Biography

Sanket Goel did his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in physics from the Ramjas College, Delhi University, India; MSc (Physics) from IIT Delhi, India; PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering) from University of Alberta, Canada in 1998, 2000, and 2006 respectively. Subsequently, he did his postdoc at Stanford University (2006-2008), and worked as a PI and Scientist with ASTAR, Singapore (2008- 20011). Earlier, during 2000-2001 he worked with Institute of Plasma Research, (IPR) Gandhinagar, India. On his return to India in 2011, he led the R&D department at the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES) (2011-2015). Since 2015, he is working with BITS Pilani, India, where currently, he is the Dean and spearheads Research and Innovation related activities. He is also a Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Hyderabad Campus, whereby he headed the Department during 2017-2020. He is the founding principal investigator of a multidisciplinary team of MEMS, Microfluidics and Nanoelectronics (MMNE). His team focusses on developing smart sensors and intelligent energy harvesters to realize turnkey and autonomous devices for diversified applications under several Indian and overseas funded projects. In this context, his team has developed several commercialisable prototypes on printed, wearable, and implantable devices, incorporating novel materials, optimized fabrication processes, smartphone based integrated and cyber-physical systems. Augmenting on various prototypes developed by his team, he has also co-founded 3 companies – Cleome Innovations, Pyrome Innovations and Sensome Innovations, Sanket has won awards, like JSPS Fellowship (2021), BITS Pilani Best Faculty Award (2021), Fulbright fellowship (2015), American Electrochemical Society’s Best students paper award (2005) and University of Alberta PhD thesis award (2005). As of December 2023, Sanket Goel has >350 publications and 32 patents to his credits, has delivered >100 invited talks and guided/guiding 45 PhD students. He has also authored 4 books on Microelectronics & Signal Processing, Miniaturized Electrochemical Devices, 3D printed smart devices and Droplet & Digital Microfluidics. Currently, he is working on writing a compendium book on lab experiments for MEMS course. He is an Associate Editor of several journals like IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, Applied Nanoscience, Journal of Nanobiotechnology, Microsystem Technologies, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Journal of Electrochemical Science and Engineering, and IEEE Access. He is also a Visiting Professor with UiT, The Arctic University of Norway. He is a Fellow, IETE and Fellow, IEI.

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Portable Optofluidic devices for Autonomous and Diversified Sensing Applications: Cyber Physical System Approach

The lecture revolves around the advancement of compact and adaptable sensing instruments that combine fluidics and time-tested optical sensing mechanisms to serve a wide range of bioanalytical sensing applications. By utilizing the benefits of integrated microfluidics, the devices function on a vast array of sensing phenomena, including electrochemistry, colorimetry, chemiluminescence, and electrochemiluminescence. The focus will be on a wide variety of portable devices that can operate independently, allowing for a wide range of detection capabilities to be implemented, including biomarker analysis and environmental pollutant quantification. By implementing a cyber-physical system approach, such devices have experienced substantial enhancements in functionality, flexibility, and autonomy. Furthermore, the interdisciplinary endeavors will illustrate the potential applications of sophisticated and versatile sensing technologies. 

Biography

Full Professor at the Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), with a Ph.D. in Photonics Engineering. His research focuses on optical fiber sensors, photonic devices, and electromagnetic interference. He has published extensively, holds multiple patents, and has led numerous funded research projects. An active Brazilian Society of Microwaves and Optoelectronics (SBMO) member, he has supervised many doctoral and master's theses. With expertise in electromagnetic theory and wave propagation, he contributes to technological advancements in optical sensing, optoelectronic instrumentation, and applied photonics in engineering.

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Advanced Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing Technologies for Energy Systems

Advanced Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing (DOFS) technologies, particularly Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), offer real-time, high-resolution monitoring for energy systems. DAS enables early anomaly detection, optimizing operational reliability. This paper presents applications that include pipeline integrity assessment, environmental hazard detection, and seismic analysis, enhancing safety and efficiency in the petroleum industry and structural health monitoring. 

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Professor Emeritus José Miguel López-Higuera is the founder and former leader of the Photonics Engineering Group at the University of Cantabria, CIBER-BBN, and IDIVAL in Spain. He serves as the founder and current director of the International School on Light Sciences and Technologies (ISLIST at UIMP), which features esteemed speakers including Nobel Laureates such as Andre Geim, Shuji Nakamura, and Donna Strickland.

Moreover, he has held the position of General Chairman for EWOFS in 2004 and OFS23 in 2014, both events taking place in Santander, Spain. He holds memberships in wide number of international committees associated with conferences, research and development institutions, and companies specializing in photonic sensing. His primary focus is on the development of light-based sensor systems and instrumentation across diverse application sectors.

