2026 Program Committee
PROGRAM CHAIR | Timothy Haugan – Retired from AFRL/RQQM, USA
ELECTRONICS | Topical Chair: Shane Cybart* – UC Riverside, USA
| Zeeshan Ahmed – SLAC, USA | Steven Anlage – University of Maryland, USA | Emily Barrentine – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA |
| Doug Bennett – NIST, 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 |
| Jingnan Cai, University of Maryland, USA | Robin Cantor – Star Cryoelectronics, USA | Thomas Cecil – ANL, USA |
| Olivia Chen* – Tokyo City University, Japan | Hsiao-Mei (Sherry) Cho – SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA | Ethan Cho – Northorp Grumman, USA |
| Marcio DeAndrade – NIWC Pacific, USA | Luigi Di Palma, SEEQC, USA | Shannon Duff – NIST, USA |
| Pascal Febvre – University Savoie Mont Blanc, France | Coenrad Fourie – Stellenbosch University, South Africa | Anna Fox* – NIST, USA |
| Anna Grassellino – FNAL, Northwestern University, USA | Deepnarayan Gupta – Consultant, USA | Mike Hamilton – Google, USA |
| D. Scott Holmes – IEEE IRDS, USA | Pete Hopkins – NIST, USA | Alex Jarjour, Northrop Grumman, 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 | Johanna Nagy, Case Western, USA | Giovanni Piero Pepe* – University of Naples Federico II & CNR SPIN, Italy |
| Britton Plourde – University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA | John Przybysz* – IEEE CSC, USA | Rochelle Qu – University of California Riverside, USA |
| Kaja Rotermund, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA | Maria Salatino* – Rigetti Computing, USA | Lieze Schindler – Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
| Enrico Silva – University Roma Tre, Italy | Adam Sirois – NIST, USA | Ronny Stolz – Leibniz IPHT, Germany |
| Paul Szypryt, NIST, USA | Naoki Takeuchi – National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan | Saburo Tanaka – Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan |
| Hirotaka Terai* – National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan | Miranda Thompson* – NIST, USA | Hannes Töpfer – Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany |
| Elie Track – IEEE Council on Superconductivity / nVizix, USA | Chiharu Urano – National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan | Andre Vallieres, Northwestern University, USA |
| Igor Vernik – Seeqc, Inc., USA | Taro Yamashita – Tohoku University, Japan | Nobuyuki Yoshikawa – Yokohama National University, Japan |
*Indicates ASEF Board Member
LARGE SCALE | Topical Co-Chairs: Robert Duckworth – ORNL, USA and Ezio Todesco* – CERN, Switzerland
| Naoyuki Amemiya – Kyoto University, Japan | Kathleen Amm* – NHMFL/FSU, USA | Douglas Araujo – PSI, Switzerland |
| Bernhard Auchmann – PSI, Switzerland | Arnaud Badel – CNRS, Neel Institute, France | Marta Bajko – CERN, Switzerland |
| Luca Bottura* – CERN, Switzerland | Lucas Brouwer – LBNL, USA | Luisa Chiesa* – Tufts University, USA |
| Antonella Chiuchiolo – GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Germany | Lance Cooley* – NHMFL/FSU, USA | Tim Coombs – University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Valentina Corato – ENEA, Italy | Wescley T.B. de Sousa* – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany | Stefania Farinon – INFN, Italy |
| Helene Felice* – CEA Paris Saclay, France | Paolo Ferracin* – LBNL, USA | Mike Green* – 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 | Chris Kovacs – Material Scientist Scintillating Solutions LLC, USA | Nick Long – Victoria University of Wellington, Robinson Research Institute, New Zealand |
| Cesar Luongo – EUROfusion, France | Antonio Morandi* – University of Bologna, Italy | Luigi Muzzi – ENEA, Italy |
| Tatsushi Nakamoto – KEK, Japan | Claudia Navarro, Tufts University, USA | 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 – LBNL, USA | Rebecca Riccioli, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland | Nicolo Riva* – Proxima Fusion, Switzerland |
| Erica Salazar – Commonwealth Fusion Systems, USA | Tiina-Mari Salmi* – Tampere University, Finland | Charlie Sanabria* – CFS, USA |
| Laura Savoldi – Politecnico di Torino, Italy | Massimo Sorbi – INFN, Italy | Stoyan Stoynev – FNAL, USA |
| Michinaka Sugano – KEK, Japan | Michael Sumption – Ohio State University, USA | Herman ten Kate – University of Twente, Netherlands |
| Fernando Toral – CIEMAT, Spain | Gueorgui Velev – FNAL, USA | Sofia Viarengo – Proxima Fusion, Switzerland |
| Jeanne Villar – Polytechnique Montreal, Canada | Xiaorong Wang* – LBNL, USA | Anbo Wu – GE HealthCare, USA |
| Liye Xiao – Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS, China | Al Zeller* – NHMFL/FSU, USA |
*Indicates ASEF Board Member
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 |
| Gianluca De Marzi – ENEA, Italy | 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 | Eric Hellstrom* – NHMFL/FSU, USA |
| 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 | Jin Kwon, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, 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 |
| Abiola Oloye* – GE HealthCare, USA | 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 |
| Yasuaki Takeda, NIMS, Japan | Chiara Tarantini* – NHMFL/FSU, USA | Judy Wu* – University of Kansas, USA |
| Akiyasu Yamamoto* – Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan | Yue Zhao – Shanghai Jiaotong University, China |
*Indicates ASEF Board Member