NILOP conducts technologically-driven and oriented education and training courses for developing a new generation of professionals in the photonics and optoelectronic industry. The existing and upcoming programs that incorporate fact-based courses, learning workshops and hands-on research project allow students and professionals to gain the expertise and requisite skills necessary to thrive in an environment of fast-paced technological evolution. The institute's faculty who are in fact world-class experts in their discipline not only carry out groundbreaking optical and photonics specific research but also impart their skills on students for them to be involved in this quest to advance knowledge.