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. 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

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 bachelors, masters, 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. Tittel is a fellow of the IEEE, the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society.

Quantum electronics, in particular laser spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, and laser applications in environmental monitoring, industrial process control, and medicine

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 Texas A&M University in 1989, 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 spectrosacopy 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

Devendra Sadana obtained his Ph.D. from the IIT, New Delhi in 1975. He has worked at the University of Oxford, England, University of California, Berkeley, Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, and Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, CA during 1975-87 in various capacities. He joined IBM Research in 1987, where he is currently a Senior Staff & Manager of the Advanced Substrate Research group. His research work covers research in Si and III-Vs including ion implantation, advanced epitaxy, SOI materials, photovoltaics, CMOS technology among many others. He has published over 200 journal/conference papers and is a co-inventor of over 300 issued/submitted patents.

Si and III-Vs including ion implantation, advanced epitaxy, SOI materials, photovoltaics, CMOS technology among many others

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.

Computer simulations of nanostructures, tunneling and charge transfer between nanostructures, pulsed laser deposition of nanostructures, nonlinear optics, detectors and devices based on quantum confinement, nanophotonics, semiconductor structures, photovoltaics

Sergey Mirov received Ph.D. in Physics in 1983, from the P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1993, Mirov is a faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Currently, he is a university Professor of Physics at the UAB and director of the Center for Optical Sensors and Spectroscopies. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, and member of the American Physics Society, and SPIE. He has authored or co-authored over three hundred ninety scientific publications, has published 1 book, several book chapters, and holds twenty patents.

Laser physics-Novel lasers and applications

Devki N. Talwar, Indiana U of Pennsylvania (IUP), Chair of Department of Physics, conducts research on optical/electronic properties of defects and phonons in semiconductor materials used for various electronic and opto-electronic devices. He has been with Indiana U of Pennsylvania (IUP), Department of Physics, for almost 27 years and is the author of more than 120 refereed journal articles, 3 book chapters and review articles. His expertise in the sophisticated Green’s function technique is considered very useful for providing information on the electronic and vibrational properties of defects in semiconductors, quantum wells and superlattices.

Devki Talwar conducts research on defects in semiconductor materials used for various electronics and opto-electronics.

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. Chens 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 Regents 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.

Electromagnetics & Acoustics, Plasma/Quantum Electronics and Optics, and Solid-State Electronics

Kal Renganathan Sharma received his B.Tech in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India in 1985 and M.S and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV in 1987 and 1990 respectively. His post-doctoral research training was under former chair and Prof. R. Shankar Subramanian, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, Chemical Engineering. He is the author of 12 Books, 537 Conference Papers, 143 Articles/Bibliographic Archivals (7 Book-Chapters, 3 Review Articles) and 112 other presentations. He has instructed 2830 students in India and USA in 103 courses. He is a Fellow of Indian Chemical Society and listed in Who in America. He has reviewed over 30 Journal Articles. He serves on Editorial Boards such as, ChemXpress, Rajkot, India. Editorial Board, Caspian Journal of Applied Science and Research, Penang, Malaysia. Associate Editor, Journal of Scientific Research and Reports, Oxford/New York/Delhi. He serves as Adjunct Faculty at Lone Star College, University Park and instructs Industrial Electronics among other courses. He has held high level positions in academia. He has received cash awards from Monsanto Plastics Technology, Indian Orchad, MA, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India, Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View, TX. He has received 14 press citations. His works have been cited more than 218 times in refereed journals. His book is required text in the graduate level course in electronics in Mumbai University, Mumbai, India.

Chemical Engineering

Anadi Mukherjee has over 30 years experience and leadership roles in R&D relating lasers, photonic materials and devices, optoelectronics, integrated optics – new concepts, fabrication and processing, quantum cascade lasers, trace gas/HAZMAT detection, new biomedical imaging and diagnosis technique. As a research Assistant Professor at the Center for High Technology materials & EECE Departments at University of New Mexico he initiated new R&D projects in different areas of optoelectronics including Mu-Lasers, very low loss polymeric waveguides and devices etc. Recently as a Senior Scientist at Pranalytica Inc., he developed single-mode tunable external cavity quantum cascade lasers and multiplexed them for multigas detection with high sensitivity and selectivity.

