Invited Speakers

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● Plenary Speakers:

Albert ("Al") P. Pisano Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC).He has recently completed 5-1/2 years as Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001. A member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, he was elected to Fellow status in 2004. In Mechanical Engineering, Professor Pisano holds the FANUC Chair of Mechanical Systems, with a joint appointment to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests and activities at UC Berkeley include MEMS for a wide variety of applications, including harsh environment sensors systems.(more) Title:Harsh Environment MEMS for Energy & Power Applications: Single-Chip, Self-Powered, Wireless Sensor Systems(abstract)

Jing Cheng Jing Cheng, PhD, is a Cheung Kong Professor at Medical Systems Biology Research Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University School of Medicine, Director of National Engineering Research Center for Beijing Biochip Technology ， Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. (more) Title:Translational Medicine: Microarrays, Microfluidics and Mobile Labs(abstract)

Zhonglin Wang Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering, Regents' Professor, Engineering Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Nanostructure Characterization, at Georgia Tech. Prof. Wang is also the director of Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Wang has made original and innovative contributions to the synthesis, discovery, characterization and understanding of fundamental physical properties of oxide nanobelts and nanowires, as well as applications of nanowires in energy sciences, electronics, optoelectronics and biological science. (more) Title：Piezotronics for smart MEMS and human-CMOS interfacing(abstract)

● Keynote Speakers:

Martin Wegener Since 1995, Martin Wegener is C4-Professor at Universität Karlsruhe (TH). Since 2001 he has a joint appointment at Institut für Nanotechnologie of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH. Since 2001 he is also the coordinator of the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) in Karlsruhe. His research interests comprise ultrafast optics, (extreme) nonlinear optics, near-field optics, photonic crystals, photonic metamaterials, and transformation optics.(more) Title:Diffraction-unlimited three-dimensional optical lithography(abstract)

Xinxin Li Professor, in both Fudan University and Shanghai Jiaotong University Director of the State Key Lab of Transducer Technology,Shanghai Inst. of Microsystem and Information Tech., CAS , China.(more) Title：Efforts on the two interfaces of resonant-cantilever for ultra-sensitive bio/chemical sensing.(abstract)

David Cumming David Cumming has B.Eng (Glasgow, 1989) and PhD (Cambridge, 1993) degrees. He has worked variously on mesoscopic device physics, RF characterization of novel devices, fabrication of diffractive optics for optical and sub-millimeter wave applications and microelectronic design. He is presently Professor of Microsystem Technology and EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow in Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow, U.K. where he leads the Microsystem Technology Group. (more) Title：CMOS Integration for sensing(abstract)

Wanlin Guo Ph.D. Cheng Kong Scholar, Chair Professor in mechanics and nanoscience, founder and director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education and the Institute of Nanoscience in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has worked on three-dimensional fracture mechanics and life-cycle design of mechanical structures for over 25 years. His research interest since 2000 is focusing on intelligent nano materials and devices, nanotechnology for efficient energy conversion , bio-channels and molecular bionics. (more) Title：Advances and Challenges in Graphene Based Devices(abstract)

Hong-Bo Sun Hong-Bo Sun received the B.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in electronics from Jilin University, Jilin, China, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Satellite Venture Business Laboratory, the University of Tokushima, Japan, from 1996 to 2000, and then as an assistant professor in Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. In 2005, he was promoted as a full professor (Changjiang Scholar) in Jilin University, China. His research interests have been laser nanofabrication and ultrafast spectroscopy. (more) Title：Nano-micro-engineered polymers for advanced applications(abstract)

Gwo-Bin Vincent Lee Distighished Professor, Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Institute of NanoEngineering and Microsystems, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan(more) Title：Optically-induced dielectrophoresis (ODEP) on microfluidic systems for biomedical/nanotechnology applications(abstract)

Gilbert C. Walker Gilbert C. Walker is the Canada Research Chair Professor of Molecular Microscopy and Nanophotonics in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. His nanoscience research group is known for developing and applying scanning probe microscopy for the analysis of polymers. Biomaterials are a focus area of his research, with a recent interest in how polymer elasticity affects tissue growth.(more) Title： Novel Developments based on Atomic Force Microscopy (abstract)

Tae Song Kim Tae Song Kim is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). Dr. Kim has been the director of the Intelligent Microsystem Center (IMC) since 2004, which is one of the 21st century frontier R&D program sponsored by Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Energy (MOCIE). The personal research interests are MEMS based diagnostic system, BioMEMS, Biosensors/Chip, and piezoelectric MEMS devices.(more) Title： Molecular based detection using piezoelectric thin film coated microcantilever (abstract)

Nicolas Xuanlai Fang Nicholas Xuanlai Fang is the Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He arrived at MIT in Jan 2011 as an associate professor in MechE. Prior to MIT, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Professor Fang's areas of research look at nanophotonics and 3D nanomanufacturing.(more) Title：Folding Light with Photonic Metamaterials: Controllable Photon Trapping, Extraction and Optofluidic assembly(abstract)

Isao Shimoyama Isao Shimoyama was born in Japan in 1955. He received the B.E., M.E, and Dr. of Engineering degrees in mechanical engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1977, 1979, and 1982, respectively. He joined The University of Tokyo in 1982 and is presently Professor, Director of Information and Robot Technology Research Initiative. His current Research interest is in Robotics, MEMS and nano-on -microsystems.(more) Title：Folding Light with Photonic Metamaterials: Controllable Photon Trapping, Extraction and Optofluidic assembly(abstract)

Mark Allen Executive Director, Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology; Joseph M. Pettit Professor; Regents Professor, Georgia Tech.. Prof. Mark Allen is co-founder of two MEMS-oriented companies, CardioMEMS and Axion Biosystems. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE. His current research interests are in the field of microfabrication and nanofabrication technology, with emphasis on new approaches to fabricate devices with characteristic lengths in the micro- to nanoscale from both silicon and non-silicon materials.(more) Title：An Electroplating-Based Approach to Volumetric Nanomanufacturing And Its Application to Energy Conversion and Storage(abstract)

Jianxin (Jacky) Wu Deputy Director of Suzhou Industrial Park Science & Technology Development Center, the Executive Vice President of Suzhou Nanotech Co., Ltd., the General Manager of CHInano Investments Co., Ltd.(more) Title：Nanopolis Suzhou (abstract)