**Guo-Wei Lu**

Guo-Wei Lu obtained his Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2005. He then held a Postdoctoral Fellowship with CUHK from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as an expert researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Tokyo, Japan. Afterward, from 2009 to 2010, Dr. Lu served as an assistant professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Subsequently, he worked as a researcher at NICT from 2010 to 2014. From 2014 to 2020, Dr. Lu held the position of associate professor at Tokai University in Japan. Since 2020, he has joined the University of Aizu as a senior associate professor. Additionally, Dr. Lu has been affiliated with NICT as a visiting researcher since 2014 and has served as a visiting lecturer at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, since 2018. Dr. Lu's research interests include advanced optical modulation formats, electro-optic modulators, photonic signal processing, and optical parametric amplifiers.

### **Zhenzhou Cheng**

Dr. Zhenzhou CHENG (IEEE/Optica Senior Member) is the Chairman and a professor at the Department of Optoelectronic Information Engineering at Tianjin University, as well as an adjunct professor at Georgia Tech Shenzhen Institute. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both from Nankai University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong under the support of the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme. After two years of postdoctoral research, 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 Instruments and Optoelectronics Engineering at Tianjin University as a full professor. His research interests focus on silicon photonics. He is in charge of several projects funded by NSFC and JSPS and has published over 100 peer-reviewed SCI papers in top-tier academic journals, namely, *Nature Photonics*.

### **Ting-Hui Xiao**

Dr. Tinghui Xiao is a professor at the Department of Physics and the Director at the Institute of Optoelectronic Information Science at Zhengzhou University. He received his B.Sc. degree from Sun Yat-sen University in 2013, M.Sc. degree from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2016, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 2019. He worked at the University of Tokyo as an assistant professor from 2019 to 2022 and then joined Zhengzhou University as a professor. His research interests focus on silicon photonics, vibrational spectroscopy, and ultrafast imaging.
