Young Min Song
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Young Min Song is a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and AI Graduate School at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Republic of Korea. Before joining GIST, he was an assistant professor at the Pusan National University from 2013 to 2016. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in information and communications from GIST in 2006 and 2011, respectively, after his B.S. degree in biomedical engineering from the Yonsei University in 2004. From 2011 to 2013, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include advanced optoelectronic devices/systems, multifunctional nanophotonics, and optical healthcare systems. He is a senior member of Optica, a member of SPIE and MRS. He is serving as a senior editor of IEEE Photonics Journal and an editorial board member of Journal of Optical Microsystems and Soft Science. He is a member of the Young Korea Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST).

Chwee Teck Lim
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Chwee Teck Lim is the NUS Society Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology at the National University of Singapore. He is also the founding director of the Singapore Health Technologies Consortium. His research interests are in the development of wearable technologies for healthcare applications. He is a prolific researcher having co-authored over 470 journal publications including in Nature and Science related journals and given more than 450 plenary/keynote/invited lectures.  He is also a serial entrepreneur having started six companies to commercialize technologies developed in his lab. Prof. Lim is an Elected Fellow of IUPESM, US National Academy of Inventors, AIMBE, IAMBE, the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology, the Academy of Engineering, Singapore, the Singapore National Academy of Science and the Institution of Engineers, Singapore. He and his team have garnered over 100 research awards and honours including Nature Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentoring in Science, Asia’s Most Influential Scientist, Highly Cited Researcher, IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award, ASEAN Outstanding  Engineering Achievement Award, Asian Scientists 100, Credit Suisse Technopreneur of the Year Award, Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Award (Gold), and the President’s Technology Award among others.

Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
University of Sydney, Australia

Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh is a professor and head of School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Sydney. He is also one of the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellows of 2018. Professor Kalantar-Zadeh was a professor of chemical engineering at University of New South Wales (UNSW), and prior to that a professor of electronic engineering at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia. Professor Kalantar-Zadeh is involved in research in the fields of analytical chemistry, materials science, gastroenterology, electronics, and sensors, and has co-authored of over 500 highly cited scientific papers. He is a member of the editorial boards of journals including ACS Applied Nano Materials (associate editor), ACS Sensors, Advanced Materials Technologies, Nanoscale, Applied Surface Science, and ACS Nano. Professor Kalantar-Zadeh is best known for his works on ingestible sensors, liquid metals, and two-dimensional semiconductors. He led his group to the invention of an ingestible chemical sensor: human gas sensing capsule, one of the breakthroughs in the field of medical devices. Professor Kalantar-Zadeh has received several international awards for his scientific contributions including the 2017 IEEE Sensor Council  Achievement, 2018 American Chemical Society Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Awards, and 2020 Robert Boyle Prize of Royal Society of Chemistry.

John A. Rogers
Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

John A. Rogers obtained his B.A. and B.S. degrees in chemistry and physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. From MIT, he received his S.M. degrees in physics and chemistry in 1992 and Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows. He joined Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997 and served as a director of this department from the end of 2000 to 2002. He then spent 13 years on the faculty at the University of Illinois, most recently as the Swanlund Chair Professor and Director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. In the Fall of 2016, he joined Northwestern University as the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, with affiliate appointments in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Chemistry, where he is also the director of the recently endowed Querrey-Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics. He has co-authored more than 850 papers and he is a co-inventor on more than 100 patents, more than 70 of which are in active use by large companies or startups that he has co-founded. His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2019), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021).  He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Yonggang Huang
Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

Yonggang Huang is the Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. He is interested in mechanics of stretchable and flexible electronics, and mechanically guided deterministic 3D assembly.  He has published 2 books and more than 700 journal papers and book chapters, including multi-disciplinary journals Science (2006, 2008–2015, 2019, 2022, 2023) and Nature (2008, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2022).  He is a member of US National Academy of Engineering, US National Academy of Sciences, and European Academy of Sciences and Arts; a fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Royal Society of Canada; a foreign member of Academia Europaea, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Royal Society, London. His research awards in the last 10 years include the Drucker Medal (2013), Nadai Medal (2016), Thurston Lecture Award (2019), and Honorary Membership (2021) from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); Prager Medal (2017) from the Society of Engineering Sciences; Bazant Medal (2018) and von Karman Medal (2019) from the American Society of Civil Engineers.  He is a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering (2009), in Materials Science (since 2014), and in Physics (2018). He has received awards for undergraduate teaching and advising from the University of Arizona, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Northwestern University.  He is the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of Applied Mechanics Reviews, co-EIC of International Journal of Multi-System Dynamics, co-EIC of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, and was the President of the Society of Engineering Science (2014), the Chairman of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (2019–2020), and the EIC of Journal of Applied Mechanics (Transactions of the ASME, 2012–2022).

Wenlong Cheng
Monash University, Clayton, Australia

Lian Duan
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Wei Gao
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

Youfan Hu
Peking University, Beijing, China

Hanqing Jiang
Westlake University, Hangzhou, China

Dae-Hyeong Kim
Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Pooi See Lee
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Tae-Woo Lee
Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Yinji Ma
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Xinran Wang
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Jianliang Xiao
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Yihui Zhang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

 Yong Zhu
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA