Professor Boyd was born in Buffalo, NY. He received the BS degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1977 received the PhD degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley. His PhD thesis work was supervised by Professor Charles Townes and involves the use of nonlinear optical techniques for infrared detection. Professor Boyd joined the faculty of the Institute of Optics of the University of Rochester in 1977 and is presently Professor of Optics and Professor of Physics. In 2010, Professor Boyd was awarded a highly competitive Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Ottawa. He currently directs a major research center at the University of Ottawa while still maintaining a significant research presence at the University of Rochester. Professor Boyd’s research areas include optical physics, nonlinear optical interactions, nonlinear optical properties of materials, and applications of nonlinear optics including quantum and nonlinear optical imaging. Professor Boyd is a fellow of the Optical Society of America and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He is author of Radiometry and the Detection of Optical Radiation (1983), Nonlinear Optics (1992), is co-editor of Optical Instabilities (1986) and Contemporary Nonlinear Optics (1992). Professor Boyd has published approximately 350 research papers, has been awarded nine US patents, and has supervised the PhD theses of 33 students. Robert Boyd’s Ottawa website is http://www.boydnlo.ca. Research Interests:
Nonlinear Optics

Steven Chu is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics, of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He received an A.B. degree in mathematics and a B.S. degree in physics from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Berkeley, he was at Bell Labs as a member of the technical staff in 1978 and then department head in 1983. From January 2009 to April, 2013, Dr. Chu served as U.S. Secretary of Energy under President Barack Obama. During his tenure, he began several initiatives, including ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy), the Energy Innovation Hubs, and the Clean Energy Ministerial meetings. As the first scientist Cabinet member, Chu recruited dozens outstanding scientists and engineers to the Department of Energy, and was personally tasked by President Obama to help stop the BP Oil leak. From 2004-2009, he was the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor of Physics and of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California Berkeley. Prior to those positions, he was the Theodore and Francis Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. During this time, he helped start Bio-X, a multi-disciplinary initiative combining the physical and biological sciences with engineering and medicine. His contributions include the introduction of laser cooling and optical trapping of atoms and particles, atomic fountain clocks and atom interferometers, the optical tweezers of biomolecules, and single molecule FRET of biomolecules tethered to surfaces. His current research is in biophysics, molecular and cellular physiology, medical imaging, nanoparticle synthesis and battery research. He has received many awards, including the 1997 Nobel Prize for laser cooling and optical trapping of atoms. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Inventors, and a foreign member of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Academia Sinica, the Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He received an A.B. degree in mathematics, and a B.S. degree in physics from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and 35 honorary degrees.

Federico Capasso received the doctor of Physics degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Rome, Italy, in 1973 and after doing research in fiber optics at Fondazione Bordoni in Rome, joined Bell Labs in 1976. In 1984, he was made a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and in 1997 a Bell Labs Fellow. In addition to his research activity Capasso has held several management positions at Bell Labs including Head of the Quantum Phenomena and Device Research Department and the Semiconductor Physics Research Department (1987–2000) and Vice President of Physical Research (2000–2002). He joined Harvard on January 1, 2003.

AWARDS:
Duddell Medal and Prize (2002)
Edison Medal (2004)
SPIE Gold Medal (2013)
Balzan Prize (2016)
Matteucci Medal (2019) Citations (Google Scholar): Over 100 000 H-index (Google Scholar): Over 150 Publications: Over 500 peer-reviewed journals Patents: Over 70 US patents Key achievements: Bandstructure Engineering.and Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs) Metasurfaces and Flat optics Casimir forces

Awards

2021 Frederic Ives Medal and Jarus W. Quinn Prize, Optical Society of America
2020 Honorary Award, IEEE Italy Section
2019 Matteucci Medal, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, detta dei XL
2019 Guglelmo Marconi Science Award, UNICO
2018 Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society
2017 Kenneth Button Prize, International Society of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves and Institute of Physics (UK)
2016 Balzan Prize for Applied Photonics, Balzan Foundation
2015 Rumford Prize, American Academy of Arts and Science
2013 Gold Medal of SPIE | 2013 European Physical Society Quantum Electronics and Optics Award 2013 Humboldt Research Award
2011 Jan Czochralski Award of the European Materials Research Society
2011 Galileo Galilei Medal of the Italian Society for Optics and Photonics
2010 Julius Springer Prize in Applied Physics
2010 Berthold Leibinger Zukunft Prize (Future prize)
2005 King Faisal International Prize for Science
2005 Gold Medal of the President of Italy for meritorious achievement in science
2004 Edison Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
2004 Arhur Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, American Physical Society
2004 Tommasoni & Chisesi Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Physics
2003 Goff Smith Prize and Lecture, University of Michigan
2002 Duddell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (London, UK)
2001 Robert Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America
2000 Willis E. Lamb Medal for Laser Physics and Quantum Optics
2000 NASA Group Achievement Award
1998 IEEE/Laser & Electrooptics Society W. Streifer Award for Scientific Achievement
1998 Rank Prize in Optoelectronics (UK)
1998 Capitolium Prize of the Mayor of Rome, Italy
1997 Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute
1997 Bell Laboratories Fellow Award
1995 Materials Research Society Medal
1995 Moet Hennessy•Louis Vuitton “Leonardo da Vinci” Award of Excellence (France)
1995 Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Assosciation for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for best paper published in Science
1995 Electronics Letters Prize of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (London, UK)
1994 Heinrich Welker Memorial Medal (Germany) and International CompoundSemiconductors Symposium Award
1993 The New York Academy of Sciences Award
1991 IEEE David Sarnoff Award in Electronics
1984 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award
Memberships/Fellowships
2019 Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
2015 Member, Academia Europaea
2012 Foreign Member, Accademia dei Lincei
1995 Member, National Academy of Sciences
1996 Member, National Academy of Engineering
1998 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1999 Fellow, The Institute of Physics (UK)
1997 Honorary Member, of the Franklin Institute
1992 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1991 Fellow, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
1989 Fellow, Optical Society of America
1987 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
1986 Fellow, American Physical Society

Honorary Doctorates and Other Honors
2019 Honorary issue of Nanophotonics (Volume 7, Issue 6, Jun 2018) for Federico Capasso on “Metamaterials & Metasurfaces”
2011 Honorary Doctorate University Paris Diderot, France
2011 Honorary Doctorate of Technology, Lund University, Sweden
2011 Honorary Doctorate in Materials Science, University of Roma III, Italy
2003 Honorary Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy
2004 Commendatore of the Italian Republic For information on Awards and Achievements follow:https://capasso.seas.harvard.edu/federico-capasso

Prof. Alan Willner received the Ph.D. (1988) in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, as well as a B.A. (1982) in Physics and an Honorary Degree (Honoris Causa, 2012) from Yeshiva University. Prof. Willner was a Postdoctoral Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and a Member of Technical Staff at Bellcore. He is currently the Steven and Kathryn Sample Chaired Professor in Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering in the Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the Viterbi School of Engineering at the Univ. of Southern California; he also has a joint appointment with the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy in the USC Dornsife College. Prof. Willner has been: a Visiting Professor at Columbia University, the Univ. College London, and the Weizmann Institute of Science; and a Visiting Scholar at Yeshiva University. He is a Member of the U.S. Army Science Board, was a Member of the Defense Sciences Research Council (a 16-member body that provided reports to the DARPA Director and Office Directors), has served on many scientific advisory boards for small companies, and has advised several venture capital firms. Additionally, Prof. Willner was Founder and CTO of Phaethon Communications, a company whose technology was acquired by Teraxion, that created the ClearSpectrum® dispersion compensator product line which is presently deployed in many commercial 40-Gbit/s systems worldwide. Prof. Willner has received the following honors/awards: Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, International Fellow of the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering, Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House, Ellis Island Medal of Honor, IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, David & Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science & Engineering, Thomas Egleston Medal for Distinguished Engineering Achievement from Columbia Eng. Alumni Association, U.S. Vannevar Bush Defense Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (formerly NSSEFF), Fellow of National Academy of Inventors, Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) J.J. Thomson Medal, National Science Foundation National Young Investigator Award, Fulbright Foundation Senior Scholar Research and Lecturing Fellowship, Honorary Professor of Huazhong Univ. of Science & Technology, the Optical Society (OSA) Paul Forman Engineering Excellence Award, IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award, SPIE President's Award, IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award, IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Service Award, USC Associates Award for University-Wide Creativity in Research (highest university research award), OSA Robert Hopkins Leadership Award, Civilian Service Commendation Medal from the U.S. Dept. of the Army, USC Associates Award for University-Wide Excellence in Teaching (highest university teaching award), USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award (for significant scholarly work), USC Senior Engineering Research Award, USC/TRW Best Engineering Teacher Award, USC/Northrop Outstanding Junior Engineering Faculty Research Award, 2001 Eddy Paper Award from Pennwell Publications for the Best Contributed Technical Article (across all 30 magazines in Pennwell's Advanced Technology Division), IEEE Globecom Best Paper Award, and Edwin Howard Armstrong Foundation Memorial Award for the highest-ranked EE Masters student at Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, APS, IEEE, IET, OSA and SPIE, and he was a Fellow of the Semiconductor Research Corporation. Prof. Willner was an invited foreign dignitary representing the sciences for the 2009 Nobel Prize Ceremonies in Stockholm.

