Invited Speakers

Below is the list of Invited Speakers who represent the topics approved by proposal. The Invited Speakers will share their innovative technical contributions and applications, addressing some of the most complex technologies in the photonics and optics fields.

ANP - Advanced Nanophotonics Platform

Daniel Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Christopher DeRose, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Zihe Gao, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Karan Mehta, Cornell University, USA

AOP - Applications of Photonics

Elizabeth Craft, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Daniel Dyson, University of Central Florida, USA
Terry Meyer, Purdue University, USA
Keith Rein, Spectral Energies LLC, USA

ETP - Enabling Technologies in Photonics

Daniel Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Yanne Chembo, University of Maryland, USA
Zetian Mi, University of Michigan, USA
Gregory Moille, University of Maryland/NIST, USA
Takuma Nakamura, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Hieu Nguyen, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Dennis Prather, University of Delaware, USA

HMB - Humanstate Measurement and Biosensing

Justin Estepp, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Dominic Labanowski, Sonera Magnetics, Inc., USA
Ivan Tashev, Microsoft Research, USA

MMAP - Materials and Manufacturing for Advanced Photonics

Osama Bilal, University of Connecticut, USA
Michael Fokine, KTH Sweden, Sweden
Hayk Harutyunyan, Emory University, USA
Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan, USA
Mark Mirotznik, University of Delaware, USA
Piyush Shah, Apex Microdevices LLC & AFRL/RX, USA
Paolo Vavassori, CIC nanoGUNE, Spain
Anastasiia Zaleska, King’s College London, USA
Chris Zuhlke, University of Nebraska, USA

OEDDIP - Optical Emitters, Detectors and Devices

James Lott, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
Arkadiy Lyakh, University of Central Florida, USA
Lukasz, Sterczewski, Politechnika Wrocławska, Poland
Zbig Wasilewski, University of Waterloo, Canada

OIST - Optical Imaging and Sensing Technology

Gilles Fortin, DRDC Valcartier, Canada
Mikhail Klibanov, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA
Todd Murray, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA

OMPEES - Optical Metamaterials, Plasmonics and Engineered Electromagnectic Structures

Amit Agarwal, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Ivan Avrutsky, Wayne State University, USA
Chloe Doiron, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Eyal Feigenbaum, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Tsinghua Her, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Tino Hofmann, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Robert Magnusson, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Adam Overvig, City University of New York, USA
Jamie Phillips, University of Delaware, USA
Yannick Salamin, MIT, USA

PDS - Photonics for Defense Systems

William Amatucci, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Christopher Crabtree, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Gurudas Ganguli, Naval Research Laboratory, USA