Drexel University, USA
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Hai-Feng (Frank) Ji is current a professor of Department of Chemistry, Drexel university. His research interests focus on MEMS devices, nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications, drug discovery, nanopillars and phosphene for energy applications, and surface chemistry. He is currently a co-author of 220 peer-viewed journal articles and book chapters. He has an H-index of 43. He is an editorial board member of several chemistry journals.
University of Twente, Netherlands
Plenary Speaker
Wilfred G. van der Wiel (Gouda, 1975) is full professor of Nanoelectronics and co-director of the BRAINS Center for Brain-Inspired Computing at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He holds a second professorship at the Institute of Physics of the University of Münster, Germany. His research focuses on unconventional electronics for efficient information processing. Van der Wiel is a pioneer in material learning at the nanoscale, realizing computational functionality and artificial intelligence in ‘designless’ nanomaterial substrates through principles analogous to machine learning. He is the author of more than 125 journal articles receiving over 14,500 citations.
University of Dundee, UK
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Homaeigohar is an assistant professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Dundee, UK. He is a Baxter Fellow, a fellow of higher education academy (FHEA), and a recipient of EU Marie-Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship. Dr. Homaeigohar has been awarded and internationally recognized multiple times (“2024 Top Scholar” by ScholarGPS, World’s Top 2% most-cited scientist list of Stanford University (2021-2025), Venture Competition award (University of Dundee), Falling Walls Lab award (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), Kajal Mallick Memorial Award (iCe, UK), and Publon’s top peer reviewer award). Dr. Homaeigohar’s research interests include nanofiber materials for biomedical applications such as wound healing and tissue engineering.