Prof. Sulaiman Wadi Harun received his B.E. from Nagaoka University of Technology, and M.Sc. & Ph.D. in Photonics Technology from the University of Malaya. His research focuses on fiber amplifiers, lasers, sensing systems, and nanomaterial-integrated photonic devices. He has published over 1000 ISI-indexed papers with more than 9000 citations and an h-index greater than 55. He serves as Academic Editor of International Journal of Optics, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, adjunct professor at two Indonesian universities, founder and honorary advisor of the Optical Society of Malaysia. He is the recipient of the Malaysian Rising Star Award.

Shien-Kuei (Peter) Liaw, Fellow of Optica, Fellow of SPIE and Senior Member of IEEE, is currently a Distinguished Professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. degrees in Photonics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University and Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University. His research interests include silicon photonics, co-packaged optics, optical communications, AI-based fiber-optic sensing, fiber lasers and optical amplifiers. He has published more than 350 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He once worked at Chunghwa Telecom and carried out visiting research at Bell Communication Research (Bellcore), the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and Academia Sinica.