Aruna Sharma

Secretary of Research, Anesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine

David C Brown

Founder and CTO, Advanced Photonic Sciences, USA

Yosef Ben Ezra

Dean of Engineering, Holon institute of Technology, Israel

Domenico Di Mola

Vice President , Packet-Optical Platform, Juniper Networks, USA

Amol Chandekar

Vice President, R & D, Nanoptek Corporation, France

Amol Chandekar has obtained his PhD at the university of Massachusetts Lowell, USA in the field of materials science and nanotechnology. For his PhD, Dr. Chandekar developed a novel way of making nanostructures on different substrates by altering the surface properties of the substrate using functionalized molecules such as alkane thiols and silanes. He also had synthesized gold nanoparticles, functionalized them with alkane thiols and fabricated chemical vapor sensor using them. Currently, Dr. Chandekar is a vice president R&D at Nanoptek Corporation. At Nanoptek, Dr Chandekar performed groundbreaking research to develop a highly efficient, robust, scalable and low cost TiO2 photocatalyst, which absorbs UV and near visible part of the solar spectrum, for water splitting for hydrogen production using sunlight only. While working at Anderlab technologies, he developed industrial scale formulations for synthesizing several nanoparticles including Titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, aluminum oxide and silicon dioxide and dispersions based on them. He has published several publications in the peer reviewed journals in the field of material science and nanotechnology and also has filed 17 US and international patents.

Denis Julien Gendron

Director of R&D, Claire Lasers Corporation, Canada

Denis Julien Gendron, Director of R&D, Claire Lasers Corporation, received his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo. Denis J. Gendron earned a Physics B.Sc. Coop degree in 1988 from U. de Sherbrooke, with specialty in semiconductor manufacturing. In 1997, he graduated with Physics PhD from University of Waterloo, for his study of photodissociation and photo-ionization processes at molecular-level with pulsed laser in supersonic jet.  After graduation, he built the pulsed laser laboratory of Donna Strickland at U. of Waterloo (2018 Nobel Prize of Physics). In 1998, he joined the National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, ON) as Research Associate, and then worked as a laser engineer for Fibertek Inc. (Herndon VA) in 2000, and Spectra-Physics Lasers Inc. (SPLI, Mountain View, CA) in 2001, and Coherent-AMT (now Clarion Medical, Cambridge, ON) in 2002. In 2003, Denis founded Claire Lasers to serve manufacturing industries. He has co-authored many papers in international journals and conferences in fields of chemical physics, laser science and engineering and biomedical lasers.  He authored 3 patents.

F. J. Duarte

Principal Research Scientist, The University of Alabama in Huntsville

Paulo Monteiro

Associate Professor, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Paulo P. Monteiro received the diploma “Licenciatura” in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro in 1988, the M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering, from the University of Wales UK, in 1990 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Aveiro, in 1999. Presently, he is Associate Professor at the University of Aveiro and Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações. His main research interests include Optical Communication Networks and Microwave Photonics. He tutored and co-tutored successfully more than 14 PhD’s, having participated in more than 28 research projects (national and international). He has authored/co-authored more than 18 patent applications and over 110 papers in journals and 380 conference contribution. He is a member of the ECOC Technical Program Committee and Senior Member of IEEE.

Masakatsu Murakami

Professor, Osaka University

Masakatsu Murakami is Professor of Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE), Osaka University. After he defended Doctor thesis in 1988, he worked for three years at Max-Planck-Institute for quantum-optics (MPQ) in Germany on laser-matter interaction and heavy ion fusion physics.  After MPQ, he engaged himself in laser isotope separation for two years at Institute for Laser Technology (ILT) in Japan. Since 1993 he has worked at ILE, Osaka University.He now leads a theoretical group at ILE. The scope of current scientific interests concerns interactions with intense laser and matter, high temperature plasma, laser ion acceleration, hydrodynamic phenomena in astrophysics. Recently he has proposed a new concept“micro-bubble implosion” (Scientific Reports8, 7537(2018)) to generate ultrahigh field by using ultraintense ultrashort laser.The proton beams thus generated have high potential for a number of future applications such as cancer therapy, compact neutron sources, and fusion energy.

Lara Motta

Professor, Biophotonics Applied to Health Sciences Postgraduate Program

Dentist, PhD in Public Health.Experience in Dentistry and Health Management, with emphasis on the evaluation of new health technologies. In oral health, he works on the themes of temporomandibular disorders and bruxism in children and adolescents, well-being and quality of life. Application and clinical evaluation of biophotonics application protocols for health repair, lasers and LEDs. Analysis of the insertion and cost-effectiveness of new health technologies.

Dr. Mukul Chandra Paul

Professor, CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, India

Dr. Mukul Chandra Paul received the Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2003. Presently he is working as chief scientist at fiber optics and photonics division , central glass and ceramic research institute, Kolkata, India. He has authored over 250 scientific publications, 10 book chapters and holding seven US patents on fabrication of rare-earth doped ?bers. He also edited 2 Books on Fiber Laser. He also made major scientific contributions through International collaborative research work with various countries such as Malaysia, China, Taiwan, UK, France, Russia, Vietnam, Portugal etc. He is a member of OSA, IEEE and life member of MRSI and Indian Ceramic Society. 4 Ph.D. and 7 M.Sc. research works were directed by him. His current research interests include various material composition based specialty optical fiber development for continuous wave and pulsed fiber lasers at ~1 and 1.5 microns, high power optical amplifiers, fiber based saturable absorber, Broad-band supercontinuum sources

Dr. Malathy Batumalay

Associate Professor, INTI International University

Malathy Batumalay is currently attached to INTI International University, Malaysia as an Associate Professor. She holds a PhD in Photonics Engineering from University Malaya, Malaysia. Her research work focuses on lasers, fiber optics, and fiber sensors. In her previous research, she transformed fiber optic into sensors that is able to detect changes in relative humidity and chemical solution. In order to further investigate the behavior and characteristics of fiber optics sensors and plasmonic sensors, she collaborates with University Malaya, University Teknikal Malaysia Melaka and Airlangga University, Indonesia. To date, she has successfully published high quality journal on the related field.