2009 Committees

General and Technical Program Chairs
OFC Committees
NFOEC Committees
Steering Committee

OFC General Chairs

Mark Feuer, AT&T Labs – Res., USA
Leo Spiekman, Alphion Corp., USA

NFOEC General Chair

E. Bert Basch, Verizon, USA

OFC Program Chairs

Biswanath Mukherjee, Univ. of California at Davis, USA
Atul Srivastava, OneTerabit, USA

NFOEC 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
Magnus Karlsson, Univ. of Chalmers, Sweden, Subcommittee Chair Xin Chen, Corning, USA Vladimir Grigoryan, Ciena Inc., USA Tomoharu Hasegawa, Asahi Glass Co., Japan Georg Mohs, Tyco Telecommunications, US David Richardson, Univ. of Southampton, UK Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Germany Terence Shepherd, QinetiQ, UK Akira Shirakawa, Univ. of Electro Communications, Japan Andrew Yablon, Interfiber Analysis, USA	Colin McKinstrie, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Subcommittee Chair Nikola Alic, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA Maxim Bolshtyansky, JDSU, USA Joseph Friebele, NRL, USA Almantas Galvanauskas, Univ. of Michigan, USA Masaaki Hirano, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan Morten Ibsen, Univ. of Southampton, UK Jeff Nicholson, OFS Labs, USA Martin Kristensen, Aarhaus Univ., Denmark Namkyoo Park, Seoul Natl. Univ., Korea Siddharth Ramachandran, DTU-Fotonik, Denmark David Sampson, Univ. of Western Australia, Australia

C. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Signal Compensation	D. Optoelectronic Devices
Hiroshi Takahashi, NTT Photonics Labs, Japan, Subcommittee Chair Ray Chen, Univ. of Texas, USA Rance Fortenberry, Sirrus Technology, USA Lih Y. Lin, Univ. of Washington, USA David Moss, Univ. of Quebec, Canada Myo Ohn, Avanex, USA Michael J. Steel, Macquarie Univ., Australia Bogdan Szafraniec, Agilent, USA Yurii Vlasov, IBM, USA Pierre Wall, JDSU, Canada	Chuck Joyner, Infinera, USA, Subcommittee Chair Masahiro Aoki, Hitachi, Japan Liam Barry, Dublin City Univ., Ireland Kent Choquette, Univ. of Illinois, USA Hiroyuki Ishii, NTT, Japan Karl Kissa, JDSU, USA Paul Morton, Morton Photonics, USA Bryan Robinson, MIT, USA 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
Jin-Xing Cai, Tyco Telecommunications, USA, Subcommittee Chair Peter Andrekson, Univ. of Chalmers, Sweden Richard J. Hughes, Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA Hoon Kim, Natl. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Shiva Kumar, Univ. McMaster, Canada Doug McGhan, Nortel, Canada Yutaka Miyamoto, NTT, Japan Tetsuya Miyazaki, NICT, Japan Werner Rosenkranz, Univ. of Kiel, Germany Paul Toliver, Telcordia Technologies, USA Peter Winzer, Alcatel-Lucent, USA	Giuseppe Bordogna, Nortel, Canada, Subcommittee Chair Dave Atkinson, JDSU, Canada Fred Buchali, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany Sarah Dods, Monitoring Division Inc., Australia Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka Univ., Japan Arthur Lowery, Monash Univ., Australia Erwan Pincemin, France Telecom, France David Plant, McGill Univ., Canada Sander L. Jansen, Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG, Germany Seb Savory, Univ. College London, UK Wolfgang Sauer-Greff, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany

G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems	H. Core Networks
Luc Boivin, Verizon Business, USA, Subcommittee Chair Greg Abbas, EOSpace, USA Randall Babbitt, Montana State Univ., USA Ernesto Ciaramella, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy Thomas Clark, John Hopkins Univ., USA Sophie Larochelle, Univ. Laval – COPL, Canada Juerg Leuthold, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany Alexandre Shen, Alcatel-Lucent, III-IV Research Lab, France Chester Shu, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Denmark Technical Univ., Denmark Ian White, Cambridge Univ., UK Jianjun Yu, NEC Labs America, USA	Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany, Subcommittee Chair Vincent Chan, MIT, USA Piet Demeester, Broadband Communication Networks (IBCN), Belgium Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Inst. of Technology (IIT), India Junqiang Hu, NEC, USA Monika Jaeger, T-Systems, Germany Admela Jukan, Technische Univ. Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany Iraj Saniee, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington Univ., USA Alex Vukovic, Communications Res. Ctr. (CRC), Canada Jennifer Yates, AT&T Labs – Res., USA

I. Access Networks	J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications
Shoichi Hanatani, Hitachi, Japan, Subcommittee Chair GK Chang, Georgia Tech, USA Nasir Ghani, Univ. of New Mexico, USA Byung Whi Kim, ETRI, South Korea Soo Jin Park, KT Advanced Technology Lab, Korea Petar Pepeljugoski, IBM Res., USA Paul Prucnal, Princeton Univ., USA Niall Robinson, Mintera Corp., USA Vik Saxena, Comcast, USA Abdallah Shami, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada Ting Wang, NEC, USA Naoto Yoshimoto, NTT Labs, Japan	Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo, USA, Subcommittee Chair Philippe Becker, Wasserstein, USA Keren Bergman, Columbia Univ., USA Milorad Cvijetic, NEC America, USA Christoph Glingener, ADVA Optical Networking, Germany John Jacob, BBN Technologies, USA Yaohui Jin, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China Ashok Krishnamoorthy, Sun Microsystems SSG Physical Sciences Ctr., USA Yuichi Mastushima, NICT, Japan Nageswara S. Rao, Oak Ridge Natl. Labs, USA Dimitra Simeonidou, Essex Univ., UK

NFOEC Committees

1. Optical Networks and Services	2. Network Technologies
Monica Lazer, AT&T, USA, Subcommittee Chair Mark Allen, Infinera, USA Frank Effenberger, Huawei, USA Jim Jones, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Haim Kobrinski, Telcordia Technologies, USA Glen Kramer, Teknovus, USA Satoru Okamoto, Keio Univ., Japan Stevan Plote, Stratalight Communications, USA Claus Popp Larsen, Acreo, Sweden George Rouskas, North Carolina State Univ., USA Kathy Tse, AT&T, USA TJ 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, Siemens, USA Mei Du, Huawei Technologies, USA Hans-Martin Foisel, Deutsche Telekom, Germany Alysha Godin, Nortel, Canada Yoshinori Hibino, NTT, Japan Jin Hong, StrataLight Communications, USA Paparao (Rao) Palacharla, Fujitsu, USA Daniel Peterson, Verizon, USA Alexander Sergienko, Boston Univ., USA John Spencer, Optelian, USA Thomas Wood, LGS, USA
3. Market Watch and Service Provider Summit
Christoph Pfistner, Neophotonics, USA, Subcommittee Chair Karen Liu, Ovum RHK, Inc., USA Serge Melle, Infinera, 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
Bruce Nyman, Princeton Lightwave, USA

Optical Society of America
Douglas Baney, Agilent Labs, USA
Andrew Chraplyvy, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Robert Tkach, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Chair
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
Leo Spiekman, Alphion Corp., USA
Atul Srivastava, OneTerabit, USA