Editorial Board

Derek Abbott
Affiliation: University of Adelaide
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Area of Expertise: Microwave Photonics

Derek Abbott (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree (Honors) in physics from Loughborough University of Technology, U.K., in 1982 and the Ph.D. degree (with commendation) in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1995. He has led a number of research programs in the imaging arena, ranging from the optical to infrared to millimeter wave to T-ray (terahertz gap) regimes. From 1978 to 1986, he worked at the GEC Hirst Research Centre, London, in the area of visible and infrared image sensors. His expertise also spans VLSI design, optoelectronics, device physics, and noise; where he has worked with nMOS, CMOS, SOS, CCD, GaAs, and vacuum microelectronic technologies. Since 1987, he has been with the University of Adelaide, where he is presently a full Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the Director of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CBME). He holds over 300 publications/patents and has been an invited speaker at over 80 institutions.

Prof. Abbott is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), with honorary life membership. He has served as an editor and/or guest editor for a number of journals including IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Chaos (AIP), Smart Structures and Materials (IOP), Journal of Optics B (IOP), Microelectronics Journal (Elsevier), Fluctuation Noise Letters (World Scientific), and is currently on the Editorial Board of Proceedings of the IEEE.

Gaetano Assanto
Affiliation: University of Rome
Location: Rome, Italy
Area of Expertise: Light Interaction/Nonlinear Effects

Gaetano Assanto received the MSc in EE from the University of Palermo in 1981 and PhD in ECE in 1987. During 1987-1988 he was a Research Engineer with the Center for Electronic Research in Sicily; from 1988 to 1990 a Research Associate with the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona; and from 1990 to 1992 a Senior Research Scientist with the Center for Research in Electro Optics and Lasers at the University of Central Florida. Since November 1992, Dr. Assanto has been Professor of Optoelectronics with the Department of Electronic Engineering of the University of Rome "Roma Tre." His current interests are in nonlinear effects (parametric, Kerr-like, reorientational, thermo-optic) for all-optical signal processing and light localization, as well as Si-Ge heterostructures and optoelectronics for near-infrared detection. Dr. Assanto is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), the IEEE Photonics Society, the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), the European Physical Society, the Executive Committee of the Italian IEEE Photonics Society Chapter, and on the Editorial Board of Laser Physics Review. He is a topical editor for the Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Hindawi Research Letters in Optics, and Photonics Letters of Poland.

Dr. Ayrton A. Bernussi
Affiliation: Texas Tech University
Location: Lubbock, Texas USA
Area of Expertise: Photonic Materials/Engineered Photonic Structure

Dr. Ayrton A. Bernussi received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the State University of Campinas, Brazil, in 1981, 1984, and 1990, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Texas Tech University. His research interests include optoelectronics, ultrafast optics, planar lightwave circuits, nanophotonics and plasmonic waveguides.

Sandra Biedron
Affiliation: Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado
Location: Argonne, Illinois USA
Area of Expertise: Terahertz sources and applications, Free Electron Lasers, Accelerators

