Optica announces 2025 class of senior members
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21 July 2025
Optica announces 2025 class of senior members
Optica Board of Directors recognizes Optica Members for their experience and professional accomplishments
WASHINGTON — Optica is pleased to announce the 2025 class of Senior Members. This year, 72 Optica Members are recognized for their experience and professional accomplishments within the field of optics and photonics. The 72 individuals come from academia, government and industry and represent 21 countries; this exemplifies the global reach and breadth of professional experience of the Optica Community.
“Impact is one of Optica’s core values, and I am incredibly pleased to recognize our new class of Senior Members who have made such an impact on our field,” said Optica President Jim Kafka.
To qualify for Optica’s senior membership, individuals must have at least 10 years of significant professional experience in the field, five years of active membership and two endorsement statements from current members.
2025 Optica Senior Members:
- David Alessi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Muthu Annamalai, PanMo LLC, USA
- Fahim Aziz Umrani, Mehran University, Pakistan
- Viktoriia Babicheva, University of New Mexico, USA
- Muhammad Baqir, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
- Johan Bauwelinck, Ghent University, Belgium
- Jeroen Beeckman, Ghent University, Belgium
- Somak Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
- Filiberto Bilotti, Roma Tre University, Italy
- Iars Buettner, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- David Burghoff, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Jinhui Chen, Peking University, China
- Jinna Chen, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
- Lin Chen, University of Shanghai Science & Technology, China
- Yang Chen, East China Normal University, China
- Zhenmin Chen, Peng Cheng Laboratory, China
- Dominique Dagenais, National Science Foundation, USA
- Yuhan Dong, Tsinghua University, China
- Manuel Duran Sanchez, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico
- Reinhard Ebert, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany
- Vivian Ferry, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA
- Rahul Gangwar, University of Delhi, India
- Xu Guanjun, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
- Michael Hart, University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, USA
- Thomas W. Hawkins, Clemson University
- Yi He, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, China
- Borislav Hinkov, Silicon Austria Labs GmbH
- Paulo Hisao Moriya, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
- Guijin Ji, Advanced Fiber Resources, China
- Ljubomir Jovanov, Interuniversity Microelectronics Center, Belgium
- Daesuk Kim, Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea
- Yu Lu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Fake Lu, State University of New York, USA
- Balazs Major, Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem, Hungary
- Gilliard Malheiros-Silveira, University of Campinas, Brazil
- Yi Mazumdar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Hieu Nguyen, Texas Tech University, USA
- David Novoa, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
- Kyle Preston, SiPhox Health, USA
- Shanthi Prince, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India
- Marcel Pruessner, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
- Ciyuan Qiu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Marek R. Ogiela, AGH University of Krakow, Poland
- Gannavarpu Rajshekhar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
- Xingang Ren, Anhui University, China
- Farnood Rezaie, Cisco Systems, USA
- Andrea Rosales-Garcia, Lightera, Mexico
- Yannick Salamin, University of Central Florida, CREOL, USA
- Maxim Shcherbakov, University of California, Irvine, USA
- Nicholas Smith, Osaka University, Japan
- Sachin Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
- Philip Taday, Glyconics, United Kingdom
- Osamu Takayama, DTU Electro, Denmark
- Yidong Tan, Tsinghua University, China
- Patrice Tankam, University of Rochester, USA
- Odysseas Tsilipakos, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece
- Miranda Van Iersel, New Mexico State University, USA
- Amy Van Newkirk, Penn State Applied Research Lab, USA
- Everardo Vargas-Rodriguez, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
- Abraham Vázquez-Guardado, North Carolina State University, USA
- Yuvaraja Visagathilagar, QinetiQ and University of Melbourne, Australia
- Yating Wan, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
- Ting Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Yanan Wang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
- Joni Welman Simatupang, Republic of Indonesia Defense University, Indonesia
- Takeshi Yasui, Tokushima University, Japan
- Xia Yu, Beihang University, China
- Yaping Zhang, Kunming Univ of Science and Technology, China
- Junchao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Chi Zhang, Purdue University, USA
- Paikun Zhu, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
- Muhammad Zubair, Information Technology University, Pakistan
Applications for the 2026 class of Senior Members will be accepted beginning in November 2025.
About Optica
Optica, Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide, is the society dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving and dissemination of knowledge in the field. Founded in 1916, it is the leading organization for scientists, engineers, business professionals, students and others interested in the science of light. Optica's renowned publications, meetings, online resources and in-person activities fuel discoveries, shape real-life applications and accelerate scientific, technical and educational achievement. Discover more at: Optica.org
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