Technical Activities

Dr. Jie Han received the B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2004. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests include nanoelectronic circuits and systems, approximate and stochastic computing, reliability and fault tolerance, novel computational models for nanoscale and biological applications. Dr. Han was a recipient of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH 2015) and four Best Paper Nominations at international conferences including the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2022). He was nominated for the 2006 Christiaan Huygens Prize of Science by the Royal Dutch Academy of Science. His work was recognized by the 125th anniversary issue of Science, for developing a theory of fault-tolerant nanocircuits (2005).

Lan Fu received her PhD degree from the Australia National University (ANU) in 2001 and is currently a Full Professor at the Research School of Physics, ANU. Prof. Lan Fu was the recipient of the IEEE Photonic Society Graduate Student Fellowship (2000), Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002), ARF/QEII Fellowship (2005) and Future Fellowship (2012). Professor Fu is a senior member of IEEE, IEEE/Photonics and Electron Devices Societies and was the past chair of the Photonics Society, Electron Devices Society and Nanotechnology Council Chapters of the IEEE ACT section. She is also the current member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee on Materials Science and Engineering, Secretary of the Executive Committee of Australian Materials Research Society (AMRS), and Australian Research Council College of Experts. Lan Fu’s main research interests include design, fabrication and integration of optoelectronic devices (LEDs, lasers, photodetectors and solar cells) based on low-dimensional III-V compound semiconductor structures including quantum wells, self-assembled quantum dots and nanowires grown by metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD).

Dr. Kin Fong Lei is a Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Chang Gung University (CGU), Taiwan. Prior to joining CGU, he was a Lecturer at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (2007-2010). He received B.S. degree from National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan (1998), and Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2005). In 2006, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Dr. Lei has made significant original contributions to research in Micro/Nano fabrication and Micro/Nano fluidics. He has published over 100 academic articles and was invited to contribute to 8 book/book chapters. Dr. Lei is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and Member of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS). He serves as a Chair of IEEE-EMBS Technical Committee on Bionanotechnology and BioMEMS (BNM) in 2020 and Associate Editor at EMBS Conference Editorial Board in 2020. He also served as an organizing committee member for many IEEE conferences for MEMS/microfluidics researchers, e.g., IEEE-NEMS 2017 (Los Angeles), 2018 (Singapore), and 2019 (Bangkok). Dr. Lei is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, and Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports.

Yongliang Yang received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 2005 and his Master and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, the United States in 2012 and 2014 respectively. He is currently a professor in State Key Laboratory of Robotics and intelligent systems at Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA), Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prior to joining SIA, he was a postdoc in Michigan State University. His current research interests include self-organized systems in biology and robotics, mechanobiology, computational biology and optics. He is members of several academic societies, including IEEE, Chinese Automation Association, and Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology. He has won the 100-Talents Awardee from Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has continuously been program committee members of IEEE-NEMS, IEEE-CYBER, IEEE-NANOMED, and IEEE-NANO in recent years. He was Associate Editor of IEEE-NANO in 2017 and 2025. He also served as Program Committee member of IEEE-NSENS 2025, Local Organization Chair of IEEE-NEMS 2025. He has published more than 60 academic papers, around 30 of them are journal publications.

Prof. Yang Xu is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), OSA/Optica Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of Institute of Engineering and Technology (FIET), IEEE NTC Distinguished Lecturer, Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher, and National High-Level Talent Professor. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Sensors & Actuators A, and Photonics Research. He received his B.S. degree in EE from Tsinghua University, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in ECE from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA. He is Qiushi Distinguished full professor at the School of Integrated Circuits, Zhejiang University, China. His current research interests include emerging 2D/3D integrated nano-devices and image sensors for Internet-of-Everything and Post-Moore Ubiquitous Electronics.

Dr. Yi Zou is an assistant Professor in the School of Information Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University and the Principal Investigator of the Photonic Integrated Chip Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. From 2015 to 2017 he served as a Research Associate Professor in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Nanjing University. He joined the faculty of ShanghaiTech University in July 2017.
His research focus on developing novel approaches for on-chip light manipulating through innovative device physics, advanced structural designs, and hybrid integration of functional optical materials with nanophotonic devices.
Dr. Yi Zou has led a research team of more than 20 postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students, supported by multiple research grants from both government agencies and industry. As a result of his technical contributions, he has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in leading optics journals, including Laser & Photonics Reviews, Applied Physics Reviews, Nano Letters, Photonics Research, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, Light: Science & Applications, Journal of Lightwave Technology, and Optics Letters. He has also delivered more than 60 conference presentations, including 18 invited talks at major conferences such as SPIE Photonics West 2025 and PIERS 2017/2019/2024.
Dr. Yi Zou is an assistant Professor in the School of Information Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University and the Principal Investigator of the Photonic Integrated Chip Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. From 2015 to 2017 he served as a Research Associate Professor in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Nanjing University. He joined the faculty of ShanghaiTech University in July 2017.
His research focus on developing novel approaches for on-chip light manipulating through innovative device physics, advanced structural designs, and hybrid integration of functional optical materials with nanophotonic devices.
Dr. Yi Zou has led a research team of more than 20 postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students, supported by multiple research grants from both government agencies and industry. As a result of his technical contributions, he has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in leading optics journals, including Laser & Photonics Reviews, Applied Physics Reviews, Nano Letters, Photonics Research, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, Light: Science & Applications, Journal of Lightwave Technology, and Optics Letters. He has also delivered more than 60 conference presentations, including 18 invited talks at major conferences such as SPIE Photonics West 2025 and PIERS 2017/2019/2024.
Dr. Zou is a senior member of SPIE, Optica, and the IEEE Photonics society. He actively serves on various committees and conference programs, including SPIE Photonics West, PIERS, and IEEE NTC.

Dr. Yingying Wu has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida since August 2023. From 2021 to 2023, she was a Postdoctoral Associate and Fellow at the Center for Integrated Quantum Materials (CIQM) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2020. Prior to that, she received both her M.Phil. and bachelor’s degrees in physics. Dr. Wu’s research focuses on exploring spintronic devices for quantum and neuromorphic computing, combining both experimental and simulation-based approaches. She has authored approximately 40 research papers, including more than 15 as lead author. Her work has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the NSF CAREER Award (2025), the UF Research Opportunity Seed Fund (ROSF) Award (2024), and the IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award (2023), among others.

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.

Prof. Inkyu Park received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from KAIST (1998), UIUC (2003) and UC Berkeley (2007), respectively, all in mechanical engineering. He has been with the department of mechanical engineering at KAIST since 2009 as a faculty and is currently a KAIST Endowed Chair Professor and Full Professor. Prior to joining KAIST, he was a research specialist at Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) in 2007-2008, CTO & Co-founder of nPrintSolutions, inc. in 2008-2009, and visiting researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratory in 2005-2008. His research interests are nanofabrication, smart sensors, nanomaterial-based sensors, flexible & wearable electronics, self-powered sensors, and sensors for environmental and healthcare monitoring applications. He has published more than 120 international journal articles (SCI indexed) and 160 international conference proceeding papers in the area of MEMS/NANO engineering (h index=38, total citation >7600). He is a recipient of IEEE NANO Best Paper Award (2010), HP Open Innovation Research Award (2009-2012), KINC Fusion Research Award (2016, 2018), Grand Prize of KAIST School of Engineering Research Innovation Award (2020), and Excellent Researcher Award from the Society of Micro/Nano-Systems (2020).

Dr. Wenzhuo Wu is the Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Associate Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. He received his BS in Electronic Information Science and Technology in 2005 from the University of Science and Technology of China, and his ME in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2008. Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in Materials Science and Engineering in 2013. Dr. Wu’s research interests include the design, manufacturing, and integration of nanomaterials for applications in energy, electronics, optoelectronics, and wearable devices. He was a recipient of the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2016, the IOP Semiconductor Science and Technology Best Early Career Research in 2017, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Sustainable Development Award in 2018, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Barbara M. Fossum Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award in 2019, Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigator in 2019, Advanced Materials Interfaces Hall of Fame in 2020, the ARO Young Investigator Award in 2020, the NSF Early CAREER Award in 2021, the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Functional Materials Division (FMD) Young Leaders Professional Development Award in 2022, a TMS Emerging Leader at the Emerging Leaders Alliance Conference in 2022, Microsystems & Nanoengineering (MINE) Young Scientist Award from Nature Publishing Group in 2022, Purdue College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award for Early Career Research in 2022, Advanced Materials Technologies Hall of Fame in 2022, an invited participant at the 2022 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, an invited participant in the first U.S.-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium in 2022, Sensors Young Investigator Award in 2022, and an elected Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2022.

Li Peng received his BS degree in Automation from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, in 2015. And then he worked as assistant professor in National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), Beijing, China. He is currently an assistant professor at Beijing University of Technology (BJUT). His research interests center on micro/nanorobotics systems; scanning probe microcopy; precision instrument design; nanodevices and biosensors; and real-time design and integration.

Roza received the Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1998. Her thesis research was on coherently coupled quantum dot arrays. Roza was awarded in 1998 a two-year National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, where she focused on the research of excitonic transitions in quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots. In 2000 Roza joined a Device Modeling Group at TCAD at Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR, as a Sr. CAD Engineer and later as a Staff Research Scientist. Roza played a key role in development of major transistor technologies to enable Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) scaling: stress, metal gate, and tri-gates. These innovations were the key drivers fueling the continuation of Moore’s law to achieve high computer power at low cost. Roza has worked on modeling of Intel quantum devices since the beginning of Quantum Computing program at Intel in 2016, and in 2020 Roza joined the Quantum Hardware group full time. Roza is the author of 55 papers in industry-leading journals, she has 30 patents. Roza led the industry-academia collaborations through her mentoring of Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), and she is a recipient of 2018 Mahboob Khan Outstanding Industry Liaison SRC Award. She served on the IEEE Brunetti Award committee, and on IRPS 2019-2020 Neuromorphic Committee, on the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) modeling committee. Roza is a passionate advocate for science outreach initiatives and is participating in the US Q12 education partnership. Roza brought her device modeling experience at Intel and her quantum background to model Intel spin qubit devices, starting from bandstructure description, to Photo Your information may be shared with other areas within IEEE who seek volunteers. effective continuum modeling of devices, to many-body physics. Roza is the author of Intel quantum performance simulator which is used to understand Intel experiments and run quantum algorithms.

Pulugurtha’s primary research is in the heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging of electronics and bioelectronics. He developed a broad set of technologies for electronic and bioelectronic packaging based on power module integration with advanced passive components, 3D packaging for wireless communication modules, wireless sensor devices with advanced telemetry, advanced packaging substrates, device-to-package and package-to-board interconnection technologies, interconnect materials, embedded-chip packaging, and packaging materials for various functions and reliability. He co-led the development of package-integrated sensor and telemetry modules for multimodal sensing, world’s first 3D glass LTE diversity module and 3D glass antenna-integrated package module for 5G mm wave applications, which are now becoming the mainstream semiconductor hardware platforms for future electronics. Working with several end-users and manufacturers, he developed advanced substrate-integrated power inductors and power capacitors for integrated power modules and voltage regulators. These are published in >400 articles as patents, journal and conference publications in flagship IEEE conferences.

He serves as Associate Editor for IEEE CPMT Transactions, Committee Co-Chair for IEEE Nanopackaging Technical Committee (EPS and NTC), IEEE Miami Chapter and Student Chapters. He advised, co-advised and mentored more than 40 MS and PhD students who are current leaders and technology pioneers in the electronic packaging industry, many of whom work for Apple Inc, Intel, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Broadcom and other major electronics manufacturers. He coauthored roadmaps for IEEE Heterogeneous Integration (HIR, Chapter 10 and Chapter 15), Institute of Printed Circuits (IPC) and Power Sources Manufacturers Association. He received ~40 best-paper awards in IEEE packaging and nanotechnology conferences and workshops. He delivered 40 invited lectures (including several keynote and plenary talks, more than 10 of them as IEEE distinguished lecturer and distinguished professor talks at industry technical board meetings) and seminars, and offered several industry short courses, plenary and keynote talks on new technology development in major conferences. His publications and presentations received more than 40 awards

Dustin Gilbert is an Assistant Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. His lab conducts research on a range of technologically-relevant nanoscale materials and phenomena including quantum materials, hard and soft magnetic materials, nanostructured materials, metamaterials, and biomedical devices. Currently, Gilbert’s lab focuses on the novel use of neutrons to investigate chiral spin textures, including magnetic skyrmions, under a DOE Career award, functional properties of high-entropy materials and nano-composite bioactive textiles. Before joining the faculty at the University of Tennessee, Gilbert was a Physicist and NRC Fellow at the National Institute for Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research from 2014 to 2018 after earning his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Davis. Gilbert has served as the co-chair of the IEEE Nanotechnology council sub-committee for Nanomagnetism for 2021-2022.

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Adam Noel (S'09-M'16-SM'24) received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2009 from Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He received the M.A.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2011 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2015, both from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Memorial University. From 2018 to 2024 he was with the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick in Coventry, United Kingdom. From 2016 to 2018 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa. In 2013, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Institute for Digital Communication at Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen, Germany. His research interests are in molecular communication, and particularly the prediction and control of biophysical systems at a microscopic level. Dr. Noel is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications. He is also serving as Chair for the IEEE Communication Society's Technical Committee on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications (2024-2025).

James Spicer is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the chair of Materials Science and Engineering Program in the Engineering for Professionals Program and is a member of the Principal Professional Staff at The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. His research focuses on laser-material interactions for advanced processing and materials characterization including ultrafast studies of nanoscale thermal and acoustic transport, polymer matrix nanocomposite processing and characterization, optical and ultrasonic characterization of additively manufactured materials, development of opto-thermal barrier coatings for space probes and characterization of high-energy laser materials. He is a member of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society and the IEEE Sensors Council. He is also a member of ASME, OSA, MRS and APS.

Giovanni Finocchio is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Messina, Italy. He got his PhD (XVIII cycle) in “Advanced Technologies for Optoelectronics, Photonics and Electromagnetic Modeling”. Coordinator at the University of Messina for the SpintronicFactory (http://www.spintronicfactory.eu/). GF is co-authors of more than 180 papers (h-index 33 and > 3400 citations) published in well-established international journals including 2 Nature Communications, 3 Nature Electronics and 1 Advanced Materials. GF was co-inventor of 5 patents, co-founder of two spin-off companies. GF has organized as chair, co-chair or member of the scientific committee several conferences (magnonics, hysteresis modeling and micromagnetics (HMM)) and he also co-organized more than 10 workshops in Messina. GF is regularly invited at international conferences in magnetism and spintronics, he gave more than 70 invited talks at conferences, universities and industries. Currently, GF has more then 10 active international collaborations on different topics in the field of applied magnetism and spintronics. Since 2019, GF is chair of the Italy Chapter of the IEEE Magnetics Society. In 2020 the chapter was awarded as “Best Chapter” from IEEE Italy section. GF is an elected member of the AdCom of the IEEE Magnetics Society for the years 2020-2022. Since 2013, steering committee member of the HMM conferences (Hysteresis Modeling and Micromagnetics), GF was chair of the committee from 2015 to 2019. President of the PETASPIN association which main missions are to support scientific research in many fields of engineering and applied physics, particularly in the field of magnetism, and to disseminate scientific results through conferences and meetings, also organized in collaboration with other institutions and associations. PETASPIN has more than 12000 contact of people working in magnetism and related field and has organized several events and virtual activities (https://www.petaspin.com/).

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