PIER Journals
PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium, also known as Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium
SuzhouPIERS2026

PIERS —— A global symposium committed to
advancing photonics and electromagnetics for the benefit of humanity.

Organization

* All names of general chairs, subcommittee chairs and members are in alphabetical order.

Honorable Chairs

Leung Tsang
University of Michigan, President of The Electromagnetics Academy
Weng Cho Chew
Purdue University
Huadong Guo
Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shi-Ning Zhu
Nanjing University

General Chairs

Kun-Shan Chen
Nanjing University
Chair
Sailing He
Royal Institute of Technology & Zhejiang University
Chair
Tian Jiang
Nanjing University
Chair
Jun Hu
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Chair

Technical Program Committee Chairs

Huanyang Chen
Xiamen University
Chair
Dazhi Ding
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Chair
Lei Gao
Suzhou City University
Chair
Yuri Kivshar
Australian National University
Chair
Tao Li
Nanjing University
Chair
Xiaofeng Li
Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chair
Feng Xu
Fudan University
Chair

Subcommittee Chairs & Members

SC 1. Computational Electromagnetics, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Scattering and Electromagnetic Theory

Qing Huo Liu
Eastern Institute of Technology
Chair
Habib Ammari
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Chair
Ibrahim (Abe) M. Elfadel
Khalifa University
Li Jun Jiang
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Maokun Li
Tsinghua University
Mengmeng Li
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Wei E. I. Sha
Zhejiang University
Raffaele Solimene
University of Campania ``Luigi Vanvitelli''
Qingtao Sun
Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo
Eng Leong Tan
Nanyang Technological University
Mei Song Tong
Tongji University
Ming-Lin Yang
Beijing Institute of Technology
Qiwei Zhan
Zhejiang University
Xingqi Zhang
University of Alberta
Bo O. Zhu
Nanjing University

SC 2. Metamaterials, Plasmonics and Complex Media

Hongsheng Chen
Zhejiang University
Chair
Fei Ding
Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo
Jian-Wen Dong
Sun Yat-sen University
Maxim V. Gorkunov
National University of Science and Technology MISiS
Qiong He
Fudan University
Lingling Huang
Beijing Institute of Technology
Yun Lai
Nanjing University
Guancong Ma
Baptist University of Hongkong
Ilya V. Shadrivov
Australian National University
Jinhui Shi
Harbin Engineering University
Shulin Sun
Fudan University
Ventsislav K. Valev
University of Bath
Ying Wu
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Meng Xiao
Wuhan University
Luqi Yuan
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Baile Zhang
Nanyang Technological University
Cheng Zhang
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Junming Zhao
Nanjing University

SC 3. Optics and Photonics

Sailing He
Royal Institute of Technology & Zhejiang University
Chair
Antonello Cutolo
University of Napoli Federico II
Chair
Jamal Berakdar
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
Zhenzhou Cheng
Tianjin University
Costantino De Angelis
University of Brescia
Feng Li
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Mihail I. Petrov
ITMO University
Pier Paolo Pompa
Zhejiang University
Mikhail V. Rybin
ITMO University
Fan Wang
Beihang University

SC 4. Antennas and Microwave Technologies

Chao-Fu Wang
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Chair
Sheng Sun
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Co-Chair
Abdullah Eroglu
SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Feng Feng
Tianjin University
Yijun Feng
Nanjing University
Mikhail Yu. Glyavin
A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Jihong Gu
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Zhang-Cheng Hao
Southeast University
Zhihao Jiang
Southeast University
Chien-Nan Kuo
National Chiao-Tung University
Ji-Wei Lian
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Wenxin Liu
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zewen Liu
Tsinghua University
Giacomo Oliveri
University of Trento
Zhongxiang Shen
Yangtze Delta Region Academy of Beijing Institute of Technology
Sen Yan
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Shuai Zhang
Aalborg University

SC 5. Remote Sensing, Imaging, Inverse Problems and Artificial Intelligence

Xudong Chen
National University of Singapore
Chair
Ferdinando Nunziata
Sapienza University of Rome
Chair
Krishna Agarwal
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Martina Teresa Bevacqua
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
Wen Chen
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Loreto Di Donato
University of Catania
Yanlei Du
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hong Tat Ewe
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Decheng Hong
Jilin University
Antonio Iodice
University of Naples ``Federico II''
Shuanggen Jin
Henan Polytechnic University
Hui Lu
Tsinghua University
Shurun Tan
Zhejiang University
Zhun Wei
Zhejiang University
Ying Yang
Nanjing University
Xiuzhu Ye
Beijing Institute of Technology

SC 6. Quantum Science and Technology

Hai-Zhi Song
Southwest Institute of Technical Physics & UESTC
Chair
Xiaosong Ma
Nanjing University
Chair
Mauro Antezza
Université de Montpellier
Guangwei Deng
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Ruifang Dong
National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Carlo Forestiere
Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Jietai Jing
East China Normal University
Yong-Chun Liu
Tsinghua University
Dong-Yeop Na
Pohang University of Science and Technology
Roberto Passante
University of Palermo

Awards Committee

Kazuya Kobayashi
Chuo University
Chair

Local Organizing Committee

Xiaofeng Yang
Nanjing University
Chair

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