Short bio: Professor Chang-Seok Kim, a professor at Pusan National University (PNU), is currently the Director of Engineering Research Center for Color-modulated Extra-sensory Perception Technology (ERC/CEPT), one of the biggest and oldest research center programs of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA, for research in the area of biomedical imaging and fiber laser systems, after finishing his Master's degree in 1999 from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) and his Bachelor degree in 1996 from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea. Subsequently, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, University of California at Irvine, USA, for biophotonics and biomedical imaging research. He returned to the Department of Optics and Mechatronics Engineering, PNU, as a faculty member in 2005 and is now a Professor. He has served as a Dean of the College of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, PNU, during 2022 and 2023. His early research covered fiber optics and fiber lasers. Following his initial wide experience with the fundamentals of specialty optical fiber, his research interests have moved to applications of optical fiber laser including sensor materials, and interferometric sensor systems since 2004. Nowadays, his research has diverged to the practical system for industrial sensing and 3D imaging applications based on wavelength-tunable light sources, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging, photo-acoustic tomography (PAT) imaging, and FMCW (frequency modulated continuous wave) light and detection and ranging (LIDAR) imaging. His work has led to over 200 technical publications in the SCI journals and other conference papers and patents.

Short bio: Professor Wei-Hsin Chen is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Director of Energy Industry Talent Education Center, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He is also the Honorary Chair Professor at Tunghai University, Chair Professor at the National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Research Fellow of the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, and Vice President of the Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems-Asia (ILASS-Asia). He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University in 1993. He was a visiting professor at Princeton University, USA; the University of New South Wales, Australia; the University of Edinburg, UK; the University of British Columbia, Canada; the University of Lorraine, France; and RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He was also an invited lecturer at the University of Lorraine. His research interests include hydrogen energy, bioenergy, clean energy, carbon capture and utilization, and atmospheric science. He has published over 620 peer-reviewed journal papers with a h-index of 92 (Scopus). He is the Editor-in-Chief, Section Editor-in-Chief, associate editor, and editorial board member of several prestigious journals. He also serves as a Guest Editor of around 20 SCI-indexed journals. In recent years, his important awards include Outstanding Research Award (National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan), Highly Cited Research and Review Paper Awards (Applied Energy, Elsevier), Outstanding Engineering Professor Award (Chinese Institute of Engineers), Highly Cited Review Article Award (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier), TECO Award, and seven consecutive years (2016-2022) Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researcher Award.