Jian-Jun He
Zhejiang University, China
OSA Fellow, SPIE Fellow

Jian-Jun He received the Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies and Ph.D. degrees in semiconductor optoelectronics from the University of Paris VI, Paris, France, in 1986 and 1989, respectively. From 1986 to 1989, he worked as a doctoral fellow at the Centre National d’Etudes des Télécommunications, Bagneux,France. From1989 to1993, he was a postdoctoral fellow and then a research associate with Technical University of Nova Scotia (now Dalhousie University), Halifax, Canada, where he worked on semiconductor nonlinear optical devices. He joined the Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, Ottawa, Canada in 1994 as a research associate, and later became a tenured Research Officer, working on semiconductor optoelectronic devices for dense-wavelength-division- multiplexing applications. In 2000, he co-founded Canadian photonics start-up company MetroPhotonics and served as the Chief Scientist. He joined the Department of Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University as a Professor in 2006. His current interest is semiconductor lasers and multifunctional integrated photonic devices for optical communications, biomedical sensing and environmental monitoring. He has published over 300 scientific papers and holds 20 US patents. He served as a General Chair of 2011 and 2018 Asia Communication and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), and Program Chair, subcommittee chair and committee member of many other conferences. He is currently a Topical Editor of Optics Letters. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE).

Junle Qu
Shenzhen University, China

Junle Qu was born in Shanxi, China, in 1960. He received the B.S. degree from Xi'an Jiao Tong University, Xi'an, China, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Xi'an Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, in 1992, 1995, and 1998, respectively. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Postdoctor with Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. Since 2003, he has been a Professor with the Institute of Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. He has first authored one monograph and authored/coauthored about 100 papers in refereed international journals, and has been granted a dozen patents. His research interests include nanophotonics, biophotonics, microscopic imaging technique, and laser treatment technology.

Shixun Dai
Ningbo University, China

Speech Title: Mid-infrared Supercontinuum Generation and Liquid Detection Based on Chalcogenide Glass Fibers

Shixun Dai was born in China,in 1974. He received his B.Sc. degree in Optical Materials from the Changchun Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China, in 1996, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2003 to 2005, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Laser Glass Centre, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China. Since 2005, he has been working with Ningbo University and founded the Laboratory of Infrared Materials and Devices. He has published more than 200 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is currently working as the Director and Professor of the Laboratory of Infrared Materials and Devices in Ningbo University. His research interests include infrared materials of chalcogenide glass and fiber and infrared photonic devices. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of International Symposium on Non-Oxide and New Optical Glasses, and a committee member of ISO/TC 172/SC 3/WG3.

Lei Wei
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Speech Title: Advanced Functional Fibers: A Human-Centered Information Revolution

Dr. Lei Wei is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He currently serves as the Director of Centre for Optical Fibre Technology (COFT) at Nanyang Technological University. He received the B.E. degree from the Wuhan University of Technology in 2005 and the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Denmark in 2011. Then he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral associate. In 2014, he joined the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore as a Nanyang Assistant Professor. In 2019, he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. His main research interests are fiber-based devices, multi-functional fibers, bio-fiber interfaces, and in-fiber energy generation and storage. He also serves as the Chair of The Optical Society (OSA) Singapore Section and the Executive Committee Member of IEEE Photonics Society Singapore Chapter.

C. L. Philip Chen
South China University of Technology, China
IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, IAPR Fellow