Professor Zou Bingsuo is a doctoral supervisor. He obtained his Ph.D. in Science from Jilin University in 1991. From 1994 to 2005, he worked at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He then worked at Hunan University from 2005 to 2009 and at Beijing Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2019, where he established and served as the director of the Beijing Key Laboratory of Nano-Photonics and Ultra-Precision Optoelectronic Systems. Since 2019, he has been working at Guangxi University and currently serves as the Dean of the School of Resources, Environment, and Materials. From 1996 to 1999, Professor Zou conducted research abroad, including at the National University of Singapore and the Georgia Institute of Technology, focusing on nanotechnology. His primary research areas include nanoscale functional materials and devices, nano-photonics and optoelectronic devices, and magnetic semiconductors with future optoelectronic applications. He has led 973 subprojects and key projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, undertaken five general projects, and been the principal investigator for major equipment projects funded by the Ministry of Education. His research achievements have earned him the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Award, and the Second Prize of the Beijing Municipal Natural Science Award.

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, and Bordeaux Univ., France. He is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA, is Foreign Full Member of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored 500+ publications, presented numerous plenary, keynote, invited and contributed talks and taught continued education courses worldwide. He received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Labs. Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products), and 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal (for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline “Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems”). He is the third “Russian American”, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. Ephraim's most recent awards are 2023 SHEN International Research Award on Science, Health and Engineering" for the paper "Probabilistic Fitts' Law and the Likelihod of the Tunguska Type of Event", Journal of Space

Yang Yue received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and optics from Nankai University, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, USA, in 2012. He is currently a Professor with the School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He is the founder and current PI of Intelligent Photonic Application Technology Laboratory (iPatLab). Dr. Yue’s current research interest is intelligent photonics, including optical communications, optical perception, and optical chip. He has published ~300 journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >12,000 citations, one book, seven edited books, two book chapters, >70 issued or pending patents, >200 invited presentations (including 1 tutorial, >30 plenary and >80 keynote talks). Dr. Yue is a Fellow of SPIE, a Senior Member of IEEE and Optica. He is also among the Top 2% Scientists List Worldwide by Stanford University. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and Frontiers in Physics, Editor Board Member for four other scientific journals, Guest Editor for >10 journal special issues. He also served as Chair or Committee Member for >100 international conferences, Reviewer for >70 prestigious journals.