Invited Speakers

The Invited Speakers listed below will share their innovative technical contributions and applications throughout the conference, addressing some of the most complex technologies in the photonics field.

TOPICS

Biophotonics and Medical Optics

Brendan Kennedy, University of Western Australia, Australia
Shuichi Makita, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Dushan Wadduwage, Harvard University, USA
Junjie Yao, Duke University, USA
Seokchan Yoon, Pusan University, South Korea

Detection, Sensing, and Energy

Minjoo Larry Lee, University of Illinois, USA
Rich Mirin, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Jelena Notaros, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Daniel Wasserman, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Light Sources

Jos Boschker, Ferdinand-Braun Institut, Berlin, Germany
Natalia Litchinitser, Duke University, USA
Zhaowei Liu, University of California, San Diego, USA
Md. Jarez Miah, Bangladeshi University of Engineering Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Yating Wan, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Materials, Foundries, and Fabrication

Martin Dawson, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Thomas Ferreira de Lima, NEC Laboratories America, USA
Sonia Garcia Blanco, University of Twente, Netherlands
Boubacar Kante, University of California Berkeley, USA
Yoshiho Maeda, NTT Corporation, Japan
Andrea Melloni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Yuta Ueda, NTT Corporation, Japan

Microwave Photonics and Vehicular Optics

Antonella Bogoni, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and CNIT, Italy
Matt Eichenfield, Sandia Lab, USA
David Marpaung, University of Twente, Netherlands
Thas Nirmalathas, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dennis Prather, University of Delaware, USA

Nano Photonics, Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Biqin Huang, HRL, USA
Laura Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Abdoulaye Ndao, Boston University, USA
Filiz Yesilkoy, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
Ashwin Parthasarathy, University of South Florida, USA
Jacob Scheuer, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Cheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mengjie Yu, University of Southern California, USA

Nonlinear Photonics and Novel Optical Phenomena

Camille-Sophie Bres, EPFL, Switzerland
Tobias Herr, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany
Ido Kaminer, Technion, Israel
Jeffrey Moses, Cornell University, USA
Mikael Rechtsman, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Elizaveta Semenova, DTU Electro, Denmark
Birgit Stiller, Max Planck Institute for the Science of light, Germany

Optical AI and Computational Photonics

Puneet Gupta, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Christian Koos, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA
Nicola Peserico, George Washington University, USA
Javier Porte, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Optical Communication and Networks

Lorenzo De Marinis, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Joao Pedro, Infinera, Portugal
Stephan Pachnicke, Kiel University, Germany
Alan Pak Tao, Hongkong Polytechnic University, Hongkong
Jianping Yao, University of Ottawa, Canada

Optical Communication: Devices, Interconnects and Subsystems

Haoshuo Chen, Nokia Bell lab, USA
Xuhan Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Yuqing Jiao, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Brian Vyhnalek, NASA, USA
Wenfu Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Propagation, Spectroscopy, and Imaging

Ian Coddington, NIST, USA
Kebin Shi, Peking University, China
Laura Waller, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Lidai Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Quantum Photonics

Matthieu Eichenfield, University of Arizona, USA
Daniil Lukin, Stanford University, USA
Li Qian, University of Toronto, Canada
Nicolas Treps, Sorbonne Université, France
Rahul Trivedi, University of Washington, USA
Lijian Zhang, Nanjing University, China

SPECIAL SYMPOSIA

Special Symposium on Advances in Neurophotonics

Ashwin Parthasarathy, University of South Florida, USA
Laura Di Sieno, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Mitchell Robinson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Amir Shemer, Jerusalem College of Engineering, Israel

Special Symposium on Quantum Photonic Materials and Devices for Quantum Computing

Tobias Gehring, DTU, Denmark
Kimberly Hall, Dalhousie University, Canada
Alex High, The University of Chicago, USA
Olivier Pfister, University of Virginia, USA
Edo Waks, University of Maryland, USA