C1. Solid State, Fiber, and Other Laser Sources

• Dr Alessia Pasquazi, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
• Professor David Spence, Macquarie University, Australia
• Professor Zhigang Zhang, Beijing University, China

C2. Ultrafast and Nonlinear Phenomena

• Dr Xin Gai, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SA
  Presentation Title: Highly nonlinear photonic devices for ultrafast signal processing
• Professor Dr. Rachel Grange, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Presentation Title: Lithium Niobate and Other Quadratic Materials for Nanophotonic Devices
• Professor Zhipei Sun, Aalto University, Finland
  Presentation Title: Nano-Materials for Quantum Nonlinear Photonics

C3. Infrared and Terahertz Technologies and Applications

• Dr Hou-Tong Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
• Dr Daniel M. Mittleman, School of Engineering at Brown University, USA
• Assistant Professor Yasuaki Monnai, Keio University, Japan

C4. High Power, High Energy Lasers

• Dr Mark Dubinskiy, US Army Research Labs, USA
• Dr Bedrich Rus, Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
• Dr Eiji Takahashi, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Japan

C5. Laser Processing and Innovative Applications

• Professor Bill O’Neill, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Professor Roberta Ramponi, Department of Physics – Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Dr Vassilia Zorba, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA

C6. Optical and Photonic Metrology

• Dr Guoqing Chang, Institute of Physics, CAS, China
• Dr Laura Sinclair, NIST, USA
• Associate Professor Ranjan Singh, NTU, Singapore

C7. Quantum Optics, Atomic Physics and Quantum Information

• Professor Thomas Busch, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  Presentation Title: Non-equilibrium dynamics in strongly correlated quantum gases
• Associate Professor Atsushi Noguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
  Presentation Title: Quantum manipulations with artificial radiation pressure in superconducting circuits
• Dr Jacqueline Romero, University of Queensland, Australia
  Presentation Title: Adventures in Hilbert Space: Quantum Information Using the Shape of Light

C8. Micro and Nanophotonics, and Light Trapping

• Professor Mikael Käll, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  Presentation Title: Light-induced forces induced by and acting on resonant nanostructures
• Professor Ruwen Peng, Nanjing University, China
  Presentation Title: From passive to active manipulation of the polarization states of light via metastructures
• Professor Hongxing Xu, Wuhan University, China
  Presentation Title: Ultrasensitive optical spectroscopy of plasmonic nanocavity

C9. Optical Communication Systems and Networks

• Professor Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA
  Presentation Title: The Evolution of Optical Data Center Networks
• Professor Christine Tremblay, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
  Presentation Title: Performance prediction of established lightpaths using machine learning and field data
• Dr Junwen Zhang, Cable Labs, USA
  Presentation Title: Next-Generation High-speed Access Network for Emerging Services

C10. Optical Fiber and Waveguide Technologies

• Professor Liang Dong, Clemson University, USA
• Professor Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Professor Yasuhiro Koike, Keio University Japan

C11. Semiconductor and Integrated Optical Devices

• Professor Yeshaiahu Fainman, University of California San Diego, USA
  Presentation Title: Heterogeneously integrated on-chip nanolasers
• Professor Nobuhiko Nishiyama, University of Tokyo, Japan
  Presentation Title: III-V/SOI lasers on heterogeneous photonic integration platform
• Dr Winnie Ye, Carleton University, Canada
  Presentation Title: Silicon-based photonics for telecommunication and data communication

C12. Silicon Photonics

• Associate Professor Amy Foster, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  Presentation Title: Heterogeneous nonlinear silicon photonics
• Professor Graham Reed, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  Presentation Title: Large tunable refractive index changes in silicon enabling tunable photonic devices
• Professor Hon-Ki Tsang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
  Presentation Title: Multimode silicon photonic devices for high capacity optical communications

C13. Optical Signal Processing

• Dr Simon Gross, Macquarie University Australia
  Presentation Title: Applications of 3D waveguides in optical systems
• Hoon Kim, KAIST, Korea
  Presentation Title: Free-space optical systems
• Leslie Rusch, Laval, Canada
  Presentation Title: Optical Signal Processing for Coherent Communications
  

C14. Advanced 2D Materials for Photonics and Energy

• Professor Chunxiao Cong, Fudan University, China
• Professor Fengqiu Wang, Nanjing University, China

C15. Biophotonics and Applications

• Dr Bi-Chang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  Presentation Title: Beyond the Diffraction Limit by Lightsheet Microscopy
• Professor Katharina Gaus, University of New South Wales, Australia
  Presentation Title: Single Molecule Imaging of T Cell Receptor Signalling
• Professor Xingde Li, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  Presentation Title: Ultralight Headmount Two-photon Camera for NeuroImaging on Freely Walking/Rotating Rodents
• Dr Kevin Tsia, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong SAR
  Presentation Title: Multi-Scale Biological Imaging Using Infinity Mirror

C16. Plasmonics and Metamaterials

• Professor Jean-Jacques Greffet, Universite Paris-Saclay, France
• Professor Natalia Litchinitser, Duke University, USA
• Professor Dragomir Neshev, Australian National University, Australia

C17. Optical Sensors and Systems

• Professor Andrea Armani, University of Southern California, USA
  
• Professor Duncan Hand, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
• Dr Michel Niewoudt, University of Auckland, New Zealand

C18. Imaging, Display, Storage Technologies and Solid State Lighting

• Professor Seung-Yeol Lee, Kyungpook National University, Korea
• Professor Wen Qiao, Soochow University, China
• Professor. Dr. Monika Ritsch-Marte, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
• Professor Yasuhiro Takaki, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

C19. Microwave Photonics

• Associate Professor Camille-Sophie Brès, EPFL, Switzerland
  Presentation Title: Exploiting soliton states of micro-resonator for reconfigurable microwave photonic filters
• Dr Liwei Li, University of Sydney, Australia
  Presentation Title: High resolution sensing based on microwave photonics
• Dr Franklyn Quinlan, NIST, USA
  Presentation Title: High Spectral Purity Microwave Photonics
• Assistant Professor Xiangchuan Wang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
  Presentation Title: GPS over fiber for high accuracy 3D baseline measurement

C20. Astrophotonics and Gravitational Wave Detection

• Assistant Professor Keiko Kokeyama, University of Tokyo, Japan
  Presentation Title: KAGRA, the underground and cryogenic laser interferometer for gravitational wave detection
• Dr Sarah Tedder, NASA, USA
  Presentation Title: Photonic Lanterns for Space to Ground Photon Counting Optical Communication
• Dr Robert Ward, Australian National University, Australia
  Presentation Title: Astrophysics at the quantum limit: improving the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors