Dr. Feng Song received his PhD degree from Tianjin University, China in 1995. He then did postdoctoral work in Nankai University (1995-1997) and the University of Arizona, the USA (2001~2002), and worked as a visiting professor in Moscow University, Russia (2004-2005) and the City University of Hong Kong (2008-2009), Hong Kong SAR, China. He is currently a professor at the School of Physical Sciences, Nankai University, China. His research interests include solid-state lasers and applications, fabrication and luminescence of rare earth doped materials, compact fiber lasers and amplifiers, broadband ASE light sources, emission enhancement by surface plasmon polariton, and nanostructure and the influence on the radiative and non-radiative decay. Dr. Song has over three decades of academic and industrial experience in photonic materials and devices, especially on laser cleaning. He also serves as the Executive member of the Optoelectronics Professional Committee of the Chinese Optical Society and the Deputy Director of the Tianjin Laser Technology Society (2012-2020), Vice Director and Secretary General of the Tianjin Physical Society, and Member of the Academic Committee of the National Solid-State Laser Technology Laboratory of China.

Dr. Xuechun Lin received his PhD from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2004, and became the youngest full professor in the Institute of Semiconductors (IOS), CAS in 2007. He is currently the Director of All Solid-State Light Source Laboratory, IOS, CAS. For over two decades, he has devoted himself in the research and development of high-power all solid-state lasers and their applications. His research and inventions are listed as major achievements of the "11th Five-year Plan" by CAS and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. He won the second prize of the National Technological Innovation Awards of China in 2017.