Plenary Talks

Biography: lan A. Walmsley FRS is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the Univ. of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford. He is also Director of the NQIT (Networked Quantum Information Technologies) hub within the UK National Quantum Technology Programme, which is led by the Univ. of Oxford Walmsley was educated at Imperial College London, and The Inst.of Optics, Univ. of Rochester He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012 for his contributions to quantum optics and ultrafast optics, including his development of the spectral phase interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction (SPIDER) technique. In March 2018 it was announced that Walmsley had been appointed Provost of lmperial College London, succeeding James Stirling on 1 September 2018.

Biography: John E. Bowers holds the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology, and is the Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and a Professor in the Departments of Materials and Electrical and Compute Engineering at UCSB. He is a cofounder of Aurrion，Aerius Photonics and Calient Networks. Dr. Bowers received his M.S and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories and Honeywell before joining UOSanta Barbara. Dr. Bowers is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of inventors. He is a fellow of the lEEE, OSA and the American Physical Society, and a recipient of the lEEE Photonics Award OSA Tyndal Award, the OSA Holonyak Prize, the IEEE LEOS William Streifer Award and the South Coast Business and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He has published eight book chapters, 600 journal papers, 900 conference papers and has received 54 patents. He and coworkers received the EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics(ACE) Award for Most Promising Technology for the hybriosilicon laser in 2007.

Biography: Yasuhiko Arakawa received BS, MS, and PhD degrees in the electrical engineering from the Univ. of Tokyo, in 1975, 1977, 1980, respectively, ln1980, he started his academic carrier by joining Univ. of Tokyo as an assistant professor and was promoted to a full professor in 1993.He is now Professor of Research Center for Advanced Science and technology Univ. of Tokyo. He is also the director of Nanoelectronics Research Center at Inst. of Industrial Science, Univ. of Tokyo as well as Research Professor at NTT. His current research includes growth and physics of semiconductor nano-technologies for optoelectronic device applications such as quantum dot lasers and various nanostructure devices. He is the recipient of many awards including Niwa Memorial Award, Excellent Paper Award from ECE，Young Scientist Award，International Symposium on GaAs and Related Compound Semiconductors, IBM Award,  Distinquished Achievement Award from IEICE, Hattori Hoko Award, Sakura-Keniiro Award from OITDA, Electronics Award from IEICE, and Nissan Science Award. He has been serving several distinguished international conferences as general chairs including the 17th IEEE Semiconductor Lase Conference. He was Associate Editor of IEEE J. of Quantum Electronics and Editor in Chief of Journal of Japanese Society of Applied Physics, and he is currently Editor in Chief of Solid Sate Electronics and Regional Editor on New Journal of Physics (lOP). He is in charge for planning the optoelectronics technology-roadmap at the OITDA.

Biography: Vincent W.S. Chan, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor of EECS，MIT received his BS(71)，MS(71), EE(72), and Ph.D.(74) degrees in EE all from MIT. From1974 to 1977, he was an assistant professor, EE, at Cornell Univ. He joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1977 and had been Division Head of the Communications and Information Technology Division until becoming the Director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (1999-2007). He is currently a member of the Claude E. Shannon Communication and Network Group at the Research Laboratory of Electronics of MIT In July 1983, he initiated the Laser intersatellite Transmission Experiment Program and in 1997the follow-on Geo-LITE Program. In 1989, he formed the All-Optical-Network Consortium among MIT AT&T and DEC. He also formed and served as PI the Next Generation Internet Consortium，ONRAMP among AT&T Cabletron，MIT Nortel and JDS, and a Satellite Networking Research Consortium formed between MIT,  Motorola, Teledesic and Globalstar He has served in many US/ non-US government advisory boards/committees and the Board of Governors of the Communication Society including VP of Publications. He also has been active with several start-ups and was a director of a Fortune- 500 company and chaired its technical advisory board. He is a Member of the Corporation of Draper Laboraory and is a member of Eta-Kappa-Nu，Tau-Beta-Pi and Sigma-Xi, and the Fellow of the lEEE and the Optical Society of America. Throughout his career, Professor Chan has spentis research focus on communication and networks, particularly on free space and fiber optical communication and networks and satellite communications. His work has led the Nay to a successful laser communication demonstration in space and early deployment of WDM optical networks. His recent research emphasis is on heterogeneous (satcom, wireless and fiber) network architectures with stringent performance demands.

Biography: Chongjin Xie is a senior director and chief communication scientist in Alibaba Infrastructure Service，Alibaba Group leading an optical network research, architecture, design optical and testing team to develop data center interconnects and networking technologies to support Alibaba online platform and cloud services. Prior to joining Alibaba Group in 2014, Dr. Xie was a distinguished member of technical staff at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia)doing research on optical communication systems and networks. He did his postdoctoral research at Chalmers Univ. of Technology in Sweden from 1999 to 2001, and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Beijing Univ. of Posts &Telecommunications in 1996 and 1999,respectively. Dr. Xie has published one book,3 book chapters and over 200journal and conference papers. He is an associate editor of Journal of Lightwave Technology, a program chair ofOFC2019 and served as chairs, TPC chairs or TPC member sin many conferences. Dr Xie is a Fellow of OSA and a senior member of IEEE.