D/VR technologies. Dr. Grasnick holds a PhD in autostereoscopic displays and brings experience in high-performance lens design and 3D display development to his current role.
Dr. Rohit K. Ramakrishnan
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
Title: Photonic Quantum Computing
Dr Rohit K. Ramakrishnan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, specializing in Quantum Technology and Artificial Intelligence. His expertise spans theoretical frameworks, design, simulations, and experimental pursuits in quantum photonics. Dr Ramakrishnan completed his PhD in Quantum Technology from the Electrical Communication Engineering Department at IISc. He previously contributed significantly to the Quantum Satellite project as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, and as a Postgraduate Researcher at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is also a co-author of The Quantum Internet – The Second Quantum Revolution, published by Cambridge University Press, highlighting his contributions to the quantum community. His current work at IISc pushes the frontiers of quantum computing and photonics, leveraging advanced machine learning to solve complex problems.
Prof. Wen-Di Li
The University of Hong Kong
Title: Fast-reconfigurable and Actively-stabilized Interference Lithography for Large-area Nanopatterning
Wen-Di Li is currently a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, leading the Nanofabrication and Nanodevice Laboratory. Before joining HKU, Prof. Li received his bachelor’s and PhD degrees from Tsinghua University and Princeton University, respectively, and carried out post-doctoral research on advanced lithography for next-generation nanoelectronics at Hewlett-Packard Labs. His research interests mainly focus on high-resolution and scalable lithographic patterning and micro/nanofabrication techniques, such as sub-10 nm helium-ion-beam lithography, nanoimprint lithography, laser interference lithography, etc. The innovations from his team have been awarded three gold medals at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions and licensed to start-up companies, to commercialize flexible electronic devices, biomedical devices, and nanopatterning equipment.