Michael Reimer joined the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in 2015 as an IQC faculty member and Assistant Professor with the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at the University of Waterloo. After receiving his BSc in Physics at the University of Waterloo, Michael spent two years in industry at JDS Uniphase as an R&D Engineer. He then went on to earn his MSc in Engineering Physics at the Technical University of Munich in Germany. In 2010 he obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of Ottawa/National Research Council of Canada where he developed single, site-selected quantum dot devices and novel approaches to generating entangled photons from such devices. His research interests are Semiconductor nanowire quantum light sources, Entanglement, Quantum optoelectronic devices, Integrated quantum photonic circuits, Spin physics, Quantum detectors.

Dr. Niti Kant is a Professor at Department of Physics, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. He received Ph.D. degree in Plasma Physics from IIT Delhi in 2005. His research is focused on the areas of ultra-short intense laser interaction with plasmas and semiconductors, laser-plasma based accelerators, harmonic generations and THz radiation. He has supervised 26 PG and 7 Ph.D. students and published more than 80 research papers in various international SCI journals. He visited several countries e.g. UK, USA, Poland, South Korea, Egypt etc. and presented his research work at various international conferences/workshops. He is also a member of different renowned associations/societies e.g. OSI, PSSI, ISCA, IET, UKRI etc. Dr. Kant has been receiving Research Excellence and Research Appreciation Awards from Lovely Professional University since 2014 consecutively. He was also awarded with Best Researcher Award for 2020 by InSc and Science Father agencies.

Dr. Sib Krishna Ghoshal is currently Associate Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Science, University Technology Malaysia since 2010. From 2004-2010 worked in the Physics Department and Materials Science Program of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Africa as Associate Professor in the United Nations Development Program for the expansion of Graduate Studies. He served as senior lecturer and promoted as reader at Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, India during 1998-2006. He received PhD degree in Condensed Matter & Statistical Physics in 1996 from School Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India). Carried out two post-doctoral researches one in Martin Fisher School of Physics (Brandeis University, USA) during 1999-2000 and the other in a joint research project of Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) & Oxford University (UK) in 1996-1998. Supervised few Master Theses with Nicola Marzari (MIT, USA) and worked with Sir Roger Elliotte (Oxford, UK). He received Master Degree in Physics in 1989 from Premier Presidency University, Calcutta and BSc (Physics Honors) degree in 1986 from Calcutta University. Besides having a long innings-spanning almost three decades in teaching Physics/Materials Sciences at various levels and advising an appreciable number of doctoral and masters theses, he possesses a remarkable research profile too. He published over 600 research articles (334 in Journals with total impact factor of 660), 15 book chapters, and 7 books. His Google scholar h-index is 38, i10-index is 111 and citations are 4691. So far, he received 55 research grants, supervised 25 PhD, 80 MSc, and 65 undergraduate theses. He is listed as top 2% scientists in physics worldwide in 2020. His recent research interests are in Advanced Optical Materials, Statistical Condensed Matter Physics, Nanomaterials Syntheses and Applications, Laser Physics, Simulation and Modeling as well as Nanoscience. One of his major concerns other than research pursuits is the social impact of science and technology on environment, marginalized societal groups deprived of higher education, and the imbalances thereupon in the distribution of its fruits and adverse impacts on these stakeholders.

Lijun Yang received the Ph.D degree in mechanical engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2007. Now he is currently a full professor in Key Laboratory of Micro-systems and Micro-structures Manufacturing, Ministry of Education. His research interests are ultrafast laser micro-nano manufacturing, laser composite manufacturing and development of optical and mechanical integration equipment. He is the fellow of Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology, Chinese Society for Optical Engineering and Chinese Society of Astronautics. Over the past years, Prof. Yang has presided over the National Natural Science Foundation Project of China, the National High-tech R & D Program. National Key R & D Program of China and National Science and Technology Major Project. He has won the first prize of National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award. He also won the the second prize of Science and Technology Advance and Natural Science in Heilongjiang Province in 2014, 2015 and 2017 He has been authorized over 20 patents of invention of China and published more than 100 academic papers.

Beni-Suef University, Egypt × Biography Arafa H Aly has completed his PhD at the age of 35 years from Cairo University and postdoctoral studies from Soeul national university, Chonnam national university, ICTP, AUB, and Zaragoza University. He is the chairman of Eg-MRS which is the oldest scientific society in Egypt and Middle East. He has a distinguished 25-years career in material sciences and optical and acoustical applications. He has supervised for many master's and doctoral theses organized more than 40 conferences. He has published more than 150 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Alain Celzard graduated in chemical physics in 1992 and received his PhD in materials science in 1995 in Nancy (France). Since 2005 he is full professor at ENSTIB engineering school (Epinal). In 2010 he was appointed Junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His scientific interests deal with disordered, porous and related materials, ranging from composites and nanoporous adsorbents to macroporous solids and disordered materials for catalytic, environmental, energy, or electromagnetic applications.

Dr. Niti Kant is a Professor at Department of Physics, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. He received Ph.D. degree in Plasma Physics from IIT Delhi in 2005. His research is focused on the areas of ultra-short intense laser interaction with plasmas and semiconductors, laser-plasma based accelerators, harmonic generations and THz radiation. He has supervised 26 PG and 7 Ph.D. students and published more than 80 research papers in various international SCI journals. He visited several countries e.g. UK, USA, Poland, South Korea, Egypt etc. and presented his research work at various international conferences/workshops. He is also a member of different renowned associations/societies e.g. OSI, PSSI, ISCA, IET, UKRI etc. Dr. Kant has been receiving Research Excellence and Research Appreciation Awards from Lovely Professional University since 2014 consecutively. He was also awarded with Best Researcher Award for 2020 by InSc and Science Father agencies.

Sangeetha Balabhadra has completed herPhD from the Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Portugal. She has been working as a postdoctoral researcherinUniversity ofCanterbury, New Zealandsince 2018. She has published around 15 papers inreputed journals in the field of luminescence materials and it’sapplications.

Dr. Govind Gupta is Senior Principal Scientist & Head, Sensor Devices & Metrology Group, CSIR-NPL, New Delhi, India and Professor, Academy for Scientific & Industrial Research (AcSIR). His core area of expertise is the of growth of III-Nitrides, metal oxide and layered 2-dimensional materials, fabrication of smart optical & gas sensors, surface & interface Physics, etc.. He has published ~250 research articles in SCI journals and supervised many Ph.D. theses. He is an Associate Academician of Asia Pacific Academy of Materials and received numerous awards & fellowships including MRSI medal, Young Scientist Medal-National Academy of Sciences, India, BOYSCAST fellowship, etc.

Dr. Yan received hisPh.D. degree in National Astronomical Observatories (NAO)of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2018. From 2015-2018 he was a research assistant in the Center for Operation and Development of LAMOST Telescope. He is currently an Associate Professor of Physics at the College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University (HEU). He is the co-founder of the Advanced Photonics Institute (API, http://api.hrbeu.edu.cn) and the team leader of astrophotonicsgroup in API since 2019. In 2021 he joined the HEU Qingdao Innovation and Development Base as the laboratory sponsor of the Ocean Optics Engineering Technology Research Center.His research interests include the design and development of integral spectrograph systems for astronomical instrumentation, fiber-optic instrumentation, hyperspectral imaging, fiber interferometry, in-fiber integral optics, and image processing. His team has completed the project of developing a pair of large-field integral field units (IFUs) which has the highest fibernumber densitywith 8064 fibers (4032 fibers in each IFU head). The IFUs will be shifted to Yunnan Astronomical Observatories, CAS in this summer to be equipped on the Fiber Arrayed Solar Optical Telescope (FASOT). The FASOT can first achieve three dimensional polarized Solar optical observation using the hyperspectral imaging technology with IFUs. Now his team is investigating a new scrambling method using in-fiber integral technology to realize high scrambling gain with high coupling efficiency for stellar interferometry. And he is also engaged in the research of application of three dimensional hyperspectral imaging technology in ocean optics.

Dr. Sib Krishna Ghoshal is currently Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Science, University Technology Malaysia since 2010. From 2004-2010 worked in the Physics Department and Materials Science Program of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Africa as Associate Professor in the United Nations Development Program for the expansion of Graduate Studies. He served as senior lecturer and promoted as reader at Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, India during 1998-2006. He received PhD degree in Statistical Condensed Matter Physics in 1996 from School Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India). Carried out two post-doctoral researches one in Martin Fisher School of Physics (Brandeis University, USA) during 1999-2000 and the other in a joint research project of Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) & Oxford University (UK) in 1996-1998. Supervised few Master Theses with Nicola Marzari (MIT, USA) and worked with notable Physicists like Sir Roger Elliotte (Oxford, UK), K. P. Jain (IITD), B. Chakraborty (Brandeis, USA) & S. Dattagupta (SPS, JNU). He received Master Degree in Physics in 1989 from Premier Presidency University, Calcutta and BSc (Physics Honors) degree in 1986 from Calcutta University. Besides having a long innings-spanning almost three decades in teaching Physics/Materials Sciences at various levels and advising an appreciable number of doctoral and masters theses, he possesses a remarkable research profile too. He published over 600 research articles (346 in Journals with total impact factor of 695), 18 book chapters, and 7 books. His Google scholar h-index is 39, i10-index is 119 and citations are 5282. So far, he received 56 research grants, one patent, supervised 25 PhD, 80 MSc, and 65 undergraduate theses students. He is listed as top 2% scientists in physics worldwide in 2020 according to Stanford University (USA) listing. His recent research interests are in Advanced Optical Materials, Statistical Condensed Matter Physics, Nanomaterials Syntheses, and Applications including NanoBioMedicice, Laser Physics, Simulation and Modeling as well as Nanoscience. One of his major concerns other than research pursuits is the social impact of science and technology on environment, marginalized societal groups deprived of higher education, and the imbalances thereupon in the distribution of its fruits and adverse impacts on these stakeholders.

Gong-Ru Lin is the full professor with the Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics and the Department of Electrical Engineering, and also the Associate Dean with College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at National Taiwan University. He is honored as the Y. Z. Hsu Science Chair Professor and the Lifetime Distinguished Professor of the NTU. He is the Fellows of IEEE, OSA, SPIE, IET, IOP, the Distinguished Research Fellow of MOST Taiwan, and the 13th President of Taiwan Photonics Society.

Anurag Sharma has been working as Assistant Professor in the ECE Department at Chandigarh University and is pursuing his PhD from Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University), Chandigarh. He received his BE degree in electronics and communication engineering from H.P.U Shimla, in 2013 and her M.E(Hons.) degree in electronics and communication engineering from Chandigarh University, Punjab, in 2016. His area of research includes Nanophotonic Sesning, Integrated Layout Design and Computational Modelling. He has contributed in a few scientific journals.

Pradip Gatkine is David & Ellen Lee prize postdoctoral fellow at Caltech. He received his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Maryland in July 2020. His photonic research includes the development of next-generation astrophotonic instrumentation for large telescopes. He is currently developing moderate resolution astrophotonic arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) spectrographs and OH-suppressing notch filters for astronomical telescopes. He led an Astro-2020 white paper on astrophotonics in the next decade. On the astrophysics side, he is interested in studying the metal enrichment history and mechanisms, especially using gamma-ray bursts as probes. He is currently studying the properties of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) at high redshifts (z > 2) and the galaxy-CGM relationship. He will be starting as a NASA Hubble Fellow at Caltech in September 2021.

Denise Zezell is PhD in Physics from University of Campinas(Brazil) and post-doc in Medical Physics from ICTP-Triste(Italia). She is Professor of Biophotonics at Nuclear and Energy Research Institute since 1992. Presently she is member of Photonics Commission, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI- Brazil). Her main research activities are in the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic methods in Medicine and Dentistry, area in which she has published more than 190 papers. Lasers in Dentistry, spectral histopathology for tumor diagnosis and staging using imaging micro-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Infrared Thermography, and Optical Coherence Tomography are the main techniques used.

Dovydas Blaževičius has completed his masters from the Department of Polymer Chemistry ant Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania and know is PhD student at the same university. He has published 10 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as the project engineer at the Department of Polymer chemistry and Technology in KTU.

W. “Todd” Penberthy, obtained his PhD in biochemistry at the University of Tennessee, Memphis focused on transcription factors before training at Tufts New England Medical Center and UCLA focused on developmental biology of hematopoiesis and neurogenesis. As a faculty at the University of Cincinnati he led drug discovery collaborations using the zebrafish animal model of human diseases for small molecule discovery in collaboration with fortune 500 pharmaceutical company. Since, 2012 he has focused on providing continuing medical education (www.CMESCRIBE.com) writing for physician education/board certification while also providing biomedical scientific research and writing services.

Giacomo Borraccini received the Master Degree in Electronic Engineering in Politecnico di Torino in October 2019 cum Laude with a thesis about Raman gain optimization in multi-band optical transmission. Since November 2019, he is a Ph.D. candidate at Politecnico di Torino in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering in the team PLANET within the Optical Communication (OptCom) group. The research activity undertaken is focused on multi-band amplification systems in open optical networks, maintaining collaborations with Cisco Photonics and the LINKS Foundation laboratories. Since June 2020, he has actively contributed to the development of the GNPy scientific library within the Telecom Infra Project (PSE working group). Currently, he is president of the OSA Student Chapter Torino.

Bing Yan undertook his PhD at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Bangor University in all-dielectric superlens and the corresponding applications. He had worked as the post-doc research assistant for the Welsh-European Funding SPARC II project at Bangor University and Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Science from 2017 to 2019. At present, he is a research associate at Bangor CPE centre to support the collaborative development of optoelectronic and photonic devices with industries. His research interests include dieletric microlens super-resolution imaging, laser material processing, micro/nano-fabrication, fiber optical tweezer.