• Technical Conference:  26 – 30 October 2025
  • Science + Industry Showcase:   28 – 29 October 2025
  • Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

Committee

Chairs

Frontiers in Optics

Liangcai Cao
Tsinghua University, China
 

Alexey Turukhin
Cisco Systems, USA
 

Laser Science

 
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Xiaoqin (Elaine) Li
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Hailin Wang

University of Oregon, USA

 

FiO 1: Fabrication, Design and Instrumentation
Jürgen Czarske, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Lars Buettner, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Ulrike Fuchs, Asphericon GmbH, Jena, Germany
Jan Kaster, ZEISS, Germany
Tomasz Kozacki, Warsaw Univ. of Technology​, Poland
Wei Ren, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong​, Hong Kong
Ayano Tanabe, Citizen, Japan
Florian Wilomitzer, Univ. of Arizona., USA
Otani Yukitoshi, Utsunomiya Univ., USA

FiO 2: Optical Interactions
Lyuba Kuznetsova, San Diego State Univ., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Angela Dudley, CSIR National Laser Centre, South Africa
Kayn Forbes, Univ. of East Anglia, UK
Khanh Kieu, Univ. of Arizona, College of Optical Science, USA
Isaac Nape, Univ. of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Erik Schartner, Univ. of Adelaide, Australia
Shawn Sederberg, Simon Fraser Univ., Canada
Luat Vuong, Univ. of California, Riverside​, USA

FiO 3: Quantum Electronics
Bienvenu Irenge Ndagano, INRS-EMT, Canada, Subcommittee Chair
Ali Anwar, Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP), UK
Ehab Awad, King Saud Univ., Saudi Arabia
Robert Fickler, Tampere Univ.​, Finland
Jiawen Liu, The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Shima Rajabali, Delft Univ of Technology, Netherlands
Stefania Sciara, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Canada
Bereneice Sephton, Univ. of Naples Federico II, Italy
Jianwei Wang, Peking Univ., China

FiO 4: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
Giovanni Milione, NEC Laboratories America Inc.​​, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Di Che, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Lawrence Chen, McGill Univ., Canada
Stanley Cheung, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
Chisato Fukai, NTT Corp, Japan
Roberto Proietti, Polytechnic Univ. of Torino, Italy, USA
Rachel Sampson, MIT Lincoln Labs, USA
Hao Song, Acacia, USA
Deepa Venkitesh, Indian Inst. of Technology, India
Xinru Wu, Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA
Mengjie Yu, University of Southern California, Berkeley, USA

FiO 5: Integrated Devices for Computing, Sensing and Other Applications
Tzu-Yung Huang, Nokia Bell Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Richard Grote, PsiQuantum, USA
David Hopper, IMEC, USA
Maiken H. Mikkelsen, Duke Univ., USA
Aseema Mohanty, Tufts Univ.​, USA
Raj Patel, Nokia, USA
Amirhassan Sharns-Ansari, DRS Daylight Solutions, USA
Jothi Thiruraman, Google Quantum, USA

FiO 6: Optics in Biology, Medicine, Vision and Color
Wu Yuan, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong​​, Hong Kong, Subcommittee Chair
Timothy Baran, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Donghyun Kim,  Yonsei Univ., South Korea
Guanghan Meng, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA
Gavrielle Untracht, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Ruikang Wang, Univ. of Washington, USA
Terence Tsz Wai Wong, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Jing Yuan, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China

FiO 7: Information Acquisition, Processing and Display
Partha Banerjee, Univ. of Dayton​​, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Nelson Tabiryan, BeamCo, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Basanta Bhaduri, Tokyo Electric, USA
Pierre Blanche, Amazon, USA
Prathan Buranasiri, King Mongkut Inst. of Tech, Thailand
Ni Chen, University  of Arizona, USA
Cornelia Denz, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany
Tomasz Kozacki, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland
Nickolay Petrov, Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics Univ. (ITMO), Russia
Elena Stoykova,  Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Laser Science Subcommittee 1: Nanophotonics, Plasmonics and Metamaterials    
Maiken Mikkelsen, Duke University, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Markus Raschke, University of Colorado, USA, Subcommittee Chair

Laser Science Subcommittee 2: Quantum Photonics   
Alex Burgers, University of Michigan, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Marina Radulaski, University of California, Davis, Subcommittee Chair

Laser Science Subcommittee 3: Ultrafast Dynamics in Complex Systems    
Matthew Graham, Oregon State University, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Xiao-Xiao Zhang, University of Florida, USASubcommittee Chair

Laser Science Subcommittee 4: Attosecond, Strong-Field and XFEL Science    
Yuki Kobayashi, University of Michigan, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Shambhu Ghimire, Stanford University, USA, Subcommittee Chair