Sandra G. Biedron, Chairperson, serves as the director and physicist of the Department of Defense Project Office of Argonne National Laboratory and is an associate director of the Argonne Accelerator Institute. Dr. Biedron is also a consultant on the FERMI basic sciences free-electron laser (FEL) project at Elettra, at Sincrotone Trieste. She is a physicist whose main research is in beam and laser source development and use. She is cross-trained in chemistry, biology, and electrical engineering. She was one of the team members who proved the SASE FEL concept in the visible to VUV wavelengths. Dr. Biedron was also the Argonne representative and participant on the Brookhaven/Argonne high-gain harmonic generation FEL experiment. She has been involved with radio-frequency electron-gun design and testing for over 12 years and was the first in the world to predict as well as measure the nonlinear harmonic growth on two types of high-gain free-electron lasers, an important component of many new FEL projects worldwide. For more than 9 years, she has managed and led the international workgroup FEL Exotica, which examines exotic beam and photon schemes, including novel magnetic designs. Dr. Biedron is an active member of several professional societies. For the SPIE, she served as chair of the Scholarships and Grants Committee for 2 years and was on the Awards and Education Committees.  For 2007-2009, she is a member of the executive committee for the SPIE’s Optics and Photonics Optical Engineering and Applications Conference, representing the x-ray, gamma-ray, and particle technologies track. Dr. Biedron is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She served as the secretary and treasurer of the Chicago Section, Nuclear and Plasma Sciences/Magnetics Society and served on the Program Committees of the 2003 and 2009 Particle Accelerator Conference jointly sponsored by the IEEE and the American Physical Society (APS). Since 2005, she has been the particle accelerator science and technology elected representative to the Nuclear Plasma and Sciences Society of the IEEE. Recently she served on a committee of the U.S. National Academies for the published report “Scientific Assessment Scientific Assessment of High-Power Free-Electron Laser Technology,” and is a board member of a NATO sensors and electronics panel. She has served on a variety of international program and organizing committees and has organized a number of conferences, workshops, and plenary sessions, including several sessions at the 2008 Directed Energy Professional Society Meeting. Dr. Biedron has 40 archival papers in the area of FELs/coherent radiators, 14 as first author, and a U.S. patent.

Mario Dagenais
Affiliation: Department of Electrical, Electronic & Computer Engineering, University of Maryland
Location: ACollege Park, Maryland, USA
Area of Expertise: Thigh power semiconductor laser sources, semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs), superluminescent LEDs, quantum and interband cascade lasers, detectors, modulators, optical switches, wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) optoelectronics components, and in the integration of these components. He is also interested in photonic bandgap materials and plasma enhanced sub-wavelength lithography

Professor Dagenais' research interests are in the area of photonic switching, photonic integrated circuits, III-V integrated opto-electronics, bio-sensing and microwave opto-electronics. In particular, he is interested in high power semiconductor laser sources, semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs), superluminescent LEDs, quantum and interband cascade lasers, detectors, modulators, optical switches, wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) optoelectronics components, and in the integration of these components. He is also interested in photonic bandgap materials and plasma enhanced sub-wavelength lithography. He is also conducting research in the areas of optical packet switching and Ethernet based switching technologies for metro and access. His group has patented a unique technique for the deposition of  broad band antireflection coatings of semiconductor lasers using real-time in-situ ellipsometry. He also patented a new integration technology for III-V optoelectronics based on an active-passive resonant coupler  (PARC).  Professor Dagenais received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1978 working in Quantum Optics and photon correlations. He was a Research Fellow at Harvard University  from 1978 to 1980, where he worked in nonlinear optics. From 1980 to 1987, he worked at GTE Laboratories on photonic switching and semiconductor lasers. He joined the University of Maryland in 1987 where he has been Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1991. Dr Dagenais is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Massimo Giudici
Affiliation: Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
Location: Valbonne, France
Area of Expertise: injection locked lasers, tunable lasers, mode-locked lasers, spatio-temporal dynamics in lasers, coupled lasers

Massimo Giudici received the "Laurea in Fisica" from University of Milan in 1995 and Ph.D from Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis in 1999. At present he is assistant professor at Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, attached to Institut Non Linéaire de Nice, where he carries out his research activity. Prof. Giudici's research is centered on the experimental analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics of semiconductor lasers. In particular, he has been working on cavity solitons in semiconductor micro-resonators, on the stochastic effects in the modal dynamics of edge-emitting lasers, and on the analysis of semiconductor lasers with optical feedback.

Lynford Goddard
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Urbana-Champaign, USA
Area of Expertise: semiconductor lasers, photonics integrated circuits

Dr. Lynford L. Goddard received the Ph.D. degree in physics with a minor in math from Stanford in 2005. He received the B.S. degree (with distinction) in math and physics and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1998 and 2003, respectively. His doctoral research focused on characterization and modeling of 1.5-micron GaInNAsSb/GaAs lasers. At Lawrence Livermore National Lab, he conducted post doctoral research on photonic integrated circuits, photonics-based sensors, and all-optical data processing systems. Dr. Goddard joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2007. The central theme of his research group is building high-speed chip-scale monolithic photonic systems. Dr. Goddard is a member of IEEE, OSA, SPIE, and ASEE and an author or co-author of over 60 publications.