Lasers, photonic materials and devices, optoelectronics, integrated optics – new concepts, fabrication and processing, quantum cascade lasers, trace gas/HAZMAT detection, new biomedical imaging and diagnosis technique

Peter A. Bokhan, is a Principal scientist in the Institute of Semiconductor Physics (ISP) Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science (SB RAS). From 1975-1972, he was senior scientist of IAO, the best known achievement that has been performed at this time were an investigation on lasing mechanism of the pulse – periodic metal vapor lasers on the self-terminating transitions, including copper vapor lasers. The large project that was realized in 90th of last century is a laser isotope separation of lead to remove radioactive isotope 210Pb from natural lead. Along with his colleagues he developed the technologies to produce a lot of other isotopes of different elements, for example rubidium, calcium, ytterbium and so on. From 2008-2000, he was the head of Quantum Electronics Division. Currently, Peter Bokhan is a Principal scientist in the Institute of Semiconductor Physics (ISP) Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science (SB RAS).

Physics of gaseous and semiconductor laser, laser isotope separation, physics of gas discharge, electron emission from cold cathodes, atomic collisions, fast processes in plasma physics. He is actively involved in the field of generation of powerful electric and electron beam pulses with subnanosecond rise time at high repetition rate (up to 50kHz), and pumping different lasers, especially semiconductor lasers and metal vapour lasers.

Anwar serves as an Editor of IEEE Journal of Electron Devices and has served as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (2001 – 2010). He is the Guest Editor of an upcoming issue of Optical Engineering. He serves as the conference chair of the international conference on Terahertz Physics, Devices and Systems: Advanced Applications in Industry and Defense of the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012). He has also chaired the 2006 and 2007 Terahertz Physics, Devices and Systems Conference as part of SPIEs Optics East. Anwar is a SPIE fellow.

Localization of one-dimensional structures, transport in semiconductor devices, impurity diagnostics in quantum well structures, Sb-based type–II infrared detectors, noise in semiconductor devices, power performance of GaN-based HFETs and circuits

Prakash C Sharma has completed his Ph.D. from one of the leading Asian Centers of Advanced Physics, Banaras University, India and postdoctoral studies from Sweden. He is currently working as Professor and Head, Physics, College of Arts & Sciences. He has more than 75 peer reviewed publications.

Sustainable Energy - Solar Energy, Phonon Interactions/ Wide Gap, Semiconductors e.g. SiC, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Lattice & Superconductivity, Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

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. Singh has worked in many research are of science and technology including nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, semiconductors structures, high temperature superconductors, nanophotonics, plasmonics, polarotonics and nanoscience and technology.

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

Gary R Pickrell completed his Ph.D. in 1994 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. He has 14 issued patents with around 150 publications. He served as the Program Committee member for 24 International Conferences and is an Editorial Board member for 6 journals. He served as Advisor or Co-advisor of seven graduate students from underrepresented groups, and graduate committee member for over 25 graduate students from underrepresented groups. He also received Virginia Tech Outstanding Assistant Professor Award in 2005 for his teaching. He was also honoured as R&D 100 Award winner October, 2004 (for a fiber optic sensor suite - one of the top 100 products developed in the world). He has served as a reviewer for proposals from US (DOE), Chinese and Russian governments and has been an invited presenter/participant in several DOE, NSF, and USGS workshops. Currently, he is Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Director of Surface Engineering, Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Director, for NanoBioMaterials Laboratory.

Specialty optical fiber fabrication, fiber Optics, and fiber optic sensors

Ian W Boyd is currently Director of the ETC at the University of Brunel. Prior to that he was a cofounder and Director of Nanoelectronics at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) where he also headed the Materials & Devices group as Professor of Electronic Materials in the department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL), before becoming the inaugural Director of the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) in 2009. He has 30 years of experience in lasers, nanotechnology and materials science. Professor Boyd obtained first class BSc (1979) and PhD (1982) degrees at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh where he received the Watt Medal for distinction and class prize for best student. Subsequent to working in Medical Physics and as a Microelectronics Device Engineer, he became a research scientist at the University of North Texas, prior to obtaining faculty tenure at UCL. He has contributed significantly to research at international level in several fields, having presented more than 50 invited papers, written and/or edited 8 books, and published more than 300 papers in major scientific journals. He has served on numerous advisory committees and as a consultant world-wide, as president of the European Materials Research Society (EMRS) in Strasbourg where he is currently a member of the executive board and co-chairs the 2014 international conference. He also served as a member of the board of Directors of the Materials Research Society (MRS) from 2008-2011 and is currently a fellow of both the Institute of Physics (IoP) and the Institute of Electrical Technology (IET). Professor Boyd holds Honorary Professorial Chairs on several continents and was recipient of the Senior Yarwood medal for pioneering contributions to thin film growth by the British Vacuum Society in 2005.

Development and applications of lasers, in particular towards the interaction of light with matter, and materials processing. Laser applications in surface modification, annealing, oxidation, deposition, etching and ablation, especially in thin film technology. Fundamental properties of deep UV excimer lamp sources and their applications.

John Petersen has extensive experience in all aspects of lithography and a strong modeling background. John has been heavily involved in advanced design and manufacturing of photomasks for extremely high resolution optical lithography. He has experience from Texas Instruments, Shipley Company, SEMATECH and Petersen Advanced Lithography, Inc. John is co-developer of the 2006 SEMI Innovation Award winning Maxwell equation solver EMF3. He began his direct involvement with interference lithography working with Steve Brueck at the UNM as a technical advisory board member of the Nanolithography MURI. John is a fellow of SPIE. He has published more than sixty-five papers, often an invited speaker, taught advanced optical lithography for many years holds seven patents. He is known worldwide for describing the chemical-physics of chemically amplified resists (Byers-Petersen Reaction Diffusion Equations) and for his work in advanced optical lithography. His current research uses multi-wavelength optical lithography to extend resolution to the 10 nm half-pitch.

Lithography, Semiconductors,Modeling and Nanotechnology

Full Professor in Laser and Optoelectronic Devices, Dr. Sc. (2002), Ph.D (1985). Currently, he is with the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. Author of 1 book, 8 chapters in books and more than 130 journal papers. Senior member of IEEE and OSA, Member of SPIE. Postdoctoral study in the Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin and visiting Professor-researcher fellows of DAAD in University Karlsruhe, Germany (1994, 1997, 1998, 2002); University Montpellier, France (2001); University Juvjaskula, Finland,(TEMPUS/TASIS – 2001); Sabbatical year researcher in the University of Valencia, Spain (2012-13). Founder of the IEEE Photonics Soc. (LEOS) Ukraine chapter, founder and advisor of the SPIE Guanajuato Student Chapter; Organizer, chairman of International Conf. Laser and Fiber Optical Networks Modeling (1999 –2013), International Conf. on Advanced Optoelectronics and Lasers (2003 – 2013),etc.; Co-organizer of separate topics in IEEE/LEOS Summer Topicals 2008 and IEEE/PHO Summer Tropicals 2010.

Photonic devices, semiconductor lasers and theory of quantum confinement structures, photonic crystal elements including design of photonic crystal fibers, ultra short pulse generation and propagation and their reshaping in fibers

Charles M. Falco holds a Named Professorship -- UA Chair of Condensed Matter Physics -- at the University of Arizona, where he has been a Professor of Optical Sciences since 1992, and a joint appointment in Physics. He received his Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics in 1974 from the University of California, Irvine, after which he joined Argonne National Laboratory as Assistant Physicist (1974–77), and Physicist (1977–82) (Group Leader, Superconductive and Novel Materials Group 1978–82). He held visiting positions as Maitre de Recherche (May–July, 1979) and Professeur Invité (May–June, 1986) at the Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, and was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, June–November, 1989. He has served on a number of scientific panels, advisory boards, and review committees for various government agencies and universities, the editorial boards of seven journals, and as a member of organizing, program, advisory, etc. committees of 20 international conferences and workshops. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America, and the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and served two-year terms as Councillor of the APS and Member of the Executive Committee of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics of the APS (1992–1993), and four years as Secretary/Treasurer of the Forum on International Physics of the APS (1994–1998). Very recently he was a member of the panel that issued the report "Optics and Photonics: Essential Technologies for Our Nation" (The National Academies Press, 2013). He has authored or co-authored over 250 papers, six book chapters, six U.S. patents, and co-edited two books, as well as given over 400 invited talks at conferences, research institutions, and cultural organizations in 30 countries.

