Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. Christoph Scheytt (Member, IEEE) received the Diploma (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. (Hons.) degrees from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. In 2000, he co-founded advICo microelectronics GmbH, a German IC design house for RFIC and fiber-optic IC design. For six years he was the CEO of advICo. From 2006 to 2012, he was with the Leibniz Institute for High-Performance Microelectronics (IHP), Frankfurt (Oder), as the Head of the Circuit Design Department. In 2012, he was appointed as a Full Professor of circuit design with the University of Paderborn, Germany, and the Research Group Leader of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Paderborn. Since 2016, he has been the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute. Since 2018, he has been the Leader of the Priority Program ''Ultrafast Electronic Photonic Integrated Systems for Ultrafast Signal Processing'' SPP 2111 of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He is a co-speaker of the recently established Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS), Paderborn. He has authored and coauthored more than 200 refereed journal articles and conference contributions and holds more than 20 patent families. His research interests include high-frequency and broadband IC design for communications and sensing, IC design with SiGe BiCMOS and CMOS technologies, silicon photonics, and photonic quantum signal processing.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Berroth (Life Senior Member, IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. degree from the University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany, in 1979, and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany, in 1991. In 1987, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, and worked on device modeling and circuit design. Since 1996, he has been a Professor at the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. His main research interests are on design, modeling, and characterization of electronic and optoelectronic devices and integrated circuits.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Pachnicke (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in information engineering from City University, London, U.K., in 2001, the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, in 2005, and the Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. degree in business administration from Fern-Universität, Hagen, Germany, in 2005. From 2011 to 2015, he was with ADVA Optical Networking SE (now ADTRAN) working in the Advanced Technology Group (CTO Office) as Principal Engineer. Since 2016, he has been a Full Professor and heading the Chair of Communications, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany. He is the author or co-author of more than 260 scientific publications, author of a book on Fiber-Optic Transmission Networks (Springer, 2011) and holds several patents. Dr. Pachnicke has been serving on the technical program committees of the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), the Signal Processing in Optical Communications Conference (SPPCom), the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) and the International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC) and was General Chair of the SPPCom Conference in 2024. He is a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association and a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Prof. Dr. Jeremy Witzens was born in Schiltigheim, France, in 1978. He received the Engineering Diploma degree from Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Senior Staff Engineer with Luxtera Inc. and from 2009 to 2010 a Principal Research Scientist with the University of Washington, Seattle Campus. Since 2011, he has been a Professor with RWTH Aachen University, where he leads the Chair of Integrated Photonics. He is a Managing Director of aiXscale Photonics GmbH that he co-founded in 2017.
Jeremy Witzens is the author of more than 170 journal and conference papers and 27 patent families. His research interests include silicon photonics and its application to communications, sensing, instrumentation and quantum / neuromorphic information processing. These include in particular optically enabled information processing, visible wavelength silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits and their application to the life sciences, as well as co-packaged optics and novel photonic packaging schemes. Dr. Witzens was the recipient of a research grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2011, the General Chair of the International IEEE Conference on Group IV Photonics (GFP) in 2017, the General Chair of the 10th Sino-German Joint Symposium on Opto- and Microelectronic Devices and Systems (SODC) in 2018, and the General Chair of the European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO) in 2024. He is a Sr. Editor of the SpringerOpen Journal PhotoniX.

Christian Kress received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany, in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute and the Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems, Paderborn. He also serves as the Group Leader of the Broadband and Quantum Electronic-Photonic-Integrated Circuits Subgroup within the Department of System and Circuit Technology. His research interests include high-frequency analog integrated circuits for broadband transmitters, receivers, and analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters in various photonic technologies, such as silicon BiCMOS/CMOS photonics platforms and thin-film lithium-niobate-on-insulator (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs).

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Berroth (Life Senior Member, IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. degree from the University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany, in 1979, and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany, in 1991. In 1987, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, and worked on device modeling and circuit design. Since 1996, he has been a Professor at the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. His main research interests are on design, modeling, and characterization of electronic and optoelectronic devices and integrated circuits.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Pachnicke (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in information engineering from City University, London, U.K., in 2001, the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, in 2005, and the Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. degree in business administration from Fern-Universität, Hagen, Germany, in 2005. From 2011 to 2015, he was with ADVA Optical Networking SE (now ADTRAN) working in the Advanced Technology Group (CTO Office) as Principal Engineer. Since 2016, he has been a Full Professor and heading the Chair of Communications, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany. He is the author or co-author of more than 260 scientific publications, author of a book on Fiber-Optic Transmission Networks (Springer, 2011) and holds several patents. Dr. Pachnicke has been serving on the technical program committees of the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), the Signal Processing in Optical Communications Conference (SPPCom), the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) and the International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC) and was General Chair of the SPPCom Conference in 2024. He is a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association and a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Prof. Dr. Jeremy Witzens was born in Schiltigheim, France, in 1978. He received the Engineering Diploma degree from Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Senior Staff Engineer with Luxtera Inc. and from 2009 to 2010 a Principal Research Scientist with the University of Washington, Seattle Campus. Since 2011, he has been a Professor with RWTH Aachen University, where he leads the Chair of Integrated Photonics. He is a Managing Director of aiXscale Photonics GmbH that he co-founded in 2017.
Jeremy Witzens is the author of more than 170 journal and conference papers and 27 patent families. His research interests include silicon photonics and its application to communications, sensing, instrumentation and quantum / neuromorphic information processing. These include in particular optically enabled information processing, visible wavelength silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits and their application to the life sciences, as well as co-packaged optics and novel photonic packaging schemes. Dr. Witzens was the recipient of a research grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2011, the General Chair of the International IEEE Conference on Group IV Photonics (GFP) in 2017, the General Chair of the 10th Sino-German Joint Symposium on Opto- and Microelectronic Devices and Systems (SODC) in 2018, and the General Chair of the European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO) in 2024. He is a Sr. Editor of the SpringerOpen Journal PhotoniX.

