AICOPL2025 | Optics Conference | Photonics | Lasers | Rome | Italy

Prof. Dieter Bimberg

CIOMP of CAS, Germany

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Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held for 7 years a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France. After serving as a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of NanoPhotonics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018. In 2018 he was appointed as executive director of the “Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics” at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the EU Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, a Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society, Vice-President of the International Artificial Intelligence Association and a honorary member of the Ioffe Institute of the RAS. He is recipient of many important international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, the Oyo Buturi and MOC Awards of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG (the highest German physics award), to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St. Petersburg Alferov University of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He has authored more than 1600 papers, 71 patents and patent applications, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited exceeds 69,000 and his Hirsch factor is 115 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructure based photonic and electronic devices, and energy efficient data communication.

Prof. Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Stanford University, USA

Title: Thin Film Lithium Niobate Devices for Optical Sensing, Communication and Computing

Yoshihisa Yamamoto is the Director of PHI (Physics & Informatics) Laboratories, NTT Research, Inc. He received B.S. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1973 and 1978, respectively, and joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories in 1978. He became a Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1992 and also a Professor at National Institute of Informatics (NII) in 2003. He is currently a Professor (Emeritus) at Stanford University and NII. His past research areas include coherent communications, squeezed states, quantum non-demolition measurements, exciton-polariton BEC, single photon and spin-photon entanglement generation, and mesoscopic transport noise. He has received many distinctions for his past work, including Carl Zeiss Award (1992), Nishina Memorial Prize (1992), IEEE/LEOS Quantum Electronics Award (2000), Medal with Purple Ribbon (2005), Hermann A. Haus Lecturer of MIT (2010), Okawa Prize (2011) and Willis E. Lamb Award (2022). His current research interest focuses on quantum information processing, physics of quantum-to-classical transition and coherent Ising machines.

Prof. Alexander Lvovsky

University of Oxford, UK

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Alexander Lvovsky is an experimental physicist. He was born and raised in Moscow and did his undergraduate in Physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1993, he became a graduate student in Physics at Columbia University in New York City. His thesis research, conducted under the supervision of Dr. Sven R. Hartmann, was in the field of coherent optical transients in atomic gases. After completing his Ph. D. in 1998, he spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics, and then five years at Universität Konstanz in Germany, first as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, then as a research group leader in quantum-optical information technology. In 2004 he became Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary, and from autumn 2018, a professor at the University of Oxford. Alexander is a past Canada Research Chair, a lifetime member of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Optical Society and a winner of many awards – most notably the International Quantum Communications award, commendation letter from the Prime Minister of Canada and the Emmy Noether research award of the German Science Foundation. His work has been featured by CBC, NBC, Wired, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, TASS and even Daily Mail.

Prof. Zeev Zalevsky

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Title: Lasers for remote medical diagnosis

Zeev Zalevsky received his B.Sc. and direct Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tel-Aviv University in 1993 and 1996 respectively. Zeev is currently a full Professor and the Dean of the faculty of engineering in Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His major fields of research are optical super resolution, biomedical optics, nano-photonics and fiber-based processing and sensing architectures. Zeev has published more than 600 peer review papers, 350 proceeding papers, 9 books (6 authored and 3 as an editor), 34 book chapters and about 100 patents. Zeev gave about 620 conference presentations with more than 220 invited/keynote or plenary talks.

Zeev is a fellow of many large scientific societies such as SPIE, OSA, IEEE, EOS, IOP, IET, IS&T, ASLMS, AIMBE and more. He is also a fellow of the American National Academy of Inventors (NAI). For his work he received many national and international prizes such as the Krill prize, ICO prize and Abbe medal, SAOT prize, Juludan prize, Taubelnblatt prize, young investigator prize in nanotechnology, the International Wearable Technologies (WT) Innovation World Cup 2012 Prize, Image Engineering Innovation Award, NANOSMAT prize, SPIE startup challenge prize, SPIE prism award, IAAM Scientist Medal Award, International Photonic Award, Dr. Horace Furumoto Innovations Professional award, The Asian Advanced Materials Award, Edison Award, IEEE distinguished lecturer award, VEBLEO Scientist Award, Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize, Lotfi Zadeh Memorial Award, E&T Innovation Award, CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2022 Innovation Award, German Innovation Award 2022, the Humboldt research prize, SPIE 2023 Chandra S. Vikram Award for Metrology, IVS research excellence prize, German Berthold Leibinger innovation prize, IEEE Photonics Society (IPS) 2023 Laser Instrumentation Award and more.

