Title: Vibration and Wave Control in and through Reconfigurable Metastructures with Embodied Programmability and Intelligence
Biography: Dr. Kon-Well Wang is the A. Galip Ulsoy Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and Stephen P. Timoshenko Professor of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at the University of Michigan (U-M). He has been the U-M ME Department Chair from 2008 to 2018, and has served as a Division Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation for two years, 2019-20, via an Executive Intergovernmental Personnel Act appointment. Wang received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, worked at the General Motors Research Labs as a Sr. Research Engineer, and started his academic career at the Pennsylvania State University in 1988. At Penn State, Wang has served as the William E. Diefenderfer Chaired Professor, co-founder and Associate Director of the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence, and a Group Leader for the Center for Acoustics & Vibration. He joined the U-M in 2008. Wang’s main technical interests are in structural dynamics, vibration, and controls, especially in the emerging field of intelligent structural & material systems, with applications in vibration, acoustic & wave controls, energy harvesting, and sensing & monitoring. He has received various recognitions, such as the ASME Rayleigh Lecture Award, the Pi Tau Sigma-ASME Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, the ASME J.P. Den Hartog Award, the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, the ASME Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems Prize, the ASME N.O. Myklestad Award, the ASME Rudolf Kalman Award, and several other best paper awards. He has been the Editor in Chief for the ASME Journal of Vibration & Acoustics, and an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for various journals. Wang is a Fellow of the ASME, AAAS, and IOP.

Title: More Than Energy Harvesting – A Pathway to Self-sustained AIoT Sensing System
Biography: Dr. Chengkuo Lee received his Ph.D. degree in precision engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1996. Currently, he is the GlobalFoundries Chair Professor in Engineering and director of the Center for Intelligent Sensors and MEMS at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He co-founded Asia Pacific Microsystems, Inc. (APM) in 2001, where he was Vice President of R&D from 2001 to 2005. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), A-STAR, Singapore. His research interests include MEMS, NEMS, nanophotonics, Si Photonics, metamaterials, energy harvesting, wearable sensors, flexible electronics, artificial intelligence of things (AIoT), Internet of Things (IoT), electroceuticals and biomedical applications. He has trained 38+ Ph.D. students graduated from the ECE Dept., NUS. He has co-authored 480+ journal articles and 380+ conference papers. He holds 10 US patents. His Google Scholar citation is more than 30000. According to the data from Scopus till 1 October 2023, Elsevier has analyzed the academic performance of the top 100,000 scientists by c-score and the top 2% scientists in 174 sub-fields globally (a total of more than 200,000 scientists)¹. In this report, Prof. Lee is ranked 13936 globally in the total citations (excluding self-citations) among all the scientists, with an h-index of 62 (excluding self-citations). In the sub-field, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, he ranks 288 globally on the composite indicator score. On the other hand, his D-index (Discipline H-index) ranks 300 among all the electronics and electrical engineering scientists globally, based on the data till 21 December 2022². He is the associate editor-in-chief of Trans. Nanotechnology (IEEE), and editor-in-chief of Intern. J. Optomechatronics (Taylor & Francis). He is on the Executive Editor Board of J Micromechanics and Microeng. (IOP, UK). He is the Associate Editor of J. MEMS (IEEE), Chip (Elsevier), and Internet of Things (Elsevier). He is also the Editor of next journals: Scientific Reports (Springer Nature), Bioelectronic Medicine (BMC, Springer Nature), J. Optical Microsystems (SPIE), Journal of Sensors (Hindawi), Sensors (MDPI), and Micromachines (MDPI). He serves on the steering committee and technical program committee for various conferences such as Transducers 2015, IEEE MEMS 2015, IEEE NEMS 2015, IEEE SENSORS 2018, IEEE MEMS 2019, Transducers 2019, IEEE MEMS 2020, and Transducers 2021, etc. He has also chaired many conferences, including IEEE NEMS’18, OMN ’16 and ’14, ISMM’14, and Bio4Apps’13, etc.
Ref. 1. https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6
Ref. 2. https://research.com/scientists-rankings/electronics-and-electrical-engineering

Title: A Deep Fusion of Piezoelectric Structures and Power Electronics toward Self-powered Systems and Potential Versatile Structures
Biography: Dr. Junrui Liang is a tenured Associate Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology and the Director of the Center for Intelligent Power and Energy Systems, ShanghaiTech University, China. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Instrumentation Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010. Dr. Liang has an interdisciplinary research and working experience in smart materials and structures, power electronics, and IoT systems and applications. His research interests include electromechanical dynamics, mechatronics, power conversion circuits and systems, low-energy IoT systems, renewable energy, etc. As of 2023, Dr. Liang has authored and co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed technical papers in international journals and conferences. He is ranked among world’s top 2% scientists in the lists released by Stanford University and Elsevier. He and his students have received several paper awards in the conferences such as ICAST 2008, IEEE ICIA 2009 & 2010, ASME SMASIS 2020, VEH 2021 & 2022+1, IEEE IESES 2023, and SMSS 2023. Dr. Liang serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs and IET Circuits, Devices & Systems. He was the General Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Vibration and Energy Harvesting Applications (VEH 2019) and Track Chair of the IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS 2023 & 2024). He is the Co-Chair of the Energy Harvesting Technical Committee (EHTC) in ASME Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) Division, the Secretary of the Power and Energy Circuits and Systems (PECAS) Technical Committee in IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS). In 2022, Dr. Liang and his colleagues founded ViPSN Ltd. (vipsn.cc), a small business focusing on self-powered IoT systems and applications.

Title: Triboelectric Energy Harvesting Materials for Biomedical Applications
Biography: Dr. Sang-Woo Kim is the YONSEI World-Class Fellow Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University. Currently, he is the Director of the Center for Human-oriented Triboelectric Energy Harvesting and the Center for National Core Materials Research, both funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea. After completing his PhD at Kyoto University and a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, he joined Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in 2009. He was later honored as an SKKU Fellow Professor in 2019. In February of this year, he moved to Yonsei University. His recent research interests are focused on piezoelectric/triboelectric nanogenerators, implantable medical devices, self-powered wearable electronics, and 2D materials. Prof. Kim has a publication record, with over 350 research papers published, including articles in prestigious journals such as Science and Nature (with an H-index of 90). He has also delivered over 100 Plenary, Keynote, and Invited talks at international and domestic conferences. He served as the Chairman of the 4th NGPT (Nanogenerators and Piezotronics) conference, Seoul in 2018, and an Associate Editor of Nano Energy (Elsevier) from 2012 to 2022. Currently, Dr. Kim holds the position of Vice President at the Materials Research Society of Korea and serves as an Executive Board Member of Advanced Electronic Materials (Wiley). Additionally, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Korean Journal of Materials Research and the Journal of Sensor Science and Technology.