Christian Kress received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany, in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute and the Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems, Paderborn. He also serves as the Group Leader of the Broadband and Quantum Electronic-Photonic-Integrated Circuits Subgroup within the Department of System and Circuit Technology. His research interests include high-frequency analog integrated circuits for broadband transmitters, receivers, and analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters in various photonic technologies, such as silicon BiCMOS/CMOS photonics platforms and thin-film lithium-niobate-on-insulator (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs).

教授 Dr.-Ing. J. Christoph Scheytt（IEEE 會員）於1996年和2000年分別在德國魯爾大學波鴻獲得碩士（M.Sc.）和博士（Hons.）學位。2000年，他共同創立了advICo microelectronics GmbH，這是一家專注於RFIC和光纖IC設計的德國IC設計公司。他擔任advICo的首席執行官六年。從2006年到2012年，他在德國法蘭克福（奧德）擔任高效能微電子學研究所（IHP）電路設計部門的負責人。2012年，他被任命為德國帕德博恩大學的電路設計全職教授，並擔任海因茨·尼克斯多夫研究所的研究小組負責人。自2016年以來，他一直擔任海因茨·尼克斯多夫研究所董事會主席。自2018年以來，他成為德國研究基金會優先計畫「超快速電子光子集成系統用於超快速信號處理」SPP 2111的負責人。他是最近成立的帕德博恩光子量子系統研究所（PhoQS）的共同發言人。他已發表和共同發表超過200篇經過審核的期刊文章和會議貢獻，並擁有超過20個專利族。他的研究興趣包括通訊和感測的高頻和寬頻IC設計、使用SiGe BiCMOS和CMOS技術的IC設計、矽光子學以及光子量子信號處理。

教授 Dr.-Ing. Manfred Berroth（IEEE 終身資深會員）於1979年在德國慕尼黑聯邦武裝部隊大學獲得Dipl.-Ing.學位，並於1991年在魯爾大學波鴻獲得Dr.-Ing.學位。1987年，他加入德國弗勞恩霍夫應用固態物理研究所，專注於器件建模和電路設計。自1996年以來，他一直是德國斯圖加特大學的教授。他的主要研究興趣在於電子和光電設備及集成電路的設計、建模和特性分析。

教授 Dr.-Ing. Stephan Pachnicke（IEEE 資深會員）於2001年在英國倫敦城市大學獲得信息工程碩士學位，於2005年在德國多特蒙德工業大學獲得電氣工程博士學位，並於2005年在德國哈根遠程大學獲得商業管理Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing.學位。從2011年到2015年，他在ADVA Optical Networking SE（現為ADTRAN）擔任首席工程師，隸屬於先進技術組（CTO辦公室）。自2016年以來，他一直是德國基爾大學的全職教授，並負責通訊學系。他是260多篇科學出版物的作者或共同作者，並於2011年出版了一本關於光纖傳輸網絡的書籍（Springer），擁有多項專利。Pachnicke博士曾參與歐洲光通信會議（ECOC）、光纖通信會議（OFC）、光通信信號處理會議（SPPCom）、亞洲通信與光子會議（ACP）和光子在切換與計算中的國際會議（PSC）的技術程序委員會，並於2024年擔任SPPCom會議的總主席。他是亞太人工智慧協會的研究員，並且是歐洲科學與藝術學院的成員。

教授 Dr. Jeremy Witzens於1978年出生於法國希爾蒂亨。他於2000年在法國巴黎高等師範學校獲得工程文憑，並於2001年和2005年在美國加州理工學院獲得電氣工程碩士和博士學位。從2006年到2009年，他在Luxtera Inc.擔任高級員工工程師，從2009年到2010年在華盛頓大學西雅圖校區擔任首席研究科學家。自2011年以來，他一直是德國亞琛工業大學的教授，負責集成光子學系。他是他於2017年共同創立的aiXscale Photonics GmbH的執行董事。
Jeremy Witzens已發表超過170篇期刊和會議論文，擁有27個專利族。他的研究興趣包括矽光子學及其在通訊、感測、儀器和量子/神經形態信息處理中的應用。這些研究特別包括光學啟用的信息處理、可見波長的矽氮化物光子集成電路及其在生命科學中的應用，以及共同封裝光學和新型光子封裝方案。Witzens博士於2011年獲得歐洲研究委員會（ERC）的研究資助，於2017年擔任國際IEEE第四組光子會議（GFP）的總主席，於2018年擔任第十屆中德光電和微電子設備與系統聯合研討會（SODC）的總主席，並於2024年擔任歐洲集成光學會議（ECIO）的總主席。他是SpringerOpen期刊PhotoniX的資深編輯。

Christian Kress於2013年和2017年在德國帕德博恩大學獲得電氣工程學士和碩士學位。他目前正在海因茨·尼克斯多夫研究所和光子量子系統研究所攻讀博士學位。他還擔任系統與電路技術系內寬頻和量子電子-光子-集成電路子小組的組長。他的研究興趣包括用於寬頻發射器、接收器以及各種光子技術中的模擬-數字和數字-模擬轉換器的高頻模擬集成電路，例如矽BiCMOS/CMOS光子平台和薄膜鋰鈮酸鹽（TFLN）光子集成電路（PICs）。