Artificial Intelligence Photonics 2026 (AI-Photonics26)

Prof. López has a background in semiconductor physics and over thirty years' experience in materials science. His specialization in photonic materials covers preparation and characterization of nano- and micro-structured materials especially those based on self-assembly. Colloidal materials have been a dear subject of study with emphasis on the order/disorder balance and led to exceptional contributions in photonic crystals and photonic glasses. Introduction of non-linear properties such as optical gain greatly adds to these materials' potential giving rise to systems such as random lasers. Investigating random lasers, he found that certain ingenious realizations facilitate their coupling and their organization in networks.

Andrea Alù is a Distinguished Professor, founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York. He is affiliated with the Wireless Networking and Communications Group and the Applied Research Laboratories, both based at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor. His research interests span over a broad range of technical areas, including applied electromagnetics, nano-optics and nanophotonics, microwave, THz, infrared, optical and acoustic metamaterials and metasurfaces, plasmonics, nonlinearities and nonreciprocity, cloaking and scattering, acoustics, optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas.

Valentina Parigi is a Professor at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel at Sorbonne Université in Paris. She works in photonic quantum technologies within the continuous-variable (CV) framework. Her research focuses on the implementation of large CV-entangled Gaussian and non-Gaussian networks and their application in quantum information and communication protocols.