The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that Miguel Alonso, Prem Kumar and Guifang Li have been appointed as the new editors-in-chief of Optics Letters, Optica, and Advances in Optics and Photonics, respectively. Each of the editors-in-chief began their tenure on January 1, 2020.
Miguel Alonso joined the faculty of the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics in 2003 and, since 2018, he is also with Institut Fresnel, Ecole Central Marseille and Aix-Marseille Université in France. His research is on mathematical aspects of wave propagation, in particular the description and applications of beams with structured intensity and polarization distributions, optical coherence and the connection between the ray and wave models of light. Alonso is an OSA Fellow and has been active on program committees for several OSA conferences. In addition, he has been very involved with OSA’s publishing program for almost two decades. For 12 years, he was a member of the Optics Express Editorial Board as an associate and deputy editor. He then served as an associate editor for Optica for six years. Alonso also founded and chaired OSA Publishing’s Spotlight on Optics Panel for over seven years. Alonso takes over the editor-in-chief position from Xi-Cheng Zhang, who led the journal from 2014 through 2019.
Prem Kumar is professor of information technology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Center for Photonic Communication and Computing in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, U.S.A. He also holds an appointment as professor of physics and astronomy in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. His research focuses on nonlinear and quantum optical devices for applications, including photonic entanglement in quantum information networks; novel quantum light states for precision measurements, imaging, and sensing; and networked classical optical communications. Kumar is an OSA Fellow who has been active on various OSA conference program committees. He led a student chapter, served on OSA’s Publications Council, and was a member of a committee to review Optics Express. Kumar was a topical editor for Optics Letters for ten years and guest edited the Journal of the Optical Society of America B centennial article collection in 2016. He takes over the editor-in-chief position from Alexander L. Gaeta, who led the journal from its inception in 2014 through 2019.
Guifang Li is a professor of optics, electrical & computer engineering and physics at the University of Central Florida’s Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), USA. His research interests include optical communication and networking, RF photonics and all-optical signal processing. An OSA Fellow, Li served as an associate editor for Optica for six years and was an associate and deputy editor for Optics Express for nine years. He has also served on several OSA conference program committees. Li takes over the editor-in-chief position from Govind Agrawal, who led AOP from 2014 through 2019.
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