Invited Speakers

SUM 2024 Speakers

FS: Fiber Sensing using Deployed Telecom Networks

Invited Speakers

Andrew Barbour, USGS, USA
Steinar Bjørnstad, Tampnet, Norway
Robert Clapp, Stanford University, USA
Michael Clare, National Oceanography Centre, UK
Simone Donadello, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Italy
David Hill, Sintela, UK
Sander Jansen, Adtran, Germany
Martin Karrenbach, Seismics Unusual, USA
Pierre Mertz, Infinera, USA
David Neilson, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Sebastian Noe, ETH, Switzerland
Paul Ohodnicki, University of Pittsburg, USA
Charlotte Rowe, Los Alamos National Labaratory, USA
Francesco Simeone, INGV, ITA
Zack Spica, University of Michigan, USA
Herbert Wang, University of Wisconsin, USA
Simon Webster, NEC, UK
Ethan Williams, University of Washington, USA


FONTS: Future Optical Networks and Transmission Systems

Tutorial Speaker: Roland Ryf, Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Invited Speakers
Cristian Antonelli, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Yoshinari Awaji, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Florian Azendorf, Adtran, Meiningen, Germany
Martin Boettcher, Heraeus Comvance, Germany
Ruby Stella Bravo Ospina, University of Campinas, Brazil
Bill Corcoran, Monash University, Australia
Guilhem de Valicourt, Nubis Communications, USA
Gabriele Di Rosa, Adtran, Munich, Germany
Daniel J. Elson, KDDI Research, Japan
Filipe Ferreira, University College London, UK
Wladek Forysiak, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies – AiPT, UK
Vladimir Gordienko, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies – AiPT, UK
Fukutaro Hamaoka, NTT, Japan
Masahiko Jinno, Kagawa University, Japan
Tomoyuki Kato, Fujitsu, Japan
Martin Lavery, University of Glasgow, UK
Zhixin Liu, University College London (UCL), UK
Dan Marom, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Chigo Okonkwo, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
João Pedro, Infinera, Lisbon, Portugal
Luca Poti, National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy
Chris Roeloffze, LioniX International, Netherlands
Leslie Ann Rusch, LaVal University, Canada
Roland Ryf, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Taiji Sakamoto, NTT, Japan
Eric Sillekens, University College London, UK
Radan Slavík, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK
Shigehiro Takasaka, Furukawa Electric, Japan
Yuta Wakayama, KDDI Research, Japan


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

Tutorial Speaker:
Abderrahmen Trichili, University of Oxford, UK

Invited Speakers
Francis Bennet, Australian National University, Australia
Andrew Grimes, OFS Labs, USA
Laurenz Kulmer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
David Mackey, MBRYONICS, Ireland
Rainer Martini, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Stephen Ralph, Georgia Tech, Australia
Nicholas Rattenbury, University of Auckland, Australia
Ryan Rogalin, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA
Hayato Sano, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
Angel Velasco, NASA (JPL), Australia
Shiro Yamakawa, JAXA, Japan
Armin Zach, Toptica Projects, Germany


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

Plenary Speaker
J Metz, AMD, USA

Keynote Speaker
Yosuke Aragane, NTT, Japan

Tutorial Speaker
Rich Baca, Ciena, USA

Invited Speakers
Eric Bernier, Huawei, Canada
John Bowers, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Jose Castro, Panduit Corporation, USA
Kamil Gradkowski, Tyndall National Institute, Europe
Nasu Hideyuki, Furukawa Electric Corporation, Japan
Takaaki Ishigure, Keio University, Japan
Dave Knight, OFS, USA
Daniel KuchtaI, IBM, USA
Bernard Lee, Senko Advanced Components, USA
Di Ling, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Ruben Luis, NICT, Japan
Shinji Matsuo, NTT, Japan
Ramana Murty, Broadcom, USA
Kazuya Nagashima, Furukawa Electric, Japan
Nikola Nedovic, Nvidia, USA
Andrew Oliviero, Belden Inc, USA
Christos Pappas, Aristotle University, Greece
Richard Pitwon, Resolute Photonics, Ireland
Radek Roucka, Ayar Labs, USA
Bob Shine, Telescent, USA
Chuan Xie, AMD, USA
Jianying Zhou, Hisense Broadband, USA


