Hoi-Sing Kwok obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 1978. He taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1980 to 1992 and became Full Professor in 1985. In 1992 he returned to Hong Kong to become Chair Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is currently Executive Director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Displays and Optoelectronics Technologies. He won the SID Slottow-Owaki Prize in 2014 and the SID Rajchman Prize in 2019. He is an Elected Member of the National Academy of Inventors, Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials. He is also a Fellow of IEEE, Society for Information Displays (SID) and Optica (Optical Society)

Zhiyong Fan is a Chair Professor at the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Fudan University, PhD degree from University of California, Irvine in 2006 then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He joined Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2010. Currently, he is the Co-director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Display and Optoelectronics Technologies at HKUST. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of Optica, Senior Member of IEEE, and Founding Member of the Young Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Semiconductors. His research interest is focused on functional nanomaterials and structures for electronic, optoelectronic and bionic electronic devices