OFC/NFOEC Committees

Come back beginning in June for information on the  2014 Conference, meanwhile enjoy a retrospective look at the 2013 Conference.

General and Technical Program Chairs
NFOEC Committees
OFC Committees
OFC/NFOEC Steering Committee

General Chairs

Chuck Joyner, USA

Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany

Vishnu Shukla, Verizon Labs, USA

Program Chairs

Seb Savory, UCL, UK

Clint Schow, IBM, USA

Kathy Tse, AT&T, USA








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NFOEC Committee

1. Optical Network Applications and Services

George Clapp, AT&T Research Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair

Michel Belanger, Ciena/Nortel, Canada
Martin Birk, AT&T Research, USA
Zeljko Bulut, Nokia-Siemens Networks, USA
Valey Kamalov, Google, USA
Bernhard Kubis, Adva, Germany
Inder Monga, ESnet, USA
Takuya Ohara, NTT, Japan
Daniel Peterson, Verizon, USA
Ronald A. Skoog, Applied Communications Sciences, USA

2. Network Technologies and Applications

Hans-Martin Foisel, Deutsche Telekom, Germany, Subcommittee Chair

Carlo Cavazzoni, Telecom Italia, Italy
Robert Doverspike, AT&T, USA
Jim Jaques, LGS Innovations, USA
Dion Leung, Tellabs, Singapore
Stephen Liu, Verizon, USA
Thierry Marcot, France Telecom / Orange Labs, France
Senichi Suzuki, NTT Photonics Laboratories, Japan
Takehiro Tsuritani, KDDI, Japan
Xi Wang, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA

3. FTTx Technologies, Deployment and Applications

Vincent O'Byrne, Verizon, USA, Subcommittee Chair

Martin Bouda, Fujitsu, USA
Pedram Dashti, Google, USA
Frank Effenberger, Huawei, USA
Frank Escher, Deutsche Telecom, Germany
Shunji Kimura, NTT Access Network Labs, Japan
Julie D. Lorentzen, AT&T, USA
Albert Rafel, BT, UK
Joe Smith, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Rajesh Yadav, Verizon, USA
Scott Wilkinson, Hitachi, USA

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

Misha Sumetsky, OFS Laboratories, USA, Subcommittee Chair

Mikhail Brodsky, AT&T Labs, USA
Jay Dawson, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
Liang Dong, Clemson Univ., USA
Anping Liu, Corning, Inc., USA
Kunimasa Saitoh, Hokkaido Univ., Japan
Takashi Sasaki, Sumitomo, Japan
Pierre Sillard, Draka, France
Moshe Tur, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Sergei Turitsyn, Aston University, UK
Alexey Turukhin, Tyco, USA

6. Fiber and Waveguide Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and Performance Monitors

Shu Namiki, AIST, Japan, Subcommittee Chair

Kazi Abedin, OFS Labs., USA
John Canning, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Zuyuan He, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Peter Krummrich, Technical Univ. of Dortmund, Germany
Ju Han Lee, Univ. of Seoul, S. Korea
John Marciante, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Yoichi Oikawa, Trimatiz Ltd., Japan
Lutz Rapp, NSN, Germany
Yoshinori Yamamoto, Sumitomo, Japan
Lin Zhang, Univ. of Aston, UK

7. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Interconnects

Chris Doerr, Acacia, USA, Subcommittee Chair

Solomon Assefa, IBM, USA
Daoxin Dai, Zhejiang University, China
Juerg Leuthold, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Katsunari Okamoto, AiDi Corp, Japan
Andrew Poon, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Milos Popovic, University of Colorado, USA
Roland Ryf, Alcatel Lucent, USA
Takashi Saida, NTT, Japan
Joris Van Campenhout, IMEC, Belgium
Tsung-Yang (Jason) Liow, Institute of Micro Electronics (IME), Singapore

8. Optoelectronic Devices

Andreas Beling, Univ. of Virginia, USA, Subcommittee Chair

Yuliva Akulova, JDSU, USA
John Bowers, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Jonathan Klamkin, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Dan Kuchta, IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr, USA
Shinji Matsuo, NTT Photonics Labs., Japan
Gunther Roelkens, Ghent Univ./ IMEC, Belgium
Toshiki Sugawara, Hitachi, Ltd. Central Research Lab., Japan
Liming Zhang, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Lars Zimmermann, IHP, Germany

9 . Digital Transmission Systems

Michael Eiselt,  ADVA Optical Networking, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
 

Ivan Djordjevic, Univ. Arizona, USA
Fabrizio Forghieri, Cisco, Italy
Ronald Freund, Fraunhofer Inst. HHI, Germany
Lara Garrett, TE SubCom, USA
Ezra Ip, NEC Labs America, USA
Benny Mikkelsen, Acacia Inc., USA
Akihide Sano, NTT, Japan
Mark Shtaif, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel
Dirk van den Borne, Juniper Networks, Germany
Chongjin Xie, Bell-Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

10. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements

Xiang Liu, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Subcommittee Chair

Gabriella Bosco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Calvin Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Chris Fludger, Cisco, Germany
Moshe Nazarathy, Technion, Israel
Reinhold Noe, University of Paderborn, Germany
Leslie Rusch, Laval University, Canada
William Shieh, University of Melbourne, Australia
Etsushi Yamazaki, NTT Labs, Japan
Lianshan Yan, Southwestern Jiaotong Univ., China
Xiang Zhou, ATT Labs, USA

11. Optical Processing and Analog Systems

Alwyn Seeds, , UCL, UK, Subcommittee Chair

Paul Juodawlkis, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Satoki Kawanishi, Optoquest, Japan
Guifang Li, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Richard Penty, University of Cambridge, UK
Periklis Petropoulos, University of Southampton, UK
Marco Presi, Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Italy
Michael Sauer, Corning, USA
Andreas Stoehr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Yikai Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Kenneth K.Y. Wong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

12. Core Networks

Andrew Lord, BT Labs, UK, Subcommittee Chair

Angela Chiu, AT&T Labs, USA
Akira Hirano, NTT Network Innovations Labs., Japan
Jason Jue, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Esther Le Rouzic, Orange Labs, Networks and Carriers, France
Annalisa Morea, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
Lyndon Ong, Ciena, USA
Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, Juniper, USA
Motoyoshi Sekiya, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, USA
Luis Velasco, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Georgios Zervas, University of Bristol, UK

13. Access Networks

Kenneth Reichmann, AT&T Labs-Research, USA, Subcommittee Chair

 

Philippe Chanclou, France Telecom, France
Neda Cvijetic, NEC Labs-America, USA
Joerg-Peter Elbers, ADVA Optical Networks, Germany
Junichi Kani, NTT-Labs, Japan
Sangsoo Lee, ETRI, Republic of Korea
Junichi Nakagawa, Mitsubishi Electric Co., Japan
Derek Nesset, British Telecom, UK
Josep Prat, The Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Antonio Teixeira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Peter Vetter, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

 

14. Optical Interconnection Networks for Datacom and Computercom

Michael Tan, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair

Drew Alduino, Intel, USA
Ali Ghiasi, Broadcom, USA
Madeleine Glick, APIC Corporation, USA
Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, McGill University, Canada
George Papen, Univ. of California San Diego, USA
Loukas Paraschis, Cisco, USA
Laurent Schares, IBM, USA
Naoya Wada, NICT, Japan
Xuezhe Zheng, Oracle, USA

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OFC/NFOEC Steering Committee

IEEE/Photonics Society

Patrick Iannone,  AT&T Labs – Res., USA, Chair
Neal Bergano, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Ekaterina Golovchenko, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
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
Ori Gerstel, Cisco Systems Inc., Israel
Doug Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies, USA

Ex-Officio

Yun Chung, KAIST, Republic of Korea
Chris Doerr, Acacia Communications, Inc., USA
Chuck Joyner, Infinera, USA
Ed Murphy, JDSU, USA
Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya University, Japan
Seb Savory, Univ. College London, UK
Vishnu Shukla, Verizon Labs, USA
Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Kathy Tse, AT&T, USA