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

Amit Agrawal, NIST, USA
Melissa Bosch, Cornell University, USA
Jim Cahoon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Daniel Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Christopher DeRose, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Zihe Gao, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Qing Li, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Peter Qiang Liu, The State University of New York , USA
Karan Mehta, Cornell University, USA
Sean Molesky, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Maxim Radikovich Shcherbakov, University of California, Irvine, USA
Eric Stanton, EMode Photonix, USA
Haim Suchowski, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Yuankai Tang, Emory University, USA
Daniel Wasserman, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

AOP - Applications of Photonics

Hamzah Ahmed, Chip Design Systems, Inc, USA
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
Jaclyn Singh, Chip Design Systems, Inc, USA
Bruce Snider, Mustang Optics, USA
Subith Vasu, ​University of Central Florida, USA

ETP - Enabling Technologies in Photonics

Daniel Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Yanne Chembo, University of Maryland, USA
Arman Cingoz, Vector Atomic, USA
Charles Cox, Photonic Systems, Inc., USA
Ronny Kirste, Adroit Materials, USA
Zetian Mi, University of Michigan, USA
Gregory Moille, University of Maryland/NIST, USA
Takuma Nakamura, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Babak Nikoobakht, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Hieu Nguyen, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Sean Pang, University of Central Florida, USA
Dennis Prather, University of Delaware, USA
Jizhao Zang, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

FPM - Functional Photonic Materials

Mohammad Ali Miri, CUNY Queens College, USA
Shamsul Arafin, The Ohio State University, USA
Jason Azoulay, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Gaurav Bahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Anthony Benasco, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Bryan Boudouris, Purdue University, USA
Sarah Brittman, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Melanie Dieterlen, Levy Lab, USA
Shanhui Fan, Stanford University, USA
Li Ge, College of Staten Island (CSI) CUNY, USA
Peijun Guo, Yale University, USA
Franky So, North Carolina State University, USA

HMB - Humanstate Measurement and Biosensing

Christine Beauchene, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Michael Brothers, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Robert Dizor, University of West Florida, USA
Justin Estepp, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Dominic Labanowski, Sonera Magnetics, Inc., USA
Toshiya Miyatsu, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Jennifer Morales, Army Research Laboratory, USA
Dharmakeerthi Nawarathna, Old Dominion University, USA
Kayla Presley, Air Force Research Laboratory, UES, Inc., USA
Ivan Tashev, Microsoft Research, USA
Simeon Trendafilov, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Sabina Vitola, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA
Wei Zhou, Virginia Tech, USA

MMAP - Materials and Manufacturing for Advanced Photonics

Osama Bilal, University of Connecticut, USA
Rabindra Biswas, Indian Institute of Sciences, India
Kejie Fang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Michael Fokine, KTH Sweden, Sweden
Zeki Hayran, Cornell University, USA
Poolad Imany, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Mark Mirotznik, University of Delaware, USA
Piyush Shah, Apex Microdevices LLC & AFRL/RX, USA
Xianfan Xu, Purdue University, USA
Chris Zuhlke, University of Nebraska, USA

OEDDIP - Optical Emitters, Detectors and Devices

Hassan Arbab, Stony Brook University, USA
Chun-Chieh Chang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Enam Chowdhury, Ohio State University, USA
Alex Englesbe, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
James Lott, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
Arkadiy Lyakh, University of Central Florida, USA
Sergey Mirov, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Anil Patnaik, Air Force Institute of Technology, USA
Pavel Polynkin, University of Arizona, USA
Lukasz Sterczewski, Politechnika Wrocławska, Poland
Zbig Wasilewski, University of Waterloo, Canada
Kevin Werner, BAE Systems, USA

OIST - Optical Imaging and Sensing Technology

Vasily Astratov, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Gilles Fortin, DRDC Valcartier, Canada
Ethan Klem, SWIR Vision Systems, USA
Mikhail Klibanov, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA
Todd Murray, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA
Fatemeh Pourahmadian, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA
Lee Sanders, Orbital Sidekick, USA
Jonathan Schuster, Army Research Lab, 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
Hayk Harutyunyan, Emory University, USA
Tsinghua Her, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Tino Hofmann, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Ji Young Kim, University of Michigan, 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
Paolo Vavassori, CIC nanoGUNE, Spain

PDS - Photonics for Defense Systems

William Amatucci, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Rodrigo Amezcua, CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA
Christopher Crabtree, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Ronald Driggers, University of Arizona, USA
Gurudas Ganguli, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Eddie Jacobs, University of Memphis, USA
Alireza Marandi, California Institute of Technology, USA
Kyle Renshaw, CREOL, USA