OFC/NFOEC Committees

General and Technical Program Chairs
NFOEC Committees
OFC Committees
Symposia Organizers
Steering Committee

General Chairs
Mehran Esfandiari, AT&T, USA
Biswanath Mukherjee, Univ. of California at Davis, USA
Atul Srivastava, OneTerabit, USA

Program Chairs
Chuck Joyner, Infinera, USA
Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Vishnu Shukla, Verizon Labs, USA

NFOEC Committees

1. Optical Network Applications and Services
Kathy Tse, AT&T, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Michel Belanger, Ciena, USA
Martin Birk, AT&T Res., USA
George Clapp, Telcordia, USA
Jim Jones, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Valey Kamalov, Google, USA
Haim Kobrinski, Telcordia, USA
Satoru Okamoto, Keio Univ., Japan
Jens Rasmussen, Fujitsu, Japan
T. J. Xia, Verizon, USA

2. Network Technologies and Applications
Hans-Martin Foisel, Deutsche Telekom, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Mark Boduch, Tellabs, USA
Paul Bonenfant, Morgan Keegan & Co., USA
Frank Chang, Vitesse Semiconductor Corp., USA
Michel Chbat, Nokia Siemens Networks, USA
Robert Doverspike, AT&T, USA
Mei Du, Huawei, USA
Jin Hong, Opnext, USA
Paparao (Rao) Palacharla, Fujitsu, USA
Daniel Peterson, Verizon, USA
John Spencer, Optelian Access Networks, USA
Senichi Suzuki, NTT Labs, Japan
Thomas Wood, LGS, USA

3. FTTx Technologies, Deployment and Applications
Vincent O'Byrne, Verizon, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Martin Bouda, Fujitsu, USA
Frank Effenberger, Huawei, USA
Marek Hajduczenia, ZTE, Portugal
Hong Liu, Google, USA
Julie D. Lorentzen, AT&T, USA
Gary Picard, Motorola, USA
Joe Smith, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Scott Wilkinson, Hitachi, USA
Rajesh Yadav, Verizon, USA

4. Market Watch and Service Provider Summit
Karen Liu, Ovum, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Samuel Liu, Opnext, USA
Paul Bonenfant, Morgan Keegan, USA

OFC Committees

5. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
Georg Mohs, Tyco Electronics Subsea Communications LLC, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Xin Chen Chen, Corning Inc., USA
Vladimir Grigoryan, Ciena, USA
Hans Limberger, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Jens Limpert, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany
Kyunghwan Oh, Yonsei Univ., Republic of Korea
David Richardson, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Kunimasa Saitoh, Univ. of Hokkaido, Japan
Takashi Sasaki, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Japan
Pierre Sillard, Draka Optical Fiber, France
Misha Sumetsky, OFS Labs, USA

6. Fiber and Waveguide Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors and Performance Monitors
Morten Ibsen, Univ. of Southampton, UK, Subcommittee Chair
Nikola Alic, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
John Canning, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
John Dudley, Univ. of Franche-Comté, France
Karin Ennser, Univ. of Swansea, UK
Masaaki Hirano, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan
Clay Kirkendall, NRL, USA
Ju Han Lee, Univ. of Seoul, Republic of Korea
Nathan Newbury, NIST, USA
Lin Zhang, Univ. of Aston, UK

7. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering and Signal Compensation
Akimasa Kaneko, NEL, Japan, Subcommittee Chair
Solomon Assefa, IBM, USA
Chris Doerr, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Martin Guy, TeraXion, Canada
Lih Y. Lin, Univ. of Washington, USA
Sheldon McLaughlin, JDSU, Canada
Chris Poulton, Univ. of Technology Sydney, Australia
Hiroyuki Uenohara, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan
Dries van Thourhout, Ghent Univ., Belgium

8. Optoelectronic Devices
Clint Schow, IBM T. J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Yuliya Akulova, JDSU, USA
Andreas Beling, u2t Photonics AG, Germany
John Bowers, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Hiroyuki Ishii, NTT Photonics Labs., Japan
Robert Manning, Tyndall Natl. Inst., Ireland
Martin Schell, Heinrich-Hertz-Inst. Fraunhofer, Germany
Jin-Wei Shi, Natl. Central Univ., Taiwan
Jean Claude Simon, CNRS ENSSAT, France
Toshiki Sugawara, Hitachi, Japan
Mike Tan, HP Labs, USA

9. Digital Transmission Systems
Andrew Ellis, Cork Univ., Ireland, Subcommittee Chair
Yi Cai, Tyco Electronics Subsea Communications LLC, USA
Ivan B. Djordjevic, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Michael Eiselt, ADVA Optical Networking, Germany
Sander Jansen, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Masayuki Matsumoto, Osaka Univ., Japan
Doug McGhan, Ciena, Canada
Moshe Nazarathy, Technion—Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel
Akihide Sano, NTT, Japan
Paul Townsend, Univ. College Cork, Ireland
Peter Winzer, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

10. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements
Seb Savory, Univ. College London, UK, Subcommittee Chair
Calvin C. K. Chan, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Klaus Grobe, ADVA AG Optical Networking, Germany
Charles Laperle, Ciena, Canada
Xiang Liu, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
David Plant, McGill Univ., Canada
Wolfgang Sauer-Greff, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
William Shieh, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Bogdan Szafraniec, Agilent, USA
Michael Taylor, Atlantic Sciences/Optametra, USA
Masahito Tomizawa, NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan

11. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems
Thomas Clark, Pharad LLC, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Lawrence Chen, McGill Univ., Canada
Michael Dennis, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab, USA
Harm Dorren, Technical Univ. of Eindhoven, Netherlands
Javier Marti, Valencia Nanophotonics Ctr., Spain
Thomas Murphy, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
Marco Presi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Alwyn Seeds, Univ. College London, UK
Yikai Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
Ryo Takahashi, NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan
Keith Williams, NRL, USA
Jianjun Yu, Georgia Tech, USA

12. Core Networks
Jennifer Yates, AT&T Labs – Res., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Anjali Agarwal, Telcordia, USA
Polina Bayvel, Univ. College London, UK
Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Inst. of Technology, India
Junqiang Hu, NEC, USA
Monika Jaeger, T-Systems, Germany
Admela Jukan, Technische Univ. Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany
Andrew Lord, BT Labs, UK
Lyndon Ong, Ciena, USA
Adam Ouorou, Orange Labs, France
Jason Jue, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA
Carl Nuzman, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

13. Access Networks
Ting Wang, NEC, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Inst. of Technology, USA
Ton Koonen, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Cedric Lam, Google, USA
Chao Lu, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong
Junichi Nakagawa, Mitsubishi Electric Co., Japan
Derek Nesset, BT Labs, UK
Dalma Novak, Pharad, LLC., USA
Josep Prat, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Ken Reichmann, AT&T Labs, USA
Naoto Yoshimoto, NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan

14. Datacom, Computercom and Short Range and Experimental Optical Networks
Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology Ctr., Greece, Subcommittee Chair
Keren Bergman, Columbia Univ., USA
Milorad Cvijetic, NEC Corp. of America, USA
Madeleine Glick, Intel, USA
Yaohui Jin, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
Takeshi Kamijoh, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Japan
Yuichi Mastushima, Waseda Univ., Japan
Dimitra Simeonidou, Univ. of Essex, UK
S. J. Ben Yoo, Univ. of California at Davis, USA

Symposia Organizers

Meeting the Computercom Challenge: Components and Architectures for Computational Systems and Data Centers
Keren Bergman, Columbia Univ., USA
Chuck Joyner, Infinera, USA
Akihiko Kasukawa, Yokohama R&D Labs Furukawa Electric Co., Japan
Petar Pepeljugoski, IBM T. J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA
Clint Schow, IBM T. J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA
Michael Tan, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology Ctr., Greece

Packet Switching Symposium
Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Andreas Kirstädter, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany
Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany

OFC/NFOEC Steering Committee

IEEE/Photonics Society
Neal Bergano, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
George Harvey, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Patrick Iannone, AT&T Labs – Res., USA, Chair
Leo Spiekman, Alphion Corp., USA

The Optical Society (OSA)
Douglas Baney, Agilent Labs, USA
E. Bert Basch, Verizon, USA
Lynn Nelson, AT&T, USA
Ann VonLehmen, Telcordia Technologies, USA

IEEE/Communications Society
Loudon Blair, Ciena Corp., USA
Stewart Personick, USA
Jane Simmons, Monarch Network Architects, USA
Doug Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies, USA

Ex-Officio
Yun Chung, KAIST, Republic of Korea
Mehran Esfandiari, AT&T, USA
Scott A. Hamilton, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Robert M. Jopson, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Chuck Joyner, Infinera, USA
Biswanath Mukherjee, Univ. of California at Davis, USA
Vishnu Shukla, Verizon Labs, USA
Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Atul Srivastava, OneTerabit, USA
Andrew Yablon, Interfiber Analysis, USA