IEEE-NANO 2025

Jermont is a Program Officer in NIBIB’s Division of Discovery Science and Technology (Bioengineering) and joined the NIH in June of 2022. Jermont received his B.S. in Biochemistry from the United States Air Force Academy (1994), M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Oklahoma (2003), and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton University (2008). His graduate work focused on identifying, characterizing and testing aggregation inhibitor for amyloid beta aggregation as well as characterizing Alzheimer’s peptide mutants that were more or less aggregating. From 2016 – 2022, Jermont was an International Program Officer for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, where he identified and funded basic research projects in technical areas of interest to the United States Air Force in the Asia and Australia region.

Dr. Yichen Liu, currently an Associate Professor at Southeast University’s School of Materials Science and Engineering since September 2024, earned his M.S. (2017) and Ph.D. (2023) from UNSW Sydney (QS World Rank #19, 2025). His research focuses on controlled growth and property modulation of 2D metallic electronic materials for integrated circuit thermal management/power electronics, and wide-bandgap metal oxide semiconductors. He has published as first/corresponding-author publications in top journals like Advanced Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, and Acta Materialia. In 2024, he secured an ARC Discovery Project (approx. ¥2.3M RMB) as PI, leading research on ultra-wide-bandgap oxide semiconductors for power devices. As a previous researcher at UNSW, his contributions to graphene power transmission technology led to a $20M AUD industry partnership (Hangzhou Cable Co.) in 2016, achieving 5% grid efficiency gains. This project exemplifies China-Australia industry-academia collaboration as a flagship initiative of the UNSW Torch Innovation Park. He also contributed significantly to 3 additional ARC projects and industrial collaborations.

Stella W. Pang serves as a Chair Professor and the Director of the Center for Biosystems, Neuroscience, and Nanotechnology in the Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong, China. She has published over 400 technical articles, book chapters, and invited presentations. Prof. Pang holds 13 patents in nanotechnology and microsystems, with two more pending. Her research focuses on nanofabrication technologies for biomedical applications, microelectromechanical systems, terahertz devices, and meta devices. Additionally, she has delivered 35 short courses in these areas. Prof. Pang is a Fellow of IEEE, ECS, AVS, HKIE, and HKAE.

Dr. Orlin Velev is a Frank and Doris Culberson Distinguished Professor at NC State University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria (1996), while also performing research for one year in Japan. After a postdoc at the University of Delaware Velev joined NC State University in 2001. He has established a record of innovative research in the assembly of colloidal nanostructures with magnetic, electrical, and photonic functionality, biosensors, microfluidics and manufacturing of environmentally friendly and sustainable nanomaterials. Velev has contributed more than 250 publications, cited more than 33,400 times, and has presented more than 320 invited presentations. His numerous awards include NSF Career, AIChE Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress, ACS Langmuir Lecturer and Braskem Award for Excellence in Materials Engineering and Science. Velev has been elected to an ACS Fellow and MRS Fellow.

Gerhard Klimeck is the Elmore Chaired Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and leads two research centers in Purdue’s Discovery Park. He is also Vice President for Academic Information Technology and Deputy CIO. Previously he worked at the central research Laboratory of Texas Instruments and NASA/JPL/Caltech. His research interest is in computational nanoelectronics, high-performance computing, and data analytics. He helped to create nanoHUB.org, the largest virtual nanotechnology user facility serving that served over 15 million users. He led the teams that developed the NEMO software tools. Dr. Klimeck is a fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the German Humboldt Foundation. He has published over 525 printed scientific articles; he has been recognized for his co-invention of a single-atom transistor, quantum mechanical modeling theory, and simulation tools. His NEMO5 software has been used since 2015 at Intel to design nano-scaled design transistors. The nanoHUB team was recently recognized by a top 100 by R&D award – Making simulation and data pervasive.

Dr. Sreenivasan is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at The University of Texas at El Paso. His research focuses on controlling charge and spin in materials to drive breakthroughs in sustainable energy, molecular sensing, and quantum science. By harnessing quantum confinement and edge engineering in low-dimensional systems—such as 2D materials, 1D nanostructures (including graphene nanoribbons), and 0D quantum dots—he emphasizes precise tuning of symmetry, strain, and electron density to optimize electronic and transport properties at the nanoscale. With over 80 peer-reviewed articles, 10 patents or patent applications, and nearly 9,200 citations, Dr. Sreenivasan’s work is paving the way for next-generation quantum technologies and beyond.

Professor Michael S. Strano is currently the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received is B.S from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware both in Chemical Engineering. He was a post doctoral research fellow at Rice University in the departments of Chemistry and Physics under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley. From 2003 to 2007, Michael was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before moving to MIT. His research focuses on biomolecule/nanoparticle interactions and the surface chemistry of low dimensional systems, nano-electronics, nanoparticle separations, and applications of vibrational spectroscopy to nanotechnology. Michael is the recipient of numerous awards for his work, including a 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a 2006 Beckman Young Investigator Award, the 2006 Coblentz Award for Molecular Spectroscopy, the Unilever Award from the American Chemical Society in 2007 for excellence in colloidal science, and the 2008 Young Investigator Award from the Materials Research Society and the 2008 Allen P. Colburn Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. From 2014 to 2015 he served as member of the Defense Science Study Group, and is currently an editor for the journals Carbon and Protocols in Chemical Biology. Michael was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Lihong Wang edited the first book on photoacoustic tomography. His book entitled "Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging," one of the first textbooks in the field, won the 2010 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award . He has published 600 peer-reviewed journal articles and delivered 610 keynote/plenary/invited talks. His Google Scholar h -index and citations have reached 159 and 109K. His laboratory was the first to report functional photoacoustic tomography, 3D photoacoustic microscopy, photoacoustic endoscopy, photoacoustic reporter gene imaging, the universal photoacoustic reconstruction algorithm, and CUP (world’s fastest camera). He chairs the annual conference on Photons plus Ultrasound, the largest conference at Photonics West. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Optics . He received the NIH Director’s Pioneer , NIH Director’s Transformative Research , and NIH/NCI Outstanding Investigator awards. He also received the OSA C.E.K. Mees Medal , IEEE Technical Achievement Award , IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award , SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award , IPPA Senior Prize , and OSA Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award . He is a Fellow of the AAAS , AIMBE , Electromagnetics Academy , IAMBE , IEEE , NAI , OSA , and SPIE as well as a Foreign Fellow of COS . An honorary doctorate was conferred on him by Lund University, Sweden. He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.

Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr. is the director of the Sao Carlos Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, President of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS), a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and executive editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. He received his PhD from University of Wales, Bangor (1990), and in 2019 was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. He published ca. 690 papers in refereed journals, which received ca. 20,300 citations (h = 63) in the Web of Science, and 30,400 citations (h = 81) in Google Scholar, in June, 2024, filed 12 patents, and supervised 53 MSc and PhD students. In recent years, Prof. Oliveira has pioneered the combined use of methods from distinct fields of science, with the merge of methods of statistical physics and computer science to process text, and use of information visualization to enhance the performance of sensing and biosensing. In 2006 he was awarded the Scopus Prize, given to 16 Brazilian researchers considered the most productive in terms of papers published and citations.

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.

Tony Heinz is a Professor of Applied Physics and Photon Science at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Electrical Engineering and a joint affiliation with SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Heinz received a BS degree in Physics from Stanford University in 1978 and a PhD degree, also in Physics, from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. Heinz was subsequently at the IBM Research Division in Yorktown Heights, NY until joining Columbia University in 1995 as a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics. At Columbia, he served as a Scientific Director of the Columbia Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) and of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC). He was also the President of Optica in 2012. Heinz joined Stanford University in 2015, also serving as the Director of the Chemical Sciences Division at SLAC from that time until 2019. From 2017 to 2022, he was the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences at SLAC. Heinz is known for his research into the properties and dynamics of nanoscale materials, particularly 2D materials, through the creative use of optical and laser-based techniques. He is a Fellow of several professional societies, including the IEEE, as well as the US National Academy of Sciences.