Invited Speakers

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Kenichi Shimada
Hitachi Ltd, Japan
Optics for Autonomous Driving Car
Steve Frisken
Cylite, Australia
Volume Acquisition of Optical Coherence Tomography: The New Frontier in 3D Imaging
Su Ping
Tsinghua University, China
Volume Holography in Solar Concentration

Amina Hussein
University of Alberta, Canada
Multi-milijoule Infrared Pulses from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator
Andrew Forbes
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Structured Light in Noise Channels
Mordechai Segev
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission in Photonic Time-crystals
Pascal Salieres
Laboratory Interactions Dynamics and Las, France
Attosecond Imaging of Resonant Photoemission Dynamics
Robert Boyd
University of Ottawa, Canada
Nonlinear Optical Processes in Epsilon-near-zero Materials
Tara Fortier
National Inst of Standards & Technology, Canada
Optical Frequency Combs for Precision Metrology of Atomic Clocks
Ying Lia Li
University College London, UK
Cavity Optomechanical Sensors and the Effect of Noise and Drift on Inertial Sensing

(Richard) Mark Stevenson
Toshiba Corp, UK
Quantum Light Emitting Diodes and their Applications
Alireza Marandi
California Institute of Technology, USA
Integrated Nonlinear Photonics: New Opportunities in the Nanometer and Femtosecond Scales
Avraham Gover
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Quantum Electron-Optics - New Research Directions
Daniel Blumenthal
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Ultra-narrow Linewidth Frequency Stabilized Photonic Integrated Lasers
David Miller
Stanford University, USA
The New Multimode Optics - Understanding and Exploiting Controllable Complexity
Gordon Keeler
Defense Advanced Res Projects Agency, USA
Optical Microsystem Technology Development at DARPA
Tin Komljenovic
Nexus Photonics, USA
Chip-scale Light Sources in Visible and Near-infrared
Yoshihisa Yamamoto
NTT, Japan
Entanglement, Quantum Discord and Noise Correlation in Coherent Ising Machines

Di Che
Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Advanced Digital Formats for Directly Modulated Lasers Beyond 200 Gb/s
Fatih Yaman
NEC Laboratories America Inc, USA
Guided Acoustic Brillouin Scattering Measurements in Communication Fibers
Jin-Xing Cai
SubCom LLC, USA
SDM, Power Efficiency and Current Submarine Systems
Olga Vassilieva
Fujitsu Network Communications Inc., USA
In Search of the Optimum Information Rate and Symbol Rate in PS-QAM Systems to Enable Highly Efficient Optical Transport Networks

Amy Foster
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Heterogeneous integration with SiNx
Hsuan-Tung Peng
Princeton University, USA
Spiking Neuron in a Photonic Integrated Circuit
Hui Hu
Shandong University, China
Lithium Niobate Thin Films for Integrated Photonics
Ivor Guiney
Paragraf Limited, UK
Industrial Development of Graphene
Joyce Poon
Max-Planck-Inst fur Mikrostrukturphysik, Germany
Silicon Photonics for the Visible Spectrum
Stefan Abel
Lumiphase AG, Switzerland
BTO-enhanced Silicon Photonics – a Scalable Platform with Ultra-efficient Optical Switches
Thomas Murphy
University of Maryland at College Park, USA
2D Plasmonics and THz Nonlinear Optics

Aydogan Ozcan
University of California Los Angeles, USA
Deep Learning-enabled Computational Microscopy and Sensing
Tilman Schmoll
Carl Zeiss Meditec Inc, USA
Widefield OCT Angiography for Ophthalmic Diagnostics
Xue Han
Boston University, USA
Voltage and Calcium Imaging of Neural Network Dynamics with Single Cell Resolution during Behavior

Hiroshi Yoshikawa
Nihon University, Japan
Interactive Generation of Full Color 4K Image Hologram
Jung-Ping Liu
Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Holographic Display by Computer-generated Binary Holograms
Ni Chen
King Abdullah Univ of Sci & Technology, Saudi Arabia
Computational 3D/4D Holographic Imaging
Pietro Ferraro
Institute of Intelligent Systems CNR, Italy
The Power of Holographic 3D Imaging in Flow-cytometry

Aaron Lindenberg
Stanford University, USA
Phase Dynamics in VO2 Devices via Operando Diffraction
Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez
University of Utah, USA
Title to be Announced
Christoph Lange
Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
Subcycle Nonlinearities of Light-matter Hybrid Modes in the Deep-strong Coupling Regime
Daniel Rolles
Kansas State University, USA
Molecules in Intense XFEL Fields
Hans Jakob Woerner
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Attosecond Soft-X-ray Spectroscopy in the Gas and Liquid Phases
Hatice Altug
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Frontiers in Nanophotonics: Enabling Technology for Next-generation Biosensors
Jaime Rivas
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Broadband THz Near-field Microscopy of Resonant Metasurfaces
Jungsang Kim
IonQ Inc, USA
Trapped Ion Quantum Computing
Kai-Mei Fu
University of Washington, USA
Spin Coherence and Control of Shallow Donors in Bulk ZnO and Single ZnO Nanowires
Liuyan Zhao
University of Michigan, USA
Ultrafast Modulations and Detection of a Ferro-rotational Charge Density Wave Using Time-resolved Electric Quadrupole Second Harmonic Generation
Luca Argenti
University of Central Florida, USA
Autoionizing States in Attosecond Spectroscopy
Mackillo Kira
University of Michigan, USA
Momentum-comb Tomography of Many-body Processes in Solids
Masayoshi Tonouchi
Osaka University, Japan
Meta-atoms for Terahertz Microfluidic Chips
Nina Rohringer
Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Germany
Momentum Resolved Measurements of XUV Polaritons by X-ray Parametric Down Conversion
Oren Cohen
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Title to be Announced
Peter Armitage
Johns Hopkins University, USA
2D-THz Spectroscopy of Marginal Fermi Glass
Prineha Narang
Harvard University, USA
Generalized Collective Mode Spectroscopy and Quantum Probes of Quantum Matter from a Theory Perspective
Shaul Mukamel
University of California Irvine, USA
Distinguishability and "which pathway" Information in Quantum Interferometric-Spectroscopy
Sophia Economou
Virginia Tech, USA
Title to be Announced

Akram Benmbarek
AEye Inc., USA
New Applications of Lidar in the Autonomous Industry
Amin Abbasi
imec, Belgium
Silicon Photonic Technologies for the Future of Autonomous Mobility
Chris Posch
Teledyne FLIR, USA
How Thermal Cameras Improve Automotive Automatic Emergency Braking Systems using RGBT and AI
Emil Kadlec
Aurora, USA
LiDAR, AV, Trucking Sensors
Emily Charlson
Stanford University, USA
Overview Talk on AR/VR, Optical Technologies and Autonomous Surgeries
Mark Draelos
Duke University, USA
Robotics for OCT-Guided Ophthalmic Surgery and Diagnostics
Martin Villiger
Wellman Center for Photomedicine, USA
Optical Technologies and Challenges for Catheter-based Robotic Interventions
Pierre DuPont
Harvard University, USA
Optics for Autonomous Transcatheter Interventions
Ross Uthoff
Lumotive LLC, USA
Spatial Light Modualors for Sensing

Achuta Kadambi
University of California Los Angeles, USA
On the Physics behind Computer Vision
Adrian Stern
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Optical Firewall for Defending Deep Neural Networks from Adversarial Attacks
Alexandra Boltasseva
Purdue University, USA
Advancing Photonic Design and Quantum Measurements with Machine Learning
David Brady
University of Arizona, USA
Neural Processing for Array Cameras
Giovanni Volpe
Goteborgs Universitet, Sweden
DeepTrack 2.0: A Framework for Deep Learning for Microscopy
Gordon Wetzstein
Stanford University, USA
Deep Optics
Katie Bouman
California Institute of Technology, USA
Beyond the First Portrait of a Black Hole
Laura Waller
University of California Berkeley, USA
End-to-end Learning for Computational Microscopy
Luat Vuong
University of California Riverside, USA
Reduce Computational Complexity! Inspiration from Flies
Marin Soljacic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Novel Deep Learning Techniques for Photonics
Peyman Milanfar
Google Research, USA
Denoising as a Building Block: Theory and Applications
Shanhui Fan
Stanford University, USA
Optical Computing in Synthetic Dimensions
Sixian You
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Real-time Optical Biopsy via Machine Learning and Nonlinear Optical Microscopy
Xin Yuan
Westlake University, China
Deep Learning for Snapshot Compressive Imaging
Yair Rivenson
Pictor Labs, USA
Virtual Biomarkers for Next Generation Pathology

Anastasios Angelopoulos
University of California Berkeley, USA
Event-based, Near-eye Gaze Tracking beyond 10,000 Hz
Anat Levin
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Title to be Announced
Andrzej Kaczorowski
VividQ, UK
Advances in Real-time Computer-Generated Holography for Augmented Reality Applications
Barmak Heshmat
BRELYON, USA
Title to be Announced
Boris Greenberg
EyeWay Vision, Israel
Title to be Announced
Changwon Jang
Facebook Reality Labs Research, USA
Freeform Holographic Optical Elements for VR/AR Applications
Chiara Giordano
Tobii AB, Sweden
What Do Eye Tracking Metrics Tell Us? Common Pitfalls in Measuring and Comparing Trackers Performance
Daniel Smalley
Brigham Young University, USA
Optical Trap Displays: Considerations for Augmented Reality
Eero Peltohaka
OptoFidelity Ltd, Finland
Testing of Head-mounted Displays for Medical Applications
Emrah Bostan
AMS Technologies AG, USA
Title to be Announced
Hakan Urey
Koç University, Turkey
Computational Holographic Display Based Vision Simulator for Cataracts
Jannick Rolland
University of Rochester, USA
AR Technology Drives the Emergence of the Metaform
Kaan Aksit
University College London, UK
Beaming Displays
Katharina Krösl
VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung, Austria
Simulating Vision Impairments in XR
Nathan Matsuda
Facebook Reality Labs, USA
Reverse Passthrough VR
Nicolas Pégard
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Dynamic Computer Generated Holography for Virtual Reality Displays
Paul Christie
Liti Holographics, USA
Launch of the First Desktop 3D Hologram Printer
Sriram Subramanian
University College London, UK
Computational Acoustic Wavefront Manipulation for Multimodal Displays
Suyeon Choi
Stanford University, USA
Enabling Next-generation Holographic Displays with Artificial Intelligence
Tobias Ritschel
University College London, UK
Title to be Announced