OFC/NFOEC Committees
General and Technical Program Chairs
NFOEC Committees
OFC Committees
OFC/NFOEC Steering Committee
General Chairs
Scott Hamilton, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Bob Jopson, Alcatel Lucent, USA
Mehran Esfandiari, AT&T, USA
Program Chairs
Yun Chung, Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech, Korea
Ed Murphy, JDSU, USA
Vishnu Shukla, Verizon Labs, USA
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NFOEC Committee
1. Optical Network Applications and Services
Kathy Tse, AT&T, USA, Subcommittee Chair
TJ Xia, Verizon, USA
Jens Rasmussen, Fujitsu, Japan
George Clapp, Telcordia, USA
Michel Belanger,Ciena/Nortel, Canada
Martin Birk, AT&T Research, USA
Valey Kamalov, Google, USA
Zeljko Bulut, Nokia-Siemens Networks, USA
Donn Lee, Facebook, USA
Dan Li, Huawei, China
2. Network Technologies and Applications
Hans-Martin Foisel, Deutsche Telekom , Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Robert Doverspike, AT&T, USA
Paparao (Rao) Palacharla, Fujitsu, USA
Stephen Liu, Verizon, USA
Senichi Suzuki, NTT Photonics Laboratories, Japan
Thomas Wood, LGS, USA
Steve Joiner, Finisar, USA
Dion Leung, Tellabs, USA
3. FTTx Technologies, Deployment and Applications
Vincent O'Byrne, Verizon, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Rajesh Yadav, Verizon, USA
Frank Effenberger, Huawei, USA
Marek Hajduczenia, ZTE, China
Hong Liu, Google, USA
Gary Picard, Motorola, USA
Joe Smith, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Martin Bouda, Fujitsu, USA
Julie D. Lorentzen, AT&T, USA
Scott Wilkinson, Hitachi, USA
Shunji Kimura, NTT access network labs, Japan
4. Market Watch and Service Provider Summit
Karen Liu, Ovum, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Samuel Liu, Juniper, USA
Steve Plote, Tellabs, USA
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OFC Committee
5. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
David Richardson, Univ. of Southampton, UK, Subcommittee Chair
Hans Limberger, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, Switzerland
Kyungwon Oh, Yonsei Univ., S. Korea
Kunimasa Saitoh, Hokkaido Univ., Japan
Takashi Sasaki, Sumitomo, Japan
Pierre Sillard, Draka, France
Misha Sumetsky, OFS Laboratories, USA
Anping Liu, Corning, Inc., USA
Alex Turukhin, Tyco, USA
Jay Dawson, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
Liang Dong, Clemson Univ., USA
6. Fiber and Waveguide Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and Performance Monitors
Nikola Alic, Univ of California San Diego, USA, Subcommittee Chair
John Dudley, Univ. of Franche-Comté, France
Karin Ennser, Univ. of Swansea, UK
Clay Kirkendall, NRL, USA
Lin Zhang, Univ. of Aston, UK
John Canning, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Ju Han Lee, Univ. of Seoul, S. Korea
John Marciante, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Shu Namiki, AIST, Japan
Lutz Rapp, NSN, Germany
Yoshinori Yamamoto, Sumitomo, Japan
7. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Interconnects
Solomon Assefa, IBM, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Akimasa Kaneko, NTT, Japan
Chris Doerr, Acacia, USA
Dries van Thourhout, Univ. of Ghent, Belgium
Sheldon McLaughlin, JDSU, Canada
Chris Poulton, Univ. of Technology, Australia
Hiroyuki Uenohara, Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan
Martin Guy, Teraxion, Canada
Katsunari Okamoto, AiDi Corp, Japan
Milos Popovic, Univ. of Colorado, USA
Andrew Poon, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
8. Optoelectronic Devices
Martin Schell, Heinrich-Hertz-Inst. Fraunhofer, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Yuliva Akulova, JDSU, USA
Andreas Beling, Univ. of Virginia, USA
Mike Tan, HP, USA
Toshiki Sugawara, Hitachi, Japan
Robert Manning, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
John Bowers, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Shinji Matsuo, NTT, Japan
Liming Zhang, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Lars Zimmermann, IHP, Germany
9 . Digital Transmission Systems
Peter Winzer, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Andrew Ellis, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland
Yi Cai, Huawei, USA
Ivan Djordjevic, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Michael Eiselt, Adva, Germany
