Sir David Neil Payne CBE FRS FREng is a British professor of photonics who is director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton. He has made several contributions in areas of optical fibre communications over the last fifty years and his work has affected telecommunications and laser technology. Payne’s work spans diverse areas of photonics,from telecommunications and optical sensors to nanophotonics and optical materials,including the introduction of the first optical fibre drawing tower in a university.
Dame Lynn Faith Gladden is the Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. She served as Pro-vice-chancellor for research from 2010 to 2016.
Min Gu is a Chinese-Australian physicist who currently serves as the Executive Chancellor and Professor at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Previously he was Distinguished Professor and Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research Innovation &Entrepreneurship at RMIT University.
Ann Catrina Coleman FIEEE FOSA is a Scottish electrical engineer and professor at the University of Texas at Dallas specialising in semiconductor lasers.
Sir Alistair George James MacFarlane was a Scottish electrical engineer and leading academic who served as Principal and Vice Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University,Edinburgh,and Rector,University of the Highlands and Islands.
Donal Donat Conor Bradley is the Vice President for Research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST),Saudi Arabia. From 2015 until 2019,he was head of the Mathematical,Physical and Life Sciences Division of the University of Oxford and a Professor of Engineering Science and Physics at Jesus College,Oxford. From 2006 to 2015,he was the Lee-Lucas Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London. He was the founding director of the Centre for Plastic Electronics and served as vice-provost for research at the college.
William Alexander Gambling FRS,FREng was a British electrical engineer.
Richard Vincent Penty,FREng is a British engineer and academic. He is the current Master of Sidney Sussex College and Professor of Photonics at the University of Cambridge.
David A. B. Miller is the W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University,where he is also a Professor of Applied Physics by courtesy. His research interests include the use of optics in switching,interconnection,communications,computing,and sensing systems,physics and applications of quantum well optics and optoelectronics,and fundamental features and limits for optics and nanophotonics in communications and information processing.
John Edwin Midwinter OBE FRS FREng was a British electrical engineer and professor,who was President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers from 2000 to 2001.
Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel is a British engineer and academic. She is currently Professor of Optical Communications &Networks in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. She has made major contributions to the investigation and design of high-bandwidth multiwavelength optical networking.
Shun Lien Chuang was a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer,optical engineer,and physicist. He was a Fellow of the IEEE,OSA,APS and JSPS,and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jeremy John Baumberg,is a British physicist who is Professor of Nanoscience in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge,a Fellow of Jesus College,Cambridge and Director of the NanoPhotonics Centre.
(James) Roy TaylorFREng is Professor of Ultrafast Physics and Technology at Imperial College London.
David John Richardson is a Professor and Deputy Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton.
Mona Jarrahi is an Iranian Engineering professor at the University of California,Los Angeles. She investigates novel materials,terahertz/millimeter-wave electronics and optoelectronics,microwave photonics,imaging and spectroscopy systems.
Jonathan C. Knight,is a British physicist. He is the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) for the University of Bath where he has been Professor in the Department of Physics since 2000,and served as head of department. From 2005 to 2008,he was founding Director of the university's Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials.
Song Yonghua FREng is a Chinese electrical engineer. He has been rector of the University of Macau since January 2018,and previously served as Executive Vice President at Zhejiang University.
Mitra Dutta is an Indian-American physicist and electronics engineer known for her research on optoelectronics. She is a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago,and the university's former vice chancellor for research.
John Ballato is an American materials scientist,entrepreneur,and academic. He holds the J. E. Sirrine Endowed Chair of Optical Fiber and is a professor of materials science and engineering,electrical and computer engineering,as well as physics and astronomy at Clemson University. He has received many international recognitions for his research on optical and optoelectronic materials,particularly as relates to optical fiber.
