Program Committee

2026 Program Committee

PROGRAM CHAIR | Timothy Haugan – Aerospace Systems Directorate, AFRL/RQQM, USA

ELECTRONICS | Topical Chair: Shane Cybart* – UC Riverside, USA

Steve Anlage – University of Maryland, USA Emily Barrentine – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Samuel Benz – NIST, USA
Karl Berggren – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Susan Berggren – NIWC Pacific, USA Stuart Berkowitz – Out of the Fog Research LLC, USA
Han Cai – University of Maryland, USA Robin Cantor – Star Cryoelectronics, USA Olivia Chen* – Tokyo City University, Japan
Hsiao-Mei (Sherry) Cho – SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA Marcio DeAndrade – NIWC Pacific, USA Shannon Duff – NIST, USA
Pascal Febvre – University Savoie Mont Blanc, France Coenrad Fourie – Stellenbosch University, South Africa Deepnarayan Gupta – Consultant, USA
Anna Grassellino – FNAL, Northwestern University, USA Mike Hamilton – Google, USA Scott Holmes – Booz Allen Hamilton / IEEE IRDS, USA
Pete Hopkins – NIST, USA Boris Karasik – Jet Propulsion Lab / Caltech, USA Kensuke Kobayashi – University of Tokyo, Japan
Sachio Komori – Nagoya University, Japan Wolfgang Lang – University of Vienna, Austria Anna Leese* – Quantum Vector Inc., USA
Jay LeFebvre – University of California Riverside, USA Arthur Lichtenberger* – University of Virginia, USA Emma Mitchell – CSIRO, Australia
Oleg Mukhanov – Seeqc, Inc., USA Ofer Naaman – Google, USA Giovanni Piero Pepe* – University of Naples Federico II & CNR SPIN, Italy
Britton Plourde – Syracuse University, USA John Przybysz* – IEEE CSC, USA Rochelle Qu – University of California Riverside, USA
Maria Salatino* – Stanford University and KIPAC, USA Lieze Schindler – Yokohama National University, Japan Enrico Silva – University Roma Tre, Italy
Adam Sirois – NIST, USA Ronny Stolz – Leibniz IPHT, Germany Naoki Takeuchi – National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Sabu Tanaka – Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Hirotaka Terai* – National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Hannes Töpfer – Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany
Elie Track – IEEE Council on Superconductivity / nVizix, USA Chiharu Urano – National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Igor Vernik – Seeqc, Inc., USA
Taro Yamashita – Tohoku University, Japan Nobuyuki Yoshikawa – Yokohama National University, Japan

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LARGE SCALE | Topical Co-Chairs: Robert Duckworth – ORNL, USA and Ezio Todesco* – CERN, Switzerland

Naoyuki Amemiya – Kyoto University, Japan Douglas Araujo – PSI, Switzerland Bernhard Auchmann – PSI, Switzerland
Arnaud Badel – CNRS, Neel Institute, France Marta Bajko – CERN, Switzerland Lucas Brouwer – LBNL, USA
Luisa Chiesa* – Tufts University, USA Antonella Chiuchiolo – GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Germany Tim Coombs – University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Valentina Corato – ENEA, Italy Stefania  Farinon – INFN, Italy Helene Felice* – CEA Paris Saclay, France
Paolo Ferracin – LBNL, USA Seungyong Hahn – Seoul National University, Korea Kohei Higashikawa – Kyushu University, Japan
Susana Izquierdo Bermudez – CERN, Switzerland Zhenan Jiang – Victoria University of Wellington, Robinson Research Institute, New Zealand Nick Long – Victoria University of Wellington, Robinson Research Institute, New Zealand
Cesar Luongo – EUROfusion, France Joseph Minervini* – Novum Industria LLC, USA Antonio Morandi* – University of Bologna, Italy
Luigi Muzzi – ENEA, Italy Tatsu Nakamoto – KEK, Japan Gen Nishijima – NIMS, Japan
Sastry Pamidi – CAPS and FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, USA Michael Parizh – GE HealthCare, USA Soren Prestemon – LBNL, USA
Emmanuele Ravaioli – CERN, Switzerland Erica Salazar – Commonwealth Fusion Systems, USA Tiina-Mari Salmi* – Tampere University, Finland
Laura Savoldi – Politecnico di Torino, Italy Massimo Sorbi – INFN, Italy Stoyan Stoynev – FNAL, USA
Michinaka Sugano – KEK, Japan Herman ten Kate – University of Twente, Netherlands Fernando  Toral  – CIEMAT, Spain
Georgi Velev – FNAL, USA Sofia Viarengo – Proxima Fusion, Switzerland Xiaorong Wang* – LBNL, USA
Anbo Wu – GE HealthCare, USA Liye Xiao – Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS, China Al Zeller – NHMFL/FSU, USA

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MATERIALS | Topical Chairs: Giuseppe Celentano* – ENEA, Italy and Toshinori Ozaki – Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

Mark Ainslie – King’s College London, UK Nadezda Bagrets – KIT, Germany Emanuela Barzi – Ohio State University, USA
Bernardo Bordini – CERN, Switzerland Valeria Braccini – CNR-SPIN, Italy Siwei Chen – PPPL/Princeton University, USA
Luisa Chiesa* – Tufts University, USA Alexis Rustam Devitre – MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, USA Michael Eisterer – TU Wien, Atominstitut, Austria
Serena Eley – University of Washington, USA Ashleigh Francis – CFS, USA Chirag Goel – University of Houston, USA
Fedor Gömöry – Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Joffre Gutierrez – ICMAB-CSIC, Spain MD Shahriar Hossain – The University of Queensland, Australia
Kazumasa Iida – Nihon University, Japan Aniket Ingrole – NHMFL/FSU, USA Matthew Jewell – University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA
Fumitake Kametani – NHMFL/FSU, USA Anna Kario* – University of Twente, Netherlands Ibrahim Kesgin – ANL, USA
Chris Kovacs – Material Scientist Scintillating Solutions LLC, USA Francesco Laviano – PoliTO, Italy Michael Lodge – NIST, USA
Yanwei Ma – Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Boris Maiorov* – LANL, USA Andrea Masi – ENEA, Italy
Karoline Mueller – University of Houston/TcSUH, USA Jacques Noudem – University of Caen Normandie – CNRS – Laboratoire CRISMAT, France Tetiana Prikhna – V. Bakul Institute for Superhard Materials of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
Teresa Puig – Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Spain Carmine Senatore* – University of Geneva, Switzerland Tengming Shen* – LBNL, USA
Hyung-Seop Shin – Andong National University, South Korea Michael Sumption – Ohio State University, USA Chiara Tarantini – NHMFL/FSU, USA
Akiyasu Yamamoto* – Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Yue Zhao – Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

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