The 2025 Asia Photonics Conference (Photonics Asia 2025) will be held from October 12 to 14 at the Beijing International Convention Center. Jointly organized by the Chinese Optical Society (COS) and SPIE, the conference will feature 17 themed sessions covering nearly 100 research areas in optics and optical engineering. Researchers, professionals, and industry representatives are warmly invited to join this premier event in the field.

PLENARY SESSION

Ming Li

Chinese Academy of Sciences

(China)

Ming Li is a professor at Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Director of the State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Devices. He is a Fellow of Optica, the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering and the Chinese Institute of Electronics. His long-term research focuses on microwave photonics and optoelectronic integration technologies, including optoelectronic oscillators, optoelectronic intelligent computing, and optoelectronic integration. He has been awarded the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. With over 240 published journal papers, including 15 in Nature and its subsidiary journals, he has received two First Prizes of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering Science and Technology Award, and the 20th Wang Daheng Optics Award.

Chengwei Qiu

National University of Singapore

(Singapore)

Chengwei Qiu is Provost's Chair Professor in National University of Singapore. He is the recipient of President's Science Award 2023, the highest science distinction in Singapore. He was elected Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore, and Fellow of ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology. He is Fellow of APS, Optica, SPIE and The Electromagnetics Academy, US. He is well known for his research in structured light and interfaces. He has published over 600 peer-reviewed journal papers. He was the recipient of MIT TR35@Singapore Award in 2012, Young Scientist Award by Singapore National Academy of Science in 2013, Engineering Researcher Award 2021 in NUS, World Scientific Medal 2021 by Institute of Physics, Singapore, Achievement in Asia Award (Robert T. Poe Prize) by International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers in 2022, etc. He was Highly Cited Researchers in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 by Web of Science. As an overseas partner, he has been awarded China's Top 10 Optical Breakthroughs for 6 times (2019, 2020, 2021(one in Fundamental Research, and one in Applied Research), 2023, 2025). He has been serving in Associate Editor for various journals such as JOSA B, PhotoniX, Photonics Research, and Editor-in-Chief for eLight. He also serves in Editorial Advisory Board for Laser and Photonics Review, Advanced Optical Materials, and ACS Photonics.

Qing Yang

Zhejiang University

(China)

Qing Yang is a professor in College of Optical Science and Engineering, State Key Lab of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentations, Zhejiang University. She is the director of Research Center for Humanoid Sensing in Zhejiang Lab during 2019-2023. Qing Yang received her Bachelor and PhD degree in College of Materials Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2001 and 2006, respectively. She was a visiting scholar at George Tech from 2009-2012. She was a visiting Scientist at University of Cambridge in 2018. Dr. Yang’s research focuses on micro-/nanophotonic devices, super-resolution imaging and multimodal endoscopy. Totally, Dr. Yang published 105 peer reviewed journal articles and the publications have been cited by others more than 5400 times. She holds more than 40 patents. She has been invited to give talk in 70 conferences (from 2006). The cross-scale dual-modal endoscopy was verified in pre-clinical experiments in Grade 3A hospitals. The equipment got the identification of class II innovative medical devices. She is the associate editor of Science Bulletin, Editoral member of Advanced Photonics, IEEE spectrum, leading guest editor of Optics Communications, editor of Journal of Nanotechnology Nanomedicine Nanobiotechnology, editor of the books Advanced Coating Materials. She was awarded the Wang Daheng Optics Award for young scientists (only 4 in China per year), the Second Prize of the National Award for Technological Inventions (5/6), "Top Ten Progresses in Chinese Optics" twice (2017 and 2023), Light 10 (2023).

Kishan Dholakia

The University of Adelaide

(Australia)

Kishan Dholakia is professor and director of the Centre of Light for Life at the University of Adelaide, Australia and Professor at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He works on advanced imaging, optical manipulation, biophotonics and precision measurement using structured light. He has published over 375 journal papers and is a highly cited Lifetime Scholar (ScholarGPS). His work is cited in the Guinness book of Records 2015. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Optica, Institute of Physics (UK) and SPIE. In 2016 he won the R.W. Wood Prize of Optica (formerly OSA), in 2017 he won the Institute of Physics Thomas Young Medal and Prize and is the 2018 recipient of the SPIE Dennis Gabor Award. He won an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship in 2021 and is a SPIE Director (2025-2027).