Technical Conference: 27 September - 01 October 2026
Science + Industry Showcase: 29 - 30 September 2026
Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center | Rochester, New York, USA

Technical Conference: 27 September - 01 October 2026
Science + Industry Showcase: 29 - 30 September 2026
Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center | Rochester, New York, USA

Committee

Chairs

Frontiers in Optics

Professor Liangcai Cao
Tsinghua University, China
 

Dr. Sterling Backus
Thorlabs Laser Division Boulder, USA
 

Laser Science

Professor Robert A Kaindl
Arizona State University, USA

Dr. Irina Novikova
College of William and Mary, USA

FiO 1: Fabrication, Design and Instrumentation

Raj Patel, Xscape Photonic Inc., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Lars Buettner, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Parthmesh Deshmukh, Meta, USA
Tomasz Kozacki, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Yuan Luo, National Taiwan UniversityTaiwan
Gladys Minguez-Vega, University Jaume I, Instituto de Nuevas Tecnologías de la Imagen, Spain
Heidi Ottevaere, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Anirudh Ramesh, PsiQuantum, USA
Wei Ren, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Purmina Sethi, Intel, USA
Ayano Tanabe, Citizen, Japan
Mengyue Xu, University of Michigan, USA

FiO 2: Optical Interactions

Shawn Sederberg, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Subcommittee Chair
Hanieh Fattahi, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Kayn Forbes, University of East Anglia, UK
Shima Gholam Mirzaiemoghadar, University of Ottawa, Canada
Khanh Kieu, University of Arizona, USA
Julia Mikhailova, Princeton University, USA
Isaac Nape, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Marcus Ossiander, TU Graz, Austria
Erik Schartner, Adelaide University, Australia
Luat Vong, University of California, Riverside, USA

FiO 3: Quantum Electronics

Bienvenu Ndagano, INRS-EMT, Canada, Subcommittee Chair
Lucia Caspani, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Margoth Cordova, University of Ottawa, Canada
Robert Fickler, Tampere University, Finland
Ashley Lyons, University of Glasgow, UK
Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Bereneice Sephton, University of Naples, Italy
Ruaridh Smith, Fraunhofer CAP, UK
Kai Wang, McGill University, Canada

FiO 4: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

Giovanni Milione, Sintela Inc., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Haoshuo Chen, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Chisato Fukai, NTT Corp., Japan
Juliet Gopinath, University of  Colorado Boulder, USA
Philip Ji, NEC Labs America, USA
Hao Song, Cisco, Acacia, USA
Deepa Venkitesh, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Ying Ning Wang, University of Southern California, USA

FiO 5: Integrated Devices for Computing, Sensing and Other Applications

Seth Catano-Lopez, Blue Laser Fusion, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Hector Andrade, Lucidean, USA
Antoine Descos, Helwett Packard Enterprise, USA
Tzu-Yung Huang, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Jelena Notaros, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Lukas Perner, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, DRS Daylight Solutions, USA
Jamie Wong Campos, Janelia, USA

FiO 6: Optics in Biology, Medicine, Vision and Color

Ruikang Wang, University of Washington, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Bernhard Baumann, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Nanguang Chen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Shuting Fan, Shenzhen University, China
Jun Ki Kim, University of Ulsan, South Korea
Peng Li, Zhejiang University, China
Rongguang Liang, University of Arizona, USA
Shuichi Makita, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Pedro Mecê, Institut Langevin, France
Brian Vohnsen, University College Dublin, Ireland
Wu Yuan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Qingliang Zhao, Xiamen University, China

FiO 7: Information Acquisition, Processing and Display

Pierre-Alexandre Blanche, Amazon, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Partha Banerjee, University of Dayton, USA
Ivan Divliansky, University of Central Florida, USA
Tingzhao Fu, Tsinghua University, China
Aydogan Ozcan, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Tianyu Wang, Boston University, USA
Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Nihon University, Japan
Yaping Zhang, Kunming University, China

Laser Science Subcommittee 1: Nanophotonics, Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Viktor Podolskiy, University of Massachusetts, USA, Subcommittee Chair

Laser Science Subcommittee 2: Quantum Photonics

Hadiseh Alaeian, Purdue University, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Alex Burgers, University of Michigan, USA, Subcommittee Chair

Laser Science Subcommittee 3: Ultrafast Dynamics in Complex Systems

Matthew Graham, Oregon State, USA, Subcommittee Chair

Laser Science Subcommittee 4: Attosecond, Strong-Field and XFEL Science