Dr. Zhenzhou CHENG (IEEE/OPTICA/SPIE Senior Member) is the Chairman and Professor of the Department of Optoelectronic Information Engineering at Tianjin University, visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo. He earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Nankai University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, supported by the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme. In 2015, he joined Goda Lab in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo as an assistant professor. In 2018, he joined the School of Precision Instrument and Opto-electronics Engineering at Tianjin University as a full professor. From 2023 to 2025, he was appointed as the Director of the Division of Science and Technology at Xinjiang Normal University. His research interests focus on silicon photonics. He is in charge of several projects funded by MOST, NSFC, and JSPS. He published over 300 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, with more than 6000 citations, and was featured on Stanford University's list of the Top 2% Scientists. He received several education and research awards, namely, Second-Class Award in Research Achievements from the Ministry of Education, China; Second-Class Award in Research Achievements from the Chinese Optical Society, China; Young Scientist Award from the Hong Kong Institute of Science, Hong Kong; Outstanding Instructor Award from National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program; Young Alumni Award and Young Scholars Thesis Awards from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He served as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports and Photonics, as well as a reviewer for the NSFC and the Hong Kong GRF, and for more than 100 academic journals, including Nature Photonics. He has helped organize several academic conferences, including OECC, CLEO-PR, and ACP. More information about his research is available as follows.

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhenzhou-Cheng

Email: zhenzhoucheng@tju.edu.cn

Dr. Han Qun is an Associate Professor at the School of Precision Instrument and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University. He received his M.S. in Optics from Nankai University in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Physical Electronics from Tianjin University in 2006, after which he joined the faculty. In January 2011, he conducted a one-year academic visit to Prof. Xiao Hai’s research group at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA. His research focuses on optical fiber sensing, fiber amplifiers and lasers, and novel photoelectric detection and sensing technologies. He has served as the principal investigator or key participant in multiple national research projects, including those supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Basic Research Program (973 Program), the Major Scientific Instrument Development Project, and the National Key R&D Program. He has published over 150 academic papers with more than 2,000 citations, holds six authorized invention patents, two of which have been commercialized, and has received the Tianjin Technology Invention First Prize and the Tianjin Natural Science Third Prize. He also serves as a reviewer for more than 40 domestic and international academic journals and has been recognized as a Top Reviewer by Web of Science. More information about his research is available as follows.

ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Qun-Han-4?ev=hdr_xprf

Email: hanqun@tju.edu.cn

Dr. Xuezhi Zhang is an Associate Professor at the School of Precision Instruments and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Department of Opto-Electronic Information Engineering. He received his B.S. degree in 2007 and his Ph.D. degree in 2012, both from Nankai University. From 2010 to 2012, he studied in Prof. Qianfan Xu’s Group at Rice University (USA) as a joint Ph.D. student, focusing on silicon-based chip micro-/nano-device research. His current research focuses on sensing methods and devices. He has led 5 national-level research projects and 2 provincial/ministerial-level teaching reform projects. He proposed a phase demodulation mechanism for fiber Bragg grating ultrasonic sensing and an event augmentation method for small-sample fiber-optic data. As the corresponding/lead author, he has published more than 30 papers in well-known international journals, namely, Opto-Electronic Advances and Science China: Information Sciences, and holds more than 40 Chinese invention patents. He received the Second Prize of the China Optical Science and Technology Award from the Chinese Optical Society in 2019.

Email: zhangxz@tju.edu.cn

Dr. Zhibin Yang is an Associate Professor at the School of Precision Instrument and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University. He received his Master of Science in Applied Physics in 2013 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Physics in 2018, both from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He then remained at PolyU as a postdoctoral researcher. He joined Tianjin University in January 2019 as an associate professor. Dr. Yang has long been engaged in research on the controllable preparation and devices of two-dimensional layered materials, accumulating solid research experience in large-area growth, hetero-integration, and device performance optimization. He has published more than 40 SCI journal papers, including 17 as first/corresponding author in high-impact journals such as ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, InfoMat, and Nano Letters, with a total citation count of over 5,000.

Email: zbyang0417@tju.edu.cn

Dr. Zunyue ZHANG (IEEE/OPTICA Member) is a Research Associate in the School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering at Tianjin University. Dr. Zhang received her B.S. degree in Opto-Electronics Information Science and Engineering from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2017 and her Ph.D. degree in Electronics Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, in 2021. She received full funding support from the Research Talent Hub of the Innovation and Technology Commission to conduct postdoctoral research from September 2021. Dr. Zhang joined Tianjin University as an Associate Professor in 2023. Her research interests include integrated optical spectrometers, mid-infrared photonics, and spectral domain sensing and imaging systems. Dr. Zhang has participated in the Innovation and Technology Support Program and the Midstream Research Program for Universities, both funded by the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong SAR, as the technical leader, and has led the Tianjin University Innovation Funding Program. Dr. Zhang has published over 10 SCI papers as the first/corresponding author in journals such as Applied Physics Reviews and Laser & Photonics Reviews, and delivered over 10 invited/ contributed talks at top conferences such as CLEO. She holds one US utility patent and one Hong Kong short-term patent, received the Rising Star Women in Engineering award in 2022, and the Huawei Young Scholar Funding in 2024. She served as a reviewer for multiple journals, including Opto-Electronic Advances and Photonic Research. More information about her research can be found as follows.

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zunyue-Zhang

Email: zyzhang2023@tju.edu.cn

Dr. Yin YU is a Senior Experimentalist in the School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering at Tianjin University. In 2008, she received her B.Sc. in Materials Physics from Nankai University. In 2013, she earned her Ph.D. in Optics from Nankai University. Then, she joined the School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering at Tianjin University. Currently, she holds the positions of Deputy Director and Party Branch Secretary of the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, responsible for the management and teaching tasks of the center, as well as undertaking the construction of virtual simulation laboratories and the daily operation of the Opto-Electronic Information Student Innovation Laboratory at Tianjin University. During her tenure, Dr. Yu has been in charge of and participated in several projects, namely, national 973 projects, key projects of international cooperation of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has published over ten papers and is responsible for several teaching reform projects. The innovation and entrepreneurship projects she has supervised,  including the National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Project, the “Challenge Cup” Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition for College Students, the National Undergraduate Optoelectronic Design Contest, and the iCAN International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, have won multiple awards.

Email: yuyin@tju.edu.cn