Prof. Chrysanthe Preza

The University of Memphis, USA

Title: Engineering 3D microscopy systems using computational imaging

Dr. Chrysanthe Preza is the Kanuri Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Memphis, where she joined in 2006. She received her D.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998. She leads the research in the Computational Imaging Research Laboratory. Her research interests are imaging science, estimation theory, computational optical sensing and imaging applied to multidimensional multimodal light microscopy and hyperspectral imaging, and computational imaging enabled by deep learning. She received a CAREER award by the National Science Foundation in 2009, the Herff Outstanding Faculty Research Award in 2010 and 2015, and she was the recipient of the Ralph Faudree Professorship at the University of Memphis 2015-2018. Since 2018, she has been the recipient of the Ravi and Eleanor Kanuri Professorship. She was named Fellow of the SPIE in 2019 and Fellow of the Optica (OSA) in 2020. She served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging and as Topical Editor for Optica’s Applied Optics, and she continues to serve as an Executive Editor for Biological Imaging, Cambridge University Press and an Editorial Board Member for Journal of Imaging, Computational Imaging and Computational Photography section.

Prof. Zenghu Chang

University of Ottawa, Canada

Title: Ultrafast mid-infrared lasers for intense-field science

Zenghu Chang graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University with a bachelor's degree in 1982. He earned a master's and a doctorate at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1985 and 1988 respectively. From 1991 to 1993, Chang visited the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He worked at the University of Michigan after 1996. Then joined the physics faculty at Kansas State University in 2001 and became the Ernest & Lillian Chapin Professor in 2009. He joined the University of Central Florida in 2010 where he was a University Trustee Chair, Pegasus and Distinguished Professor, as well as the founding director of the Institute for the Frontier of Attosecond Science and Technology. Starting in 2024, Chang became a Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Ottawa. Chang is a fellow of the American Physical Society and Optical Society of America.

Prof. Zidan Wang

The University of Hong Kong

Title: Deterministic steady-state subradiance

Professor Zidan Wang currently holds the position: Professor, Chair of Physics and Head of HK Institute of Quantum Science & Technology at The University of Hong Kong. He, as a PI/Corresponding-author engaging in quantum physic, has published over 200 articles in Physical Review Letters (PRL) and Physical Review (PR)-series, including over 30 PRLs and 170 PRs. He also received a number of reputable awards for his research achievements, including the two prestigious China National Natural Science Awards in 2013 and 1995. He has also held various admin/academic positions, including mainly Council Chairman and President of the Hong Kong Physical Society, Head of Physics Department and Director of the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics at the University of Hong Kong.

Prof. Ahmed Hassanein

Purdue University, USA

Title: Laser Produced Plasma for Advanced Nanolithography

Prof. Ahmed Hassanein, is the Paul L. Wattelet Endowed Chair & Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University and the director of Center for Materials under Extreme environment (CMUXE), College of Engineering. He has more than 40 years of experience in the fields of nuclear and plasma physics, computational physics, and material science. He is internationally recognized as one of the world's foremost leaders in modeling and benchmarking materials response to various radiation and particle sources including photons, electrons, laser, plasma, and ion beams. He has developed models and comprehensive computer packages as created state-of-the art experimental facilities at CMUXE to predict materials behavior, lifetime issues, plasma evolution, and hydrodynamics under various irradiation conditions. His models and results are being used in several national and international research fields in nuclear fusion, high-energy physics, national security, and advanced nanolithography. He has authored more than 500 journal publications and reports in more than 40 different national and international journals in physics, materials, bioengineering, and computational science. Before joining Purdue, Prof. Hassanein was senior scientist, group leader, and the director of the USA Fusion Power Program at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. Prof. Hassanein received several patents and national awards, including the 2013 IEEE Merit Award, the highest technical achievement award of the IEEE nuclear and plasma sciences society, for his seminal contributions in these areas, the 2019 IEEE Charles K. Birdsall Award for seminal contributions to Computational Nuclear & Plasma Sciences, and the 2020 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Outstanding Achievement Award for his innovative work and leadership in the magnetic and inertial nuclear fusion research. He is Fellows of eight professional societies including SPIE, AAAS, IEEE, ANS, Optica/former OSA, APS, IOP, and IAAM.

