2022 Organizing Committee
GENERAL CO-CHAIR
Monica Allen, Ph.D.
Monica Allen Bio:
Monica Allen is a Senior Research Electronics Engineer at the Munitions Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB, Florida. Her primary areas of research interest include modeling, simulation, fabrication and characterization of nonlinear optical, photonic, and plasmonic physics through exploitation of light-matter interactions for application in detection and sensing.
GENERAL CO-CHAIR
Jeffery Allen, Ph.D.
Jeffery Allen Bio:
Jeffery Allen is a Senior Research Electronics Engineer at the Munitions Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. His primary area of interest is electromagnetic wave matter interaction, metamaterials, optimized RF apertures, conformal/structurally integrated apertures, semiconductor physics, IR plasmonics, nonlinear optics, quantum sensing and research in novel sensing paradigms.
Topic Committees
ANP – Advanced Nanophotonics Platform
Mark Adams, Auburn University, USA
Amit Agrawal, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Marcelo Devanco, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Anthony Hoffman, Notre Dame University, USA
Stephanie Law, University of Delaware, USA
Tomer Lewi, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Gennady Shvets, Cornell University, USA
AOP – Applications of Photonics
Topic Chair:
Monica Allen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Committee Members:
Andrew DeBlase, Spectral Energies, USA
Jennifer Gottfried, Army DEVCOM, USA
Fouad Kiamilev, University of Delaware, USA
Andreas Keipert, Air Force 47th Cyberspace Test Squadron, USA
Justin Meadows, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
James Phillips, Air Force 47th Cyberspace Test Squadron, USA
Martin Schmidt, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Subith Vasu, University of Central Florida, USA
Jason Vosatka, Air Force 47th Cyberspace Test Squadron, USA
Patrick Walsh, University of Dayton Research Institute, USA
ETP – Enabling Technologies in Photonics
Jeffery Allen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
John Murray-Bruce, University of South Florida, USA
Joseph Deroba, Army C5ISR, USA
Babak Nikoobakht, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Michael Reshchikov, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Michael Rucci, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
FPM – Functional Photonic Materials
Sukrith Dev, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Jason Azoulay, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Stefan Badescu, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Sukrith Dev, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Benjamin Diroll, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Ricky Gibson, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Alexander Khanikaev, City University of New York, USA
Galan Moody, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Amber Reed, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Simeon Trendafilov, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Jarrett Vella, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
HMB – Human State Measurement and Biosensing
Patrick Bradshaw, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Curt Grigsby, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Nathaniel Bridges, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Joel Bixler, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Jorge Chavez-Benavides, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Jason Foley, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Josh Hagen, West Virginia University, USA
Steve Kim, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Ivan Lima, North Dakota State University, USA
Anil Raj, Institute For Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Sharon Weiss, Vanderbilt University, USA
MMAP – Materials and Manufacturing for Advanced Photonics
Monica Allen Air, Force Research Laboratory, USA
Parag Deotare, University of Michigan, USA
Kurt Eyink, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Shashi Karna, Army Research Laboratory, USA
Edward Kinzel, Notre Dame University, USA
Mariacristina Rumi, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Hjalti Sigmarsson, Oklahoma University, USA
Jonathan Slagle, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Peter Stevenson, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Ventsislav Valev, University of Bath, United Kingdom
OEDDIP – Optical Emitters, Detectors and Devices
Jeffery Allen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Max Andrews, Technische Universitat Wien, Austria
Eric Buckthal, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Enam Chowdhury, The Ohio State University, USA
Bryan Holtsberry, Army DEVCOM, USA
Margaret Kim, University of Alabama, USA
Eric Rosenthal, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Andreas Schmitt-Sody, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Daniel Short, Army DEVCOM, USA
Anthony Valenzuela, Army Research Laboratory, USA
Weidong Zhou, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
OIST – Optical Imaging and Sensing Technology
Stephen Davis, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Daniel Wasserman, The University Texas at Austin, USA
Matthew Burfeindt, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Jerome Cuenca Air Force, Research Laboratory, USA
Jacob Martin Air Force, Research Laboratory, USA
Elizabeth Steenbergen, Raytheon, USA
David Ting, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Jason Zeibel, US Army Futures Command, USA
OMPEES – Optical Metamaterials, Plasmonics and Engineered Electromagnetic Structures
Ben Braaten, North Dakota State University, USA
Ivan Avrutsky, Wayne State University, USA
Scott Bukosky, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Dipankar Mitra, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA
Charles Rohde, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Sayan Roy, South Dakota School of Mines, USA
Varun Raghunathan Indian Institute of Sciences India
Shiva Vangala, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
PDS – Photonics for Defense Systems
Jon Harris, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
George Fischer, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, USA
Bradley Houck, Air Force 96th Test Wing, USA
Kirk Ingold, United States Military Academy Westpoint, USA
Frederick Long, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, USA
Brett Pokines, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Mark Schmitt, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Brian Stadler, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Andre Van Rynbach, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Plenary Session
Chair:
Phillip Flater, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
STEM Session
Co-Chairs:
George Fischer, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, USA
Brian Mitchell, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Workforce Development and Networking
Co-Chairs:
Nibir Dhar, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
John Henry Williams, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Women in Photonics/Women in Science and Engineering
Chair:
Adriane Moura, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA