Prof. Haiyun Xia is a Professor at the School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. He previously served as a Jointly Appointed Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China—Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale. He is a Senior Member of OSA (Optical Society of America). He was recognized as one of the Young Top Talents in the 2019 Ten Thousand Talents Program. He has received several prestigious awards, including the First Prize for Military Science and Technology Progress, the Special Gold Medal at the Geneva International Invention Competition, and the Gold Medal at the National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. His research areas include the application of quantum and superconducting technologies in lidar, the study of the physical and chemical properties of the troposphere, target recognition and tracking, ultrafast femtosecond target detection, and gas composition analysis.