OFC 2025 Awards Ceremony
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OFC 2025 Awards Ceremony
Optica is proud to recognize the outstanding achievements of our community.
Please join us in congratulating the following award winners and Fellows who will be recognized during OFC 2025. Our thanks to Corning Incorporated for supporting the Awards Ceremony and Luncheon.
Presented annually, the award is given to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to optical-fiber technology that have met the test of time and are of proven benefit to science, technology, or society. Established in 1987, the award honors the memory of John Tyndall, who made distinguished contributions to physics. It is jointly presented by the IEEE Photonics Society and Optica and is funded by Corning Incorporated.
Masatoshi Suzuki
Chitose Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
For pioneering and seminal contributions to large capacity long-haul optical communication systems including integrated light sources, dispersion-managed soliton, WDM submarine cable systems, and spatial multiplexing
Established in 1961 in memory of charter member C. E. K. Mees, who contributed preeminently to the development of scientific photography, the medal recognizes an original use of optics across multiple fields.
Keren Bergman
Columbia Univeristy, USA
For pioneering research on optical interconnects and photonic architectures for high-performance computing
Recognizing Optica members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics through distinguished contributions to research, business, education, engineering, and service to Optica. View a complete list of 2025 Fellows.
Rodrigo Amezcua Correa
University of Central Florida, CREOL, USA
For contributions to the development of hollow core fibers, fibers for space division multiplexing, and high power amplifying fibers
Thomas Baehr-Jones
Tesselmax, USA
For seminal and groundbreaking academic and commercial contributions to silicon photonics
Adonis Bogris
University of West Attica, Greece
For contributions to the study of all-optical signal processing techniques and their applications in optical communications, sensing, security, and computing
Diego A. R. Dalvit
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
For outstanding theoretical contributions in electromagnetic quantum fluctuations and quantum optics in metamaterials, plasmonic surfaces, and other nanostructured materials
Lan Fu
Australian National University, Australia
For outstanding contributions to semiconductor materials, optoelectronic devices, and nanotechnology, and for broad leadership of the profession
Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi
Nokia Bell Labs, France
For theoretical and experimental contributions advancing the capacity of optical communications with coherent detection
Werner Klaus
Photonic Network Laboratory, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
For significant contributions to free-space, quantum, and space-division-multiplexed fiber-optic communications systems
Son Thai Le
Nubis Communications, USA
For exceptional contributions to optical communications systems research and product development
Chengkuo Lee
National University of Singapore, Singapore
For seminal contributions to optical MEMS/NEMS enabled tunable metamaterials and mid-infrared nanophotonics
Yuanqiu Luo
Futurewei Technologies Inc, USA
For significant contributions to the research and development of optical access networks, particularly the standardization of broadband optical access technologies
Vitaly Mikhailov
OFS Laboratories, USA
For technical expertise in development and commercial application of emerging technologies, including hollow core optical fiber and bismuth-doped O-band amplification
Willie W. Ng
The Aerospace Corporation, USA
For pioneering contributions and leadership in microwave photonics including true time delay, photonic analog-to-digital converters, and radio frequency signal processing
Marek R. Ogiela
AGH University of Krakow, Poland
For pioneering contributions in the creation of AI cognitive vision systems for visual pattern understanding and visual cryptography
Wei Shi
Université Laval, Canada
For outstanding contributions to silicon photonic integrated circuits for high-capacity optical communications
Dora van Veen
Nokia Bell Labs, USA
For outstanding and sustained research into the feasibility and commercialization of ultra-broadband technologies for low-cost passive optical networks
Lieven Verslegers
Google LLC, USA
For seminal achievements and leadership in the research, development, and commercialization of nanophotonics and silicon photonics technologies
Da-Wei Wang
Zhejiang University, China
For outstanding contributions in quantum control of atom-photon interactions, particularly for quantum simulations in superradiance lattices and topological quantum photonics
Fan Zhang
Peking University, China
For outstanding contributions to fiber nonlinearities and high-speed fiber-optic communications
