Zheng Moderates Photonics Panel at CLEO 2025

MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng moderated the panel discussion, “Next-Gen Photonic Metamaterials: Innovations in Light, Heat, Devices, and AI,” at the 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), organized by the IEEE Photonics Society, OPTICA, and APS. The distinguished panel featured world leaders in photonics including Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University; Andrea Alù, City University of New York; Weibo Gao, Nanyang Technological University, and Cheng Wang, the City University of Hong Kong. More than 50 researchers and scientists attended to explore the current status and future development prospects of quantum, AI, topological photonics, thermal photonics, and nanofabrication.