Co-Chairs
General Chairs
Jiajia Chen, Tiktok, USA
Johannes Fischer, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Inst., Germany
Tetsuya Hayashi, Sumitomo, Japan
Program Chairs
Lidia Galdino, Corning, UK
Takashi Matsui, NTT, Japan
Qiong (Jo) Zhang, Amazon Web Services, USA
Subcommittees
D-Track: Devices, Components and Fibers
D1: Advanced Prototyping, Packaging and Integration
Molly Piels, OpenLight, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Janet (Chin-Hui) Chen, Nvidia, USA
Gloria Hoefler, Saar Consulting, USA
Chen Ji, Zhejiang Univ., China
Hong C. Nguyen, Sumitomo Electric, USA
Akihiro Noriki, AIST, Japan
Sabarni Palit, Anello Photonics, USA
Hari Potluri, Broadcom, USA
Marco Romagnoli, CamGraphics, Italy
Sudip Shekhar, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada
Sylvia Smolorz, Lumilens, USA
Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson, Italy
Anbin Wang, Alibaba Group, China
D2: Integrated and Micro/Nanoscale Photonic Components, Circuits, and Switching Devices
Sagi Mathai, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Matteo Cherchi, Xanadu, Canada
Shai Cohen, Nvidia, Israel
Mario Dagenais, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, USA
Tingyi Gu, Univ. of Delaware, USA
Takako Hirokawa, Global Foundries, USA
Duanni Huang, Intel Labs, USA
Arnan Mitchell, RMIT Univ., Australia
Francesco Morichetti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Joris Van Campenhout, IMEC, Belgium
Laurent Vivien, Univ. Paris Saclay, CNRS, Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, France
Yi-Kuei Ryan Wu, X the Moonshot Factory, USA
Keita Yamaguchi, NTT, Japan
Linjie Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
D3: Active Optoelectronic Components
Hideyuki Nasu, Furukawa Electric, Japan, Subcommittee Chair
Shamsul Arafin, The Ohio State Univ., USA
Connie Chang-Hasnain, Berxel Photonics, China
Laura Giovane, Broadcom, USA
Claudia Hoessbacher, Polariton, Switzerland
Daniel Kuchta, Nvidia, USA
Liu Liu, Zhejiang Univ., China
Nobuhiko Nishiyama, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
Jessie Rosenberg, Lightmatter, USA
Patrick Runge, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
Wei Shi, Université Laval, Canada
Mizuki Shirao, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
Changzheng Sun, Tsinghua Univ., China
Geert van Steenberge, Ghent Univ., Belgium
Chao Xiang, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
D4: Fibers, Connectivity, Characterization and Propagation Physics
Tristan Kremp, Lightera Laboratories, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Sidi-Ely Ahmedou, Prysmian Group, France
Jose Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, USA
Jin-Xing Cai, SubCom, USA
Lauren Dallachiesa, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Yuki Kawaguchi, Sumitomo Electric, Japan
Andrey Kobyakov, Corning, USA
Chiara Lasagni, Università di Parma, Italy
Gustavo Ocampo, Hokkaido Univ., Japan
Takuya Oda, Fujikura, Japan
Jiajing Tu, Jinan Univ., China
Hesham Sakr, Microsoft, UK
Masaki Wada, NTT, Japan
D5: Fiber Devices, Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, and Nonlinear Waveguides
Vladimir Gordienko, Aston Univ., UK, Subcommittee Chair
Enkeleda Balliu, Cobolt AB, Sweden
Lawrence Chen, McGill Univ., Canada
Peter Dragic, Univ. of Illinois, USA
Filipe Marques Ferreira, Univ. College of London, UK
Victor Kopp, Chiral Photonics, USA
Atsushi Nakamura, NTT, Japan
Anna Peacock, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Mark Pelusi, AIST, Japan
Masato Tanaka, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Japan
Robert Tench, FiberTek, USA
Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong, Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Yiwei Xie, Zhejiang Univ., China
Seongwoo Yoo, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore
S-Track: Subsystems and Systems
S1: Datacom Subsystems and Systems
Robert Borkowski, Nokia Bell Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Nvidia, Greece
Fabio Bottoni, Cisco, Italy
Brandon Buscaino, Ciena, USA
Weisheng Hu, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
Jeffrey Rahn, Meta Platforms, USA
Nebojša Stojanović, Huawei, Germany
Matt Traverso, Marvell, USA
Shuang Yin, Google, USA
Xin (Scott) Yin, Ghent Univ., Belgium
Ying Zhao, Aloe Semiconductor, USA
Kangping Zhong, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China
S2: Subsystems for Transmission
David Millar, Nokia, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Georg Böcherer, Huawei, Germany
Yi Cai, Soochow Univ., China
Bin Chen, Hefei Univ., China
Stella Civelli, CNIT, Italy
Christian Häger, Chalmers Univ., Sweden
Ming-Fang Huang, NEC Labs America, USA
Shota Ishimura, KDDI Research, Japan
Zhixin Liu, Univ. College London, UK
Timo Pfau, Cisco, USA
Chen Zhu, Bytedance, China
S3: Transmission Systems
Yuta Wakayama, KDDI Research, Japan, Subcommittee Chair
Gabriel Charlet, Huawei, France
Andrea d'Amico, NEC Laboratory America, USA
Tobias Fehenberger, Adtran, Germany
Pedro Freire, Ofcom, UK
Boris Karanov, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Domanic Lavery, Infinera, UK
Ruben Soares Luis, NICT, Japan
Haïk Mardoyan, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Darli Mello, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Masanori Nakamura, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
Olga Vassilieva, Fujitsu Network Communications, USA
Deepa Venkitesh, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Qunbi Zhuge, Shanghai Univ., China
S4: Fiber-Sensing and Microwave Photonics
Tomoyuki Kato, Fujtsu, Japan, Subcommittee Chair
Prince Anandarajah, Dublin City Univ., Ireland
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
Alan Lau, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong
Abel Lorences-Riesgo, Huawei, France
Takeo Sasai, NTT, Japan
Siddharth Varughese, Infinera, USA
S5: Next Generation Comms: Wireless Optical Communications (FSO, OWC, VLC) and Radio over Fiber (ROF)
Katherine Newell, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Kasia Balakier, European Space Agency (ESA), UK
Liam Barry, Dublin City Univ., Ireland
Devin Brinkley, X, USA
Alberto Carrasco-Casado, NICT, Japan
Michael Eiselt, Adtran Germany
Fernando Guiomar, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal
Roberto Llorente, Univ. of Valencia, Spain
Chao Lu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Boon Ooi, King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Simon Rommel, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Kevin Shortt, Airbus, Germany
Todd Ulmer, MIT/LL, USA
Xianbin Yu, Zhejiang Univ., China
N-Track: Networks and Services
N1: Advances in the Development of Networks, Systems and Services
Sander Jansen, Adtran, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Jean-Christophe Antona, ASN, France
Zahra Bakhtiari, Microsoft, USA
Annika Dochhan, Univ. of Kiel, Germany
Md Saifuddin Faruk, Bangor Univ., UK
Robert Maher, Infinera, USA
Carmen Mas Machuca, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Lynn E. Nelson, ATT, USA
Jeremie Renaudier, Nokia, France
Shikui Shen, China Unicom, China
Yu Sun, Google, USA
Cen Wang, KDDI, Japan
N2: Optics and Photonics for Data Center and Computing Applications
Nikos Pleros, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece, Subcommittee Chair
Farshid Ashtiani, Nokia Bell-Labs, USA
Qixiang Cheng, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
Matej Hejda, HPE Belgium, Belgium
Chaoran Huang, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
George Michelogiannakis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Osamu Moriwaki, NTT, Japan
Shu Namiki, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State Univ., USA
Daniel Pérez-López, iPronics, Spain
Patty Stabile, Technical Univ. of Eindhoven, Netherlands
Angelina Totovic, Celestial AI, Greece
Nathan Youngblood, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA
N3: Architectures, Control and Management of Optical Networks
Jesse Simsarian, Nokia Bell Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Juliana de Santi, UTFPR, Brazil
Marija Furdek, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
Ashwin Gumaste, Microsoft, USA
Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya Univ., Japan
Mariam Kiran, ORNL, USA
Yvan Pointurier, Huawei, France
Nicola Sambo, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa, Italy
Behnam Shariati, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ricard Vilalta, CTTC, Spain
Jiawei Zhang, BUPT, China
N4: Optical Access Networks for Fixed and Mobile Services
Paola Parolari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Subcommittee Chair
Sarvesh Sanjay Bidkar, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Frank Effenberger, Futurewei, USA
Ryo Koma, NTT, Japan
Yanni Ou, BUPT, China
Chathurika Ranaweera, Deakin Univ., Australia
Lihua Ruan, Peng Cheng Lab, China
Gaël Simon, Orange Labs, France
Anna Tzanakaki, National and Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens, Greece
Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Paul Wright, BT, UK
Haipeng Zhang, CableLabs, USA
Jim Zou, Adtran Networks SE, Germany
N5: Market Watch, Network Operator Summit and Data Center Summit (Invited Program Only)
Yoshiaki Sone, NTT, Japan, Subcommittee Chair
Balagangadhar Bathula, AT&T, USA
Vipul Bhatt, Coherent, USA
Tim Doiron, Infinera, USA
Christian Ilmi, ATOP, USA
Di Liang, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Anuj Malik, Cisco, USA
Stephan Neidlinger, Adtran, Germany
Kumi Omori, NEC, Japan
Francesca Parmigiani, Microsoft, UK
Fabienne Saliou, Orange, France
Atul Srivastava, NTT, USA
Naoki Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Japan
SCQ: Quantum Devices, Systems and Networking
Andrew Lord, BT, UK, Subcommittee Chair
Obada Alia, JP Morgan Chase, Singapore
Davide Bacco, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Yuan Cao, Nanjing University of Post and Communication, China
Virginia D'Auria, Université Côte d'Azur, France
Tobias Gehring, DTU, Denmark
Jun Gao, KTH, Sweden
Natalia Herrera Valencia, Heriot Watt Univ., UK
Hannes Hübel, AIT, Austria
Greg Kanter, NuCrypt, USA
Rui Lin, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
Mehdi Namazi, Qunnect, USA
Reza Nejabati, Cisco, USA
Taofiq Paraiso, Toshiba Europé, UK
Li Qian, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Lai Zhou, Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, China
Demo Zone
Michela Svaluto Moreolo, CTTC, Spain, Subcommittee Chair
Achim Autenrieth, Adtran, Germany
Kiyo Ishii, National Institute of Advance Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Paolo Monti, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
Luiz Anet-Neto, CNRS-FOTON, France
Chigo Okonkwo, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Annachiara Pagano, FiberCop, Italy
Catia Pinho, Nokia, Portugal
Ben Puttnam, Microsoft, UK
Ching-Fong (Yikai) Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
Shuyi Yan, Cisco, USA
Georgios Zervas, Univ. of 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
Jiajia Chen, TikTok, USA
Mei Du, TATA Communications, USA
Johannes Fischer, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Inst., Germany
Lidia Galdino, Corning Inc., UK
Lara Garrett, SubCom, USA
Tetsuya Hayashi, Sumitomo Electrc Industries Ltd., Japan
Takashi Matsui, NTT Corporation, Japan
Xiaodan Pang, ZJU, and RTU, Latvia, China
Alan Pak Tao Lau, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Werner Weiershausen, Deutsche Telekom Technik GmbH, 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