Masayuki Matumoto, Osaka Univ., Japan
Akihide Sano, NTT, Japan
Dirk van den Borne, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Ezra Ip, NEC Labs America, USA
Benny Mikkelsen, Acacia Inc., USA
Mark Shtaif, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel
10. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements
David Plant, McGill Univ, Canada, Subcommittee Chair
Calvin Chan, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Klaus Grobe, ADVA, Germany
Charles Laperle, Ciena, USA
Xiang Liu, Bell Labs, USA
Moshe Nazarathy, Technion, Israel
William Shieh, Univ. of Melborne, Australia
Masahito Tomizawa, NTT, Japan
Chris Fludger, Coreoptics, Germany
Leslie Rusch, Laval Univ., Canada
Reinhold Noe, Univ. of Paderborn, Germany
11. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems
Thomas Murphy, Univ of MD, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Javier Marti, Valencia Nanophotonics Center, Spain
Marco Presi, Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Italy
Ryo Takahashi, NTT, Japan
Alwyn Seeds, Univ. College London, UK
Yikai Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
Keith Williams, NRL, USA
Guifang Li, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Periklis Petropoulos, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Karsten Rottwitt, DTU Fotonik, Denmark
Michael Sauer, Corning, US
K. K. Y. Wong, The Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
12. Core Networks
Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya Univ, Japan, Subcommittee Chair
Anjali Agarwal, Telcordia, USA
Jason Jue, The Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA
Andrew Lord, BT Labs, UK
Lyndon Ong, Ciena, USA
Angela Chiu, AT&T Labs, USA
Akira Hirano, NTT Network Innovations Labs., Japan
Annalisa Morea, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs , France
Esther Le Rouzic, Orange Labs, Networks and Carriers, France
Motoyoshi Sekiya, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA
Eric Wing-Ming Wong, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
13. Access Networks
Naoto Yoshimoto, NTT, Japan, Subcommittee Chair
A.M.J. Koonen, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
Cedric Lam, Google, USA
Junichi Nakagawa, Mitsubishi Electric Co., Japan
Derek Nesset, BT, UK
Dalma Novak, Pharad, LLC., USA
Josep Prat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Ken Reichmann, AT&T Labs, USA
Neda Cvijetic, NEC Labs America, USA
Philippe Chanclou, France Telecom, France
Sang Soo Lee, ETRI, Korea
14. Optical Networking, Technologies, and Applications for Datacom and Computercom
Keren Bergman, Columbia Univ, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology Ctr., Greece
Madeleine Glick, APIC Corp., USA
Takeshi Kamijoh, Oki Electric Industry, Japan
S. J. Ben Yoo, Univeristy of California at Davis, USA
Yeshaiahu Fainman, University of California at San Diego, USA
Juerg Leuthold, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Naoya Wada, NICT, Japan
Loukas Paraschis, Cisco, USA
Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, McGill University, Canada
Laurent Schares, IBM, USA
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OFC/NFOEC Steering Committee
IEEE/Photonics Society
Neal Bergano, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Ekaterina Golovchenko, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Patrick Iannone, AT&T Labs – Res., USA, Chair
Leo Spiekman, Alphion Corp., USA
The Optical Society (OSA)
E. Bert Basch, Verizon, USA
Lynn Nelson, AT&T, USA
Clint Schow, IBM T. J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA
Ann VonLehmen, Applied Communication Sciences, USA
IEEE/Communications Society
Loudon Blair, Ciena Corp., USA
Vincent Chan, MIT, USA
Jane Simmons, Monarch Network Architects, USA
Doug Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Ex-Officio
Yun Chung, KAIST, Republic of Korea
Mehran Esfandiari, AT&T, USA
Scott A. Hamilton, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Robert M. Jopson, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Chuck Joyner, Infinera, USA
Ed Murphy, JDSU, USA
Seb Savory, Univ. College London, UK
Vishnu Shukla, Verizon Labs, USA
Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Kathy Tse, AT&T, USA