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2026 Optica Senior Members

2026 Optica Senior Members

Senior Members are well-established individuals with a designation that recognizes their experience and professional accomplishments or service within their field that sets them apart from their peers. Below is a complete listing of the 2026 Class of Senior Members.  

Nicolas Abadia
Cardiff University

Mohiudeen Azhar
Siemens Healthineers

Thorsten Bothe
Carl Zeiss GOM Metrology GmbH

Brandon Buscaino
Ciena

Tatevik Chalyan
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Hung-Wen Chen
National Tsing Hua University

Jiyeon Choi
Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials

Steevy Cordette
Independent Research Scientist

Ashim Dhakal
PHUTUNG RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Martin Engelbrecht
Coherent Corp

Esmerando Escoto
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron

Songnian Fu
Guangdong University of Technology

Wenchao Ge
University of Rhode Island

Pramod Gopinath
Cochin University of Sci. and Tech

David G Grier
New York University

Daniel Guildenbecher
Purdue University

Lisa A Huff
DC Tech Analysis

Sheng-Kwang Hwang
National Cheng Kung University

Emmett J Ientilucci
Rochester Institute of Technology

Amiel A Ishaaya
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Yuqing Jiao
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Kyle Kafka
University of Rochester

Hyun Jung Kim
Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech

Katarzyna Iwona Komolibus
Tyndall National Institute

Meiwei Kong
Tongji University

Aleksandr Krasnok
Florida International University

Bernard Kress
Google LLC

Meredith Kupinski
Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences

Yu-Hung Lai
PsiQuantum

Ted Alfred Laurence
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Mark Lawrence
Washington University in St Louis

Hui Min Leung
Indiana University

Tammy Ma
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lucien Mandeng Mandeng
NATIONAL ADVANCED SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Takashi Matsui
NTT Corporation

MUHAMMAD QASIM MEHMOOD
Information Technology University

Sanjeev Kumar Metya
National Inst Tech Arunachal Pradesh

Akhilesh Kumar Mishra
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Moussa N'Gom
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Atsushi Nakanishi
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.

Heinz C Neitzert
Universita degli Studi di Salerno

Omnia Hamdy Abd El-Rahman Nematallah
Cairo University

Dan Trung Nguyen
Corning Inc.

Jelena Notaros
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sebastiao de Padua
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Ankit Kumar Pandey
ECE Deptt. Bennett University

Fabio Pavanello
CNRS

Maria-Guglielmina Pelizzo
Universita degli Studi di Padova

Gennadii A Piavchenko
First Moscow State Medical University

Himansu Shekhar Pradhan
National Inst of Technology Warangal

Aniruddha Ray
University of Toledo

Anil K Roy
DA-IICT

Kasturi Saha
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Samuel Schrauth


Sunny Sharma
Indian Inst Information Tech Allahabad

Debabrata Sikdar
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Robert A Smythe
Apre Instruments

Simranjit Singh, Sr.
Punjab Engineering College Univ of Tech

Lukasz Antoni Sterczewski
Politechnika Wroclawska

Chaitanya Kumar Suddapalli
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Mateusz Szatkowski
Politechnika Wroclawska

Xianfeng Tang
Beijing University of Posts & Telecom

Akhilesh Tiwari
Indian Inst Information Tech Allahabad

Miguel Torres-Cisneros
Universidad de Guanajuato

Gerald P Uyeno
Raytheon Technologies

Christopher Ryan Valenta
Georgia Tech Research Institute

Rebeca Martinez Vazquez
Istituto di Fotonica Nanotecnologie CNR

Julius Vengelis
Vilnius University Laser Research Center

Valentyn S Volkov
XPANCEO RESEARCH ON NATURAL SCIENCE L.L.

Pei-Hsun Wang
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Rong Xue
McLantis Group International Limited

Chandra Sekhar Yelleswarapu
University of Massachusetts Boston

Filiz Yesilkoy
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Azhar Zam
New York University

Richard Zeltner
Menlo Systems GmbH

Yide Zhang
University of Colorado Boulder

Xian Zhou
University of Science and Tech Beijing

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