TOCS 2026

Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, IEEE Fellow, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia.

Research field: Design and Performance Analysis Of Diversity Combining Techniques, Mimo Techniques, Multi-Hop/Cooperative Communications Systems, Optical Wireless Communication Systems, Cognitive Radio Systems, Green Communication Systems and Networks.

Mohamed-Slim Alouini was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1998. He served as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar before joining in 2009 the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) where he is now the Al-Khawarizmi Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Alouini is a Fellow of the IEEE and OPTICA (Formerly the Optical Society of America (OSA)). He is currently particularly interested in addressing the technical challenges associated with the uneven distribution, access to, and use ofinformation and communication technologies in rural, low-income, disaster, and/or hard-to-reach areas.

Rick Trebino

Professor, SPIE Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Research field: Optics, Physics, Ultrafast Phenomena.

Rick Trebino received his BA from Harvard in 1977 and his PhD from Stanford in 1983. After spending twelve years at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, USA, he accepted a Chair in Ultrafast Optical Physics at Georgia Tech, where he currently studies ultrafast optics, specifically pulse measurement, and optics education. He has received numerous prizes for his research including Optica's Esther Hoffman Beller Medal and is a Fellow of Optica, APS, AAAS, and SPIE. Inspired by the interesting fact that science’s greatest discoveries have resulted directly from more powerful light-measurement techniques, Rick Trebino’s award-winning research involves developing techniques for measuring light with ever shorter and more complex ultrafast temporal and microscopic spatial variations. He is best known for frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG), the first technique—and still the gold standard—for measuring arbitrary ultrashort pulses in time. His more recent inventions measure the complete spatiotemporal pulse electric field. Frustrated by “chalk-and-talk” style lectures when he was student, Trebino utilizes the many capabilities of Power Point to create lecture materials with detailed drawings, pictures, animations, and movies to make even unintuitive and complex ideas clear. His colorful and informative lectures have been shared with professors, teachers, and students all over the world, and translated into several languages including Spanish, French, and Chinese. In 2024, Trebino received Optica's R. W. Wood Prize, "For his invention and development of techniques for the ever more complete and rigorous measurement of ultrashort light pulses, which have enabled a wide range of new applications across many fields."

Vladimir G Chigrinov

Professor Emeritus, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK, China.

Research field: Computer modeling of various electrooptical effects in Liquid Crystals (LC), Photo-aligning technique for LCD applications, LC devices in fiber optics, Fast multistable ferroelectric liquid crystal devices.

Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 333 journal papers, more than 718 Conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications including 50 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012. He obtained Gold Medal and The Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014 held at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2014, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20-22 Feb 2014. He is a Member of EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS) since July 2017. He got A Slottow Owaki Prize of SID in 2018. He is 2019 Distinguished Fellow of IETI (International Engineering and Technology Institute). Since 2018 until 2020 he works as Professor in the School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering in Foshan University, Foshan, China. 2020-2024 Vice President of Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) Since 2021 distinguished Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. 
He is IETI Fellow since 2019.

Since March 2022 he is A Fellow of National Academy of Technology for his contributions to Information Electrical and Electronic Research.

He is a Editor in Chief of Liquid Crystal section in Crystals journal since 2023.

T.D. Subash, Professor

Zhejiang Ocean University, China.

Research field: Photonics, Nanoelectronics, and Photovoltaics.

He is a Professor and global academic leader with over 17 years of experience in engineering education, research governance, and technological innovation. His work focuses on academic quality assurance, outcomes-based education, and continuous improvement in higher education. Currently at Zhejiang Ocean University, China, he leads multidisciplinary research and teaching in photonics, nanoelectronics, and photovoltaics, while contributing to curriculum design, program evaluation, and industry-aligned education frameworks. He serves in several international leadership roles, including as an elected Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Photonics Society and Chair of the IEEE Greentronics Technical Committee. He has also founded multiple IEEE chapters and contributes to global education and research initiatives. He has published over 100 journal papers, delivered 100+ invited talks, and led numerous collaborative research projects. His work emphasizes student-centered learning, measurable outcomes, and global academic excellence.

Luigi Santamaria Amato

Researcher, Italian Space Agency, Italy.

Research field: Molecular and optical physics.

Luigi Santamaria Amato after the master degree and PhD in Physics was postdoctoral researcher at University Milano Bicocca and Institute of Complex Systems in Rome. In 2012 joined Italian Institute of Optics (INO-CNR) as temporary researcher where he worked on high resolution spectroscopy for fundamental physics tests. From 2017 he is permanent researcher at Italian Space Agency where he works on several projects of optical metrology and quantum optics. He is author of about 50 papers on peer-reviewed journals and is responsible of several projects on optical spectroscopy and quantum optics.

Dragan Peraković

Professor, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Research field: Communication ecosystem, Digital forensic, Cybersecurity, Quantum communication, AI & ML.

Dragan Peraković received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 1995, 2003, and 2005, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb, where he also serves as the Head of the Department for Information and Communication Traffic and the Chair of Information Communication Systems and Services Management. He is a visiting professor at the University of Mostar and the University of East Sarajevo, as well as an International Expert at Asia University, Taiwan, and a DBA mentor at SSBM Geneva. His research focuses on intelligent transport systems, Industry 4.0, e-Health, AI and machine learning in cybersecurity, IoT, DDoS detection, and digital forensics. He has authored over 250 scientific publications, contributed to multiple international books and projects, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics, while also acting as Guest Editor for numerous WoS-indexed special issues.