Steering Committee | FLEPS 2019

Ravinder Dahiya

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University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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Joachim Burghartz

Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart, Germany

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Joachim Burghartz

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Joachim N. Burghartz is an IEEE Fellow, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, recipient of the 2014 EDS J.J. Ebers Award, and has been an ExCom member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society. He received his MS degree from RWTH Aachen in 1982 and his PhD degree in 1987 from the University of Stuttgart, both in Germany. From 1987 thru 1998 he was with the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where he was engaged in early development of SiGe HBT technology and later in research on integrated passive components, particularly inductors, for application to monolithic RF circuits. From 1998 until 2005 he was with TU Delft in the Netherlands as a full professor and from 2001 as the Scientific Director of the Delft research institute DIMES. In fall 2005 he moved to Stuttgart, Germany, to head the Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS). In addition he is affiliated with the University of Stuttgart as a full professor. He is also became CEO of the IMS Mikro-Nano Produkte GmbH. Dr. Burghartz has published about 350 reviewed articles and holds more than 30 patents.

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Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart, Germany

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Professor Arokia Nathan

Cambridge Touch Technologies, UK

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Professor Arokia Nathan

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Professor Arokia Nathan leads a multi-disciplinary research group whose primary focus is on the heterogeneous integration of materials and processes, sensors, energy harvesting and storage devices pertinent to wearable technologies. Formerly a Chair Professor of Photonic Systems and Displays at the University of Cambridge, he is currently the Chief Technical Officer of Cambridge Touch Technologies, a company spun out of the University developing advanced interactive technologies.

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Cambridge Touch Technologies, UK

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Vassili Karanassios

Waterloo University, Canada

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Vassili Karanassios

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Vassili Karanassios is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) and a co-founder of a degree-program in nano-technology engineering. Professor Karanassios received his Ph. D. from the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) and was a Post Doctoral Fellow at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). In 2009, he held a Leverhulme award in the UK where he was a visiting Professor in Chemistry (Sheffield University), an Overseas Fellow of Churchill college (Cambridge University, UK), and a visiting Professor of Engineering (Cambridge University, UK) in the Center for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE). Professor Karanassios and his group published (among others) on microfluidics and nanofluidics, on 3D printing and on rapid prototyping, on spectral interference correction using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Deep Learning, and on smartphone-enabled data acquisition and signal-processing from a variety of sensors for on-site chemical analysis and (potentially) for IoT applications.

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Waterloo University, Canada

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Luigi Occhipinti

University of Cambridge, UK

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Luigi Occhipinti

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Dr Luigi Occhipinti is Director of Research at Cambridge University, Engineering Department. He joined the University of Cambridge in April 2014. Prior to that he was Senior Group Manager and R&D Programs Director at STMicroelectronics. He developed science and innovation for more than 20 years in emerging technology areas for the post-CMOS roadmap, smart systems heterogeneous integration, polymer and printed electronics.

Since February 2018, he serves as Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge.

He also serves as CEO and Director of Engineering of Cambridge Innovation Technologies Consulting (CITC Ltd), a Cambridge-based medical and healthcare research venture, and as Non-Exec Director of Zinergy UK, another Cambridge-based start-up manufacturing printed flexible energy storage devices.

Luigi's research track record encompasses emerging nanomaterials, biocompatible and biodegradable devices and electronics manufacturing on flexible and stretchable substrates.

Luigi has authored and co-authored more than 90 peer-review papers, 2 book chapters, 2 international standards and is inventor or co-inventor of 40 patent families. Google Scholar: h-index 23, Citations >2980 (>2041 since 2014). He is co-editor of the Cambridge Elements Series on "Flexible and Large-Area Electronics" published by Cambridge University Press.

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University of Cambridge, UK

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John A. Rogers

Northwestern University, USA

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John A. Rogers

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Northwestern University, USA

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Zeynep Celik-Butler

University of Texas, Arlington

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Zeynep Celik-Butler

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Zeynep Çelik-Butler is a Distinguished University Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Texas, Arlington. She received dual B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and physics from Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester. She was an IBM Pre-doctoral Fellow from 1983 to 1984, and an Eastman Kodak Pre-doctoral Fellow from 1985 to 1987. She joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University in 1987 as an Assistant Professor; was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 1993. Dr. Çelik-Butler was the holder of J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee Assistant Professorship from 1990 to 1993. She served as the Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies and Research from 1996 to 1999. She moved to University of Texas at Arlington in 2002.

Prof. Çelik-Butler has received several awards including the Semiconductor Research Corporation Inventor Recognition Award (2010), the University of Texas at Arlington Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2006), IEEE-Dallas Section Electron Devices Society (EDS) Outstanding Service Awards (1995, 1997), IEEE-EDS Service Recognition Certificates (multiple years for multiple positions), IEEE-EDS Distinguished Lecturer Appreciation Awards (2006, 2016), Outstanding Electrical Engineering Graduate Faculty Awards (1996, 1997, 2001), and SMU-Sigma Xi Research Award (1997).

.Her research interests include microelectromechanical systems, multi-functional reconfigurable sensors, nano energy harvesters, flexible electronics, noise and reliability in nanoelectronic devices. She has ten awarded and one pending patents, eight book chapters, and over 220 journal and conference publications in these fields.

She currently serves in the editorial boards of IEEE Sensors Journal, Elsevier Sensors and Actuators: A, and Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics. Dr. Çelik-Butler is a Fellow of IEEE, and life-member of Eta Kappa Nu.

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University of Texas, Arlington

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Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

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Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh is a 2018 Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow and a Professor of Chemical Engineering at UNSW, in Sydney. Formerly, he was a Distinguished Professor of Electronic Engineering at RMIT in Melbourne. Kalantar-zadeh is also the Director of the Centre for Advanced Solid and Liquid based Electronics and Optics (CASLEO) at UNSW. Kalantar-zadeh has coauthored nearly 400 research articles, reviews and books. He is a member of the editorial boards of journals including Applied Materials Today, ACS Applied Nano Materials, ACS Sensors, Advanced Materials Technologies, Nano-Micro Letters, and ACS Nano. Kalantar-zadeh is internationally recognised for his work on ingestible sensors, two dimensional semiconductors and liquid metals and has been awarded the 2017 IEEE Sensor Council Achievement Award and 2018 ACS Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Award (Asia-Pacific region). Clarivate Analytics recognised Kalantar-zadeh as one of the most highly cited researchers in 2018.

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University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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Professor Takao Someya

University of Tokyo, Japan

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Professor Takao Someya

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Takao Someya received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1997. Since 2009, he has been a professor of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Tokyo. From 2001 to 2003, he worked at the Nanocenter (NSEC) of Columbia University and Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, as a Visiting Scholar. His current research interests include organic transistors, flexible electronics, plastic integrated circuits, large-area sensors, and plastic actuators. Prof. Someya has received a number of awards including a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize in 2009 and 2009 IEEE Paul Rappaport Award. He is a global scholar of Princeton University, a member of the board of directors of the U.S. Materials Research Society from 2009 to 2011, and an IEEE/EDS Distinguished Lecturer since 2005. Prof. Someya’s “large-area sensor array” electronic thin film was featured in Time Magazine as one of its “Best Inventions of 2005” in its November 21st, 2005 issue.

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University of Tokyo, Japan

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Hanbin Ma

Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (SIBET), China

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Hanbin Ma

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Hanbin Ma received his PhD degree in Engineering in 2014 from University of Cambridge, UK. In 2018, he moved to the Chinese Academy of Sciences to take up the Hundred Talent Professor in CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-Medical Diagnostics, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology. From 2008 to 2009, he worked as a Research Assistant in Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2014 to 2018, he was supported by Isaac Newton Trust and other projects at the University of Cambridge as a Research Fellow. In 2015, he has co-founded Acxel Tech Ltd, a university spin-out in Cambridge. His current research interests cover the design and implementation of novel heterogeneously integrated biosensing systems and the development of large-area electronics-based microfluidics systems.

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Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (SIBET), China

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Aaron Voon-Yew Thean

National University Singapore

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Aaron Voon-Yew Thean

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National University Singapore

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Praveen C Ramamurthy

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

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Praveen C Ramamurthy

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Prof. Praveen C Ramamurthy received M.Sc in Polymer science in 1995 from University of Mysore and PhD degree from Clemson University in the year 2004. He worked as a R&D Engineer in Therm-O-Disc, Mansfield, OH, USA and Research Scientist in Hoku Scientific, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He joined the Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in the year 2007. He is also Associate faculty in Centre for Nano Science and Engineering and Inter Disciplinary Centre for Energy Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. His current research focuses on organic electronics including synthesis of conjugated polymer for the application in photovoltaics, and sensors. Part of his research group works on materials for device package application and sensor for the organic volatile compound, heavy metals and biosensors. He has over 140 peer reviewed papers published and 18 patents to his credit.

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Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

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Ravinder Dahiya

Joachim Burghartz

Professor Arokia Nathan

Vassili Karanassios

Luigi Occhipinti

John A. Rogers

Zeynep Celik-Butler

Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

Professor Takao Someya

Hanbin Ma

Aaron Voon-Yew Thean

Praveen C Ramamurthy

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