Koji Sugioka is recognized worldwide as a leading scientist in the area of laser micro and nano processing. He has made important contributions to both fundamental research on laser-matter interactions and applications in the areas of laser micro and nano processing including industrial applications. He is known for his work on laser doping, laser etching, laser surface modification, laser-induced selective ... Read moremetallization, microfabrication of transparent materials, VUV laser processing, laser surface nanostructuring, 3D micro and nano fabrication by ultrafast laser, and fabrication of integrated microchips for biological analysis based on laser-based technology. He is a senior research scientist at RIKEN – Advanced Science Institute and a guest professor at Tokyo University of Science and Tokyo Denki University. He received B.E., M.E. and Ph.D degrees in electronics form Waseda University in 1984, 1986 and 1993, respectively. He has received nine awards for his research, inventions and contributions in the area of laser microprocessing. He published approximately 140 articles, gave approximately 90 invited talks including plenary, keynote and tutorial presentations at international conferences and approximately 100 invited talks at domestic conferences and has about 30 patents or pending patents. Based on Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge, his articles have been cited over 2,000 times, and his H-index is evaluated to be 26. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Laser Micro/Nanoengineering, a board member of Laser Institute of America (LIA) and Japan Laser Processing Society (JLPS) and the SPIE Fellow. Ya Cheng is an active researcher in the ultrafast photonics related fields, including femtosecond laser micromachining, ultrafast nonlinear optics and strong field laser physics. He is a professor of the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of High Field LaserPhysics, SIOM. He received his B.S. degree from Fudan University in 1993 and Ph.D degree from SIOM in 1998. He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and given more than 60 invited talks at international conferences. His papers have been cited more than 1,600 times and his current H-index is 21 (Database: web of science). He is an editor of the Laser Micro/Nanoengineering and Chinese Physics Letters and the Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Optical Society. Show Less