Plenary Speakers

San-Liang Lee (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in 1995. He joined the Faculty of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), in 1988, and became a Full Professor (2002) and a Chair Professor (2019). He was the Vice President of NTUST, from 2011 to 2014. He was the Dean of Academic Affairs Office and the Chairperson of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, from 2005 to 2008. He was the Director of the research program on silicon photonics and integrated circuits sponsored by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan, from 2018 to 2023. He was also the Director of the Photonic Division, Department of Engineering and Technologies, NSTC, from 2021 to 2023. He serves as the Founding Dean of the Industry-Academia Innovation College, NTUST from 2022 to 2024. He is now a visiting professor in University of Tokyo, Japan. He was a Visiting Scientist with the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), from 2010 to 2011. He has published more than 250 refereed papers in international journals and conferences and holds more than 30 patents. His research interests include semiconductor optoelectronic components, photonic integrated circuits, nanophotonics, and optical networking technologies. He received the 2018 Outstanding Research Award from NSTC and the 2019 MOC Contribution Award from the Microoptics Group of Japanese Society of Applied Physics. He served as the Electronic Section Editor of the SCI-indexed journal, Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, from 2007 to 2012. Since 2013, he has been serving as an Associate Editor and became a Senior Editor in 2024 for IEEE Access.

Dr. Reinhard Geiss is physicist specializing in integrated photonics. Since 2022, he has led the Lithium Niobate Integrated Photonics Group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF) in Jena, Germany. His research focuses on the micro- and nanostructuring of lithium niobate for applications in nonlinear and quantum optics. Dr. Geiss earned his doctorate in 2016 from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He has conducted extended research stays and collaborations with various international institutions, including Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, and the National Central University in Taiwan. In addition to his research, Dr. Geiss is actively involved in education at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, promoting innovative approaches such as establishing a photonics open lab (Makerspace). Since 2018, he served as the Scientific Coordinator of the Max Planck School of Photonics, where he oversaw and developed an integrated doctoral education program with locations distributed throughout Germany.