Manuel F. M. Costa

Manuel F. M. Costa

Manuel F. M. Costa (SPIE Senior Member, EOS Fellow) is a Professor at the Physics Department, University of Minho, Portugal. His research interests focus on optical metrology, applied optics, thin films, nanoscience, optometry as well as science education. He has published nearly 300 academic papers and monographs, acting as editor or editorial board member of many international journals. He chairs nineteen international conferences and reviews manuscripts for over 30 journals. He also takes charge of university optical labs and delivers academic lectures worldwide with rich research and educational experience.

Yan Zhang

Yan Zhang

Prof. Yan Zhang is a full professor and doctoral supervisor at the Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, where he serves as Director of the Key Laboratory of Terahertz Optoelectronics (Ministry of Education) and the Beijing Key Laboratory of Metamaterials and Devices. He is a Fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America). He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999, and then carried out postdoctoral research at Yamagata University, Japan, and the University of Stuttgart, Germany, supported by the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation respectively. His primary research interests cover terahertz spectroscopy and imaging, terahertz metasurface devices and optical information processing. He has authored or co-authored over 400 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals including Nature Photonics, Nature Communications and Physical Review Letters, with an H-index of 64 and more than 14,000 citations on Google Scholar. Under his leadership, his research group has received the China Industry-University-Research Innovation Achievement Award and the Invention and Innovation Award of the China Association of Inventions.

Mohammad Syuhaimi Ab-Rahman

Mohammad Syuhaimi Ab-Rahman

Mohammad Syuhaimi Ab-Rahman is a Full Professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), specializing in optical communication systems. He joined UKM in 2007 and became a full professor at 33, a rare achievement in Malaysia. He serves as Director of Alumni Relation Center, holds a Malaysian Professional Engineer license, and was named one of Malaysia’s Top Research Scientists 2021. He has supervised 13 PhD and 16 Master students, published 297 journal papers, 196 conference papers and 30 books, obtained 6 patents, and led over 30 research projects totaling 17 million MYR. He frequently delivers keynote speeches at international conferences, acts as a research grant reviewer, and provides technical consultation for national government departments while offering research training for young academics.

Luigi Fortuna

Luigi Fortuna

Luigi Fortuna is Full Professor of System Theory at the University of Catania, Italy, and affiliated consultant of STM Lab+ (STLab), Italy. He earned his laureate Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Catania in 1977, and was promoted to full professor in 1994. He once served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (2005–2012), Head of the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, and PhD program coordinator. He is IEEE Life Fellow, IEICE Fellow and AIAA Fellow. His research covers robust control, nonlinear dynamical systems, chaos theory, cellular neural networks, soft computing, bio-inspired robotics and nonlinear electronic circuits. He has coordinated numerous EU and national research projects, cooperating with JET, ENEA, STMicroelectronics and Italian Space Agency. He has published over 760 Scopus-indexed papers, authored 24 international monographs, holds 11 industrial patents, and supervised more than 60 PhD students. He has undertaken key editorial duties for IEEE journals and chaired multiple top international conferences such as CNNA2000 and NDES2000.

C. H. Raymond Ooi

C. H. Raymond Ooi

Prof. C. H. Raymond Ooi is a full professor at the Department of Physics, University of Malaya, the first Malaysian scholar elected as an OPTICA Fellow, and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia and the Academy of Engineering and Technology of the Developing World. He earned his Dr. rer. nat. in quantum optics from the University of Konstanz, Germany, completed postdoctoral research at Texas A&M University, and served as a visiting scientist at Princeton University and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. His research focuses on quantum optics, nonlinear optics, plasmonics and intense laser-matter interactions, and he established the pioneering Heisenberg-Langevin theoretical framework for nonclassical photon correlations in quantum plasmonic systems. He was invited as a nominator for the Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, received the Malaysia Toray Science Foundation Science & Technology Award, leads national key quantum communication projects, founded the Quantum and Laser Science Research Centre at University of Malaya, holds green energy patents, and has delivered numerous invited keynote lectures at international conferences while serving on the editorial boards of international journals.