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.

Dick is a founding member of American Working Capital working in our Chicago office. Prior to co-founding AWC, he was a Partner with the Yucaipa private equity firm. Prior to Yucaipa he was a Managing Director and Head of the ESOP Investment Banking Practice at Duff & Phelps, LLC, a middle-market investment bank. Prior to the 2005 merger with Duff & Phelps, Dick was President and founder of Valuemetrics Advisors, Inc. and Valuemetrics Capital LLC, a national financial advisory firm specializing in helping closely held and emerging growth businesses through ownership transition with business valuation and transaction structuring. Dick has led in the design and implementation of capital market transaction using ESOPs and 401k plans assets to established broad based worker and labor friendly ownership. Prior to forming Valuemetrics, from 1978 to 1981, Dick was Vice President of Operations at Sugar Supply Corporation, a closely held cash commodity firm. From 1972 to 1978, he was a Manager with TMI Systems Corporation, a startup Citicorp venture capital funded firm. Additionally, Dick was an Engineer with Boeing Company from 1969 to 1972. He received his BS from Purdue University and his MS from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is on the board of directors of Quiktrip; a Midwest based convenience store chain with over $12 billion in revenues. He also serves on the board of directors of HAC, Inc.; the parent company of Homeland Stores, a 100% ESOP owned grocery store operator. Also, he is the past chair of the Valuation Advisory Committee of the ESOP Association and an active member of the National Center for Employee, Association for Corporate Growth, and Employee-Owned S Corporations of America.

Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 333 journal papers, more than 718 Conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications including 50 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012. He obtained Gold Medal and The Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014 held at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2014, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20-22 Feb 2014. He is a Member of EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS) since July 2017. He got A Slottow Owaki Prize of SID in 2018 https://ece.hkust.edu.hk/news/prof-vladimir-chigrinov-wins-2018-slottow-owaki-prize. He is 2019 Distinguished Fellow of IETI (International Engineering and Technology Institute). http://www.ieti.net/news/detail.aspx?id=184 http://www.ieti.net/memberships/Fellows.aspx Since 2018 until 2020 he works as Professor in the School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering in Foshan University, Foshan, China. 2020-2024 Vice President of Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) Since 2021 distinguished Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

John. Roberts, Independent Researcher. John Owen Roberts graduated from the University of Liverpool with an Honours Degree in Physics in 1969. He has been an Open University Tutor from 1972-2002 and a Private Tutor of Mathematics and Science since 1976 to the present day. From 2010 he has been developing the Roberts-Janet Nuclear Periodic Table and since 2017 has presented his ideas at over 25 conferences worldwide and published more than 10 articles in journals. He has presented “Is there a place for the Periodic Table as Chemistry embraces Quantum Field Theory?” at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting 2023 at Indianapolis.

Jiaxin Cai received his Ph.D. degree in Information and Computation Science from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2014. He also received his M.S. degree and B.Sc. degree in Bio-medical Engineering from Southern Medical University in 2011 and 2008 respectively. Currently, he is an associate professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Xiamen University of Technology. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed papers at academic journals and conferences. His current research interests include machine learning, computer vision and bio-medical engineering.

Dr. Shi Baosen, male, is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor. He was selected as a National Distinguished Young Talent in 2015 and was included in the New Century Excellent Talent Program under the Ministry of Education in 2007. He graduated from the Department of Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1998 with a Ph.D., under the supervision of Academician Guo Guangcan. He remained at USTC to teach after graduation, where he established the Nonlinear Optics Laboratory with the support of the 211 Project and subsequently founded the Quantum Information Laboratory. His team was the first in China to produce pulsed entangled photon pairs. From April 2001 to November 2004, he was a JST researcher at NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories in Japan, engaging in theoretical and experimental research on quantum optics, nonlinear optics, and quantum information. He was also invited for short-term visits to Japan twice in 2005. He has published over 70 papers in renowned academic journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, PRL, Sci. Rep., PRA, Opt. Lett., Opt. Express, New J. Phys., APL, and JOSA-B, with over 900 SCI citations and over 820 independent citations. He has contributed chapters to books published by Springer (Topics in Applied Physics, 102) and Nova (Horizons in World Physics, Volume 272). He holds one utility model invention patent.

Zhang Daming, male, born in June 1970 , PhD, professor, doctoral supervisor. He received a bachelor's degree in semiconductor physics from Jilin University in July 1993, a master 's degree in microelectronics and solid-state electronics in July 1996, and a doctorate in microelectronics and solid-state electronics in July 2000. From September 2000 to July 2002 , he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From September 2007 to August 2008, he worked as a senior visiting researcher at KAIST in South Korea . After graduating with a master's degree in July 1996, he stayed at Jilin University to teach. In September 1998 , he was promoted to lecturer. In September 2001 , he was promoted to associate professor. In September 2003 , he was promoted to the first-level teaching position of Jilin University. In 2004 , he was promoted to professor again. In September 2005 , he was promoted to doctoral supervisor. From December 2004 to June 2017 , he served as the vice dean of the School of Electronic Science and Engineering of Jilin University. From August 2017 to date , he has served as the dean of Jilin City Research Institute of Jilin University. Since he started working, he has been committed to the research of planar integrated optical circuit devices and their integration technology. He has carried out a lot of original and basic work in the establishment of basic principles of planar integrated optical circuit devices (optical waveguide amplifiers, electro-optic switches / modulators, arrayed waveguide grating wavelength division multiplexers, thermo-optic switches, optical delay lines, etc.) with independent intellectual property rights, device structure design and optimization, device preparation process, reliability and packaging detection technology, etc. He presided over the National Key R&D Program, the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education, the "863" Program, the "973" Program, the National Natural Science Foundation, the Jilin Province Outstanding Youth Fund Program, the Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Department Young and Middle-aged Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talents and Teams, and the Jilin Provincial Education Department "Jilin Province University Innovation Team" Construction Project; established the Jilin Province Optical Communication Polymer Waveguide Device Engineering Laboratory and the Jilin University Integrated Optical Path Laboratory. He has published more than 400 academic papers, including more than 350 papers included in SCI , with more than 3,000 citations . He has made more than 30 invited reports at academic conferences , obtained 32 national invention patents, and co-authored 1 monograph. He has trained 108 graduate students , including 33 with doctoral degrees , 75 with master's degrees , and 15 with master's degrees . There are currently 18 doctoral and master's students .

I am a researcher with a background in material science and engineering. My academic journey began with a bachelor degree from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2015.I then pursued a joint master’s program in optical engineering from the China Academy of Engineering Physics and the University of Science and Technology of China, completing it in 2018. From 2018 to 2022, I was a PhD candidate at the School of Material Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Currently, I am advancing my research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I already published 19 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, with about 450 citations.

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.

Past Secretary General and Vice-President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member Scientific Council of the European Research Council, founding director Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics of HAS. He is Honoris Causa Professor Doctor of the Roland Eotvos University(H). Former president European Physical Society, member, honorary member or doctor of distinguished scientific institutions and universities. (Academia Europaea, Spanish Royal Academy, Jordanian Royal Scientific Society, European Academy of Science and Arts, Euroscience, etc). His latest decorations are: Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize(D), the Wallis E. Lamb Award for Laser Physics and Quantum Electronics(US), Commander of the Order of the Lion Award (Finland), Middle Cross with the Star (H), the Townes and Weisskopf Award(US) , Hungarian Prima Primissima Prize for Science, Honorary Member European Physical Society, Research fields: neutron physics, laser physics, quantum optics and plasmonics. He has published more than 360 scientific papers, and is the owner of 43 patents.