2023 Winners
Foundation
2023 Recipients

Zaijun Chen
University of Southern California, USA
Accelerating optical edge sensing with photonic deep learning (Information)
Ahmed Dorrah
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA
Structured light generation and sensing with metasurfaces for THz communications (Information)
Samantha Grist
The University of British Columbia, Canada
Silicon photonic biosensors for low-cost, portable, data-rich measurements of hormone biomarkers relevant to women's health and the menopausal transition (Health)
Nirosha Murugan
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Capturing Cancer in Its Early Glow: pioneering early detection strategies using light-based biomarkers (Health)
Justus Ndukaife
Vanderbilt University, USA
Next-generation high throughput plasmonic nanotweezers for nanoplastics analysis (Environment)
Alejandro Velez-Zea
Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
Multilayer holographic augmented reality with digital micromirror devices: content pipeline and system implementation (Information)
Yicheng Wang
Ruhr-Universität-Bochum/Photonics and Ultrafast Laser Science (PULS), Germany
High-power 2-μm frequency combs for rapid greenhouse gas sensing (Environment)
Fei Xia
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Low-cost, stain-free computational spectral fluorescence imager for diagnosis of diseased tissue. (Health)
Ying Xue
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Monolithic III-V active devices in-plane coupled with Si for integrated Si-photonics (Information)