• Technical Conference:  30 March – 03 April 2025
  • Exhibition: 01 – 03 April 2025
  • Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA

Committee

Co-Chairs

General Chairs

Nicolas Fontaine, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Fotini Karinou, Microsoft, USA
Elaine Wong, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

Program Chairs

Mei Du, Tata Communications, USA
Lara Garrett, SubCom, USA
Xiaodan Pang, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH), Sweden

Subcommittees

D-Track: Devices, Components and Fibers

D1: Advanced Prototyping, Packaging and Integration

Samuel Palermo, Texas A&M Univ., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Yoojin Ban, imec, Belgium
Juthika Basak, Nokia Corp., USA
Janet Chen, NVIDIA, USA
Daniel Kuchta, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Sylvie Menezo, SCINTIL Photonics, France
Hong Nguyen, Sumitomo Electric, Japan
Sabarni Palit, ANELLO Photonics, USA
Molly Piels, OpenLight, USA
Sudip Shekhar, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada
Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson, Italy
An Bin Wang, Alibaba Group, China
Xi Xiao, NOIEC, China
Li Yang, Suzhou Dawning Semi Technology Co., Ltd., China

D2: Passive Components  

Milos Popovic, Ayar Labs, Boston Univ., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Matteo Cherchi, Xanadu, Canada
Mario Dagenais, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
Thalia Dominguez Bucio, Optoelectronics Research Centre, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Sonia Garcia-Blanco, ALUVIA, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
Takako Hirokawa, Global Foundries, USA 
Sagi Mathai, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Laurent Vivien, Universite de Paris XI Paris Sud, France
Keita Yamaguchi, NTT Corp., Japan
Mengjie Yu, Univ. of Southern California, USA
Linjie Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China

D3: Active Components  

Guo-Qiang (Patrick) Lo, Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF), USA, Subcommittee Chair
Connie Chang-Hasnain, Berxel Photonics Co. Ltd, USA
Gong-Ru Lin, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
Hai-Feng Liu, HGGenuine, USA
Liu Liu, Zhejiang Univ., China
Joyce Poon, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany
Johann Peter Reithmaier, Universitat Kassel, Germany
Jessie Rosenberg, Lightmatter, USA
Patrick Runge, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
M. Ashkan Seyedi, NVIDIA Corporation, USA
Changzheng Sun, Tsinghua Univ., China
Yuichi Tohmori, Tsurugi Photonics Foundation, Japan
Shi Wei, Université Laval, Canada
Chao Xiang, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

D4: Fibers and Propagation Physics

Pierre Sillard, Prysmian Group, France, Subcommittee Chair
Jose Antonio-Lopez, Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, USA
Jin-Xing Cai, SubCom LLC, USA
Lauren Dallachiesa, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Yuki Kawaguchi, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd, Japan
Tristan Kremp, OFS Fitel LLC, USA
Chiara Lasagni, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Takashi Matsui, NTT Corp., Japan
Georg Rademacher, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Jiajing Tu, Jinan Univ., China
Natalie Wheeler, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Aramais Zakharian, Corning Inc., USA

D5: Fiber Devices, Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers and Nonlinear Waveguides

John Ballato, Clemson Univ., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Enkeleda Balliu, Cobolt AB, a part of Hübner Photonics, Sweden
Lawrence Chen, McGill Univ., Canada
Peter Dragic, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Vladimir Gordienko, Aston Univ., UK
Victor Kopp, Chiral Photonics, USA
Xiaoying Li, Tianjin Univ., China
Atsushi Nakamura, NTT Corp., Japan
Sergei Nikitin, OOO T8 Sensor, Russia
Anna Peacock, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Hesham Sakr, Microsoft Research, UK
Yi Sun, OFS, USA
Masato Tanaka, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd, Japan
Seongwoo Yoo, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore

S-Track: Subsystems and Systems

S1: Datacom Subsystems and Systems 

Thomas (Trey) Greer, NVIDIA, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Robert Borkowski, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Fabio Bottoni, Cisco, Italy
Brandon Buscaino, Ciena Corp., USA
Jingchi Cheng, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Fan Li, Sun Yat-sen Univ., China
Jeffrey Rahn, Meta Platforms Inc, USA
Clint Schow, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Xin (Scott) Yin, imec, Belgium
Kangping Zhong, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong

S2: Transmission Subsystems

Di Che, Nokia Bell Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Georg Böcherer, Huawei, Germany
Yi Cai, Soochow Univ., USA
John Downie, Corning Inc., USA
Ming-Fang Huang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA
Shota Ishimura, KDDI Research, Japan
Gabriele Liga, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Zhixin Liu, Univ. College London, UK
David Millar, Infinera Corp., USA
Dario Pilori, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Ke Wang, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Chen Zhu, Baidu, China

S3: Transmission Systems 

Ezra Ip, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Gabriel Charlet, Huawei Technologies, France
Boris Karanov, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Ruben Soares Luís, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Sergejs Makovejs, Corning Inc., UK
Haik Mardoyan, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Antonio Mecozzi, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
Masanori Nakamura, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
Olga Vassilieva, Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., USA
Deepa Venkitesh, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Yuta Wakayama, KDDI Research, Japan

S4: Optical Processing, Microwave Photonics and Fiber-Sensing

Mikael Mazur, Nokia Bell Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Prince Anandarajah, Dublin City Univ., Ireland
Adonis Bogris, Univ. of West Attica, Greece
María Rosario Fernández-Ruiz, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Nazanin Hoghooghi, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Tomoyuki Kato, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan
Abel Lorences-Riesgo, Huawei Technologies, France
Mark Pelusi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Lalitha Ponnampalam, Univ. College London, UK
Xiaoke Yi, Univ. of Sydney, Australia

S5: Free-Space (FSO), Ranging (LiDAR) and Radio-over-Fiber (RoF)

Maria Morant, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, Subcommittee Chair
Michael Eiselt, IEEE, USA
Chao Lu, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong
James Lott, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
David Marpaung, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
Katherine Newell, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Laboratory, USA
Boon Ooi, King Abdullah Univ. of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Oskars Ozolins, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden
Simon Rommel, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Rakesh Sambaraju, Vitex LLC, USA
Kevin Shortt, Airbus, Germany
Bernhard Schrenk, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Jhih-Heng Yan, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., Taiwan

N-Track: Networks and Services

N1: Advances in the Development of Networks, Systems and Services

Stephan Pachnicke, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Jean-Christophe Antona, Alcatel Submarine Networks, France
Mattia Cantono, Google LLC, USA
Md. Saifuddin Faruk, Bangor Univ., UK
Binbin Guan, Microsoft, USA
Sander Jansen, Adtran, Germany
Robert Maher, Infinera, USA
Carmen Mas Machuca, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Lynn Nelson, AT&T Labs, USA
Jeremie Renaudier, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Shikui Shen, China Unicom, China
Dirk Van Den Borne, Juniper Networks Inc., Germany
Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA
Qiong Zhang, Amazon Web Services, USA

N2: Optical Networking for Data Center and Computing Applications  

Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, McGill Univ., CanadaSubcommittee Chair
Liam Barry, Dublin City Univ., Ireland
Hitesh Ballani, Microsoft Research, UK
Keren Bergman, Columbia Univ., USA
Nicola Calabretta, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Qixiang Cheng, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
Chaoran Huang, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
George Michelogiannakis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Osamu Moriwaki, NTT Corp., Japan
Shu Namiki, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State Univ., USA
Nikos Pleros, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
Angelina Totovic, Celestial AI, Greece

N3: Architectures and Software-Defined Control for Metro and Core Optical Networks

Daniel Kilper, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandSubcommittee Chair
Juliana de Santi, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Marija Furdek, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya Univ., Japan
Jason Jue, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA
Mariam Kiran, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Yvan Pointurier, Huawei Technologies, France
Cristina Rottondi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Jesse Simsarian, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Ricard Vilalta, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
Murat Yuksel, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Jiawei Zhang, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China

N4: Optical Access Networks for Fixed and Mobile Services

Jim Zou, Adtran, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Sarvesh Bidkar, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Nan Chi, Fudan Univ., China
Yuanqiu Luo, Futurewei Technologies Inc, USA
Yanni Ou, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China
Annachiara Pagano, FiberCop, Italy
Chathurika Ranaweera, Deakin Univ., Australia
Lihua Ruan, Peng Cheng Laboratory, China
Gaël Simon, Orange Labs, France 
Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Paul Wright, British Telecom, UK
Lilin Yi, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
Haipeng Zhang, CableLabs, USA

N5: Market Watch, Network Operator Summit & Data Center Summit (Invited Program Only)

Werner Weiershausen, Deutsche Telekom Technik GmbH, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Vipul Bhatt, Coherent, USA
Martin Birk, Curbius, USA
Tim Doiron, Infinera, USA
Paulina Gomez, Ciena Corporation, Canada
Lisa Huff, Omdia, USA
Di Liang, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Anuj Malik, Cisco Systems Inc, USA
Kentaro Nakamura, Fujitsu Network Communications Inc., Japan
Stephan Neidlinger, ADVA, Germany
Zuowei Shen, Google LLC, USA
Yoshiaki Sone, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan

Subcommittee Q: Quantum Devices, Systems and Networking

Cheryl Sorace-Agaskar, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Eleni Diamanti, CNRS, France
Tobias Gehring, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Hannes Hübel, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Gregory Kanter, NuCrypt, USA
Michael Kues, Hannover Univ., Germany
Rui Lin, Chalmers tekniska högskola, Sweden
Andrew Lord, BT Applied Research, UK
Taofiq Paraiso, Toshiba Europe, UK
Li Qian, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Fabio Sciarrino, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Rui Wang, Univ. of Bristol, UK
Feihu Xu, Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China
Lai Zhou, Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, China

Subcommittee: Demo Zone

Dora van Veen, Nokia Corp., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Luiz Anet Neto, IMT Atlantique, France
Achim Autenrieth, ADVA Optical Networking, Germany
Pedro Freire, Aston Univ., UK
Lidia Galdino, Corning Inc., UK
David Millar, Infinera Corp., USA
Paolo Monti, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
Hideyuki Nasu, Furukawa Electric, Japan
Chigo Okonkwo, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Paola Parolari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Benjamin Puttnam, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Michela Svaluto Moreolo, Centre Tecnològic Telecom de Catalunya, Spain
Yikai Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
Shuyi Yan, Cisco Systems Inc., 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

Gabriella Bosco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Jörg-Peter Elbers, Adtran, Germany
Fatima Garcia Gunning, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
Dalma Novak, Pharad LLC, USA

Ex-Officio

Jiajia Chen, TikTok, USA
Mei Du, TATA Communications, USA
Johannes Fischer, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Inst., Germany
Nicolas Fontaine, Nokia/Bell Labs, USA
Lidia Galdino, Corning Inc., UK
Lara Garrett, SubCom, USA
Tetsuya Hayashi, Sumitomo Electrc Industries Ltd., Japan 
Fotini Karinou, Microsoft, USA
Takashi Matsui, NTT Corporation, Japan
Xiaodan Pang, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Elaine Wong, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
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, Google, USA
Glenn Wellbrock, Verizon Communications, Inc., USA
Jun Shan Wey, Verizon Communications Inc., USA
Peter Winzer, Nubis Communications, USA