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  • ProfessorGabriel Aeppli
    Gabriel Aeppli
    Professor
    Gabriel Aeppli is professor of physics at ETH Zürich and EPF Lausanne, and head of the Photon Science division of the Paul Scherrer Institute. All of his degrees are from MIT and include a BSc in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, and MSc and PhD in Electrical Engineering. He started his career as a work-study student at IBM and after his PhD moved to Bell Laboratories and then NEC, and worked on problems ranging from liquid crystals to magnetic data storage. He was subsequently co-founder and director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Quain Professor at University College London. Aeppli also cofounded the BioNano Consulting Company, of which he remains a non-executive director. He is a frequent advisor to numerous entities worldwide engaged in the funding, evaluation and management of science and technology. Honors include the Mott Prize of the Institute of Physics (London), the Oliver Buckley prize of the American Physical Society, the Néel Medal/International Magnetism Prize of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, election to the US Academy of Arts and Sciences, the US National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society.
  • ProfessorGang Chen
    Gang Chen
    Professor
    Gang Chen is the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as the Department Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT from 2013 to 2018, and as the director of the "Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC Center)" - an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US Department of Energy from 2009 to 2019. He obtained his PhD degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department at UC Berkeley. He was a faculty member at Duke University and UCLA, before joining MIT in 2001. He received an NSF Young Investigator Award, an R&D 100 award, an ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award and Frank Kreith Memorial Award, a Nukiyama Memorial Award by the Japan Heat Transfer Society, a World Technology Network Award in Energy, an Eringen medal from the Society of Engineering Science, and the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellences in Mentoring and Advising from MIT.  He is a fellow of and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, American Association of Mechanical Engineers, the Guggenheim Foundation. He is an academician of Academia Sinica and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
  • ProfessorZhong Lin Wang
    Zhong Lin Wang
    Professor
    Dr. Zhong Lin (ZL) Wang is the Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering, Regents' Professor, College of Engineering Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Nanostructure Characterization, at Georgia Tech. Dr. Wang has made original and innovative contributions to the synthesis, discovery, characterization and understanding of fundamental physical properties of oxide nanobelts and nanowires, as well as applications of nanowires in energy sciences, electronics, optoelectronics and biological science. He is the world leader in ZnO nanostructure research in the last decade. His discovery and breakthroughs in developing nanogenerators establish the principle and technological road map for harvesting mechanical energy from environment and biological systems for powering a personal electronics. The field created by him on self-powered nano-systems inspired the worldwide effort in academia and industry for studying energy for micro-nano-systems. He coined and pioneered the field of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics by introducing piezoelectric potential gated charge transport process in fabricating new electronic and optoelectronic devices. Dr. Wang was elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009, member of European Academy of Sciences in 2002, fellow of American Physical Society in 2005, fellow of AAAS in 2006, fellow of Materials Research Society in 2008, fellow of Microscopy Society of America in 2010. He is an honorable professor of over 10 universities in China and Europe. He received 1999 Burton Medal from Microscopy Society of America, 2001 S.T. Li prize for Outstanding Contribution in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the 2000 and 2005 Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Research Author Awards, Sigma Xi 2005 sustain research awards, Sigma Xi 1998 and 2002 best paper awards, and the 2009 Purdy Award from American Ceramic Society.
  • ProfessorXiuling Li
    Xiuling Li
    Professor
    Xiuling Li is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her B.S. degree form Peking University and Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. Following post-doctoral positions at California Institute of Technology and University of Illinois, as well as industry experience at EpiWorks, Inc., she joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 2007 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2012, and to Professor in 2015. Her research interests are in the area of nanostructured semiconductor materials and devices. She has published more than 138 journal papers and holds more than 20 patents. She is a Fellow of IEEE and APS. Her other honors and awards include NSF CAREER award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, and ONR Young Investigator Award. She served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Photonics Society, and technical program committees of several international conferences. She is a Deputy Editor of Applied Physics Letters and serves as the Vice President of Finance and Administration of IEEE Photonics Society.
  • ProfessorYounan Xia
    Younan Xia
    Professor
    Younan Xia is the Brock Family Chair and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1987, a M.S. degree in inorganic chemistry from University of Pennsylvania (with Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid) in 1993, and a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University (with Professor George M. Whitesides) in 1996. His group has invented a myriad of nanomaterials with controlled properties and these nanomaterials have found widespread use in applications related to plasmonics, electronics, photonics, photovoltaics, display, catalysis, fuel cells, nanomedicine, and regenerative medicine. As an example, his technology on silver nanowires has been commercialized for the manufacturing of flexible, transparent, and conductive coatings for applications such as touchscreen, flexible electronics, and photovoltaics. The gold nanocages invented by his group are enabling cancer theranostics. Xia has co-authored more than 760 publications in peer-reviewed journals, together with a total citation of more than 140,000 and an h-index of 189. He has been named a Top 10 Chemist and Materials Scientist based on the number of citation per publication. He has received a number of prestigious awards, including Materials Research Society (MRS) Metal (2017), American Chemical Society (ACS) National Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2013), NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2006), David and Lucile Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering (2000), NSF CAREER (2000). More information can be found at http://www.nanocages.com.
  • ProfessorNai-Chang Yeh
    Nai-Chang Yeh
    Professor
    Nai-Chang Yeh is a Taiwanese American physicist specializing in experimental condensed matter physics. She received her B.Sc. from National Taiwan University, and then obtained her Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is Professor of Physics and the Fletcher Jones Foundation Co-Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and is the first female professor tenured in the physics department. Her current research focuses on scientific and technological topics of correlated electrons, topological materials, low-dimensional systems, optoelectronics, valleytronics, spintronics, nanoscience and nanotechnology, energy research, and precise measurements using superconducting technology. Some of her professional honors include: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Shanghai University (China); Visiting Chair Professor, National Central University (Taiwan); Eminent Visiting Professor, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (Brunei); Wu Chien-Shiung Distinguished Lectureship, National Central University (Taiwan); Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (USA); Fellow, American Physical Society (USA); Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University; Fellow, The Institute of Physics (UK); Achievement Awards, Southern California Chinese-American Faculty Association; Outstanding Young Researcher Award, International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers (OCPA); Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering; and Sloan Research Fellowship. Among her many roles of services, she was President of the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers (OCPA) from 2013 to 2014, and is currently a Handling Editor for Reviews in Physics. She is also an international advisor to the Tsien Excellence in Education Program (TEEP) at Tsinghua University and the Zhiyuan College at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In 1991, Time Magazine named her a scientific “rising star” in California. In 2016, BBC World News featured her research in one of the Horizon episodes “Abundant World”, which was broadcasted worldwide.
  • ProfessorFeng Ding
    Feng Ding
    Professor
    Feng Ding is the leader of theory group in the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, Institute for Basic Science (IBS-CMCM), UNIST. He is also a distinguished professor in Department of Material Science and Engineering, UNIST. He earned his PhD degree in the Department of Physics in Nanjing University in 2002. Following that, he did a two-year postdoc at Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University and a four-year research scientist in Rice University. He obtained his MS degree at Fudan University in 1996 and his bachelor's degree at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1993, all in Department of Physics. Feng Ding's research interests involve methods and algorithms development and the theory of carbon nanotube, graphene, and other 2D material's growth, as well as the experimental synthesis of carbon nanotubes and 2D materials.
  • ProfessorMorinobu Endo
    Morinobu Endo
    Professor
    Morinobu Endo is professor of Shinshu University, often cited as one of the pioneers of carbon nanofibers and carbon nanotubes synthesis at the beginning of the 1970s. He demonstrated carbon fibers can be grown by gas pyrolysis and traveled to Orléans, France in 1974 working with Madame Agnès Oberlin at CNRS in her laboratory. He discovered carbon nanotubes in 1976 as part of his studies at University of Orleans in France. He has been awarded the Charles E. Pettinos Award from the American Carbon Society in 2001, "For his pioneering work and applications of carbon nanotubes", Medal of Achievement in Carbon Science and Technology from the American Carbon Society in 2004, "for the discovery of, and early synthesis work on, carbon nanotubes".
  • ProfessorGuoqiang Chen
    Guoqiang Chen
    Professor
    Prof. Guoqiang Chen, born in December 1963, graduated from South China University of Technology in 1985, received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Graz (Graz), Austria in 1989. He was admitted to Nottingham University in the UK from 1990 to 1994 and Alberta (Alber) in Canada. Ta) University is a postdoctoral researcher. In 1994, he was hired as an associate professor at Tsinghua University. In 1997, he was hired as a professor and doctoral tutor. Professor Guoqiang Chen has been engaged in the research of “microbiology and biomaterials” for a long time. He has published more than 200 papers related to microbial technology and biomaterials in international academic journals, among which Web of Sciences papers have been cited more than 8,000 times (H index is 47). He has obtained 30 patents and 40 public patents. Related development techniques have been used in several companies for the mass production of microbial plastic polyhydroxyalkanoate PHA.
  • ProfessorHongwei Wang
    Hongwei Wang
    Professor
    Dr. Wang received his B.S. degree in Biological Sciences & Biotechnology from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China in 1996. He did his thesis work under the supervision of Prof. Sen-Fang Sui, earning a Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 2001. Subsequently, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Prof. Eva Nogales, advancing to Research Scientist in 2006 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He joined Yale University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 2009 and returned to his alma mater as a Professor of Life Sciences in December, 2010. Prof. Wang’s current research interests include methodology development for more efficient and high resolution cryo-EM, the coordination mechanisms of cytoskeleton and membrane systems, and the mechanism and regulations of nucleic acid quality control. He was appointed as a dean of School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University in 2016. Dr. Wang received numerous awards, including Tan Jiazhen Life Sciences Innovation Award, The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Beijing Teachers’ Role Model, and Beijing Outstanding Teacher Award.
  • ProfessorBai Song
    Bai Song
    Professor
    Dr. Bai Song is an assistant professor in the College of Engineering at Peking University (PKU), Beijing, and a Co-PI at the Beijing Innovation Center for Engineering Science and Advanced Technology. He is also supported by the Thousand Young Talents program. Prior to PKU, he worked as a postdoctoral associate in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD in 2015 in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he was honored with the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. He obtained his ME and BE at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and was a recipient of the Distinguished Master Thesis Award. He explores anything with an interesting thermal aspect, with a primary focus on the experimental, computational, and theoretical study of heat generation, transport, conversion, and storage, in diverse materials, devices and systems, and especially at small spatial and temporal scales. He further aims to leverage such knowledge to develop engineering solutions to real-world challenges in key areas including energy and environment, electronics and optoelectronics, quantum materials, and space exploration. He has published 3 papers in Nature and Science and 5 in their sister journals such as Nature Nanotechnology and Science Advances, on the fundamentals of nanoscale thermal radiation, phonon localization and second sound, and semiconductors and polymers of unusual high thermal conductivity.
  • Investigator, Associate ProfessorProf Ting Zhu
    Prof Ting Zhu
    Investigator, Associate Professor
    1999.9-2003.1 B.E. in Engineering Mechanics (early graduation with highest honor), Tsinghua University 2003.9-2005.9 M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, MIT (Advisor: Dr. Roger D. Kamm) 2005.9-2010.6 Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), MIT (Advisor: Dr. Jack W. Szostak) 2010.7-2011.9 Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts General Hospital/MIT (Advisors: Dr. Gary Ruvkun, Dr. Maria T. Zuber) 2011.9-2016.6 Tenure-track Assistant, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University 2016.6-present Tenured Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University
  • ProfessorHe Tian
    He Tian
    Professor
    He Tian is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D degree from Tsinghua University. He visited Yale University as a visiting scientist and joined the faculty of Tsinghua University in 2017 as an Assistant Professor. His research interests are in the area of nano devices based on 2D materials (graphene, MoS2, black phosphorus, 2D perovskite et.) He has published more than 84 SCI papers and 6 of them have been selected as ESI highly cited papers. He is a member of IEEE and a member of EDS. He served as reviewer for multiple academic journals including IEEE Journal of Electron Devices Society, Journal of Applied Physics, Advanced Materials, and Nano Energy.
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    Important Dates
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    Conference start time
    2019-07-15
    Early Bird Registration
    2019-04-30
    Registration Deadline
    2019-06-10
    Commencement of Abstract Submission
    2019-03-23
    Abstract Submission Deadline
    2019-07-01
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