Dangyuan Lei is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Physics, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Functional Photonics at City University of Hong Kong, China. His research focuses on plasmonic nanophotonics, low-dimensional quantum optical materials, nanoscale cavity-enhanced light-matter interactions, and their applications in miniaturized optoelectronics, sensing, imaging, and energy conversion. His recent work also explores ultrafast nonlinear optical spectroscopy, quantum photonic device engineering, and radiative cooling technologies. He is an SPIE Fellow. He serves as Managing Editor of Nanophotonics, Associate Editor of Advanced Photonics Nexus and Frontiers in Photonics, and Content Manager of the Hong Kong Editorial Office for Light: Science & Applications. He has also served on program committees of leading international optics and photonics conferences. His honors include the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macao) and two Gold Medals at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva.

Yufei Ma is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He is an Optica Fellow, a recipient of the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund, and a recipient of the first batch of the Heilongjiang Provincial Excellent Young Scientists Fund. He was also selected for the Harbin Institute of Technology Young Top-Talent Program and serves as the academic leader of the HIT Young Scientist Studio. His research focuses on laser sensing, laser spectroscopy, and solid-state laser technologies. Prof. Ma was named an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher in 2021, 2022, and 2023. He currently serves as a Section Editor of Photoacoustics, an Associate Editor of Optics Express, a Topical Editor of Optics Letters, and holds editorial positions for several other international journals, including Opto-Electronic Advances, Chinese Optics Letters, and Optical Engineering. He has published hundreds of peer-reviewed papers as first or corresponding author in leading journals including Light: Science & Applications, Advanced Photonics, PhotoniX, Laser & Photonics Reviews, Opto-Electronic Science, Applied Physics Reviews, and Photonics Research. He has led multiple national and provincial research projects and has received several academic honors, including recognition in the 2024 Light10 list, the Second Prize of the Natural Science Award of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering, the Ministry of Education Academic Newcomer Award, and the Optica Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Grant.

Zhiwei Guo is an Associate Professor at the School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, China. His research focuses on photonic artificial microstructures, metamaterials, photonic crystals, electromagnetic wave manipulation, non-Hermitian photonics, and wireless power transfer technologies. His recent work also explores topological photonics, reconfigurable meta-devices, and high-efficiency optoelectronic and electromagnetic applications. He is a core member of the MOE Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro-Structured Materials at the university. He serves as a Youth Editorial Board member of Science Bulletin, National Science Open and InfoMat, and a Guest Editor of Frontiers in Physics, Frontiers in Materials and Electronics. He has also served on program committees of leading international photonics and electromagnetics conferences. His honors include the Shanghai Eastern Young Talent, Shanghai Chenguang Scholar, Xiaomi Young Scholar, the China Emerging Sci-Tech Figure Excellence Impact Award, and the PIERS Best Special Session Organizer Award.