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Award and Honors Committees


Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize Committee

  • Peter J Delfyett, University of Central Florida, CREOL, United States, Chair
  • Andrea Martin Armani, University of Southern California, United States
  • Saša Bajt, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany
  • John Harvey, Southern Photonics, New Zealand
  • Kaoru Minoshima, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
  • Margaret M Murnane, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States

    • Esther Hoffman Beller Medal Committee

  • Francesco Da Ros, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, Chair
  • Amol Choudhary, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, Past Chair
  • C. Martijn de Sterke, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Ivy Krystal Jones, Hampton University, United States
  • Danuta M Sampson, University of Western Australia, Australia
  • Maria Vinas, Consejo Sup Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
  • Donnell T Walton, Corning Inc, United States

    • Max Born Award Committee

  • Alejandro Cornejo-Rodriguez, Inst Nat Astrofisica Optica Electronica, Mexico, Chair
  • Clara Rivero-Baleine, Lockheed Martin Corporation, United States, Past Chair
  • Edward Buckley, Swave Photonics, United Kingdom
  • Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania, United States
  • Ebrahim Karimi, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Igor Meglinski, Aston University, United Kingdom
  • Mircea Mujat, Physical Sciences Inc., United States

    • Stephen D. Fantone Distinguished Service Award Committee

  • Jennifer Mayfield, Optica, United States, Chair
  • Alexander A Sawchuk, University of Southern California, United States, Past Chair
  • Samuel Bradley, Optica, United States
  • Wilhelm G Kaenders, TOPTICA Photonics AG, Germany
  • Jose Javier Sánchez-Mondragón, Inst Nat Astrofisica Optica Electronica, Mexico
  • Hannah Walter, Optica, United States

    • Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award Committee

  • Sophie Brasselet, Fresnel Institut, France, Chair
  • Animesh Jha, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, Past Chair
  • Ling Fu, Huazhong Univ of Science and Technology, China
  • Sung-Ho Han, Olive Healthcare Inc, Republic Of Korea
  • G V Pavan Kumar, IISER-Pune, India
  • Laura Marcu, University of California Davis, United States
  • Arjun G Yodh, University of Pennsylvania, United States

    • Fellow Members Committee

  • Ofer Levi, University of Toronto, Canada, Chair
  • Takunori Taira, RIKEN / IMS, Japan, Past Chair
  • Anjali Agarwal, LGS Innovations LLC, United States
  • Pablo Artal, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
  • David Andrew Atchison, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Aleksandra Boskovic, Corning Optical Communications, United States
  • Timothy J Carrig, Lockheed Martin Corporation, United States
  • Pierre H Chavel, Institut d'Optique Lab Fabry, France
  • Christopher Cole, Coherent Corp, United States
  • Volker Deckert, Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Tech, Germany
  • Rafael Espinosa Luna, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC, Mexico
  • Donis G Flagello, Nikon Research Corporation of America, United States
  • Tara Michele Fortier, National Inst of Standards & Technology, Canada
  • Hugo Enrique Hernandez-Figueroa, UNICAMP (University of Campinas), Brazil
  • Richard B Holmes, The Boeing Company, United States
  • Yidong Huang, Tsinghua University, China
  • Mercedeh Khajavikhan, University of Southern California, United States
  • Chulhong Kim, Pohang Univ of Science & Technology, Republic Of Korea
  • Olga Korotkova, University of Miami, United States
  • Malgorzata Kujawinska, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
  • Sergio G Leon-Saval, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Wenhua Lin, Intel Corporation, United States
  • David Marpaung, University of Twente, Netherlands
  • Joseph Marron, Raytheon Technologies, United States
  • Dan Oron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Miguel Orszag, Universidad Mayor Santiago Chile, Chile
  • Rajpal Singh Sirohi, India
  • Radan Slavik, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  • Arlee V Smith, AS-Photonics, LLC, United States
  • Brian Vohnsen, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Qiong-Hua Wang, Beihang University, China
  • Jian Wang, Huazhong Univ of Science and Technology, China
  • Alice E White, Boston University, United States
  • Maria Josefa Yzuel, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

    • Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award Committee

  • Kai Engelhardt, OPTI-KEN, Germany
  • Anjul Loiacono, Infleqtion, United States
  • Sagi Mathai, Hewlett Packard Labs, United States

    • Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize Committee

  • Abbie T Watnik, US Naval Research Laboratory, United States, Chair
  • Fernando Mendoza Santoyo, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC, Mexico, Past Chair
  • Jennifer E Hastie, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
  • Lakshminarayan Hazra, University of Calcutta, India
  • Pantazis Mouroulis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
  • Demetri Psaltis, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn, Institute of Public Policy & Development, Thailand

    • Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award Committee

  • Christian Brosseau, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, France
  • Daniela Dragoman, Universitatea din Bucuresti, Romania
  • Kert Edward, SPIE, United States
  • Michael T Eismann, US Air Force Research Laboratory, United States
  • Paul F McManamon, Exciting Technology LLC, United States

    • Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award Committee

  • Gloria E. Hoefler, Hoefler and Associates, United States, Chair
  • Dawn T H Tan, Singapore Univ. of Technology & Design, Singapore, Past Chair
  • Mario Agio, Universität Siegen, Germany
  • Ya Cheng, East China Normal University, China
  • Eugenio R Mendez, CICESE, Mexico
  • Carmen S Menoni, Colorado State University, United States
  • Lluis Torner, ICFO, Spain

    • Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award Committee

  • Roberta Ramponi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Chair
  • Maryna Meretska, Harvard University, United States, Past Chair
  • Robert P Breault, Breault Research Organization Inc, United States
  • Rajan Jha, Indian Inst of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India
  • Cristina Masoller, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Salah Sabry Obayya, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt
  • Joachim R Sacher, Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH, Germany

    • Edwin Land Medal Committee

  • Kei May Lau, Hong Kong Univ of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, Chair
  • Gerhard Bartscher, Bartscher Innovationstechnologien GmbH, Germany
  • Alan C Bovik, UT Austin-WNCG, United States
  • Zhigang (Zeke) Fan, United States
  • Graham D Finlayson, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
  • Debabrata Goswami, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
  • Bettina Heise, RECENDT, Austria
  • Scott M Silence, Corning Inc, United States

    • Sang Soo Lee Award Committee

  • Valeria L Da Silva, Brazil, Chair
  • Ajoy K Ghatak, IIT Delhi, India
  • John James Healy, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Takashige Omatsu, Chiba University, Japan
  • Fabian Rotermund, Department of Physics, KAIST, Republic Of Korea
  • Seok Ho Song, Hanyang University, Republic Of Korea

    • Emmett N. Leith Medal Committee

  • Pascal Picart, Le Mans Universite, France, Chair
  • Juan Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, Past Chair
  • Shanti Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
  • Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
  • Edmund Y Lam, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Wolfgang Osten, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
  • Irina Georgievna Palchikova, Novosibirsk State University, Russia

    • Ellis Lippincott Award Committee

  • Igor Aharonovich, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Chair
  • Xiaoyun (Shawn) Chen, Dow Chemical, United States
  • Robert Chimenti, Innovative Photonic Solutions, United States
  • Mary Lewis, United States
  • Curtis Allen Marcott, Light Light Solutions, LLC, United States
  • Shaul Mukamel, University of California Irvine, United States

    • Adolph Lomb Medal Committee

  • Izabela Georgieva Naydenova, Technological University Dublin, Ireland, Chair
  • Andrew M Weiner, Purdue University, United States, Past Chair
  • Felipe Beltran-Mejia, Padtec, Brazil
  • Sandra G Biedron, Element Aero, United States
  • Katherine Calabro, Apple Inc., United States
  • Francesca Calegari, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Germany
  • Claire F Gmachl, Princeton University, United States
  • Ido Efraim Kaminer, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  • Luciana Reyes Pires Kassab, Faculdade de Tecnologia de Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Myrian Cristina Tebaldi, Centro de Investigaciones Opticas, Argentina
  • Richard Zeltner, Menlo Systems GmbH, Germany

    • Leonard Mandel Quantum Optics Award Committee

  • Irina Novikova, College of William & Mary, United States, Chair
  • Hui Deng, University of Michigan, United States
  • Heejeong Jeong, Qunova Computing Inc., Republic Of Korea
  • Franco Nori, RIKEN, Japan
  • Jian-Wei Pan, Univ of Science and Technology of China, China
  • Susanne F Yelin, Harvard University, United States
  • Peter A Zoller, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria

    • C.E.K. Mees Medal Committee

  • Gabrielle M Thomas, Menlo Systems GmbH, Germany, Chair
  • Henry C Kapteyn, KMLabs, United States, Past Chair
  • Christine Fernandez-Maloigne, Universite de Poitiers, France
  • Eric Rosas, Clúster Mexicano de Fotónica, Mexico
  • Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland, Australia
  • Rachel P C Won, Nature Photonics, United Kingdom
  • Baoli Yao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    • William F. Meggers Award Committee

  • Kristan L Corwin, NIST Boulder, United States, Chair
  • Alexander A Oraevsky, TomoWave Laboratories, Inc, United States, Past Chair
  • Hatice Altug, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Anne Myers Kelley, University of California Merced, United States
  • Frederic Merkt, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Ioan Notingher, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
  • Vladislav Yakovlev, Texas A&M University, United States

    • David Richardson Medal Committee

  • Catalin Florea, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co, United States, Chair
  • Nobuyuki Hashimoto, Citizen Watch Co., LTD, Japan, Past Chair
  • Xiaoyi Bao, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • John Canning, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Larry A Coldren, University of California Santa Barbara, United States
  • Golshan K Coleiny, Fundamental Optical Solutions LLC, United States
  • Hideo Takino, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan

    • Kevin P. Thompson Optical Design Innovator Award Committee

  • Julie L Bentley, University of Rochester, United States, Chair
  • Kyle Fuerschbach, Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, United States, Past Chair
  • Aaron Michael Bauer, University of Rochester, United States
  • Paul K Manhart, Mission Support and Test Services LLC, United States
  • Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard, Université Laval, Canada
  • Adriana Viorica Szeghalmi, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
  • Luiz V Tarelho, Natl Inst of Metrology Qualty & Technlgy, Brazil

    • Edgar Tillyer Award Committee

  • Suzanne P McKee, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, United States, Chair
  • Angela M Brown, Ohio State University, United States, Past Chair
  • Wilson S Geisler, University of Texas at Austin, United States
  • Francisco Imai, Apple Inc., United States
  • Katarzyna Komar, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika, Poland
  • Supriyo Sinha, Google LLC, United States
  • Manuel Spitschan, Max-Planck-Inst Tubingen Max Planck Haus, Germany

    • Charles Hard Townes Medal Committee

  • Judith M Dawes, Macquarie University, Australia, Chair
  • Robert W Boyd, University of Ottawa, Canada, Past Chair
  • Aref Chowdhury, Nokia Corporation, United States
  • Peter K Fritschel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  • Maria Kafesaki, FORTH-IESL, Greece
  • Kartik Srinivasan, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States
  • Antoinette J Taylor, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States

    • Treasurer's Award Committee

  • George Bayz, Oakshire Partners, United States, Chair
  • Sean Bagshaw, Optica, United States
  • Barbara Bullock, Optica, United States
  • P. Scott Carney, Optica, United States
  • Genaro Montanez, Optica, United States
  • Elizabeth Nolan, Optica, United States
  • Jose Pozo, Optica, Netherlands
  • Elizabeth A Rogan, Optica, United States
  • Chad Stark, Optica, United States
  • Ryan Strowger, Optica, United States

    • John Tyndall Award Committee

  • Deborah M Kane, Australian National University, Australia, Chair
  • Roel G. F Baets, Ghent University, INTEC, Belgium
  • James J Coleman, University of Texas at Arlington, United States
  • Joerg-Peter Elbers, Adtran Networks SE, Germany
  • Nicolas K Fontaine, Nokia Bell Labs, United States
  • Lara D Garrett, SubCom LLC, United States
  • Lisa A Huff, Omdia, United States
  • Hideyuki Nasu, Furukawa Electric, Japan
  • Rodney S Tucker, University of Melbourne, Australia

    • Herbert Walther Award Committee

  • Eugene S Polzik, Kobenhavns Universitet, Denmark, Chair
  • Antonio Zelaquett Khoury, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
  • Gaby Slavcheva, Quantopticon, United Kingdom

    • R.W. Wood Prize Committee

  • Michael H Frosz, Max Planck Inst for the Science of Light, Germany, Chair
  • John M Dudley, FEMTO-ST, France, Past Chair
  • Félicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
  • Baohua Jia, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
  • Hong Liu, Google LLC, United States
  • Hope A Michelsen, Sandia National Laboratories Livermore, United States
  • Federico Rosei, EMT-INRS, Canada
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