General Chairs
Mei Du, Tata Communications, USA
Lara Garrett, Subcom, USA
Xiaodan Pang, Zhejiang Univ., China
Program Chairs
John Ballato, Clemson Univ., USA
Alan Pak Tao Lau, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong
Werner Weiershausen, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Subcommittees
D-Track: Devices, Components and Fibers
D1: Advanced Prototyping, Packaging and Integration
Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson, Italy, Subcommittee Chair
Ji Chen, Marvell Technology, China
Gloria Hoefler, Saar Consulting, USA
Marika Immonen, TTM Technologies, Inc., China
Kejia Li, Cisco/Acacia, USA
Tiger Ninomiya, Accelink, USA
Akihiro Noriki, AIST, Japan
Sabarni Palit, Mixx Technologies, USA
Hari Potluri, Broadcom, USA
Marco Romagnoli, CamGraphics, EMEA
Sudip Shekhar, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada
Sylvia Smolorz, Amazon, USA
Anne Tauke-Pedretti, DARPA, USA
Yating Wan, King Abdullah Univ. of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Marcus Yang, SiPhi, USA
D2: Photonic Integrated Circuits, Micro-optics, Nanophotonics and Switching Devices
Mario Dagenais, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Matteo Cherchi, Xanadu, Canada
Shai Cohen, NVIDIA, Israel
Tingyi Gu, Univ. of Delaware, USA
Takako Hirokawa, Global Foundries, USA
Sean Hooten, Hewlett Packard, USA
Duanni Huang, Intel Labs, USA
Arnan Mitchell, RMIT Univ., Australia
Francesco Morichetti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Chris Poulton, Beacon Photonics, USA
Joris Van Campenhout, IMEC, Belgium
Laurent Vivien, Univ. Paris Saclay, CNRS, Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, France
Yi-Kuei Ryan Wu, Broadcom, USA
Ai Yanagihara, NTT Corp, Japan
Linjie Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
D3: Active Optoelectronic Components
Patrick Runge, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Tatsurou Hiraki, NTT, Japan
Claudia Hössbacher, Polariton, Switzerland
Jonathan Klamkin, Aeluma & UC Santa Barbara, USA
Christos Kouloumentas, Optagon Photonics & Univ. of the Aegean, Greece
Daniel Kuchta, NVIDIA, USA
Jie Liu, Sun Yat-sen Univ., China
Liu Liu, Zhejiang Univ., China
Mizuki Shirao, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
Anna Tatarczak, Coherent, USA
Bassem Tossoun, HPE Labs, USA
Geert van Steenberge, Ghent Univ., Belgium
Chao Xiang, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
HP Xiao, WinFoundry, Taiwan
Lars Zimmermann, IHP, Germany
D4: Fibers, Connectivity, Characterization and Propagation Physics
Chiara Lasagni, Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy, Subcommittee Chair
Sidi-Ely Ahmedou, Prysmian Group, France
Lauren Dallachiesa, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Md Selim Habib, Florida Tech, USA
Kerrianne Harrington, Univ. of Bath, UK
Yuki Kawaguchi, Sumitomo Electric, Japan
Andrey Kobyakov, Corning Inc., USA
Poul Kristensen, Lightera, Denmark
Takuya Oda, Fujikura Ltd., Japan
Austin Taranta, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Jiajing Tu, Jinan Univ., China
Masaki Wada, NTT Corp., Japan
Fatih Yaman, NEC, USA
D5: Fiber Devices, Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, and Nonlinear Waveguides
Atsushi Nakamura, NTT, Japan, Subcommittee Chair
Enkeleda Balliu, Cobolt AB, Sweden
Haoshuo Chen, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Peter Dragic, Univ. of Illinois, USA
Vladimir Gordienko, Aston Univ., UK
Sijing Liang, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Filipe Marques Ferreira, Univ. College of London, UK
Aldo Minardo, Univ. of Campania, Italy
Tetsu Morishima, Sumitomo Electric, Japan
Mark Pelusi, AIST, Japan
Yi Sun, Lightera, USA
Robert Tench, RET and Associates LLC, USA
Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong, Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Yiwei Xie, Zhejiang Univ., China
S-Track: Subsystems and Systems
S1: Datacom Subsystems and Systems
Brandon Buscaino, Ciena, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Shuang Yin, Google, USA
Nebojsa Stojanovic, Huawei, Germany
Scott Yin, Ghent Univ., Belgium
Fabio Bottoni, Cisco, Italy
Ying Zhao, Aloe Semiconductor, USA
Kangping Zhong, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong
Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Nvidia, Greece
Aaron Maharry, Lucidean, USA
Li Liangchuan, Beijing Inst. of Tech, China
Qian Hu, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Siamak Amiralizadeh, Meta, USA
S2: Subsystems for Transmission
Yi Cai, Soochow Univ., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Georg Böcherer, Ciena, Germany
Bin Chen, HFUT, China
Stella Civelli, CNR, Italy
Christian Häger, Chalmers, Sweden
Shota Ishimura, KDDI Research, Japan
Cho Junho, Nokia, Canada
Noriaki Kaneda, Coherent, USA
Keisuke Kasai, Tohoku Univ., Japan
Zhixin Liu, UCL, UK
Timo Pfau, Cisco, USA
Ann Margareth Rosa Brusin, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Hai Xu, Marvell, USA
Chen Zhu, Baidu, China
S3: Transmission Systems
Olga Vassilieva, Fujitsu, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Gabriel Charlet, Huawei Technologies, France
Andrea d'Amico, NEC Laboratory America, USA
Fukutaro Hamaoka, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
Boris Karanov, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Julia Larikova, Nokia, USA
Haik Mardoyan, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Darli Mello, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Pavel Skvortcov, Cisco, USA
Ruben Soares Luis, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Deepa Venkitesh, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Danshi Wang, Beijing Univ. of Post and Telecommunications (BUPT), China
Qunbi Zhuge, Shanghai Univ., China
S4: Fiber-Sensing and Microwave Photonics
Prince Anandarajah, Dublin City Univ., Ireland, Subcommittee Chair
Juna Diego Ania, Instituto de Óptica, CSIC, Spain
Steinar Bjørnstad, Tampnet AS, Norway
Antonella Bogoni, CNIT, Italy
Adonis Bogris, Univ. of West Attica, Greece
Thomas Clark, Michigan State Univ., USA
María Fernández-Ruiz, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Sterenn Guerrier, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Abel Lorences-Riesgo, Huawei, France
Takeo Sasai, NTT, Japan
Yaxi Yan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
S5: Next Generation Comms: Wireless Optical Communications (FSO, OWC, VLC) and Radio over Fiber (ROF)
Boon Ooi, King Abdullah Univ. of Sci & Technology, Saudi Arabia, Subcommittee Chair
Kasia Balakier, European Space Agency, UK
Liam Barry, Dublin City Univ., Ireland
Michael Eiselt, Eiselt Consulting, Germany
Hany Elgala, Univ. of Albany, USA
Andrew Ellis, Aston Univ., UK
Fernando Guiomar, Lisbon Univ., Portugal
Dominic O'Brien, Univ. of Oxford, UK
Simon Rommel, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Kevin Shortt, Airbus, Germany
Abderrahmen Trichili, Univ. of Northumbria, UK
Murat Uysal, NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE
Zhengyuan Xu, USTC, China
Jianping Yao, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
Xianbin Yu, Zhejiang Univ., China
N-Track: Networks and Services
N1: Advances in the Development of Networks, Systems and Services
Md Saifuddin Faruk, Bangor Univ., UK, Subcommittee Chair
Abdallah Ali, Microsoft, UK
Jean-Christophe Antona, ASN, France
Elie Awwad, Télécom Paris, France
Xiang Li, China Univ. of Geoscience (Wuhan), China
Carmen Mas Machuca, Uni BW, Germany
Jasper Müller, Adtran, Germany
Giuseppe Rizzelli, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Rene Schmogrow, Attotude, USA
Yu Sun, Google, USA
Cen Wang, KDDI, Japan
N2: Optics and Photonics for Data Center and Computing Applications
Angelina Totovic, Marvell, Greece, Subcommittee Chair
Farshid Ashtiani, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Guangwei Cong, AIST, Japan
Matej Hejda, Hewlett Packard Labs, Belgium
Chaoran Huang, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Xianshu Luo, A*STAR, Singapore
Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
Osamu Moriwaki, NTT Corporation, Japan
Daniel Pérez-López, iPronics, Spain
Patty Stabile, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Liming Wang, Google, USA
Yuyang Wang, Univ. of Connecticut, USA
Nathan Youngblood, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA
N3: Architectures, Control and Management of Optical Networks
Ricard Vilalta, CTTC, Spain, Subcommittee Chair
Paola Iovanna, Ericsson, Italy
Mariam Kiran, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Patricia Layec, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Yi Lin, Huawei Research Center, France
Nicola Sambo, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Mohammad Behnam Shariati, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Xiaonan Xu, Nokia, USA
Ahsaan Yousaf, Google, USA
Shuangyi Yan, Univ. of Bristol, UK
Jiawei Zhang, Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecom, China
N4: Optical Access Networks for Fixed and Mobile Services
Gaël Simon, Orange, France, Subcommittee Chair
Frank Effenberger, Futurewei Technologies Inc., USA
Devika Dass, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Gabriele Di Rosa, Adtran, Germany
Imali Dias, Deakin Univ., Australia
Vincent Houtsma, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Luyao Huang, China Telecom Research Institute, China
Zhensheng Jia, CableLabs, USA
Ryo Koma, NTT, Japan
Luiz Anet Neto, IMT Atlantique, France
Yanni Ou, Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecom (BUPT), China
Anna Tzanakaki, National and Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens, Greece
Zhaopeng Xu, Pengcheng Laboratory, China
N5: Market Watch, Network Operator Summit and Data Center Summit (Invited Program Only)
Balagangadhar Bathula, AT&T, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Vipul Bhatt, Coherent, USA
Tim Doiron, Nokia, USA
Christian Ilmi, Ligent, USA
Di Liang, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Qingyun (Wendell) Liu, AT&T, USA
Anuj Malik, Cisco, USA
Stephen Neidlinger, Adtran, Germany
Kumi Omori, NEC, Japan
Francesca Parmigiani, Microsoft, UK
Fabienne Saliou, Orange, France
Atul Srivastava, NTT, USA
SC-Q: Quantum Devices, Systems and Networking
Reza Nejabat, Cisco, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Davide Bacco, Univ. of Florence, Italy
Yuan Cao, Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Virginia D'Auria, Université Côte d’Azur, France
Marija Furdek, Chalmers Univ., Sweden
Helmut Grießer, Adtran, Germany
Natalia Herrera Valencia, Heriot-Watt Univ., UK
John Jarman, Nu Quantum, USA
Siddarth Joshi, Univ. of Brisol, UK
Prem Kumar, North Eastern Univ., UK
Andrew Lord, BT, UK
Makan Mohageg, Boeing, USA
Taofiq Paraiso, Toshiba, UK
Matheus Ribeiro Sena, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Demo Zone
Paola Parolari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Subcommittee Chair
Nicola Calabretta, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Kiyo Ishii, National Institute of Advance Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Christina Lim, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Paolo Monti, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
Annachiara Pagano, FiberCop, Italy
Lihua Ruan, Peng Cheng Lab, China
Marco Ruffini, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Vincent Sleiffer, Adtran Networks SE, Sweden
Michela Svaluto Moreolo, Centre Tecnològic Telecom de Catalunya, Spain
Shuyi Yan, Cisco, USA
Georgios Zervas, Univ. College London, UK
Ligia Zorello, Meta, USA
Steering Committee
Optica
Jun Shan Wey, Verizon Communications Inc., USA, Chair
Keren Bergman, Columbia University, USA
Ramon Casellas, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
Andrew Lord, BT Applied Research, UK
IEEE/Communications Society
Biswanath Mukherjee, Univ. of California Davis, USA
Loukas Paraschis, IEEE Communication Society, USA
Ann von Lehmen, DARPA, USA
Doug Zuckerman, IEEE Communications Society, USA
IEEE/Photonics Society
Jörg-Peter Elbers, Adtran, Germany
Fatima Garcia Gunning, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
Ampalavanapilla Thas Nirmalathas, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Elaine Wong, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Ex-Officio
John Ballato, Clemson University, USA
Mei Du, Tata Communications (America) Inc., USA
Lidia Galdino, Corning Inc., UK
Lara Garrett, SubCom, USA
Sagi Mathai, HPE Labs, USA
Takashi Matsui, NTT Corporation, Japan
David Millar, Nokia, USA
Paolo Monti, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
Xiaodan Pang, Zhejiang University, China
Alan Pak Tao Lau, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Werner Weiershausen, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Qiong (Jo) Zhang, Amazon Web Services, USA
Budget Committee
Loudon Blair, Ciena Corp., USA
Elizabeth Nolan, Optica, USA
Douglas M. Razzano, IEEE Photonics Society, USA
Seb Savory, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
Harold Tepper, IEEE Communications Society, USA
Jun Shan Wey, Verizon Communications Inc., USA
Long Range Planning Committee
Jörg-Peter Elbers, Adtran, Germany, Chair
Fred Bartholf, Comcast, USA
Stu Elby, MSG Ventures, USA
Lynn Nelson, AT&T, USA
Elizabeth Nolan, Optica, USA
Loukas Paraschis, Banais Labs, USA
Douglas M. Razzano, IEEE Photonics Society, USA
Harold Tepper, IEEE Communications Society, USA
Vijay Vusirikala, Arista Networks Inc., USA
Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon Communications, Inc., USA
Jun Shan Wey, Verizon Communications Inc., USA
Peter Winzer, Nubis Communications, USA