Manijeh Razeghi joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, pioneering in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has authored or coauthored more than 1000 papers, more than 30 book chapters, and 16 books. She holds 30 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bunshah Award in 2004 and many best paper awards. Dr. Razeghi is an elected Fellow of SWE (1995), SPIE (2000), IEC (2003), OSA (2004), APS (2004), IOP (2005), IEEE (2005) and MRS (2008).

Pioneer in the area of III-V compound semiconductors and optoelectronic devices from the deep ultraviolet to the far infrared spectral bands, including in particular InP and GaAs based semiconductors and devices, which were at the heart of the optical fiber telecommunication revolution of the late 20th Century and the rise of the information age

Periklis Petropoulos graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Patras, Greece in 1995. He received the M.Sc. degree in Communications Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in Optical Telecommunications from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK in 2000. Petropoulos is a Professor of Optical Communications at the ORC. He has participated in several European Union and national research projects in the field of optical communications. His research has produced more than 330 papers in technical journals and conference proceedings, including several invited and post-deadline papers in major international conferences, and holds 6 patents. Petropoulos is a senior member of the Optical Society of America. He has served as member of the Technical Programme Committees for several international conferences, including the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) conference and the European Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO/Europe).

His research interests lie in the fields of optical communications, all-optical signal processing and nonlinear fibre technology

Branislav Vlahovic is Director of the National Science Foundation Computational Center of Research Excellence and Director of the NASA University Research Center for Aerospace Device at North Carolina Central University. In 2004, he was awarded by the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina Oliver Max Gardner statewide award for his research and contribution to science. He has published more than 250 papers in peer reviewed journals.

Nuclear physics and physics of elementary particles

Frank K. Tittel is the Josephine S. Abercrombie Professor of Electrical Computer Engineering at Rice University, where he also holds a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Bioengineering. He obtained his bachelor, master, and doctorate degrees in physics from the University of Oxford in 1955 and 1959, respectively. From 1959 to 1967, he was a Research Physicist with General Electric Research and Development Center, Schenectady, New York. Since 1967, he has been on the faculty at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Current research interests include various aspects of quantum electronics, in particular laser spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, and laser applications in environmental monitoring, industrial process control, and medicine. Dr. Tittel is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society.

Quantum electronics, laser spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, applications in trace gas detection, environmental monitoring, industrial process control and biomedical optics

Changyuan Yu has been an assistant Professor at Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Univ. of Singapore since 12/2005. He is also a joint senior scientist with A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Univ. of Southern California, USA in 2005. He was a visiting researcher at NEC Labs America in 2005. His research focuses on optical fiber communication and sensor systems. Dr. Yu has authored/co-authored 5 book chapters and over 180 research papers, and served as a technical program committee co-chair/member for a few international conferences.

His research focuses on photonics, including: diffractive optics; integrated optic micro/nano photonic devices; optical interconnects; fiber-optic devices and subsystems; optical sensors; optical communication systems and high-speed WDM networks.

Gilbert Rochon is the 6th President of Tuskegee University, since its founding by Booker T. Washington in 1881. He is a member of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, a Senior Member of IEEE and serves as NATO Science for Peace Country Project Director (NPD) for the Mediterranean Dialogue Earth Observatory (MDEO) Project in Morocco. He currently is Chair of the Council of 1890 Universities. Dr. Rochon previously served as Director of the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory, Interim Director of the Laboratory for Remote Sensing (LARS) at Purdue and held successive joint appointments with NASA, USDA Forest Service, Naval Oceanographic Office and the US Environmental Protection Agency. He received his undergraduate degree from Xavier University of Louisiana, the Master of Public Health degree from Yale University School of Medicine and the Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Real-time satellite remote sensing for time-critical events and near-real-time data products

Mark S Goorsky is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA. He was chair of the department from 2004-2009. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 1989 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering in 1984 from Northwestern University. Goorsky held a post-doctoral position at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (Jan. 1989 - June 1991) and started at UCLA in 1991. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Crystal Growth. He is also a member of the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, which assesses the state of research and development in technologies that are crucial to the Air Force and provides forecasts of long-range science and technology. He was awarded the T.S. Walton Award from the Science Foundation of Ireland in 2010. He also received the TRW Outstanding Young Teacher Award in the School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1993, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1995, and the Northrop Grumman Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 1996. His research focuses on materials integration and the relationship between materials defects and device performance in semiconductor structures.

High resolution X-ray diffraction; III-V; ion implantation, epitaxial relaxation

Mahi R. Singh received Ph.D. (1976) degrees from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in condensed matter physics. After that he was awarded an Alenxander von Humbold Fellow in Stuttgart University, Germany from 1979 to 1981. Currently he is professor in this university. He was a visiting professor at University of Houston, He also worked as a chief researcher at CRL HITACHI, Tokyo and he was a visiting professor and Royal Society Professor at University of Oxford, UK. He was the director of the Centre of Chemical Physics and theoretical physics program at Western. Dr. Singh has worked in many research are of science and technology including nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, semiconductor here structures, high temperature superconductors, nanophotonics, plasmonics, polarotonics and nanoscience and technology.

Nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, semiconductors, high temperature superconductors, nanophotonics, plasmonics, polarotonics and nanoscience and technology

Hans Schuessler earned a Ph.D. in physics in 1964 from the University of Heidelberg. He held faculty appointments at the Technological University of Berlin, and the University of Washington, before joining in 1989, Texas A&M University, where he currently heads the SIBOR (Stored Ion Bio Optical Research) and Atto-Second laser laboratories. His collaborations include TAMUQ at Doha, Qatar, the MPQ at Garching, Germany, and RIKEN at Tokyo, Japan. He holds a Chair in Optical and Biomedical Physics at TAMU, is Eminent Scientist at RIKEN, and Distinguished Scientist at JAERI, and Fellow of APS. He has published about 200 papers.

Atomic physics and laser spectroscopy: on-line spectroscopy of short-lived isotopes, measurement of nuclear moments, spins and charge distributions, cross-sections for spin dependent atomic collisions, ion storage spectroscopy and laser cooling, low energy ion and atom collisions, highly charged ion spectroscopy and Wigner crystals

Ray Chen is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas Austin, and holds the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering. From 1988 to 1992 Chen worked as a research scientist, manager, and director of the Department of Electro-Optic Engineering at the Physical Optics Corporation in Torrance, California. Chen served as the CTO, Founder, and Chairman of the Board of Radiant Research, Inc. from 2000 to 2001, where he raised 18 million dollars A-Round funding to commercialize polymer-based photonic devices involving over twenty patents, which were acquired by Finisar in 2002, a publicly traded company in the Silicon Valley (NASDAQ:FNSR). He also serves as the founder and Chairman of the Board of Omega Optics Inc. since its initiation in 2001. Omega Optics has received over five million dollars in research funding. His research work has been awarded over 100 research grants and contracts from such sponsors as DOD, NSF, DOE, EPA, NIH, NASA, the State of Texas, and private industry. Chen’s group at UT Austin has reported its research findings in more than 650 published papers, including over 85 invited papers. He holds 20 issued patents. He has chaired or been a program-committee member for more than 100 domestic and international conferences. He has served as an editor, co-editor or coauthor for over twenty books and special issues. Chen is a Fellow of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE. He was the recipient of the 1987 UC Regent’s Dissertation Fellowship and the 1999 UT Engineering Foundation Faculty Award, for his contributions in research, teaching and services. He was also the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Teaching Award, and the 2010 IEEE HKN Loudest Professor Award. He was elected as an Honorable Citizen of the city of Austin in 2003.During his undergraduate years at the National Tsing Hua University, he led the 1979 university debate team to the Championship of the Taiwan College-Cup Debate Contest. Chen has supervised and graduated 39 PhD students from his research group at UT Austin.

Solid-state electronics, which includes semiconductor materials and devices, optoelectronics and photonics, electronic packaging, and interconnects

Weidong Chen received his B.S. (1982) in Radio-Physics from Zhangshan University (Guangzhou, China), and M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1991) from the University of Sciences & Technologies of Lille (France). From 1991 to 1993, he was an assistant Professor with the University of Sciences & Technologies of Lille where he worked on the development of laser sideband-based heterodyne spectrometers operating in the THz and its application to molecular rotation spectroscopy. Since 1993, he has been on the faculty at University of the Littoral Opal Coast as Lecturer, obtained his State Ph.D. (HDR) in 2001 and became full Professor in 2003 (1st class since 2008).

His current research interests include: (1) Developments of photonic instrumentation for applied spectroscopy; (2) Optical metrology (concentration, isotope ratio) of trace gases for applications in atmospheric photochemistry and environmental science; (3) Optical parametric laser source generation by frequency conversion and its applications to applied spectroscopy

Kotkov Andrey Aleksandrovich received his MS degree from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1982 and Ph.D. degree from the Lebedev Physics Institute (LPI) in 2000. His Ph.D. dissertation is devoted to experimental research on non-linear optical properties of laser media of high power CO₂ and CO lasers. The study was carried out by the intracavity phase conjugation under degenerate four-wave mixing in both laser media itself. He has five patents and over 50 scientific publications in reputed journals. He has got the academic rank of associated professor on the laser physics from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2004. He was awarded by N.G. Basov prize in 2006.

His research interest is non-linear optical properties of laser media of high power CO₂ and CO lasers.