Reconfigurable Photonic Computing

Mark Thompson: Photonic quantum computing
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Ali Elshaari: Hybrid quantum photonics

Harish Bhaskaran: Non-von Neumann photonic computing for machine learning and artificial intelligence
Harish Bhaskaran is the Professor of Applied Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford and leads the Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Group. He holds the EPSRC Fellowship in Manufacturing. His research is primarily in the exploration and use of optoelectronic materials to create photonic or neuromorphic computing and displays, as well as additive manufacturing techniques to take such devices into the manufacturing realm. Key contributions include the demonstration of atom-by-atom wear, a novel optoelectronic framework, a photonic nonvolatile memory, and recently, the development of photonic synapses and computing. He is an active innovator and has established two spinout companies, Bodle Technologies (2015) and Salience Labs (2021). His work has been featured widely over the last several years in Nature, The Economist, BBC, MIT Technology Review, Fortune, Wired etc.

Jelena Vučković: Inverse designed integrated photonics
Jelena Vučković is professor at Stanford, where she leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab. She is also the director of Q-FARM: the Stanford-SLAC Quantum Initiative.Vuckovic has won numerous awards including the IET AF Harvey Prize, James P. Gordon Memorial Speakership from the OSA, Humboldt Prize, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the Young Investigator Awards from DARPA and the Office of Naval Research. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), of the Optical Society of America (OSA), and of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE).
Limits of Metastructures

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Din Ping Tsai: High Dimensional Optical Meta-devices: Classical to Quantum

Isabelle Staude: Active semiconductor metasurfaces
Prof. Dr. Isabelle Staude studied physics at the University of Konstanz, and subsequently received her Ph.D. degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, in 2011. For her postdoc, she moved to the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She returned to Germany in mid-2015 to establish a junior research group on functional photonic nanostructures at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. In fall 2017, she became a junior professor at the same institution. She was promoted to full professor in spring 2020.

Timothy J. Palinski: Plasmonic Metasurfaces for Sensing and Tunable Optical Absorption

Karl F. Böhringer:MEMS-tunablemetasurface Alvarez lens
Karl F. Böhringer received his Dipl.-Inform. degree from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany and his M.S. / Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, where he is currently Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering, Director of the Nano-engineered Systems Institute, and Site Director for the University of Washington / Oregon State University node in the NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network. received his Dipl.-Inform. degree from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany and his M.S. / Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, where he is currently Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering, Director of the Nano-engineered Systems Institute, and Site Director for the University of Washington / Oregon State University node in the NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network.

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus: Free-space active photonics from hybrid electro-optic metasurfaces
Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus is a SNF Fellow and a Hans-Eggenberger fellow at John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Her current work focusses on nanoscale hybrid silicon-organic flat optics that change their optical functionality by electro-optic transduction. In addition, she has been developing on-chip integrated electro-optic devices for terahertz science and technology. Overall, her postdoctoral and doctoral work have received several recognitions from the Hans Eggenberger foundation, as well as the European Physical Society and the Swiss Physical Society. Aside from science, she strives to contribute positively to the community she’s a part of, e.g by serving on the Metamaterials Technical Group of OSA among other activities.
Future Directions in Nanophotonic and Biophotonic Sensors

Jian Ye: Opportunities of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy in biomedical science
Prof. Jian Ye received his B.E. and M.S. degree from Zhejiang University (China) and Ph.D. degree from KU Leuven (Belgium). He joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2013 and was promoted as a full professor in 2017. Dr. Ye has received a number of awards including Outstanding Youth Fund from Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (2016) and Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2020 Emerging Investigators. His research interests focus on biomedical applications of plasmonic nanostructures and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. He has published 2 book chapters and over 80 papers including Nature Communications, Nano Letters and ACS Nano.

Prof. Heidi Ottevaere: Photonics-based biosensing: measuring the devil inside!

Dr Laura Rodriguez-Lorenzo: Gold Nanostars as excellent nanoplatform for surface-enhance Raman scattering-based sensors

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Andrea M Armani:Portable Sensors based on Integrated Photonics
Prof. Andrea Armani is currently the Ray Irani Chair in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California. She received her BA in physics from the University of Chicago and her PhD in applied physics with a minor in biology from the California Institute of Technology. She is on the editorial Board for Optics Letters (associate editor from 2011-2017, features editor 2018-present) and ACS Photonics (associate editor). She is a senior member of IEEE and AIChE, a Fellow of OSA and SPIE, and a full member of Sigma Xi.

Xavier Rottenberg:Integrated ultrasound microphone with optical readout for emerging imaging techniques
Dr. Xavier Rottenberg (MSc Physics Engineering 1998 and DEA Theoretical Physics 1999 from Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)) He obtained in 2008 his PhD in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven. He joined IMEC Leuven in 2000, where he contributes to research on RF, RF-MEMS, photonics, acoustics, photo-acoustics and micro/nanosystems. As imec fellow, he leads the Wave-based Sensing and Actuation developments. He (co-)authored over 150 peer reviewed publications, had various patents granted, was lecturer or invited speaker at conferences, symposia and summer/winter schools. He co-founded Pulsify Medical in 2019. He is since 2020 lecturer at ULB in the Applied Physics department.