News | December 21, 2011

Sixty-Six OSA Members Elevated To Rank Of Fellow

The Optical Society (OSA) Board of Directors is pleased to announce that 66 OSA Members have been elected as the newest class of OSA Fellow Members. These distinguished Fellow Members will be recognized individually at meetings throughout 2012. A listing of all 66 Fellow Members appears below.

Any regular OSA member who has significantly contributed to the advancement of optics and photonics is eligible for election to the rank of Fellow. Drawing from nominations from current Fellows, OSA's Fellows Members Committee recommends candidates to the Board of Directors. The number of Fellows is limited to no more than 10 percent of the total OSA membership.

"This truly global group of individuals, representing 14 countries on four continents, has served the optics community with tremendous distinction, and I am privileged to recognize them with this honor," said OSA President Christopher Dainty. "On behalf of OSA I extend my congratulations and appreciation to all the 2012 Fellows for their hard work and accomplishments."

Fellows are selected on a variety of criteria, such as record of significant publications or patents related to optics, achievements in optics, management ability, and service to OSA or the global optics community. More than 42 percent of this year's Fellow Members reside outside of the United States.

Following is an alphabetical listing of OSA's 2012 Fellows. Specific information on each new Fellow Member's accomplishments can be found on the Awards and Grants section of OSA's website.

  • Ali Adibi, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  • Ishwar D. Aggarwal, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
  • John Ballato, Clemson University, USA
  • Harold E. Bedell, University of Houston College of Optometry, USA
  • Joss Bland-Hawthorn, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Benoît Boulanger, Joseph Fourier University, Institut Néel, France
  • Kurt Busch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Jin-Xing Cai, TE Subsea Communications, USA
  • Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
  • Lawrence R. Chen, McGill University, Canada
  • Stephen Y. Chou, Princeton University, USA
  • Mark D. Fairchild, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
  • David N. Fittinghoff, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  • Jason W. Fleischer, Princeton University, USA
  • A. Mark Fox, University of Sheffield, UK
  • E. Joseph Friebele, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
  • Valentin P. Gapontsev, IPG Photonics, USA
  • Philip Hemmer, Texas A&M University, USA
  • Douglas P. Holcomb, LGS Innovations, USA
  • Minghui Hong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Mary Lou Jepsen, Pixel Qi Corp., Taiwan
  • Wilhelm G. Kaenders, TOPTICA Photonics AG, Germany
  • Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Randall James Knize, U.S. Air Force Academy, USA
  • Hao-chung Kuo, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  • Yinchieh Lai, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  • Fredrik Laurell, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Sweden
  • Kevin K. Lehmann, University of Virginia, USA
  • Miguel Levy, Michigan Technological University, USA
  • Henri J. Lezec, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
  • Xingde Li, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Luis M. Liz-Marzan, University of Vigo, Spain
  • Lenore McMackin, Inview Technology Corp., USA
  • Michel Meunier, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
  • Sergey B. Mirov, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
  • Jesper Moerk, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  • Edward I. Moses, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  • Sae Woo Nam, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
  • Daniel R. Neal, Abbott Laboratories, USA
  • Nathan R. Newbury, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
  • Alan C. Nilsson, Infinera, USA
  • Isao Noda, Procter & Gamble Company, USA
  • Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Tufts University, USA
  • Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Loukas Paraschis, Cisco Systems, USA
  • Adrian Podoleanu, University of Kent, UK
  • Clifford R. Pollock, Cornell University, USA
  • Stephen M. Pompea, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, USA
  • Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland, Australia
  • Colin J.R. Sheppard, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Wei Shi, NP Photonics, Inc., USA
  • Michael Shur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
  • Dmitry V. Skryabin, University of Bath, UK
  • Sergei K. Turitsyn, Aston University, UK
  • Réal Vallée, Centre d'Optique Photonique et Lasers (COPL), Canada
  • Niek F. van Hulst, ICFO –Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
  • David M. Villeneuve, National Research Council of Canada, Canada
  • Alex Vitkin, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Ann Von Lehmen, Telcordia, USA
  • Willem L. Vos, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
  • Stanley E. Whitcomb, LIGO, USA
  • Peter J. Winzer, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
  • Vladislav V. Yakovlev, Texas A&M University, USA
  • Vladimir Zakharov, University of Arizona, USA
  • Zeev Zalevsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  • Shining Zhu, Nanjing University, China

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SOURCE: The Optical Society (OSA)