Paul A. Klevgard, a distinguished physicist with a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, initially dedicated 13 years to college-level teaching before transitioning to a significant career as a Member Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, where he is now retired. His primary research delves into the foundational aspects of quantum mechanics, particularly challenging conventional interpretations of wave-particle duality. Klevgard proposes that the photon possesses "two identities" rather than simultaneously exhibiting both particle and wave properties, a concept he argues better explains phenomena like the constant velocity of light and quantum entanglement. His insights are reflected in publications such as "The photon exhibits dualism, constant velocity and nonlocality: What do they have in common?" and "Is the Photon Really a Particle?" in Optik. Furthermore, he authored "Einstein's Method: A Fresh Approach to Quantum Mechanics and Relativity," wherein he appliEinstein's comparative thermodynamic methods to derive novel understandings of quantum phenomena. Klevgard remains an active and influential voice in discussions surrounding the intricate interpretations of quantum theory and fundamental physics.

Mohammed Saad Al-Ghamdi completed his Ph.D. at Cardiff University, UK, in 2010. He then took a position at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, where he established the optoelectronics laboratory. His research interests include the design and fabrication of semiconductor devices, laser diodes, and the study of optoelectronic and electrical properties. He has supervised over 10 postgraduate students and received funding for more than 8 projects. Prof. Al-Ghamdi has over 65 publications and is a member of IEEE and OSA societies.

Michael Schmidt-Köksal is the CEO and founder of Quantonics Crystals, a company specializing in the development and sales of perovskite semiconductor nanomaterials, graphene, carbon derivatives, and photonic nanomaterials. With a background as a physicist holding a Diplom and PhD in Physics, Michael Schmidt has extensive experience in solid state physics, crystal growth, and quantum effects. He has worked in research and development roles at companies like Optrex Europe, Perkin Elmer Optoelectronics, and Texas Instruments, focusing on innovations in liquid crystal solutions, micro photomultiplier tubes, and semiconductor materials. Since founding Quantonics UG in 2009, he has been instrumental in advancing pyro- and piezoelectric crystals for optoelectronics and sensor technology, including patented methods and devices. He has provided technical advice and support to institutions such as the Fraunhofer Technical Center and universities, contributing to projects on pyroelectric materials and infrared photodiodes. Recognized as an industry innovator, he was a guest speaker at prominent optics and photonics congresses and was honored with an article and selection of Quantonics Crystals among the top 10 most innovative companies in 2024. Fluent in English with growing proficiency in Japanese, he combines strong analytical skills with a passion for art, design, and sports.

Ngo Thi Huong received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Montpellier in 2017. She then pursued a postdoctoral position in epitaxial growth at Meijo University in Japan, followed by research activities in France focusing on micro- and nanofabrication within leading academic laboratories and institutes. Her research activities encompass the full development of wide-bandgap semiconductor devices, from material design and epitaxial growth to device fabrication and investigation. She has authored more than 50 scientific publications and conference communications in the fields of GaN optoelectronics and microelectronics. She is currently broadening her research focus toward the integration of GaN optoelectronics with metasurface-based nano-optics.

Dr. Rahul Hajare is a highly qualified scholar with a background in pharmaceutical chemistry. He holds a postdoctoral fellowship from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) at the National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) in Pune, where he worked under the mentorship of Dr. Ramesh S. Paranjape. He has served as an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Medical Chemistry at Pune University (until 2020) and is currently the Principal of Ishwar Deshmukh Institute of Pharmacy, affiliated with the Pharmacy Council of India. He is also a scholar at the Hindu University of America, Florida, and an academic at Sandip University. His research interests include drug discovery, molecular virology, and the design and evaluation of novel HIV-1 inhibitors. He has a significant number of research publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Professor Songül Fiat Varol is working in Manisa Celal Bayar University in Electric and Energy department. Her main research interests have been materials science especially technology of semiconductor materials and devices including solar cells, light emitting diodes (LEDs/OLEDs). She has published more than 40 scientific papers in this field in the internationally recognized journals. She has supervised many Ph.D/M.Sc. studies. She has coordinated many national/ international projects and joined more than 70 international scientific conferences and meetings as invited speaker/speaker/organising committee member. She conducted various researches on Chalcopyrite Solar Cells with Professor Michael Kompitsas (Director of Research Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute -National Hellenic Research Foundation)and his team in Laser-based Techniques and Applications - LATA in Greece through “Tubitak 2214 International Research Fellowship Programme for PhD Students”. She has published in high-ranking SCI-expanded journals on the production and characterization of many organic/inorganic-based thin-film materials that are the most trending in science like ZnO, TiO2, CuInGaSe(Te), Nitrides (GaN, AlN) etc. She still continues her research on Organic/Inorganic LED and PV device production and improvement of their properties.

Prof. Dr. habil. ArkadyShipulin (Chipouline)Shipulin hasmore than 25 years of experience in academic and industrial research and development, working in the USA, Germany, and Russia. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a Habilitation in Experimental Physics from the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Prof. Shipulinis an author and co-author of hundredsof publications, conference presentations, patents, and books in the field of photonics, including fiber optic communication, optical sensing, photonic integrated circuits, nanooptics, and quantum optics. He has also taught multiple lecture courses in Universities in the USA, Germany, and Russia. Arkady Shipulin holds a Chair professor position in Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He acquired his international experience during his work at University of Salt Lake City (USA) in 1999-2001, Telecommunication Industry in the USA (CORVIS Corporation, recipient of an Award of Excellence) in 2001-2005, and at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany in 1995-1999 and 2005-2015, worked as a Team Leader at the Institute for Microwave Engineering and Photonics, Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 2015-2017. Prof. Shipulin combines fundamental knowledge and industrial competences to bridge the gap between academic ideas and commercial product development. New generation of optical components and devices for optical communication, optical sensing, optical LIDARs, and optical computing can be designed using Photonic Integrated Circuits - modern nomenclature for photonic integration, using classic and quantum technologies.

Ling-Feng Shi is an accomplished researcher with extensive experience in instrumentation, measurement, and applied sciences. He has served as both conference chair and committee member for leading international conferences, and has significant editorial experience, including roles with the IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation & Measurement and special issues of Applied Sciences. Dr. Shi has published over 130 academic papers, including more than 90 SCI-indexed works (with 31 in IEEE journals and nearly 20 in top-tier Chinese Academy of Sciences journals), and over 20 papers at international conferences. His prolific research has resulted in 19 national authorized invention patents, along with several utility models and patent transfers. Additionally, Dr. Shi has authored two textbooks and one English academic work. His contributions have been recognized with two second prizes for provincial and ministerial science and technology progress, as well as an Outstanding Teacher Award at Xidian University.

Wanyang Dai is a Distinguished Professor in Nanjing University, Chief Scientist in Su Xia Control Technology. He is the President & CEO of (Blockchain & Quantum-Computing) SIR Forum, President of Jiangsu Probability & Statistical Society, Chairman of Jiangsu BigData-Blockchain and Smart Information Special Committee. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics and systems & industrial engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in USA. He was an MTS and principal investigator in U.S. based AT&T Bell Labs (currently Nokia Bell Labs) with some project won “Technology Transfer” now called cloud system. He was the Chief Scientist in Depths Data Digital Economic Research Institute. He published numerous influential papers in big name journals including Journal of Applied Statistics, Mathematics, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, Quantum Information Processing, Operations Research, Operational Research, Queueing Systems, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems. He received various academic awards and has presented over 70 keynote/plenary speeches in IEEE/ACM, big data and cloud computing, artificial intelligence and robot, quantum computing and communication technology, computational and applied mathematics, biomedical engineering, mathematics & statistics, and other international conferences. He has been serving as IEEE/ACM conference chairs, editors-in-chief and editorial board members for various international journals ranging from artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, wireless communication, pure mathematics & statistics to their applications. He is an Editor of AIMS Mathematics, the Guest Editor of MDPI Mathematics Special Issue of Probability Statistics, a Guest Editor of (Springer Journal) Mobile Networks and Applications, an Associate Editor of (Elsevier Journal) Results in Applied Mathematics, and an Associate Editor of Quantum Research.

William W. Yu got his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a professor of Shandong University. His research interests include quantum dots, solar cells, LEDs, flexible electronics and electrochromism.

Bing Han received the B.S. degree from the Civil Aviation University of China (CAUC), Tianjin, China, in 2011, the M.S. degree from the Institut Superieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace - SUPAERO, Toulouse, France, in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in communication and electronic engineering from the Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France, in 2018. Since 2018, he has been a Lecturer with the Avionics System Engineering Department, CAUC. His research interests include signal processing for the Lidar system, optical fiber network, optical fiber sensing, multi-objects tracking and deep learning.

Antonio José Steidle Neto is agricultural engineer, with master’s degree in agricultural engineering and doctorate in agronomy by the of Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil. Additionally, he did two post-doctorates in plant science and agricultural meteorology. For more than fifteen years, he is associate professor and researcher of the Agrarian Sciences Department of the Federal University of São João del-Rei, Brazil. He has experience in areas of agricultural engineering, emphasizing the spectroscopy applied to agriculture. Published more than 85 scientific papers in international journals, as well as 8 book chapters.

Prof Vladimir Valentinovich Egorov has his expertise in theoretical molecular and chemical physics. Education: National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Faculty of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (1966 – 1972), Moscow, USSR. He has completed his PhD from Theoretical Department of Institute of Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences (1981), and he has completed his Dr Phys&Math Sci degree from Institute of Physical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences (2004). He is leading researcher at NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia. Prof Egorov is working on the development of a fundamentally new physical theory ‒ quantum-classical mechanics and their applications in physics, chemistry, biology and biomedicine.

Dr. Abdul Ghaffar, born in 1991 in Pakistan, earned his bachelor's degree from QUEST Nawabshah in 2014, a master’s from Indus University in 2017, and a Ph.D. in Instrumentation Technology from North University of China in 2020. He completed his postdoctoral research at the Wuhan Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2023. Formerly a lecturer at Indus University, Karachi. Since 2023, Dr. Ghaffar has been serving as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Quzhou University in China. He has published over 60 SCI papers, holds eight patents, and reviews for numerous high-impact international journals. His research focuses on sensor technology, including optical fiber sensors, polymer optical fibers, distributed sensors, and displacement sensors.

Doctor Tarek CHTOUKI, Associate Professor at the Superior School of Technology, Ibn-Tofail University, Morocco since June 2019. He earned the Doctor's degree in Materials Physics in January 2017 as a result of scientific collaboration between the MOLTECH ANJOU Institute at the Faculty of Sciences in Angers, France, the Power Electronic Group at the National School of Engineers in Sfax, Tunisia and the Laboratory of Electrical Systems and Telecommunications at Ibn-Tofail University in Kenitra, Morocco. He worked from December 2017 till January 2019 in Light Amplification and Laser Technology as postdoctoral researcher at Politechnika Wrocławska, Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Wrocław, Poland. Co-author of 37 scientific papers (h-index: 15), his research interests include Nanostructured materialsfor photonics, Laser and light amplification,Nanomaterials for nonlinear optics, Advanced Modeling, simulation and optimization of optoelectronic properties,Materials for energy, Fabrication & characterization of Solar Cells.

Yang Yue received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and optics from Nankai University, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, USA, in 2012. He is currently a Professor with the School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He is the founder and current PI of Intelligent Photonic Application Technology Laboratory (iPatLab). Dr. Yue’s current research interest is intelligent photonics, including optical communications, optical perception, and optical chip. He has published ~300 journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >13,000 citations, one book, seven edited books, two book chapters, >70 issued or pending patents, >200 invited presentations (including 1 tutorial, >30 plenary and >80 keynote talks). Dr. Yue is a Fellow of SPIE, a Senior Member of IEEE and Optica. He is also among the Top 2% Scientists List Worldwide by Stanford University. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and Frontiers in Physics, Editor Board Member for four other scientific journals, Guest Editor for >10 journal special issues. He also served as Chair or Committee Member for >100 international conferences, Reviewer for >70 prestigious journals.

He has worked as a Guest Faculty in College of Engineering & Technology, Bikaner during 2011–2012 and then in Engineering College, Bikaner during 2012–2018. After that he joined as Assistant Professor in Department of Physics, M.L.B. Govt. College, Nokha and worked during Sep. 2018 to Sep. 2021. At present, he is working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Physics, Government Dungar College, Bikaner India. He has published more than 62 research papers in international-level journals including Eleseiver, Springer, IEEE, SPIE and also published more than 43 papers in various international conference proceedings. He has published two authored books and two edited book on photonic crystals in Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (USA) and CRC Press, UK. He has been an editor of four international conference proceedings published including AIP Conference Proceedings. He worked as co-convener, convener publication, International technical committee member technical committee in various international conferences in India and abroad too. His research interests include Optoelectronics, Photonics, and Nonlinear Optics.

Dr Ansari is working as an Assistant professor. He received his M.Phil and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad. He has specialized in Optical imaging techniques and their applications in biology & medicine. His research interests include laser speckle imaging, Dynamic Laser Speckle, and Optical image processing. His credentials include over 30 Research Papers in reputed peer-reviewed journals. He is serving as the Editorial board member of several scientific journals and a reviewer for over 30 peer-reviewed National and International journals. Supervisors: Academy mentor, Web of Science Address: International School of Photonics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi - 682 022, Kerala, India

Working as a Senior Professor in the Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Gurukula Kangri University, Haridwar (India) with over three decades of academic and research experience in materials science. Research focuses on the development of functional metal oxide nanomaterials for application in electronic gas sensors, UV Photodetectors, photocatalytics, and photovoltaics. Guided 22 doctoral students leading to Ph.D. degree and published extensively in reputed journals. More than 145 research articles in SCI/SCOPUS/International Journals of repute (h-index-36, i-10 index-76, citations-3709). Actively involved in international collaborations and regularly contributes to academic conferences and scientific forums. Delivered more than 65 invited talks and chaired technical sessions in various national and international conferences/seminars/symposia in India and abroad. Member of the Academic Councils, Planning and Monitoring Board, Board of Studies and Research Degree Committees of many Indian Universities. Reviewer of reputed research journals published by Elsevier, Springer, IEEE etc. and member of editorial board of three national/international journals. Working as Executive member of Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) Regional Chapter UK, Member of Board of Management as UGC nominee of autonomous colleges in India, member of Governing Council, Academic council of many Indian Universities, and expert member in different universities, public service commissions, Department of Science and Technology etc.