AASF Fellows

Sarita V. Adve holds the Richard T. Cheng Professorship in Computer Science at the University of Illinois. Her research covers hardware, programming languages, and XR systems. She chairs the ILLIXR consortium for democratizing XR research. Adve co-developed memory models for C++ and Java, and her group released the ILLIXR testbed. She’s known for work in heterogeneous systems, hardware reliability, and power management, with awards including the ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award. 

Vikram Adve is the Donald B. Gillies Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois and co-directs the Center for Digital Agriculture. He leads AIFARMS, a $20M National AI Research Institute. His expertise lies in enhancing computer systems through compiler techniques, notably co-designing LLVM Compiler Infrastructure with Chris Lattner, used in mobile apps (e.g., iOS), supercomputers, and data centers. They received the ACM Software System Award for LLVM. Adve, a Fellow of ACM, has won awards for influential papers, chaired program committees, and served as interim head of the Computer Science Department from 2017 to 2019.

Sanjeev Arora is Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He got his PhD in 1994 from UC Berkeley. He has received ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (1995),  NSF Career Award (1996), Packard Fellowship (1997), Simons Investigator Award (2012), Gödel Prize (2001 and 2010), ACM Prize in Computing  (2011), and the Fulkerson Prize (2012). He is a Fellow of the AAAS and Member of the NAS

Arvind is the Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. Arvind’s group, in collaboration with Motorola, built the Monsoon dataflow machines and its associated software in the late eighties. In 2000, Arvind started Sandburst which was sold to Broadcom in 2006. In 2003, Arvind co-founded Bluespec Inc., an EDA company to produce a set of tools for high-level synthesis. In 2001, Dr. R. S. Nikhil and Arvind published the book “Implicit parallel programming in pH”. Arvind’s current research focus is on enabling rapid development of embedded systems. Arvind is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. M.-C. Frank Chang is the Wintek Chair in Electrical Engineering and Distinguished Professor at University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining UCLA, Dr. Chang was the Assistant Director and Department Manager of the High Speed Electronics Laboratory of Rockwell International Science Center (1983-1997), Thousand Oaks, California. In this tenure, he developed and transferred the AlGaAs/GaAs & InGaP/GaAs Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) and BiFET (Planar HBT/MESFET) integrated circuit technologies from the research laboratory to the production line (later became Conexant Systems and Skyworks Solutions). The HBT/BiFET productions have grown into multi-billion dollar businesses and have dominated the cell phone power amplifier and front-end module markets for the past thirty years (currently exceeding 10 billion units/year and exceeding 50 billion units in the last decade).

Moses Charikar is the Donald E. Knuth Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. After obtaining his PhD from Stanford in 2000, he spent time at Google’s research group and was a faculty member at Princeton from 2001 to 2015. His research spans approximation algorithms, metric embeddings, big data algorithmics, high-dimensional statistics, and optimization problems in machine learning. Notably, he received awards for best papers at FOCS 2003, COLT 2017, and VLDB 2017, along with the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award in 2012. Charikar was recognized as a Simons Investigator in theoretical computer science in 2014 and became an ACM Fellow in 2020.

Bernard Chazelle is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he has been on the faculty since 1986.  He has held research and faculty positions at College de France, Carnegie-Mellon University, Brown University, Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Normale Superieure, University of Paris, INRIA, Xerox Parc, DEC SRC, and NEC Research, where he was the president of the Board of Fellows for many years. He has served on the editorial board of more than a dozen scientific journals. He received his Ph.D in computer science from Yale University in 1980. The author of the book, “The Discrepancy Method,” he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, and the recipients of three Best Paper awards from the scientific organization SIAM.

Dr. Deming Chen obtained his BS in computer science from University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1995, and his MS and PhD in computer science from University of California at Los Angeles in 2001 and 2005 respectively. He worked as a software engineer between 1995-1999 and 2001-2002. He joined the ECE department of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005 and has been a full professor in the same department since 2015. He is a research professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and an affiliate professor in the CS department. His current research interests include reconfigurable computing, cloud computing, system-level and high-level synthesis, machine learning and IoT, and hardware security. He has given more than 130 invited talks sharing these research results worldwide.

 Yan Chen is the Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics at Tsinghua University. Chen’s research interests are in behavioral and experimental economics, market design, and the economics of information technology. She has published in leading economics and management journals. She served as an Advisory Editor at Games and Economic Behavior (2013-2020), and a Department Editor of Management Science (2018-2022). She was the president (2015-17) of the Economic Science Association. In 2019, she received the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award for her effort to “further the status of women in the economics profession.” She is the president of the Association of Chinese Professors at the University of Michigan (2022-2023).

Janet Chen is a historian of modern China, specializing in the twentieth century. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University and a B.A. from Williams College. She joined the faculty of the Princeton History Department in 2006, and she is also a member of the East Asian Studies Department. Professor Chen’s first book, Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953 (Princeton University Press, 2012), is a study of the destitute homeless during a time of war and revolution. Focusing on Beijing and Shanghai, the book considers how the advent of workhouses and poorhouses in the early twentieth century represented a fundamental reordering of the relationship between the state, private charity, and the neediest members of society. It draws on local archival research to place “the poor,” rather than their benefactors and custodians, at the center of inquiry.

Yingying (Jennifer) Chen is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University and a member of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB). Her background is a combination of Physics, Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Her research interests include Mobile Healthcare, Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Security and Privacy, Connected Vehicles, Mobile Computing and Sensing. She has co-authored two books Securing Emerging Wireless Systems (Springer 2009) and Pervasive Wireless Environments: Detecting and Localizing User Spoofing (Springer 2014), and published over 100 journal articles and referred conference papers.

Yiran Chen received B.S (1998) and M.S. (2001) from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. (2005) from Purdue University. After five years in the industry, he joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2010 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2014, holding Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellow. He is now the Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University and serving as the director of the NSF AI Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging the Next-generation Networks (Athena), the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC), and the co-director of Duke Center for Computational Evolutionary Intelligence (DCEI).

Dr. Chen received his PhD degree in Operations Research from Princeton University in 1997. He is currently Orkand Corporation Professor of Management Science, and Professor of Operations Management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Prior to joining UMD in 2001, Dr. Chen worked as an assistant professor of systems engineering at University of Pennsylvania for four years. At the UMD, Dr. Chen served as the chairperson of the largest department in the Smith School of Business – the Department of Decision, Operations and Information Technologies – from 2010 to 2014. He is currently the faculty director of the PhD program in Operations Management and Management Science within his school. Dr. Chen’s research interests cover supply chain scheduling, dynamic pricing, transportation and logistics operations, and optimization. He has served or is serving as an associate or senior editor of IISE Transactions, Journal of Scheduling, NRL, Networks, Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management.

Jing Chen is Janet Davison Rowley Distinguished Service Professor in Cancer Research, Associate Vice Chair for Translational Research, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago. Chen’s research focuses on mechanistic basis underlying links between diets/nutrients and human physiology and pathology. Chen received his PhD in biochemistry from Emory University and completed his postdoctoral research on leukemia in Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prior to joining the University of Chicago as the inaugural director of Cancer Metabolomics Research Center, he was a professor and R. Randall Rollins Chair in Oncology at Emory University.

Xin Chen is Professor in Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Chen’s current research focuses on the epigenetic regulation in development, homeostasis and regeneration of multicellular organisms. Chen received her Ph.D. in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology from University of Texas at Austin and did her postdoctoral work at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her studies have led to the discovery that epigenetic information is asymmetrically inherited in stem cells.

Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English, and affiliated faculty in the Program in American Studies, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Committee on Film Studies. She is an interdisciplinary and comparative race scholar who focuses on the uneasy intersection between politics and aesthetics, drawing from literary theory, race and gender studies, film and architectural theory, legal studies, psychoanalysis, and critical food studies.  She works primarily with twentieth-century American literature and visual culture with special focus on Asian American and African American literatures.

Chou group has two primary missions: (i) explore innovative applications of nanotechnologies in information, energy, life science, and personal health by combining cutting-edge nanotechnology with frontier knowledge from different disciplines; and (ii) to develop new nanofabrication technologies that will fabricate structures substantially smaller, better, and cheaper than current technology permits. Nanotechnology offers great opportunities for revolutionary advances in broad disciplines, because many conventional theories no longer apply in nanoscale.

Jason Cong received his B.S. degree in computer science from Peking University in 1985, his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Currently, he is the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence in the UCLA Computer Science Department (with joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), the Director of Center for Domain-Specific Computing (funded by NSF Expeditions in Computing Award), and the director of VLSI Architecture, Synthesis, and Technology (VAST) Laboratory. He served as the chair of the UCLA Computer Science Department from 2005 to 2008.  He was elected to an IEEE Fellow in 2000, an ACM Fellow in 2008, a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2020.

Associate Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University

 Guangbin Dong received his B.S. degree from Peking University and completed his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Stanford University with Professor Barry M. Trost, where he was a Larry Yung Stanford Graduate fellow. In 2009, he began to research with Professor Robert H. Grubbs at California Institute of Technology, as a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Environmental Chemistry Fellow. In 2011, he joined the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor and a CPRIT Scholar. Since 2016, he has been a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. Now, he is the first chair of the Weldon G. Brown Professorship.

Jianmin Gao is a Professor of Chemistry at Boston College. His Gao lab works in the general areas of organic chemistry and chemical biology. Specifically,in understanding and ultimately gaining control over the functions of cell membranes. His accolades include the Distinguished Faculty Award of 2019. 

Smith Family Young Investigator Award, 2007

Fan Chung Graham is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at UC San Diego. She holds the Paul Erdos Chair in Combinatorics. She paints watercolors, especially in seascape and portraits (click the Erdös’ painting below). A good part of her work in mathematics was told in the AMS Notics article The mathematical life of Fan Chung by Steve Butler.

Dr. Guo received his B.S. from the Department of Mechanics at Peking University in 1984, M.S. in 1990 and Ph.D. in 1994 in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from Harvard University-MIT. In 1994-1996, Professor Guo did his postdoctoral fellowship in the Orthopaedic Research Laboratories at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with Professor Steven A. Goldstein in orthopaedic bioengineering.In 1996 he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering and then Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor.He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001 and Associate Professor with tenure in 2003, and Professor in 2007. He directs the Bone Bioengineering Laboratory in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia focusing his research interests in micromechanics of bone tissue, computational biomechanics, and mechanobiology of bone.

Aarti Gupta joined the Computer Science Department as a full professor in 2015. Before joining the department, she worked at NEC Labs America where she led a team in investigating new techniques for formal verification of software and hardware systems, contributing both to their foundations and to successful industrial deployment. The impact of this work was recognized through NEC Technology Commercialization Awards that she received in 2005, 2006 and 2012. Professor Gupta received her Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994 after earning a master’s degree in computer engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi. She has served as an Associate Editor for Formal Methods in System Design (since 2005) and for the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (2008-2012). She has served as program chair and on the steering committees of the International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) and the International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design (FMCAD).

 Lin He is the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research and a professor in molecular & cell biology and UC Berkeley with research interests in the functional importance of the non-coding genome. The number of protein-coding genes clearly fails to correlate with the developmental and pathological complexity in mammals. Her research group’s overall research interest is to understand the unique biological functions and molecular regulation of various non-coding RNAs and transposable elements in development and disease. Her group aims to understand the distinct biological functions and molecular regulation conferred by miRNAs, long ncRNAs and retrotransposons in development and disease using an interdisciplinary approach combining mouse genetics, genomics, imaging studies, cell biology, and molecular biology. Their studies have provided important insights on the fundamental molecular mechanisms that govern the unique functional complexity of the non-coding genome.

Director of Ka Moamoa at Georgia Tech, a lab focusing on energy-efficient computing for global-scale applications. The lab develops hardware, systems, and tools for energy-harvesting computers that can function in challenging conditions. Hester is rooted in his Native Hawaiian heritage and applies his intermittent computing expertise to sustainability projects such as large-scale sensing and health wearables. His work is funded by grants from NSF, NIH, DARPA, and 3M, and he has received awards like the NSF CAREER, Sloan Fellowship, and recognition from Popular Science and AISES.

Professor Evelyn Hu is the Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and of Electrical Engineering at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. In addition to her professorship, she is currently a Co-Director of the Harvard Quantum Initiative. Prior to Harvard, Professor Hu was a faculty member at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in the Departments of Materials, and of Electrical and Computer Engineering. While at UCSB, she also served as the founding Scienti¬c co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute, a joint initiative between UCSB and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before joining UCSB, she worked at Bell Labs in both Holmdel and Murray Hill.

Professor Liangbing Hu was born in Hubei Providence, China in 1982. He obtained his BS in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2002, where he worked on colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) materials. He got his PhD in Physics from UCLA, where he worked on nanoelectronics with carbon nanotubes. In 2006, he co-founded Unidym Inc and continued working there until 2009 as a scientist, where he led the effort on roll-to-roll coating and devices integrations of transparent carbon nanotube films. He did his Postdoc in Stanford MSE from 2009-2011, where he worked on electrochemical energy storages. After that, he began his career as an assistant professor at MSE and Energy Research Center at University of Maryland College Park in 2011, where he is leading a group focusing on nanomaterials and emerging devices.

Dr. Hanchen Huang was appointed Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of UMass Dartmouth on July 18, 2022. As a first-generation college graduate, he is deeply committed to helping students succeed and to promoting upward social mobility. Dr. Huang has served as an academic leader at multiple universities. Specifically, he has been the Program Director of Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department Chair of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University, and College Dean of Engineering at the University of North Texas prior to arriving at UMass Dartmouth. During his tenure as the Dean, the US News rankings of both undergraduate and graduate engineering programs of the College moved up by double digits. During his tenure as the Chair, the US News ranking of the graduate mechanical engineering program of the Department also moved up by double digits.

Professor at Computer Science Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her B.A. and M. A. in Computational Linguistics from Tsinghua University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University. Her research interests focus on Natural Language Processing, especially on Information Extraction and Knowledge Base Population. She is selected as a “Young Scientist” and a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of Computing by the World Economic Forum in 2016 and 2017. The awards she received include the “AI’s 10 to Watch” Award by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2013, the NSF CAREER award in 2009, PACLIC2012 Best paper runner-up, “Best of ICDM2013” paper award, “Best of SDM2013” paper award, ACL2018 Best Demo paper nomination, Google Research Award in 2009 and 2014, IBM Watson Faculty Award in 2012 and 2014 and Bosch Research Award in 2014-2018. She has coordinated the NIST TAC Knowledge Base Population task since 2010. She is the associate editor for IEEE/ACM Transaction on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. She has served as the Program Committee Co-Chair of NAACL-HLT2018, NLP-NABD2018, NLPCC2015, CSCKG2016, and CCL2019, and senior area chair for many conferences. She has led several multi-institute research efforts including the DARPA DEFT Tinker Bell team of seven universities and the DARPA KAIROS RESIN team of six universities. She is the task leader of the U.S. ARL projects on information fusion and knowledge network construction between 2009-2019. She is invited by the Secretary of the Air Force and AFRL to join Air Force Data Analytics Expert Panel to inform the Air Force Strategy 2030.

Ginger Zhe Jin is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the ADVANCE Professor of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University since September 2021, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2012. Most of her research focuses on information asymmetry among economic agents and how to provide information to overcome the information problem. Her research has been published in leading economics, management, and marketing journals, with support from the National Science Foundation, the Net Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. In 2016-2017, she was on leave at the Federal Trade Commission, serving as the Director of the FTC Bureau of Economics. In 2019-2020, she was on leave at Amazon.com as Amazon Scholar and Senior Principal Economist. In 2014, she co-founded Hazel Analytics, an analytics company that promotes the use of open government data. She received her PhD in Economics from UCLA in 2000. 

Peng Jin, Ph.D., is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Human Genetics and Chair in the Department of Human Genetics at Emory University School of Medicine. The research program in Dr. Jin’s laboratory focuses on understanding the unstable repeats and dynamic DNA/RNA modifications in the human genome and their roles in the pathogenesis of human diseases. Dr. Jin’s laboratory has combined various disciplines (genetics, biochemistry, chemistry, human genetics/genomics, and bioinformatics) to understand the molecular pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Jin is the recipient of the Beckman Young Investigator Award, Basil O’Connor Scholar Research Award from March of Dimes, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience, NARSAD Independent Investigator Award, and Simons Investigator. In addition, he is among the Highly Cited Researchers recognized by Web of Science. He also serves as the Director of Emory Stephen T. Warren National Fragile X Research Center.

Yibin Kang (康毅滨) is a Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Fudan University in Shanghai in 1995. After completing his graduate study at Duke in 2000, Dr. Kang became an Irvington Institute postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Joan Massagué at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and pioneered a functional genomic approach to elucidate mechanism of breast cancer metastasis. Dr. Kang joined the faculty of Princeton University as an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology in 2004. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2010 and to Endowed Chair Full Professor in 2012.

Steven Allan Kivelson (born May 13, 1954) is an American theoretical physicist known for several major contributions to condensed matter physics. He is currently the Prabhu Goel Family Professor at Stanford University.[5] Before joining Stanford in 2004, he was a professor of physics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a son of Margaret Kivelson, and his father, Daniel Kivelson, was a professor of chemistry in UCLA.

Jim Kurose is a Distinguished University Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has been on the faculty since receiving his PhD in computer science from Columbia University. He received a BA in physics from Wesleyan University. He has held a number of visiting scientist positions in the US and abroad, including the Sorbonne University, the University of Paris, INRIA, Technicolor, and IBM Research. He has served in a number of administrative positions at UMass, including Chair of Computer Science, Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and (currently) Associate Chancellor for Partnerships and Innovation. His research interests include computer network architecture and protocols, network measurement, sensor networks, and multimedia communication. He is proud to have mentored and taught an amazing group of students, and to have received a number of awards for his research, teaching and service, including the IEEE Infocom Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award, the ACM Sigcomm Test of Time Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Taylor Booth Education Medal. With Keith Ross, he is the co-author of the best-selling textbook, Computer Networking: a Top Down Approach (Pearson), now in its 8th edition. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE.

Xiuling Li is a professor and holds the Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 3 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Li received her B.S. degree form Peking University and Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. Following post-doctoral positions at California Institute of Technology and University of Illinois, as well as industry experience at II-VI, Inc. (formerly EpiWorks, Inc.), she joined the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2007. At UIUC, she was the Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering and the interim director of the Nick Holonyak Jr. Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. She joined the faculty of UT in Aug. 2021. She holds the Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 3 Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She also has an affiliate appointment in Chemistry as the Fellow of the Dow Professorship.

Hai “Helen” Li is the Department Chair and Clare Boothe Luce Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Her research focuses on neuromorphic computing systems, deep-learning acceleration and security, memory design and architecture, and high-performance and energy-efficient computing systems. She was selected as an ELATE Fellow (2020-2022). Helen is a fellow of ACM and IEEE. She is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE.

Dr. Hening Lin obtained his BS degree in chemistry from Tsinghua University in 1998, and his PhD degree in bio-organic chemistry from Columbia University in New York City in 2003. After his postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School, he became a faculty member of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology of Cornell University in 2006. His laboratory studies the chemistry, biology, and therapeutic targeting of enzymes, in particular enzymes that control protein post-translational modifications. He was promoted to associate professor in 2012 and full professor in 2013. His awards include Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, and ACS Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry. He has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2015. He is a review editor for eLIFE and associate editor for ACS Chemical Biology. He is a founder and consultant for Sedec Therapeutics.

Ming C. Lin is a Distinguished University Professor, Dr. Barry Mersky and Capital One E-Nnovate Endowed Professor, and former Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science at University of Maryland at College Park, as well as John & Louise Parker Distinguished Professor Emerita at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also an Amazon Scholar.  She received her B.S., M.S., Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley.  Her works have been recognized by several honors and awards, including NSF Young Faculty Career Award, UNC Hettleman Award for Scholarly Achievements, Beverly W. Long Distinguished Term Professor, IEEE VGTC VR Technical Achievement Award, Washington Academy of Sciences Distinguished Career Award and several best paper awards. She is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors, ACM, IEEE, Eurographics, ACM SIGGRAPH Academy and IEEE VR Academy.

Andrea Liu is a theoretical soft condensed matter physicist. She is best known for developing the field of jamming, which provides a unifying conceptual framework for understanding commonalities in systems ranging from atomic and molecular glasses, to colloidal glasses and granular matter. Liu was born in New York and grew up in Iowa. She received her AB degree in physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and her PhD in the area of critical phenomena from Cornell University in 1989. After switching to complex fluids during her postdoc at Exxon Research and Engineering Co., she worked on polymer theory as a postdoc in the Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Physics departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She then joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a member of the physical chemistry faculty for ten years before moving to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004, where she is now the Hepburn Professor of Physics.

 Dr. Jun Liu is the Washington Research Foundation Innovation Chair in Clean Energy, Campbell Chair Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering, and a Battelle Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He also serves as the Director for Innovation Center for the Battery500 Consortium, a multi-institute program supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with the goal of developing next generation batteries. In the past, he has served as senior researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Bell Laboratories and Sandia National Laboratories. He also served as the Department Manager for Chemical Synthesis and Nanomaterials at Sandia, the Thrust Leader for the Complex Materials for the Integrated Center for Nanotechnologies (CINT), Lead Scientist for Cross-Cutting Sciences for the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Laboratory Fellow and Division Director for Energy Processes and Materials Division at PNNL.

Jun S. Liu (Chinese: 刘军; pinyin: Liú Jūn; born 1965) is a Chinese-American statistician focusing on Bayesian statistical inference and computational biology.[4] Liu is a professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and has written many research papers and a book[5] about Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, including their applications in biology. He is also co-author of several early software on biological sequence motif discovery.[1]: MACAW, Gibbs Motif Sampler, BioProspector, Motif regressor, MDScan, Tmod; on genetic data analysis: BLADE, HAPLOTYPER, PL-EM, BEAM; and more recently on, genome structure, gene expression and cell type analysis: HiCNorm, BACH, CLIME, RABIT, CLIC, TIMER, and PhyloAcc.

Shan Lu is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2008. She was the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin, Madison, from 2009 to 2014. Her research focuses on software reliability and efficiency, particularly detecting, diagnosing, and fixing functional and performance bugs in large software systems. Shan is an ACM Distinguished Member (2019 class), an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2014), a Distinguished Educator Alumnus from Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois (2013), and NSF Career Award recipient (2010).

Shan-Lu Lui is a Professor of Microbiology and Director of the Viruses and Emerging Pathogens Program, Infectious Disease Institute at Ohio State University. His research focuses on viruses and infectious diseases. He is a member of the Infectious Disease Institute, the Center for Retrovirus Research, the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, and the Medical Scientist Training Program. 

Dr. Luo grew up in Shanghai, China, and earned his bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from the University of Science and Technology of China. After obtaining his PhD in Brandeis University, and postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Luo started his own lab in the Department of Biology, Stanford University in December 1996. Together with his postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, Dr. Luo studies how neural circuits are organized to perform specific functions in adults, and how they are assembled during development. Dr. Luo is currently the Ann and Bill Swindells Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Biology, and Professor of Neurobiology by courtesy at Stanford University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He teaches neurobiology to Stanford undergraduate and graduate students. His single-author textbook “Principles of Neurobiology” (1st edition 2015; 2nd edition 2020) is widely used for undergraduate and graduate courses across the world.

Jian Ma is the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Peter X Ma is the Richard H Kingery Endowed Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan. He is a full professor with quadruple appointments in the Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering Center, Department of Materials Science and Engineering. These departments are in the Schools of Dentistry, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Ma has been an invited/keynote/plenary speaker for more than 275 times at conferences and institutions worldwide. He is an inventor of more than 30 US patents and patent applications. He has edited 4 books and published 277 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and books. Professor Ma received a Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Young Investigator Award in 1999, won a DuPont Young Professor Award in 2000, was featured as one of the five outstanding biomedical engineers by the Whitaker Foundation in 2004, won the Isaac Schour Memorial Distinguished Scientist Award from International Association of Dental Research in 2013, and won the Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature from the Society for Biomaterials in 2013. He received an Honorary Professorship from Tsinghua University in 2008, an Honorary Professorship from the Zhejiang University Medical School in 2008, and an Honorary Professor of Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2010.

Peter Michelson is The Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Physics at Stanford University. The focus of his research for the past decade has been on the development and operation of a new orbiting observatory for observing high-energy gamma radiation generated by cosmic sources that include supermassive black holes and neutron stars. He is the Spokesperson for the Large Area Telescope investigation on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. This international collaboration has more than 200 members from 14 countries. His other research interests include gravitational wave detection.

Yi Ni was born in 1981 in China. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in 2001 and a master’s degree in 2003 from Peking University, and a Ph.D. degree in 2007 from Princeton University. He spent a year in Columbia University and a year in MIT, before moving to Caltech in 2009. His research is in low-dimensional topology, a sub-area of mathematics. He has been awarded an AIM Five-Year Fellowship, an Alfrefd P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and an NSF CAREER Award.

Santa J. Ono, Ph.D., is the 15th president of the University of Michigan, having assumed office on October 14, 2022. An accomplished figure in higher education, he is a prominent vision researcher specializing in immune system and eye disease studies. He holds multiple academic positions at U-M, including professorships in ophthalmology, visual sciences, microbiology, immunology, and molecular biology. Beyond his academic roles, he chairs numerous boards, such as the U-M Health Board, Fulbright Canada, and the University Climate Change Coalition (UC3). He’s also involved in various organizations like the Big Ten Council, American Council on Education, and U7+ Alliance.

Before joining U-M, Ono was the president and vice chancellor of the University of British Columbia (UBC). During his tenure at UBC, he led associations like the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities and the Research Universities of British Columbia. He has extensive experience at the University of Cincinnati and Emory University as well. Ono is recognized for his contributions to science, holding fellowships in esteemed organizations like the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Inventors. He has advised governments, companies, and held positions on editorial boards of scientific journals. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in experimental medicine from McGill University.

Professor Ono specialize in mathematics, particularly Algebra, Arithmetic Geometry, Combinatorics, and Number Theory. At the University of Virginia (UVa), he serves as the STEM Advisor to the Provost and holds the Marvin Rosenblum Professorship of Mathematics. Ono is also involved in mentoring and has organized REU programs for undergraduates. Beyond academia, he founded the Spirit of Ramanujan Global STEM Talent Search, supporting emerging scientists with financial grants and mentorship. To date, they have been awarded with 125 budding scientists from 23 countries.

Dr. Elaine Oran is a physical scientist and is considered a world authority on numerical methods for large-scale simulation of physical systems. Dr. Oran pioneered computational technology for the solution of complex reactive flow problems, unifying concepts from science, mathematics, engineering and computer science in a new methodology. She received her bachelor’s degrees in physics and chemistry from Bryn Mawr College, and her master’s degree in physics and doctoral degree in engineering and applied sciences from Yale University. Dr. Oran is a fellow and an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the Combustion Institute, the American Physical Society, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Among many awards given to Dr. Oran are the Fluid Dynamics Prize from the American Physical Society in 2013, the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Senior Professionals from the United States government in 2007, the Zel’dovich Gold Medal of the Combustion Institute in 2000, and the Dryden Lectureship in Research from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2002.

Calton Pu, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Computer Science, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are in the areas of distributed computing, Internet data management, and operating systems. His current projects fall under the areas of cloud computing (Elba) and big data (GRAIT-DM) research. Using experimental data from realistic benchmarks, the Elba project studies the  phenomena of very short bottlenecks that have large impact on N-tier system response time. The GRAIT-DM project collects real world data from social sensors (e.g., Twitter and YouTube) and physical sensors (e.g., USGS GSN and NASA TRMM) to detect physical events and manage real-time information on them. The sponsors for Pu’s research include both government funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation, and companies from industry such as IBM, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard.  He is a co-director of Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) and affiliate of the Institute for Information Security and Privacy (IISP) at Georgia Tech.

My current research interest is the interplay of quantum entanglement, quantum gravity and quantum chaos. The characterization of quantum information and quantum entanglement has provided novel understanding to space-time geometry, and relate the dynamics of chaotic many-body systems to the dynamics of space-time, i.e. quantum gravity theory. Based on recent progress in holographic duality (also known as AdS/CFT), my goal is to use tools such as tensor networks and solvable models to provide more microscopic understanding to the emergent space-time geometry from quantum states and quantum dynamics. I am also interested in topological states and topological phenomena in condensed matter systems.

Dr. Jianmin Qu is a professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Qu’s research focuses on several areas of theoretical and applied mechanics including micromechanics of composites, interfacial fracture and adhesion, fatigue and creep damage in solder alloys, thermomechanical reliability of microelectronic packaging, defects and transport in solids with applications to solid oxide fuel cells and batteries, and ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of advanced engineering materials. He has authored/co-authored two books, 14 book chapters and over 220 referred journal papers in these areas. His works have been cited more than 15,000 times with an h-index of 64.

Professor Ramanan works on probability theory, stochastic processes and their applications, including reflected processes, large deviations theory,  high-dimensional probability and applications to asymptotic convex geometry.  She has also developed novel mathematical frameworks for the analysis of stochastic networks, Markov random fields and interacting particle systems, which arise as models in a variety of fields ranging from operations research and engineering to statistical physics and neuroscience. Her work combines tools from several fields including discrete probability, stochastic analysis and partial differential equations.  She also has four patents to her name.

Dr. Ren is Director of the Center for Epigenomics and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).  Dr. Ren obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Harvard University in 1998 and joined the faculty of UCSD in 2001, after completing postdoctoral training at the Whitehead Institute. Dr. Ren’s research is focused on discovery and characterization of the transcriptional regulatory sequences in the human genome, with a goal to understand how these DNA elements direct spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression, and how DNA variants in these sequences contribute to human diseases. He has contributed to annotation of the transcriptional regulatory elements in the human and mouse genomes, characterization of their activities at single cell resolution in diverse tissues and developmental stages, and elucidation of the general principles of genome architecture and regulation. He is a recipient of the Chen Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in Human Genetic and Genomic Research, and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Weisong Shi is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware (UD). Before joining UD, he was a faculty of Computer Science at Wayne State University and served in multiple administrative roles, including the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the College of Engineering, Interim Chair of Computer Science, and Program Director of NSF. He founded the Connected and Autonomous Research Laboratory (The CAR Lab) in December 2017. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Scientist of ACM. Dr. Shi is one of the world leaders in the edge computing research community, and has been advocating Edge Computing (Fog Computing) since 2014,  a new computing paradigm in which the computing resources are placed at the edge of the Internet, in close proximity to mobile devices, sensors, end users, and the emerging Internet of Everything. His pioneer paper entitled “Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges” has been cited more than 5600 times. In 2016, he co-chaired the NSF Workshop on Grand Challenges in Edge Computing, and was the founding steering committee chair of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC).

Jaswinder Pal Singh joined the department in 1995 as an assistant professor, became an associate professor in 1999 and was appointed a full professor in 2005. From 2000 to 2005 he was co-founder and chief technical officer of FirstRain Inc., a business analytics company, where he led the development of novel and award-winning technologies and products for precise information extraction from Web pages in the presence of changes, for topic-specific crawling and information discovery, for high-relevance search, and for large-scale content-based publish-subscribe. Professor Singh received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton in 1987 and earned master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1989 and 1993, respectively.  Since 2010, he has directed the Princeton CTO Program, which trains students to become highly effective chief technology officers by encouraging understanding not only of technology but also of business and society. Among his honors are the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), awarded by the National Science Foundation, and a Sloan research fellowship, both in 1997.  He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

G. Jeffrey Snyder is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University.  His interests are focused on engineering of electronic and thermal properties and he is well known for his work on thermoelectric materials.  He has developed new methods of electron band structure engineering and microstructure engineering of thermal and electrical properties of complex materials.  His interdisciplinary approach stems from his background in Solid State Chemistry at Cornell University and the Max Planck Institute for solid state research, Applied Physics at Stanford University and thermoelectric materials & device engineering at NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Hongjun Song is a Chinese-American neurologist and stem cell biologist. He is the Perelman Professor of Neuroscience in the Perelman School of Medicine’s Department of Neuroscience and co-director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine Neurodevelopment and Regeneration Program. In 2020, Song was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine for “revealing unexpected dynamics and plasticity of the neuronal epigenome, as well as its functions under physiological and pathological conditions.”

Dr. Duxin Sun is the Associate Dean for Research, College of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan. He is Charles Walgreen Jr. Professor of Pharmacy and Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Sun serves as the Director of Pharmacokinetics (PK) Core. Dr. Sun also has joint appointments in the Chemical Biology program, the Interdisciplinary Medicinal Chemistry program, and University of Michigan’s Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Sun received broad training in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PhD), Molecular Biology (visiting scientist), Pharmacology (MS) and Pharmacy (BS). Sun’s research interests focus on drug development, nanomedicine and pharmacokinetics. Sun has published more than 260 papers, mentored 37 PhD students and 70 postdoctoral fellows/ visiting scientists. Dr. Sun is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Fellow of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). Dr. Sun served on FDA Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology Advisory Committee (2017-2020). Dr. Sun served in the study section for NIH and FDA.

William Tang of Princeton University is a Principal Research Physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory for which he served as Chief Scientist (1997-2009) and Head, Theory Department (1990-2002). He is a Lecturer with Rank & Title of Professor in Astrophysical Sciences, Plasma Physics Section, and member of the Executive Board for the “Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE)”, which he helped establish and served as Associate Director (2003-2009). He received his PhD in Physics with a dissertation carried out at the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. 

Olga G. Troyanskaya is a professor of computer science and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. She joined Princeton in 2003 as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2013. She also is a consultant for the Simons Center for Data Analysis, in New York, and a visiting associate professor, Tromso University, Norway. Professor Troyanskaya received her doctorate in biomedical informatics from Stanford in 2003 and earned a bachelor’s in computer science and biology from the University of Richmond. Her professional service includes co-chair of an NHGRI workshop, “Integrating Functional Data for Connecting Genotype to Phenotype,” in 2012 and chair for the Late Breaking Research Track, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), also in 2012. She served on the steering committee for the ISMB/ECCB 2011 conference. Among her honors and awards are the 2014 Ira Herskowitz Award from the Genetic Society of America, the 2011 Overton Prize, from the International Society of Computational Biology, and the 2011 Blavatnik Award For Young Scientists (Finalist Award).

Dr. Yinhai Wang is a professor in transportation engineering at Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Washington. He has served as director for Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans), USDOT University Transportation Center for Federal Region 10, since 2012 and director for the Northwestern Tribal Technical Assistance Program (NW TTAP) Center since 2022. He was the 2018-2019 president of Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI) at American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He currently serves as secretary of the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC).

Dr. Wang obtained his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics, from the Free University of Brussels, in 1987 when he switched to the then-nascent field of Computational Neuroscience. He was on the faculty at University of Pittsburgh, Brandeis University and Yale University; he was also visiting professor at École Normale Supérieure in Paris and Tsinghua University in Beijing. Recently, Dr. Wang moved from Yale to join the Center for Neural Science at New York University. His research group has been focused on the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which is often called “the CEO of the brain.” He is interested in identifying circuit properties that enable PFC to subserve higher cognitive functions, in contrast to early sensory processing.

Dr. Ting Wang is the inaugural Sanford C. and Karen P. Loewentheil Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Wang studies the genetic and epigenetic impact of transposable element (TE) on gene regulation. His group is known for defining the widespread contribution of TEs to the evolution of species-specific gene regulatory networks as well as to the conservation of 3D genome architecture, and for revealing that epigenetic dysregulation of TEs is a major mechanism driving oncogenesis. Dr. Wang’s lab investigates epigenetic determinants of cell fates in normal development and regeneration, in cancer, and in evolution, by integrating cutting-edge experimental and computational technologies. His lab developed DNA methylomics technologies, algorithms to identify regulatory motifs and modules, and analytical and visualization tools to integrate large genomic and epigenomic data. His lab is home to the WashU Epigenome Browser, utilized by investigators around the world to access hundreds of thousands of genomic datasets generated by large Consortia including the NIH Roadmap Epigenome Project, ENCODE, 4D Nucleome, TaRGET, IGVF, and the Human Pangenome Project. Dr. Wang currently directs the NIEHS Environmental Epigenomics Data Center, the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, and the IGVF Data Administrative and Coordination Center.

H.-S. Philip Wong is the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. He joined Stanford University as Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2004. From 1988 to 2004, he was with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. From 2018 to 2020, he was on leave from Stanford and was the Vice President of Corporate Research at TSMC, the largest semiconductor foundry in the world, and since 2020 remains the Chief Scientist of TSMC in a consulting, advisory role. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and received the IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award, the IEEE Technical Field Award to honor individuals for outstanding contributions to solid-state devices and technology, as well as the IEEE Electron Devices Society J.J. Ebers Award, the society’s highest honor to recognize outstanding technical contributions to the field of electron devices that have made a lasting impact. He is the founding Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford SystemX Alliance – an industrial affiliate program focused on building systems and the faculty director of the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility – a shared facility for device fabrication on the Stanford campus that serves academic, industrial, and governmental researchers across the U.S. and around the globe, sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation. He is the Principal Investigator of the Microelectronics Commons California-Pacific- Northwest AI Hardware Hub, a consortium of over 40 companies and academic institutions funded by the CHIPS Act. He is a member of the US Department of Commerce Industrial Advisory Committee on microelectronics.