Prof. Willner's professional activities:
Co-Chair, U.S. National Academies Committee on the Optics and Photonics Study
President, The Optical Society (OSA) | President, The IEEE Photonics Society (formerly LEOS)
Co-Chair, Science & Engineering Council of the OSA
Vice-President, Technical Affairs of the IEEE Photonics Society, Photonics Division
Chair, OSA
Chair, IEEE TAB Ethics and Member Conduct Committee, General & Program
Co-Chair, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Program Co-Chair of the OSA Annual Meeting
General Chair of the IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting, Program Chair of Telecommunications Engineering at SPIE's Photonics West
Chair of the Unclassified Technical Program for IEEE MILCOM, Elected Member of the Board of Governors for the IEEE Photonics Society
General Co-Chair of the IEEE Photonics Society Topical Meeting on Broadband Networks, Steering Committee and Technical Committee Member of the Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC),
Member, US Advisory Committee for Int'l Commission for Optics (activity of the National Academies, IEEE, OSA and SPIE).

Editorial positions:
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE/OSA Journal of Light wave Technology (JLT)
Editor-in-Chief, OSA Optics Letters
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications Series on Optical Networks (now IEEE/OSA JOCN)
Guest Editor, JLT
JSAC for the Joint Special Issue on Multiple-Wavelength Technologies & Networks
Guest Editor, IEEE J. of Quantum Electronics Focus Issue on High-Capacity Optical Transmission Systems.

Prof. Willner has >1500 publications, including one book, 10 edited books, ~44 U.S. patents, ~47 keynotes/plenaries, ~24 book chapters, >400 refereed journal papers, and >300 invited papers/presentations. His research is in optical technologies, including: communications, signal processing, networks, and subsystems.

Louis F. DiMauro is Professor of Physics and Hagenlocker Chair at the Ohio State University. He received his BA (1975) from Hunter College, CUNY and his Ph.D. from University of Connecticut in 1980 and was a postdoctoral fellow at SUNY at Stony Brook before arriving at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1981. He joined the staff at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1988 rising to the rank of senior scientist. In 2004 he joined the faculty at The Ohio State University. He was awarded 2004 BNL/BSA Science & Technology Prize, 2012 OSU Distinguish Scholar Award, the 2013 OSA Meggers Prize and the 2017 APS Schawlow Prize in Laser Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of American and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is currently the Director of the Institute for Optical Science and co-Director of the NSF NeXUS facility and the OSU Chemical Physics graduate program. He has served on numerous national and international committees, government panels, served as the 2010 APS DAMOP chair, vice-chair of the NAS CAMOS committee and currently serves on the NAS Board of Physics and Astronomy. His research interest is in experimental ultra-fast and strong-field physics. In 1993, he and his collaborators introduced the widely accepted semi-classical model in strong-field physics. His current work is focused on the generation, measurement, and application of attosecond x-ray pulses, study of fundamental scaling of strong field physics and application of x-ray free electron lasers.

Paul Corkum graduated from Lehigh University, USA, in 1972 with a Ph. D. in theoretical physics. In 1973 he joined the staff of the National Research Council of Canada where he built one of the world’s most famous groups working on the interaction of very short light pulses with matter. Corkum is a Full Professor of Physics, a Distinguished Research Chair at the University of Ottawa and directs the Joint NRC/University of Ottawa Attosecond Science Laboratory. He is a member of the Royal Societies of London and of Canada and also a foreign member of the US National Academy of Science, the Austrian Academy of Science, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Among his many honours and recognitions, he has received the 2017 Royal Medal, for his major contributions to laser physics and the development of the field of attosecond science, as well as the National Research Council of Canada’s Schneider Medal, their highest distinction bestowed upon employees. In 2018, Corkum was awarded both the SPIE Gold Medal, and the Isaac Newton Medal and Prize from the UK Institute of Physics, and is a recipient of the 2019 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics. Most recently, The Wolf Foundation selected Corkum as a 2022 Wolf Prize Laureate in Physics and in 2023 he is a co-recipient of the BBVA Foundation 15th Edition Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences.

MAJOR SCIENTIFIC HONOURS
⋅ Wolf Prize in Physics, Wolf Foundation, 2022
⋅ Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, 2019
⋅ Isaac Newton Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics, 2018
⋅ SPIE Gold Medal, 2018
⋅ Schneider Medal, National Research Council Canada, 2017
⋅ Royal Medal, Royal Society, 2017
⋅ Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2016
⋅ Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, (for outstanding contribution in ultrafast physics), 2015
⋅ Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate (awarded to researchers who are “of Nobel class” and likely to earn the Nobel someday), 2015
⋅ Harvey Prize, The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, 2013
⋅ King Faisal International Prize for Science (Physics), 2013
⋅ Foreign Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2012
⋅ Fellow of Optical Society of America, 2010
⋅ Foreign member of US Academy of Sciences, 2009
⋅ Officer of the Order of Canada, 2007
⋅ Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2007
⋅ The Killam Prize for Physical Sciences, Canada Council of the Arts, 2006
⋅ Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, American Physical Society, 2006
⋅ Charles Hard Townes Award, Optical Society of America, 2005
⋅ Fellow of the Royal Society (of London), 2005
⋅ Fellow of the Institute of Physics, 2002
⋅ Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1996

Zenghu Chang(常增虎) is a Canada Excellence Research Chair Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Ottawa who is an author and coauthor of over 350 articles which carry the h-index of 65.[1] His team developed the world's shortest laser pulse in 2013 and was given $6.9 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the U.S. to strengthen the pulses for ultrafast sensors. He is partnering with researchers from other Universities on the project.[2] Since 2018 he is fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Zenghu Chang(常增虎) is a Canada Excellence Research Chair Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Ottawa who is an author and coauthor of over 350 articles which carry the h-index of 65.[1] His team developed the world's shortest laser pulse in 2013 and was given $6.9 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the U.S. to strengthen the pulses for ultrafast sensors. He is partnering with researchers from other Universities on the project.[2] Since 2018 he is fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Professor Hielscher leads the recently established Department of Biomedical Engineering and directs research in his Clinical Biophotonics Laboratory (CBL). The mission of the CBL is to establish optical tomography as a viable biomedical imaging modality and transfer this technology into clinical practice. The goal is to develop a patient-centered approach that addresses all aspect of modern precision medicine in state-of-the art healthcare. To this end Prof. Hielscher's team is developing cutting- edge imaging hardware and software that provide 3-dimensional distributions of physiologically relevant parameters such as oxygen saturation or total hemoglobin concentrations and more. This includes the design of wearable devices that allow continuous patient monitoring. The CBL is currently applying this emerging technology in various clinical and preclinical studies that focus on the diagnosis and monitoring breast cancer, arthritis, peripheral artery disease (PAD), and diabetic foot syndrome (DFS). Furthermore, techniques are being developed for real-time monitoring of brain activities.

Manijeh Razeghi is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices, which she founded in 1991 after a successful 10-year career as the Director of Exploratory Materials at Thomson-CSF, France. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, having pioneered the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices from deep-UV up to terahertz. At Northwestern University she has commercialized aluminum-free pump lasers, developed type-II superlattices for next generation infrared imagers (an area in which she holds key patents), and currently holds most of the quantum cascade lasers records for high power and tunability. She has authored 18 books, 31 books chapters, and more than 1000 journal publications. She is editor, associate, and board member of many journals, including Nano Science and Nano technology. Her awards include the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize, the SWE Lifetime Achievement Award, the R.F. Bunshah Award, the IBM faculty award, Jan Czochralski Gold Medal, and many best paper awards. She is a fellow of SWE, SPIE, IEC, OSA, APS, IOP, IEEE, and MRS.

Eric received his physics PhD in 1976 working at the Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, and then joined the Center for Laser Studies at the University of Southern California, soon leaving to spend 9 years on the faculty of the University of North Texas. He joined the start of CREOL at the University of Central Florida in 1987, becoming its director in 1999, and its founding Dean in 2004, The College of Optics and Photonics. He is a Fellow of Optica, SPIE, IEEE and APS, 2006 President of Optica/OSA and 2012 R.W. Wood Prize recipient, and a past Board member of LIA. He graduated 42 Ph.D.'s, published >300 publications primarily in the field of nonlinear optics (e.g., Z-scan, nonlinear Kramers-Kronig, cascaded second-order nonlinearities). He is Emeritus Pegasus Professor at CR

Enrique (Kiko) Galvez earned his PhD in physics at Notre DamKiko head shote in 1986. He has been a member of the faculty at Colgate University since 1988, and is currently the Charles A. Dana Professor of Physics and Astronomy. His research focuses on atomic and optical physics, and physics education, and he has been funded by numerous grants from the NSF and Research Corporation. His recent research projects include experimental atomic physics with Rydberg atoms, geometric phases in optics, and photon entanglement. His educational work includes modernizing the introductory curriculum and developing new teaching laboratories for quantum mechanics.

Hui Cao’s research interests and activities are in the areas of mesoscopic physics, complex photonic materials and devices, nanophotonics, and biophotonics. She has conducted experimental studies on unconventional lasers including random lasers and chaotic microcavity lasers, and found their applications in speckle-free imaging, multi-modality microscopy, and parallel random number generation. Another research focus of hers is coherent control of light transport in diffusive media and multimode fibers, with applications to deep-tissue imaging and endoscopy. Cao has also been creating and controlling complex light fields, and customizing the intensity statistics of laser speckle patterns for structured illumination microscopy. In addition to fundamental studies on complex, chaotic and disordered systems, she has harnessed disorder for photonic device applications, e.g., she invented a compact spectrometer based on a disordered photonic chip. • Elected Member, the National Academy of Sciences (2021)
• Elected Member, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2021)
• Rolf Landauer Medal of the International ETOPIM Association (2021)
• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2019)
• Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017)
• William E. Lamb Medal for Laser Physics and Quantum Optics (2015)
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2013)
• American Physical Society Division of Laser Science Distinguished Traveling Lecturer (2008)
• Fellow of American Physical Society (2007)
• Fellow of Optical Society of America (2007)
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award from American Physical Society (2006)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2004)
• Outstanding Young Researcher Award from Overseas Chinese Physics Association (2004)
• National Science Foundation Career Award (2001)
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2000)
• David and Lucille Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (1999)

Konstantin Bliokh received the MSc and PhD degrees in physics from the Kharkov National University (Ukraine) in 1998 and 2001, respectively. After that, he worked as a research scientist at the Institute of Radio Astronomy (Ukraine, 2001–2009). He was a post-doctoral fellow at Bar-Ilan University (Israel, 2003–2005), a visiting research scientist at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology (Israel, 2007), a Linkage International research fellow at the Australian National University (Australia, 2008–2009), a Marie Curie research fellow at the National University of Ireland (Ireland, 2009–2011), an associate professor at the Australian National University (Australia, 2015–2019), and a senior research scientist at RIKEN (Japan, 2011–2024). Starting from 2024, he is an Ikerbasque Professor at the Donostia International Physics Center (Spain). His ongoing research areas include: complex wave systems, geometric phases, spin-orbit interactions, wave momentum and angular momentum, wave vortices, wave-matter interactions, etc. He has co-authored more than 130 scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters.