CLEO 2026

Steering Committee

The premier international forum for scientific and technical optics.

2026 Steering Committee:

Name Affiliation
OPTICA
Kaoru Minoshima University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Camille Sophie Brès Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Sergey Vasilyev IPG Photonics Corp.
Rohit Prasankumar Intellectual Ventures, USA
Clara Saraceno Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany
IEEE Photonics Society
Paul Juodawlkis MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Michelle Sander Boston University, USA
Pete Dragic University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA
Dan Wasserman Univ. of Texas, USA
APS/Division of Laser Science
Peter Delfyett, CREOL University of Central Florida, USA
Exhibitor Representative
Chris Maloney VPI Photonics, USA
Ex-Officio
Tracy Northup University of Innsbruck, Austria
Francesco Da Ros DTU Fotonik, Denmark
Yasutomo Ota University of Tokyo, Japan
Maria Chernysheva Aston University, Germany
Elizabeth Goldschmidt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Dan Wasserman University of Texas at Austin, USA
Nicholas Peters Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Emma Springate STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Jie Qiao Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Oleg Khodykin Onto Innovation, USA
Michael Krainak Relative Dynamics, USA
Carl Liebig Air Force Research Laboratories, USA
Jifeng Liu Dartmouth College, USA
Katia Shtyrkova MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Paulina Kuo National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA
Sahin Ozdemir Pennsylvania State University, USA
Paul Juodawlkis MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA