Invited Speakers

The Invited Speakers listed below will share their innovative technical contributions and applications throughout the conference, addressing some of the most complex technologies in the photonics field.

TOPICS

Biophotonics and Medical Optics

Brendan Kennedy, University of Western Australia, Australia
Shuichi Makita, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Dushan Wadduwage, Harvard University, USA
Junjie Yao, Duke University, USA
Seokchan Yoon, Pusan University, South Korea

Detection, Sensing, and Energy

Minjoo Larry Lee, University of Illinois, USA
Rich Mirin, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Daniel Wasserman, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Light Sources

Jos Boschker, Ferdinand-Braun Institut, Berlin, Germany
Natalia Litchinitser, Duke University, USA
Zhaowei Liu, University of California, San Diego, USA
Md. Jarez Miah, Bangladeshi University of Engineering Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Yating Wan, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Materials, Foundries, and Fabrication

Boubacar Kante, University of California Berkeley, USA
Yoshiho Maeda, NTT Corporation, Japan
Andrea Melloni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Michael Strain, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Yuta Ueda, NTT Corporation, Japan
Val Zwiller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Microwave Photonics and Vehicular Optics

Antonella Bogoni, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and CNIT, Italy
Matt Eichenfield, Sandia Lab, USA
David Marpaung, University of Twente, Netherlands
Thas Nirmalathas, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dennis Prather, University of Delaware, USA

Nano Photonics, Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Biqin Huang, HRL, USA
Laura Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Filiz Yesilkoy, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
Mengjie Yu, University of Southern California, USA

Nonlinear Photonics and Novel Optical Phenomena

Camille-Sophie Bres, EPFL, Switzerland
Tobias Herr, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany
Ido Kaminer, Technion, Israel
Birgit Stiller, Max Planck Institute for the Science of light, Germany

Optical AI and Computational Photonics

Puneet Gupta, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Christian Koos, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Optical Communication and Networks

Lorenzo De Marinis, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Joao Pedro, Infinera, Portugal
Pachnicke Stephan, Kiel University, Germany
Alan Pak Tao, Hongkong Polytechnic University, Hongkong

Optical Communication: Devices, Interconnects and Subsystems

Haoshuo Chen, Nokia Bell lab, USA
Xuhan Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Brian Vyhnalek, NASA, USA
Wenfu Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Propagation, Spectroscopy, and Imaging

Kebin Shi, Peking University, China

Quantum Photonics

Matthieu Eichenfield, University of Arizona, USA
Qian Li, University of Toronto, Canada
Nicolas Treps, Sorbonne Université, France
Rahul Trivedi, University of Washington, USA
Lijian Zhang, Nanjing University, China

SPECIAL SYMPOSIA

Special Symposium on Quantum Photonic Materials and Devices for Quantum Computing

Tobias Gehring, DTU, Denmark
Kimberly Hall, Dalhousie University, Canada
Alex High, The University of Chicago, USA
Olivier Pfister, University of Virginia, USA
Edo Waks, University of Maryland, USA