Tobias J. Kippenberg
Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
OSA Fellow, APS Fellow

TOBIAS J’s research interests include physics and applications of optical microresonators in frequency metrology and cavity quantum optomechanics. He was Selected into 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 List of Clarivate Analytics highlycited in http://www.highlycited.com/ Physics.
WoK metrics: h-Index 55, publications >260, citations > 17,200 ; Google-Scholar: h-index 67, citations >27,100
Journals: Nature 9, Science 8, Nature subjournals 24 (Photonics 8, Comm 7, Phys 6, Nanotech 3), PRL 18
More than 246 invited talks (10 plenary talks). A list can be found on my group website at https://klab.epfl.ch/files/content/sites/klab/files/TJK_list_of_talks/Kippenberg_ListTalks_July_2018.pdf

Lihua Xie
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
IEEE Fellow

Dr. Xie’s research interests include robust control, networked control systems, multi-agent networks, indoor positioning, human activity recognition and unmanned systems. He has published 8 books, over 390 journal papers, 330 conference papers, and 8 patents. He has been listed as a highly cited researcher(SCI: 11409, H-index: 51; Google Scholar: 27788, H-index: 79) by Thomson Routers and Clarivate Analytics since 2014. He is an Editor-in-Chief for Unmanned Systems and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Network Control Systems, Sciences China – Informatics and Automatica Sinca. He has served as an editor of IET Book Series in Control and an Associate Editor of a number of journals including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II. He was an appointed member of Board of Governors, IEEE Control System Society in 2011 and is currently an elected member of the Board (Jan2016-Dec 2018). Dr Xie is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IFAC and Fellow of Chinese Automation Association. He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer from 2011 to 2014. He is a Vice-President, Control Theory and Application Committee, the Chinese Automation Association. He served as the General Chair of the 13th IEEE Int. Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA2017); Vice Program Chair of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2015); General Co-Chair of the 9th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA 2012); GeneralChair of the 7th IEEE Int. Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA 2009); General Chair of the 9 th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV’06); General Chair of 2002 International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA 2002); Program Chair of the Fourth International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA’03) and the 8 th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV’04); General Chair of the 9 th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV’06).

Hongxing Xu
Wuhan University, China
Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Prof. Hongxing Xu obtained his PHD degree in Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2002, and then he joined the Lund University as assistant professor and has been a visiting professor at there since 2005. He joined the faculty at Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) in 2005 and has been the Director of Nanoscale Physics&Devices Laboratory, Insitute of Physics at CAS from 2009-2014. He joined the faculty of Wuhan University in 2012, and he is currently a Professor and Associate Dean in school of Physics&Technology, and Director of Center for Nanosicence and Nanotechnology, and Dean of Institute for Advanced Study, Wuhan University. His research background is in Surface-enhanced spectroscopy, nanophotonics, plasmonics and those devices. He is the associate editor of Optics Express and Nanoscale. He has been selected as a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in November 2017. He is the recipient of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2006), the China Youth Award of Science and Technology (2010), the ZhuliYuehua Outstanding Professor Award of CAS (2011), the CAS International Cooperation Award for Young Scientist (2012), the Special Government Allowances of the State Council (2013), the Rao Yutai Physics Award of Chinese Physical Society(2013) , the Chang Jiang Distinguished Scholars (2014), and the Young and Middle-aged Leading Scientists (2015). He has published more than 160 refereed articles, organized more than 10 international conferences and given more than 50 invited presentations at international conferences and workshops, has been cited more than 8300 times (Total Citation in 2014 has been more than 1600 times, and 20 Articles has been cited more 100 times) with a Web of Science H-index in the 44s. An interview with Professor Xu Hongxing: http://en.whu.edu.cn/info/1050/1967.htm