Professor Din-Ping Tsai is currently Chair Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. He is an elected Fellow of AAAS, APS, COS, EMA, IEEE, JSAP, NAI, OSA, SPIE, PST, and AAIA, respectively. He is also an elected Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (HKAE), International Academy of Engineering (IAE), and Academician of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM), respectively. He is the author and co-author of 410 SCI papers, 70 book chapters and conference papers, and 39 technical reports and articles. He was granted 69 patents for 45 innovations. He was invited as an invited speaker for international conferences or symposiums more than 355 times (31 Plenary Talks, 66 Keynote Talks). He received more than 40 prestigious recognitions and awards, including “Mozi Award” from the International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE) in 2018; “Global Highly Cited Researchers,” by Web of Science Group (Clarivate Analytics) in 2020 and 2019, respectively; China’s Top 10 Optical Breakthroughs in 2020 and 2018, respectively; 2024 Frontiers of Science Award; etc. He currently serves as a member of the editorial board of 12 prestigious Journals, and Editor of Light: Advanced Manufacturing, and Photonics Insights, respectively.
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L. Jay Guo is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he joined in 1999 after his PhD and postdoc training, and Director of the Macromolecular Science and Engineering at UM. Professor Guo’s lab is involved in interdisciplinary research, with activities ranging from polymer-based photonic devices and sensor applications, flexible transparent conductors, nanophotonics, structural colors and AI assisted design, hybrid photovoltaics and photodetectors, to nanomanufacturing technologies, and are contributed by students from Electrical Engineering and Optics, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Applied Physics, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering. Prof. Guo has 295 journal publications; with citation more than 34,400 times, and an H-index of 92 (by google scholar). Some notable awards he received from recent years include 2023 Wise-Najafi Prize for Engineering Excellence in the Miniature World from University of Michigan, 2017 William Mong Distinguished Lecturer in Hong Kong University, and 2015 Monroe-Brown Research Excellence Award by the College of Engineering of University of Michigan. He is a fellow of IEEE and a fellow of Optica. His professional service includes Associate Editor of Optica (2018~2021); and currently member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Advanced Optical Materials, and Opto-electric Science, co-Editor-in-Chief of Micro and Nano Manufacturing. His entrepreneur activities include co-founding two startup companies to commercialize technologies from his lab.
Distinguished Professor Baohua Jia is the inaugural Director of Centre for Atomaterials and Nanomanufacturing (CAN), a Key Chief Investigator (CI) of The Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Hub for Intelligent Energy Efficiency in Future Protected Cropping, a Key CI in ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Surface Engineering for Advanced Materials (SEAM) and Node Director of ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS). She is an elected Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE), and an elected Fellow of OPTICA and Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. Her research focuses on the fundamental light and nanomaterial interaction, in particular, laser manipulation of two-dimensional materials for effective harnessing and storage of clean energy from sunlight; purifying water and air for clean environment; imaging and spectroscopy and nanofabrication using ultrafast laser towards fast-speed all-optical communications and intelligent manufacturing.
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Dr. Xiaobo Yin received his PhD from Stanford University in 2008 and is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a Professor of Physics at the University of Hong Kong. He is a fellow of OSA and SPIE. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, he was the Bruce S. Anderson Faculty Fellow of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on nanostructured optical materials, radiative heat transfer, high-temperature materials, and scalable manufacturing. His works have been featured in numerous media outlets including Nature, Science, Physics Today, Scientific American, the Economists, and Forbes. He was a recipient of the 2017 Moore Inventor Fellowships, the 2017 Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship of Materials Science, and the 2022 Xplorer Prize. His work on passive radiative cooling was named one of the top 10 breakthroughs of the year 2017 by the Institute of Physics (IOP) Physics World and the top 10 most reviewed news by The Economists.
