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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's Keynote Abstract on Nanobiodevice in Life Innovation and Green Innovation
Brian Haydon's Keynote Abstract on ISO and IEC Standards for Nanotechnologies
Dr. Dale Henneke's Keynote Abstract on
Nanoparticle Synthesis by Laser Ablation of an Aerosol
Dr. Winnie Ye's Keynote Abstract on Silicon Photonics: Devices, Applications and Challenges
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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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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. 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.