Professor, Beijing outstanding teacher, National outstanding thesis advisor, and recipient of the Government Special Allowance. He has served as Deputy Director of the Research Division, Director of the Institute of Optical information Science and Technology, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Optical Wave Technology. With over 40 years of research and teaching in optical fiber communication, optical fiber sensing, optical networks, and all-optical signal processing, he has led more than 10 national projects, including the National 863 Program, National Natural Science Foundation projects, Beijing Natural Science Foundation projects, key railway ministry projects, and key coal ministry projects. He has published over 400 papers, including more than 60 SCI papers, and holds 14 authorized and pending national invention patents. He compiled six monographs, including "Optical Wavelet Theory," "Introduction to Optical Communication," "Research Methods in Natural Science and Technology," "Lexical Optics," and "Lexical Optical Engineering”, and "Optical Terminology" as the unified compilation editor, published by the National Terminology Committee), He has received one provincial/ministerial-level Special Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress (ranked 2nd), one ministerial-level Third Prize (ranked 1st), and two first-tier society awards.

Jian Wu is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Electronics from Tsinghua University in 1999. His research has long focused on optical and photonic networks, high-capacity optical switching, ultra-high-speed optical transmission systems, and micro/nano-photonic devices and information processing. He has received the Second Prize of the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award and the First Prize of the Natural Science Award for Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements in Higher Education Institutions. He has led and participated in the development of internationally influential optical switching network testbeds, and served as the Chinese principal investigator in the EU ePhoton-one project. He has delivered 15 invited talks at major international conferences, including OFC, ECOC, ONDM, OECC, and LEOS, published more than 280 papers, including over 150 SCI-indexed papers, co-authored two books, and filed multiple domestic and international invention patents.

Xia Yu, professor of Beihang University, Executive Director of the Sustainable Photonics Research Center. In 2019, she was selected for the National High-Level Talent Program (Youth Program). She received her bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Nanyang Technological University with full scholarships awarded by the Singapore Ministry of Education. From 2008 to 2018, she served as the Team Leader in the Precision Measurement Group at the  Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. In 2014, she was a visiting professor at the JILA Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder. From 2016 to 2019, she served as an Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. She received the 2015 A*STAR Best Mentor Award, 2017 The Prestigious IES Best Research and Technology Award, the 2023 Fiber Laser Five-Year Outstanding Achievement Award, the 2024 OGC International Conference Optoelectronic Technology Innovation Award, and the 2026 Asian Photonics Conference Young Career Award. Her research primarily focuses on high-power lasers, laser-sustained plasmas, and laser spectroscopy. She currently leads projects under the Ministry of Science and Technology's National Key R&D Program, the Key R&D Program International Cooperation Initiative, and the National Natural Science Foundation. She is a senior member of IEEE, Optica, and the Chinese Optical Society, serves as an editorial board member for Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, and is an associate editor for Optics & Laser Technology. She has published over 100 SCI-indexed papers.

Yan Zhang is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the Department of Physics at Capital Normal University, Director of the Beijing Key Laboratory of Metamaterials and Devices, and a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA). Professor Yan Zhang's research team primarily focuses on terahertz optoelectronics, micro-nano optics, and optical information processing. They have published over 400 SCI papers in renowned international journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Advanced Optical Materials, and Opto-Electronic Advances, accumulating over 10,300 SCI citations with an H-index of 54. He has delivered over 60 invited talks at international conferences and has been honored with the China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Achievement Award and the Invention and Innovation Award.