Bishnu Pal is currently Professor of Physics and Dean of Academics at Mahindra École Centrale at Hyderabad India. He has been Former Chair of Physics Department (2007-2011) and Computer Services Centre at IIT Delhi (2003-2006) India, Member Board of Directors of OSA The Optical Society (Washington, USA, 2009-2011), Fellow of OSA the Optical Society (USA) and SPIE The International Society for Optics and Photonics (USA), Distinguished Honorary Member of Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS, Norway), Senior Member of IEEE (USA) and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Photonics Society (2005-2006), Fellow and President of Optical Society of India (2012-March 2015), Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (1982-83, Germany) and Fulbright Scholar at NIST Boulder CO (1991, USA), PDF and latter Visiting Professor of Royal Norwegian CSIR (NTNF, Oslo, 1975-77) at Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway, awardee of Esther Hoffman Beller Medal of OSA The Optical Society (Centenary Year 2016, USA), Invited faculty at the ICO Winter School in Optics held at ICTP 1998, Awardee of Homi Bhabha award in Applied Physics of UGC (India, 2006), Om Prakash Bhasin award in Electronics and Information Technology (India, 2013), Khosla Research Award of IIT Roorkee (India, 2014) for lifetime contributions in research, Prof Y T Thathachari award for excellence in Physical Sciences (India, 2010) of Brhamara Trust (Mysore), CEOT award of IETE (India, 2010) for his contributions to Optoelectronics Devices, Co-recipient of the Fiber Optics Person of the Year award (1997) established by Lucent Technology in India and Optics award of Optical Society of India (OSI, 2010) for lifetime achievements.

Deepak Jain is a University of Sydney Research Fellow. Prior to this, he was Hans Christian Orested confunded Marie Curie Fellow at Technical University of Denmark. He obtained his doctoral degree from Optoelectronics Research Center, University of Southampton, UK in 2015 and masters from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2011. His area of interest includes optical waveguides and metamaterials. He also serves as Technical chair of Fiber Design and Modelling group of the Optical Society of America.

Experienced Research Advisor with a demonstrated history of working in the business supplies and equipment industry. Skilled in Mathematical Modeling, Microsoft Word, C++, SolidWorks, Laser and plasma Physics. Strong research professional with a Master's degree focused in photonics from Shahid Beheshti University.

Mário F. S. Ferreira was born in Ovar, Portugal. He graduated in Physics from the University of Porto, Portugal, and he received the Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1992 and the Aggregation in Physics in 2006, both from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he is now a Professor at the Physics Department. He is a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), SPIE - The International Society for Optical and Photonics, IEEE Photonics Society, and the Portuguese Physical Society

Dr. Samir Mekid is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Compiegne University (France) in 1989 and 1994 respectively. He has worked with Caterpillar in Engineering Design Office. He has been actively consulting to several UK and European and recently to Dresser-Rand (USA) companies. He has been actively involved in research projects in his research areas.

Ph.D. M.Tech. GATE, MPhil, M.Sc. (Physics Specialization in Micro wave Electronics) B.E.D Dr. Sumit Kumar Gupta Dean, Faculty of Science Parishkar College of Global of Excellence Jaipur in the Department of physics, With over 15 years of teaching, research, and administrative experience, he has held various administrative positions as the Head of Department in various degree colleges and engineering colleges and has a vast experience of teaching in IIT-JEE Institute.

US citizen (naturalized in 1985). Goal oriented, highly motivated and creative performer with proven leadership, administrative and coaching ability, extensive project and financial management experience, team player attitude, strong analytical and planning.