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Award and Honors Committees
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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