Chao Chang
Chao Chang is the receiver of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the leading talent of the National Ten Thousand Talents Plan of China. He is a professor at Peking University. He was born in 1983, received his bachelor’s degree in 2006 and Ph.D. in 2010 both from Tsinghua University, China and did post-doctoral research during 2011-2013 from Stanford University, the USA. He is the director of Innovation laboratory of Terahertz biophysics. He has devoted to the research of microwave plasma and terahertz/Infrared bio-sensor and bio-effects. He is the winner of the first prize of the 2019 China’s State Science Awards, the 2020 Ho Leung Ho Lee Award, the 2020 special award of China’s Youth Science and Technology Awards, the 2020 Xplore Prize, the 2017 IEEE NPSS Early Achievement Award, the 2018 Tan Kah Kee Young Scientist Award, and 2018 AAPPS-DPP Young Scientist Award. He is the founding chair of the IEEE NPSS Xi’an Chapter (the 1st NPSS Chapter established in China), an IEEE senior member, the general chair of the 2018 Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma and Terahertz Science, and the technical program chair of the 2020 47th ICOPS, the 2023 APCOPTS, and the 2024 51st ICOPS. He is also the chief scientist of China’s National Scientific Innovation District, chair of China Terahertz Biophysics Committee, and chair of China Terahertz Young Scientist Committee.
Yaxin Zhang
Yaxin Zhang is Yangtze Fund Scholar Professor and Outstanding Talent in the New Century by the Ministry of Education of China. He is a professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He also serves as the vice director of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering, the vice director of the Terahertz Specialized Committee of Young Scientists of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, and the vice director of the Terahertz Specialized Committee of the China Institute of Communications. He has won seven provincial- and ministerial-level scientific research awards, including four first prizes. He has one nomination and one win at the China Optics Top Ten Progresses Awards. His research interests include terahertz dynamic metasurfaces, terahertz RF chips and devices, and high-speed terahertz communication technologies.
Ziran Zhao
Ziran Zhao is the leading talent of the National Ten Thousand Talents Plan of China. He is a professor at Tsinghua University, China. He is the deputy director of the National Engineering Research Center for Dangerous Articles and Explosives Detection at Tsinghua University, where he is the principal investigator of the nuclear electronics and control program. He also vice directs the Key Laboratory of Particle Technology and Radiation Imaging, the Ministry of Education of China. He received the B.S. degree in engineering physics and the Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University, in 1998 and 2004, respectively.
He has conducted R&D in radiation imaging, long-wavelength photonics and system construction for 25 years. He has made several original achievements in ultrabroadband terahertz/far-infrared detection, non-contact human body security inspection, radiation imaging intelligent perception algorithm and other directions, established a theoretical system for multivariant perception of long-wavelength photons, and presided over the development of a series of domestic security inspection imaging equipment that have been exported to many countries to become an international standard, continuing to promote the global application of related technology and equipment.
Yiming Zhou
Yiming Zhu is the leading talent of the National Ten Thousand Talents Plan of China. He is a professor at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He is named as a Young Yangtze Professor, and a winner of the National Key Talent Project and a receiver of the Outstanding Youth Fund and the Special State Council Allowance. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a Ph.D. degree in 2008. After that, he has been engaged in theoretical and experimental research on terahertz technology and its application in the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.
He has been focusing on the research of the practical terahertz imaging and spectral system for a long time. As the leader, he led his team to successfully established the National Basic Science Center-Terahertz Science and Technology Frontier (Cooperation), the Terahertz Spectrum and Imaging Technology Cooperative Innovation Center, the Terahertz Precision Biomedical Technology Overseas Expertise Introduction Center for Discipline Innovation (National 111 project), Shanghai Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging Technology Collaborative Innovation Center, Terahertz Technology Innovation International Joint Laboratory at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and Lomonosov Moscow State University.
He has also won many awards, including the first prize of the Science Technology Achievement Awards in Higher Education Institutions awarded by the Ministry of Education of China, the first prize of Shanghai Technological Invention Awards, the Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Awards, the first prize of the Invention and Innovation Awards of China Invention Association, the Excellent Patent Awards of China, the gold prize of the Geneva International Invention Awards, the second prize of the Shanghai Natural Science and Technology Awards, etc.