Meet the Leadership

CLEO 2027 General & Program Chairs

The CLEO Technical Program is guided by internationally recognized leaders from academia, government laboratories and industry. Together, the General and Program Chairs oversee the development of a world-class program representing the latest advances across lasers, electro-optics and photonics.

CLEO's three core technical areas are led by experts who help shape the scientific direction, quality and relevance of the conference program.

Applications & Technology

A&T General and Program Chairs

General Chair

Carl Liebig

US AFRL Wright Patterson

USA

General Chair

Michael Krainak

Relative Dynamics

Maryland, USA

Program Chair

Anthony Yu

TOPTICA EAGLEYARD Photonics GmbH

USA

Program Chair

Garrett Cole

University of Arizona

USA

Fundamental Science

FS General and Program Chairs

General Chair

Paulina Kuo

NIST

USA

General Chair

Nicholas Peters

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Tennessee, USA

Program Chair

Liuyan Zhao

University of Michigan

Michigan, USA

Program Chair

Abdoulaye Ndao

University of San Diego

California, USA

Science & Innovations

S&I General and Program Chairs

General Chair

Yasutomo Ota

Keio University

Japan

General Chair

Maria Chernysheva

Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies (IPHT)

Germany

Program Chair

Stephan Reitzenstein

TU Berlin

Germany

Program Chair

Gabrielle Thomas

Menlo Systems

Technical Leadership

CLEO 2027 Subcommittee Chairs

Subcommittee Chairs guide the review and development of technical content across CLEO's Applications & Technology, Fundamental Science, and Science & Innovations program areas.

Applications & Technology

A&T Subcommittee Chairs

Biomedical Applications

Chair

Kasia Komolibus

Chair

Judith Su

Maturation and Commercialization of Metasurfaces & Metamaterials

Chair

Michael Carter

Chair

Zachary Coppens

Optical Instrumentation for Measurements and Monitoring

Chair

Sean Fackler

Chair

Charlie Fancher

MITRE

USA

Environmental Sensing Applications of Optical Measurements and Instrumentation

Chair

Molly Fahey

Intuitive Machine

United States

Chair

Jennifer Lee

BAE Systems

USA

Quantum Technology in Transition

Chair

Robert McConnell

MIT

USA

Chair

Adam Ollanik

Quantinuum

Advances in Integrated Photonics and Semiconductor Technology

Chair

Xinru Wu

Intel

Chair

Nathan Youngblood

Fundamental Science

FS Subcommittee Chairs

Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids

Chair

Karina Garay-Palmett

Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education

Mexico

Quantum Information and Communication

Chair

Shengwang Du

Purdue University

USA

Quantum Photonics

Chair

Navin B. Lingaraju

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

USA

Optical Excitations and Ultrafast Phenomena in Condensed Matter

Chair

Yaroslav Gerasimenko

University of Regensburg

Germany

Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena

Chair

Rivka Bekenstein

Hebrew University

Israel

Nano-Optics and Plasmonics

Chair

Ashok Kodigala

Sandia National Laboratory

USA

Ultrafast Science of Attosecond, X-Ray Free-Electron-Laser, and Ultra-Intense Light

