We warmly congratulate A.Prof. Zilan Deng for being nominated as a finalist of 'Rising Stars of Light' Award Competition based on his first-authored work entitled 'Facile metagrating holograms with broadband and extreme angle tolerance'.  This award was organized by Light Conference 2018 to highlight outstanding young scholars for their innovative work in optics and photonics. The selection was extremely competitive through international peer reviewing. It is privileged to be selected as one out of 10 finalists reflecting the international recognition of the quality of the work.