This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 8th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Optofluidics (IMCO 2018) held in Shanghai on August 5-8, 2018, as well as papers from the IMCO 2019 held in Hong Kong on June 14-17, 2019. The work focuses on the current development in the fields of optofluidics, microfluidics, silicon photonics, optical metamaterials and other related areas. Readers from both academia and industry will benefit from the experts' opinion and the lasted development in the multidisciplinary field of optofluidics.

Prof. Lei Xu is a professor at Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He received a B.S. and a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Physics, Fudan University in 1984 and 1990, respectively. From 1990 to 2000, Prof. Xu was a lecturer, associate professor, and professor at the Department of Physics at Fudan University. Since 2000, he has been a professor at the School of Information, Fudan University. He received Cross-Century Excellent Talent Fund of the Ministry of Education in 1997 and the Berkeley Scholar Program at the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. Prof. Xu's research focuses on microcavity photonics materials and devices, nonlinear optics, and nanophotonics. He is currently deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Photonics Materials and Devices, the vice chairman of the Shanghai Laser Society and the member of the Academic Committee of the Key Laboratory of Spectroscopy and Spectroscopy of the Ministry of Education.Prof. Lei Zhou is a professor at Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He received a B.S. and a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Physics, Fudan University in 1992 and 1997, respectively. After several years of post-doctoral study at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Tohoku University, he joined the Physics Department of Fudan University in 2004 as a professor, and has become a "Xi-De" Chair Professor since 2013. Prof. Zhou's research focuses on magnetism, meta-materials, photonic crystals and plasmonics. He was awarded prizes including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) "Grant for Outstanding Young Scientist" in 2007, the Chang Jiang Scholars Program Chair Professorship in 2009, OSA Young Scientist Award in 2016 and the APS Outstanding Referee in 2017.