2025 Organizing Committee

GENERAL CO-CHAIR

Monica Allen, Ph.D.

Monica Allen Bio:

Monica Allen is a Senior Research Electronics Engineer at the Munitions Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB, Florida. Her primary areas of research interest include modeling, simulation, fabrication and characterization of nonlinear optical, photonic, and plasmonic physics through exploitation of light-matter interactions for application in detection and sensing.

GENERAL CO-CHAIR

Jeffery Allen, Ph.D.

Jeffery Allen Bio:

Jeffery Allen is a Senior Research Electronics Engineer at the Munitions Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. His primary area of interest is electromagnetic wave matter interaction, metamaterials, optimized RF apertures, conformal/structurally integrated apertures, semiconductor physics, IR plasmonics, nonlinear optics, quantum sensing and research in novel sensing paradigms.

Topic Committees

ANP – Advanced Nanophotonics Platform

Committee Members:

Alberto De la Torre Duran, Northeastern University, USA
Hayk Harutyunyan Emory University, USA
James Joseph, Army Research Laboratory, USA
Howard Lee, University of California at Irvine, USA
Tomer Lewi, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Jeff Owrutsky, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Gennady Shvets, Cornell University, USA
Haim Suckowski, Tel Aviv University, Israel

AOP – Applications of Photonics

Committee Members:

Igor Anisimov, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Andrew DeBlase, University of Dayton Research Institute, USA
Daniel Dyson, University of Central Florida, USA
Fouad Kiamilev, University of Delaware, USA
William Lewis, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Justin Meadows, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Subith Vasu, University of Central Florida, USA

ETP – Enabling Technologies in Photonics

Committee Members:

Yifei Li, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
John Murray-Bruce, University of South Florida, USA
Hieu Nguyen, Texas Tech University, USA
Babak Nikoobakht, NIST, USA
Shuo (Sean) Pang, University of Central Florida, USA
Weimin Zhou, Army Research Laboratory, USA

FPM – Functional Photonic Materials

Committee Members:

Yohannes Abate, University of Georgia, USA
Stefan Badescu, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Alexander Khanikaev, City University of New York, USA
Simeon Trendafilov, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

HMB – Human State Measurement and Biosensing

Committee Members:

Swarup Bhunia, University of Florida, USA
Anil Raj, Institute For Human and Machine Cognition, USA

MMAP – Materials and Manufacturing for Advanced Photonics

Topic Chair:

Darnell Diggs, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

Committee Members:

Michael Carter, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Anthony Hoffman, Notre Dame University, USA
Edward Kinzel, Notre Dame University, USA
Xiuling Li, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Xiyuan Lu, UMD Joint Quantum Institute, USA
Mariacristina Rumi, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Nelson Tabiryan, Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co., USA

OEDDIP – Optical Emitters, Detectors and Devices

Committee Members:

Max Andrews, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Enam Chowdhury, The Ohio State University, USA
Ramón Collazo, North Carolina State University, USA
Ronny Kirste, Adroit Materials, USA
Andreas Schmitt-Sody, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Suraj Suri, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA

OIST – Optical Imaging and Sensing Technology

Committee Members:

Igor Anisimov, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Gamini Ariyawansa, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Matthew Burfeindt, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Jerome Cuenca, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

Jason Zeibel, US Army Futures Command, USA

OMPEES – Optical Metamaterials, Plasmonics and Engineered Electromagnetic Structures

Committee Members:

Andrea Alu, CUNY, USA

Ben Braaten, North Dakota State University, USA
James Joseph, Army Research Laboratory, USA
Shashi Karna, Army Research Laboratory, USA
Seongsin Margaret Kim, University of Alabama, USA
Varun Raghunathan, Indian Institute of Sciences India
Mke Saville AFIT, USA
Ventsislav Valev, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Shiva Vangala, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Sang-Yeon Cho, Army Research Laboratory, USA

PDS – Photonics for Defense Systems

Topic Chair:

Jon Harris, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

Committee Members:

Nathan Anthony, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Navid Asadi, Florida Semiconductor Institute, USA
Kirk Ingold, United States Military Academy Westpoint, USA
William North, West Point, USA