CLEO 2025 Honorees
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CLEO 2025 Honorees
Optica is proud to recognize the outstanding achievements of our community.
Please join us in congratulating the following honorees who will be recognized during the CLEO 2025.
Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize
The Ives Medal/Quinn Prize recognizes overall distinction in optics and is Optica’s highest award. It was endowed by charter member Herbert Ives, in honor of his father, photography pioneer Frederic Ives. A subsequent endowment in honor of long-time Executive Director Jarus Quinn funds the prize.
David A. B. Miller
Stanford University, USA
For fundamental scientific and engineering research contributions spanning multiple areas, including optics in digital systems, fundamentals of optics and waves, and complex and controllable photonic circuits
Max Born Award
Established in 1982 to honor Max Born, who made distinguished contributions to physics in general and optics in particular, the medal is presented for outstanding contributions to physical optics, theoretical or experimental.
A. Douglas Stone
Yale University, USA
For pioneering concepts of coherent perfect absorption and reflectionless scattering modes, comprising a general theory of reflectionless scattering in optics, and for seminal contributions to laser theory of complex microcavities
Charles Hard Townes Medal
Established in 1980 to honor Charles Hard Townes, whose pioneering contributions to masers and lasers led to the development of the field of quantum electronics, the medal recognizes outstanding experimental or theoretical work, discovery or invention in the field of quantum electronics.
Kerry John Vahala
California Institute of Technology, USA
For pioneering contributions to the development and application of optical microresonators and nonlinear optical oscillators
2025 Fellows
Recognizing Optica members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics through distinguished contributions to education, research, engineering, business leadership and society. View a complete list of 2025 Fellows.
Harish Bhaskaran
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering contributions to phase change optoelectronics and neuromorphic photonics
Keshav Moreshwar Dani
Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology, Japan
For time-resolved imaging, in real- and momentum-space, of defects in perovskite photovoltaic materials and excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors
Boubacar Kante
University of California Berkeley, USA
For creating and demonstrating new concepts in modern electromagnetics, particularly a path toward very-high-power, broad-area single-mode semiconductor lasers
Seongsin Margaret Kim
The University of Alabama, USA
For exceptional dedication and pioneering advancements in the realms of photonics and terahertz science and technology for imaging and sensing
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Howard (Ho Wai) Lee
University of California, Irvine, USA
For critical advances in the development of tunable optical metasurfaces/zero index photonics and advanced metasurface/plasmonic-optical fibers
Mehul Malik
Heriot-Watt University, UK
For pioneering work on high-dimensional quantum states of light and their application in noise-robust quantum technologies
Delphine Marris-Morini
Universite Paris-Saclay, France
For significant contributions in silicon photonics from near-infrared to mid-infrared
Maiken Høgh Mikkelsen
Duke University, USA
For contributions to the understanding of light-matter interactions and ultrafast emission dynamics in plasmonic systems
Sukhdev Roy
Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India
For significant research contributions in optical switching and computing with proteins, organic molecules, silicon microring resonators, and optogenetic neurons
Michelle Y. Sander
Boston University, USA
For seminal contributions to ultrafast fiber lasers and their applications in imaging, material characterization, and modulation
Takasumi Tanabe
Keio University, Japan
For groundbreaking contributions to nanophononics and nonlinear optics in high-Q microresonators, and for actively serving the optics community
Mitsuhiro Terakawa
Keio University, Japan
For achievements in laser processing and functionalization of soft materials for electrical and optical applications
Alan Wang
Baylor University, USA
For significant contributions in integrated nanophotonics, especially in transparent conductive oxide (TCO) modulators and diatom surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensing
