2024 Committee

GENERAL CHAIR

Paul Leisher
Freedom Photonics LLC and Luminar Technologies Inc., USA

PROGRAM CHAIR

Erwin Bente
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Committees

Americas

Subcommittee

Subcommittee Chair:
Jonathan Klamkin, University of California, Santa Barbara and Aeluma, Inc., USA

Subcommittee Members:
Joe Abeles, Equate Photonic Technologies, Inc., USA
Shamsul Arafin, Ohio State University, USA
Kent Choquette, University of Illinois, USA
Lukas Chrostowski, University of British Columbia, Canada
Jhonattan Cordoba, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Michael Davenport, Quintessent, USA
Matthew Dummer, Aeluma, USA
Juliet Gopinath, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Christopher Heidelberger, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Amr Helmy, University of Toronto, Canada
Seungyong Jung, Transwave Photonics, USA
Gordon Keeler, Beacon Photonics, USA
Geza Kurczveil, HPE Labs, USA
Gerald Leake, SUNY/AIM Photonics, USA
Songtao Liu, Intel, USA
Milan Mashanovitch, Freedom Photonics/Luminar, USA
Luke Mawst, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Jerry Meyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Tim Newell, Gryphon Technologies, USA
Michael Nickerson, Analog Photonics, USA
Erik Norberg, Openlight , USA
Chris Poulton, Beacon Photonics, USA
Victoria Rosborough, Freedom Photonics LLC and Luminar Technologies Inc., USA
Fengqiao Sang, Infinera, USA
Bei Shi, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gary Smith, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Mark Stephen, NASA Goddard, USA
Joseph Summers, PowerLight Technologies, USA
Matt Sysak, Ayar Labs, USA
Bassem Tousson, HPE Labs, USA
Weidong Zhou, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Erik Zucker, Erik Zucker Consulting, USA
Si Zhu, Openlight, USA

Asia/Pacific Rim

Subcommittee

Subcommittee Chair:
Nobuhiko Nishiyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Subcommittee Members:
Kouichi Akahane, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Connie Chang, Berxel Photonics Corp, China
Kazuue Fujita, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Japan
Naoki Fujiwara, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan
Kiichi Hamamoto, Kyushu University, Japan
Rei Hashimoto, Toshiba, Japan
Hiroyuki Ishii, Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Japan
Tomohiro Kita, Waseda University, Japan
Kei May Lau, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Yi Luo, Tsinghua University, China
Shinji Matsuo, NTT Lab., Japan
Shigeru Kanazawa, NTT Device Inovation, Japan
Keita Mochizuki, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation R&D Center, Japan
Kouji Nakahara, Lumentum, Japan
Yasutomo Ota, Keio University, Japan
Tetsuya Takeuchi, Meijo University, Japan
Hoe Tan, Australian National University, Australia
Atsushi A. Yamaguchi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Chung-en Zah, Focus Light, China
Nobuhide Yokota, Tohoku University, Japan
Takeshi Yamatoya, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Optical Device Works, Japan
Masahiro Murayama, Sony Semiconductor Solutions, Japan
Kazutaka Takeda, Fujifilm Business Inovation, Japan

Europe/Middle East/Africa

Subcommittee

Subcommittee Chair:
Mircea Guina,Tampere University, Finland

Subcommittee Member:
Eugene Avrutin, University of York, England
Paul Crump Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Germany
Jerome Faist, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Mariangela Gioannini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Frédéric Grillot, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Sven Höfling, Universitaet Wuerzburg, Germany
Eric Larkins, University of Nottingham, England
Nikolay Ledentsov, VI Systems, Germany
Francois Lelarge, Almae, France
Boon Ooi, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Agnieszka Pietrzak, TRUMPF Laser GmbH, Germany
Johann Peter Reithmaier, Universität Kassel, Germany
Gunther Roelkens, Universiteit Gent – IMEC, Belgium
Marc Sciamanna, CentraleSupelec, France
Peter Smowton, Cardiff University, England
Stephen Sweeney, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Angel Valle, CSIC-University of Cantabria, Spain
Dan Yanson, SCD-Semiconductor Devices, Israel