Dr. Wang Ji has served as a Qianjiang Distinguished Professor at Ningbo University since September 2002. He is currently the Director of the Ningbo Key Laboratory of Piezoelectric Device Technology and the Director of the Shuguang–Ningbo University Joint Laboratory for High-Performance Computing. His research focuses on the design and analytical theory of piezoelectric acoustic wave resonators. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Princeton University in 1996. Prior to that, he obtained a Master’s degree from Princeton University in 1993 and a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Civil Architecture from Gansu University of Technology in 1983.

Dr. Andrea Alù is a Distinguished Professor, founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York. He is affiliated with the Wireless Networking and Communications Group and the Applied Research Laboratories, both based at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor. His research interests span over a broad range of technical areas, including applied electromagnetics, nano-optics and nanophotonics, microwave, THz, infrared, optical and acoustic metamaterials and metasurfaces, plasmonics, nonlinearities and nonreciprocity, cloaking and scattering, acoustics, optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas.