Speakers

Invited Speakers

 

 

 

 

Jianglei Di 
Guangdong University of Technology, China

 

 

 

Biography:

Jianglei Di is a Professor at Guangdong University of Technology now. He received his BS degree in applied physics in 2004, his MS degree in optics in 2007, and PhD degree in optical engineering in 2012 from Northwestern Polytechnical University. His research interests include digital holography, computational optical imaging, and optical precision instrument design. He has published nearly 120 papers and hold 35 patents. He is an Editor of Optics and Lasers in Engineering, and a senior member of OPTICA, SPIE and IEEE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jingtao Dong 
School of Instrument Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, China

 

 

 

Biography:

Dr. Jingtao Dong is currently an associate professor of School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronic Engineering of Hefei University of Technology (HFUT). In 2012, he graduated with a PhD in opto-electronic information engineering from HFUT. He was a R&D director in Hefei ZC Optoelectronic Technologies Ltd. from 2012 to 2017. He worked in HFUT as a lecturer since 2017 and was promoted to associate professor in 2019. He was a visiting scholar to the Manufacturing Metrology Team (MMT) of University of Nottingham of the UK from 2022 to 2023 under the finatial support of China Scolarship Council (CSC). His research interests include the optical interferometric metrology, dark-field confocal imaging, photothermal imaging, computational optical imaging, and orbital angular momentum. He has published over 40 academic papers, and some of his research results that published in Appl. Phys. Lett., Opt. Express and Chin. Opt. Lett. were promoted as Featured Article and Editors′ Pick. He has also presided over 10 scientific research projects, and obtained more than 10 Chinese invention patents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peng Gao 
Xidian University, China

 

 

 

Biography:

Prof. Dr. Peng Gao, studied Physics and received his Ph.D. at the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), CAS, in 2011. He was a “Humboldt Fellow” in University Stuttgart (2012-2014) and Marie-Curie Fellow (IEF) in KIT (2014-2018). He is currently a PI at Xidian University and the director of Super-resolution Optical Microscopy Engineering Research Center at Xi’ an city. His group focuses on developing super-resolution optical microscopy and quantitative phase microscopy techniques for biology. So far, he has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers published in journals, including Nat. Photonics, Adv. Opt. Photon. Some of his publications were highlighted by tens of international media, such as Science Daily, Physics News, and so on. He is currently one of the associate editors of Optics and Laser Technology (OLT) and Frontiers in Physics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hung-Fei Kuo 
Taiwan University of Science and Technology, China

 

 

 

Biography:

Prof. Kuo received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA in 2004. From 2005 to 2006, he served as an optical department manager at GCC, Taiwan. From 2007 to 2009, he was an application development engineer at ACE in ASML. Since 2010, he joined the faculty of the Graduate Institute of Automation and Control, Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, China. From 2019 to 2023, he was the chair of Graduate Institute of Automation and Control and vice dean in College of Engineering. His research interests include the development of next generation lithography techniques, optical metrology and optical system integrations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chengfu Ma 
Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

 

 

 

Biography:

Chengfu Ma is a Specially-appointed Young Researcher at the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences since August 2024. He received his B.S. (2011) and Ph.D. (2017) degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He studied at the University of Goettingen from 2016 to 2017 as a visiting Ph.D. student. From 2017 to 2024, he worked at USTC first as a Postdoc and then as an Associate Researcher. He worked at TU Dresden from 2022 to 2023 as a visiting Postdoc. His research interests are on atomic force microscopy (AFM), nanomechanics, and nanotribology. His past research highlights include ultrasonic AFMs for quantitative mechanical characterization and subsurface imaging, as well as friction measurements of nanodroplets by AFM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Masaki Michihata 
Department of Precision Engineering, the University of Tokyo, JAPAN

 

 

 

Biography:

Masaki Michihata is an associate professor at Department of Precision Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Osaka University in 2004, 2007, and 2010, respectively. He has actively advanced his field, working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Osaka University for five years, followed by four years at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. Since 2019, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Precision Engineering at the University of Tokyo, where he leads research in dimensional and in-process measurement. He has authored more than 70 journal papers. His research interests include three-dimensional metrology, fluorescence-based dimensional measurements, in-process/on-machine measurements, and picometer resolution displacement measurements. He is a member of the JSPE, JSME and JSAP.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anli Yang 
Hubei Jiufengshan Laboratory, China

 

 

 

Biography:

Dr. Anli Yang currently works at Hubei Jiufengshan Laboratory, engaged in characterizing compound semiconductor materials and devices. Dr. Yang received her PhD degree from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. She has also been engaged in research work related with SiC, GaN and other semiconductor materials at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) in Japan. She has published or co-authored more than 50 prestigious academic publications and filed more than ten patents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caojin Yuan 
Nanjing Normal University, China

 

 

 

Biography:

Caojin Yuan received her Ph.D in Optical engineering from Nankai University in 2008. She is a professor in the school of Physics and Technology at Nanjing Normal University. She serves as the dean of Optoelectronic information Science and Engineering Department. Her current research interests include: quantitative phase imaging and optical field modulation. She has published over 80 SCI papers in renowned journals such as Optics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Optics Express, Light: Advanced Manufacturing and Nature Chemistry. Her research works have been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chao Zuo 
Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

 

 

 

Biography:

Dr. Chao Zuo is a professor in optical engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), China. He leads the Smart Computational Imaging Laboratory (SCILab: www.scilaboratory.com) at the School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, NJUST, and is also the founder and director of the Smart Computational Imaging Research Institute of NJUST. He has long been engaged in the development of novel Computational Optical Imaging and Measurement technologies, with a focus on Phase Measuring Imaging Metrology. He has published > 200 peer-reviewed articles with over 18,000 citations. These researches have been featured on journal cover (including Light, Optica, LPR, PhotoniX, AP, etc.) over 40 times. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of PhotoniX, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, IEEE Transaction on Computational Imaging, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, and Advanced Devices & Instrumentation. He is a Fellow of SPIE | Optica | IOP, Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor (Ministry of Education, China), and listed as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oleg Zakharov 
Moscow State University of Technology “STANKIN”, Russia

 

 

 

Biography:

Dr. Oleg Zakharov is currently a Professor in mechanical engineering at the Moscow State University of Technology "STANKIN". He obtained his Eng. and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Saratov State Technical University, in 1998 and 2011. During this period, he participated in 7 grant programs at the Saratov State Technical University and the Samara National Research University. Three PhD theses were defended under his supervision. Since 2024, he has been working at the Moscow State University of Technology "STANKIN" as a Professor. Now, his research interests include measurements of complex surfaces on coordinate measuring machines, surface metrology, ultra-precision abrasive machining. He has published 35 peer-reviewed journal articles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zibang Zhang 
Jinan University, China

 

 

 

Biography:

Dr. ZHANG Zibang is an Associate Professor with the Department of Optoelectronic Engineering at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Dr. Zhang’s expertise includes computational imaging and optical engineering. His research interests include single-pixel imaging, lensless microscopy, and fringe projection profilometry. Dr. Zhang has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, including Nature Communications, Optica, Optics Letters, Optics Express, etc. He was awarded the second prize of the Guangdong Natural Sciences Award 2021 for the project entitled “Fourier single-pixel imaging principle and methods.”