Nanophotonics and Plasmonics: An Integrated View

About

Ching Eng (Jason) Png is Director of the Electronics and Photonics Department at the Institute of High Performance Computing Agency for Science Technology and Research Singapore. He got his PhD degree from the University of Surrey UK (2004) executive MBA degrees from INSEAD France (2014) and Tsinghua University China (2014). Dr. Png started his career at Agilent Technologies leading manufacturing of optical transceivers and joined Institute of High Performance Computing in 2005. His research interests span from quantum and highspeed photonics to chargetransfer plasmonics and electromagnetics. He received a string of technical and entrepreneurship awards including the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Prize IET Innovation Award in Software Design (highly commended) Skolkovo Prize at the INSEAD Venture Competition and the Spring TECS ProofofValue grant. Dr. Png serves on the national committee for the United Nations General Assembly sanctioned International Light of Year 2015 SPIE Photonics West technical program and Founding Chair for URSI Singapore Chapter. He cofounded Optic2Connect Pte Ltd which is the first spinoff company from Institute of High Performance Computing commercializing silicon photonics.Yuriy A. Akimov is a scientist in the Electronics & Photonics Department Institute of High Performance Computing Agency for Science Technology and Research Singapore. He received his MS (2002) and PhD (2005) degrees in Plasma Physics from the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. Dr. Akimov started his carrier at the Institute of High Technologies Ukraine in 2002 and joined the Institute of High Performance Computing Singapore in 2008. His expertise is in the theory of electrodynamic systems with a strong background in Physics and extensive simulation experience in Nonlinear Optics Plasma Physics Plasmonics Nanophotonics Photovoltaics and Computational Spectroscopy. His major area of research is optical properties of dielectric semiconductor and metal nanostructures. Dr. Akimov is recipient of numerous academic awards and scholarships including toplevel awards from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. He has authored or coauthored over 90 peerreviewed journal papers conference proceedings and book chapters.