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

Philip Feng, University of Florida, USA
Howard Lee, University of California, Irvine, USA
Prasad Iyer, Sandia National Lab, USA
Boubacar Kante, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Alireza Marandi, Caltech, USA
Sergei Mirov, University of Alabama, USA
Luca Sapienza, University of Cambridge, England
Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz, University of California, Davis, USA

AOP - Applications of Photonics

Scott Anderson, The University of Utah, USA
Steven Chambreau, AFRL, USA
Arthur Dogariu, Texas A&M University, USA
Dan Fries, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Michael Hanchak, University of Dayton, USA
Seungyong Jung, Transwave Photonics Inc, USA
Steve McHugh, Santa Barbara Infrared Inc, USA
Jason Meyers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Olivia Moss, Yale University, USA
Daniel Richardson, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Shui-Qing Yu, University of Arkansas, USA

ETP - Enabling Technologies in Photonics

Jim Adleman, Naval Research Lab, USA
Mike Horton, ANELLO Photonics, USA
Hongxing Jiang, Texas Tech University, USA
Thomas LeBrun, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Jiang Li, hQphotonics Inc., USA
Zetian Mi, University of Michigan, USA
Hieu Nguyen, Texas Tech University, USA
Babak Nikoobaht, NIST, USA
Brandon Redding, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Paul Simmonds, Tufts University, USA
George Wang, Sandia National Lab, USA
Lin Yi, NASA, USA
Xu Yi, University of Virginia, USA
Jing Zhang, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

FPM - Functional Photonic Materials

Enam Chowdhury, Ohio State University, USA
Han Htoon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Chad Husko, Iris Light Technologies, USA
Alex Krasnok, Florida International University, USA
Francesco Monticone, Cornell University, USA
Peter Stevenson, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Hanyu Zhu, Rice University, USA

HMB - Humanstate Measurement and Biosensing

Robert Dizor, University of West Florida, USA
Ahyeon Koh, Binghamton University, USA
Kirk Pirlo, University of Dayton, USA
Rukman Senanayake, SRI International, USA
Koji Sode, NC State University, USA

MMAP - Materials and Manufacturing for Advanced Photonics

Sadhvikas Addamane, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Chris Anderson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
David Burghoff, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Tod Grusenmeyer, AFRL/RXEPE, USA
Euan Hendry, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan, USA
Ki Tae Nam, Seoul National University, South Korea
Heng Pan, Texas A&M University, USA
Nicolae Panoiu, University College London, United Kingdom
Jie Qiao, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Nelson Tabiryan, BEAM Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co., USA
Anatoly Zayats, King’s College London, United Kingdom

OEDDIP - Optical Emitters, Detectors and Devices

Zenghu Chang, University of Ottawa, Canada
Hamid Dalir, University of Florida, USA
Qing Gu, North Carolina State University, USA
Boubacar Kante, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Johannes Koeth, Nanoplus Advanced Photonics Gerbrunn GmbH, Germany
Jeremy Pigeon, University of Rochester, USA
Rajul Randive, Crystal IS, USA
Pramod Reddy, Adroit Materials, USA
Greg Rupper, ARL, USA
Anand Sampath, ARL, USA

OIST - Optical Imaging and Sensing Technology

Sherif Abdelwahed, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), USA
Vasily Astratov, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Randy Bostick, OUSD(I&S), USA
Jay Clausen, US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, USA
Vladimir Druskin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Samiran Ganguly, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), USA
Richard Kim, Laser Components, USA
David Messinger, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Leland Nordin, CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA
Ümit Özgür, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), USA
Erdem Topsakal, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), USA
Yong-Hang Zhang, Arizona State University, USA

OMPEES - Optical Metamaterials, Plasmonics and Engineered Electromagnectic Structures

Johannes Froech, University of Washington, USA
Hichem Guerboukha, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Tian Gu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Joerg Lahann, University of Michigan, USA
Robert Magnusson, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Adam Overvig, City University of New York, USA
Willie Padilla, Duke University, USA
Fairooz Simlan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

PDS - Photonics for Defense Systems

Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA
James Cahill, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA
James Ginn, Plasmonics Inc., USA
Gordon Hageman, University of Arizona, USA
Darren Hudson, CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA
Arkadiy Lyakh, University of Central Florida, USA
Sean Pang, University of Central Florida, USA
Joe Shaw, Montana State University, USA
Chris Valenta, Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA