ODA Advancement Group

First step to build a community of providers serving the global optics and photonics industry

  • Mission: Create opportunities to build an ODA ecosystem where open communication, broad interoperability, and common standards can enable end-to-end solutions for product development at scale.

  • White paper in progress

  • Goal: Formal Association

Current: Optical Design Automation at SPIE Optics + Photonics

Optical Design Automation
Sub Conference SPIE 2025 San Diego

Conference Chair: Jonathan Heinz-Garcia, Airy Optics Inc. (USA)

Conference Co-Chair: G. Groot Gregory, Synopsys (USA)

Jacob Sacks, University of Rochester (USA); 

Kate Medicus, Ruda Optical (USA); 

Sanjay Ganghadara, Ansys (USA); 

David Z. Pan, UT Austin Design Automation Lab (USA); 

Henning Rehn, FISBA (Germany);

Logan Graves, Arizona Optical Metrology (USA); 

Annie Shalom Isaac, Carl Zeiss (USA/Germany); 

Maham Aftab, ASML (USA/Netherlands);  

Amit Dixit, AIM Photonics (USA); 

Daewook Kim, University of Arizona (USA); 

Tom Daspit, Siemens EDA (USA); 

Jaren Ashcraft, NASA/UCSB (USA); 

Hendrik Zachmann, Jabil Optics (Germany);

Oliver Fähnle, PanDao/ OST Applied University (Switzerland); 

Russell Chipman, Meta Platforms (USA);

Daniel Nikolov, University of Rochester (USA);