15 May 2012

The Optical Society Announces 2012 Class of Senior Members

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Lyndsay Meyer
The Optical Society
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lmeyer@osa.org

The Optical Society Announces 2012 Class of Senior Members

WASHINGTON, May 15—The Optical Society (OSA) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the approval of 143 new Senior Members—an OSA membership distinction that provides well-established individuals with the opportunity to request a designation that recognizes their experience and professional accomplishments or service within the field of optics and photonics. The 143 Senior Members were announced at CLEO: 2012 in San Jose earlier this month. A listing of the newly inducted Senior Members appears below.

To qualify for Senior Membership, individuals must have at least 10 years of significant professional experience in the field, an active membership and two endorsement statements from OSA Members. Requests are reviewed by OSA’s Member and Education Services Council, which then recommends candidates to the Board of Directors for approval. Candidates who are not already affiliated with OSA are encouraged to establish a membership.

In addition to receiving OSA Individual Member benefits, Senior Member designees receive:

• Special recognitions – Senior Members are identified in the OSA Member Directory, on OSA.org, and during OSA-hosted events.
• Announcements – Newly approved Senior Members are announced in Optics & Photonics News, the OSA member e-newsletter, and other promotional materials.
• Senior Member certificate and lapel pin – Distributed upon application approval.
• Letter of recognition – Approved Senior Members may elect to have a confirmation letter sent to their employer.

Additional information about qualifications and requirements is available at www.osa.org/seniormember.

Following is an alphabetical listing of the 143 OSA Senior Members announced at CLEO: 2012:

• Mohamed Abdel Harith, Cairo University
• Kazi Sutherland Abedin, OFS Labs
• Mohamad Al-Amri, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
• Jacques Albert, Carleton University
• Thomas Alley, Lockheed Martin
• Andrea Alu, University of Texas at Austin
• Emmanuel A. Anagnostakis, Nanodevice Physics Forum
• James Andrews, Youngstown State University
• José L. Arce-Diego, Universidad de Cantabria
• Ian Ashdown, byHeart Consultants Limited
• Alfred E. Attard, U.S. Department of Defense
• Angus Sutherland Bell, University of Glasgow
• John Berthold, j w b c. LLC
• Tomasz Blachowicz, Politechnika Slaska
• Sveltlana V. Boriskina, Boston University
• Juan Capmany, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
• Monish Chatterjee, University of Dayton
• Nanguang Chen, National University of Singapore
• Kiyoshi Chiba, Tokushima Bunri University
• Steven D. Christesen, U.S. Army
• Gabriella Cincotti, Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre
• Geoffrey A. Cranch, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
• Kenneth Brian Crozier, Harvard University
• Judith Franzosa Donnelly, Three Rivers Community College
• Kokou B. Dossou, University of Technology Sydney
• Vladimir Drachev, Purdue University
• Geoffrey Duxbury, University of Strathclyde
• Victor V. Dyomin, Tomsk State University
• Nikolaos Efremidis, University of Crete
• William C. Egbert
• Masashi Eguchi, Chitose Institute of Science and Technology
• Hagai Eisenberg, Hebrew University of Israel
• Rafael Espinosa-Luna, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC
• Sasan Fathpour, University of Central Florida, CREOL
• Carlos R. Fernández-Pousa, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
• Robert D. Fiete, Eastman Kodak
• Marco Fiorentino, Hewlett-Packard Labs
• Michael Fitch, Johns Hopkins University
• Andrew Forbes, CSIR National Laser Centre
• Thomas H. Foster, University of Rochester
• Augustus Fountain, U.S. Army
• Michael Eric Gehm, University of Arizona
• John Goodell, Broad Spectrum Optics
• Gregory Goodno, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
• Debabrata Goswami, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
• Jose Guerra, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• Julio C. Gutierrez-Vega, Tecnologico de Monterrey
• David Hahn, University of Florida
• Habib Hamam, Universite de Moncton
• David Hasenauer, Synopsys, Inc.
• Zuyuan He, University of Tokyo
• Yanhua Hong, Bangor University
• Flavio Horowitz, University Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
• Hong Hua, University of Arizona
• JianJang Huang, National Taiwan University
• David Huang, University of Southern California
• Baldemar Ibarra-Escamilla, Institute National Astrofisica Optica Electronica
• Nicusor Iftimia, Physical Sciences Inc.
• Masaki Isshiki, Tokyo University
• Jiro Itatani, Institute of Solid State Physics
• Masayuki Izutsu, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Donald J. Janeczko, ITT Geospatial and Night Vision Division
• Yoonchan Jeong, Seoul National University
• Christian Jirauschek, Technische Universität Munchen
• Manabu Kagami, Toyota Central R&D Labs Inc.
• Nakkeeran Kaliyaperumal, University of Aberdeen
• Kyong-Hon Kim, Inha University
• Jungwon Kim, KAIST
• Sergiy A. Kostyukevych, Institute of Semiconductor Physics of NAS
• Hirokazu Kubota, Boston University
• Russell Kurtz, Pointbreak Solutions, Inc.
• Fredrik Laurell, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan
• Shutian Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology
• Dongfeng Liu, AdValue Photonics, Inc.
• Hai-Han Lu, National Taipei Institute of Technology
• Paul K. Manhart, NASA Langley Research Center
• Jack S. Margolis
• Joaquim Ferreira Martins-Filho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
• Alexey V. Maslov, Canon USA
• Stephen Matcher, University of Sheffield
• Mohammad A. Matin, University of Denver
• Terrence R. Meyer, Iowa State University
• Michael P. Minneman, Insight Photonic Solutions Inc.
• Brian Monacelli, tOSC
• Ryuji Morita, Hokkaido University
• Djafar Mynbaev, New York City College of Technology
• Yasuo Nabekawa, RIKEN
• Jerry E. Nelson, University of California Santa Cruz
• Alexander Nosich, IRE NASAU
• Kensuke Ogawa, Fujikura Ltd.
• Kazuhiko Oka, Hokkaido University
• Ekmel Ozbay, Bilkent Universitesi
• Ralph Henry Page
• Krassimir Panajotov, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Vittorio Passaro, Politecnico di Bari
• Daqing Piao, Oklahoma State University
• Ron J. Pieper, University of Texas Tyler
• Ove Poulsen, Ingeniorhojskolen i Aarhus
• Richard Quimby, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Anis Rahman, Applied Research & Photonics Inc.
• Yunjiang Rao, University of Electronic Science and Technology China
• Liyong Ren, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Robert Rice, Dreamcatchers Consulting
• Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum, Rice University
• Toshikazu Sakano, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories
• John Scales, Colorado School of Mines
• Andrew M. Schober, Lockheed Martin
• Peter Schunemann, BAE Systems
• Ulrich T. Schwarz, Albert-Ludwigs- Universität Freiburg
• Lynn G. Seppala, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• James P. Shaffer, University of Oklahoma
• Supriyo Sinha, Stanford University
• Chua Soo Jin, National University of Singapore
• Kamineni Srimannarayana, National Institute of Technology, Warangal
• Larry Stotts, Stotts Consulting
• Igor Sukhoivanov, University of Guanajuato
• Thomas Suleski, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Doyle Temple, Hampton University
• John Russell Thompson, Virginia Military Institute
• John Gethyn Timothy, Nightsen
• Douglas R. Tomren, Douglas R. Tomren LLC
• Sallie S. (Lee) Townsend, University of Hartford
• Vo-Van Truong, Concordia University
• Rung-Ywan Tsai, Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Norimichi Tsumura, Chiba University
• Yoshihiro Uozu, Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
• Tarja T. Volotinen, Uppsala Universitet
• Jeanne Pierre von de Weid, Pontificia University Catolica Rio de Janeiro
• Sharon Weiss, Vanderbilt University
• Bruce Wessels, Northwestern University
• Thomas W. Weyrauch, University of Dayton
• Alice White, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
• Ingrid Wilke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Kurt Bernardo Wolf, University Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
• John A Woollam, J.A. Woolam Co. Inc.
• Dan-Xia Xu, National Research Council Canada
• Akira Yabe
• Manabu Yamamoto
• Jianke Yang, University of Vermont
• Shunsuke Yokozeki
• Abdolnasser Zakery, Shiraz University
• Jianying Zhou, Sun Yat-Sen University
• Hrvoje Zorc, Institut Ruder Boskovic

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