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The Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Nanotechnology: Fundamentals and Applications, would like to thank the following members for accepting to contribute to the conference as a keynote speaker. They are as follows:

Dr. Yoshinobu Baba, who received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Kyushu University in 1986, is professor at Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. He is also a Presidential Advisor of Nagoya University and Director of FIRST Research Center for Innovative Nanobiodevice, Nagoya University. He is serving to over 20 scientific journals, including Nanoscale and Biomicrofluidics, as an editorial board member. He was a general chair of several international meetings. He has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and received numerous awards for his contributions in capillary electrophoresis, microchip, and nanobiotechnology. His major area of interest is nanobiosicence and nanobiotechnology for genomics, proteomics, glycomics, systems biology, and medical applications. He is the author or co-author of 646 publications, including research papers, proceedings, review articles, books, and book chapters. He has delivered more than 593 plenary and invited lectures at conferences, universities, and governmental/industrial laboratories.

Dr. Yoshinobu Baba's Keynote Abstract on Nanobiodevice in Life Innovation and Green Innovation

 

Professor Suresh Bhargava is a world-renowned researcher and academic leader in the field of industrial chemistry and advanced materials. Based at RMIT University in Australia, and working with collaborators from around the world, Professor Bhargava leads a diverse research program focused on developing effective industrial processes that enhance environmental sustainability and increase productivity. Professor Bhargava is a founding member of the ARCNN (Australian Research Council of Nanotechnology Network) and leads a research group that includes a team of three research fellows and seven postgraduate students dedicated to nanobiotechnological applications. The teams’ most recent breakthrough is a simple electrochemical trans-metallation approach to create tailored nanostructured surfaces for various applications in catalysis and sensing. This exciting discovery has garnered world-wide attention, and will enable the development of mercury vapour sensors for alumina refineries and coal-fired power plants. Professor Bhargava was recently awarded the prestigious 2008 RK Murphy Medal for Industrial Chemistry by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. His goal is to develop sustainable global research alliances between academia and industry, in order to apply advanced knowledge to environmental problems for the economic, social and cultural benefit of humanity.

Professor Suresh Bhargava's Keynote Abstract on Creating Nano Engineered Surfaces for Mercury Sensing

 

Dr. Robert E. Burrell is currently a Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Biomaterials and a Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering as well as Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering in the Faculties of Engineering and of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta. He is the past Vice President, Science and Technology and Chief Scientific Officer, for Nucryst Pharmaceutical Corp. He has a B.Sc. in Zoology and a M.Sc. in Microbiology, University of Guelph and a Ph.D. in Microbiology, University of Waterloo. He also held a Post Doctoral Fellowship in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Burrell is one of the world's leading experts on the use of advanced metallic films for therapeutic applications including; 1) the control of microbial growth on a wide range of devices and 2) control of the inflammatory response after injury. He is the inventor of various devices and processes, including antimicrobial films (Acticoat dressings, the worlds first commercial medical application of nanotechnology to therapeutic treatments), visual immunoassays (the application of nanotechnology to diagnostics), submicron superparamagnetic particles (the application of nanotechnology to cell sorting and separation), and single cell protein production, for which 300 patents and pending patents exist worldwide.

Prof. Robert E. Burrell's Keynote Abstract on Nanotechnology: Its Application to the Treatment of Inflammation Related to Disease and Injury

 

Prof. Thomas Ming Swi Chang, O.C.,M.D.,C.M.,Ph.D.,FRCP(C), FRS(C) is the Director of the Artificial Cells & Organs Research Centre, Departments of Physiology, Medicine & Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is Honorary President & Editor in Chief, Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes & Biotechnology; President, International Academy of Nanomedicine; Editor in Chief, Book Series on Regenerative Medicine, Artificial Cells & Nanomedicine. His other international activities include Honorary Professor, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China and Honorary Professor, Nankai University, Tianjin, China etc. While an honors B.Sc. undergraduate at McGill University, he invented and prepared the first artificial cell (Chang, honors Physiology research report, 1957). He continued this work while in medical school, and then for his Ph.D., in the Department of Chemistry and then Physiology at McGill. During this time, he demonstrated in more detail the potential of artificial cells in biotechnology, nanotechnology and medicine and published the first paper on this topic (Chang, Science, 1964). After his Ph.D.(1965), he continued on his research and published a number of papers during his early career including Chang & Poznansky, Nature, 1968; Chang, Nature, 1971; Chang Monograph on Artificial Cells 1972. He now has more than 500 full papers and 20 books. Chang has been called the “Father of Artificial Cells”. Artificial cells can be prepared in the micro, nano or soluble nanodimension complexes. Recent advances around the have led to rapid developments in the use of artificial cells for nanomedicine, nanobiotechnology, gene therapy, enzyme therapy, cell/stem cell therapy, blood substitutes and even in agriculture, aquatic culture, fermentation industry, food industry, nanorobotics and other areas. He received career awards from the Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC) first as a MRC scholar (junior career award) (1965-68) and then the award of MRC career investigator (1968-1999 when the program ended as MRC became CIHR). His present and ongoing research grant support started in 1965 from MRC that is now Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). He rose at McGill from assistant professor (1966) to associate professor in 1969 and full professor in 1972. In 2007 McGill granted his request to become an emeritus professor in order for him to devote full time to research and international academic activities.His awards started with the 1969 “Inaugural First Incentive Lecturership” in Sweden (given at Karolinska Institute, Lund Univ and Gothenburg Univ Hospital), followed by others including Clemson Award; Silver Medal Award of Bologna Univ, First Julius Silver Lectureship, Confederation Medal Award, Queen Elizabeth 25th Jubillee Medal; ISBP Annual Award; Virage Award; ISBS Special Award for artificial cells and Blood Substitutes; First “Outstanding Research Award” of the Int Academy of Nanomedicine. He also received the Canadian civilian decoration of Officer of the Order of Canada, for his invention of Artificial Cells. He has been nominated for Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology and also for Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His full text monographs and other publications are available for free access on his McGill public service website: http://www.artcell.mcgill.ca. These include his 1972 monograph on “Artificial Cells” and his 2007 Monograph on “ARTIFICIAL CELLS: biotechnology, nanotechnology, blood substitutes, regenerative medicine, bioencapsulation, cell/stem cell therapy. His more recent reviews include Nature Review Drug Discovery, 4:221-235 (2005); and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews on Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology 2: 418-430,(2010).

Prof. Thomas Ming Swi Chang's Keynote Abstract on Nanotechnology-Based Artificial Cells for Nanomedicine

 

Brian Haydon P.Eng., is Project Manager, Nanotechnologies, at CSA Standards (also known as Canadian Standards Association). CSA Standards is a leading standards-based solutions organization serving industry, government, consumers and other interested parties in North America and the global marketplace. Brian is the Administrator for Canada’s national committees to ISO/TC229, Nanotechnologies, and IEC/TC113, Nanotechnology standardization for electrical and electronic products and systems. Since 2005, he has served as International Secretary for the JWG1 Working Group, Nanotechnologies - Terminology and Nomenclature, of ISO/TC229 / IEC/TC113. In 2010, Brian also joined the Interim Board of the recently-established organization, Nano Ontario. Brian has been with CSA Standards for over 10 years, in project management and standards development for national, regional and international standards. Prior to this, he has 22 years experience in administration, engineering, health and safety, and quality assurance in the electrical manufacturing and distribution sector. He holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering (Waterloo), Certificate in Quality Assurance (Ryerson), has received the IEEE Standards Board Award of Excellence, and is registered as a Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada.

Brian Haydon's Keynote Abstract on ISO and IEC Standards for Nanotechnologies

 

Dr. Karin Hinzer is a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Photonic Nanostructures and Integrated Devices and Associate Professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa. She has made pioneering contributions to the experimental physics of quantum dots marked by two landmark papers in Science. She gained extensive experience in the design and fabrication of group III-V semiconductor devices while at the National Research Council Canada, Nortel Networks and then Bookham. Cost reduction strategies and liaison with remote fabrication facilities strongly feature in her industry experience. Joining the University of Ottawa in 2007, she has turned her skills towards new challenges in green optoelectronics and has founded the SUNLab, a modelling and characterization laboratory specializing in the development of high-efficiency solar cells. Since the laboratories inception, she has trained over thirty highly-qualified personnel in the field of photovoltaic material and devices. Starting in 2010, she is the inorganic photovoltaics co-theme leader within the Pan-Canadian Photovoltaic Research Network.

Dr. Karin Hinzer's Keynote Abstract on Photovoltaics using Nanostructures for above 40% Conversion Efficiencies
 

Dr. Dale Henneke is currently an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo and a member of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology. Since 1996, he has performed research related to nanoparticle synthesis. He was instrumental in the development of the Laser Ablation of a Microparticle Aerosol (LAMA) technique, and has developed other nanomaterial syntheses using cap directed growth processes. In 2001, after obtaining a doctoral degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, he obtained a post-doctoral position at the Universität Karlsruhe in Germany. Dr. Henneke has also worked for the microelectronics industry while at Motorola, and at Los Alamos National Laboratory. While in these positions, he transferred newly developed technologies from research laboratories into production and provided expertise during multi-million dollar start-up projects.

