Yufei Ma is a Professor at the School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology. He was elected an Optica Fellow and serves as the principal investigator for a number of projects including the Key Program and Excellent Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, pre‑research projects for Manned Space Program, and commissioned technical projects from Huawei. He holds editorial positions as Subject Editor‑in‑Chief, Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member for multiple SCI journals, including Photoacoustics, Opto‑Electronic Advances, Optics Express, Optics Letters, and Chinese Optics Letters. He is also an editorial board member of Acta Photonica Sinica and Infrared and Laser Engineering. He has published more than one hundred academic papers in journals such as Light: Science & Applications, Reports on Progress in Physics, Advanced Photonics, Opto‑Electronic Advances, PhotoniX, Applied Physics Reviews, and Laser & Photonics Reviews.