Chair

Hanieh Fattahi

MPI for the Science of Light

Germany

Metamaterials and Complex Media

Chair

Alex Y Song

University of Sydney

Australia

Science & Innovations

S&I Subcommittee Chairs

Light-Matter Interactions and Materials Processing

Chair

Euan McLeod

Wyant College of Optical Sciences

USA

Laser Systems and Facilities

Chair

Yu-Chieh Lin

RIKEN

Japan

Semiconductor Lasers

Chair

Yating Wan

KAUST

Saudi Arabia

Nonlinear Optical Technologies

Chair

Nathalie Vermeulen

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Belgium

Terahertz Science and Technology

Chair

Luana Olivieri

Loughborough University

United Kingdom

Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization

Chair

Linbo Shao

Virginia Tech

USA

Micro- and Nano-Photonic Devices

Chair

Avik Dutt

University of Maryland

USA

Chair

Ken Tanizawa

Tamagawa University

Japan

Ultrafast Optics and Applications

Chair

Rosa Romero

Porto University

Portugal

Photonic Integration

Chair

Aseema Mohanty

Tufts University

USA

Chair

Alvaro Casas Bedoya

University of Sydney

Australia

Photonic Computing

Chair

Yannick Salamin

University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics

USA

Fiber Photonics: Novel Phenomena, Lasers, Systems and Fabrication

Chair

Katarzyna Krupa

Institute of Physical Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences

Poland

Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks

Chair

Qubni Zhuge

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

China

Active Optical Sensing

Chair

Ibrahim Sadiek

Ruhr Universität Bochum

Germany

Optical Metrology

Chair

Guanhao Wu

Tsinghua University

China

Quantum and Atomic Devices and Instrumentation

Chair

Mark Dong

MITRE Corp

USA

CLEO 2027 Committees

Subcommittee Members

Select a technical subcommittee below to view its members. Additional committee information will be added as appointments are confirmed.

Applications & Technology

A&T Technical Subcommittees

1 Biomedical applications

Committee Members

Member

Radhika Poduval

Intuitive Surgical

USA

Member

Siavash Yazdanfar

Corning

USA

Member

Shuwen Zeng

CNRS France

France

Member

Kyle Preston

Siphox

USA

Member

David Nolte

Purdue University

USA

Member

Fei Xia

UC Irvine

USA

Member

Laura Marcu

UC Davis

USA

2 Maturation and Commercialization of Metasurfaces & Metamaterials

Committee Members

Member

Stephanie Malek

Sandia National Laboratories

USA

Member

Henry Everitt

ARL/Rice University

USA

Member

Mariacristina Rumi

AFRL

USA

Member

Sawyer Campbell

Pennsylvania State University

USA

Member

Lieven Penninck

PlanOpSim

Belgium

Member

Arka Majumdar

University of Washington

USA

Member

Clara Rivero-Baleine

Lockheed Martin

USA

3 Optical Instrumentation for Measurements and Monitoring

Committee Members

Member

Brian Stern

Nokia-Bell labs

USA

Member

Kerrianne Harrington

University of Bath

Member

Dora Hu

A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research

Singapore

Member

Bryan Bosworth

NIST

USA

Member

Kim Cuong Le

Lund University

Sweden

Member

Gilberto Brambilla

University of Southampton

Member

Jonathan Kwolek

NRL

USA

Member

Gen Clark

MITRE

USA

4 Environmental Sensing Applications of Optical Measurements and Instrumentation

Committee Members

Member

Kevin Knabe

Vescent

USA

Member

Andreas Schmitt-Sody

AFRL

USA

Member

Jane Lee

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

USA

Member

Steve Lecomte

CSEM

Switzerland

Member

Linda Mondin

ESA

France

Member

Evan Eshelman

Honeybee Robotics

USA

Member

Callum Sambridge

JPL

USA

5 Quantum Technology in Transition

Committee Members

Member

Henry Timmers

Vescent Technologies

USA

Member

Elham Heidari

University of Florida

USA

Member

Shanying Cui

PsiQuantum

USA

Member

James Shaffer

Quantum Valley Ideas Lab

Canada

6 Advances in Integrated Photonics and Semiconductor Technology

Committee Members

Member

Duanni Huang

Intel

USA

Member

Yusheng Bian

Global Foundry

USA

Member

Xian Xiao

Openlight

USA

Member

Paolo Pintus

University of Cagliari

Italy

Member

Satoshi Iwamoto

University of Tokyo

Japan

Member

Adam Piotrowski

VIGO Photonics

Poland

Member

Mohamad Idjadi

Nokia bell labs

USA

Member

Nima Nader

NIST

USA

Member

Chao Xiang

University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Member

Martijn Heck

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Member

Matthew Suttinger

Air Force Research Laboratory

USA

Member

Mateus Corato Zanarella

TOPTICA Photonics, Inc.

USA

Member

Vittorio Cecconi

Sapienza University of Rome

Italy

Member

Prathmesh Deshmukh

Meta Reality Labs

USA

Member

Nikolaos Farmakidis

University of Exeter

Member

Tianyu Wang

Boston University

USA

Member

Zhujun Shi

University of Pittsburgh

USA

Fundamental Science

FS Technical Subcommittees

1 Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids

Committee Members

Member

Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza

Louisiana State University

USA

Member

Ralph Jimenez

JILA / University of Colorado Boulder / NIST

USA

Member

Chenglong You

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

China

Member

Guang-Wei Deng

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

China

Member

Xiaoqin Gao

Nanjing University

China

Member

Francisco Antonio Dominguez-Serna

SECIHTI - CICESE

Mexico

Member

Yunfei Pu

Tsinghua University

China

Member

Khabat Heshami

National Research Council Canada / University of Ottawa

Canada

Member

Igor Aharonovich

University of Technology Sydney

Australia

2 Quantum Information and Communication

Committee Members

Member

Jianming Wen

Binghamton University

USA

Member

Daniel Soh

University of Arizona

USA

Member

Yoon-Ho Kim

Pohang University of Science & Technology

Korea

Member

Fabian Steinlechner

Universitat Jena

Germany

Member

Kristina Meier

Los Alamos NL

USA

Member

Koji Azuma

NTT

Japan

Member

Michael Grace

RTX BBN Technologies

USA

3 Quantum Photonics

Committee Members

Member

Joseph Lukens

Purdue University

USA

Member

Chitraleema Chakraborty

University of Delaware

USA

Member

Lucia Caspani

University of Insubria

Italy

Member

Matthias Weiss

University of Muenster

Germany

Member

Kamyar Parto

PsiQuantum

USA

Member

Alexander Senichev

University of Maryland - BC

USA

Member

Xu Yi

University of Virginia

USA

Member

Poolad Imany

Icarus Quantum

USA

Member

Zixuan Wang

NIST

USA

Member

Karthik Myilswamy

NIST

USA

Member

Seongsin Margaret Kim

University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa

USA

4 Optical Excitations and Ultrafast Phenomena in Condensed Matter

Committee Members

Member

Meredith Henstridge

SLAC

USA

Member

Alfred Zong

Stanford University

USA

Member

Martina Basini

ETH Zurich

Switzerland

Member

Omer Kneller

University of Regensburg

Germany

Member

Tom Siday

University of Birmingham

Member

Denitsa Baykusheva

ISTA

Austria

Member

Yannis Laplace

Ecole Politechnique

France

Member

Denis Golez

IJS

Slovenia

Member

Honyun Zhang

Tsinghua University

China

Member

Aaron Sternbach

University of Maryland

USA

5 Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena

Committee Members

Member

Qing Gu

North Carolina State University

USA

Member

Nicholas Rivera

Cornell University

USA

Member

Eran Lustig

Technion

Israel

Member

Kai Wang

McGill University

Canada

Member

Armando Perez Leija

creol , University of Central Florida

Greece

Member

Konstantinos Makris

University of Crete

Greece

6 Nano-Optics and Plasmonics

Committee Members

Member

Mathieu Mivelle

CNRS, Sorbonne Université

France

Member

Patrice Genevet

Colorado School of Mines

USA

Member

Maria Vincenti

University of Brescia

Italy

Member

Luca Dal Negro

Boston University

USA

7 Ultrafast Science of Attosecond, X-Ray Free-Electron-Laser, and Ultra-Intense Light

Committee Members

Member

Shima Golam-Mirzaei

National Research Council of Canada

Canada

Member

Yuya Morimoto

RIKEN

Japan

Member

Andrew Edwards

Stanford Uni

USA

Member

Gaia Barbiero

Marvel Fusion

Germany

Member

Michael Krüger

technio

Israel

Member

Peter Kraus

Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography

Neatherlands

Member

Dmitry Zmin

Cambridge

Member

Hui Dandan

China

Member

David Busto

8 Metamaterials and Complex Media

Committee Members

Member

Yuzhe Xiao

University of North Texas

Member

Zin Lin

Virginia Tech

Member

Haoning Tang

MIT

Member

Noah Rubin

UCSD

Member

Viktar Asadchy

Aalto University

Finland

Member

Sui Yang

Arizona State University

Member

Prasad Iyer

Sandia

Member

Cheng Guo

University of Texas

Member

Sid Assawaworrarit

University of Sydney

Australia

Member

Zhexin Zhao

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Germany

Member

Kirill Koshelev

Australian National University

Australia

Member

Han Lin

The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Australia

Science and Innovations

S&I Technical Subcommittees

1 Light-matter Interactions and Materials Processing

Committee Members

Member

Esther Rebollar

Instituto de Química Física Blas Cabrera

Spain

Member

Linhan Lin

Tsinghua University

China

Member

Robert Kaindl

Arizona State University

USA

Member

Thejaswi Tumkur

Lawrence Livermore National Lab

USA

Member

Xiaohan Du

City University of Hong Kong

China

Member

Yoshio Hayasaki

Utsunomiya University

Japan

Member

Yves Bellouard

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Switzerland

Member

Tsing-Hua Her

University of North Carolina

USA

Member

Edward Kinzel

University of Notre Dame

USA

Member

Catarina Gaudiuso

CNR IFN

Italy

Member

Carla Bacco

FEMTO-ST

France

Member

Stuart McLean

Coherent

USA

2 Laser Systems and Facilities

Committee Members

Member

Olivier Chalus

Thales

France

Member

Valentin Petrov

Max Born Institute

Germany

Member

Pavel Bakule

ELI Beamlines

Czech

Member

Anna Suzuki

Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University

Japan

Member

Mariastefania De Vido

STFC Central Laser Facility

United-Kingdom

Member

Xiaoyan Liang

Shanghai Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, CAS

China

Member

Jinwei Zhang

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

China

Member

Marcus Seidel

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Germany

Member

Chun-Yu Cho

National United University, Department of Electro Optical Engineering

Taiwan

3 Semiconductor Lasers

Committee Members

Member

Yu-Jung Lu

National Taiwan University

Taiwan

Member

Linjie Zhou

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

China

Member

Di Liang

University of Michigan

United States

Member

Natalia Kryzhanovskaya

HSE University

Russia

Member

Mingxiao Li

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

Member

Xianshu Luo

A*STAR

Singapore

Member

Yuqing Jiao

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Member

Bart Kuyken

Ghent University

Belgium

4 Nonlinear Optical Technologies

Committee Members

Member

Tingyi Gu

University of Delaware

USA

Member

Delphine Marris-Morini

Université Paris Saclay

France

Member

Giovanna Chair

Université Côte d’Azur

France

Member

Gregory Moille

NIST

USA

Member

John Ballato

Clemson University

USA

Member

Lewis Hill

Max Planck Institute

Germany

Member

Joe Chen

University of Bath

Member

Nathaniel Kinsey

Virginia Commonwealth University

USA

Member

Rich Mildren

Macquarie University

Australia

Member

Wonkeun Chang

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

5 Terahertz Science and Technology

Committee Members

Member

Lauren Gingras

Menlo

Germany

Member

Sukhdeep Dhillon

CNRS-Universitè de Paris 7

France

Member

Johanna Kolbel

Brown University

USA

Member

Chiara Schiattarella

PISA - CNR-NANO

Italy

Member

Junliang Dong

University of Arkansas

USA

Member

Markus Andreas Huber

University of Regensburg

Germany

Member

Denis Bandurin

NUS

Singapore

Member

Fabian Rotermund

KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Korea

Member

SaeJune Park

Queen Mary university

6 Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization

Committee Members

Member

Bart Kuyken

Ghent University- imec

Belgium

Member

Carsten Schuck

University of Münster

Germany

Member

Cheng Wang

City University of Hong Kong

China

Member

Shuwen Zeng

CNRS

France

Member

Elizaveta Semenova

Technical University of Denmark

Denmark

Member

Farnaz Niroui

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

USA

Member

David Barton

Northwestern University

USA

Member

Ercan Dede

Toyota Research Institute of North America

USA

Member

BeiBei Li

Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

China

7 Micro- and Nano-Photonic Devices

Committee Members

Member

Qixiang Cheng

University of Cambridge

Member

Niels Quack

Stuttgart, University of Stuttgart

Germany

Member

Juanjuan Lu

Shanghai Tech

China

Member

Sangsik Kim

KAIST

Korea

Member

Nils Engelsen

Chalmers University of Technologu

Sweden

Member

Daniel Blumenthal

UCSD

USA

Member

Shun Fujii

Keio University

Japan

Member

Ipshita Datta

Lawrence Livermore National Labs

USA

Member

Masato Takiguchi

NTT

Japan

Member

Mengyue Xu

University of Michigan

USA

Member

Yuya Shoji

Institute of Science Tokyo

Japan

Member

Bijoy Das

IIT Madras

India

Member

Rai Kou

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Japan

Member

Moritz Merklein

University of Sydney

Australia

Member

Ying Wang

Niels Bohr Institute

Denmark

Member

Luciana Kassab

University of Sao Paulo

Brasil

Member

Hao Sun

Tsinghua University

China

8 Ultrafast Optics and Applications

Committee Members

Member

Bertrand Kibler

CNRS

France

Member

Chau Truong

The Ohio State University

USA

Member

Cord Arnold

Lund University

Sweden

Member

Eiji J. Takahashi

RIKEN

Japan

Member

Hannah Ostapenko

Heriot Watt University

Member

Nick Nardelli

Adelaide University

Australia

Member

Thomas Allison

Stony Brook University

USA

Member

Helder Crespo

RAL

Member

Benjamin Alonso

USAL

Spain

Member

Jeff Mosses

Cornel University

USA

9 Photonic Integration

Committee Members

Member

Amirhassan Shams-Ansari

Monarch Quantum

USA

Member

Carlos Errando-Herranz

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

Member

Takuro Fujii

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

Japan

Member

Felipe Beltran Mejia

Federal University of ABC

Brazil

Member

Gaurang Bhatt

Sandia National Laboratories

USA

Member

Jaime Cardenas

University of Rochester

USA

Member

Jie Zhao

Marvell Technology

USA

Member

Melissa Ziebell

Nokia

USA

Member

Joan Ramirez

Nokia

France

Member

You-Chia Chang

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Taiwan

Member

Yuan Yuan

Northeastern University

USA

Member

Yue Wang

University of York

Member

Thalia Dominguez Bucio

University of Southampton

Member

Victor Dolores-Calzadilla

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Member

Padraic Morrissey

Tyndall Institute

Ireland

10 Photonic Computing

Committee Members

Committee member information coming soon.

11 Fiber Photonics: Novel Phenomena, Lasers, Systems and Fabrication

Committee Members

Member

Aku Antikainen

University of Rochester

USA

Member

Lei Wei

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

Member

Nithyanandan Kanagaraj

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

India

Member

Massimiliano Guasoni

University of Southampton

Member

Mariusz Klimczak

University of Warsaw

Poland

Member

Yifan Sun

Université libre de Bruxelles

Belgium

Member

Yuriy Stepanenko

Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS

Poland

Member

Arnaud Mussot

University of Lille

France

Member

Gang Xu

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

China

Member

Srikanth Sugavanam

School of Computing and Electrical Engineering, IIT Mandi

India

12 Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks

Committee Members

Member

Stephan Pachnicke

Kiel University

Germany

Member

Zixian Wei

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

China

Member

Yuxin Xu

Zhejiang University of Technology

China

Member

Di Che

Nokia Bell Labs

Member

Takeo Sasai

NTT

Japan

Member

Vittorio Curri

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

Member

Alirio Melgar

Coherent Corp

Member

Francesco Musumeci

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Member

Darli Mello

University of Campinas

Brazil

13 Active Optical Sensing

Committee Members

Member

Emily Caldwell

USA

Member

Ragnar Alexander Seton

UiT the Arctic University of Norway

Norway

Member

Waruna D Kulatilaka

Texas A&M University

USA

Member

Simone Borri

CNR-INO

Italy

Member

Grzegorz Kowzan

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun

Poland

Member

Feng Pan

Utah State University

USA

14 Optical Metrology

Committee Members

Member

Antoine Rolland

IMRA

USA

Member

Sarah Scholten

Adelaide University

Australia

Member

Akira Ozawa

Yokohama National University

Japan

Member

Marco Schioppo

National Physical Laboratory

Member

Ryan Cole

Bates College

USA

Member

Yang Li

Sun Yat-sen University

China

Member

Thomas Kissinger

Technische Universität Ilmenau

Germany

Member

Akifumi Asahara

University of Electro-Communications

Japan

Member

Haoyang Yu

Central South University

China

Member

Pu Zou

Menlo Systems GmbH

Germany

15 Quantum and Atomic Devices and Instrumentation

Committee Members

Member

Shanying Cui

Psiquantum Inc

USA

Member

Hyeongrak Choi

Stony Brook University

USA

Member

Mohamed Ibrahim

Cornell University

USA

Member

Songtao Chen

Rice University

USA

Member

Manish Singh

MEMQ

USA

Member

Crystal Noel

Duke

USA

Member

Tin Komljenovic

Nexus Photonics

USA

Member

Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills

Tel Aviv University

Israel

Member

Iman Esmaeil Zadeh

TU Delft

Netherlands