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The IEEE Nanotechnology Council NTC is pleased to announce that Wen J Li, Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), has been elected VP Publications for 2013. He will take office starting January 1, 2013. He succeeds Ari Requicha, who was elected President-elect at the NTC Annual Meeting in August 2012. Wen was most recently VP Conferences.
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.