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Toronto, Canada (18 August 2014) – The IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) elected new officers at its Annual Meeting held August 18 in Torontoin conjunction with its 2014 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 three positions were up for election: President-elect 2015 (President 2016-17); Vice-President for Conferences 2015-16; and Vice-President for Finance 2015-16.
Prof. Wen J. Li, Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), was elected NTC President-elect. Parviz Famouri, Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Studies in the Lane Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University (WVU) was elected Vice-President for Conferences , and James Morris, Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) was elected Vice-president for Finances. All positions are effective as of 1-January 2015.
President-elect
Wen J. Li is Chair Professor of the Dept. of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Prior to joining CityU in November 2011, he founded and led the Centre for Micro and Nano Systems at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he started his academic career in 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 The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, CA), the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA), and Silicon Microstructures Inc. (Fremont, CA). He currently serves as NTC’s VP for Publications, and has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine from 2007 to 2013. He was elected IEEE Fellow in 2010 for his contributions in low-power integrated carbon nanotube sensors, and was also elected as an ASME Fellow in 2011 for his contributions in micro power generators. His research interests include nanoscale fabrication, sensing and manipulation.
VP Conferences
Parviz Famouri is Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Studies in the Lane Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University (WVU). He was an Engineering Scientist at Emerson Motor Company (St. Louis) in 1994. He was also an executive member of the task force on University Strategic Planning and Assessment (the 2010 Plan: Building the Foundation for Academic Excellence). He was the Chair of WVU Senate 2006-2007 and was instrumental in merging the Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering departments within WVU.
He received the B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Kentucky State University, 1981, and the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Kentucky in 1982, 1986, 1990, respectively. His research interests include electromechanical systems and bio-nano molecular motors with over 200 publications. In particular my research expertise is on myosin II molecular motor protein for nano-scale transport applications such as self-assembly, protein sorting, and drug delivery.
VP Finance
Jim Morris has being doing nanotechnology since before the term was invented. His M.Sc. research at the University of Auckland dealt with tunnel diode circuits and modeling, and his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Saskatchewan with nanoparticle thin films. Since then, he has branched out into sensors and embedded systems for automotive engine control at Victoria University of Wellington and South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, and developed a long term interest in electronics packaging at SUNY-Binghamton, especially in electrically conductive adhesives. He is currently a Professor at Portland State University, where these interests have merged in nanopackaging. He has (co-)edited or co-authored seven books on electronics packaging and nanotechnology, (two having been translated into Chinese.) Jim has held visiting positions at several international universities, including at the Helsinki University of Technology (2009) as a Nokia-Fulbright Fellow.
Congratulations to our new 2015 officers.