IEEE Nanotechnology Council Announces 2025 Election Results

The IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) elected new officers at its Annual Administrative Committee Meeting held in Washington DC, on July 13, 2025.

Representatives of the twenty-two IEEE Societies who are Council members gather annually to conduct Council business and elect officers. The positions up for election were: VP-elect for Conferences and VP-elect for Finances (3 years, elect 2026; VP 2027-2028), and Member-at-Large (MAL) (up to 3) (2026-2027).

Antonio Di Bartolomeo, University of Salerno, Italy was elected VP-elect for Conferences and Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, Portland State University (USA) was elected VP-elect for Finances.

Attila Bonyar, Budapest University of Technology & Economics, Sorin Cotofana, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands and Li Tao, Southeast University, Nanjing, China were elected Members-at-Large 2026-27.

VP-elect for Finances (3 years, elect 2026; VP 2027-2028)

Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske is Professor of ECE and Director of VLSI & Emerging Technology DA Laboratory at Portland State University, where she was ECE Department chair from 2004 to 2010. Previously, she was with the Technical University of Warsaw and the Research and Production Center of Semiconductor Devices. She holds a Ph.D degree in EE from Auburn University. Her research interests include CAD for VLSI and 3DICs, nanotechnology and nano/bio systems, and design for emerging and renewable technologies. She has presented tutorial, keynote, and invited talks at international conferences, published 150+ technical papers, and serves as panelist/reviewer for the National Science Foundation, National Research Council Canada, and international journals and conferences. Her research has been supported by NSF and industry.

She received the 1990 Best Paper Award from Alabama Section of IEEE and IEEE CEDA 2008 Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided-Design.

She is the current NTC VP for Finances and was reelected.

VP-elect for Conferences (3 years, elect 2026; VP 2027-2028)

Antonio di Bartolomeo is a professor of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics and the president of the Physics Education Committee at the University of Salerno, Italy, where he teaches semiconductor device physics and nanoelectronics. His present research interests include optical and electrical properties of nanostructured materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, and 2D materials; van der Waals heterostructures, Schottky junctions, field-effect transistors, nonvolatile memories, solar cells, photodetectors, field emission devices, supercapacitors, and fuel cells. He received the Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Salerno in 1997, and spent several years in the industry as a semiconductor device engineer (ST Microelectronics, Infineon Technologies, and Intel Corporation). He has authored over 150 publications, two physics textbooks, and two patents. He is serving as the editor-in-chief of IOP Nano Express, the deputy editor-in-chief of IET Micro & Nano Letters, the section editor-in-chief of MDPI Nanomaterials and is an Editorial Board member of several journals.

Members-at-Large (MAL) (2026-2027)

Dr. Attila Bonyár is an associate professor and head of the Nanotechnology Laboratory at the Department of Electronics Technology, Faculty of Electronics Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has two M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering (2009) and biomedical engineering (2011), a Ph.D. (2014), and habilitation (2021) in electrical engineering. He co-authored 121 publications, including 50 journal papers. In the past decade, he received best/excellent paper/presentation awards at various (mostly IEEE) conferences 10 times. He was elected to serve in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) Electron Devices and Electronics Technology Scientific Committee for two terms (in 2017 and in 2021).

Prof. Sorin Cotofana (PhD EE, MSc CE) is currently with the Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. His current research is focused on: (i) the design and implementation of dependable/reliable systems out of unpredictable/unreliable components; (ii) ageing assessment/prediction and lifetime reliability aware resource management; and (iii) unconventional computation paradigms and computation with emerging nano-devices and materials, e.g., graphene. He published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed international journal and conferences, received 13 international conferences best paper awards, e.g., 2012 IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, 2012 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, 2005 IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, 2001 International Conference on Computer Design, and delivered 40 invited talks. He participated as principal investigator in 15 research projects funded by Government, Industry, and EU, and is currently leading 2 Spin Wave-based computing projects. He advised and graduated 20 PhD and 30 MSc students, respectively.

Professor Li Tao obtained bachelor’s degree from Southeast University in 2004, and received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2010. Then, he entered the University of Texas at Austin Microelectronics Research Center for post-doctoral research and was promoted to research scientist in 2012. He joined Southeast University as a professor of Materials Science and Engineering in 2016. Prof. Tao’s research interests include nanofabrication, two-dimensional semiconductor materials and devices, and the cross-application of micro-systems and nanotechnology in healthcare and IoTs. He has over 50 publications, including first/corresponding author Nature Nanotechnology (citations>1000), Chemical Society Reviews, IEEE TAP, Infomat etc. He serves as associate editors for Research (the first Science Partner Journal) and MicroElectronics Engineering. Prof. Tao has delivered more than 15 invited talks in IEEE, MRS, APS and other conferences, and served as the conference general chair for IEEE NMDC 2020&2022. He is a senior member of IEEE.