Keisuke Goda is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo in Japan, an adjunct professor in the Institute of Technological Sciences at Wuhan University in China, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA in USA.
He obtained a BA degree from UC Berkeley summa cum laude in 2001 and a PhD from MIT in 2007, both in physics. At MIT, he worked on the development of gravitational-wave detectors in the LIGO group which led to the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. After several years of work on high-speed imaging and microfluidics at Caltech and UCLA, he joined the University of Tokyo as a professor in 2012. His research group focuses on the development of serendipity-enabling technologies based on laser-based molecular imaging and spectroscopy together with microfluidics and computational analytics to push the frontier of science. He has published >300 papers including many in top journals, filed >30 patents, and received numerous awards such as JSPS Prize, Japan Academy Medal, Yomiuri Gold Medal, and MEXT Prize. He is a fellow of SPIE and RSC.

Shin-ichi Nagahama is Principal Researcher and General Manager of LD business unit at NICHIA corporation. He joined Nichia in 1991 and participated in the development of GaNbased blue LEDs. And in 1993, Nichia announced the world’s first high-brightness blue LED.
The following year, in 1994, he started developing GaN-based violet LDs, and succeeded in the world’s first GaN-based LD emission by current injection in 1995. After that, he pushed forward with the development to cover a wider range of emission wavelengths, and as a result, UV (375 nm) to blue (460 nm) and green (532 nm) LDs have been commercialized. In 2002, he received his Ph.D. from Tokushima University, Japan. He has written more than 100 patents on GaN-based light emitting devices in Japan and more than 200 in foreign countries.