Dr. Dale Henneke's Keynote Abstract on Nanoparticle Synthesis by Laser Ablation of an Aerosol
 

Dr. Esko L. Kauppinen, born August 27, 1957, is the Full Professor of Physics at the Department of Applied Physics in Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland since 2004. He also holds the VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) Research Professor position in the field of Nanotechnology since 2000. He has worked at VTT in several positions since 1983. He worked as a visiting scientist at University of Florida 1987-1998 in Gainesville, FL, USA and at Finnish Army Research Center 1986-1987, Helsinki, Finland. He has been the Visiting Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, October 2001; the JITA/AIST/MITI Invitation Program Fellow for Foreign Researchers for October 2000 at Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MEL) of MITI, Tsukuba, Japan; the ESF Nano Program Fellow for Short Visit at EMAT, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, June - July 1999; the STA (Science and Technology Agency, Japan) Senior Scientist Fellow for November - December 1999 at Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MEL) of MITI, Tsukuba, Japan. He has PhD in Applied Physics from University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 1992. His research include synthesis and formation mechanisms of carbon nanotubes, nanoparticles and fullerenes, with applications of nanoparticles and nanotubes in nanoelectronics, composite materials and drug delivery technologies, with carbon nanotubes and fullerenes as well as polymer-drug composite nanoparticles being the main focus of current research. Recently he invented the novel carbon nanomaterial, carbon NanoBud (CNB), i.e. fullerene functionalized carbon nanotube. Research interests include the material atomic structure characterization with transmission electron microscopic methods, nanoparticle nucleation, growth and crystallization mechanisms during gas phase synthesis as well as particle size measurement. He has tutored 8 and is currently tutoring 11 PhD students, also having tutored 5 and is currently tutoring 5 post-doctoral scientists. He has over 170 fully pier refereed scientific journal publications and 17 patent applications. He has given numerous invited talks at international scientific meetings, universities and companies. He served as the Associate Editor of Aerosol Science and Technology (1998-2001). Currently he is the member of the Editorial board of Powder Technology and has served as the member of editorial board of Journal of Aerosol Science (1994-2000) and Aerosol Science and Technology (1994-1998). He is the reviewer of papers for the following journals: Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, Aerosol Science and Technology, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, Applied Physics, Carbon, Combustion and Flame, Combustion Science and Technology, Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, Energy and Fuels, Environmental Science and Technology, Fuel Processing Technology, J. Aerosol Sci., J. Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Materials, J. Nanoparticle Research, J. Phys. Chem., J. of Pulp and Paper Science Canada, Powder Technology, Water, Air & Soil Pollution, J. Chem. Phys. He reviews the proposal for Academy of Finland, European Commission and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He has currently research projects funded by Academy of Finland, TEKES and European Union for more than 1 000 000 €/year. He has received the Finnish Association for Aerosol Research (FAAR) Award in 1992, and Air Pollution Control Research Award of 2001. He has been the president of the Finnish Association for Aerosol Research (FAAR) and the Member of Board of Directors of American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR). 2005 he was elected to the Member of Board of Directors German Aerosol Society (GAeF). He was the Member of Board of Finnish Physical Society (SFS) during 2006. He was the Chairman of European Aerosol Conference 1995. He has served as the Member of the Board of Directors of the following companies in Finland: Dekati Ltd, StreamWise Finland Oy, and Particle Stream Technologies Oy. He is the founding member of the companies StreamWise Finland Oy, Canatu Oy and Teicos Oy.

Prof. Esko I. Kauppinen's Keynote Abstract on Novel Nanocarbons for Flexible Thin Film Electronics Applications

 

Dr. Dilip Kumar Sarkar's establishment of nanolaboratories and introduction nanotechnology in the preparation of superhydrophobic surfaces and their application in icephobicity at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) is one of the best achievements in candidate’s research career. The research involved a combination of chemical and plasma processes in creating superhydrophobic coatings on conductors and insulators substrates. With the available resources, the candidate has been successful in making nanostructured superhydrophobic coatings. The superhydrophobic coatings show reduced ice adhesion properties. The research work on ice phobic coatings has been considered the seventh among the top ten discoveries of Quebec in 2008 by Quebec Science. Presently, he is co-editing a special issue on ice-phobic coatings for the Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology (JAST). Before joining at UQAC, he has worked at INRS-EMT, Varennes, Quebec, Canada; University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany as well as Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India. Candidate has also worked on the preparation of nanoparticles, nanopatterns, high-k dielectric thin films, silicides, superhard protective plasma coatings, etc. This year he received $100,000 NSERC-Discovery Grant for five years. He has presided the Session Chair on Superhydrophobic Coatings in the 23rd International Conference on Surface Modification Technologies (SMT23) (http://www.smt23.com/) held on November 2-5, 2009, Mamallapuram, (Chennai), India. As a guest speaker/speaker he has delivered following oral presentation internationally: (i) “Superhydrophobic coatings by chemical and plasma process”, to be delivered in SMT23; (ii) “Superhydrophobic Binary Structures: Preparation, Characterization and Ice Adhesion”, July 14-16, 2008, University of Maine, USA; (iii) “Superhydrophobic and icephobic coatings by plasma processes”, June 8-11, 2008, University of Laval, Quebec; (iv) “Superhydrophobic and icephobic nanometric coatings”, 4-6 October 2007, Bangalore, India; (v) “Silicides, high-k dielectric and nanostructured thin films”, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and Bombay (January-February 2005); (vi) “Self-assembly of copper nanocrystals on thin conducting polymer films” Chemnitz University of technology, Germany (September 2003); (vii) “The growth of metal films and silicide formation”, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, (February 2001); (viii) “Thin film interface characterization using x-ray reflectivity (XRR) and cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (XTEM)”, Katholieke Universitet Leuven, Belgium (December 1999) and Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland (March 2000).

Dr. Dilip Kumar Sarkar's Keynote Abstract on Nanostructured Superhydrophobic Coatings: Fundamentals and Applications

 

Prof. John Wen is the director of the Laboratory of Emerging Energy Research (LEER) at Waterloo. He graduated from the University of Toronto (MASc 2002, Ph.D. 2005) in Mechanical Engineering. His PhD thesis is on combustion production of nanoparticles. He spent about three years at MIT where he worked with the Green group (directed by Prof. Bill Green at Chemical Engineering) and Prof. Vander Sande’s research group at Material Science and Engineering. The research projects were on the synthesis and characterization of iron nano catalysts and carbon nanotubes. In addition to his experience in nanotechnology, he has over 15 years of professional experience in the development and design of marine, automotive and aerospace engines. At Waterloo, he is also a faculty member in WIN (Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology) and WISE (Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy).

Prof. John Wen's Keynote Abstract on Nanotechnology for Energy: Preparation and Processing of Nanomaterials for Advanced Energy Systems

 

Dr. Winnie Ye is a Canada Research Chair in Nano-scale IC Design for Reliable Opto-Electronics and Sensors. She received her undergraduate degree from Carleton University in Electrical Engineering in 2000. She then attended the University of Toronto, receiving an M.A.Sc in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002. Her PhD degree was received in 2007, for her research on stress engineering in silicon-on-insulator devices at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). After receiving her PhD degree, she first joined MIT as a postdoctoral fellow, and worked on athermal opto-electronic integration. She later worked at Harvard University and worked on innovative nano-fabrication technologies for CMOS image sensors. Since July 2009, Dr. Ye has been with Carleton University as a Faculty Member in the Department of Electronics. Her current research interests are on micro- and nano-photonics and their applications in optical sensing.

Dr. Winnie Ye's Keynote Abstract on Silicon Photonics: Devices, Applications and Challenges

 

Dr. Jin Zhang was recruited as an assistant professor of the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (CBE) by the Western in 2008 to expand Western’s nanotechnology program. Dr. Zhang’s research activities focus on the design, synthesis and characterization of new nanocomposite-based devices for next-generation biomedical devices. Dr. Zhang received her PhD from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2003. Following her PhD program, Dr. Zhang joined in the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada as an NSERC visiting fellow and worked on the laser-assisted synthesis of nanomaterials during the period from 2003 to 2005. From 2006 to 2007, she worked at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine of the University of Ottawa with NSERC post-doctoral fellowship. In Univ. of Ottawa, Dr. Zhang investigated different biodegradable polymers used as scaffolds incorporating with growth factors (proteins) to enhance progenitor cell recruitment. Her responsibilities also involved training of graduate students and research associates. Dr. Zhang has published 22 peer-reviewed journal papers and 10 peer-reviewed proceedings. Dr. Zhang has co-authored a book chapter with the publisher Kluwer. As co-inventor, Dr. Zhang has two filed patents, and one provisional patent. Dr. Zhang has given over 30 presentations at national and international conferences. Furthermore, Dr. Zhang won the international travel grant of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's 2010 (ARVO 2010). In addition, Dr. Zhang has served as a reviewer for journals including Journal of Biotechnology & Bioengineering, Molecular Chemistry, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, and Nanomedicine.

Dr. Jin Zhang's Keynote Abstract on Multifunctional Nanocomposites: The Synthesis, Characterization, and their Application for Rapid Pathogen Capture

 

 
 

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