CLEO 2027
Steering Committee
Meet the representatives and leaders helping guide the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics.
The CLEO Steering Committee brings together representatives from the conference’s sponsoring societies, the optics and photonics industry, and current conference leadership.
Optica Representatives
Name
Affiliation
Camille Sophie Brès
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Rohit Prasankumar
Intellectual Ventures, USA
Clara Saraceno
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Sergey Vasilyev
IPG Photonics Corporation
Representative to Be Announced
2027 Opening
Additional Optica representative for CLEO 2027
IEEE Photonics Society Representatives
Name
Affiliation
Paul Juodawlkis
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Pete Dragic
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jifeng Liu
Dartmouth College, USA
Dan Wasserman
University of Texas, USA
Representative to Be Announced
2027 Opening
Additional IEEE Photonics Society representative for
CLEO 2027
APS Division of Laser Science Representatives
Name
Affiliation
Peter Delfyett
University of Central Florida, USA
Robert Kaindl
Arizona State University, USA
Exhibitor Representative
Name
Affiliation
Chris Maloney
VPIphotonics, USA
Ex-Officio — 2027 Current Leadership
Name
Affiliation
Ursula Keller
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jie Qiao
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Stephan Reitzenstein
TU Berlin, Germany
Gabrielle Thomas
Menlo Systems
Abdoulaye Ndao
University of San Diego, USA
Liuyan Zhao
University of Michigan, USA
Anthony Yu
NASA, USA
Garrett Cole
University of Arizona, USA
Yasutomo Ota
Keio University, Japan
Maria Chernysheva
Aston University, Germany
Nicholas Peters
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Paulina Kuo
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Carl Liebig
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, USA
Michael Krainak
Relative Dynamics, USA
CLEO 2027 will take place 2–7 May 2027 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California.


