Technical Committees
SC1 – Novel Fibres, Fibre Devices & Amplifiers
| Camille Brès (Chair) | EPFL (Switzerland) |
| Marianne Bigot | Prysmian (France) |
| Christian-Alexander Bunge | Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (Germany) |
| Tommy Geisler | OFS Denmark (Denmark) |
| Ian McClean | II-VI (United Kingdom) |
| Kazunori Mukasa | Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. (Japan) |
| Rogerio Nougueira | Instituto De Telecomunicacoes (Portugal) |
| Luca Palmieri | Universita di Padova (Italy) |
| Francesco Poletti | University of Southhampton (United Kingdom) |
| Luc Thévenaz | EPFL (Switzerland) |
| Seong Woo Yoo | Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) |
| Marc Wuilpart | University of Mons (Belgium) |
SC2 – Photonic Devices & Technologies
| Jörg Wieland (Chair) | Tetrasemiconductors (Switzerland) |
| Timo Aalto | VTT (Finland) |
| Yuliya Akulova | Intel (United States of America) |
| Andreas Beling | University of Virginia (United States of America) |
| Woo-Young Choi | Yonsei Unisersity (South Korea) |
| Hélène Debregeas | Almae (France) |
| Xuhan Guo | Shanghai Jiao Tong (China) |
| Jon Heffernan | University of Sheffield (United Kingdom) |
| Christian Koos | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) |
| Dan Marom | Hebrew University (Israel) |
| Shinji Matsuo | NTT (Japan) |
| Lucas Soldano | Poet Technologies (Italy) |
| Mitsuru Takenaka | University of Tokyo (Japan) |
| Jean Teissier | II-VI Laser Enterprise (Switzerland) |
SC3 – Photonic Integrated Circuits, Assemblies & Packaging
| Dan Kuchta (Chair) | IBM Research (United States of America) |
| Selina Farwell | Lumentum (United Kingdom) |
| Folkert Horst | IBM Research (Switzerland) |
| Daniel Pérez-Lopez | iPronics, Programmable Photonics (Spain) |
| Mads Lønstrup Nielsen | NVIDIA (Denmark) |
| Nobuhiko Nishiyama | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) |
| Ségolène Olivier | LETI (France) |
| David Plant | McGill University (Canada) |
| Günther Roelkens | Ghent University (Belgium) |
| Hamed Sattari | CSEM (Switzerland) |
| Patty Stabile | IPI - Eindhoven University (Netherlands) |
| Keijiro Suzuki | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (Japan) |
| Xin (Scott) Yin | imec - Ghent University (Belgium) |
| Lars Zimmermann | IHP GmbH (Germany) |
SC4 – Techniques for Digitally Enhancing Optical Communication
| Chigo Okonkwo (Chair) | IPI - TU Eindhoven (Netherlands) |
| Elie Awwad | IMT Paristech (France) |
| Xi (Vivien) Chen | Nokia Bell Labs (United States of America) |
| Francesco Da Ros | Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) |
| Chris Fludger | Infinera Corporation (Germany) |
| Domanic Lavery | Infinera (United Kingdom) |
| Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory | NEC (Japan) |
| Chao Lu | Hongkong Polytechnic University (Hongkong) |
| Sebastian Randel | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) |
| Christoph Studer | ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| Sander Wahls | Delft University (Netherlands) |
| Fatih Yaman | NEC Labs (United States of America) |
SC5 – Theory of Optical Communications
| René Essiambre (Chair) | Nokia Bell Labs (United States of America) |
| Alex Alvarado | Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) |
| Christian Antonelli | Universita dell'Aquila (Italy) |
| Junho Cho | Nokia Bell Labs (United States of America) |
| Francisco Diaz Otero | Universidad de Vigo (Spain) |
| Helmut Griesser | Adva Optical Networking GmbH (Germany) |
| Magnus Karlsson | Chalmers University (Sweden) |
| Domenico Marsella | Nokia (Italy) |
| Luiz Anet Neto | IMT Atlantique (France) |
| Mariia Sorokina | Aston (United Kingdom) |
| Chongjin Xie | Alibaba (United States of America) |
| Masato Yoshida | Tohoku University (Japan) |
SC6 – Optical Transmission Systems
| Fatima Gunning (Chair) | Tyndall National Institute (Ireland) |
| Lidia Galdino | Corning (United Kingdom) |
| Norbert Hanik | Technical University of Munich (Germany) |
| Tomoyuki Kato | Fujitsu (Japan) |
| Hoon Kim | KAIST (South Korea) |
| Takayuki Kobayashi | NTT (Japan) |
| Beatriz Ortega | Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) |
| Alexii Pilipetskii | Subcom (United States of America) |
| Jeremie Renaudier | Nokia Bell Labs (France) |
| Jochen Schröder | Chalmers University (Sweden) |
| Paolo Serena | Parma University (Italy) |
| Jaroslaw Turkiewicz | Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) |
| Jian Wu | Beijing University of Posts & Telecom (China) |
SC7 – Core & Metro Networks
| Nicola Calabretta (Chair) | IPI - Eindhoven University (Netherlands) |
| Dimitrios Apostolopoulos | National Technical University of Athens (Greece) |
| Benedikt Baeuerle | Polariton (Switzerland) |
| Andrea Carena | Politecnico di Torino (Italy) |
| Admela Jukan | Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany) |
| Patricia Layec | Nokia Bell Labs (France) |
| Ci Wen Charles Lim | NUS (Singapore) |
| Oskars Ozolins | RISE (Sweden) |
| Nick Parsons | Polatis (United Kingdom) |
| Bernhard Schrenk | Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria) |
| Alexandros Stavdas | University of Peloponnese (Greece) |
| Takehiro Tsuritani | KDDI Research Inc. (Japan) |
| Carmen Vazquez | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) |
| Tianjian Zuo | Huawei (China) |
SC8 – Access, Indoor & Short-Reach for Data Centres and Mobile Networks
| Francesca Parmigiani (Chair) | Microsoft (United Kingdom) |
| Fabio Bottoni | Cisco (Italy) |
| Zhangyuan Chen | Peking University (China) |
| Jochen Maes | Nokia Bell Labs (Belgium) |
| Paulo Monteiro | University of Aveiro (Portugal) |
| Thas Nirmalathas | University of Melbourne (Australia) |
| Stephan Pachnicke | Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel (Germany) |
| Paola Parolari | Politecnico di Milano (Italy) |
| Nikos Pleros | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) |
| Fabienne Saliou | Orange (France) |
| Michela Svaluto Moreolo | Centre tecnologic de telecomunicacions de Catalunya (Spain) |
| Karl Tran | Genexis (Netherlands) |
| Tomoaki Yoshida | NTT (Japan) |
| Satoshi Yoshima | Mitsubishi Electric (Japan) |
SC9 – Photonics for RF & Free-Space Optics Applications
| Reto Muff (Chair) | Thales Alenia Space (Switzerland) |
| Liam Barry | Dublin City University (Ireland) |
| Maite Brandt-Pearce | University of Virginia (United States of America) |
| Zizheng Cao | IPI - Eindhoven University (Netherlands) |
| Guillermo Carpintero | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) |
| Fabio Cavaliere | Ericsson (Italy) |
| Chi Wai Chow | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) |
| Hwanseok Chung | ETRI (South Korea) |
| Mathilde Gay | Institut Foton (France) |
| Harald Haas | University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom) |
| Shota Ishimura | KDDI Research Inc. (Japan) |
| Peter Ossieur | imec - Ghent University (Belgium) |
| Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe | Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) |
| Xiaoke Yi | University of Sydney (Australia) |
SC10 – Architecture, Control & Management of Optical Networks
| Reza Nejabati (Chair) | University of Bristol (United Kingdom) |
| Thomas Bauschert | Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany) |
| Jiajia Chen | Chalmers University (Sweden) |
| Hideaki Furukawa | National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan) |
| Tom Issenhuth | Huawei (United States of America) |
| Raul Muñoz | Centre tecnologic de telecomunicacions de Catalunya (Spain) |
| Yvan Pointurier | Huawei (France) |
| Emilio Riccardi | Telecom Italia (Italy) |
| Marco Ruffini | Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) |
| Gangxiang Shen | University of Soochow (China) |
| Jesse Simsarian | Nokia Bell Labs (United States of America) |
| Anna Tzanakaki | University of Athens (Greece) |
| Raimena Veisllari | Ericsson (Norway) |
Demo
| Bert Offrein (Chair) | IBM Research (Switzerland) |
CLEO®/Europe Focus Meeting
Quantum Photonics
| Patrick Maletinsiky (Co-Chair) | University of Basel (Switzerland) |
| Philipp Treutlein (Co-Chair) | University of Basel (Switzerland) |
| Yiwen Chu | ETH Zürich (Switzerland) |
| Hueges de Riedmatten | ICFO Barcelona (Spain) |
| Christophe Galland | EPFL (Switzerland) |
| Steve Lecomte | CSEM (Switzerland) |
| Tilman Pfau | Universität Stuttgart (Germany) |
| Jeff Thompson | Princeton University (United States of America) |
| Thomas Volz | Macquaire University (Australia) |
Novel Photonic Materials & Effects
| Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (Co-Chair) | EPFL (Switzerland) |
| Marta De Luca | Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy) |
| Alexandros Emboras | ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
Emerging Photonic Devices, Technologies & Applications
| Giacomo Scalari (Co-Chair) | ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus | EPFL (Switzerland) |
| Stephane Kena-Cohen | École Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada) |
| Marco Peccianti | Sussex University (United Kingdom) |