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Ali Adibi is the director of Bio and Environmental Sensing Technologies (BEST) and a professor and Joseph M. Pettit chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. His research group has pioneered several structures in the field of integrated nanophotonics for information processing, sensing, and quantum photonic applications. He is the author of more than 180 journal papers and 450 conference papers. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nanophotonics, and the nanophotonic program track chair of the Photonics West meeting. He is the recipient of several awards including Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Packard Fellowship,NSF CAREER Award, and the SPIE Technology Achievement Award. He is also a fellow of OSA, SPIE, and AAAS.

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Fumio Koyama received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physical electronics from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1980, 1982, and 1985, respectively.　He is a professor, at the Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He served as the Dean, of the Institute of Innovative Research between 2018-2020. His research interest includes VCSEL photonics, photonic integrated devices, 3D optical sensing, and LiDAR. He has authored or co-authored more than 1,000 journal and conference papers, including more than 100 invited talks. For more than 35 years, Fumio Koyama has been one of the leading researchers whose work contributed to VCSEL photonics and single-mode lasers for broadband optical communications. He received various awards, including the IEEE Student Paper Award in 1985, the IEE Electronics Letters Premium in 1985 and in 1988, IEICE Paper Awards in 1990, 2002, 2004, and 2007, Marubun Scientific Award in 1998, the Ichimura Award in 2004, the IEICE Electronics Society Award in 2006, the MEXT Prize for Science and Technology in 2007, IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award in 2008, the 2012 Izumo Hayashi Award from the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Award in 2015 and the Ichimura Prize in Industry for Excellent Achievement from the New Technology Development Foundation in 2016, the 32nd Kenjiro Sakurai Memorial Award from the Optoelectronics Industry and Technology Development Association in 2017, Okawa Award in 2018, Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award from OSA in 2019and IEICE Achievement Award in 2019. He is a Fellow of IEEE, OSA, IEICE, and the Japan Society of Applied Physics. He was a deputy editor for IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (2011-2016) and a topical editor for OSA Optics Letters (2009-2013) and the Guest Editor of IEEE JSTQE (2002 and 2007). He has served as the IEEE David Sarnoff Award Committee Member (2009-2012) and the IEEE Fink and Baker Awards Committee Member (2013-2014). He also has served as various committee members, including General Chair (2010), Program Chair (2008) and Sub-committee Chair (2006) of IEEE International Semiconductor Laser Conferences, Sub-committee Co-Chair of ACP 2009-2010, Steering Committee Chair of CLEO Pacific-Rim (2012-), CLEO/QELS TPC member (2006-2008), LEOS Annual Meeting TPC member (1998-2003), General Co-chair (2007) and Program Co-chair (2005) OECC. He was the chair of the IEEE Photonics Society Japan Chapter and a Board Member of the IEEE Tokyo Section. He also served as President of the Electronics Society, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) (2011-2012), and a member of the IEEE Photonics Society Board of Governors (2012-2014).

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Prof. Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France, until 1979. After serving as a Professor of electrical engineering at, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at the Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of NanoPhotonics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018. In 2018 he assumed the directorship of the “Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics” at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the EU Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE. He is the recipient of multiple international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, the Japanese Oyo Buturi Award of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal, and Award of IEEE, and the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG, to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St.Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 1600 papers, 71 patents and applications, and six books. The number of times his research works have been cited exceeds 67,000 and his Hirsch factor is 113 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructured photonic and electronic devices, and energy-efficient data communication.

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Alexey received his scientific degrees, PhD and Dr.Sci. (Habil) under the guidance of Prof. Zhores Alferov, who won Nobel Prize 2000 for the invention of semiconductor double heterostructure and demonstration of the first room temperature diode laser at Ioffe Institute, known as "Soviet Union Bell Lab". Alexey has numerous scientific publications, conference presentations, patents and awards in the field of diode lasers and LEDs. From 2000 till 2003 he was a visiting scientist in ITRI, Taiwan. Together with his colleagues from Ioffe Institute, Alexey started and brought to success two photonics companies Innolume GmbH (2003) and Optogan Oy (2004) serving them in executive positions. Alexey's team at Innolume demonstrated the first diode comb-laser and 10Gbps error-free transmission on each lasing line in 2007. Innolume produces and ships worldwide a broad range of photonics components based on self-assembled semiconductor Quantum Dots. Today Optogan, renamed to Klever-LED after the acquisition in 2019, is the biggest manufacturer of white LED packages in Europe. From 2015 and till Alfalume foundation in 2022 Alexey served several Tier 1 US companies in leading technical roles.

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Prof. Edik U. Rafailov Prof. Edik U. Rafailov received the Ph.D. degree from Ioffe Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1992. In 1997, he moved to St. Andrews University, Scotland, UK and in 2005, he established a new group in Dundee University, Scotland, UK. In 2014, he and his Optoelectronics and Biomedical Photonics Group moved to Aston University, Birmingham, UK. He has authored and coauthored more than 500 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, including four books, over ten invited chapters and numerous plenary/invited talks. His current research interests include high-power CW and ultra-short pulsed lasers, generation of UV/visible/IR/MIR and THz radiation, nanostructures, nonlinear and integrated optics, and biomedical photonics. He coordinated the €14.7M FP7 FAST-DOT project development of new ultrafast lasers for biophotonics applications and the €12.5M NEWLED project which aims to develop a new generation of white LEDs. He also coordinated the H2020 FET projects: Mesa-Brain (aims to develop 3D nano-printing technology for functional three-dimensional human stem cell derived neural networks), and recently coordinate NEUROPA (aims to develop novel non-invasive brain theragnostic approaches), and PLATFORMA. He also leads a few other projects funded by EU FP7, H2020 and EPSRC. In 2014 he has been awarded the Lebedev Medal of the Russian Optical Society and in 2022 elected as a Fellow of Optica (former OSA).

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Dr. Zhenguo Lu is a Principal Research Officer, Team Lead of Photonics Devices and Project Leader of National Challenge Program “High-Throughput and Secure Networks (HTSN)” at Advanced Electronics and Photonics (AEP) Research Centre of National Research Council (NRC), Ottawa, Canada. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of both University of Ottawa and Concordia University in Canada since 2006. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 1992, he was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Research Fellowship to work at Institute of Semiconductor Electronics, RWTH Aachen, Germany from 1993 to 1995. Then he worked at Terahertz Research Centre of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA for more than two years. Dr. Lu came to NRC as a Research Officer in 1997. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Lu was the Director of Product Research & Development of BTI Systems Inc., Ottawa, Canada. He has re-joined NRC as a Senior Research Officer in 2002. Dr. Lu is an expert in the field of photonics devices and their applications in optical coherent networks, data center networks, 5G & beyond wireless networks and satellite communications. He has published over 250 refereed journal and conference proceeding papers, and 8 US patents. He has given over 50 invited talks in the international conferences, universities and industry companies. Dr. Lu is a Fellow of the Optica.

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Prof. Yang Yue received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and optics from Nankai University, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, USA, in 2012. He is a Professor with the School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. Dr. Yue’s current research interest is intelligent photonics, including optical communications, optical perception, and optical chip. He has published over 200 journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >10,000 citations, five edited books, two book chapters, >60 issued or pending patents, >200 invited presentations (including 2 tutorial, >40 plenary and >50 keynote talks). Dr. Yue is a Fellow of SPIE, a Senior Member of IEEE and Optica. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and Frontiers in Physics, Editor Board Member for four other scientific journals, Guest Editor for >10 journal special issues. He also served as Chair or Committee Member for >100 international conferences, Reviewer for >70 prestigious journals.

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“Telecommunications Engineer with an M.Sc. in Advanced Electronic Systems by the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU. He has experience of more than 15 years working as an R&D engineer in several research institutes, focusing his research area on embedded hardware and software, edge computing and edge artificial intelligence, applying these technologies to multidisciplinary areas ranging from autonomous driving and smart mobility to advance manufacturing"

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Ricardo Graciani Díaz was started in 1992 as PhD student at US (University of Sevilla). During that year, supervised by Dr. Enrique González (CIEMAT), a small team of 3 students developed a full Geant simulation of detector for a Tau Charm factory that was to be built in Spain. In 1993 I moved to DESY (Hamburg). Under the supervision of Dr. Fernando Barreiro (UAM) I joined the ZEUS experiment. I focused on the study of open charm mesons in the photo-production and deep inelastic scattering regimes of the ep collisions provided by HERA. This was the subject of my PhD thesis. I returned to DESY as a Research Associated working in the design and construction of two new small calorimeters to be placed down the beampipe for low-Q2 event tagging and to improve luminosity measurements. I continued with studies of charm at HERA. In 2001 I joined UB, under the direction of Dr. Lluis Garrido, and entered LHCb at CERN. I worked with the local engineers in the readout electronics for the calorimeter and took a leading role in the distributed computing system of the experiment. I am main author of the DIRAC interware for distributed computing, and founding member of the DIRAC Consortium (initially formed by CERN, CNRS-CPPM and UB, extended to IHEP (China) and KEK (Japan), and in expansion with Montpellier (France), PNNL (US) or JINR (Rusia) in the queue) for the development and promotion of DIRAC. DIRAC is in use by large scientific collaborations and has been adopted by EGI to support smaller ones. In 2006, the UB created the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB) that I joined. I became the Scientific Director, since its creation in 2013, of SIUB Instrumentation Service of the Physics Faculty with expertise on electronics, micro-electronics, bio-electronics and high-frequency. I have supported groups at ICCUB in new instrumentation projects like CTA and now IAXO. I participate in the efforts, together with CIEMAT, to translate to industry part of all our expertise towards the field of Medical Imaging. In Aug 2018 I started a sabbatical in Córdoba after resigning from my position at SiUB. In Jan 2020 I rejoined UB, resigned from ICCUB and asked permission to join the UB Institutes of Complex Systems, Nano-Science and Nano-Technology, and of Mathematics, UBICS, IN2UB and IMUB, to tackle the relationship between Quantum Physics and Life as new scientific discipline.

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Anna Backerra graduated in theoretical physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands and worked for three years at Philips Research Laboratories. She continued independently, making a search for complementary physics. To develop a way of complementary thinking she studied composition at the Conservatory in Enschede and in Saint Petersburg. After that she constructed a complementary mathematical language and applied this to physics, obtaining twin physics. The surprisingly diverse results are published in Physical Essays (3 papers), Applied Physics Research (3 papers), Advances in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (1), Int. J. of Nanotechnology & Nanomedicine (1), and combined in a book (Twin physics, the complementary model of phenomena, Lambert Academic Publishing, www. more books. shop). The most recent article (not yet published) is titled ‘Four types of electrons and their associated finite magnetic fields.

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Dr. Chris Kelbaugh, after 8 years serving active duty in the US Air Force, I tested into an engineering position with a robotic and Laser Company called Fanuc America. I worked at Fanuc for 9 years becoming a senior laser support engineer helping and training customers and field engineers in all of North & South America. As I spent more and more time in the office and missing the travel and not wanting to move to Fanuc HQ in Chicago, IL I made the life-changing decision to start Advanced Laser Services. At ALS we provide service, technical support & training, and part sales for industrial CO2 lasers worldwide. We have trained & installed lasers all over North America and as far as Dubai and Viet Nam. We look forward to building customer relationships and ensuring equipment uptime for many years to come as the fabrication sector changes and evolves to include fiber laser and robot and fiber combination cutting. Advanced Laser Services, LLC is dedicated to providing the best most cost-effective service and support in the industry. In addition to our high-quality standards, ALS is recognized throughout the industry as having the most knowledgeable sales and support teams along with the most experienced laser engineers.

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Dr. Jun Zhang received his B.S. degree on Physics, M.S. degree on Optics from Fudan University and Ph.D. degree on Optics from Shanghai Jiaotong University, respectively. From 2002 to 2015, Dr. Zhang had been working in the Beckman Laser Institute at the University of California, Irvine as a postdoctoral researcher, an assistant project scientist and an assistant research professor respectively. In 2015, Dr. Zhang joined the faculty of Sun Yat-sen University-Carnegie Mellon University Joint Institute of Engineering as a tenure-track professor. Dr. Jun Zhang is currently a professor in School of Electronics and Information Technology at Sun Yat-sen University and a professor in School of Artificial Intelligence at Guilin University of Electronic Technology. Dr. Zhang’s expertise lies in research and development of biomedical imaging, particularly the new non-invasive and minimally-invasive optical imaging technologies of optical coherence tomography (OCT), fiber optic endoscopy, and translation of these techniques to address clinical problems. Dr. Zhang has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal papers, 30 conference proceedings, and five book chapters.

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Dr. Matthew Bohn was completed his PhD from the University of New Mexico in 1998 studying under Prof. Jean-Claude Diels. Numerous papers on short pulsed ring laser gyroscopes and terahertz spectroscopy including an invited book chapter. Numerous patents in the last 6 years related to quantum computing.

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Dr. Toshi-Taka Ikeshoji is participating in TRAFAM, a Japanese national project for manufacturing metal 3D printers, and is engaged in elucidating the phenomena around the molten pool of the laser powder bed fusion and predicting the occurrence of defects by numerical analysis. He has published various results in PBF-LB fabrication of pure copper and PBF-LB fabrication of Inconel718 under high-speed laser scanning conditions. Current task is the building of the monitoring & feedback system of powder bed fusion to mitigate the internal defects. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo for a research of aerospace materials and engaged in the research of brazing and joining technology in Tokyo Institute of Technology for more than 10 years. His research was mainly on the aerospace materials, for example, a heat resistance super alloy, ceramics, and carbon composites. Now, the TRAFAM project will finish in the spring of 2024, and he is searching for a new position as a researcher.*TRAFAM = Technology Research Association for Future Additive Manufacturing.

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Prof. Avi Peer is an expert in quantum optics and laser physics. My research aim is to harness the optical bandwidth resource for optical science and technology on both the quantum and classical level, using broadband, highly multimode, correlated light. At the quantum level I explore ultra-broadband squeezed light and time-energy entangled photons for applications of ultrafast quantum communication and squeezing-enhanced sensing. With classical optics I explore the coherent dynamics of mode-locked pulsed lasers and coupled parametric oscillators towards new sources of frequency-combs and for precision ultrafast measurement. Avi Peer is a faculty member of the Physics department and BINA center for nanotechnology In Bar Ilan University Since 2008. He received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute (2005) in physics and completed post-doctoral research at JILA, University of Colorado.

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CHONGYANG LIU received the Ph.D. degree in semiconductor photonics from Nanyang Technological University (NTU),Singapore, in 2004. He was a Research Associate with the Singapore-MIT Alliance Project from2004 to 2005 and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, NTU, from 2005 to 2007. From 2007 to2009, he was a Senior Research Fellow with the A*STAR “VIP” Program on Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronic Integration, Data Storage Institute, Singapore. From October 2009 to January 2012, he was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship (for experienced researcher) from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for doing research in Technical University Berlin, Germany in Prof. Dieter Bimberg’s group. He is currently a Principal Investigator/Principal Research Scientist with Temasek Laboratories, NTU. His research interests include design, simulation, fabrication, characterization, and analysis of high-power quantum well lasers, ultrafast quantum dot lasers, microwave photonics as well as their integration with Si photonics. He has authored and co-authored more than120 technical articles in these fields so far.

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Professor Salman Noach received his Ph.D. in physics in 2003 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ISRAEL. In 2007 he returned back to Academy at the "Jerusalem College of Technology" and founded the Solid State Lasers Laboratory there. The lab is mainly engaged in applied research and development of CW and pulsed solid-state lasers, nonlinear optics, Raman wavelength shifting, and Optical amplifiers in the SWIR and mid-IR range. The results of the lab research were the object of many publications in high-ranked journals in the optics and laser community and two patents. He is a senior member of OSA and a member of SPIE.

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Master in Social Memory from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio). Has a degree in Museology also from Unirio. Currently works as a Technician in Restoration of the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), performs the role of Head of the Central Laboratory of Conservation and Restoration of the National Museum. Was part of the National Museum Collection Rescue Team. Was a museologist at the Ilha Grande Ecomuseum of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) until early 2015. Has experience in the area of Museology and Restoration, working mainly in the following themes: conservation, collections, museology and social memory.

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Luís Cancela received the Ph.D. degree in Information Science and Technology from Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon in 2008. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the same university, where he has been lecturing on telecommunication networks and optical communication systems. He is also a researcher of the Optical Communications and Photonics Group of Instituto de Telecomunicações since 1999. He has authored or co-authored 2 book chapters, 12 journal publications and 37 international conference papers. His research interests include physical layer impairments modelling in multiband optical networks, ROADM architectures and optical networks planning.

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Ilgim Efeturk is one of the first full students of Turkey's first Department of Photonics which was founded in 2015 and serves undergraduate education since in 2019. She is one of the few founding members of the IZTECH Optics and Photonics Society (IZTECH-OPS), which was established on August 5, 2020 as an OPTICA (formerly OSA) Student Chapter and was the first official photonics student branch established within the institute. In addition to being Representative of IZTECH Department of Photonics and Representative of IZTECH Faculty of Science, she is the first female President of the Student Council in the history of her university, which was founded in 1992 and has 6500+ students. In addition to these, she is the Founder and President of IZTECH Quality Community, which was established in December, 2022, in order to disseminate the quality culture in higher education and R&D fields, internalize quality processes, increase the participation of students in the quality assurance system and to carry out studies in this field. She was awarded as one of the 20 Women Scholars to be supported financially and academically in 2022, selected worldwide by Optica (formerly OSA). She became the first Turkish student to be selected for this scholarship supported by major companies such as Google, Intel and Meta to empower the next generation of women leaders in optics and photonics; which accepts student applications from 36 countries and has a very difficult selection process due to its extraordinary application pool. In addition, she is one of the 53 female students and is the first & only photonics student supported academically under the WE-inTech Program which was officially launched by Arçelik Global in Turkey, Arctic in Romania, Defy Appliances in South Africa and Dawlance in Pakistan, and made available for the first time on a global scale to support women in new generation research and development fields. Ilgim successfully completed her internship within the scope of the Eastern Anatolia Observatory in Erzurum, which hosts Turkey's largest and first NIR telescope with a diameter of 4 meters and she worked on the AO+RC+aO+DR optical performance of the DAG Telescope, especially on astrooptics which includes the adaptive optics & derotator system. She is currently doing a research internship on space robotics, and also conducts various studies on photonics and entrepreneurship & leadership within prestigious institutions in Turkey.

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During the last decade, Sergey Kobtsev’s research activity centered around mode-locked fiber lasers, and his personal accomplishments in this area have brought new fundamental insights into the generation mechanisms of these lasers and the non-linear transformation of their output. His work also resulted in many times in the achievement of record-breaking output parameters of these lasers. The total record of S. Kobtsev's service exceeds 35 years. S. Kobtsev is distinguished with two academic degrees in physics and mathematics (Ph. D. and Doctor of Science) and the academic rank of docent. He has supervised the preparation and defense of 5 Ph. D. theses. In 2015, S. M. Kobtsev was honored with the OSA’s Outstanding Reviewer Recognition.

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Barbora Špačková studied physical engineering at the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, where she received her Ph.D degree. In her research, she focuses on photonics and its applications in biotechnology. During a postdoctoral stay at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, she developed a unique optical microscopy technique - Nanofluidic Scattering Microscopy (NSM) - that enables direct and label-free imaging of individual biomolecules. She is also a co-founder of the Swedish spin-off company Envue that focuses on the commercialization of NSM in the fields of biology, medicine or pharmacology. In 2022, she returned to the Czech Republic, where she is establishing a research group at the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

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Gil Shalev is an associate professor with the school of electrical and computer engineering, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His main research interests involve light trapping and broadband absorption of solar radiation based on arrays of nanostructures for various photonic and photovoltaic applications, as well as the exploration of novel field-effect devices for bioelectronics and biosensors. He gained his scientific education and experience at Tel-Aviv University in Israel and in the Max-Planck Institute in Germany.

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Dr. Prashant B. Patel is working as Associate Professor in the Instrumentation department at Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Technology (DIT), Pune, India. He has completed his Ph.D. from SGGSIET, Nanded. B.E. (Instrumentation) from NMU, Jalgaon, and M.E. (Instrumentation) from Government College of Engineering, Pune University. He has also completed PGDMM (Marketing Management) from the Indian Institute of Cost and Management Studies and Research, Pune University. He has secured the first rank during the PGDMM course at the Institute and the second rank at Pune University. His research area is interferometer-based fiber optics sensors. He has over 25 years of experience in Industry, teaching, academic planning, administration, training, and campus recruitment. He is a Fellow-IEI (FIE) and a Life Member of ISTE, BMESI, ISOI, ISA, and IETE. He has published 38 papers at National / International conferences and 05 papers in technical Journals. He has published 02 patents and received 01 copyright. He is a reviewer for the “Optical Fiber Technology” Elsevier publication Journal and Journal of the European Optical Society as well as Technical Journals published by the Institution of Engineers, India. He has worked as an Executive Committee member for IETE and IEI Pune center. He has completed international certification from “DALE CARNEGIE” in “High Impact Teaching Skills” under the Mission 10X program of Wipro Technologies. Along with academics, he has signed MoU with various organizations like Infosys Ltd., B and R automation, BOSCH, Schneider, Yamaha Motors, Sungard, etc. He has an impressive record in mentoring students and academic leadership to his credit.