2024 Organizing Committee

General Chair

Di Liang
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Program Chair

Gabriella Bosco
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Program Vice-Chair

Michael Brodsky
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA

• Member-At-Large

Cristian Antonelli
University of L’Aquila, Italy

Topic Committees

Biophotonics and Medical Optics

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

Topic Co-Chair:
Yang Liu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Committee Members:
Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, University of Tromso (UiT), Norway
James Guggenheim, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Myeong Jin Ju, University of British Columbia, Canada
Akhil Kallepalli, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Brendan Kennedy, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and Univeristy of Western Australia, Poland and Australia
Srivalleesha Mallidi, Tufts University, USA
Nisan Ozana, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Jung-Hoon Park, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Leilei Peng, University of Arizona, USA
Wei-Chuan, Shih University of Houston, USA
Judy Su, University of Arizona, USA
Guoan Zheng, University of Connecticut, USA
Feliz Yesilkoy, Univeristy of Wisconsin Madison, USA

Detection, Sensing, and Energy

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

Topic Co-Chair:
Ching-Fuh Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Stephanie Tomasulo, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

Committee Members:
Andreas Beling, University of Virginia, USA
Vincent Chengkuo Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Leland Nordin, University of Central Florida, USA
Paul Simmonds, Tufts University, USA
Wei Zhou, Virginia Tech, USA

Light Sources

Topic Chair:
Boon S. Ooi, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Topic Co-Chair:
Paul Crump, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Germany

Committee Members:
Angela Dudley, WITS, South Africa
Will Fenwick, LLNL, USA
Qing Gu, North Carolina State University, USA
Tatsushi Hamaguchi, Mie University, Japan
Alina Karabchevsky, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Zhenguo Lu, NRC-CNRC, Canada
Sylvie Menezo, Scintil Photonics, France
Jarez Miah, BUET, Bangladesh
Tim Schröder, HU-Berlin, Germany
Haiding Sun, USTC, China
Ying Xue, HKUST, Hong Kong

Microwave Photonics and Vehicular Optics

Topic Chair:
Charles Middleton, Critical Frequency, USA

Topic Co-Chair:
Xiaoke Yi, University of Sydney, Australia

Committee Members:
Antonella Bogoni, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
Lawrence Chen, McGill University, Canada
Yang Liu, EPFL, Switzerland
Siva Yegnanarayanan, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Justin Zobel, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Materials, Foundries, and Fabrication

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

Topic Co-Chair:
Sarvagya Dwivedi, Kilby Labs, Texas Instruments, USA

Committee Members:
Andy Boes, University of Adelaide, Australia
Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco, University of Twente, Netherlands
Tatsurou Hiraki, NTT, Japan
Mathias Prost, 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

Nano Photonics, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials

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

Topic Co-Chair:
Jaime Gomez Rivas, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Committee Members:
Sinan Genc, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Sushil Mujumdar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
Moussa N’Gom, University of Michigan, USA
Pol van Dorp, KU Leuven, Belgium
Shaojun Wang, Soochow University, China
Val Zwiller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Nonlinear Photonics and Novel Optical Phenomena

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

Topic Co-Chair:
Mohammed Hassan, University of Arizona, USA

Committee Members:
Eric Cunningham, SLAC, USA
Shima Gholam Mirzaeimoghadar, University of Ottawa, Canada
Quishi Guo, CUNY, USA
Matthias Kling, Stanford University, USA
Nicolo Maccaferri, University of Umea, Sweden
Julia Mikhailova, Princeton University, USA
Midya Parto, CREOL, USA
Oleg Pronin, HSU Humburg, Germany
William Renninger, University of Rochester, USA
Amelle Zair, Kings College London, UK

Optical AI and Computational Photonics

Topic Chair:
Bassem Tossoun, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA

Topic Co-Chair:
Angelina Totovic, Celestial AI, Greece

Committee:
Paolo Bardella, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Pandelis Diamantopoulos, NTT, Japan
Chaoran Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA
Paolo Pintus, University of Cagliari, Italy
Nikos Pleros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Bhavin Shastri, Queen’s University, Canada
Mitsuru Takenaka, University of Tokyo, Japan
Nathan Youngblood, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Belgium

Optical Communication and Networks

Topic Chair:
Deepa Venkitesh, IIT Madras, India

Topic Co-Chair:
Darli Mello, Unicamp, Brazil

Committee Members:
Youichi Akasaka, Fujitsu, Japan
Astrid Barreiro Berrio, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Sonia Boscolo, Aston, UK
Annika Dochhan, University of Kiel, Germany
Xun Guan, Tsinghua University, China
Fotini Karinou, Microsoft, UK
Alan Lau, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, Hong-Kong
Hai-Han Lu, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Mikael Mazur, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Ruby Ospina, Nokia, France
Nicola Sambo, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
Takehiro Tsuritani, KDDI, Japan
Lakshminarayanan Venkatasubramani, Dublin City University, Ireland
Metodi Yankov, Denmark Technical University, Denmark

Optical Communication: Devices, Interconnects and Subsystems

Topic Chair:
Giovanni Milione, NEC Labs America, USA

Topic Co-Chairs:
Haoshuo Chen, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Tingyi Gu, University of Delaware, USA

Committee Members:
Kyle Bottrill, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Nicola Calabretta, Eindoven University, Netherlands
Daoxin Dai, Zhejiang University, China
Yongmin Jung, University Southampton, UK
Georg Rademacher, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Yikai Su, Shanghai Jiatong University, China
Hiroyuki Tsuda, Keio University, Japan
Yujie Xia, Quintessent Inc., USA
Yuki Yoshida, NICT, Japan

Propagation, Spectroscopy, and Imaging

Topic Chair:
Takuro Ideguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan

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

Committee Members:
Kazuki Hashimoto, MPL, Germany
Sebastian Karpf, University of Lübeck, Germany
Tong Ling, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hideharu MIkami, Hokkaido University, Japan
Jaime Ortega Arroyo, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Dario Polli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Michelle Sander, Boston University, USA
Qinrong Zhang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Quantum Photonics

Topic Chair:
Daniel Oblak, University of Calgary, Canada

Topic Co-Chair:
Michael Fanto, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

Committee Members:
Davide Bacco, University of Firenze, Italy
Shane Eaton, Politechnico de Milano, Italy
Tobias Gehring, Danish Technical University, Denmark
Alisa Javadi, Oklahoma University, USA
Hsuan-Hao Lu, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
Sarah Sharif, Oklahoma University, USA

Special Symposia

Special Symposium on A Technology Roadmap for High Power Diode Laser Pumps for Large Laser Facilities: From Secondary Source Generation to Fusion

Topic Co-Chairs:
Paul Crump, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Germany
Will Fenwick, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Committee:
Mariastefania DeVido, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Carlo Holly, RWTH University / Fraunhofer Institut für Lasertechnologie, Aachen, Germany
Nobuto Kageyama, Hamamatsu Photonics, Japan
Joerg Neukum, Coherent DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH, Germany

Special Symposium on AI/ML Integrated Optoelectronics - IPC JSTQE Featured Symposium

Topic Co-Chairs:
Patrick Lo Guo Qiang, Advanced Micro Foundry, Singapore
Qiaoqiang Gan, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Committee Members:
YooJin Ban, IMEC, Belgium
Marco Fiorentino, HP Enterprise, USA

Special Symposium on Heterogeneous Integration of UV to Visible Photonics for Emerging Applications

Topic Co-Chairs:
Shamsul Arafin, Ohio State University, USA
Chao Shen, Fudan University, China
Haiding Sun, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Committee Members:
Haiyan Ou, DTU, Denmark
Xiaojuan Sun, CIOMP, CAS, China
Yating Wan, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Yongjin Wang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Photonics Industry Focus

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