Charles Falco's principal research interests are the growth (by Molecular Beam Epitaxy-MBE and sputtering), structure (using a wide range of probes, including x-ray and electron diffraction, in situ and ex situ surface probes, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopies, etc.), and studies of the physical properties of metallic superlattices and ultra-thin films, including research on magnetism, superconductivity, x-ray optics, elastic properties, and nucleation and epitaxy of thin films, as well as computerized image analysis.

Ultrafast switching devices based on semiconductor and semiconductor heterostructures, ultrafast laser sources (100fs and below) and their application in spectroscopy, communication, material testing, generation, detection, and application of time-resolved terahertz (100 GHz - 5000 GHz) radiation, free Space Optical Communication using new wavelength (infrared) as well as ultrashort pulses, Infrared laser communication at ultrahigh speed, Infrared camera system using new alternate approaches

Vladimir V. Rumyantsev is Professor in Nanophysics Department at Donetsk National University (DonNU) and Head of Physics Technology Subdivision at A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (DonIPE NANU). He received Ph.D. in Physics (1988) from DonNU and Dr. Sci. in Solid State Physics (2007) from DonIPE NANU. He has authored/co-authored 3 books, 2 chapters in books and about 200 scientific publications. Prof. Rumyantsev is Co-coordinator of joint Russian-Ukrainian project (2012-2013) and Group Leader of International project in the framework of the European program FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES (2013-2016), he is a member of the Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics as well as a member of the American Physical Society.

Various aspects of solid state physics, crystallooptics, photonics; more particularly- theoretical study of the effects of disorder in quasi-two-dimensional nanofilms and layered structures caused by the propagation of electromagnetic and acoustic excitations, light-matter coupling in composite nanostructures.

Leonas Valkunas has completed his Ph.D. at the age of 27 years from Vilnius University. He is the head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of Vilnius University and the deputy director of the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology in Vilnius. He has published more than 250 papers in reputed journals.

2D coherent spectroscopy of disordered molecular aggregates and photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes

Boris Fainberg received his Ph.D. (1977) from the State Optical Institute named for S. I. Vavilov (St.-Petersburg, Russia). In 1991, he moved to the School of Chemistry at Tel-Aviv University where he is a visiting Professor. In 1998, he joined the staff of the Holon Institute of Technology (Israel) where he works as a Professor of Chemical Physics. He published more than 115 papers in reputed journals. He was a visiting Professor at Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Taipei; Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials, Strasbourg; Humboldt University of Berlin; University of Augsburg; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Dissipative and many-body effects in optical control with intense chirped and non-chirped pulses of molecules and semiconductors, molecular electronics, molecular and quantum dots nanojunctions, nanophotonics, dissipative and nonlinear Landau-Zener problems, optical control and activation of nonradiation transitions by strong radiation, Non-Markovian theory of four-photon spectroscopy of complex molecules and superconductors, Nonlinear spectroscopy of linear and nonlinear solvation dynamics, effects of phase modulation in lasers for ultrashort light pulses, interference effects in nonlinear scattering, quantum expansions for calculating vibronic spectra and distribution functions for molecular systems with multiwell potentials

Gagik G Gurzadyan received his Ph.D. degree from Moscow State University in 1983 and Dr. Sci. from Yerevan State University in 1996. He was a post doc at Max-Planck-Institute of Radiation Chemistry (Germany) and CEA/Saclay (France). During 2002-11, he was a Senior Scientist at Technical University of Munich (Germany), and from 2008 Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). His research interests include nonlinear optics, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and nonlinear photochemistry. Last years he was focused on femtosecond relaxation processes in graphene and singlet fission in organic crystals. He has authored/co-authored six books and about 80 scientific articles. His Handbook of Nonlinear Optical Crystals (Springer-Verlag) is used as a textbook in University courses of over than 10 countries.

Nonlinear optics, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and nonlinear photochemistry

Vladimir Chigrinov Graduated From Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Moscow Electronics Institute, the Diploma of Engineer-Mathematician in 1973. He was Head of Division, "Fine Chemistry for Electronics" in Organic Intermediates and Dyes Institute, Scientific-Research Center of Russia (1988-1996) and expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recoginzed by World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994; He has 4 books, 14 reviews and book chapters, 209 refereed papers, 485 Conference presentations and 75 patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He has been Visiting Associate Professor in EEE Dept, HKUST, Hong Kong since 1.06.99 and Associate Professor in EEE Department, HKUST, Hong Kong since 1.07.02. He is Senior Member of the Society for Information Display (SID) since 10.10.04 and Associate Editor of J. of SID since 06.2005. He is SID fellow since 02.08. He is Professor in ECE Dept, HKUST, Hong Kong since 1.07.08. The paper of M.Schadt, K.Schmett, V.Kozenkov, V.Chigrinov, Surface-induced parallel alignment of liquid crystals by linearly polymerized photopolymers, Jap. J.Appl. Phys. P.I., Vol.31, pp. 2155-2164 (1992) is number 4 among the most heavily-cited and has been influential papers published in JJAP since the first volume (1962) and has been selected from the various fields of applied physics by the JJAP Editorial Board. HKUST FYP team was awarded by Varitronix (2009, 2010, and 2012) in Displays. He was given the Research Excellence Award of SENG, HKUST that recognizes the efforts of an outstanding faculty member with a proven record of research excellence in May 2012. He had been Chair of LC Photonics Conferences in Hong Kong, 2010, 2012.

Computer modeling of various electrooptical effects in Liquid Crystals (LC); Photo-aligning technique for LCD applications; LC devices in fiber optics; Fast multistable ferroelectric liquid crystal devices

Peng-Sheng Wei received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of California, Davis, in 1984. He has been a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering of National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, since 1989. He has published more than 70 journal papers. He is a fellow of AWS (2007), a fellow of ASME (2000), and a senior member of IEEE (2008). He also received the Outstanding Research Achievement Awards from both the National Science Council (2004), and NSYSU (1991, 2001, and 2004), the Outstanding Scholar Research Project Winner from National Science Council (2008), and Adams Memorial Membership Award from AWS (2008), Warren F. Savage Memorial Award from AWS (2012). He holds the position of the Xi-Wan Chair Professor of NSYSU in 2009.

Advancing understanding of and to the applications of electron and laser beam and resistance welding through theoretical analyses coupled with verification experiments, studies of their thermal and fluid flow processes, and formations of the defects such as humping, rippling, spiking and porosity.

Jingsi Li has completed his Ph.D from electrical engineering and postdoctoral studies from, The University of Texas at Austin. He is working as a Senior R&D Reliability Engineer, Integrated Photonics R&D Chip Design Team, and JDSU which is based in JDSU Worldwide Headquarter in Milpitas, CA, USA. He has published more than 6 papers in reputed journals and serving as a Reviewer in Optics Letter, Optics Express, IEEE Photonics Journal, Applied Optics, Optics Communications, Optics & Laser Technology, Optical Engineering, Chinese Optics Letters, Science China Technological Sciences, etc.

Invented regrowth-free and e-beam-free InP DFB laser and WDM laser arrays with quarter-wave phase shifts Developed complete set of fabrication processes for laterally-coupled DFB lasers by interference lithography Fabricated GaAs/AlGaAs/InGaAs VCSELs with sub-milliamp threshold and high temperature operation ability Conducted research in Quantum-Well-Intermixing, wafer-bonding, substrate transfer, silicon photonics Also his research interst is in Microwave-Photonics Tech Lab, Nanjing University, China Led semiconductor laser and tunable laser research in Microwave-Photonics technology Lab Invented DFB semiconductor laser and laser arrays with equivalent phase shift Invented multi-exposure technology for efficiency enhancement of sampled Bragg gratings