SPIE Senior Members

Congratulations to our Members of distinction

SPIE Senior Member status is a mark of distinction that honors professionals for their significant experience, active engagement, and meaningful contributions to optics and photonics. This recognition not only elevates a Member’s professional standing and credibility within the global community, but it also signals leadership and commitment to advancing the field. Earning Senior Member status is a prestigious milestone — accessible to both emerging and established professionals — that highlights dedication, achievement, and a growing influence within SPIE and the broader optics community.

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92 new SPIE Senior Members elected in 2025


Dr. Walter J. Akers

The Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Ctr. at Dallas

Prof. Kaan Akşit

Univ. College London

Prof. Jaime A. Anguita

Univ. de los Andes

Dr. Emad Aqad

Qnity Electronics, Inc.

Dr. Viktoriia E. Babicheva

The Univ. of New Mexico

Prof. Euiwon Bae

Purdue Univ.

Prof. Colleen P. Bailey

Univ. of North Texas

Dr. Timothy M. Baran

Univ. of Rochester Medical Ctr.

Prof. Margarida M. Barroso

Albany Medical College

Dr. Melissa K. Beason

Air Force Institute of Technology

Dr. Michael Brodsky

DEVCOM Army Research Lab.

Dr. Cristina Canavesi

LighTopTech Corp.

Prof. Hengky Chandrahalim

Air Force Institute of Technology

Dr. M. Imran Cheema

Lahore Univ. of Management Sciences

Dr. Diana C. Chen

Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

Dr. Jiyeon Choi

Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials

Prof. Chi-Wai Chow

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung Univ.

Prof. Ricky W. Chuang

National Cheng Kung Univ.

Prof. Stephen S. Eikenberry

CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida

Dr. Jonathan Evans

Santec USA Corp.

Dr. Steven T. Fiorino

Air Force Institute of Technology

Prof. Andreas Fischer

Bremer Institut für Messtechnik, Automatisierung und Qualitätswissenschaft (BIMAQ)

Dr. Kayn A. Forbes

Univ. of East Anglia

Prof. Paul Fromme

Univ. College London

Dr. Ulrike Fuchs

asphericon GmbH

Dr. Orges Furxhi

Wyant College of Optical Sciences

Prof. Howard C. Gifford

Univ. of Houston

Prof. Branko Glišić

Princeton Univ.

Dr. Tian Gu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Prof. Sevgi Zubeyde Gurbuz

North Carolina State Univ.

Prof. Gerd Haeusler

Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg

Prof. Hui-Hsin Hsiao

National Taiwan Univ.

Prof. Weida Hu

Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, CAS

Prof. Yao-Wei Huang

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung Univ.

Dr. Martin Hübner

HENSOLDT Optronics GmbH

Prof. Yuankai Huo

Vanderbilt Univ.

Prof. Deep Jariwala

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Mr. Morris I. Kaufman

National Security Technologies, LLC

Dr. Mohd Mansoor Khan

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati

Prof. Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi

Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

Prof. Shoufeng Lan

Texas A&M Univ.

Dr. Dangyuan Lei

City Univ. of Hong Kong

Prof. Ke Li

The Univ. of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Ctr.

Dr. Ming-Jun Li

Corning Incorporated

Dr. Yuansheng Ma

Siemens EDA

Prof. Dalip Singh Mehta

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Prof. Salman Noach

Jerusalem College of Technology

Dr. Keith F. Prussing

Georgia Tech Research Institute

Prof. Sanjeev Kumar Raghuwanshi

Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad

Dr. Rajesh N. Raman

Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

Mr. Jed H. Rankin

IBM Research - Albany

Dr. Basudev Roy

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Prof. Steven S. Saliterman

Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Prof. Pinaki Sarder

Univ. of Florida College of Medicine

Dr. Daniel Schmidt

IBM Research - Albany

Dr. Nivea G. Schuch

Applied Materials France

Dr. Indira Seshadri

IBM Research - Albany

Prof. Chao Shen

Fudan Univ.

Dr. Chaitanya Kumar Suddapalli

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Prof. Xiankai Sun

The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

Dr. Tadahiro Takigawa

ALITECS Co., Ltd.

Prof. J. Alex Thomasson

Mississippi State Univ.

Prof. Eric Tournié

Univ. de Montpellier

Dr. Claire Van Lare

ASML Netherlands B.V.

Prof. Vasan Venugopalan

Univ. of California, Irvine

Prof. Lihui Wang

Soochow Univ.

Dr. James W. Wiskin

QT Imaging, Inc.

Prof. Maciej Wojtkowski

Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS

Prof. Peng Xi

Peking Univ.

Prof. Hai Xiao

Clemson Univ.

Dr. Shintaro Yamada

Qnity Electronics, Inc.

Dr. Azhar Zam

New York Univ. Abu Dhabi

Prof. Cristina L. Zavaleta

The Univ. of Southern California

Prof. Haishan Zeng

BC Cancer Research Institute

Prof. Hanyu Zhan

Nanjing Univ. of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Prof. Timothy C. Zhu

Perelman Ctr. for Advanced Medicine

Prof. Craig A. Zuhlke

Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln