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Prof. Xiaogang Lin Chongqing University, China | Profile: Lin Xiaogang, male, 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. |
 Prof. Harith Ahmad University of Malaya, Malaya | Profile: Professor Datuk Dr Harith Ahmad FASc obtained his in BSc in Physics with First Class Honours from the University of Malaya in 1979. Subsequently, he obtained his MSc from the University of Wales in 1980, followed by his PhD in 1983 from the same institution. Upon returning to Malaysia in 1983, he became a member of the academic staff of UM, and since then has led the university’s research into the area of photonics. He is currently a Distinguished Professor, and is also the director of the Photonics Research Centre of the University of Malaya, a Higher Education Centre of Excellence (HiCoE) under the purview of the Ministry of Education, Malaysia (MOE). His substantial contributions in the area of photonics has been acknowledged with multiple awards and recognitions, including as a Fellow of Akademi Sains Malaysia and recipient of the Malaysia-Toray Science Foundation Award, Merdeka Award for Scholastic Achievement and ASEAN Outstanding Scientist and Technology Award. He is very active as both a researcher and an academician, with numerous ISI ranked research publications to his name, as well as supervising numerous undergraduate and postgraduate students in photonics. |