Juliet T. Gopinath
Affiliation: University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado

Juliet T. Gopinath received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1998 from the University of Minnesota. She was awarded the S. M. (2000) and Ph.D. (2005) degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 2005 to 2009, she worked as a member of technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Her work included wavelength-beam combining of eyesafe diode arrays, cryogenic Yb:YAG lasers/amplifiers, modelocked semiconductor optical waveguide lasers (SCOWLs), high power eyesafe laser sources, and Raman spectroscopy. She is now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering department. Her research interests include ultrafast solid-state and fiber lasers, semiconductor lasers, wavelength beam combining, spectroscopy, nonlinear processes in fibers, mid-infrared sources, and high power lasers. Dr. Gopinath is the recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1998-2001) and the LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship (2003). She is a member of OSA and IEEE/LEOS. She has authored and co-authored 23 journal papers and over 30 conference proceedings.

Amr S. Helmy
Amr S. Helmy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Prior to his academic career, he held a position at Agilent Technologies photonic devices, R&D division, in the UK between 2000 and 2004. At Agilent his responsibilities included developing distributed feedback lasers, monolithically integrated lasers, modulators and amplifiers in InP-based semiconductors. Dr. Helmy also developed high-powered submarine-class 980 nm InGaAs pump lasers. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the University of Glasgow with a focus on photonic devices and fabrication technologies, in 1999 and 1994 respectively. Dr. Helmy received his B.Sc. in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Cairo University in 1993.
In 2011, Dr. Helmy received the Connaught Innovation Award, while in 2007 he was awarded an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation in Ontario-Canada for advancing nonlinear frequency conversion in III-V semiconductors. For his graduate studies, Dr. Helmy has been awarded the Francis Morrison Award from the University of Glasgow. His research interests include photonic device physics and characterization techniques, with emphasis on nonlinear optics in III-V semiconductors; applied optical spectroscopy in III-V optoelectronic devices and materials; and III-V fabrication and monolithic integration techniques.
Dr. Helmy is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of OSA. He has served as the chair of the nano-technology sub-committee in the IEEE Communications Society since 2005, as the associate editor - Canada for the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS, now called the Photonics Society) Newsletter since 2006, and is currently the chair of the Optical Materials and Processing sub-committee for the same society. Dr. Helmy has also served as VP membership for the IEEE Photonics Society between 2007 and 2010.

Hugo E. Hernández-Figueroa
Affiliation: UNICAMP-FEEC-DMO Campinas, Sao Paulo Brazil

Hugo E. Hernández-Figueroa received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1983, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the M.Sc in informatics, from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1985 and 1987, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, UK, in 1992. After spending two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London (UCL), London, UK, he joined the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC), Department of Microwaves and Optics (DMO), as an Assistant Professor in 1995. In 2005 he became Full Professor and from 2006 to 2010 he was DMO’s Head. He has published about 100 papers in renowned journals and almost 200 international conference papers. He is Co-Editor of the book Localized Waves: Theory and Applications (Wiley and Sons, 2008). His research interests concentrate on a wide variety of wave electromagnetic phenomena and applications mainly in integrated photonics, nanophotonics, optical fibers, metamaterials, and plasmonics. He is also involved on research projects dealing with information technology applied to technology-based education. Since 1994 Prof. Hernández-Figueroa has been very active with IEEE (Photonics Society, Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Antennas and Propagation Society, and Education Society), and also with the Optical Society of America (OSA), acting as organizer for several international conferences, guest editor for special issues, an AdCom member, and a Chapter Chair. He was an Associate Editor (Opto-Electronics/Integrated Optics) of the IEEE / OSA JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY (January 2004 – December 2009). He was a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE, THEORY AND TECHNIQUES (2001-2006). He was the General Co-Chair of the OSA Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2008 topical meeting. He was a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. Prof. Hernández-Figueroa is a Fellow of the OSA and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Annie Klisnick
Affiliation: CNRS
Location: Orsay, France
Area of Expertise: Coherent Photon Sources

Annie Klisnick is Directrice de recherche CNRS at the Laboratoire d'Interaction du rayonnement X Avec la Matière in Orsay Paris-Sud University, France. She received the Ph. D degree in Plasma Physics and the "Docteur d'Etat en Sciences" degree from the Paris-Sud University in 1984 and in 1990, respectively. She worked until 1992 on experimental and simulations studies of XUV lasers pumped by recombination in low-Z laser produced plasmas. Her research then concentrated on systems pumped by collisional excitation of mid- Z elements, as well as the application of XUV laser beams to the investigation of small-scale transient phenomena on surfaces by interferometric imaging. From 1998 she has been leading the development of transient XUV lasers generated from CPA high power lasers at LIXAM. She was involved in the foundation of the LASERIX user facility. In 2008 she founded the "GDR AppliX", a national research network in which several french laboratories and industrial partners are involved to promote the applications of intense, laser-based X-ray and XUV sources. Currently her research interests include the spectral behavior of short pulse XUV lasers as well as their seeding by high-order harmonic radiation. Her honors include the Plasma Prize of the Société Française de Physique in 1990, the Award of Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka in 1998, the Medal of Czech Technical University in Prague, golden grade in 2002. Since 2007 she is appointed by the French Ministry of Education and Research as a member of the University National Council. She has co-authored around 150 papers in international journals and proceedings. Her main current research interests deal with the development of ultrashort, coherent XUV lasers combining laser-produced plasma amplifiers and high-order harmonic radiation.

Mario Marconi
Affliation: Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado

Mario Marconi received his PhD in Physics from Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1985. From 1992 to 2004 he was part of the faculty in the Physics Department in Buenos Aires. In 2004 he joined the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Colorado State University where he is presently Professor. Prof. Marconi's research is focused on development and applications of short wavelength, compact laser sources. He is a participant member of the NSF Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science & Technology, where Prof. Marconi’s interest focus in interferometry, holography and nano-patterning with extreme ultraviolet lasers.

Marconi has co-authored 88 peer review journal articles, 213 conference presentations including 47 invited abstracts/proceedings.

Prof. Marconi is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, member of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the Optical Society of America. He has served the IEEE Photonics Society (formerly LEOS) as the Chair of the Denver Chapter, and as a reviewer for multiple scientific journals, including IEEE JQE, IEEE STQE and IEEE Trans. of Nanotechnology. He also served as reviewer for the National Science Foundation, the Agencia de Promocion Cientifica and CONICET (Argentina)

Stephen Milton
Affiliation: Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado
Location: Basovizza, Italy and Chicago, Ill. USA
Area of Expertise: Free Electron Lasers


Stephen Milton has over 27 years experience in the design, construction, commissioning, operation, and management of particle-accelerator-based light sources and laser systems. He has been a key participant/manager/leader on three free-electron laser projects that have established the global standard for the community. His expertise lies in major components and peripherals – cathodes, electron guns, RF sources, timing and synchronization, accelerator devices, undulators, controls, electron and photon beam diagnostics, feedback, power supplies, and data analysis. He holds a key patent (and archival publication) on a novel coherent radiator/FEL scheme to obtain fully coherent emission at any required wavelength regardless of the input seed wavelength in an amplifier. Since 1992 he has been an employee at Argonne National Laboratory where he is a Senior Scientist and works predominately on free-electron lasers (FELs), light sources, novel accelerator systems, and Terahertz (THz) devices. As a collaborator, he is serving as the Director of the FERMI Free-Electron Laser Project at Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy. Since 2002, Dr. Milton has been an active participant on Department of Defense beam physics programs, including that for the Office of Naval Research. He conceptualized and designed a novel undulator device to enhance or suppress harmonic output. From 2003 to 2007, Dr. Milton led the Argonne Linac Coherent Light (LCLS) Project as Director and was responsible for delivery a undulator system of the LCLS Project at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Previous to this he served as Group Leader, Accelerator Physics from 1997-2003 where he led, managed, mentored, and oversaw the work of the Accelerator Physicists within the Advanced Photon Source. In addition, he served as Manager of the Low-Energy Undulator Test Line from 1996-2003 to oversee the design, construction, commissioning, and operation of the (world’s first) tunable APS VIS to VUV Free-Electron Laser and from 1992-1996, he served as Manager of the 7-GeV Injector Synchrotron Ring to oversee the construction and commissioning of the 22M USD APS booster synchrotron. Dr. Milton is the recipient of the 2003 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award, IEEE, Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society and the 1996 Award for Distinguished Performance, Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago; a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Physics of Beams, 2002; a Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and a Member of the International Electrical and Electronic Engineers Society, Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society; served as Program Committee Chairman for the 2002 International Free-Electron Laser Conference; served as Editor for the 2002 International Free-Electron Laser Conference; served as Past Chairman, International Machine Advisory Committee, Australian Synchrotron Project; Served as Member, Steering Committee, Center for Accelerator Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Served as Member, Accelerator Advisory Committee, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Keith Nugent
Affiliation: School of Physics, The University of Melbourne
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Area of Expertise: Visible and x-ray optics, imaging

Professor Nugent is the leader of the Optics Research Group. His interests encompass visible and x-ray optics. His current research interests centre on the recovery of phase from intensity and the applications of these ideas to imaging. He is a member of the National Science Advisory Committee of the Australian Synchrotron, the Expert Advisory Committee for Physics, Chemistry and Geosciences and he chairs the Scientific Adviosory Board of IATIA, a compay spun-off to commercialise some of Professor Nugent's developments and floated on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Professor Nugent has received numerous awards including two RD100 awards, the Boas Medal of the Australian Instutitute of Physics, the Edgeworth-David Medal of the Royal Society of NSW and the Pawsey Medal of the Australian Academy of Science, of which he was elected a Fellow in 2000. He was also recently awarded a Centenary Medal by the Federal Government for contributions to science.

Boon S. Ooi
Affiliation: Electrical Engineering Dept., King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Location: Saudi Arabia
Area of Expertise: Semiconductor photonics nanostructures and photonics integrated circuits

Boon S. Ooi received B.Eng (1992) and Ph.D (1994) degrees from the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK). From 1996 to 2000, he was an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He co-founded Phosistor Technologies Inc. (California, USA) and served as Vice President of Technology from 2000 to 2003. He joined Lehigh University (Pennsylvania, USA) as Associate Professor and headed the Photonics and Semiconductor Nanostructures Laboratory from 2003 to 2009. He is currently holding an adjunct faculty at Lehigh, and a Founding Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Photonics Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. His research is primarily concerned with the study of semiconductor nanostructures and photonic integrated circuits. Technologies developed by him and his team has been successfully transferred to several companies in the USA, Europe and Asia. His research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, etc. He has authored or coauthored over 220 scientific papers, and been awarded several U.S. and international patents. He has given many lectures, seminars and invited talks at universities, research institutions and international conferences. He has served as organizing chair and technical member for several IEEE and MRS conferences. He has also served several times as panel member for the NSF and other agencies in United States and abroad. He is a Fellow of the SPIE, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IoP) and a senior member of IEEE.

Malin Premaratne
Affiliation: Monash University
Location: Australia
Area of Expertise: Theory, modeling and numerical analysis of photonics devices (e.g. lasers, amplifiers); Theory, modeling and numerical analysis of light scattering and propagation through biological structures; Theory, modeling and numerical analysis of light/plasmons in nano structures including metamaterial.

Professor Malin Premaratne is an electrical engineer with diverse interests in biology, physics, mathematics and computer science. He specializes in theory, modeling and simulation of light propagation through different media such as optical fibers, active semiconductors and biological media. He has pioneered many novel techniques in theory, modeling and simulation of light interaction with guided and scattering media and published over 150 research papers and one book, “Light Propagation in Gain Media: Optical Amplifiers” (Cambridge University Press) jointly with Professor Govind Agrawal at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester.

Malin Premaratne received the BSc degree in mathematics, the BE degree in electrical and electronics engineering (with first-class honours), and the PhD degree from the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1995, 1995, and 1998, respectively. From 1998 to 2000, he was with the Photonics Research Laboratory, a division of the Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Center (APCRC), University of Melbourne, where he was the Co-project Leader of the APCRC Optical Amplifier Project, and was also associated with Telstra, Australia, and Hewlett Packard, USA. From 2001 to 2003, he also worked as the Product Manager (Research and Development) of VPI Systems Optical Systems Group. Since 2004, he guided the research program in high-performance computing applications to complex systems simulations at the Advanced Computing and Simulation Laboratory (AχL), Monash University, Clayton, Australia, where he is currently the Research Director. Professor Premaratne is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust). He is an executive member of Engineers Australia in Victoria and since 2001 had served as the Chairman of IEEE Photonics Society in Victoria, Australia.

Adrienne Stiff Roberts
Affiliation: Duke University
Location: Durham, North Carolina USA
Area of Expertise: Photonic Materials/Engineered Photonic Structure

Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Her research interests encompass the epitaxial growth and characterization of quantum-confined semiconductor materials; the synthesis and characterization of hybrid nanomaterial thin films; and the design, fabrication, and characterization of optoelectronic and photonic devices, especially in the infrared regime. Dr. Stiff-Roberts received both the B.S. degree in physics from Spelman College and the B.E.E. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999. She received an M.S.E. in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in applied physics in 2001 and 2004, respectively, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she investigated high-temperature quantum dot infrared photodetectors. Dr. Stiff-Roberts received the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Graduate Scholars Fellowship and the AT&T Labs Fellowship Program Grant from 1999-2004. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Pi Sigma, the National Society of Black Physicists, IEEE, and MRS. She is also a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2007, and the IEEE Early Career Award in Nanotechnology of the Nanotechnology Council in 2009.

David Sampson
Affiliation: School of Electrical, Electronic & Computer Engineering, and Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, University of Western Australia
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Area of Expertise: Biomedical optics, Medical biophotonics, Optical microscopy

Professor David Sampson is Director of the Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, which is the University of Western Australia’s micro-imaging core facility, and a node of the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility. He heads the Optical+Biomedical Engineering Laboratory in the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering and is Director of the Western Australian Centre of Excellence in eMedicine. His personal research interests are in optics and photonics applied to medicine and biology. His interests span the spectrum from the fundamental – novel methods in optical microscopy and light propagation in tissue, to the engineering of optical instruments, to the application of novel optical imaging methods in clinical medicine. He is particularly motivated to promote and engage in interdisciplinary research. To this end, he leads the University of Western Australia’s Bioimaging Initiative directed towards live cell, live small animal and human in vivo imaging. He has previous editorial experience with the journal Applied Optics and is currently on the editorial board of Opticalfibersensors.org and the Australian Optical Society News. He is an elected member of the Australian Optical Society Council.

Nelson Tansu
Affiliation: Lehigh University
Location: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA
Areas of Expertise: Coherent Photon Sources, Nanophotonics, Photonics Devices, III-V Semiconductors

Nelson Tansu was born on October 1977, and he received his B.S. degree (Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, and Physics; with Highest Distinction) and his Ph.D. degree (Electrical Engineering, with specialization in Applied Physics) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 1998 and May 2003, respectively. He was a recipient of the Bohn Scholarship, the WARF Graduate University Fellowship, the Vilas Graduate University Fellowship, and the Graduate Dissertator Travel Funding Award, the 2003 Harold A. Peterson ECE Best Research Award (1st Prize) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From July 2003 till April 2009, he was an Assistant Professor and Peter C. Rossin Assistant Professor (Term Chair 2007-2009) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Center for Optical Technologies (COT) at Lehigh University. Since May 2009, he has been appointed as Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Center for Optical Technologies (COT) at Lehigh University. Dr. Tansu is also a recipient of the 2008 Libsch Early Career Research Award at Lehigh University.

His research works cover the theoretical and experimental aspects of the physics of semiconductor optoelectronics materials and devices, the physics of low-dimensional semiconductor (nanostructure), and MOCVD and device fabrications of III-Nitride and III-V-Nitride semiconductor optoelectronics devices on GaAs, InP, and GaN substrates. Dr. Tansu has published widely in numerous refereed international journal and conference publications (total > 170), and he also currently holds several US patents. He had served several times as a panel member for US National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, and other agencies in US and abroad. Dr. Tansu has also given numerous lectures, seminars, and invited talks (total > 35) in universities, research institutions, and conferences in USA, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Tansu serves as the Primary Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics Special Issue on Solid State Lighting in 2008-2009, and he also serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Photonics Journal (2009-present) and as Assistant / Associate Editor for Nanoscale Research Letters (2007-present). Dr. Tansu was also an invited General Participant at the 2008 National Academy of Engineering (NAE)’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium, and he also serves as the Organizing Committee for the 2009 NAE’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.

Lianshan Yan
Affiliation: Southwest Jiaotong University Chengdu, Sichuan China

Lianshan Yan (S’99–M’05–SM’06) received the B.E. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. From 1994 to 1999, he was engaged in the field of solid-state lasers at the North China Research Institute of Electro-Optics, Beijing, China. In September 1999, he joined the Optical Communications Lab at USC. From 2005 to 2007, he was the Chief Scientist and Manager of Engineering at General Photonics Corporation, Chino, CA. He is currently a full professor at Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China as the director of Center for Information Photonics & Communications. He serves as a frequent Referee for 13 journals, including Optics Letters, Optics Express, IEEE PTL, JLT, JSTQE, etc. He is the holder of 7 issued U.S. patents and more than 10 pending ones. He is the author and coauthor of more than 140 papers published in prestigious journals and conference proceedings, including three invited journal review papers on IEEE JSTQE and JLT, about ten invited talks and one book chapter. Prof. Yan is a senior member of the IEEE Photonics Society and a member of the Optical Society of America. He is one of the recipients of LEOS Graduate Fellowship in 2002. He currently serves as the IEEE Photonics Society Associate Vice President of Membership-China, and was LEOS GOLD Coordinator, the co-chair of 2008 LEOS Summer Topical Meeting on mitigating channel degrading effects, co-chair of one APOC’08 workshop, a TPC member of APOC’2008, LEOS’2008, ACP’2009 (AOE/APOC) and LEOS’2009.

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Role of Editorial Board - Associate Editors
Associate Editors (AEs) are IEEE Photonics Society members whose technical specialty areas fall within the scope of the Journal. The number of AE’s and their technical-specialty areas are decided by the EIC, with approval by the VP Publications. The EIC, with assistance from the VP Publications, selects, and recruits AEs, and appoints them once they have been approved by the Vice President Publications and the Board of Governors. The AEs shall serve a term of service of 3 years and may be reappointed for additional terms not to exceed a total of six years. The terms of the AEs are to be staggered, if possible, to provide continuity.

The responsibilities of the AE are: to assign not less than two reviewers once s/he receives the paper in the Manuscript Central dashboard. Because Photonics is a rapid publication journal, the AE will be required to follow closely the dynamics of acceptance of the selected reviewers and find alternates in case those assigned do not respond within one week. Each AE will be expected to receive 2-3 papers per week. AEs will also have the opportunity to propose topics and lead in the editorial of focus issues.