SPEAKERS

Prof. Zhongyang Li

Wuhan University, China

Profile: Zhongyang Li, Ph.D. , professor, currently serves as a professor and vice dean of the School of Electronic Information at Wuhan University, where he is also the party branch secretary of the Department of Electronic Science and Technology. He is additionally a professor at the School of Microelectronics and a researcher at the Wuhan Quantum Technology Research Institute. He serves as the vice chair of Nano-Optics and Emerging Technologies for the IEEE Wuhan Section, a member of the Youth Editorial Board of the Chinese Laser Magazine, and a youth editorial board member for the journal "Progress in Lasers and Optoelectronics." He is a director of the 10th Hubei Optical Society and has been a long-term reviewer for journals such as Nature Communications, Science Advances, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Materials Today, and Advanced Materials. He has applied for over 40 national invention patents, with 20 granted. In recent years, he has led projects under the National Key R&D Program (Youth Scientist Project), the National High-Level Young Talent Program, the General Program and Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation, and the Hubei Outstanding Youth Program. 

 *Research Directions:Metasurface optical chips, new active control of metasurfaces based on hydrogels, liquid crystals, and flexible materials, computational optics and image reconstruction, incoherent fluorescence control of active metasurfaces and light field multiplexing technologies.

Prof. Xiaogang Lin

Chongqing University, China

Profile: Lin Xiaogang, Ph.D., professor, and doctoral supervisor. He is currently employed at the School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University, and serves as the director of the Chongqing University-Chongqing Cancer Research Institute Joint Graduate Training Base. He is a member of the Chongqing Vocational Education Innovation and Entrepreneurship Teaching Guidance Committee, a council member of the Third Council of the Optical-Electromechanical Technology and Systems Division of the China Instrument and Control Society, a Level 3 Certified Expert of the International TRIZ Association, a national innovation consultant, trainer, and engineer, a member of the Chinese Optical Society, a member of the China Instrument and Control Society, and the head of the Basic Medical Group of the Chongqing Laser Medicine Subcommittee.He serves as a letter review expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a thesis review expert for the Degree and Graduate Education Development Center of the Ministry of Education, and a thesis review expert for graduate students at well-known universities such as Tianjin University, Southeast University, and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a reviewer for prestigious domestic and international journals such as "Biosensors and Bioelectronics," "IEEE Photonics," "Applied Soft Computing," "OPTIK," "Journal of Optics," "Chinese Laser," "Optoelectronic Engineering," etc. He has served as the team leader for the technology program acceptance group of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China.

His main research interests include bio-photoelectric sensing, precision measurement and metrology, and related fields.

Prof. Nianqiang Li

Suzhou University, China

Profile: Prof. Nianqiang Li, Ph.D., is a professor and doctoral advisor, currently serving as the vice dean of the School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering at Suzhou University. He is the head of the Provincial Featured Major in Optoelectronic Information Science and Engineering and the deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Technology under the Ministry of Education. He is also the chair of the Construction Committee for Optoelectronic Information Science and Engineering, a senior member of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering, and has been selected for the Jiangsu Province "Double Innovation Talent" program. He received the Youth Science and Technology Award from the Jiangsu Optical Society. Li obtained his bachelor's and doctoral degrees in engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2008 and 2016, respectively. He has served as a joint doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States (2013), and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Essex in the UK (2016-2018) and the University of Ottawa in Canada (2018). He has undertaken nearly 10 scientific research projects, including three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation. Prof. Li has published over 100 SCI papers in prominent academic journals, including Opto-Electronic Advances, ACS Photonics, Photonics Research, Neural Networks, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Optics Letters, Optics Express, and Science China Information Sciences, with over 80 as the first or corresponding author. Several of his papers have been recognized as Highly Cited Research Papers, Editor's Picks, and cover articles for IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, as well as key scientific articles selected by the AIE, a renowned international engineering organization. He has delivered nearly 20 invited and oral presentations and has applied for or received more than 10 national invention patents. Li has received various accolades, including Outstanding Graduate from Sichuan Province, Outstanding Doctoral Thesis from Southwest Jiaotong University, and a nomination for the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award from the China Society for Electrical Education in 2017.

His main research interests includes laser chaos generation and applications, optical pulse neural networks, reservoir computing, and microwave signal generation and applications, among others.

Prof. Kaige Wang

Northwest University , China

Profile: Prof. KaigeWang joined the Institute of Photonics and Photonic Technology at Northwest University in 2008 and currently serves as a research professor and doctoral supervisor. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in theoretical physics from the Department of Physics at Northwest University in 1991 and earned his Ph.D. in science from the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Between 2010 and 2011, he was a senior visiting scholar at the University of South Carolina in the United States. He has led and completed various projects, including international collaboration projects supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, major research plans supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, knowledge innovation projects from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and natural science foundation projects from Shaanxi Province, as well as research projects from Shaanxi’s key laboratories. Currently, he is involved in ongoing projects funded by the National Ministry of Science and Technology's China-U.S. science and technology cooperation, general projects from the National Natural Science Foundation, and major basic research projects from Shaanxi Province. In recent years, he has published over 60 academic papers in authoritative and core journals both domestically and internationally, filed 12 national invention patents, and contributed a chapter to an English-language monograph. He is also invited to review papers for international journals such as Microfluid and Nanofluid, ITE Nanobiotechnology, Recent Patents on Nanotechnology, and Micro and Nano Letters.

His main research areas include nanoscience and technology, biophotonics, near-field optical super-resolution imaging, and physical electronics.