Dr. Li Wu is Professor and Endowed Department Chair of Microbiology and Immunology in the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. His laboratory has been studying the molecular mechanisms of HIV-1 interaction with host factors and antiviral innate immunity. In 2000, Dr. Wu received his PhD in molecular virology from Shanghai Medical College at Fudan University, China. After completing his postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH, Dr. Wu joined the faculty at Medical College of Wisconsin in 2005. During Dr. Wu’s tenure at the Ohio State University from 2009 to 2019, he received the Pfizer Award for Research Excellence and the Charles C. Capen Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Education. Dr. Wu was elected to Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2017.

Xiaoxing Xi is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Physics at Temple University. Prior to joining Temple in 2009, he was a Professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD degree in physics from Peking University and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, in 1987. After several years of research at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center, Germany, Bell Communication Research/Rutgers University, and University of Maryland, he joined the Physics faculty at Penn State in 1995.

Dr. Chengshan Xiao serves as Professor and Chandler Weaver Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University. Xiao, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, previously served as a Professor at Missouri University of Science & Technology, and as a Program Director with the National Science Foundation’s Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. An internationally-recognized researcher and educator in communications, high-frequency technologies and theoretical electrical engineering, Dr. Xiao explores topics such as wireless communications, signal processing, and underwater acoustic communications. 

Chenyang Xu is currently a professor at the Department of Mathematics in Princeton University. He was a professor at MIT between 2018 and 2020, and before that he worked at Peking University, where he was a professor between 2013 and 2018.

Professor Yang got his Ph.D in 1998 from Stony Brook University, the State University of New York, and he is currently a full professor at the University of Albany. Dr. Yang’s research is in the field of pure mathematics. He is the founding president of University at Albany Asian Coalition of Professionals.

Vigor Yang earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1984. After serving for one year as a research fellow in Jet Propulsion at Caltech, he joined the Pennsylvania State University in August 1985, becoming the John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair in Engineering in 2006. In 2009, he began his tenure as the William R.T. Oakes Professor Chair at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Tech. He retired from the chair position and returned to teaching and research in August of 2018. Yang was the editor-in-chief of the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power (2001-2009) and the JANNAF Journal of Propulsion and Energetics (2009-2012). He is currently a co-editor of the Aerospace Book Series of the Cambridge University Press (2010-).  He serves, or has served, on a large number of steering committees and review/advisory boards for government agencies and universities in the U.S. and abroad. A member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and an academician of Academia Sinica, Dr. Yang is a fellow of the AIAA, ASME, and Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS).

Jihui is a Kyocera Professor in MSE and Vice Dean of the College of Engineering. His research focuses on thermoelectric and energy storage materials with an emphasis on the design, synthesis, testing, and understanding of advanced thermoelectric materials and Li-ion battery materials for energy conversion and storage. He has authored 100 papers, holds 19 US patents, and has established strong research funding from DOE/EERE in recent years including the partnership on battery research with PNNL. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has received the Campbell award from GM R&D and the DOE INCITE award.

Professor Dali Yang (PhD, Princeton, 1993) is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles on the politics and political economy of China. Among his books are Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China (Stanford University Press, 2004); Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (Routledge, 1997); and Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change since the Great Leap Famine (Stanford University Press, 1996). He is also editor of Discontented Miracle: Growth, Conflict, and Institutional Adaptations in China (World Scientific, 2007) and co-editor and a contributor to Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in Post-Deng China (Cambridge University Press, 2004). He is a member of various committees and organizations and serves on the editorial boards of Asian Perspective, American Political Science Review, Journal of Contemporary China, and World Politics.

Xuanhe Zhao is a professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. The mission of Zhao Lab at MIT is to advance science and technology between humans and machines for addressing grand societal challenges in health and sustainability. A major focus of Zhao Lab’s current research is the study and development of soft materials and systems. Dr. Zhao is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2018, 2021-Now). Over ten patents from Zhao Lab have been licensed by companies and contributed to FDA-approved and widely-used medical devices.

Dr. Bo Zhao graduated from Dalian Medical University in 1996 with a Bachelor of Medicine degree. He pursued postgraduate training in general surgery, and obtained a Master of Medical Sciences degree in 1999, followed by a Doctor of Medicine degree from Peking University Health Sciences in 2002. He did postdoctoral research at the University of Kentucky and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, his research focus was mutagenesis and tumorigenesis. In 2009, he started internship training in internal medicine at RWJ Barnabas Hospital in New Jersey, completed residency training in 2012. He received Hematology and Oncology fellowship training from Cleveland Clinic. Between 2015 and 2021, he was appointed as a clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Dr. Bo Zhao joined Virginia Oncology Associates in July 2021.

Jean Zu came to Stevens on May 1, 2017 as Dean after serving as the department chair for Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto since 2009. She has more than 30 years experience in academia, where she published 165 journal papers and 165 conference papers. She has been awarded more than 50 research grants and contracts, primarily as Principal Investigator. Dr. Zu has also supervised close to 70 graduate students, including 36 PhD students.