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The IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) elected new officers at its Annual Administrative Committee Meeting held virtually on July 26-27.
Representatives of the twenty-three IEEE Societies who are Council members gather annually to conduct Council business and elect officers. This year three positions were up for election: VP for Educational Activities, VP for Publications and VP for Technical Activities (2023-23). Positions start on 1-Jan.
Lixin Dong, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) was elected VP for Educational Activities 2022-2023, Xiaoning Jiang, a Dean F. Duncan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a University Faculty Scholar with North Carolina State University, was elected VP for Technical Activities 2022-2023 and Prof. Supriyo Bandyopadhyay Commonwealth Professor and director of the Quantum Device Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University was elected VP for Publications 2022-2023.
VP for Educational Activities
Lixin Dong is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Xi’an University of Technology (XUT) in 1989 and 1992, respectively. He became a Research Associate in 1992, a Lecturer in 1995, and an Associate Professor in 1998 at XUT. He received his Ph.D. degree in Micro Systems Engineering from Nagoya University in 2003, and became Assistant Professor at Nagoya University in 2003. In 2004 he joined ETH Zurich as a Research Scientist, and had been a Senior Research Scientist there from 2005 to 2008. Prior to join CityU, he had been an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University by 2019. His main research interests include nanorobotics, NEMS, and other nanosystems. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2011 and the 2008 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence.
VP for Technical Activities
Xiaoning Jiang is a Dean F. Duncan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an Adjunct Professor of Neurology at Duke University. Dr. Jiang received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees from Shanghai Jiaotong University (1990), Tianjin University (1992) and Tsinghua University (1997), respectively. He received his Postdoctoral training from the Nanyang Technological University (1996-1997) and the Pennsylvania State University (1997-2001). He was the Chief Scientist and Vice President at TRS Technologies, Inc. prior to joining NC State in 2009. Dr. Jiang is the author and co-author of two books, 6 book chapters, 14 issued/published US Patents, 140 peer reviewed journal papers and over 120 conference papers. on M/NEMS, piezoelectric ultrasound transducers, ultrasound for medical imaging and therapy, drug delivery, nanoacoustics, ultrasound NDT/NDE, smart materials and structures. Dr. Jiang is a member of the technical program committee for a few international conferences including IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium (TPC-5), SPIE Smart Structures and NDE, ASME IMECE, IEEE NANO and IEEE NMDC. He is currently the NanoAcoustics Technical Committee Chair and Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (2020 and 2021). Dr. Jiang is a Fellow of ASME and SPIE.
VP for Publications
Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Commonwealth Professor and director of the Quantum Device Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research has been featured in multiple magazines (Business Week, EE Times), journals (Nanotechnology, Nature), internet blogs, TV (CBS), radio (NPR) and many other forums. Prof. Bandyopadhyay is the author/co-author of over 400 research publications and three text books. He was named “Virginia’s Outstanding Scientist” by Governor Terrence McAuliffe in 2016 and won the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award in 2018. He was given the “University Award of Excellence” in 2017; it is the highest award given by his university to one faculty member in a given year. Dr. Bandyopadhyay received numerous other awards and was last year’s winner of the IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE, American Physical Society, Institute of Physics, the Electrochemical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.