ROP: Reconfigurable Optics and Photonics

Keynote Speaker
Paul Prucnal Princeton University USA

Invited Speakers
Wim Bogaerts, Ghent University-IMEC, Belgium
Maurizio Burla, TU Berlin, Germany
Dmitry Chigrin, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Tian Gu, MIT, USA
Sangyoon Han, Daegu Gyeongbuk Inst. of Sci. and Tech., Korea
Michael Haney, University of Southern California, ISI, USA
Mo Li, University of Washington, USA
Di Liang, University of Michigan, USA
Francesco Morichetti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Carlos A. Ríos Ocampo, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Kyoungsik Yu, KAIST, Korea


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

Keynote Speaker:
Jonathan Hoffman, DARPA, USA

Invited Speakers
Anu Agarwal MIT, USA
Vladimir Aksyuk, NIST, USA
Simone Assali, CEA, France
Ganesh Balakrishnan, University of New Mexico, USA
Rodolphe Boudot, FEMTO-ST, France
Dan Buca, Juelich Research Center, Germany
Bruce Claflin, AFRL, USA
Patrick Del Vecchio, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Wei Du, University of Arkansas, USA
Corin Gawith, Covesion, UK
Samir Ghosh, Tyndall College, Ireland
Jeremy Glick, UT Austin, USA
Fabian Hartmann, Wuerzburg, Germany
Matthew Hummon, NIST
Uriel Levy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Marko Loncar, Harvard
Giuseppe Marra, NPL
Tanja Mehlstaeubler, Physikalisch-Technishe Bundesanstalt Nationales lgtrolegMetrologieinstitut (PTB)
Greg Moille, NIST, USA
Milos Nedeljkovic, University of Southhapton, UK
Robert Niffenegger, UMASS Amherst, USA
Lora Nugent
Scott Papp, NIST, USA
Douglas Paul, University Glasgow, UK
Fabio Pezzoli, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Alexei Tchelnokov, CEA-Leti, France

PSC 2024 SPEAKERS

FODC: Future Optical, Datacenter and Computing Networks and Their Enabling Devices

Invited Speakers:
Hector Andrade, Lucidean, Inc., USA
Budsara Boriboon, NICT, Japan
Fatima Gunning, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
Di Liang, University of Michigan, USA
Yoshiho Maeda, NTT, Japan
Dan Marom, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem
Alex Meng, Columbia University, USA
David Neilson, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Ryuta Shiraki, Kyoto University, Japan
Ken Tanizawa, Tamagawa University, Japan


FNPGA: From Neuromorphic Photonics to Generative AI Era

Invited Speakers:
Saumil Bandyopadhyay, MIT & NTT Research, USA
Lorenzo De Marinis, Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Elena Goi, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Kohei Ikeda, NTT Nanophotonics Center, Japan
Guifang Li CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics University of Central Florida, USA
Giulia Marcucci, University of Glasgow, UK
Mitsumasa Nakajima, NTT, Japan
Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA


QTCN: Quantum Technologies for Computing and Networks

Invited Speakers:
Stefano Azzini, Universita di Trento, Italy
Avik Dutt, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Jelena Notaros, MIT, USA
Tatsuhiro Onodera, Cornell University, USA
Pepijn Pinkse, University of Twente, Netherlands
Carsten Schuck University of Muenster, Germany
Hong Tang, Yale University, USA

PSC 2024 WORKSHOPS

Revolutionize Your Chip Design with Python

Simon Bilodeau, Meta Reality Labs, USA
Alex Hammond, Meta, USA
Joaquin Matres Abril, Google X, USA

Physical Layer Security in Photonic Networks Workshop (Joint with FONTS)

Gil Alin
Tom Bradley
Stella Civelli
Jo Kakande
Stefan Karlsson
David Neilson
Dimitris Syvridis
Ken Tanizawa