ONTC Post-ICC 2024 Awardees

• • 2023 ONTC Malathi Veeraraghavan Service Award: Prof. Zuqing Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, for outstanding service to the optical network community.
    
  • 2022 ONTC Outstanding Technical Achievement Award: Prof. George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA, for pioneering research in the design, implementation, operation, and control of fiber optic networks

ONTC Meeting ICC 2023 Awardees

• • 2022 ONTC Outstanding Technical Achievement Award: Prof. Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA
    “For pioneering research in the design and optimization of optical networks, particularly on optical wavelength routing algorithms, survivability aspects, and performance modelling”
  • 2022 ONTC Malathi Veeraraghavan Service Award: Dr. Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy.
    “for outstanding service to the optical network community”

ONTC Meeting Pre-ICC 2022 Awardees

• • 2021 ONTC Outstanding Technical Achievement Award: Prof. Lena Wosinska, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
    “For pioneering research in optical networks, particularly on architectural, techno-economic, and survivability aspects of optical access and core networks”

ONTC Meeting @ Globecom 2021 Awardees

• • 2020 ONTC Outstanding Technical Achievement Award: Prof. Chunming Qiao, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA
    “For Pioneering Research on Optical Burst Switching (OBS)”
  • 2020 ONTC Malathi Veeraraghavan Service Award: Dr. Jane Simmons, Monarch Networks, USA.
    “For Championing the Optical Networking Field”

ONTC Meeting @ Globecom 2019 Awardees

• • 2019 ONTC Service Award: Prof. George Rouskas, North Carolina State University “For Outstanding Service to Optical Network Community”

ONTC Meeting @ Globecom 2018 Awardees

• • 2018 ONTC Outstanding Technical Achievement Award: Prof. Piet Demeester, Ghent University
    “For Contributions to Resilience in Optical Communication Networks”
  • 2018 ONTC Service Award: Prof. Admela Jukan, Technische Universitat Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig
    “For Outstanding Service to Optical Network Community”

ONTC Meeting @ Globecom 2017 Awardees

• • 2017 ONTC Outstanding Technical Achievement Award: Prof. Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya University
    “For Contributions to Photonic Systems and Transport Networks”
  • 2017 ONTC Service Award: Dr. Dominic Schupke, Airbus Group
    “For Key Efforts in Industry Outreach”

ONTC Meeting @ Globecom 2016 Awardees

• • 2016 ONTC Outstanding Technical Achievement Award: Prof. Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University

    

    “for contributions to grooming and multipoint communication in optical networks”

• 2016 ONTC Service Award: Prof. Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa
  

   

  “for founding the Optical Networking Technical Committee”

ONTC Meeting @ Globecom 2015 Awardees

• • 2015 ONTC Outstanding Technical Achievement Award: Prof. Biswanath Mukherjee, UC Davis

    

    “for pioneering work on shaping the optical networking area”
• 2015 ONTC Service Award: Prof. Vincent Chan, MIT
  

   

  “for invaluable efforts to broaden participation in ONTC and increase ONTC visibility”
   

Current  Awards Subcommittee

Chair
Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano

Members:

• Lena Wosinska (Chalmers University, Sweden)
• Yusuke Hirota (NICT, Japan)
• Maite Brandt-Pearce (University of Virginia, USA)
• Luca Valcarenghi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy)