2023 Organizing Committee

General Chair

Dominique Dagenais
National Science Foundation, USA

Program Chair

Di Liang
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Program Vice-Chair

Gabriella Bosco
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

MEMBER-AT-LARGE

Michael Brodsky
U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA

Topic Committees

Biophotonics and Medical Optics

Topic Chair:
Peter Munro, University College London, United Kingdom

Topic Co-Chair:
Srivalleesha Mallidi, Tufts University, USA

Committee:
Balpreet Singh, Ahluwalia, University of Tromso (UiT), Norway
Liang Gao, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Jamie Guggenheim, University of Birmingham, UK
Myeong Jin Ju, University of British Columbia, Canada
Yang Liu, University of Pittsburgh Hillman, USA
Nisan Ozana, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Jung-Hoon Park, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Francisco (Paco) Robles, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, USA
Judy Su, University of Arizona, USA
Lei Tian, Boston University, USA

Detection, Sensing, and Energy

Topic Chair:
Ganesh Balakrishnan, University of New Mexico, USA

Topic Co-Chairs:
Stephanie Tomasulo, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Nicola D’Ascenzo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Committee Members:
Sadhvikas Addamane, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
Seth Bank, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Andreas Beling, University of Virginia, USA
Sanjay Krishna, Ohio State Univesity, USA
Andrej Lenert, University of Michigan, USA
Jun Tatebayashi, Osaka University, Japan
Paul Simmonds, Boise State University, USA

Light Sources

Topic Chair:
Nelson Tansu, The University of Adelaide, Australia

Topic Co-Chair:
Paul Crump Leibniz-Institut für, Höchstfrequenztechnik, Germany
Boon S. Ooi, KAUST, Saudi, Arabia

Committee:
Menaka De Zoysa, Kyoto University, Japan
William Fenwick, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
Lan Fu, Australian National University, Australia
Qing Gu, North Carolina State University, USA
Changmin Lee, Kyocera SLD Laser, USA
Davide Priante, Coherent, USA
Haiding Sun, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Ying Xue, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Materials, Foundries and Fabrication

Topic Chair:
Shamsul Arafin, The Ohio State University, USA

Topic Co-Chair:
Sarvagya Dwivedi, Rockley Photonics, USA

Committee:
Andy Boes, University of Adelaide, Australia
Naresh Emani, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Tatsurou Hiraki, NTT, Japan
Shankar Kumar Selvaraja, Indian Institute of Science, India
Bart Kuyken, University Gent-imec, Belgium
Wayesh Qarony, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Hoe Tan, Australian National University, Australia
Qifan Yang, Peking University, China
Linjie Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Microwave Photonics and Vehicular Optics

Topic Chair:
Charles Middleton, Critical Frequency, USA

Topic Co-Chair:
David Moilanen, EOSPACE, USA

Cmmittee:
Lawrence Chen, McGill University, Canada
Ivana Gasulla, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Yang Liu, EPFL, Switzerland
Elaine Wong, University of Melbourne, Australia
Siva Yegnanarayanan, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Xiaoke Yi , University of Sydney, Australia
Justin Zobel, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA

Nano Photonics, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials

Topic Chair:
Jennifer Choy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Topic Co-Chair:
Parag Deotare, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Committee:
Meryem Benelajla, Ghent Unviersity – IMEC, Belgium
Sathwik Bharadwaj, Purdue University, USA
Shanying Cui, HRL, USA
Kejie Fang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jaime Gomez Rivas, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Sushil Mujumdar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Nonlinear Photonics and Novel Optical Phenomena

Topic Chair:
Alireza Marandi, California Institute of Technology, USA

Topic Co-Chair:
Hanieh Fattahi, Max-Planck Institute for Science of Light (MPL), Germany

Committee:
Andrea Blanco-Redondo, Nokia Bell Laboratories, USA
Wenshan Cai, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Avik Dutt, University of Maryland, USA
Rachel Grange, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Md Selim Habib, Florida Polytechnic University, USA
Mohammed Hassan, University of Arizona, USA
Kirk Ingold, USMA at West Point, USA
Kambiz Jamshidi, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, Germany
Mathias Kling, Stanford University, USA
Francois Leo, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Mohammad-Ali Miri, City University of New York, USA
Yoshitimo Okawachi, Columbia University, USA
Mohsen Rahmani, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Kartik Srinivasan, NIST, USA
Kenta Takata, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan
Logan Wright, Yale University, USA

Optical AI and Computational Photonics

Topic Chair:
Volker Sorger, George Washington University, USA

Topic Co-Chair:
Giovanni Volpe, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Committee Members:
Wim Bogaerts, University of Gent, Belgium
Daniel Brunner, CNRS, France
Hamed Dalir, University of Florida, USA
Philip Feng, University of Florida, USA
Elham Heidari, UMD, USA
Chaoran Huang, University of Honkong, China
Emanuel Peinke, 3E8 Inc., Canada
Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Belgium
Ben Yoo, UC Davis, USA

Optical Communication and Networks

Topic Chair:
Deepa Venkitesh, IIT Madras, India

Topic Co-Chair:
Darli Mello, Unicamp, Brazil

Committee:
Youichi Akasaka, Fujitsu, USA
Xun Guan, Tsinghua University, China
Fotini Karinou Microsoft, United Kingdom
Hai-Han Lu, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Nicola Sambo, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
Takehiro Tsuritani, KDDI, Japan
Metodi Yankov, Denmark Technical University, Denmark

Optical Communication: Devices, Interconnects and Subsystems

Topic Chair:
Giovanni Milione, NEC Labs America, USA

Topic Co-Chairs:
Tingyi Gu, University of Delaware, USA
Daoxin Dai, Zhejiang University, China

Committee:
Kyle Bottrill, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Sang Yeon Cho, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA
Martijn Heck, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Xingchen Ji, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Dun Mao, University of Delaware, USA
Yiwei Peng, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA
Brian Stern, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Honki Tsang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Ting Wang, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yujie Xia, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

Propagation, Spectroscopy, and Imaging

Topic Chair:
Kevin Tsia, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Topic Co-Chair:
Zhaowei Liu, University of California San Diego, USA

Committee:
Lingze Duan, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
Jessica Houston, New Mexico State University, USA
Takuro Ideguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Puxiang Lai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Arka Majumdar, Washington University, USA
Aydogan Ozcan, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Junsuk Rho, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
Liangyan Shi, University of California San Diego, USA

Quantum Photonics

Topic Chair:
Mahdi Hosseini, Northwestern University, USA

Topic Co-Chair:
Hadiseh Alaeian, Purdue University, USA

Committee:
Markus Allagaier, University of Oregon, USA
Boulat Bash, Arizona University, USA
Michael Fanto, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Geza Giedke, Donostia International Physics Center, Spain
Xiongfeng Ma, Tsinghau University, China
Robert McConnell, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
David Meyer, ARL Army, USA
Daniel Oblak, University of Calgary, Canada
Sarah Sharif, The University of Oklahoma, USA

Special Symposia

Special Symposium on Advances in Neurophotonics

Topic Chair:
Nisan Ozana, Bar Ilan University, Israel

Topic Co-Chair:
Peter Munro, University College London, United Kingdom

Committee Members:
Ikbal Şencan-Eğilmez, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Meryem Yucel, Boston University, USA

Special Symposium on Quantum Photonic Materials and Devices for Quantum Computing

Topic Chair:
Mahdi Hosseini, Northwestern University, USA

Topic Co-Chair:
Daniel Oblak, University of Calgary, Canada

Committee Members:
Simeon Bogdanov, UIUC, USA
Michael Stefszky, University of Paderborn, Germany
Feihu Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Photonics Industry Focus

Topic Chair:
Daniel Renner, Atacama Optics & Electronics, USA