2024 Organizing Committee

IEEE SUM GENERAL CHAIR

Georg Rademacher
Institute of Electrical and Optical Communications (INT), University of Stuttgart, Germany

PSC 2024 GENERAL
CO-CHAIR

Nicolas K. Fontaine
Bell Laboratories

PSC 2024 GENERAL
CO-CHAIR

Antonella Bogoni
CNIT Italy

PSC 2024 GENERAL
CO-CHAIR

Takuo Tanemura
University of Tokyo Japan

PSC 2024 TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR

Volker Sorger
University of Florida USA

SUM 2024 TOPICS COMMITTEE

Fiber Sensing using Deployed Telecom Networks (FS)

Topic Chair:
Mikael Mazur, Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Topic Co-Chairs:
Ettore Biondi, Caltech, USA
Giuseppe Marra, National Physics Laboratory, UK

Free Space Optical Communications for Next Generation Satellite Networks and Beyond (FSOC)

Topic Co-Chairs:
Andrew Grimes, OFS Labs
Suzuki Naoki
Malcolm Wright
Armin Zach, TOPTICA Projects GmbH, Germany
Abderrahmen Trichili
Yoshihisa Takayama

Future Optical Networks and Transmission Systems (FONTS)

Topic Co-Chairs:
Ben Puttnam, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Robert Emmerich, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI, Germany

Committee Members:
Salma Escobar Landero, Huawei Technologies, France
Ruben S. Luis, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Aleksandr Donodin, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT), UK
Tomoyuki Kato, Fujitsu Limited, Japan

Optical Interconnects and Integrated Photonics for AI/ML/HPC Applications (OIIP)

Topic Chair:
Yi Sun, OFS Fitel LLC, USA

Topic Co-Chairs:
N. P. (Pandelis) Diamantopoulos, NTT Device Technology Labs, Japan
Haoshuo Chen, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Hideyuki Nasu, Furukawa Electric Co., Japan
Chenhui Li, Zhejiang University, China

Committee Members:
Takaaki Ishigure, Keio University, Japan
BernardM Lee, Senko Advanced Components USA
Oded Raz, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands
Hidetaka Nishi, NTT Device Technology Labs, JapanZihao Wang, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Chris Wiggins, Innovation Core SEI, Inc. (ICS)

Reconfigurable Optics and Photonics (ROP)

Topic Chair:
Tian Gu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Topic Co-Chairs:
Wim Bogaerts, Ghent University-IMEC, Belgium
Francesco Morichetti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Carlos Ríos, University of Maryland, USA

Committee:
Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, EPFL, Switzerland
Hyun Jung Kim, NASA, USA
Arseniy Kuznetsov, A*STAR, Singapore

Visible to Mid-IR Integrated Photonics for Quantum Technologies and Applications (VMIP)

Topic Co-Chairs:
Daniel Blumenthal, UC Santa Barbara, USA
James McGilligan, University of Strathclyde, UK
Oussama Moutanabbir, Polytechnique, Montreal
Radan Slavik, University of Southampton, UK

Committee Members:
Donguk Nam, Nanyang Technological University
Denis Seletskiy, Polytechnique Montreal
Val Zwiller, KTH

PSC 2024 TOPICS COMMITTEE

Future Optical, Datacenter and Computing Networks and Their Enabling Devices (FODC)

Topic Chair:
Kiyo Ishii, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Committee Members:
Nicola Calabretta, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherland
Daoxin Dai, Zhejiang University, China
Ruben Luis, NICT, Japan
Joaquin Matres Abril, Google, USA
Yojiro Mori, Nagoya University, Japan
Laia Nadal, CTTC, Spain
Shin Tanaka, Fujitsu / PETRA, Japan

From Neuromorphic Photonics to Generative AI Era (FNPGA)

Topic Co-Chairs:
Patty Stabile, TU/e
Nicola Peserico, University of Florida, USA

Committee Members:
Stefano Biasi, Univesity of Trento, Italy
Qixiang Cheng, University of Cambridge, UK
Guangwei Cong, AIST, Japan
Cansu Demirkiran, University of Boston, USA
Maziyar Milanizadeh, Xanadu Quantum Technologies
Francesca Parmigiani, Microsoft, UK
Nikos Pleros, AUTH, Greece
Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, HP Lab, Belgium

Quantum Technologies for Computing and Networks (QTCN)

Topic Chair:
Linran Fan, University of Texas, USA

Committee Members:
Avik Dutt, University of Maryland, USA
Robert Halir, University of Malaga, Spain
Hojoong Jung, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Nobuyuki Matsuda, Tohoku University, Japan
Menno Poot, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Changlin Zou, University of Science and Technology of China, China