SPIE Fellows

Honored SPIE Members of distinction

Each year, SPIE promotes Members as new Fellows of the Society. Fellows are Members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. They are honored for their technical achievement and for their service to the general optics community and to SPIE in particular. More than 1,800 SPIE members have become Fellows since the Society's inception in 1955.

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47 new SPIE Fellows elected in 2025


Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini

King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology

Prof. Christos Argyropoulos

The Pennsylvania State Univ.

Mr. Sachidananda R. Babu

NASA Earth Science Technology Office

Prof. Can Bayram

Univ. of Illinois

Dr. Jeremy P. Bos

Michigan Technological Univ.

Mr. Andrés Cifuentes

ASE Optics Europe

Dr. Peter D. Dragic

Univ. of Illinois

Dr. Martin H. Ettenberg

Princeton Infrared Technologies, Inc.

Dr. Stavroula Foteinopoulou

The Univ. of New Mexico

Prof. John T. Fourkas

Univ. of Maryland, College Park

Dr. Douglas J. Guerrero

Brewer Science, Inc.

Prof. William E. Higgins

The Pennsylvania State Univ.

Dr. Sona Hosseini

Jet Propulsion Lab.

Dr. Jeeseong Hwang

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Prof. Jana M. Kainerstorfer

Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Prof. Antonios G. Kanaras

Univ. of Southampton

Prof. Mikhail A. Kats

Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

Prof. Giti A. Khodaparast

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.

Prof. Denvid Lau

City Univ. of Hong Kong

Prof. Marina S. Leite

Univ. of California, Davis

Prof. Shuo Li

Case Western Reserve Univ.

Prof. Arka Majumdar

Univ. of Washington

Prof. John S. McCloy

Washington State Univ.

Prof. Kaoru Minoshima

The Univ. of Electro-Communications

Dr. Behzad Moslehi

Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp.

Dr. Mircea Mujat

Physical Sciences Inc.

Prof. Jeremy N. Munday

Univ. of California, Davis

Dr. Seiji Nagahara

ASML Japan Co., Ltd.

Prof. Naveen K. Nishchal

Indian Institute of Technology Patna

Mr. Eric M. Panning

SiClarity Inc.

Prof. Manojit Pramanik

Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology

Prof. Niels Quack

The Univ. of Sydney

Ms. Katie Schwertz

Edmund Optics Inc.

Prof. Tsu-Te Judith Su

Wyant College of Optical Sciences

Prof. Jun Tanida

Osaka Univ.

Prof. Kevin K. Tsia

The Univ. of Hong Kong

Dr. Gracie Vargas

The Univ. of Texas Medical Branch

Dr. Jessica Wade

Imperial College London

Prof. Wei-Chih Wang

National Tsing Hua Univ.

Prof. Axel Wismüller

Univ. of Rochester Medical Ctr.

Prof. Chi Zhang

Ocean Univ. of China

Prof. Yuebing Zheng

The Univ. of Texas at Austin