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Award and Honors Committees


Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize Committee

  • Aref Chowdhury, Lightwave Logic, Inc, United States
  • Naomi J Halas, Rice University, United States
  • Franz X Kaertner, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Germany
  • Alan E Willner, University of Southern California, United States

    • Esther Hoffman Beller Medal Committee

  • Katarzyna Iwona Komolibus, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
  • Rick Trebino, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
  • Gavrielle Untracht, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark

    • Max Born Award Committee

  • Saswatee Banerjee, Facebook Research Lab, Cork, Ireland
  • Christopher Thomas Cotton, ASE Optics, LLC, United States
  • Jean Dalibard, College de France, France

    • Stephen D. Fantone Distinguished Service Award Committee

  • Hannah Lanford, Optica, United States
  • Maryna Meretska, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Sarah Moore, Optica, United States
  • Claus Roll, Optica, Germany
  • Laura Spencer, Optica, United States

    • Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award Committee

  • Francesca Bragheri, Istituto di Fotonica Nanotecnologie CNR, Italy
  • Santosh Kumar, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, India

    • Fellow Members Committee

  • Cristina Masoller, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, Past Chair
  • Mete Atature, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Yung-Fu Chen, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  • Garrett David Cole, University of Arizona, United States
  • Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, University of Adelaide, Australia
  • Pietro Ferraro, Institute of Intelligent Systems ISASI, Italy
  • Maria Angela Franceschini, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
  • Andrea Fratalocchi, King Abdullah Univ of Sci & Technology, Saudi Arabia
  • Lakshminarayan Hazra, University of Calcutta, India
  • Seongsin Margaret Kim, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), United States
  • Martin J Leahy, University of Galway, Ireland, Ireland
  • Amalia Martinez-Garcia, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC, Mexico
  • Anna Claire Peacock, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  • Jie Qiao, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
  • Ranjan Singh, University of Notre Dame, Singapore
  • Dora van Veen, Nokia Corporation, United States
  • Jun Shan Shan Wey, Verizon Communications Inc, United States
  • Ulrike K Woggon, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
  • Hans Zappe, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

    • Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award Committee

  • David Zhi Chen, Go!Foton, United States
  • Rim Cherif, Algonquin College, Canada
  • Toshio Morioka, DTU Electro, Denmark

    • Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize Committee

  • Tristan Kremp, Lightera, United States
  • Beate Sauter, Lumics GmbH, Germany

    • Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award Committee

  • Paul F McManamon, Exciting Technology LLC, United States, Chair
  • Shanti Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
  • Jonathan David Ellis, Ruda Optical Inc., United States
  • Sejeong Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic Of Korea
  • Raúl Jose Martín Palma , Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Anca L Sala, Kettering University, United States

    • Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award Committee

  • Monica S Allen, US Air Force Research Laboratory, United States
  • Martin D. Dawson, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
  • William Green, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, United States
  • Wei Li, Changchun Inst of Optic, Fine Mech & Phy, China

    • Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award Committee

  • Jungwon Kim, Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech, Republic Of Korea
  • Anna Sytchkova, ENEA, Italy

    • Edwin Land Medal Committee

  • Pablo Artal, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
  • Ann E Elsner, Aeon Imaging LLC, United States
  • Graham D Finlayson, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
  • David R Gerwe, The Boeing Company, United States
  • Elaine Jin, Rivian Automotive Inc, United States
  • Ricardo J Motta, NVIDIA Corporation, United States
  • Scott M Silence, Corning Inc., United States

    • Sang Soo Lee Award Committee

  • John James Healy, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Young Uk Jeong, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Republic Of Korea
  • Seok Ho Song, Hanyang University, Republic Of Korea
  • Marija Strojnik, Optical Research, Mexico
  • Chi-Kuang Sun, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

    • Emmett N. Leith Medal Committee

  • Abdul Ahad S Awwal, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
  • Min Gu, Univ of Shanghai Science & Technology, China
  • Joseph Marron, Raytheon Technologies, United States

    • Ellis Lippincott Award Committee

  • James Rydzak, Specere Consulting, United States
  • Zachary Schultz, Ohio State University, United States
  • Banafshe Zakeri, HySON Institute, Germany

    • Adolph Lomb Medal Committee

  • Kathleen Adelsberger, Avigilon Corporation, Canada
  • Rodrigo da Silva Benevides, University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • Margaret Zoila Dominguez, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
  • R. Uma Maheswari, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Myoung-Gyun Suh, NTT Research Inc., United States
  • Laura Waller, University of California Berkeley, United States

    • Leonard Mandel Quantum Optics Award Committee

  • Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi, Nokia Bell Labs France, France
  • Urbasi Sinha, Light and Matter Physics group, India
  • Juan P Torres, ICFO -Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain

    • C.E.K. Mees Medal Committee

  • Venu Gopal Achanta, National Physical Laboratory (India), India
  • Jennifer D Kruschwitz, University of Rochester, United States

    • William F. Meggers Award Committee

  • Christopher Manning, Manning Applied Technologies, United States
  • Madhavi Martin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States

    • David Richardson Medal Committee

  • Benjamin Cromey, BAE Systems North America, United States
  • Ravi K Jain, United States
  • Henning Rehn, Consultant, Switzerland
  • Paul Westbrook, Lightera OFS Laboratories, United States

    • Kevin P. Thompson Optical Design Innovator Award Committee

  • Sarah Lukes, Agile Focus Designs, United States
  • Samuel Steven, Apple Inc., United States
  • Kristina Uhlendorf, Magic Leap Inc, Germany

    • Edgar Tillyer Award Committee

  • Mary A Johnson, University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States
  • Marco Lombardo, Vision Engineering Italy, Italy
  • Maria S Millan, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Shoji Tominaga, Tominaga Lab, Japan

    • Charles Hard Townes Medal Committee

  • Hui Cao, Yale University, United States
  • Seunghoon Han, Samsung Electronics, Republic Of Korea
  • Laura M Lechuga, Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotec, Spain

    • Treasurer's Award Committee

  • George Bayz, Oakshire Partners, United States, Chair
  • Kari A Apter, Optica, United States
  • Sean Bagshaw, Optica, United States
  • Genaro Montanez, Optica, United States
  • Elizabeth Nolan, Optica, United States
  • Lauren Parr, Optica, United States
  • Jose Pozo, Optica, Netherlands
  • Alison Taylor, Optica, United States

    • John Tyndall Award Committee

  • Keren Bergman, Columbia University, United States
  • Fotini Karinou, Microsoft, United Kingdom
  • Sangsik Kim, Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech, Republic Of Korea
  • Sophie Lange, EXFO Inc, Germany
  • David J Richardson, Microsoft, United Kingdom

    • Herbert Walther Award Committee

  • Sara Ducci, Université Paris Cité, France
  • Massimo Inguscio, European Lab for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Italy

    • R.W. Wood Prize Committee

  • Tatiana Alieva, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  • Nicholas J Croglio, Northrop Grumman Space Systems, United States
  • Peter J Nordlander, Rice University, United States
  • Craig W Siders, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
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