2022 Winners
Foundation

Dismas Choge
University of Eldoret, Kenya

Ashim Dhakal
Phutung Research Institute, Nepal
Piloting an affordable and real-time Water Assessment System (WAS) for detection of fecal coliforms in drinking water (Environment)
Guangwei Hu
Nanyang Technological Uuniversity, Singapore
Single-shot, Isotropic and Miniaturized Differential Interference Contrast (SIM-DIC) microscopy based on computational flat-optics (Health)
Chaoran Huang
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Integrated photonic neuromorphic processor enables intelligent, energy-efficient signal processing for the next-generation communication systems (Information)
Xingchen Ji
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Developing low-cost, portable, integrated OCT systems using low-loss silicon nitride platform (Health)
Mark Lawrence
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Fast, low-power, and high-resolution meta-reflect-arrays for massive space-division-multiplexing (Information)
Michela Florinda Picardi
ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Italy
THUNDER - THermal UNpolarized radiation Design for Energy Recycling (Environment)
Wanvisa Talataisong
Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand
An innovative optical fibre device for micro-pollutants and greenhouse gas monitoring (Environment)
Mengjie Yu
University of Southern California, USA
Integrated high-speed mid-infrared electro-optic modulator for free space optical communication (Information)