The Optical Society Announces 2018 Class of Senior Members
13 Juni 2018 - 08:10PM
Business Wire
The Optical Society (OSA) Board of Directors is pleased to
announce the approval of 169 new Senior Members — an OSA
distinction that provides well-established individuals recognition
for their experience and professional accomplishments within the
field of optics and photonics. A listing of the newly inducted OSA
Senior Members appears below.
“The Optical Society welcomes this year’s Senior Class and
congratulates these members for their contributions to our global
community,” said Ian Walmsley, 2018 President of The Optical
Society and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Hooke
Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford, UK.
“The 2018 class joins a distinguished group of scientists,
engineers, entrepreneurs and innovators who have demonstrated
exemplary professional accomplishments in optics and
photonics.”
To qualify for OSA Senior Membership, individuals must have at
least ten years of significant professional experience in the
field, an active OSA Membership and two endorsement statements from
current OSA Members. The OSA Board of Directors then approves the
candidates.
Senior Members receive the full complement of OSA Member
benefits and services, plus:
- Special Recognitions –
Senior Members are identified in the OSA Individual Directory, on
OSA.org and during OSA-hosted events.
- Announcements – In addition
to this news release, newly-approved Senior Members are announced
in: Optics & Photonics News and the OSA Member
e-newsletter.
- Senior Member Certificate and Lapel
Pin – Recognition materials are distributed upon request
approval.
- Letter of Recognition –
Approved Senior Members may request that a confirmation letter be
sent to their employer.
Following is an alphabetical listing of the 2018 OSA Senior
Members:
- Esmail Ahouzi, Institut National des
Postes et Telecomm
- Tatiana Alieva, Universidad Complutense
de Madrid
- Rebecca Andersen, The Optical
Society
- Shamsul Arafin, University of
California Santa Barbara
- Christos Argyropoulos, University of
Nebraska Lincoln
- John Arkwright, Flinders
University
- Seung-Whan Bahk, University of
Rochester
- Anirudh Banerjee
- Amity University, Lucknow
- Santanu Basu, Basu Labs Inc.
- Can Bayram, Univ of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
- Matthew Berg, Kansas State
University
- David Boertjes, Ciena Corporation
- Nicolas Bonod, CNRS-UPS
- Bosanta Boruah, Indian Institute of
Technology, Guwahati
- Ozdal Boyraz, University of California
Irvine
- Aidan Brooks, California Institute of
Technology
- David Busch, UT Southwestern Medical
Center at Dallas
- C. Vijayan, Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras
- Alejandro Carballar, Universidad de
Sevilla
- Swapnajit Chakravarty, Omega Optics,
Inc
- Guo-En Chang, National Chung Cheng
University
- Ching-Hung Chang, National Chiayi
University
- Chih-Hao Chang, North Carolina State
University
- Yu Chen, University of Maryland at
College Park
- Francesco Chiadini, Universita degli
Studi di Salerno
- Ricky Chuang, National Cheng Kung
University
- Hsiang-Chen Chui, National Cheng Kung
University
- C. Ciminelli, Politecnico di Bari
- Christophe Codemard, SPI Lasers
- John Corless, Verity Instruments,
Inc.
- Razvan Dabu, Institute Nuclear Physics
& Engineering
- Antonio d’Alessandro, Sapienza
University of Rome
- Hamed Dalir, Omega Optics Inc.
- Kamal Das, Alcon Laboratories
- Marcelo Davanco, National Inst. of
Standards & Technology
- Nazif Demoli, Institute of Physics
- Xinyong Dong, China Jiliang
University
- Richard Dorshow, MediBeacon Inc.
- Anthony Durkin, University of
California Irvine
- Achyut Dutta, Banpil Photonics,
Inc
- Christoph Englert, U.S. Naval Research
Laboratory
- Dirk Englund, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
- Oliver Faehnle, FISBA AG
- Xinyu Fan, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University
- Reza Faraji-Dana, University of
Tehran
- Steve Federman, University of
Toledo
- Ulrike Fuchs, Asphericon GmbH
- Qiaoqiang Gan, State University of New
York at Buffalo
- Jaime Garcia-Ruperez, Universidad
Politecnica de Valencia
- Zabih Ghassemlooy, University of
Northumbria
- Ashish Ghunawat, MNIT Jaipur
- Dana Granciu, IOR
- Mark Guardalben, University of
Rochester
- Randolph Hall, Conejo Valley
Research
- Kiichi Hamamoto, Kyushu University
- Young-Geun Han, Hanyang University
- Christoph Hauri, Paul Scherrer
Institut
- Joseph Hayward, Juravinski Cancer
Centre
- Mark Henesian, Lawrence Livermore Lab
(retired)
- Wei-Da Hu, Chinese Academy of
Sciences
- Zhaoran Huang, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
- Yu-Chueh Hung, National Tsing Hua
University
- Boyd Hunter, Praxis Optics
- Amiel Ishaaya, Ben Gurion University of
the Negev
- Shudong Jiang, Dartmouth College
- Alexander Khanikaev, City College of
New York
- Dae Wook Kim, University of
Arizona
- Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Mitsubishi
Electric Research Labs
- Tanya Kosc, University of
Rochester
- Stephen Kuebler, University of Central
Florida
- G.V. Pavan Kumar, IISER-Pune
- Franko Küppers, TU Darmstadt
- Brian Lail, Florida Institute of
Technology
- Geon Joon Lee, Kwangwoon
University
- Jiun-Haw Lee, National Taiwan
University
- Feng Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University
- Yan Li, Peking University
- Juhao Li, Peking University
- Charles Lieber, Harvard University
- Daniel Litynski, Western Michigan
University
- Zhixin Liu, University College
London
- Jung-Ping Liu, Feng Chia
University
- Yanhua Luo, University of New South
Wales
- Yiran Ma, Finisar Australia
- Brian Mangan, OFS Laboratories
- Onofrio Marago, CNR-IPCF
- Alireza Marandi, Stanford
University
- A. Márquez, Universidad de
Alicante
- Maurizio Martino, Universita del
Salento
- Goran Mashanovich, University of
Southampton
- Dale McMorrow, U.S. Naval Research
Laboratory
- Yobani Mejia-Barbosa, Universidad
Nacional de Colombia
- Charles Middleton, Harris
Corporation
- Vladimir Minkovich, Centro de
Investigaciones en Optica AC
- Paolo Minzioni, Universita degli Studi
di Pavia
- Eric Mottay, Amplitude
- K.M. Naga Srinivas Nadella, University
College London
- Tamas Nagy, Max Born Institute
- Tien Khee Ng, King Abdullah Univ of
Science & Tech.
- Mark Niedre, Northeastern
University
- Gregory Nielson, Nielson Scientific
LLC
- Ampalavanapilla Nirmalathas, University
of Melbourne
- Ioan Notingher, University of
Nottingham
- Tatiana Novikova, École
Polytechnique
- Teri Odom Northwestern University
- Zhengbiao Ouyang, Shenzhen
University
- Megan Paciaroni, Fort Lewis
College
- Mrinmay Pal, Central Glass &
Ceramic Research Inst.
- Shilong Pan, Nanjing Univ Aeronautics
& Astronautics
- Konstantin Pavlov, University of New
England
- Frederick Perry, Boston Electronics
Corp.
- Rita Peterson, US Air Force Research
Laboratory
- Peter Pilon, OFS
- Luis Ponce, IPN CICATA Altamira
- Bryce Richards, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology
- Jorge Ripoll, Universidad Carlos III de
Madrid
- Eduardo Rosa-Molinar University of
Kansas
- Joachim Sacher, Sacher Lasertechnik
GmbH
- Prasant Sahu, IIT Bhubaneswar
- Massimo Santarsiero, Università degli
Studi Roma Tre
- Mohammad Sayeh, Southern Illinois
University Carbondale
- Christian Schäfer, isarpatent,
Munich
- Jochen Schroeder, Chalmers Tekniska
Hogskola
- Rainer Schuhmann, Berliner Glas KGaA
Herbert Kubatz GmbH & Co.
- Ranjan Sen, Central Glass & Ceramic
Research Inst.
- Utkarsh Sharma, Optovue Inc.
- Gholamreza Shayeganrad, Basel
University
- Jason Sickler, Torchlight Solutions
LLC
- Hukum Singh, NorthCap University
- Philip Smith
- Vincenzo Spagnolo, Politecnico di
Bari
- Bernhard Stumpf, University of
Idaho
- Lan Sun, Raytheon Company
- Jun Takeda, Yokohama National
University
- Herve Tatenguem Fankem, Sacher
Lasertechnik GmbH
- Alison Taylor, The Optical Society
- Chao Tian, University of Sci. and Tech.
of China
- Ion Tiginyanu, Academy of Sciences of
Moldova
- Atsushi Uchida, Saitama University
- Kathleen Vaeth
- Constantinos Valagiannopoulos,
Nazarbayev University
- Stacey Vargas, Virginia Military
Institute
- Philippe Velha, Scuola Sant’Anna
- Deepa Venkitesh, Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras
- Taco Visser, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam
- Josef Vojtech, CESNET
- Giovanni Volpe, Goteborgs
Universitet
- Matthew Weed, Luminar Technologies
- Ralf Wehrspohn, Fraunhofer IMWS
Halle
- Antoine Weis, Universite de
Fribourg
- Ian White, University of Maryland at
College Park
- Rengmao Wu, Zhejiang University
- Haiyun Xia, University of Science and
Technology of China
- Sanshui Xiao, DTU Fotonik
- Huailiang Xu, Jilin University
- Fei Xu, Nanjing University
- Changyuan Yu, Hong Kong Polytechnic
University
- Shuiqing Yu, University of
Arkansas
- Zhiliang Yuan, Toshiba Research Europe
Ltd.
- Jinhui Yuan, Beijing University of
Posts and Telecomm
- Robert Zawadzki, University of
California Davis
- Yundong Zhang, Harbin Institute of
Technology
- Lin Zhang, Aston University
- Luming Zhao, Jiangsu Normal
University
- Kaiming Zhou, Aston University
- Chao Zhou, Lehigh University
- Xiushan Zhu, University of Arizona
- Weiren Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University
About The Optical Society
Founded in 1916, The Optical Society (OSA) is the leading
professional organization for scientists, engineers, students and
entrepreneurs who fuel discoveries, shape real-life applications
and accelerate achievements in the science of light. Through
world-renowned publications, meetings and membership initiatives,
OSA provides quality research, inspired interactions and dedicated
resources for its extensive global network of optics and photonics
experts. For more information, visit osa.org.
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