Initiated by journal Light: Science & Applications, the 2020 Rising Stars of Light Final Campaign was live hosted on iCANX talks On 23rd and 30th Oct. With the assistance of visual reality, the committee members and final candidates are able to “sit” in a room together. After two sessions and eight hours online campaign with half a million global audiences watching online, the Committee members - Prof. Aydogan Ozcan from UCLA, Prof. Jianlin Cao from Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Prof. Chennupati Jagadish from The Australian National University, Prof. Andrea Alu from The City University of New York and Prof. Min Qiu from Westlake University – selected Dr. Giulia Tagliabue from EPFL as the first prize, Dr. Amit Agrawal from NIST and Dr. Shuo Sun from CU Boulder as the second prize winners, Dr. Avik Dutt, Dr. Justus Ndukaife, Dr. Junqiu Liu as the third prize winners, and Dr. Shulin Sun from Fudan University, Dr. Yi Yang from MIT, Dr. Sui Yang from UC Berkeley, Ph.D. candidate Guangwei Hu from National University of Singapore as the candidates awards winners.
Rising Stars of Light, initiated by Light: Science & Applications, is a worldwide campaign for the most shining young scientists in optics-related topics. Since 2018, it has been hosted for two years and received worldwide recognition. For more information, please visit this link.