Xin Fan received his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from University of Delaware in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. John Xiao. After graduation, Xin stayed in the same group as a postdoc fellow. He joined the faculty of University of Denver in 2014, and is currently an associate professor in Physics. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and co-organizes the online spintronics seminar series since 2020. His current research interests include magnetization dynamics and spintronics.

Jingsheng Chen obtained the B.S and Ph.D degrees in 1994 and 1999 from Lanzhou University, China. From 1999 to 2001, he was postdoctoral fellow at Nanyang Technological University. During 2001-2007, he was a research scientist at the Data Storage Institute, Singapore. Currently he is an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore. His present research interests include magnetic materials and devices for spintronics application, high anisotropy magnetic materials for hard disk drives, multiferroic materials, and emerging ferroelectric materials and devices. From 2008 till the present, he has been sponsored by Seagate Technology to develop high anisotropy magnetic recording media for heat-assisted magnetic recording. He has authored or co-authored over 300 refereed journal papers, holds more than 10 patents, and has made over 50 invited presentations at international conferences. He is a senior member of IEEE and has served as the program chair of 2018 International Magnetics Conference.

Aurélien Manchon is a Professor of Physics at Aix-Marseille University in the Interdisciplinary Center for Nanoscience of Marseille. He raduated from the École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, in 2004 and earned the Ph.D. in physics in 2007 from Université Joseph Fourier and SPINTEC lab in Grenoble, France. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Arizona, Tucson. He was an Assistant (2009-2015) and Associate Professor (2015-2019) of Materials Science and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. His research focuses on theoretical spintronics and aims at identifying novel mechanisms that can be used to operate low-power, ultrafast, spin-based devices. His research interests include spin-orbit coupled transport, chiral magnetism, antiferromagnets, and ultrafast dynamics.