14^th International Conference on Optics, Photonics & Laser May 24-25, 2021 London, UK

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, Technical University, Vienna, Austria and James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. He is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA, is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored 450+ publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products), and 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal (for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of EPHRAIM SUHIR, Ph.D. Bell Laboratories, Physical Sciences and Engineering Research Division, Murray Hill, NJ, USA (ret); Portland State University, Depts. of Mech. and Mat., and Elect. and Comp. Engineering, Portland, OR, USA; Technical University, Dept. of Applied Electronic Materials, Inst. of Sensors and Actuators, Vienna, Austria; James Cook University, Mackay Institute of Research and Innovation, Townsville, Queensland, Australia; and ERS Co., 727 Alvina Ct., Los Altos, CA 94024, USA, www.ERSuhir.com, Tel. 650.969.1530, Cell. 408-410-0886, e-mail: suhire@aol.com and e.suhir@ieee.org 2 2 engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline “Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems”). Ephraim is the third “Russian American”, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. His most recent awards are 2019 IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) Field award for seminal contributions to mechanical reliability engineering and modeling of electronic and photonic packages and systems and 2019 Int. Microelectronic Packaging Society’s (IMAPS) Lifetime Achievement award for making exceptional, visible, and sustained impact on the microelectronics packaging industry and technology.

 Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Applied and Mathematical Physics  Analytical (Mathematical) Modeling in Applied Science and Engineering  Materials Science and Engineering  Aerospace and Automotive Electronics and Photonics  Design for Reliability (DfR) of Electronic, Opto-Electronic and Photonic Assemblies, Packages and Systems  Applied Probability and Probabilistic DfR (PDfR) of Electronic and Photonic Devices and Systems  Photonics, Fiber Optics, Mechanics of Optical Fibers  Thin Film Mechanics and Physics  Shock and Vibration Analyses and Testing  Dynamic Response of Materials and Structures to Shocks and Vibrations  Thermal Stress Analysis, Prediction and Prevention of Thermal Stress Failures in Electronics and Optics  Solder Materials and Solder Joint Interconnections in Electronic and Optical Engineering  Polymeric Materials in Electronics and Photonics  Photovoltaic and Thermo-Electric Modules: Physical Design for Reliability  Stretchable (Large Area) Electronics and Photonics: Physical Design for Reliability  Lattice-Misfit Systems: Stress Analysis and Reliability Evaluations  Technical Diagnostics, Prognostics and Health Monitoring (PHM)  Vehicular (Aerospace, Automotive, Maritime, Railroad) Electronics and Photonics: Design for Reliability  “Human-in-the-Loop”: Human-System Interaction and Integration, with an emphasis on analytical modeling

Dr. Navendu Goswami is an Associate Professor in Department of Physics & Materials Science and Engineering, Jaypee Institute of Information technology, Noida. Dr. Goswami did his M.Sc. in 1999 followed by Ph.D. in Physics from School of Physical Sciences, JNU, New Delhi. Dr. Navendu Goswami had been an Investigador-Post Doctoral Fellow (2019) in Solid State Electronics Section, Electrical Engineering Department, Center of Research and Advanced Studies of I.P.N. (CINVESTAV), Mexico. He received Visiting Fellowship (2018-19) for faculty to pursue research work in International Centre for Materials Science (ICMS) and Chemistry & Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. During his Ph.D. and afterwards his research area is Nanoscience and Technology. He has supervised diverse Nanotechnology projects at M.Tech. and B.Tech. levels and supervised Ph.D. Theses. He published around 50 peer-reviewed research papers. He presented research papers in more than 50 international/national conferences, organized/attended 39 scientific workshops and delivered many invited talks in India and abroad. Dr. Navendu Goswami is member of Material Research Society (MRS) USA, MRS India, Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Indian Physics Association (IPA), Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT). He is Editorial board member and referee for several journals. Dr. Goswami is recipient of various academic and teaching awards.

During his Ph.D. and afterwards his research area is Nanoscience and Technology. He has supervised diverse Nanotechnology projects at M.Tech. and B.Tech. levels and supervised Ph.D. Theses.

Assistant Professor in Dept. of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta with 14 years of experience in the field of sensors and optical instrumentation.

Optical instrumentation, sensors, image and signal processing, metrology and non-destructive testing, interferometry, optical coherence tomography, MATLAB