Chulmin Joo 
Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Biography：
Dr. Chulmin Joo is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He obtained S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Prior to joining Yonsei University, he worked as a lead engineer at GE Global Research, USA, involving and leading research programs for the development of various optical imaging and sensing devices. His primary research interests lie in the development and application of novel optical instrumentation and computational imaging technologies to address challenges and applications in diverse fields such as biology, medicine, optical metrology, and beyond. He strives to integrate fundamental understanding of optical imaging and computational technologies with the insights and needs from clinicians, biologists, and industry. He is a senior member of Optica (formerly Optical Society America) and has been a program committee member of Optica Imaging Systems and Applications since 2017. He served as the program and general chairs of Optica Imaging Systems and Applications (2020, 2021), and is serving as an Associate Editor of Adv. Imaging and Current Optics and Photonics. He is a member of Academic Editorial Board of PLoS One.

Huihui Li 
School of Marine Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen, China

Biography：
Huihui Li, Ph.D., graduated in 2022 from the Collage of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Huaqiao University. Currently, a lecturer at the School of Marine Engineering, Jimei University, with research focuses on polarization detection of surface and underwater targets. Leading a Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52305578) and an Industry-University Cooperation Project of Fujian Provincial Department of Science and Technology (2023H6033). Participated as a key member in numerous national, provincial, and municipal natural science foundation research projects. In 2019 and 2024, served as a visiting Ph.D. student and visiting scholar, respectively, at the Department of Applied Physics, University of Barcelona. Work is conducted within the Key Laboratory of Fujian Province Marine and Ocean Engineering and the Fujian Engineering Research Center for Offshore Small Green Intelligent Ship System. Recipient of the Fujian Province Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. Published six academic papers as the first author and co-authored one academic monograph.

Yasuhiro Mizutani 
Osaka University, Japan

Biography：
Prof. Mizutani obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, in 2008. From 1999 to 2003, he worked as a researcher at Panasonic Corporation. He then served as a research associate in the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology from 2003 to 2009. In 2009, he joined the University of Tokushima, Japan, as an associate professor. Since 2015, he has been an associate professor at Osaka University.　His research focuses on interferometry, polarimetry, 3D surface measurement, optical trapping, 3D lithography, microscopy, imaging, quantum mechanics application and machine learning applications for metrology. He has published over 100 papers in prestigious international journals and conferences. He is an active member of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE), the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), the Optical Society of Japan, SPIE, and OSA.

Ryo Sato 
Department of Finemechanics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan

Biography：
Ryo Sato received the M.S degree and Ph.D degree in the Department of Finemechanics, Tohoku University, Japan, in 2021 and 2023, respectively. He received a research fellowship (DC1) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science when he is Ph. D candidate. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Finemechanics, Tohoku University. One of the main works of his research is about a dual-detection optical probe in confocal microscopy for precision positioning and surface profile. He is first author of a review paper “Signal processing and artificial intelligence for dual dual-detection confocal probe” (Int. J. Prec. Eng. Manuf., 25, pp. 199-233, 2024), which summarized the detector positions of the dual detection methods and categorized signal processing into the difference-type and the ratio-type. In addition, his current work interests include precision nanometrology, optical sensors, and nonlinear optical phenomena and production engineering. In connection with these studies, he also reviewed about “Advanced Sensing and Machine Learning Technologies for Intelligent Measurement in Smart and Precision Manufacturing” in Int. J. Automation Technol., 18(4), pp. 545-580, 2024.

Yuki Shimizu 
Hokkaido University, Japan

Biography：
Yuki Shimizu received his MS in precision engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, in 2002. He spent his career at Hitachi Ltd. from 2002 to 2011 and was involved in research on head-disk interface technology for hard disk drives. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan, in 2009. He had been an associate professor in the Department of Finemechanics, at Tohoku University, Japan. Currently, he is a professor in the Division of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, at Hokkaido University, Japan. His research interest includes precision dimensional metrology and optical metrology. He is a member of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE), the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME, Fellow), and the Japanese Society of Tribologists (JAST).

Shin Usuki 
Shizuoka University, Japan

Biography：
Shin Usuki is an associate professor at Research institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Japan. He got B.Eng, M.Eng and D.Eng from Department of Precision Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan respectively in 2002, 2004 and 2008. He is a member of Academic Societies, International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE), and the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).

Guanhao Wu 
Tsinghua University, China

Biography：
Guanhao Wu is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University. He received Ph.D degree in optical engineering from Tsinghua University in 2008. He used to be a visiting scholar in National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ) from 2011 to 2012. His research interests include frequency comb, comb-based distance measurement and light detection and ranging (Lidar). In recent years, he has published more than sixty international refereed journal papers, and he is the holder of more than thirty Chinese patents. He won the Special Prize of Chinese Machinery Industry Science and Technology Award in 2020, and won the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Chinese Society for Measurement in 2021. He is also the winner of Mao Yisheng Beijing youth science and technology award.

Nikita D. Zviagin 
D.I.Mendeleyev Institute for Metrology (VNIIM), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Russian Federation

Biography：
Nikita Zviagin has been born in 1984 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Has a degree of mechanical engineer of the Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University. Started his work in metrology in 2006 as a researcher in the laboratory for theoretical metrology in VNIIM (Saint-Petersburg, Russia). For a long time has been working in the field of metrological software validation, processing of comparison data and legal metrology. Has been the head of legal metrology laboratory of VNIIM.

In 2017-2018 has been working at the secondment at the BIPM as an Executive Secretary of the Joint Committee of Regional Metrology Organizations and the Bureau (the JCRB). In 2020 became the head of the International Cooperation Department of VNIIM.

Actively participates in the work of COOMET (Euro-Asian Cooperation of National Metrological Institutions). In 2023 became the Chair of the Joint Committee on Measurement Standards (JCMS) of the COOMET.

Since 2024 chairs the Working Group on RMO Coordianation of the CIPM Forum on Metrology and Digitaliztion