Philip Russel

Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light

Philip Russell is Director at the Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany and holds the Krupp Chair in Experimental Physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He obtained his M.A. (1976) and D.Phil. (1979) degrees at the University of Oxford and subsequently worked in research laboratories and universities in France, Germany and the USA. Since 1976 his interests have ranged from the behaviour of light in periodically structured materials to nonlinear optics, waveguides and optical fibres. He has over 600 publications and is co-inventor on 37 disclosures or patents covering many aspects of photonics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Optical Society of America (OSA) and has won several international awards for his research including the 2005 Körber Prize for European Science, the 2005 Thomas Young Prize of the Institute for Physics (UK) and the 2000 OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize. He was a Director-At-Large of the Optical Society of America 2007-2009 and from 2005 to 2006 he was an IEEE-LEOS Distinguished Lecturer and the recipient of a Royal Society/Wolfson Research Merit Award.

Eric Mazur

Area Dean of Applied Physics
Balkanski Professor of Physics
and Applied Physics

Harvard University

Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University and Area Dean of Applied Physics. An internationally recognized scientist and researcher, he leads a vigorous research program in optical physics and supervises one of the the largest research groups in the Physics Department at Harvard University.

After obtaining a Ph.D. degree in experimental physics at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1981, Dr. Mazur came to Harvard University in 1982. In 1984 he joined the faculty and obtained tenure six years later. Dr. Mazur has made important contributions to spectroscopy, light scattering, the interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with materials, and nanophotonics.

In 1988 he was awarded a Presidential Young Investigator Award. He is Fellow of the Optical Society of America and Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has been named APS Centennial Lecturer during the Society's centennial year. In 2007 Mazur was appointed Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. In 2008 Mazur received the Esther Hoffman Beller award from the Optical Society of America and the Millikan Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers. In 2010 he was elected Director at Large for the Optical Society of America. Dr. Mazur has held appointments as Visiting Professor or Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Leuven in Belgium, National Taiwan University in Taiwan, Carnegie Mellon University, and Hong Kong University.

Dr. Mazur is author or co-author of 239 scientific publications and 12 patents. He has also written on education and is the author of Peer Instruction: A User's Manual (Prentice Hall, 1997), a book that explains how to teach large lecture classes interactively. In 2006 he helped produce the award-winning DVD Interactive Teaching.

David J. Richardson

Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC)

University of Southampton

David J. Richardson joined the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at Southampton University as a Research Fellow in May 1989. He was awarded a Royal Society University Fellowship in 1991 in recognition of his pioneering work on short pulsed fiber lasers. Professor Richardson is now a Deputy Director of the ORC and is responsible for much of the ORC’s fiber related activities. His current research interests include amongst others: optical fiber communications, microstructured optical fibers and high-power fiber lasers. He has published more than 800 conference and journal papers during his time at the ORC and produced more than 15 patents. Professor Richardson was one of the co-founders of SPI Lasers Ltd an ORC spin-off venture acquired by the Trumpf Group in 2008. Professor Richardson is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the Institute of Engineering and Technology and was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2009.

Xingde Li

PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Xingde Li received his PhD degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1998) and finished his postdoctoral training at MIT (2001). He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, adjunct with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. Before he joined Johns Hopkins in 2009, he was a tenured associate professor at the Department of Bioengineering University of Washington (UW). Dr. Li received the Teacher/Mentor of the Year Award (UW) in 2002 and the NSF Career Award (USA) in 2004. He was the IEEE-EMBS Emerging Technologies Committee Chair between 2006-2010. He has been serving as session chairs and chairs for many conferences including Gordon Research Conferences (2008, 2010), Biomedical Topical Conference on OCT (2010), Photonics Asia 2007-2010, ACP2009-2011 etc.. He is currently an associate editor for Biomedical Optics Express (OSA), Journal of Biomedical Optics (SPIE), and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

Xi-Cheng Zhang

Director
Center for THz Research
School of Science

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Dr. Xi-Cheng Zhang – Eric Josson Professor of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  X.-C. Zhang graduated from Peking University in 1982. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Brown University, Providence, RI in 1983 and 1986. He was a visiting scientist at MIT in 1985. From 1985 to 1987, He worked in the Physical Technology Division of Amoco Research Center. From 1987 to 1991, he was in the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University. Dr. Zhang joined Rensselaer in 1992. Now Dr. Zhang is the Professor and Acting Head at the Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Department of Electrical, Computer and System, and the Founding Director of the Center for THz Research at Rensselaer. He leads of NATO SET Terahertz Task Group. Dr. Zhang receives 26 US patents, published 18 books and book chapters, authored and co-authored over 350 scientific papers, delivered over 400 colloquium, seminars, invited conference presentations, and 300 contributed conference talks (since 1990). He is a Fellow of IEEE, the Optical Society of America, and the American Physics Society.

Kazuo Hotate

Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems
Graduate School of Engineering

The University of Tokyo

Kazuo Hotate was born in Tokyo, Japan, on June 20, 1951. He received the B.E., M.E., and Dr.Eng. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1974, 1976, and 1979, respectively. In 1979, he joined the University of Tokyo as Lecturer. He became Professor in 1993 at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), the University of Tokyo. Currently, he is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He served as the Dean of Faculty and Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 2008 and 2009. He was engaged in projection-type holography, measurement and analysis of optical fiber characteristics. At present, he is working on photonic sensing. He has authored and coauthored several books on optical fibers and optical fiber sensors, and more than 370 journal papers and international conference presentations. Prof. Hotate is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Fellow of Society of Instrumentation and Control Engineers (SICE), and Fellow of Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP). He received academic awards, such as SPIE DSS Life-time Achievement Award, Ichimura Prize, and Hasunuma Prize (SICE). He was a Board of Governors member of IEEE Photonic Society (2007-2009). He served as the co-chairs for SPIE Fiber Optic Gyros: Twentieth Anniversary Conference (1996), the Technical Program Committee Chair for 13th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS-13) (1999), and the General Chair for OFS-16 (2003). He has also been serving as the leader of the Global Center of Excellence (G-COE) program launched by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan since 2007

Jorge Ojeda-Castañeda

University of Guanajuato, Mexico

International Meetings.

Fellow of the :

• Optical Society of India (OSI, 2006)

• Optical Society of America (OSA, 1993)

• Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE, 1991)

• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1982-1984, 2004)

• Mexican Academy of Science (1985)

Recipient of :

• Research Award, "Mexican Physical Society" (1994)

• Research Award, "Mexican Academy of Optics" (1990)

• National Research Fellow, Level III (1988-1992,1992-1996, 1996-2004, 2004-2014)