Prof. López-Higuera has participated in over 150 R&D&I projects, leading as principal investigator in more than 110 of them. He has made significant contributions through over 980 research publications, 26 patents, and supervision of 21 PhD theses. Additionally, he has co-founded several technology-based companies.

Recognized for his contributions, Prof. López-Higuera is a Fellow of several prestigious organizations including OSA, SPIE, IAAM, and VEBLEO. He is also a Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Cantabria. He has been honored with numerous awards and accolades, the most recents being the Gold Medal from the Ramales de la Victoria City Council on December 29, 2022 and also the IAAM Scientist Medal, awarded by the International Association for Advanced Materials (January 20, 2024) was awarded to him after the development of his invited presentation within the framework of the European Fellow Summit, Stockholm, Sweden, on August 16-28, 2024.

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Photonic Sensors for Health and Medicine

Photonics is considered a Key Enabling Technology (KET) or an Essential Technology for the development of Europe, USA and others main nations around the world.

To increase the level and quality of people’s lives it is necessary to develop the capacity to capture, quantify and translate physical, chemical, and other magnitudes to another domain, normally electrical. Sensors are the devices developed for carrying out these tasks. This function can be implemented by using light-based technologies constituting the key area of Photonic Sensors, inside the Photonics Field. A device that can be used to make detection or/and measurements of biologic, chemical, physical or physiological parameters, using light is considered a photonic sensor able to be used for health and medical application sectors.

In the Invited talk, after a mention of what it must be understood, in wide sense, as Light based Sensors, we will do a “flight” over several significant cases used in inside the health and medical sector application. The main challenges to face in the near future will be, also, addressed and discussed.

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Hideaki Murayama received the B.E., M.E., and Dr.Eng. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Tokyo, Japan, in 1996, 1998, and 2001, respectively. He has applied fiber sensors to structural health monitoring (SHM) or digital twin of ships and lightweight structures. He joined the National Space Development Agency of Japan as a Research Fellow in 2001 and moved to UTokyo in 2003 as a Lecturer. He has been a Professor with the Department of Ocean Technology, Policy, and Environment since 2017. He is studying on fiber optic sensor networks, diagnosis/prognosis techniques based on inverse analysis or artificial intelligence, and lightweight materials/structures made from carbon fibers applied not only to offshore structures and marine vessels but also to aircrafts, space vehicles, infrastructures, and robots. He is an Expert Member of IEC SC86C/WG2 on fiber optic sensors and chairing the mirror committee of Japan. Prof. Murayama has regularly participated in OFS since 2003 (OFS-16) and has been a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member since 2012 (OFS-22). He was with the OFS-28 as a TPC Chair.

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Digital twin with fiber-optic sensors

The concepts and technologies of digital twin/health monitoring, providing overall displacement and stress, can enhance the reliability and safety of structures. The displacement can be reconstructed by integration or inverse analysis based on strains measured at multiple points by using distributed fiber-optic sensors and stress can be calculated based on the displacement and strain distributions. In this presentation, the development of digital twins for ship structures with fiber-optic sensors is shown. In addition, the applications of shape sensing technology to structural health monitoring of linear structures that play an important role in offshore structures, as cables for risers or unmanned submersibles, mooring cables and so on, will be shown.

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Anna Grazia Mignani, a physicist by training with a Ph.D. in non-destructive testing, is an Emeritus Researcher at CNR, the National Research Council of Italy, where she has been active since 1984, most recently serving as a Research Director. Her career began with the design and development of fiber optic sensors before expanding into optical spectroscopy-based sensing for environmental and industrial applications.

Her current research focuses on visible and near-infrared spectroscopy for food analysis, particularly in multi-component assessments of nutraceutical and safety indicators using a single light shot and multivariate spectral data processing. Her work has been supported by European and national research grants in applied optical sensing, and she holds multiple US and EU patents.

She has been a visiting scientist at laboratories in Belgium, Ireland, and China and serves as an expert evaluator, project reviewer, and advisor for international funding agencies. A Fellow of SPIE, she was member of the SPIE Board of Directors for the 2016–2018 term. Currently, she is a Member-at-Large of the IEEE Sensors Council, where she previously chaired the Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

From 2017 to 2022, she was seconded to Brussels as a National Expert at the European Research Council Executive Agency of the European Commission, contributing as Scientific Officer to the "Systems and Communication Engineering," "Condensed Matter Physics," and "Synergy" panels.

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Pocket-sized optical spectroscopy: revolutionizing food analytics at your fingertips

Optical spectroscopy is transforming food analysis by providing a cost-effective and eco-friendly alternative to traditional methods. With its ability to deliver rapid and non-destructive measurements without the need for harmful chemicals or solvents, it allows green analytics for food quality and safety assessment.

By integrating chemometrics or AI-powered algorithms, optical spectroscopy can decode complex data and perform simultaneous analysis of multiple food components. A single flash of light, combined with advanced spectroscopic training, enables comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessments of various nutraceutical indicators in one go. It’s an intelligent and sustainable solution for achieving superior food quality and safety standards.

Photonic technologies initially developed for telecommunications, generated an explosion of compact light sources, detectors, micro-spectrometers, spectral sensors, fiber optics, and micro-photonic components. These innovations are now transforming food control, providing compact, robust, and low-cost instruments that are perfect for online applications by users with minimal technical training, as well as by consumers.

In this tutorial, we will show the the latest and most compact optical spectroscopy devices, with a special attention to those operating in the near-infrared, and to pocket-sized and smartphone-connected models. We will show their applications in food analysis and showcase their potential through a live demo.

Get ready to see how these powerful tools can revolutionize food multi-component analyses, and discover opportunities for future collaborations. 

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Minghong Yang is chief professor of Wuhan University of Technology, and director of the National Engineering Research Center for Fiber Optic Sensing Technology and Networks. He received PhD in physical electronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2003. From July 2003 to December 2005, he was with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Mechanics in Jena, Germany as post-doctoral visiting scholar, after that he worked in the Berlin University of Technology, Germany as research fellow. Since 2009, he has been a research faculty member in the National Engineering Research Center for Fiber Optic Sensing Technology and Networks, Wuhan University of Technology, China. He has served as Technical Program Committee member for the 23, 24,25th international conference of Optical Fiber Sensors, and international steering member of the Asia-Pacific Optical Sensors since 2016. He is serving as Topic Editor and Associate Editor for IEEE Sensors Journal.

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Draw Tower Fiber Bragg Grating Array and its Industrial Applications

The National Engineering Research Center for Fiber Optic sensing Technologies and Networks (NERC-FOST) at the Wuhan University of Technology China has conducted research and development activities on optical fiber sensing technologies for more than 40 years. This talk will review on our recent R&D works on fiber optic sensing technologies, especially the draw-tower fiber Bragg grating array and its industrial applications. 

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Manuel López-Amo was born in Madrid and is a University Professor and head of the Optical Communications Group at the Public University of Navarra (Spain) since 1996. He has published more than 350 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings related to fiber optic sensors, fiber networks, lasers and integrated optics. He has led more than 40 research projects, has directed 18 doctoral theses and has been or is a member of 34 technical committees of international conferences, currently with the Optical Fiber Sensors Conference, (OFS) and European Workshop on fibre optic sensors (EWOFS). He was chairman of the technical committee at the OFS23 conference and he will be again the technical chairman of the OFS29.

Since 2020, he belongs to the 2% of the most cited scientists in the world, according to the Stanford University ranking. He is a member of the IEC/CENELEC expert committee in working group TC 86/SC 86C/WG 2: Fibre optic sensors since 2012. He is or has been associate editor of the journals: Scientific reports, Frontiers in sensors and Journal of Lightwave Technology among others. He was also chairman of the Optoelectronics committee of the Spanish Optics Society and has received 5 research awards. He has directed the Faculty of Industrial and Telecommunications engineers of the Public University of Navarra and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the same university. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the OSA.

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Fiber optic sensors in smart cities.

Fiber optic sensors are set to play an important role in smart cities. In this presentation we will see some practical contributions of the Public University of Navarra in this field, including sensors for building, energy, traffic monitoring and water quality measurement, among others.

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Ignacio Del Villar received his MS degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and his Ph.D. degree, specialty in Optical Fiber Sensors, in 2002 and 2006, respectively, from the Public University of Navarra (UPNA), where he is a full professor at Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Department. His research interest includes optical fiber sensors and the effect of nanostructured coatings deposited on waveguides, where he has co-authored more than 250 chapter books, journals and conference papers. He is also de cofounder of companies Pyroistech and Eversens.

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Lossy Mode Resonance-Based Sensors with Phase-Matching Layers

Lossy mode resonances are achieved when an absorbing dielectric thin film is deposited onto substrates such as optical fibers or planar waveguides. However, in certain cases, the visibility of the resonance is insufficient to accurately identify the central wavelength, which serves as the basis for monitoring the parameter to be detected. This article discusses recent experimental advancements in incorporating an intermediate thin film between the dielectric thin film and the substrate. This intermediate layer improves the matching between the one or several modes guided in the substrate and the mode guided in the dielectric thin film. This enhancement is crucial for reducing signal noise and thereby improving the limit of detection.