IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology 2026

Dr. Stephen Y. Chou is the Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering at Princeton University and a serial entrepreneur. He is the founder and founding chairman of Nanonex Corp., NanoOpto Corp., and Essenlix Corp., and a co-founder of BioNano Genomics Inc. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and a recipient of the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, the IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award, and the Nanoimprint Pioneer Award. He is also a Fellow of the Packard Foundation, IEEE, AVS, ISNM, and OSA. Two of his technologies—nanoimprint and the nanochannel DNA analyzer—were recognized by MIT Technology Review as among the “Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World.” Over the past four decades, Dr. Chou’s pioneering research has advanced nanofabrication, nanodevices, bioengineering, and medical diagnostics, with broad, significant, and lasting impact on both academia and industry. His work created new research fields, new industries, and significant businesses, and generated billions of dollars in economic value. His best-known inventions include nanoimprint, a new paradigm in nanopatterning that has grown into a billion-dollar industry; the single-electron MOS memory (SEMM); gate-all-around (GAA) transistor; lithographically induced self-assembly (LISA); single-domain patterned media, a new paradigm for magnetic data storage; major advances in nanophotonics, particularly various subwavelength optical elements (i.e., meta-optics); the nanochannel single-DNA-molecule analyzer; the ultrasensitive D2PA biosensor; and the iMOST (Instant Mobile Self-Test) platform, a game-changing instant mobile self-test technology for health. As a serial entrepreneur, Dr. Chou has founded, built, and led three startup companies to translate his inventions and vision—including nanoimprint and iMOST—into new industries and major commercial products with direct and substantial impact on society and the economy. He has authored more than 700 journal and conference papers and is the primary inventor on more than 400 patents, more than half of which have been granted.

Prof. Jianbin Xu is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include nanoscience and nanotechnology for electron devices and micro/nanoelectronics, namely 2D materials and devices; scanning probe techniques for electronics; advanced energy science and technology; interface engineering for materials and devices; physics and technology of organic semiconductors; functional and electronic oxides, etc. He is a Fellow of IEEE and Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and Member of American Physical Society. He is a recipient of Joint Research Fund for Overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macau Scholars (formerly Distinguished Young Scholar Fund for Overseas Chinese), awarded by NSFC; The Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) in the category of Natural Sciences, Ministry of Education, China; Research Excellence Award by The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Vice-Chancellor’s Outstanding Fellow of Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Also he was named Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education, China.

Yu Sun is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with joint appointments in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto (UofT). He is a Tier I Canada Research Chair and was the founding Director of the UofT Robotics Institute. His lab specializes in developing innovative technologies and instruments for manipulating and characterizing cells, molecules, and nanomaterials. He is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of The Academy of Science of Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, an International Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and an International Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He was elected Fellow of IEEE, ASME, AIMBE, AAAS, NAI, CSME, and EIC for his work on micro-nano robotic systems and devices. Among the awards he received were an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship, NSERC Synergy Award of Innovation, IEEE McNaughton Gold Medal, IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award, and IEEE NTC Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. Automation Science and Engineering and an editorial board member of the AAAS journal, Science Robotics.

Kaustav Banerjee is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Nanoelectronics Research Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research established atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials as scalable platforms for energy-efficient nanoelectronics, spanning transistors, beyond-copper interconnects, RF passives, memory, and monolithic three-dimensional integration. He pioneered predictive, device-physics-driven frameworks that revealed fundamental scaling limits of silicon–copper technologies and defined physically realistic, manufacturable pathways beyond them. His contributions include the invention of a graphene-based kinetic inductor that resolved long-standing barriers to ultra-compact, high-frequency integrated systems, and the development of intercalated graphene interconnects independently validated and incorporated into advanced foundry technology roadmaps. To accelerate translation toward semiconductor manufacturing, he co-founded Destination 2D in 2021 to advance CMOS-compatible graphene platforms extending from interconnect scaling to thermal management and advanced packaging integration. Professor Banerjee is a Fellow of IEEE, APS, AAAS, JSPS, and AIIA, and a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. His honors include the Humboldt Foundation Bessel Prize, the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, and the JSAP Fellow International distinction from the Japan Society of Applied Physics.

Dr. Das received his B.Eng. degree (2007) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, and Ph.D. degree (2013) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. He was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar (2013-2015) and Assistant Research Scientist (2015-2016) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). Dr. Das joined the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM) at Penn State University in January 2016. Dr. Das was the recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research in 2017 and the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2021. Das Research Group at Penn State leads a new multidisciplinary area of science, namely biomimetic sensing, neuromorphic computing, and hardware security inspired by natural designs found in the animal world that allow evolutionary success in resource-constrained environments.

Prof. Cai is a Boya Distinguished Professor and PhD supervisor at Peking University, the recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the Ministry of Education’s Changjiang Young Scholars Program. He has been engaged in research on advanced semiconductor devices and integration, memory technologies, and brain-inspired chip technologies for many years. He has led multiple national projects, including the National Key R&D Program and the National Natural Science Foundation’s Key Program. He has published over 100 academic papers in international conferences and journals, including IEDM, EDL, TED, DAC, TCAD, etc., and holds more than 70 Chinese patents and over 10 U.S. patents. He serves as the vice chairman of the China Memory Industry Alliance, Executive Director of the Beijing Semiconductor Industry Association, and Editorial Board Member of journals such as Science China, Journal of Electronics, and Chip.

Prof. Yang Chai is the Chair Professor of Semiconductor Physics of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, an IEEE Fellow, an Optica Fellow, IOP Fellow, and AAIA Fellow. He is the Director of Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things, the Director of Joint Research Center of Microelectronics, and the Associate Dean of Faculty of Science (Research) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also the Chair of Semiconductor Nanotechnology Alliance, the Vice President of the Physical Society of Hong Kong, and an Associate Editor of ACS Nano. He is a receipt of the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs in Engineering and Technology for his work on “Breaking the Wall of Efficient Sensory AI Systems”, the BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize in the field of AI and Robotics, The Croucher Senior Fellowship, The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Innovation Award, and NSFC Distinguished Scholar. His current research interest mainly focuses on emerging electronic devices.

Prof. Tibor Grasser is an IEEE Fellow and head of the Institute for Microelectronics at TU Wien. He has edited various books, e.g. on the bias temperature instability, hot carrier degradation, and low-frequency noise (all with Springer), is a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE EDS, has been involved in outstanding conferences such as IEDM (General Chair 2021), IRPS, SISPAD, ESSDERC, and IIRW, is a recipient of the Best and Outstanding Paper Awards at IRPS (2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014), IPFA (2013 and 2014), ESREF (2008) and the IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport Award (2011). He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE T-ED and Microelectronics Reliability (Elsevier).

He Jun, professor/doctoral supervisor, winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, young and middle-aged science and technology leader of the Ministry of Science and Technology, candidate of the “Ten Thousand Talents Program” of the Central Organization Department, chief scientist of the National Key Research and Development Program. He serves as Chairman of the 2D Materials Branch and Vice Chairman of the Nanomaterials and Devices Branch of the Chinese Materials Research Society (CMRS). He also holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of Physics, and Associate Editor of Science Bulletin and Materials Today Chemistry. Professor He has long been committed to research on novel low-dimensional semiconductor materials and their applications in electronic and optoelectronic devices. He has published over 200 papers in top international journals including Science, with more than 20,000 non-self citations, and holds over 30 granted patents. He has received the First Prize of Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education of China, the First Prize of Beijing Natural Science Award, the First Prize of Hubei Provincial Natural Science Award, the First Prize of Science and Technology Award from the Chinese Materials Research Society, and the First Prize of Innovation Award under the Invention & Entrepreneurship Award from the China Invention Association. He is also a recipient of the Frontiers of Materials Science Award (FMSA) conferred by the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS).

Elena P. Ivanova is Distinguished Professor at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (Melbourne). Elena received her Doctor of Philosophy from the Institute of Microbiology and Virology, Ukraine, Doctor of Science from the Pacific Institute of Bio-organic Chemistry, Russian Federation, Juris Doctorate from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (Japan), Visiting Researcher at the Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland (USA), Visiting Professor at Hokkaido University (Japan), Cambridge University (UK) and the Institut Charles, Sadron, CNRS (France). She joined Swinburne University of Technology in 2001 and moved to RMIT University in 2018. Elena’s research focuses on the fundamental and applied fields of nanobiotechnology, design and fabrication of biomimetic antimicrobial surfaces. She published over 400 research papers and recipient of several international awards, including the Morrison Rogosa Award, American Society for Microbiology, UNESCO Biotechnology Fellowship, and the AIST Fellowship and Foreign Researcher Invitation Program of the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, UNSW Eureka Prize for Scientific Research and others.

