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Keynote Speakers

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List of date/time of keynote talks

* All Names of keynote speakers are in order of accepted dates.
Dr. Franco Nori RIKEN and University of Michigan
Paper Title: Strong Coupling between a Single-photon and a Two-photon State
Session Title: 1_FocusSession.SC1: Fluctuational Electrodynamics and Light-matter Phenomena: Energy and Momentum Management at the Nano/Micro-scale 1
Organized by: Prof. Mauro Antezza
Accepted Date: 2024-11-09
Prof. Tobias J. Kippenberg Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Paper Title: Next Generation Integrated Photonics
Session Title: 1_FocusSession.SC1: Specific Approaches in Computational Electromagnetics as Applied to Modern Nanophotonics 1
Organized by: Dr. Maha Ben Rhouma
Accepted Date: 2024-11-18
Prof. F. Javier García de Abajo ICFO --- Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
Paper Title: Ultrafast and Quantum Photonics with Free Electrons
Session Title: 1_FocusSession.SC1: Specific Approaches in Computational Electromagnetics as Applied to Modern Nanophotonics 1
Organized by: Dr. Maha Ben Rhouma
Accepted Date: 2024-12-06
Prof. Nikolay I. Zheludev University of Southampton
Paper Title: Photonic Time Crystals and the Dawn of Timetronics
Session Title: 1_FocusSession.SC1: Specific Approaches in Computational Electromagnetics as Applied to Modern Nanophotonics 1
Organized by: Dr. Maha Ben Rhouma
Accepted Date: 2024-12-23
Dr. Pavel Cheben National Research Council of Canada
Paper Title: TBD
Session Title: 1_Hot Topics in Photonics and Electromagnetics
Organized by: Prof. Sailing He
Accepted Date: 2025-03-27
Prof. Douglas H. Werner The Pennsylvania State University
Paper Title: Simulation and Inverse-design Tools for Customized Metadevices
Session Title: Theory and Functionalization of Electromagnetic Metastructures: Metamaterials, Crystals and Devices
Accepted Date: 2025-04-16
Dr. Kartik Srinivasan National Institute of Standards and Technology
Paper Title: Integrated Alkali Vapors with Photonic Integrated Circuits for Quantum Science and Technology Applications
Session Title: Quantum Photonics 1
Organized by: Prof. Christopher Paul Anderson
Accepted Date: 2025-05-15
Prof. Qi Jie Wang Nanyang Technological University
Paper Title: 2D-material Computational Detectors for Multi-dimensional Information Processing
Session Title: Nanophotonics for Enhanced Optoelectronic Device Applications
Organized by: Prof. Li Gao
Accepted Date: 2025-05-15
Prof. Daniel J. Blumenthal University of California Santa Barbara
Paper Title: Integrated Visible to SWIR Lasers and Photonics for Cold Neutral Atom and Trapped-ion Quantum Sciences
Session Title: Quantum Photonics 1
Organized by: Prof. Christopher Paul Anderson
Accepted Date: 2025-05-15
Prof. Harry A. Atwater California Institute of Technology
Paper Title: Electro-optically Tunable Active Metasurfaces in Reflection and Transmission
Session Title: Emerging Topics in Metaphotonics 1
Organized by: Prof. Min Seok Jang
Accepted Date: 2025-05-20
Prof. Yung Doug Suh Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
Paper Title: TBD
Session Title: Advances on Biophotonics I
Organized by: Prof. Fan Wang Prof. Xiaolan Zhong
Accepted Date: 2025-05-22
Prof. Kishan Dholakia University of St Andrews
Paper Title: Structured Light Sheet Microscopy: Enhanced Imaging for Biophotonics
Session Title: Advances on Biophotonics I
Organized by: Prof. Fan Wang Prof. Xiaolan Zhong
Accepted Date: 2025-05-22
Professor Qihua Xiong Tsinghua University
Paper Title: Manipulate Exciton and Polariton Quantum Fluids of Light in TMD Materials
Session Title: Nanophotonics for Enhanced Optoelectronic Device Applications
Organized by: Prof. Li Gao
Accepted Date: 2025-05-27
Prof. Ivan I. Smalyukh University of Colorado
Paper Title: Nanocolloidal Chiral Liquid Crystals
Session Title: Nanomaterials for Displays and Lighting
Organized by: Prof. Abhishek Kumar Srivastava Prof. Sedat Nizamoglu
Accepted Date: 2025-05-27
Prof. Haizheng Zhong Beijing Institute of Technology
Paper Title: In Situ Fabricated Perovskite Quantum Dots for Photonic Applications
Session Title: Nanomaterials for Displays and Lighting
Organized by: Prof. Abhishek Kumar Srivastava Prof. Sedat Nizamoglu
Accepted Date: 2025-05-27
Prof. Hilmi Volkan Demir Nanyang Technological University
Paper Title: Colloidal Optoelectronics
Session Title: Nanomaterials for Displays and Lighting
Organized by: Prof. Abhishek Kumar Srivastava Prof. Sedat Nizamoglu
Accepted Date: 2025-05-29
Prof. Mohammad Hafezi University of Maryland
Paper Title: Nonlinear Topological Photonics: Frequency Combs and a New Paradigm in Phase-matching
Session Title: Topological Nanophotonics 1
Organized by: Prof. Cuicui Lu Prof. Zhiwei Guo Prof. Lin Chen
Accepted Date: 2025-06-03
Prof. Hidetoshi Katori University of Tokyo
Paper Title: Make Optical Lattice Clocks Compact and Useful for Real-world Applications
Session Title: Cold Atom Platform for Quantum Simulation, Quantum Computation, and Precision Measurement
Organized by: Prof. Yoshiro Takahashi Prof. Tetsushi Takano
Accepted Date: 2025-06-03
Prof. Yasuhiko Arakawa The University of Tokyo
Paper Title: TBD
Session Title: 3_FocusSession.SC3: Recent Trends in Integrated Photonics 1
Organized by: Dr. Pavel Cheben Prof. Laurent Vivien
Accepted Date: 2025-06-03
Prof. Kerry J. Vahala California Institute of Technology
Paper Title: A Revolution in High-Q Integrated Photonics
Session Title: 3_FocusSession.SC3: Recent Trends in Integrated Photonics 1
Organized by: Dr. Pavel Cheben Prof. Laurent Vivien
Accepted Date: 2025-06-03
Prof. Ifor D. W. Samuel University of St Andrews
Paper Title: Development of an OLED Illuminated Metasurface for Holographic Image Projection
Session Title: Light-emitting Devices Based on Perovskite, Organic and Low-dimensional Semiconductors 1
Organized by: Prof. Dawei Di
Accepted Date: 2025-06-03
Prof. Tae-Woo Lee Seoul National University
Paper Title: Engineering Nanocrystalline Perovskites with Molecular Modulation for Vivid Displays
Session Title: Light-emitting Devices Based on Perovskite, Organic and Low-dimensional Semiconductors 1
Organized by: Prof. Dawei Di
Accepted Date: 2025-06-03
Prof. Che Ting Chan The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Paper Title: Some New Topological Photonic Crystals
Session Title: Topological Nanophotonics 1
Organized by: Prof. Cuicui Lu Prof. Zhiwei Guo Prof. Lin Chen
Accepted Date: 2025-06-21
Prof. Ai Qun Liu The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Paper Title: Explore Photonic Quantum Computing for Data Science and AI
Session Title: Photonic Quantum Computing
Organized by: Dr. Michael Stefszky Dr. Kai-Hong Luo
Accepted Date: 2025-06-23
Prof. Dmitry Solnyshkov Universite Clermont-Auvergne, CNRS
Paper Title: Observation of a Supersolid Phase in a Spin-orbit Coupled Exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein Condensate at Room Temperature
Session Title: Exciton-polaritons: From Nonlinear Phenomena to Condensation and Topological Quantum Fluids 1
Organized by: Prof. Pavlos G. Savvidis Prof. Zheng Sun Prof. Xiaoqing Zhou
Accepted Date: 2025-06-30
Prof. David W. Snoke University of Pittsburgh
Paper Title: Strong Coupling and Nonlinearity of Polaritons in GaAs/AlGaAs Structures up to Room Temperature
Session Title: Exciton-polaritons: From Nonlinear Phenomena to Condensation and Topological Quantum Fluids 1
Organized by: Prof. Pavlos G. Savvidis Prof. Zheng Sun Prof. Xiaoqing Zhou
Accepted Date: 2025-06-30
Prof. Sangouk Kim KAIST
Paper Title: Directed Nanomaterials Assemby towards Post-AI Era
Session Title: Organics, Organic-inorganic Hybrids and Polymers for Optoelectronic and Biophotonic Applications
Organized by: Prof. Kwang-Sup Lee Prof. Hitoshi Kasai
Accepted Date: 2025-07-09
Prof. Ed Xuekui Wu The University of Hong Kong
Paper Title: RF Shielding-free Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 0.05 Tesla for Accessible Healthcare
Session Title: Sensing and Imaging using Electromagnetics in Biomedicine 1 & 2
Organized by: Prof. Weng Cho Chew Prof. Luis Javier Gomez Prof. Maokun Li
Accepted Date: 2025-07-18
Prof. Xiao Hu Shanghai University
Paper Title: Interference and Switching of Topological Photonic Modes
Session Title: Photonic Topological Meta-materials and Meta-crystals 1
Organized by: Prof. Shaojie Ma Dr. Hongwei Jia
Accepted Date: 2025-07-18
Prof. Zetian Mi University of Michigan
Paper Title: Physics, Epitaxy, and Applications of III-Nitride Nanostructures for High-efficiency Micro-LEDs
Session Title: III-nitride Materials and Relevant Devices Including UV LEDs and LDs 1
Organized by: Dr. Muhammad Ajmal Khan Dr. Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
Accepted Date: 2025-07-24
Dr. Liang Feng University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: Active Integrated Photonics for Information Processing, Computing, and Quantum Networking
Session Title: Advances in Metamaterials, Metasurfaces and Topological Photonics 1
Organized by: Prof. Jian-Wen Dong Prof. Wenjie Chen
Accepted Date: 2025-07-25
Prof. Keisuke Goda University of Tokyo
Paper Title: Data is Everything: How High-quality Data Drives Biomedical Breakthroughs
Session Title: Advances on Biophotonics II 1
Organized by: Prof. Hao He Prof. Hongbao Xin Prof. Qiu Qiang Zhan
Accepted Date: 2025-07-30
Prof. Haohua Wang Zhejiang University
Paper Title: Multiqubit Superconducting Devices for Exploring Quantum Many-body Physics
Session Title: Quantum Simulations in Artificial Lattices
Organized by: Prof. Zhaoju Yang Professor Da-Wei Wang
Accepted Date: 2025-07-31
Prof. Hideki Hirayama RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR)
Paper Title: TBD
Session Title: III-nitride Materials and Relevant Devices Including UV LEDs and LDs 1
Organized by: Dr. Muhammad Ajmal Khan Dr. Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
Accepted Date: 2025-08-14
Prof. Kwai Man Luk City University of Hong Kong
Paper Title: TBD
Session Title: Antenna and Base Station Technology for B5G/6G Networks
Organized by: Mr. Wenfu Fu Prof. Kun Li
Accepted Date: 2025-08-15
Prof. Qiwen Zhan University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Paper Title: Topology with Spatiotemporally Sculptured Light
Session Title: Topologically Structured Light 1
Organized by: Prof. Yijie Shen Dr. Jian Chen
Accepted Date: 2025-08-15

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