General Chair(s)
Dr. Ian Ferguson Vice Provost & Dean COE & Computing Missouri University of S & T Rolla, MO, USA ianf@mst.edu	Dr. Glenn D.Boreman Prof. and Chair, Physics & Optical Science Dir, Center for Optoelectronics & Optical Communications UNC Charlotte, USA gboreman@uncc.edu
Conference and TPC Chairs
Dr. Ziya Arnavut Conf. Co-Chair Prof., Computer Science Department SUNY Fredonia, NY, USA ziya.arnavut@fredonia.edu	Dr. Jim M. Conrad Conf. Co-Chair Prof., ECE Department, UNC Charlotte, NC,USA                     jmconrad@uncc.edu
Dr. Ahmed E. Kamal TPC Co-Chair Prof., ECE, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA kamal@iastate.edu	Dr. Kamal Alameh TPC Co-Chair Prof. & Director, Electron Science Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia k.alameh@ecu.edu.au
Host Committee and Local TPC
Dr Jing Xiao	CS, UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr Abasifreke Ebong	ECE, UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr Na Lu (LuNa)	ET, CE, UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr Jiang (Linda) Xie	ECE, UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr Thomas Suleski	PHY & Opt. Sci., UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr Nathaniel Fried	PHY & Opt. Sci., UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr Michael Walter	CHEM, UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr Ting T. (Terry) Xu	UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr Tsing-Hua Her	PHY & Opt. Sci., UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr Mirsad Hadzikadic	CCI, UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr. Menelaos Poutous	PHY & Opt. Sci., UNC Charlotte, USA
Technical Program Committee (TPC) Members
Dr Junaid A. Zubairi	SUNY - Fredonia, USA
Dr Badrul Chowdary	UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr April Brown	Duke University, USA
Dr Eric Johnson	Clemson University, USA
Dr Yong Zhang	UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr Abdullah Aldawayyan	KSU, Saudi Arabia
Dr Carla Dimas	Masdar Institute, UAE
Dr Michael Escuti	NC State, USA
Dr Jala El-Azab	Cairo University, Egypt
Dr Ajay K. Sharma	NIT Jalandhar, India
Dr Vasily Astrotov	UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr Nikolaus Dietz	Georgia State, USA
Finance Chairs
Dr. Michael A. Fiddy, Prof. Electrical & Computer Engineering and Physics & Optical Science Dept., UNC Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223, USA mafiddy@uncc.edu	Dr. M. Yasin Akhtar Raja, Prof. Ctr. for Optoelectronics & Optical Communications and Physics & Optical Science Dept., UNC Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223, USA raja@uncc.edu
Information Chair(s)
Dr. Burak Kantarci Co-Chair EE&CS, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada kantarci@site.uottawa.ca	Dr. Syed Ali Haider Co-Chair SEECS-NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan ali.haider@seecs.edu.pk
Publication Committee
Dr HaiTao Zhang (Co-Chair)	UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr Syed Ali Haider (Co-Chair)	SEECS, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan
Dr Habib Fathallah	KSU, Saudi Arabia
Dr Ilia Baldine	UNC Chapel Hill, USA
Dr Michael Kudenov	NC State, USA
Dr Koji Kamakura	CITTN, Chiba, Japan
Dr Jamie Payton	UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr. Menelaos Poutous	UNC Charlotte, USA
HONET Secretariat
Dr Syed Ali Haider (Webmaster)	NUST-SEECS, Pakistan	ali.haider@seecs.edu.pk
Dr Burak Kantarci (Publicity)	U Ottawa, Canada	kantarci@site.uottawa.ca
Dr Michael A. Fiddy (Finance)	UNC Charlotte	mafiddy@uncc.edu
Dr Ben Klein (Program)	Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA	bklein@gatech.edu
Industry Expo Chair and Coordinator
Dr Johan Enslin Gen Chair Professor ECE and Director EPIC UNC Charlotte, NC, USA jenslin@uncc.edu	Dr. Glenn D. Boreman Prof. and Chair, Physics & Optical Sc. Dir, Ctr for Optoelectronics & Optical Communications UNC Charlotte, USA gboreman@uncc.edu
Dr. Khurram Kazi	L3-Communication and NYIT, USA
Mr. Scott Williams (Coordinator)	UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr. Madhav Manjrekar	ECE, UNC Charlotte, USA
Tutorials/ Workshop Co-Chairs:	Dr. Junaid A. Zubairi, SUNY Fredonia, Dr. Asis Nasipuri, UNC Charlotte, USA	zubairi@fredonia.edu; ANASIPUR@uncc.edu
Poster Session:	Dr. Awad Gerges UNC Charlotte, USA	agerges@uncc.edu
	Dr. Tsing-Hua HerUNC Charlotte, USA	ther@uncc.edu
Steering Committee Chairs
Dr. M. Yasin Akhtar Raja, Prof. Ctr for Optoelectronics & Optical Communication, Physics & Optical Sc. Dept., UNC Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223, USA raja@uncc.edu	Dr. Syed M. H. Zaidi Dean, SEECS National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Pakistan drzaidi@seecs.edu.pk
Dr. Hussein Mouftah	University of Ottawa, Canada	mouftah@site.uottawa.ca
Dr Hasan AMCA	EMU, N. Cyprus	hasan.amca@emu.edu.tr
Dr. M Manshad Satti	ITBUtler, Dubai, UAE	msatti@itbutler.com.au
Dr M Asghar Hashmi	IUB, Pakistan	mhashmi@iub.edu.pk
Dr. Ray Tsu	UNC Charlotte, USA	tsu@uncc.edu
Dr. John Zavada	NSF, Arlington, USA	jzavada@nsf.gov
Dr. Justin Schwartz	ECE, NC State, USA	justin_schwartz@ncsu.edu
Dr. Janakiraman Kumar	Anna University, Chennai, India	marsjk@gmail.com
Dr. Abdallah Ougazzaden	Dir., G.Tech-Lorraine; VP Lafayette Institute, France	Email
Dr. Asif Khan	USC, Columbia, USA	asif@cec.sc.edu
Dr. Gee-Kung Chang	Georgia Tech, USA	Email
Dr. Mahmood Nagrial	University of Western Sydney, Australia	M.Nagrial@uws.edu.au
Dr. Ram Gopal	University of Allah Abad, India	profrgopal@gmail.com
Dr. M. Ilyas	FAU, Boca Raton, FL, USA	ilyas@fau.edu

Technical Program Alumni Committee

Dr. Jamie Payton, College of Computing & Informatics, UNC Charlotte, NC, USA
Dr. Michael A. Fiddy, Phys & OSc. and ECE, UNC Charlotte, NC, USA
Dr. Jiang (Linda) Xie, College of Engineering, UNC Charlotte, NC, USA
Dr. Abasifreke Ebong, ECE & EPIC, UNC Charlotte, USA
Dr. Thomas Suleski, Ctr. for Optoelectronics & Optical Comm., UNC Charlotte, NC, USA
Dr. Patrick Moyer, Physics and Optical Science, UNC Charlotte, NC, USA
Dr. Vasily Astrotov, Physics and Optical Science, UNC Charlotte, NC, USA
Dr. Nathaniel Fried, Physics and Optical Science, UNC Charlotte, NC, USA
Dr. Hasan Demirel,  Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Dr. Erhan Ince, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Dr. Runyi Yu, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Dr. Osman Kukrer, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Dr. Huseyin Ozkaraman, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Dr. Hasan Demirel, Eastern Mediterranean University, Magosa, Cyprus   
Dr. Erhan Ince, Eastern Mediterranean University, Magosa, Cyprus
Dr. Runyi Yu (Prof.), Eastern Mediterranean University, Magosa, Cyprus
Dr. Osman Kukrer, Eastern Mediterranean University, Magosa, Cyprus
Dr. Huseyin Ozkaraman, Eastern Mediterranean Univ, Magosa, Cyprus
Dr. Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Dr. Burak Kantarci, SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Dr. Raheel Hassan, QUEST, Pakistan
Dr. Khaled Harfoush, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Dr. Hakki Cankaya, Computer Sc. and Engineering, SMU Campus, Dallas, TX, USA
Dr. Filippo Cugini, (CNIT) Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and University of Pisa, Italy
Dr. Aykut Hocanin, Chair Electrical Engg. Dept., Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Dr. Muhammed Salamah, Chair Computer Engg., Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Dr. Dogu Arifler. Eastern Mediteranean University, Cyprus
Dr. Ahmet Unveren, Eastern Mediteranean University, Cyprus
Dr. Gurcu Oz, Eastern Mediteranean University, Cyprus
Dr. Jala El-Azab, NILES, Cairo University, Egypt
Dr. Habib Fathallah (Optical access network) King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Koji Kamakura, Info & CS., Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, Japan
Dr. Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, Ames IA, USA
Dr. Zafar Taqvi, NASA, Houston, USA
Dr. Bulent Orencik, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Dr. Sema Oktug, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Dr. Murat Manguoglu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Dr. Deniz Dal, Ataturk University, Turkey
Dr. Taner Arsan, Kadir Has University, Turkey
Dr. Tamer Dqg, Kadir Has University, Turkey
Dr. M Ashraf Gondal, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Berk Canberk, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Dr. A Coskun Sonmez, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
Dr. Ali Gokhan Yavuz, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
Dr. Fahrettin Yakuphanoglu, Prof. and Chair Physics Dept, Firat University Elizig,  Turkey
Dr. Boon S. Ooi, KAUST, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Dr. Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Dr. Zeyad Alahmed (Photonics) King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Mohammed Alduraibi (Microelectronics & Nanofabrication) KSU, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Saleh Alshobaili (Wireless & Sensor network) King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Mohammad Alsunaidi, KFUPM,  Dhahran Saudi Arabia  
Dr. Clara Dimas, Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Mahmoud Rasras, Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Hakan Bagci, KAUST, Thuwal Saudi Arabia
Dr. Yaping Zhang, KAUST, Thuwal Saudi Arabia   
Dr. Ajay K. Sharma, NIT Jalandhar, India
Dr. Andre Girard, EXFO Optical Systems, Montreal, Canada
Dr. Admela Jukan, Technische Universitat Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig
Dr. Mahmood H. Nagrial, Univ. of Western Sydney, Australia
Dr. Mostafa H. Aly, Prof., ECED, AAST, Alexandria, Egypt