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:
Yohannes Abate, University of Georgia, USA
Hayk Harutyunyan Emory University, USA
Alex Frano, University of California San Diego, USA
James Joseph, Army Research Laboratory, USA
Howard Lee, University of California at Irvine, USA
Tomer Lewi, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Gennady Shvets, Cornell University, USA

AOP – Applications of Photonics

Topic Co-Chairs:
Monica Allen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Rudra Gnawali, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

Committee Members:
Igor Anisimov, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Andrew DeBlase, University of Dayton Research Institute, USA
Daniel Dyson, University of Central Florida, USA
Bryan Holtsberry, Army DEVCOM, USA
Fouad Kiamilev, University of Delaware, USA
William Lewis, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Justin Meadows, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Daniel Short, Army DEVCOM, USA
Subith Vasu, University of Central Florida, USA

ETP – Enabling Technologies in Photonics

Topic Chair:
Jeffery Allen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

Committee Members:
James Cahill, Army Research Laboratory, USA
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:

Sukrith Dev, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Alexander Khanikaev, City University of New York, USA
Seunghwi Kim, CUNY, USA
Alex Krasnok, Florida International University, USA
Rahul Rao, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Mike Susner, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Simeon Trendafilov, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

HMBB – Human State Measurement, Biosensing, and Biophotonics

Committee Members:

James Bliss, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Adrienne Ephrem, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Justin Estepp, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Jason Foley, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Steve Kim, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Anil Raj, Institute For Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Trevor Tilly, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Brett Wenner, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

MMAP – Materials and Manufacturing for Advanced Photonics

Topic Chair:

Darnell Diggs, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

Committee Members:

Stefan Badescu, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
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
Hjalti Sigmarsson, Oklahoma University, USA
Nelson Tabiryan, Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co., USA

OEDDIP – Optical Emitters, Detectors and Devices

Topic Chair:
Jeffery Allen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

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
Robert Marsland, Intraband LLC, USA
Andreas Schmitt-Sody, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Suraj Suri, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
Weidong Zhou, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

OIST – Optical Imaging and Sensing Technology

Topic Chair:
Daniel Wasserman, The University Texas at Austin, USA

Committee Members:

Igor Anisimov, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Gamini Ariyawansa, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Elliott Brown, Wright State University, USA
Nibir Dhar, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), USA
Chad Holbrook, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Seongsin Margaret Kim, University of Alabama, USA
Evgeniya Lock, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Mike Saville AFIT, USA

Jason Zeibel, US Army Futures Command, USA

OMPEES – Optical Metamaterials, Plasmonics and Engineered Electromagnetic Structures

Committee Members:

Andrea Alu, CUNY, USA
Ivan Avrutsky, Wayne State University, USA
Ben Braaten, North Dakota State University, USA
Shashi Karna, Army Research Laboratory, USA
Adam Overvig, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Jeff Owrutsky, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Varun Raghunathan, Indian Institute of Sciences India
Ventsislav Valev, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Shiva Vangala, Air Force 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
Swarup Bhunia, University of Florida, USA
Selim Habib, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Kirk Ingold, United States Military Academy Westpoint, USA
Frederick Long, DEVCOM, Armaments Center, USA
William North, West Point, USA
Hank Theiss, University of Arkansas, USA

QNP – Quantum Photonics

Topic Chairs:
Jeffery Allen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
James Joseph, Army Research Laboratory, USA

Committee Members:

Sang-Yeon Cho, Army Research Laboratory, USA
Alberto De la Torre Duran, Northeastern University, USA
James Joseph, Army Research Laboratory, USA
Galan Moody, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Sarah Sharif, The University of Oklahoma, USA
Haim Suchowski, Tel Aviv University, Israel