Committees
26 - 30 July 2026
Hilton Long Beach
Long Beach,
Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Optical Materials and Waveguides (BGPP)
Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR)
Nonlinear Photonics (NP)
Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)
Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks)
Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)
Solar, Lighting and Thermal Photonics (SOLITH)
Specialty Optical Fibers (SOF)
Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR)
Nonlinear Photonics (NP)
Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)
Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks)
Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)
Solar, Lighting and Thermal Photonics (SOLITH)
Specialty Optical Fibers (SOF)
Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Optical Materials and Waveguides (BGPP)
- Martin Bernier, Université Laval , Canada, General Chair
- Christophe Caucheteur, Universite de Mons , Belgium, General Chair
- Sébastien Loranger, Polytechnique Montréal , Canada, Program Chair
- Adriana Morana, Universite Jean Monnet , France, Program Chair
- Remco Nieuwland, Somni Solutions , Netherlands, Program Chair
- Raja Ahmad, Cisco Systems Inc. , United States
- Matthieu Bellec, Institut de Physique de Nice , France
- Gayathri Bharathan, Macquarie University , India
- Camille-Sophie Brès, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , Switzerland
- Oleg Butov, Kotel'nikov Inst Radio Engin & Elec, RAS , Russia
- Jean Carlos Cardozo da Silva, Universidade Tec Federal do Parana , Brazil
- Francesco Chiavaioli, Ist di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara , Italy
- Asa Claesson, RISE Innventia AB , Sweden
- Francois Courvoisier, FEMTO-ST , France
- Michel Digonnet, Stanford University , United States
- Alex Fuerbach, Macquarie University , Australia
- Lili Hu, Shanghai Inst of Optics & Fine Mech Lib , China
- Maria Konstantaki, FORTH-IESL , Greece
- Ria G. Krämer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena , Germany
- Matthieu Lancry, Universite Paris-Saclay , France
- Tianliang Li, Wuhan University of Technology , China
- Ping Lu, Optical Fiber Solutions , United States
- Rebeca Martinez Vazquez, Istituto di Fotonica Nanotecnologie CNR , Italy
- Patrice Mégret, Universite de Mons , Belgium
- Edgar Mendoza, REDONDO OPTICS , United States
- Chengbo Mou, Shanghai University , China
- Jianrong Qiu, Zhejiang University , China
- Daniel Richter, Institute of Applied Physics (Germany) , Germany
- Salvador Sales, Universitat Politècnica de València , Spain
- Tong Sun, City St George's, University of London , United Kingdom
- Robert Walker, National Research Council Canada , Canada
Nonlinear Photonics (NP)
- Mikko Huttunen, Tampere University , Finland, Chair
- Sylvie Lebrun, Universite Paris-Saclay , France, Chair
- Sile Nic Chormaic, Okinawa Inst of Science & Technology , Japan, Chair
- Neil Broderick, University of Auckland , New Zealand, Program Chair
- Katia Shtyrkova, MIT Lincoln Laboratory , Program Chair
- Giovanna Tissoni, Université Côte d'Azur , France, Program Chair
- Viktoriia Babicheva, University of New Mexico , United States
- Camille-Sophie Brès, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , Switzerland
- Marco Clementi, Universita degli Studi di Pavia , Italy
- Lorenzo Columbo, Politecnico di Torino , Italy
- Saliya Coulibaly, Universite de Lille , France
- Nicolas Englebert, California Institute of Technology , United States
- Juliet Gopinath, University of Colorado Boulder , United States
- Martina Hentschel, Chemnitz University of Technology , Germany
- Bertrand Kibler, CNRS - Laboratoire ICB , France
- Kathy Lüdge, Technische Universität Ilmenau , Germany
- Ilia Rasskazov, Tandem PV , United States
- Myriam Raybaut, Office Natl d'Etudes Rech Aerospatiales , France
- Antoine Runge, University of Sydney , Australia
- Sebastian Schulz, University of Waterloo , Canada
- Haim Suchowski, Tel Aviv University , Israel
- Takasumi Tanabe, Keio University , Japan
- Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora, Loughborough University , United Kingdom
- Sergey Vasilyev, IPG Photonics Corp , United States
Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)
- Lynda Busse, US Naval Research Laboratory , United States, General Chair
- Francois Chenard, IRflex Corporation , United States, General Chair
- Alon Gorodetsky, University of California Irvine , United States, General Chair
- Jonathan Hu, Baylor University , United States, Program Chair
- Edward Kinzel, University of Notre Dame , United States, Program Chair
- Ishwar Aggarwal, Univ of North Carolina at Charlotte , United States
- Kenneth Crozier, University of Melbourne , Australia
- Jonathan Fan, Stanford University , United States
- Lan Fu, Australian National University , Australia
- Patrice Genevet, Colorado School of Mines , United States
- Shekhar Guha, US Air Force Research Laboratory , United States
- Roman Holovchak, Austin Peay State University , United States
- Mikhail Kats, University of Wisconsin-Madison , United States
- Garo Khanarian, Consultant , United States
- Ho Wai Howard Lee, University of California Irvine , United States
- Ziyuan Li, Beijing Institute of Technology , China
- Yongmin Liu, Northeastern University , United States
- Yu-Jung Lu, Academia Sinica , Taiwan
- Margherita Maiuri, Politecnico di Milano , Italy
- Arka Majumdar, University of Washington , United States
- Naoji Matsuhisa, University of Tokyo , Japan
- Euan McLeod, University of Arizona , United States
- Jason Myers, US Naval Research Laboratory , United States
- Dudukovic Nikola, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , United States
- Sedat Nizamoglu, Koç Universitesi , Turkey
- Richard Osgood, US Army , United States
- Dario Pisignano, Universita degli Studi di Pisa , Italy
- FangFang Ren, Nanjing University , China
- Brandon Shaw, US Naval Research Laboratory , United States
- Maxim Shcherbakov, University of California Irvine , United States
- K. Kay Son, HRL Laboratories, LLC , United States
- Anastasia Zaleska, King's College London , United Kingdom
- Kevin Zawilski, BAE Systems , United States
- Yang Zhao, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , United States
Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks)
- Carmen Mas Machuca, Universität der Bundeswehr München , Germany, General Chair
- Lena Wosinska, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola , Sweden, General Chair
- Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya University , Japan, Program Chair
- Jasper Müller, Adtran Networks SE , Germany, Program Chair
- Michela Svaluto Moreolo, Centre Tecnològic Telecom de Catalunya , Spain, Program Chair
- Tianwai Bo, Beijing Institute of Technology , China
- Nicola Calabretta, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven , Netherlands
- Michael Galili, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet , Denmark
- Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, McGill University , Canada
- Rui Lin, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola , Sweden
- Ruben Luis, NICT , Japan
- Chathurika Ranaweera, Deakin University , Australia
- Simon Rommel, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven , Netherlands
- Salvatore Spadaro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya , Spain
- Anna Tzanakaki, University of Athens , Greece
- Deepa Venkitesh, Indian Institute of Technology Madras , India
- Yu Rong Zhou, BT Group plc , United Kingdom
- Zuqing Zhu, Univ. of Science and Technology of China , China
Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)
- Paola Parolari, Politecnico di Milano , Italy, General Chair
- Gaël Simon, Orange , France, General Chair
- Hwan Seok Chung, Electronics and Telecom Research Inst , Republic Of Korea, Program Chair
- Yuanqiu Luo, Futurewei Technologies Inc , United States, Program Chair
- Di Che, Nokia Bell Labs , United States
- Devika Dass, University of Dublin Trinity College , Ireland
- Filipe Ferreira, University College London , United Kingdom
- Koji Igarashi, University of Osaka , Japan
- Takuya Ikuta, NTT Basic Research Laboratories , Japan
- Xin Jiang, City University of New York , United States
- Atsushi Kanno, Nagoya Institute of Technology , Japan
- Fan Li, Sun Yat-Sen University (CHINA) , China
- Jeremy Potet, Orange Labs , France
- Georg Rademacher, Universität Stuttgart , Germany
