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Prof. Demetrios N. Christodoulides

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Email address: demetri@usc.edu

Demetrios Christodoulides is the Cobb Family Endowed Chair and Pegasus Professor of Optics at CREOL-the College of Optics and Photonics of the University of Central Florida. He received his Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1986 and he subsequently joined Bellcore as a post-doctoral fellow at Murray Hill. Between 1988 and 2002, he was with the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University. His research interests include linear and nonlinear optical beam interactions, synthetic optical materials, optical solitons, and quantum electronics. He has authored and co-authored more than 450 papers. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society. In 2011, he received the R.W. Wood Prize of OSA, and in 2018, the OSA Max Born Award. In 2023, he received the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science.

Dr. Georgios G. Pyrialakos

• BSc, MSc: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2013

• PhD: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2019

Email address: gp_019@usc.edu

Mahmoud Abdelrahman (Selim)

• BSc: Ain Shams University, 2016

• MSc: University of Central Florida, 2019

Email address: maabdelr@usc.edu

Bingbin Li

• BSc: Fudan University, 2024

Email address: bingbinl@usc.edu