OFC/NFOEC Committees

General and Technical Program Chairs
OFC Committees
NFOEC Committees
Steering Committee

OFC General Chairs

John Cartledge, Queen's Univ., Canada
Ekaterina Golovchenko, Tyco Telecommunications, USA

NFOEC General Chair

Bert Basch, Verizon, USA

OFC Technical Program Chairs

Scott Hamilton, MIT, USA
Robert Jopson, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

NFOEC Technical Program Chair

Mehran Esfandiari, AT&T, USA

OFC Committees

A. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects	B. Fiber and Waveguide Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and Performance Monitors
Andrew Yablon, Interfiber Analysis, USA, Subcommittee Chair Xin Chen Chen, Corning Inc., USA Vladimir Grigoryan, Ciena Corp., USA Tomoharu Hasegawa, Asahi Glass Co., Japan Hans Limberger, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Jens Limpert, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany Georg Mohs, Tyco Telecommunications, USA Kyunghwan Oh, Yonsei Univ., Korea David Richardson, Univ. of Southampton, UK Akira Shirakawa, Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan Misha Sumetsky, OFS Labs, USA	Jeff Nicholson, OFS Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair Nikola Alic, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA Maxim Bolshtyansky, JDS Uniphase, USA Almantas Galvanauskas, Univ. of Michigan, USA Masaaki Hirano, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan Morten Ibsen, Univ. of Southampton, UK Clay Kirkendall, NRL, USA Martin Kristensen, Aarhaus Univ., Denmark Nathan Newbury, NIST, USA Namkyoo Park, Seoul Natl. Univ., Korea Siddharth Ramachandran, DTU-Fotonik, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark

C. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Signal Compensation	D. Optoelectronic Devices
Yurii Vlasov, IBM, USA, Subcommittee Chair Chris Doerr, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Martin Guy, TeraXion, Canada Akimasa Kaneko, NEL, Japan Lih Y. Lin, Univ. of Washington, USA Sheldon McLaughlin, JDS Uniphase, Canada Chris Poulton, Univ. of Technology Sydney, Australia Bogdan Szafraniec, Agilent, USA Dries van Thourhout, Ghent Univ., Belgium	Liam Barry, Dublin City Univ., Ireland, Subcommittee Chair Masahiro Aoki, Hitachi, Japan Andreas Beling, u2t Photonics AG, Germany Kent Choquette, Univ. of Illinois, USA Hiroyuki Ishii, NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan Karl Kissa, JDS Uniphase, USA Robert Manning, Tyndall Natl. Inst., Ireland Martin Schell, Heinrich-Hertz-Inst. Fraunhofer, Germany Clint Schow, IBM, USA Jin-Wei Shi, Natl. Central Univ., Taiwan

E. Digital Transmission Systems	F. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements
Peter Andrekson, Univ. of Chalmers, Sweden, Subcommittee Chair Andrew Ellis, Cork Univ., Ireland Sander Jansen, Nokia-Siemens, Germany Hoon Kim, Natl. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Shiva Kumar, Univ. McMaster, Canada Masayuki Matsumoto, Osaka Univ., Japan Doug McGhan, Nortel, Canada Yutaka Miyamoto, NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan Morton Nissov, Tyco Telecommunications, USA Paul Toliver, Telcordia Technologies, USA Paul Townsend, Univ. College Cork, Ireland Peter Winzer, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA	Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka Univ., Japan, Subcommittee Chair Sarah Dods, Monitoring Div. Inc., Australia Klaus Grobe, ADVA AG Optical Networking, Germany Charles Laperle, Nortel, Canada Xiang Liu, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Arthur Lowery, Monash Univ., Australia Erwan Pincemin, France Telecom, France David Plant, McGill Univ., Canada Seb Savory, Univ. College London, UK Wolfgang Sauer-Greff, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany Masahito Tomizawa, NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan

G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems	H. Core Networks
Ernesto Ciaramella, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy, Subcommittee Chair Randall Babbit, Montana State Univ. at Bozeman, USA Thomas Clark, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab, USA Sophie LaRochelle, Univ. Laval, Canada Javier Marti, Valencia Nanophotonics Ctr., Spain Thomas Murphy, Univ. of Maryland, USA Alwyn Seeds, Univ. College London, UK Alexandre Shen, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, France Chester Shu, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China Ryo Takahashi, NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan Keith Williams, NRL, USA Jianjun Yu, NEC Labs America, USA	Iraj Saniee, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Subcommittee Chair Piet Demeester, Broadband Communication Networks (IBCN), Belgium Anjali Agrawal, Telcordia Technologies, USA Polina Bayvel, Univ. College London, UK Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Inst. of Technology, India Junqiang Hu, NEC, USA Monika Jaeger, T-Systems, Germany Admela Jukan, Technische Univ. Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany Andrew Lord, BT Labs, UK Adam Ouorou, Orange Labs, France Jennifer Yates, AT&T Labs – Res., USA

I. Access Networks	J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications
Yun C. Chung, KAIST, South Korea, Subcommittee Chair Byung Whi Kim, ETRI, South Korea A.M.J. Koonen, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands Junichi Nakagawa, Mitsubishi Electric Co., Japan Derek Nesset, BT Labs, UK Dalma Novak, Pharad, LLC., USA Joseph Prat, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Paul Prucnal, Princeton Univ., USA Ken Reichmann, AT&T Labs, USA Ting Wang, NEC, USA Naoto Yoshimoto, NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan	Milorad Cvijetic, NEC Corp. of America, USA, Subcommittee Chair Keren Bergman, Columbia Univ., USA Christoph Glingener , ADVA Optical Networking, Germany Yaohui Jin, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China Takeshi Kamijoh, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Japan Yuichi Mastushima, NICT, Japan Dimitra Simeonidou, Univ. of Essex, UK Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology Ctr., Greece S.J. Ben Yoo, Univ. of California at Davis, USA

NFOEC Committees

1. Optical Networks and Services	2. Network Technologies
Monica Lazer, AT&T, USA, Subcommittee Chair Mark Allen, Infinera, USA George Clapp, Telcordia Technologies, USA Frank Effenberger, Huawei, USA Marek Hajduczenia, ZTE Corp., China Jim Jones, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Denis A. Khotimsky, Motorola, USA Haim Kobrinsky, Telcordia Technologies, USA Glen Kramer, Teknovus, USA Vincent O’Byrne, Verizon, USA Satoru Okamoto, Keio Univ., Japan Stevan Plote, Stratalight, USA Jens C. Rasmussen, Fujitsu, Japan George Rouskas, North Carolina State Univ., USA Kathy Tse, AT&T, USA T.J. Xia, Verizon, USA	Vishnu Shukla, Verizon Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair Mark Boduch, Tellabs, USA Paul Bonenfant, Morgan Keegan, USA Frank Chang, Vitesse Semiconductor, USA Michel Chbat, Nokia Siemens, USA Robert Doverspike, AT&T, USA Mei Du, Huawei, USA Hans-Martin Foisel, T-Systems, Germany Yoshinori Hibino, NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan Jin Hong, Opnext, USA Kent McCammon, AT&T, USA Paparao (Rao) Palacharla, Fujitsu, USA Daniel Peterson, Verizon, USA Alexander Sergienko, Boston Univ., USA John Spencer, Optelian, USA Thomas Wood, LGS Innovations, USA
3. Market Watch and Service Provider Summit
Karen Liu, RHK Ovum, USA, Subcommittee Chair Paul Bonenfant, Morgan Keegan, USA Myo Ohn, Oclaro, USA

OFC/NFOEC Steering Committee

IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Neal Bergano, Tyco Telecommunications, USA George Harvey, Tyco Telecommunications, USA Patrick Iannone, AT&T Labs – Res., USA, Chair Leo Spiekman, Alphion Corp., USA	Optical Society of America Douglas Baney, Agilent Labs, USA Andrew Chraplyvy, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Lynn Nelson, AT&T, USA Ann VonLehmen, Telcordia Technologies, USA
IEEE/Communications Society Loudon Blair, Ciena Corp., USA Stewart Personick, USA Jane Simmons, Monarch Network Architects, USA Doug Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies, USA	Ex-Officio E. Bert Basch, Verizon, USA John Cartledge, Queen’s Univ., Canada Mehran Esfandiari, AT&T, USA Mark Feuer, AT&T Labs – Res., USA Ekaterina Golovchenko, Tyco Telecommunications, USA Scott A. Hamilton, MIT, USA Robert M. Jopson, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Biswanath Mukherjee, Univ. of California at Davis, USA Atul Srivastava, OneTerabit, USA