- Dezhi Zhang, China Telecom Corp Ltd, Beijing Res Inst , China
- Rui Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo , United States
- Jim Zou, ADTRAN, Inc , United States
Solar, Lighting and Thermal Photonics (SOLITH)
- Aaswath Raman, University of California Los Angeles , United States, General Chair
- Baodan Zhao, Zhejiang University , General Chair
- Carissa Eisler, University of California Los Angeles , Program Chair
- Jyotirmoy Mandal, Princeton University , United States, Program Chair
- Christiane Becker, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin , Germany
- Jérémie Drevillon, Universite de Poitiers , France
- Marco Ernst, Australian National University , Australia
- Zhu Guangdong, NREL , United States
- Nikhil Deep Gupta, Visvesvaraya Nat Inst of Tech Nagpur , India
- Magnus Jonsson, Linköpings universitet , Sweden
- Wei Li, Changchun Inst of Optic, Fine Mech & Phy , China
- Ioannis Papakonstantinou, University College London , United Kingdom
- Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias, University of Richmond , United States
- Giulia Tagliabue, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , Switzerland
- Susanna Thon, Johns Hopkins University , United States
- Jing Zhang, Rochester Institute of Technology , United States
Specialty Optical Fibers (SOF)
- Peter Dragic, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , United States, General Chair
- Yingying Wang, Jinan University , China, General Chair
- Yong Chen, Microsoft Azure Fiber , United Kingdom, Program Chair
- Mariusz Klimczak, Uniwersytet Warszawski , Poland, Program Chair
- Amy Van Newkirk, Penn State Applied Research Lab , United States, Program Chair
- Benoit Beaudou, GLOPhotonics , France
- Sean Blakley, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
- Mario Ferraro, Universita della Calabria , Italy
- Cang Jin, Lightera , United States
- Helena Lopez Aviles, Coherent Corp , United States
- David Novoa, Universidad del Pais Vasco , Spain
- Kay Schuster, Heraeus Comvance , Germany
- Yuriy Stepanenko, Institute of Physical Chemistry (ICHF) , Poland
- Thibaut Sylvestre, FEMTO-ST , France
- Johann Troles, Universite de Rennes I , France
- Natasha Vukovic, Fibercore Limited , United Kingdom
- Luming Zhao, Huazhong Univ of Science and Technology
Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR)
Subcommittee 1: Integrated Photonic Devices and Materials
- Yoan Léger, CNRS, France, Subcommittee Chair
- Andreas Boes, University of Adelaide, Australia
- Luca Carletti, Universita degli Studi di Brescia, Italy
- Ilaria Cristiani, Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
- Su-Hyun Gong, Korea University, South Korea
- Baohua Jia, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
- Sagi Mathai, Hewlett Packard Labs, United States
- Shinji Matsuo, NTT Device Technology Labs, Japan
- Paolo Pintus, Universita di Cagliari, United States
- Gustavo Silva, Wiederhecker, UNICAMP, Brazil
Subcommittee 2: Applications of Photonic Integrated Circuits
- Michael Menard, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada, Subcommittee Chair
- Yusheng Bian, GlobalFoundries, United States
- Niharika Kohli, CMC Microsystems, Canada
- Hamza Kurt, Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech, South Korea
- Yoshiho Maeda, NTT Device Technology Labs, Japan
- Jelena Notaros, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- Devika Padmakunar Nair, Ansys Lumerical, Canada
- Emanuel Peinke, CEA-LETI, France
- Diego Pérez, Galacho Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Luke Peters, Loughborough University, UK
Subcommittee 3: Integrated Nonlinear & Quantum Optics
- Di Zhu, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Subcommittee Chair
- Warit Asavanant, OptQC Corp., Japan
- Nadia Belabas, Centre National Recherche Scientifique, France
- Vittorio Cecconi, Univ degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
- Avik Dutt, University of Maryland at College Park, United States
- Galan Moody, University of California Santa Barbara, United States
- Youngik Sohn, Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech, South Korea
- Beichen Wang, OpenLight Photonics, United States
- Jie Zhao, Marvell Technology Inc, United States