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Beijing, China (8 August 2013) – The IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) elected new officers at its Annual Meeting held August 5 in Beijing in conjunction with its 2013 International Conference on Nanotechnology.
Representatives of the twenty-one IEEE Societies who are Council members gather annually to conduct Council business and elect officers. This year two positions were up for election: Vice-President for Publications 2014-15, and Vice-President for Technical Activities 2014-15.
Prof. Wen J. Li, Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), was elected VP Publications for 2014-15. Guangyong Li, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) was elected VP Technical Activities for 2014-15. Both will take office January 1, 2014.
Wen J Li is a Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) since November of 2011. Prior to joining CityU, he founded and led the Centre for Micro and Nano Systems at The Chinese University of Hong Kong since September 1997. He was educated at the University of Southern California (BSAE 87’; MSAE 89’) and the University of California, Los Angeles (PhD 97’, in Aerospace Engineering). His industrial experience includes working for The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, CA), the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA), and Silicon Microstructures Inc. (Fremont, CA). He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine. He was General Chair of NTC’s IEEE-NANO 2007 conference. He was elected IEEE Fellow in 2010 for his contributions in low-power integrated carbon nanotube sensors. He was also elected ASME Fellow in 2011 for his contributions in micro power generators. His research interests include nanoscale fabrication, sensing and manipulation.
Guangyong Li is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, in 1992, the M.S. degree in control theory and application from Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing, in 2006. His industrial experience includes working for Beijing Institute of Space Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (1992-1996) and Beijing Hollysys Corporation, Beijing (1999). He received the 2006 IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award. He has participated in activities organized by IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) since 2002, serving as a registration chair for conferences sponsored by NTC such as IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (2009 and 2010) and IEEE International Conference on Nano/Molecular Medicine and Engineering (2013), and as a representative from IEEE NTC on the steering committee of IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2011-2014). His current research interests include nanostructured thin film solar cells; scanning probe microcopy; micro/nanorobotic systems; nanodevices and biosensors; control theory and applications; real-time system design and integration.