Dr. Dingshan Gao received his doctorate from Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004. After that, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Now he is a professor at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He is currently the Chinese chairman of the Sino-French “PHOTONET” joint research network. His research interests include silicon photonics, nano-optics and integrated quantum optics. He has published more than 50 peer-review papers in Optica, Physical Review Letters, Scientific Reports, Optics Letters, Optics Express and other international journals. He is an associate editor of the international journal IET Optoelectronics.