{"id":2139,"date":"2025-06-18T14:07:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cleoconference.org\/?page_id=2139"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:33:06","slug":"2026-steering-committee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cleoconference.org\/2026-steering-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Steering Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEO 2026<\/h3><\/div>

Steering Committee<\/h2><\/div>

The premier international forum for scientific and technical optics.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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2026 Steering Committee:<\/span><\/h3><\/div>\n
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Name<\/strong><\/th>\nAffiliation<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
OPTICA<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kaoru Minoshima<\/td>\nUniversity of Electro-Communications, Japan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Camille Sophie Br\u00e8s<\/td>\nEcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sergey Vasilyev<\/td>\nIPG Photonics Corp.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rohit Prasankumar<\/td>\nIntellectual Ventures, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clara Saraceno<\/td>\nRuhr Universitat Bochum, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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IEEE Photonics Society <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paul Juodawlkis<\/td>\nMIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michelle Sander<\/td>\nBoston\u00a0University, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pete Dragic<\/td>\nUniversity of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dan Wasserman<\/td>\nUniv. of Texas, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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APS\/Division of Laser Science<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Delfyett, CREOL<\/td>\nUniversity of Central Florida, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Exhibitor Representative<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chris Maloney<\/td>\nVPI Photonics, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Ex-Officio<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tracy Northup<\/td>\nUniversity of Innsbruck, Austria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Francesco Da Ros<\/td>\nDTU Fotonik, Denmark<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yasutomo Ota<\/td>\nUniversity of Tokyo, Japan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maria Chernysheva<\/td>\nAston University, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elizabeth Goldschmidt<\/td>\nUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dan Wasserman<\/td>\nUniversity of Texas at Austin, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicholas Peters<\/td>\nOak Ridge National Laboratory, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emma Springate<\/td>\nSTFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jie\u00a0Qiao<\/td>\nRochester Institute of Technology,\u00a0USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oleg Khodykin<\/td>\nOnto Innovation,\u00a0USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Krainak<\/td>\nRelative Dynamics, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carl Liebig<\/td>\nAir Force Research Laboratories, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jifeng Liu<\/td>\nDartmouth College, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Katia Shtyrkova<\/td>\nMIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paulina Kuo<\/td>\nNational Institute of Standards & Technology, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sahin Ozdemir<\/td>\nPennsylvania State University, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paul Juodawlkis<\/td>\nMIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>
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