Plenary/Tutorial & Invited Speakers

Plenary Speakers

Silicon Integrated Mid-Infrared Photonics (SIMP)

Eli Yablonovitch
University of California, Berkeley, CA

Physics Does Digital Optimization—for Machine Learning, Control Theory, Silicon Photonics, etc.

Optimization is vital to Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and to many areas of Science. Mathematically, we usually employ steepest-descent, or other digital algorithms. But, Physics itself, performs optimizations in the normal course of dynamical evolution. Nature provides us with The Principle of Least Action, as well as six other optimization mechanisms.

Eli Yablonovitch Bio:

Eli Yablonovitch is Director of the NSF Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S), a multi-University Center headquartered at Berkeley.

Yablonovitch introduced the idea that strained semiconductor lasers could have superior performance due to reduced effective mass (holes). With almost every human interaction with the internet, optical telecommunication occurs by strained semiconductor lasers.

He is regarded as a Father of the Photonic BandGap concept, and he coined the term “Photonic Crystal”. The geometrical structure of the first experimentally realized Photonic bandgap, is sometimes called “Yablonovite”.

He was elected to NAE, NAS, NAI, AmAcArSci, and Foreign Member, UK Royal Society.

TUTORIALS SPEAKERS

Coherent Optics for Short Reach Network (CSN)

Mathieu Chagnon, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany
Vivian (Xi) Chen, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Chris Cole, Luminous Computing, USA
Joseph Kahn, Stanford University, USA


Space Division Multiplexing (SDM)

Nick Fontaine, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston University, USA

INVITED SPEAKERS

Coherent Optics for Short Reach Network (CSN)

Dan Blumenthal, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Yi Cai, ZTE (TX) Inc., USA
Md. Saifuddin, Faruk, University of Cambridge, UK
Shota Ishimura, KDDI Research Inc., Japan
Zhensheng Jia, CableLabs, USA
Jun-ichi Kani, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan
Per Larsson-Edefors, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Ilya Lyubomirsky, Inphi Corporation, USA
Radha Nagarajan, Inphi Corporation, USA
Yusuke Nasu, NTT Device Innovation Center, NTT corporation, Japan
Jose Antonio, Altabas Navarro, Bifrost Communications, Denmark
David Plant, McGill University, Canada
Patrick Runge, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute, Germany
Clint Schow, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Naoki Suzuki, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Information Technology R&D Center, Japan
Chongjin Xie, Alibaba Group, USA
Aaron Zilkie, Rockley Photonics Inc., USA


Signal Reconstruction Using Photonics (SR)

Cristian Antonelli, University of L’Aquila, Italy
David Borlaug, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, University of Muenster, Germany
Hui Cao, Yale University, USA
Hao Chi, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Benjamin Crockett, INRS, Canada, Canada
George Dabos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Xinyu Fan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Mark Foster, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Jean Benoit Héroux, IBM Research – Tokyo, Japan
Hugues Guillet de Chatellus, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de physique (LIPhy), UGA/CNRS, France
Ryoichi Horisaki, Osaka University, Japan
Yetian Huang, Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, China
Jungwon Kim, KAIST, Korea
Tsuyoshi Konishi, Osaka University, Japan
Shi Li, University of Kiel, Germany
Shuhui Li, University of Exeter, UK
Jinyang Liang, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Canada
Masayuki Matsumoto, Wakayama University, Japan
Jesús Garduño Mejía, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Shilong Pan, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Uttam Paudel, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Peng-Chun Peng, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Mushegh Rafayelyan, Kastler–Brossel Laboratory, France
Bin Shi Eindhoven, University of Technology, Netherlands
William Shieh, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Chester Shu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Takuo Tanemura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Atsushi Uchida, Saitama University, Japan
Toshimasa Umezawa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Guy Van der Sande, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong, The University of Hong Kong, China
Chris Xu, Cornell University, USA
Xihua Zou, Southwest Jiaotong University, China


Space Division Multiplexing (SDM)

Tiago Alves, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Davide Bacco, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Karthik Choutagunta, Stanford University, USA
Guilhem de Valicourt, IPG photonics, USA
Nikolaos-Panteleimon Diamantopoulos, NTT, Japan
Hao Dong, Corning, UK
Filipe Ferreira, UCL, UK
Ivana Gasulla, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Tetsuya Hayashi, Sumitomo Electric, Japan
Koji Igarashi, KDDI / Osaka University, Japan
Masahiko Jinno, Kagawa University, Japan
Peter Krummrich, TU Dortmund, Germany
Cosimo Lacava, University of Pavia (Italy) and Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton (UK), UK
Gustavo Lima, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Ruben Luis, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Itsuro Morita, KDDI, Japan
Chigo Okonkwo, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Luca Palmieri, University of Padova, Italy
Ben Puttnam, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Kunimasa Saitoh, Hokkaido University, Japan
Pierre Sillard, Prysmian Group, France
Hitoshi Takeshita, NEC Corp, Japan
Guilhem de Valicourt, IPG photonics, USA
Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias, CREOL, USA


Structured Light Interaction with Matter and the Environment (SL)

Peter Banzer, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Yaron BromBerg, HUJI, Israel
Graham Bruce, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Joel Carpenter, University of Queensland, Australia
Hui Cao, Yale University, USA
Alasdair Clark, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Robert Harris, Heidelberg University, Germany
Tetsuya Hayashi, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Japan
Martin Lavery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Enrique Lopez, University of Central Florida, USA
Eric Johnson, Clemson University, USA
Nemanja Jovanovic, California Institute of Technology, USA
Yoko Miyamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Mickael Mounaix, University of Queensland, Australia
Takashige Omatsu, University of Chiba, Japan
Eileen Otte, University of Muenster Germany
Rafael Piestun, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Martin Ploschner, University of Queensland, Australia
Daryl Preece, Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, USA
Sebastian Popoff, Institut-Langevin, France
Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland, Australia
Pierre Sillard, Prysmian Group, France
Uğur Teğin, EPFL, Swiss
Jian Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Abbie Watnik, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Paul Westbrook, OFS Labs, USA


Silicon Integrated Mid-Infrared Photonics (SIMP)

Simone Assali, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Giovanni Capellini, IHP – Leibniz-Institut für Innovative Mikroelectronik, Germany
Guo-En Chang, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan
Alain Dijkstra, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Sébastien Francoeur, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Amr Helmy, University of Toronto, Canada
Jifeng Liu, Dartmouth College, USA
Bahareh Marzban, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Maksym Mironov, University of Warwick, England
Aboozar Mosleh, University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, USA
Eoin O’Reily, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
Greg Salamo, University of Arkansas, USA
Jeff Warrender, US Army – Benet Labs Watervliet Arsenal Watervliet, USA
Gong Xiao, National University of Singapore, Singapore