Keynote Speakers
Prof. Ting-Chung Poon
(IEEE/IOP/SPIE Fellow)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Ting-Chung Poon is a Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA. His current
research interests include Information Optics, 3-D image
processing and Optical Scanning Holography (OSH). Dr. Poon
is the author of the monograph Optical Scanning Holography
with MATLAB (Springer, 2007), and is the co-author of, among
other textbooks, Modern Information Optics with MATLAB
(Cambridge University Press and Higher Education Press,
China, 2023) and Introduction to Modern Digital Holography
with MATLAB (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He is also
Editor of the book Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional
Display (Springer, 2006). Dr. Poon served as Division Editor
of Applied Optics from 2008 to 2014, and was Associate
Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Optics Letters. He also served as
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Informatics and was General Chair of Optica Annual Meeting
Frontier in Optics + Laser Science (FiO LS) for the years
2021 and 2022. Currently, Prof. Poon is Specialty Chief
Editor of Frontiers in Photonics, and Editor of Applied
Sciences.
Dr. Poon is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the
Institute of Physics (IOP), the Optica, and the
International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). He
received the 2016 Dennis Gabor Award of the SPIE for his
pioneering contributions to optical scanning holography
(OSH). Dr. Poon was a Visiting Professor for Senior
International Scientists at the Shanghai Institute of Optics
and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, a Visiting
Professor at Shizuoka University (Hamamatsu, Japan), Nihon
University (Japan), National Taiwan Normal University
(Taiwan), and City University of Hong Kong (China).
Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at Shanghai
University, an Adjunct Professor at National Central
University (Taiwan) and a Distinguished Chair Professor of
Feng Chia University (Taiwan).