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Xiangping Li was born in 1979 in Sichuan province, China. After receiving a diploma in Physics from Nankai University (Tianjin, China) in 2002, he followed on with graduate study specializing in all-optical switchings, in the Modern Optics Institute, Nankai University. In 2005, he joined the group of Professor Min Gu (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) as a Ph.D. candidate. His current research is nanoparticle-dispersed photopolymers for multi-dimensional optical data storage.

James W. M. Chon obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne and joined the Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow in 2001. His research area includes total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, multiphoton absorption of quantum dots, metallic nanoparticles, and recently shifted his focus towards multi-dimensional optical storage using nanoparticles. He is currently a senior lecturer at Swinburne.

Min Gu, an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and Cheung Kong Chair Professor of the Ministry for Education (China), gained a Ph.D. in optics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988 and a professorship in 1998 in Australia at the age of 38. He is the director of the Centre for Micro-Photonics at Swinburne University of Technology, a Chief Investigator and Node Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS). He is also a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the International Society for Optical Engineering and the Australian Institute of Physics. He has published over 450 articles (including over 250 papers in internationally refereed journals) in photonic crystals and devices, nanophotonics/biophotonics, micro/nanofabrication, confocal and multiphoton microscopy, laser tweezers, and multi-dimensional optical data storage. He is/was Vice President (2004–present) and President (2002–2004) of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences and Vice Present of the International Commission for Optics (2005–present). He has received numerous awards for excellence.