Deep Jariwala is currently an Associate Professor (promoted in 2022) and Peter & Susanne Armstrong Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He leads the Device Research and Engineering Laboratory. He received his B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University in 2015 (advisors: Mark C. Hersam and Tobin J. Marks), followed by postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2017 (with Harry A. Atwater). Professor Jariwala is an internationally renowned scholar in two-dimensional materials and nanoscale devices, with research spanning 2D semiconductor electronics, exciton photonics, ferroelectric memory, and low-power logic devices. He has published over 150 papers in journals including *Nature Materials* and *Nature Nanotechnology*, with more than 22,000 citations, and holds multiple U.S. patents. His honors include the 2024 Optica Adolph Lomb Medal, the 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the 2022 IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award, the 2022 Bell Labs Prize ($100,000), and the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science. He was elected an Optica Fellow in 2026 and serves as an Associate Editor for *Nano Letters*.

Dae-Hyeong Kim obtained his B.S. and M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He received his Ph. D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2009. From 2009 to 2011, he was a post-doctoral research associate at University of Illinois. He joined Seoul National University in 2011 and is currently a professor in School of Chemical and Biological Engineering of Seoul National University. He has been serving as an associate director of Center for Nanoparticle Research of Institute for Basic Science (IBS) from 2017. He has been focusing on the research of nanomaterials-based bio-integrated and bio-inspired electronics. He is a fellow of National Academy of Engineering of Korea (2026-present) and Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (2025-present). He has been recognized with several awards including George Smith Award (2009), TR 35 award (2011), Hong Jin-ki Creative Award (2015), SCEJ Award (2016), Korea Young Scientist Award (2017), and Prime Minister Commendation of Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea (2023). He has been recognized as a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2018-2025. He has served as the editors and editorial board members in multiple journals, including the Deputy Editor of Science Advances (2025-present).

Guilhem Larrieu is Director of Research at CNRS, working at LAAS-CNRS laboratory in Toulouse (France) and Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo (Japan). He is leading an activity on Nano-&Neuro-Electronics (NNE lab) aiming at developing advanced devices based on functional nanostructures for ultimate nanoelectronics (logic & memory applications) and for innovative biosensor platforms in particular for neural interfacing. Guilhem Larrieu received a Ph.D. degree in Electronics in 2004 (Univ. Lille), then obtained a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). In late 2005, he secured an independent researcher position at IEMN-CNRS laboratory in Lille on MOS transistor technology. In 2010 he moved to LAAS-CNRS to establish a new research axis on vertical nanowire based-devices. From 2019-2021, he was an Invited Researcher at the University of Tokyo to extend its nanoelectrode concepts to interface with high resolution human organoids. He has co-authored +100 publications in peer reviewed journals and 15 patents. He has served on Conference Committees of IEEE IEDM, IEEE ESSERC, IEEE NMDC, DATE, E-MRS and expert for several international funding agencies.

John H Lau, with more than 40 years of R&D and manufacturing experience in semiconductor packaging, has published more than 530 peer-reviewed papers (385 are the principal investigator), 52 issued and pending US patents (31 are the principal inventor), and 23 textbooks. John is an elected IEEE fellow, IMAPS Fellow, and ASME Fellow and has been actively participating in industry/academy/society meetings/conferences to contribute, learn, and share.

Jim is an ECE Professor Emeritus at Portland State University (PSU), Oregon, and an IEEE Life Fellow, and has served as EE/ECE Department Chair at both SUNY-Binghamton and PSU. He has B.Sc. (1965) and M.Sc.(hons) degrees (1967) in Physics from the University of Auckland, a Ph.D. in EE (1971) from the University of Saskatchewan, and the Doctor Honoris Causa degree (2015) from Bucharest Polytechnic University. Jim has served the IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) and Nanotechnology Council (NTC) in multiple roles since 1991 and 2008 respectively, including as NTC President (2020-2021) and General Chair of 6 international conferences. His research interests have ranged from isotropic conductive adhesives, nanopackaging, nanoelectronics simulation, and discontinuous thin metal films to automotive engine control. Jim has taught continuously for over 60 years and published 10 books, 63 journal papers, 107 refereed conference papers, 33 book chapters, and one patent, plus >80 other conference presentations.