Asia-Europe Silicon Photonics Symposium

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology

Dr. Yating Wan is an Assistant Professor at KAUST. Before that, she worked in Prof. John Bower’s group at UCSB from 2017-2022 and led Intel's project of Heterogeneously Integrated Quantum Dot Lasers on Silicon. Her research interests are in Si Photonics with special emphasis on integration of on-chip light sources. She published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, including 37 first-author journal (27)/conference (10), 14 corresponding-author journal (6)/conference (8) and 10 journal covers. She served as an associate editor for JSTQE, JQE, Applied Optics, committee member for IEEE Photonics Society Conference Council, 2022-2024 CLEO &IPR, 2024 IPC, and referees for more than 100 peer-reviewed journals in IEEE, OSA, and the Nature Publishing Group. For her pioneering work in on-chip laser integration on Si (Google Scholar citation: 3320, h-index: 32), She received 2016-17 School of Engineering PhD Research Excellence Award in HKUST, 2018 PIERS Young Scientist Award, 2018 Rising Stars Women in Engineering Asia, 2020 Rising Stars 2020 Women in EECS, 2021 OGC Best Young Scientist Award, 2021 CLEO Tingye Li Innovation Prize, 2022 Rising Stars of Light by Light: Science & Applications, 2023 "35 Innovators Under 35 for China" by MIT Technology Review,  2024 Optica Ambassador, among others.

Tianjin University

Dr. Zunyue Zhang is currently a research associate in the School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering at Tianjin University. Dr. Zhang received her B.S. degree in Opto-Electronics Information Science and Engineering from Nankai University, China in 2017 and her Ph.D. degree in Electronics Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021. She received the full funding support from the Research Talent Hub of the Innovation and Technology Commission to carry out the postdoctoral research work from September 2021. Dr. Zhang joined Tianjin University as an Associate Professor in March 2023. Her research interest includes integrated optical spectrometers, mid infrared photonics, spectral sensing and imaging.  Dr. Zhang has authored or co-authored over 20 papers in journals like Laser & Photonics Reviews, Optica, etc., and won the Rising Star Women in Engineering award in 2022.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Prof. Kyoungsik Yu is a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Graduate School of Quantum Science and Technology at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. From 2004 to 2007, he worked at the Korea Electrical Engineering and Science Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea. He then served as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley from 2007 to 2009. In 2010, Prof. Yu joined the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST. His research focuses on applying micro- and nanophotonics to optical interconnects, sensing, and imaging, as well as developing innovative micro-/nanofabrication techniques for emerging optoelectronics applications.

Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics

Politecnico di Milano

OSA Fellow, Andrea Melloni is Full Professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria – Politecnico di Milano – where he leads the group of Photonic Devices and teaches the master course “Photonics Devices”. With a background in microwaves, his field of research is in the analysis, design, characterization and exploitation of passive integrated optical devices for telecom and sensing. He has been one of the pioneers of the slow light concept and its exploitation in the linear and nonlinear domain. He is currently contributing to define the new schemes of generic photonic foundries in Europe. In 2008 he founded the company Filarete, for the development and commercialization of the first circuit simulator for integrated optical circuits, ASPIC. He holds 13 international patents in the field of integrated optics and components and he is author and co-author of over 90 publications on the major international journals.

Ghent University - imec

Roel Baets is an emeritus full professor at Ghent University (UGent) where he has led a mixed UGent – imec team. For about 40 years Roel Baets has worked in the field of integrated photonics, in multiple material platforms (silicon, silicon nitride, III-V). He has made diverse scientific contributions to this field, as well as to its applications and spin-off creation in telecom, datacom and sensing. He has led major research projects in silicon photonics in Europe and founded ePIXfab, the globally first Multi-Project-Wafer service for silicon photonics and now the European Silicon Photonics Alliance. In recent years his research has focused on medical and environmental sensing applications of silicon photonics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the European Optical Society (EOS) and of Optica. He has been a recipient of the 2018 PIC-International Lifetime Achievement Award, of the 2020 Optica-IEEE John Tyndall Award and of the 2023 IEEE Photonics Award. As an emeritus professor Roel Baets continues a variety of advisory roles within UGent and imec, within ePIXfab and in the integrated photonics community at large.

Peking University

Dr. Jianwei Wang is a Bo-Ya Distinguished Professor in the Physics department at Peking University. He obtained his PhD from the University of Bristol in 2016, and joined Peking University in 2018 as an assistant professor before being promoted to full professor in 2024. His research group focuses on Quantum Information Science and Technologies with Integrated Photonics. The team has made contributions to the advancement of large-scale integrated photonic quantum technologies. Their work centers around on-chip generation, processing, and detection of complex entangled states of light, as well as integrated photonic quantum computing, quantum networking, and quantum simulation. Dr. Wang has published peer-reviewed papers in Science (3), Nature Physics (5), Nature Photonics (5), Nature Materials, Nature Computational Science, Nature Review Physics, Nature Communications (4), Science Advances, PRL, and Optica, in addition to 5 CLEO post-deadline papers. He has been awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Daheng Wang Award, C.N. Yang Award, and Yutai Rao Fundamental Optics Award. 

Luceda Photonics

Dr. Ruping Cao has an impressive background in the intersection of Silicon Photonics and Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Her work has significantly contributed to helping innovators in Silicon Photonics bring their chip design ideas to life using advanced software automation tools. With experience as a research engineer at Mentor Graphics and Luceda Photonics, she now serves as the general manager of Luceda China.

Ghent University - imec

Wim Bogaerts is a professor in the Photonics Research Group at Ghent University and the IMEC nanotechnology research center in Belgium. He completed his PhD in 2004, pioneering the use of industrial CMOS fabrication tools to build photonic circuits. Between 2000 and 2010, he was the driver behind the buildup of IMEC’s silicon photonics technology. In parallel, he started developing design automation tools to implement complex silicon photonic circuits. In 2014, he co-founded Luceda Photonics, bringing the design tool IPKISS to the market. In 2016 he won a research grant from the European Research Council, and since then he is again full-time at Ghent University – IMEC, focusing on the challenges for large-scale photonic circuits and programmable photonics. He is an IEEE and OPTICA Fellow, and senior member of SPIE.

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hon Ki Tsang obtained the BA (Hons) and PhD degrees from University of Cambridge in 1987 and 1991 respectively. He joined the faculty of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993 as an Assistant Professor, becoming a tenured Associate Professor in 1996, and full professor in 2003. He worked at Bookham Technology plc between 2001 to 2003, and helped develop some of the first silicon photonic products to be deployed in commercial optical fiber communications networks. Tsang’s early contributions in the field of silicon photonics include some of the earliest experimental studies of the nonlinear properties of silicon optical waveguides, including measurements of their Kerr nonlinearity, two photon absorption and associated free carrier absorption, and one of the first high net-gain waveguide silicon Raman amplifier. The tiny cross-sectional areas of silicon waveguides enable nonlinear optical effects such as two photon absorption or self-phase modulation to manifest at cw optical powers as low as a few milliwatts. Tsang’s research group’s most recent research contributions include the first multimode waveguide grating couplers for selective-launch of different modes in multimode fibers, advances in waveguide grating couplers that enabled sub-decibel coupling loss using standard foundry photolithography and fabrication process, ultrawideband waveguide grating couplers and high-capacity optical modulators.  Hon Ki Tsang was formerly the Edito- in-Chief of IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (2017-23). He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of Optica and a Chartered Engineer. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and the Wei Lun Professor of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chaoran Huang is currently an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She received her Ph.D. degree from CUHK. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. She has broad research interests in optical computing, photonic integrated circuits, and optical communications. Her current research focuses on developing novel photonic devices, integrated circuits, and complementary algorithms for high-performance AI computing and information processing. She has published over 50 papers, including Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Optica, etc. She has served as co-chair, TPC member of many international conferences such as OFC, CLEO, ECOC, and the editorial board member of Communication Engineering under the Nature Portfolio. She was the recipient of the 2019 Rising Stars Women in Engineering Asia and the 2022 Optica 20th Anniversary Challenge Prize.

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

Shuangyou Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU). Prior to joining DTU, he was a Senior Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, where he also served as Deputy Group Leader of the Microphotonics Group. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electronics from Jilin University in 2010 and his PhD in Electronics from Peking University in 2016. He was a recipient of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from 2018 to 2020. He has authored more than 40 journal papers and contributed to a book chapter. His current research focuses on integrated photonics, optical frequency combs and their applications, chip-scale atomic clocks, and two-photon transitions for optical frequency standards.