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Plenary Speakers:
Dr. Wei-Yen Woon
Pathfinding, R&D
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Taiwan
Speech Topic:
Thermal Management Materials for Stacked Integrated Circuits
Dr. Wei-Yen Woon is senior manager in pathfinding, R&D, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), leading a exploratory materials research group, since 2020. Prior to joining TSMC, he was professor in the Department of Physics at National Central University from 2008-2023. His current research focuses are growth and characterization of thermal management materials, and 2D materials.
Prof. Keisuke Goda
Department of Chemistry
University of Tokyo, Japan
Speech Topic:
To be announced
Keisuke Goda is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo, as well as an adjunct professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA and the Institute of Technological Sciences at Wuhan University. He earned a B.A. degree summa cum laude in Physics from UC Berkeley in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 2007. While at MIT, he contributed to the development of quantum-enhancement techniques in the LIGO group, which received the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for the detection of gravitational waves. In 2007, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA as a postdoctoral researcher and program manager, where he focused on laser-based ultrafast optical imaging and spectroscopy, as well as microfluidic biotechnology. In 2012, Goda joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo as a professor. His research group is currently dedicated to developing "serendipity-enabling technologies" through extreme engineering. He has authored nearly 300 journal papers, filed over 30 patents, and launched four startups: CYBO, Cupido, LucasLand, and FlyWorks. Goda has received more than 30 awards and honors, including the Japan Academy Medal, JSPS Prize, SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award, and Philipp Franz von Siebold Award.
Prof. Xing Yi Ling
Department of Chemistry
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Speech Topic:
Machine Learning + Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS): Towards Predictive Sensing Applications
Xing Yi Ling is a Professor in Chemistry from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from University of Twente, the Netherlands, and her postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, and received Singapore National Research Foundation Investigatorship, Nanyang Award for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, L’ORÉAL Singapore for Women in Science National Fellowship, Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship, IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists, and etc. In January 2024, Xing Yi assume the Editor-in-Chief position of the ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and Applied Materials portfolio, a family of eight journals focused on materials, interfacial processes, and their applications. She is in the editorial boards of Angewandte Chemie, Chemistry of Materials, Nanoscale Horizons, Cell Reports Physical Science, ChemPlusChem. Her research focuses in using nanotechnology for fundamental studies and applications in environmental, healthcare, and catalysis fields. In particular, she is interested in self-assembling shape-controlled noble metal nanoparticles into superlattices to impart new structure-to-function properties and applications in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS).
Prof. Tran Tri Nang
College of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota, USA
Speech Topic: to be announced.
Dr. Nang Tran received his PhD in solid state materials and device physics from Osaka Prefecture University in Japan in 1979 and did his postdoctoral research at Harvard University and the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Tran’s main technical achievements are the co-invention of a direct x-ray digital radiography detector, a major breakthrough for digital mammography in 1990, and the co-invention of transparent conducting ZnO film doped with group III elements in 1983. At present, most of the commercial thin film photovoltaic solar modules have at least one layer of this oxide in the device configuration. During his tenure with the industry, Dr. Tran was instrumental in winning funding for several multimillion-dollar research projects and brought in multimillion-dollar licensing royalties to companies based on his inventions. Dr. Tran has received more than 62 patents. Products based on his inventions have received many awards, including the prestigious Research and Development 100, Photonic Circle of Excellence. Dr. Tran was also the co-founder of Ecosolar International, a consulting company on solar energy, thin films, teleradiography, and water filtration systems. Dr. Tran is a senior life member of the IEEE, and was selected for inclusion in numerous volumes of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, and Who's Who in Finance and Business.
Prof. Takahito Ono
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering
Tohoku University, Japan
Speech Topic: to be announced.
Prof. Takahito Ono received his PhD in precision engineering from Tohoku University in Japan in 1996. His is currently the director of Micro System Integration Center (uSiC) at Tohoku University. Prof. Ono received Tokin Research Award from Tokin Science Foundation for the development of nanomechanical machines on 2005, also received MNC 2012 Paper Award, 15th International Microprocess and Nanotechnology Conference, IEEJ paper award 2019, Microsystem & Nanoengineering Award 2020, and IEEJ award 2022. He has authored more 100 SCI papers in the field of MEMS biosensors and presented invite lectures over 60 at international conferences.
Prof. Schulz Jan
Marine Technologies
Jade University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Speech Topic: to be announced.
Prof. Schulz Jan received his PhD in marine biology and technological development from Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany in 2007. Prof. Jan’s research interests include maritime technology, sensor networks, marine imaging, underwater vehicles and platforms, and data products. He has authored multiple SCI papers in the field of oceanography and remote sensing.