Prof. Dr. Raymond Ooi has been an elected Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia since 2015. He won the Malaysian Toray Science Foundation (MTSF) Science & Technology Award in 2013. He obtained his PhD (dr.rer.nat) from Universitaet Konstanz, Germany in quantum optics and laser cooling of molecules. He then worked as a post-doctoral Research Associate for three years with Marlan O. Scully (a distinguish physicist in quantum coherence). During this time, he was also a Visiting Scientist at Princeton University and Max-Planck Institut fuer Quantenoptik. Then, he joined KAIST as a Research Professor, Korea University as an Assistant Professor, and Monash University (Sunway) as a Senior Lecturer, before joining Universiti Malaya in 2010. His research has produced a total of more than 160 publications (mainly WoS journal & including conference papers) covering quantum optics, nonlinear molecular spectroscopy and quantum microscopy, statistical physics of Bose-Einstein condensates, interactions, generation and propagation of ultrashort and intense laser pulses. In 2011 he initiated the "Quantum and Laser Science" research center and single-handedly developed the Ultrafast High Intensity Femtosecond Laser and Optics facility in High Impact Research (HIR) building through the MoHE grant. In 2018, he initiated and chaired the first international conference on Quantum and Nonlinear Optics(QNO2018). Recently he has been leading a quantum communications research program for the country.

Dr. Chao Zuo is a professor in optical engineering, at Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), China. He leads the Smart Computational Imaging Laboratory (SCILab: www.scilaboratory.com) at the School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, NJUST, and is also the founder and director of the Smart Computational Imaging Research Institute of NJUST. He has long been engaged in the development of novel Computational Optical Imaging and Measurement technologies, with a focus on Phase Measuring Imaging Metrology such as Digital Holographic Microscopy (DHM), Noninterferometic Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI), Fringe Projection Profilometry (FPP), and Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM). He has authored >200 peer-reviewed journal publications with over 12,000 citations. These researches have been featured on journal cover over 20 times and highlighted by Nature, Light. Sci. Appl., SPIE Newsroom, CLP Newsroom, and Optica Image of the Week. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher and a Fellow of SPIE and Optica. He also serves as an Associate Editor of PhotoniX, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, and Frontiers in Photonics. He served as an organizing committee member of more than 60 international conferences and congresses and delivered >100 plenary/keynote/invited talks. He also served as the Optica/SPIE Student Chapter Advisor of NJUST.

Baojun Li a distinguished Professor, Dean of the Institute of Nanophotonics at Jinan University, and Director for Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Manipulation, China. He received his Ph.D. from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China in 1998. After that, he worked at Fudan University, China, as a Postdoctoral Fellow till 2000. From 2000 to 2002, he worked in the Singapore-MIT Alliance, first as a Postdoctoral Fellow, and then as a Research Fellow. From April to October 2002, he worked in the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore as a Research Fellow. In October 2002, he joined Sun Yat-Sen University in China as a full Professor and served as Director for the Research Laboratory for Optoelectronic Integration. From May to November 2009, he worked at the University of Oxford as a senior visiting scholar. Then, he came back to Sun Yat-Sen University as a Cheung Kong Scholar Distinguished Professor and served as Dean of the School of Physics and Engineering. In November 2016, he moved to Jinan University in Guangzhou, China, where he founded the Institute of Nanophotonics and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Manipulation.

Dr. Hamidreza Siampour is a Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, where his research primarily revolves around investigating the interplay between nanophotonics and quantum optics. Before his current role, he held the position of Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, working on the implementation of a quantum simulation platform using interacting spins in diamond. Prior to that, he was a Postdoc at the University of Sheffield, working on the development of a semiconductor nanophotonic platform for directional spin-photon coupling. He obtained his PhD degree in Nano-optics from the University of Southern Denmark, with his thesis titled "A Nanophotonic Platform for Quantum Optical Integrated Circuits".

Kyunghwan Oh is a professor in the Department of Physics at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He is also the director of the Yonsei Physics Education and Research Institute (YPERI). Prof. Oh earned his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Seoul National University in 1986 and 1988, respectively. He then moved to Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, and received an M.S. in Engineering in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Optics in 1994. Prof. Oh’s research focuses on fiber optics, optical materials, and lasers. He has been affiliated with world-leading photonics research institutes such as Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill (USA), Optoelectronics Research Centre in the University of Southampton (U.K.), Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technology, Jena (Germany), EPFL (Switzerland), The University of Tokyo (Japan), to name a few. He has authored and co-authored more than 300 SCI journal papers, 7 U.S. patents, a technical monograph, “Silica Optical Fiber Technology,” published by Wiley and Sons, and four book chapters. He is a Fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America). He is a recipient of Alexander Von Humboldt Research Fellow (Germany), Chevening Scholar (UK), JSPS Invitation Fellow (Japan), Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar (EU), Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellow (Singapore), a High-End Foreign Expert (China). He is keenly interested in interdisciplinary research activities that can eventually lead to practical applications. His recent discoveries include nonlinear optic applications of DNA, RNA, and nucleobase solid thin films for generating ultrashort pulse lasers, which could open a new avenue in the biophotonic platform. He also invented a new form of syringe operated by a laser that can deliver zeptoliter droplets, which can explore a unique opportunity to handle fluid with unprecedented precision. He is also involved in several industrial projects to apply optical technologies in semiconductor process metrologies.

Dr. Yijie Shen is currently a Senior Research Fellow of the Nanophotonics & Metamaterials Group (Nikolay I. Zheludev group) at Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, also working as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow funded by Marie S.-Curie MULTIPLY Fellowship. He received a Ph.D. degree in optical engineering at the Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and automation from the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. From Mar. 2019 to Jun. 2019, he was invited as a visiting researcher to the School of Physics: Structured Light Laboratory (Andrew Forbes group), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), Johannesburg, South Africa, and also invited as a visiting researcher in National Laser Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa. He is a member of the Chinese Optical Society (COS) and Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and an invited member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), especially a fellow member of the Systems and Instrumentation Group in which. He won the Wang Da-Heng Optics Award (COS, China) in 2019. He is a national first-grade computer-aided designer and cartographer in China. He is a senior reviewer of journals Opt. Lett., Opt. Express, IEEE Photon. J., J. Opt., etc., who especially won the IOP and OSA Outstanding Reviewer Awards in 2020. He is also a member of the Journal of Optics Advisory Panel. He has published more than 40 papers in high-impact journals including Light: Sci. & Appl., Optica, Phys. Rev. Appl., Phys. Rev. A, Opt. Lett., Opt. Express, with hundreds of citations.