Prof. Daan Lenstra

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Title: Integrated two-section Semiconductor Diode Lasers as All-optical Spiking Neurons

Daan Lenstra (Amsterdam, 1947) is theoretical physicist (M.Sc., University of Groningen, 1972; Ph.D., Delft University of Technology, 1979). He researched topics in quantum optics, condensed matter, semiconductor diode lasers, nonlinear dynamics in optical systems, analogies between optics and microelectronics, optical phase conjugation, all-optical ultrafast signal processing and organic laser diodes. Prof. Em. Lenstra is now with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology. His research involves topics in nonlinear dynamics of integrated semiconductor lasers and organic diode lasers. Daan Lenstra (co)authored more than 500 publications in international scientific journals and conference proceedings. He (co)edited 10 books and supervised 25 PhD students.

Prof. Walid Daoud

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Prof. Daoud is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Technology Graz, Austria, with a Dipl-Ing degree (BS and MS) in Chemical Engineering and received his PhD in flexible bilayer photovoltaic cells from the University of Sheffield, UK. Prof. Daoud’s current research is mainly focused on the areas of energy harvesting and smart wearable technologies. His group is developing approaches for harvesting free or waste energy, such as light and kinetic energies. Being intermittent sources, it is equally important to find storage solutions for this form of energy. Therefore, the group is interested in the modelling and design of compatible batteries. He has received international renown and several awards for his pioneering research on wearable solar and kinetic energy harvesting technologies. His research has featured in Nature (2004) and Science (2008) and broadcasted through interviews by major international media, such as Reuters (2014), BBC (2015) SCMP (2017), Physics World (2021) and PV Magazine (2022). He has been invited to present Plenary and Keynote lectures at international conferences and is currently serving as the Chief Editor of Wearable Electronics, Frontiers in Electronics and Editorial/Advisory Board of Journal of Power Sources Advances and Industrial Chemistry & Materials.

Prof. Tuan Vo-Dinh

Duke University, USA

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Dr. Vo-Dinh is R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, and Director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics at Duke University. After high school in Vietnam, he pursued studies in Europe, receiving a B.S. in physics at EPFL-Lausanne, Switzerland (1970) and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland (1975). Before joining Duke University in 2006, he was Director of the Center for Advanced Biomedical Photonics and a Corporate Fellow, one of the highest honors for distinguished scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). His main research goal is focused on developing advanced technologies to protect the environment and human health. His research has centered on the development, integration, and application of nanophotonics, biophotonics, molecular spectroscopy, molecular biology, and nanotechnology for medical diagnostics and treatment, photoimmunotherapy, precision medicine, and global health.

Dr. Vo-Dinh has received seven R&D 100 Awards for Most Significant Advance in Research and Development; the Gold Medal Award, Society for Applied Spectroscopy (1988); the Languedoc-Roussillon Award (France) (1989); the Scientist of the Year Award, ORNL (1992); the Thomas Jefferson Award, Martin Marietta Corporation (1992); two Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer, Federal Laboratory Consortium (1995, 1986); the Lockheed Martin Technology Commercialization Award (1998); the Distinguished Inventors Award, UT-Battelle (2003); the Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award, ORNL (2003); the Exceptional Services Award, U.S. Department of Energy (1997); the Award for Spectrochemical Analysis, American Chemical Society (2011); the Sir George Stokes Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom (2019); and the SPIE’s President Award, SPIE The International Society for Optics and Photonics (2022). He has authored over 500 publications, is a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, and holds over 65 patents.

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