So far confirmed keynote speakers:
Prof. John Bowers,
Institute for Energy Efficiency, University of California at Santa Barbara, , California, USA
Abstract:
Biography: John Bowers (F’94) is Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and a professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests are primarily concerned with silicon photonics, optoelectronic devices, optical switching and transparent optical networks and quantum dot lasers. Bowers received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. He worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories and Honeywell before joining UCSB. Bowers is a fellow of the IEEE, OSA and the American Physical Society, and a recipient of the IEEE Photonics Award, OSA/IEEE Tyndall Award, the IEEE LEOS William Streifer Award and the South Coast Business and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors.
Prof. Susumu Noda, Progress in Photonic Crystals － From Fundamental to State of the Arts for Society 5.0
Department of Electronic Science and Engineering. Kyoto University, Japan
Abstract:
Biography: Susumu Noda is a full Professor, Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, and also Director of Photonics and Electronics Science and Engineering Center, Kyoto University. His research interest includes physics and applications of photonic crystals and the related photonic nanostructures. He received various awards, including Optical Society of America Joseph Fraunhofer Award / Robert M. Burley Prize (2006), the IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award (2009), Medal with Purple Ribbon (2014), the Japan Society of Applied Physics Outstanding Achievement Award (2015), and MOC Awards (2019).
Prof. Masataka Higashiwaki,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Abstract:
Biography: Masataka Higashiwaki received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in solid-state physics from Osaka University, Japan, in 1994, 1996, and 1998, respectively. After a two-year postdoctoral fellow, in 2000, he joined the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), Japan. From 2007 to 2010, he took a temporary leave from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), which was renamed from CRL, and joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara as a Project Scientist. He returned to NICT in 2010 and started a pioneering work on Ga2O3-based electronics. He is now a Director at Green ICT Device Advanced Development Center. Higashiwaki is a recipient of several awards, including the 2014 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize and the 2007 International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS) Young Scientist Award. His current research interest is in Ga2O3 device and material engineering.
Prof. Ursula Keller, Semiconductor disk lasers and SESAMs: material and design optimization
ETH Zurich(Swiss Federal Institute of Techology in Zurich), Switzerland
Abstract:
Biography: Ursula Keller has been a tenured professor of physics at ETH Zurich since 1993 (www.ulp.ethz.ch), and serves as a director of the Swiss research program NCCR MUST in ultrafast science since 2010 (www.nccr-must.ch). She received a „Diplom“ at ETH Zurich in 1984, a Ph.D. at Stanford University USA in 1989, was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs USA 1989 to 1993. From 2014-2018 she has been a member of the research council of the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is the first elected president and co-founder of the ETH Women Professors Forum (https://eth-wpf.ch). She has been a co-founder and board member for Time-Bandwidth Products (acquired by JDSU in 2014) and for GigaTera (acquired by Time-Bandwidth in 2003). Her research interests are exploring and pushing the frontiers in ultrafast science and technology. Awards include the SPIE Gold Medal (2020), IEEE Edison Medal (2019), the European Inventor Award for lifetime achievement (2018), IEEE Photonics Award (2018), OSA Charles H. Townes Award (2015), LIA Arthur L. Schawlow Award (2013), ERC advanced grants (2012 and 2018), EPS Senior Prize (2011), OSA Fraunhofer/Burley Prize (2008), Leibinger Innovation Prize (2004), and Zeiss Research Award (1998).
Conference Secretariat
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