Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR)
Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)
Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks)
Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)
Solar, Lighting and Thermal Photonics (SOLITH)

Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR)

• Andrea Blanco-Redondo, University of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
  Title to be Announced
• Lin Chang, Peking University, China
  Integrated Microcomb for Ultra-high Coherence Photonics
• Sylvain Combrié, Thales Research & Technology, France
  Reconfigurable Integrated Nonlinear Optomechanics 
• Virginia D'Auria, Université Côte d'Azur, France
  Bright Multipartite Quantum States from Silicon-based Microresonators
• Marcelo Davanco, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States
  A Tentative Roadmap for Semiconductor Quantum Dots in Integrated Quantum Photonic Systems
• Alberto Della Torre, CSEM, Switzerland
  A Standardized Thin-film Lithium Niobate Platform for Photonic Integrated Circuits
• Katia Gallo, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, Sweden
  Counterpropagating Nonlinear Interactions in Thin Film Lithium Niobate Waveguides
• Siyuan Gao, Keio University, Japan
  All-dielectric Magneto-optical Metasurfaces Exhibiting Giant Faraday Rotation Utilizing Bound states in the Continuum
• Jack Gartside, Imperial College London, 
  Retinomorphic Machine Vision in a Nonlinear Photonic Network
• Tingyi Gu, University of Delaware, United States
  Active Meta-components for Future Dense Integration of Photonic ICs
• Ashok Kodigala, Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, United States
  Convergence of Light and Technology: Advanced Heterogeneous Integration in Silicon Photonic Platform and Applications
• Qiang Lin, University of Rochester, United States
  Title to be Announced
• Benjamin Miller, University of Rochester, United States
  Continuous Real-time Monitoring of Microphysiological Systems with Photonic Sensors
• Dragomir Neshev, Australian National University, Australia
  Photonic Image Processing with Flat Optics
• Emanuel Peinke, CEA-LETI, France
  Photonic Integrated Circuits for Quantum Computing and Communication
• Jelmer Renema, QuiX Quantum B.V., Netherlands
  Title to be Announced
• Yuya Shoji, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
  Nonvolatile Magneto-optic Switch and Memory for Photonic Computing
• Cheryl Sorace-Agaskar, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, United States
  Visible Light Photonic Integrated Circuits for Quantum Computing and Sensing
• Myoung-Gyun Suh, NTT Research Inc., United States
  Hyperspectral Information Processing and Dimensionality Reduction
• Alexander Tartakovskii, University of Sheffield, 
  Nanophotonics and Strong Light-matter Interaction with Multilayer Van Der Waals Materials
• Victor Torres Company, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
  Efficient Chip-scale Microcombs
• Dries Vercruysse, Ayar Labs, United States
  Optical I/O Chiplets for Next-Gen AI Compute Systems
• Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University, United States
  Heterogeneously Integrated Lasers and Amplifiers Systems on Chip
• Cheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Integrated Lithium Niobate Microwave and Millimeter-wave Photonics
• Gustavo Wiederhecker, UNICAMP, Brazil
  Harnessing Brillouin Optomechanics with Lithium Niobate on Insulator
• Kiyoul Yang, Harvard University, United States
  Integrated Nonlinear and/or Quantum Photonics with Computational Optimization
• Winnie Ye, Carleton University, Canada
  Metamaterial-Enhanced Silicon Photonics: Design and Applications
• Yuan Yuan, Northeastern University, United States
  Towards an All-Silicon Solution: Silicon Avalanche Photodiodes Beyond the Bandgap Limit

Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)

• Cheng-Wei Qiu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  When Metasurfaces meet with 2D Materials Keynote
• Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University, United States
  Optical Properties and Applications of a Large Family of Metallic 2D Nanosheets - MXenes Tutorial
• John Bernardin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States
  Challenges and Advancements in the Additive Manufacturing of Optical Components using Laser Direct Energy Deposition
• Catherine Boussard-Pledel, Universite de Rennes I, France
  Infrared Glass Optical Fibers for Sensing and Diagnosis
• Chaohao Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  Seeing the Invisible with Nanomaterials
• Hou-Tong Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States
  Light-Driven Nanoscale Vectorial Currents and Ultrafast Terahertz Radiation Generation in Optoelectronic Metasurfaces
• Zhanghai Chen, Xiamen University, 
  Polaritonics for 2D Materials
• Michael Fokine, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, Sweden
  Strategies for Glass Additive Manufacturing
• David Grojo, CNRS, France
  New Dimensions Open to Ultrafast Laser Silicon Modifications
• Gregor Koblmüller, Technische Universität Munchen, Germany
  Progress in Monolithically Integrated III-V Nanowire Lasers on Silicon
• Ziyuan Li, Beijing University of Technology, China
  Semiconductor Nanostructure Array Based Photo Detectors for Multispectral Imaging
• Naoji Matsuhisa, University of Tokyo, 
  Skin-conformable Sensors and Displays Using Stretchable Optoelectronic Materials
• Dudukovic Nikola, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
  3D Printing of Complex Glass Structures and Gradient-Index Optics
• Boon Ooi, King Abdullah Univ of Sci & Technology, 
  Down-converting Luminescent Materials for Optoelectronics and Their Applications
• Giuseppe Paternò, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  Photo taming of Bacterial Bioelectricity
• Carsten Ronning, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
  Ion Beams for Photonic Integrated Circuits
• Christian Seassal, Inst des Nanotechnologies de Lyon CNRS, France
  Nanophotonic Engineering of Halide Perovskites for Light-emitting Devices
• Brandon Shaw, US Naval Research Laboratory, 
  Single Crystal Fiber Growth and Applications
• K. Kay Son, HRL Laboratories, LLC, United States
  Phase-change Materials-based Electrically-Reconfigurable IR Metasurfaces
• Ugur Tegin, Koç Universitesi, Turkey
  Energy-efficient Integrated Photonic Neural Networks
• Withawat Withayachumnankul, University of Adelaide, Australia
  Terahertz Sensing and Communications Enabled by Substrateless Integrated Platform
• Anastasia Zaleska, King's College London, United Kingdom
  Plasmonic Metamaterials for Optical Sensing and Photocatalysis
• Yang Zhao, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
  Visualizing Ultrafast Photothermal Dynamics with Decoupled Optical Force Nanoscopy

Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks)

• Markos Anastasopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of, Greece
  Edge Computing in Optcal Transport for Future Wireless Networks
• Keren Bergman, Columbia University, United States
  Silicon Photonics for Energy-efficient Peta-scale Connectivity in DCNs
• Valeria Da Silva, SENAI CIMATEC School of Technology, Brazil
  Quantum Communications
• Camille Delezoide, Nokia Bell Labs, France
  Digital Twins for Network Resiliency and Failure Recovery
• Andreas Gladisch, Deutsche Telekom AG Laboratories, Germany
  Challenges of Network Operators Related to Power Consumption
• Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya University, Japan
  Optical Networking That Exploits Massive Wavelength/Spectrum and Spatial Parallelisms
• Masahiko Jinno, Kagawa University, Japan
  Spatial Channel Networks and Multicore Fiber-Based Switching Devices
• Volker Jungnickel, Fraunhofer Inst Nachricht Henrich-Hertz, Germany
  Evolution of LiFi Networks
• Robert Killey, University College London, United Kingdom
  Coherent DWDM Transmission in O-band
• Piotr Lechowicz, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
  Adaptable AI/ML Models for Time-varying Optical Networks
• Rui Lin, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
  Telecom Compatibility of Quantum Key Distribution
• Antonio Melgar, Telefónica CTIO, Spain
  Practical Considerations for Adapting Optical Transport Networks for Quantum and Classical Communications
• Ruby Ospina, Nokia Bell Labs France, France
  SDM Transmission and Modelling
• Oskars Ozolins, Riga Technical University, Latvia
  Hollow-Core Fibers for Data Centers and 6G Fronthaul
• Joao Pedro, Infinera Corp., Portugal
  Network Simulation Analysis Investigating Coherent Pluggable Optics for Different Network Applications
• JOSE Rivas Moscoso, Telefónica Research and Development, Spain
  Practical Considerations for Adapting Optical Transport Networks for Quantum and Classical Communications
• Pooyan Safari, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
  LLM-assisted Network Automation based on Agentic AI Architectures
• Gangxiang Shen, Soochow University, 
  How to Achieve 50-ms Restoration in the Optical Layer with Shared Protection Capacity?
• Gael Simon, Orange, France
  Coexistence in Future Optical Access Networks
• Catalina Stan, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
  Resource Allocation in Quantum Key Distribution Networks
• Iman Tavakkolnia, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  Optical Wireless Communications: Applications For Future Connectivity
• António Teixeira, PICadvanced, Portugal
  Cost-effective Solutions for Future PON
• Rui Wang, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  Quantum Networks: from Quantum Key Distribution to Entanglement Distribution
• Elaine Wong, University of Melbourne, Australia
  ML in Access Networks Towards 6G
• Xuwei Xue, Beijing University of Posts & Telecom, China
  Optical Switching Enhanced Distributed Machine Learning
• Yuki Yoshida, National Inst of Information & Comm Tech, Japan
  Optical Testbed Dataspace: Testbed Data Sharing Framework for Network Automation

Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)

• Daniel Brunner, FEMTO-ST, France
  Advances and Future Relevance of Photonic Machine Learning Tutorial
• Khouloud Abdelli, Nokia Bell Labs Germany, Germany
  AI for Smarter Optical Networks: Anomaly Detection, Event Classification, and Beyond
• Aymeric Arnould, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
  Blind MIMO Equalization for Space-Division Multiplexed Transmission
• Sonia Boscolo, Aston University, United Kingdom
  Development of Complex-valued Kernel Adaptive Filtering-based Techniques for Distortion Compensation in Transmission Links with Parametric Optical Devices
• Stella Civelli, IEIIT-CNR, Italy
  Constellation Shaping: Opportunities and Challenges
• Callum Deakin, Nokia Bell Labs, United States
  Optical Techniques for THz Bandwidth Coherent Transceivers
• Christoph Füllner, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany
  The Road Towards 100G and 200G PON – Time for a Paradigm Shift?
• Ivana Gasulla Mestre, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
  Dispersion-Diversity Multicore Fibers: Unlocking the Spatial Dimension for Signal Processing
• Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez, Universidad de Alcala, Spain
  Author's proposal: Understanding the Oceans Using Submarine Optical Fibre Cables
• Sergio Hernandez, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
  End-to-end Learning for Fiber Optic Communication Systems
• Kim Hoon, Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech, Republic Of Korea
  Adaptive Beam Control Techniques for Free-space Optical Communications
• Sebastian Jung, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
  Advances in Modelling and Mitigating Equalization-Enhanced Phase Noise
• Akira Kawai, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
  Advanced SDM MIMO Processing Towards Over-10-Tb/s Transceivers
• Masato Koashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
  Recent Progress in Security Theory of Quantum Key distribution
• Ingmar Land, Infinera Corp., United States
  Status and Future of Coding and Modulation for Optical Communications
• Bruno MARTIN, Thales Research & Technology, France
  Architectures and Demonstrations of Free-space Optical Communication and Sensing Systems at TRT : from the Short to the Mid Infrared Regions
• Laia Nadal, Centre Tecnològic Telecom de Catalunya, Spain
  Programmable Transceiver and Switching Solutions for Multi-band Over Spatial Division Multiplexed Optical Networks
• Ampalavanapilla Nirmalathas, University of Melbourne, Australia
  Dynamic Optical Crosshaul Networks for Mobile Networks Supporting Heterogeneous Signal Transport Schemes
• Dario Pilori, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  Estimating the Non-Linear Interference at the Receiver: Methods and Pitfalls
• Joan Manel Ramirez, Nokia Bell Labs France, France
  InP-based High-speed Transceivers Heterogeneously Integrated on Silicon: the Quest for Efficiency, Low-cost Manufacturing and Performance
• André Sandmann, Adtran Networks SE, Germany
  Correlation-Enhanced Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing
• Patryk Urban, West Pomeranian University of Technology, United States
  Reliable monitoring of PONs using standard OTDR
• Lakshmi Narayanan Venkatasubramani, Dublin City University, Ireland
  Towards Next Generation Long Reach 200G Optical Access Networks Employing Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
• Zichuan Zhou, University College London, United Kingdom
  Frequency-Division-Multiplexed PON Upstream enabled by Optical Frequency Comb

Solar, Lighting and Thermal Photonics (SOLITH)

• Esther Alarcon-Llado, FOM Inst for Atomic & Molecular Physics, Netherlands
  Title to be Announced
• Charles-Alexis ASSELINEAU, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Australia
  Monte Carlo Ray Tracing for Decarbonised Energy Production and Utilisation
• Solenn Berson, CEA Grenoble, France
  Conformal Depotision of Perovskite Material for the Elaboration of Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells
• Christophe Defranoux, Semilab Semiconductor Physics Laboratory, Hungary
  Advanced Spectroscopic Ellipsometry in Cutting-edge Photonics Applied to Solar Cells and Other Devices
• Dawei Di, Zhejiang University, China
  Bright and Stable Perovskite Light-emitting Diodes
• Jorge Dolado, Centro de F´ısica de Materiales, 
  Title to be Announced
• Gan Huang, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
  Transparent and Self-Cleaning Metamaterials for Radiative Cooling and Indoor Light Management
• Magnus Jonsson, Linköpings universitet, Sweden
  Title to be Announced
• Forrest Meggers, Princeton University, United States
  Practical Applications for Heating and Cooling Systems in the Built Environment of Photonic Materials (and Garbage Bags)
• Gaël Nardin, Insolight SA, Switzerland
  Light and Temperature Management in Agrivoltaic Systems
• Ioannis Papakonstantinou, University College London, United Kingdom
  Sustainable Photonics: From Fundamental Science to Real-World Impact
• Carsten Rockstuhl, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
  A Digital Twin for Solar Cells
• Rebecca Saive, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
  Fundamentals and Applications of Free Space Diffuse Irradiance Collimation for Enhancing Photovoltaic Yield
• Rudi Santbergen, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
  Title to be Announced
• Mitradeep Sarkar, ICFO -Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain
  Title to be Announced
• Jennifer Selvidge, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States
  Title to be Announced
• Angelica Simbula, Universita di Cagliari, 
  Title to be Announced
• Vanira Trifiletti, Universita degli studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
  Enhancing Electrical Conductivity in Bismuth-Based Perovskite Derivatives through Sulphur Doping
• Rodolphe Vaillon, Lab d'Analyse et d'Architect Sys - CNRS, 
  Thermophotovoltaics: Photonics and Thermal Management
• Alexis Vossier, CNRS-PROMES, 
  Photovoltaic Conversion in Non-standard Conditions: An Overview
• Refet Yalcin, Saint-Gobain Recherche, France
  Radiative Transfer in Dense Media: Theory and Applications