Princeton Materials Institute -- the interdisciplinary center for materials science and engineering research, education, and outreach at Princeton University -- invites you to attend our upcoming annual research symposium. Registration is required. Program Speakers Parking Speakers Craig B. Arnold, Vice Dean for Innovation and the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University. Craig B. Arnold is the Vice Dean for Innovation and the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. His research ranges from basic science to applied technology aimed at developing a deeper understanding of fundamental materials synthesis and processing with interests in energy storage systems, laser materials processing and advanced manufacturing. He earned his PhD in condensed-matter physics from Harvard University, and was an NRC post-doctoral fellow prior to joining the faculty at Princeton in 2003. He has earned numerous accolades for his work in materials processing including the Edison Patent Award, an R&D 100 award, the Laser Focus World-OSA technology innovation award, and the SPIE PRISM award for photonics innovation. Prof. Arnold is a fellow of OSA and SPIE. Sandip Basu, North America Marketing and Business Development Manager, Carl ZEISS. Sandip Basu is the Head of Marketing and Business Development for Materials Research and Electronics at Carl Zeiss Microscopy in North America. He has been working in the field of materials research for almost 20 years and has extensive experience with multi-scale materials characterization techniques. After receiving his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel University in 2008, he went on to various applications and marketing roles at Agilent Technologies and Bruker. Presently at Zeiss, Sandip has been working closely with the light, electron and X-ray microscopy products and applications for semiconductor and materials research markets. Minjie Chen, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University. Minjie Chen (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Assistant Professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. His research interests include modeling, design, and application of high-performance power electronics. Dr. Chen is a recipient of IEEE PELS Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award, the Princeton SEAS E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr./Emerson Electric Co. Junior Faculty Award, the NSF CAREER Award, six IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Prize Paper Awards, the MIT EECS D. N. Chorafas Ph.D. Thesis Award, and numerous conference paper awards from COMPEL, ICRA, IROS, ECCE, APEC, 3D-PEIM, and OCP. He was listed on the Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching multiple times. Nathalie P. de Leon, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University. Nathalie de Leon is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton, where she focuses on quantum sensing with NV centers in diamond, quantum networks with solid state defect systems and nanophotonics, and new material platforms for superconducting qubits. She received her BS from Stanford University in 2004 and PhD from Harvard University in 2011. She then worked as a CIQM and Element Six postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. Nathalie joined the faculty of Princeton University as an assistant professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2016, where she was later promoted to associate professor. She is currently the materials thrust leader of the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Center, and she was elected as Vice Chair of the APS Division of Quantum Information in 2024. Her research focuses on building quantum technologies with solid state defects in diamond and other wide band gap materials and new material systems for superconducting qubits. Her group works at the interface of quantum optics, atomic physics, condensed matter and device physics, materials science, surface spectroscopy, nanofabrication, and spin physics to uncover sources of noise and loss in quantum systems, and uses these insights to design new quantum platforms. Nathalie received the Air Force Office for Scientific Research Young Investigator Award in 2016, the Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics in 2017, the NSF CAREER Award in 2018, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2018, and the DOE Early Career Award in 2018, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator Award in 2023, and the APS Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing in 2023. Adji Bousso Dieng, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University. Adji Bousso Dieng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University where she leads the lab Vertaix on research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the natural sciences. She is affiliated with the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, the Princeton Materials Institute, the Princeton Quantitative and Computational Biology program, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). She is also a Research Scientist at Google AI and the founder and President of the nonprofit The Africa I Know. Professor Dieng was recently named an AI2050 Early Career Fellow by Schmidt Futures, an Outstanding Recent Alumni by Columbia University, and the Annie T. Randall Innovator of 2022 for her research and advocacy by the American Statistical Association. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her doctoral work received much recognition, e.g. a Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Machine Learning, a rising star in Machine Learning nomination by the University of Maryland, and a Savage Award from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, for her doctoral thesis. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation, Schmidt Futures, and Princeton University. Andrea J. Goldsmith, Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science. Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University. Andrea Goldsmith is the Dean of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. She was previously the Stephen Harris Professor of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where she is now Harris Professor Emerita. Her research interests are in information theory, communication theory, and signal processing, and their application to wireless communications, interconnected systems, and biomedical devices. She founded and served as Chief Technical Officer of Plume WiFi (formerly Accelera, Inc.) and of Quantenna (QTNA), Inc, and she serves on the Board of Directors for Intel (INTC), Medtronic (MDT), Crown Castle Inc (CCI), and the Marconi Society. She also serves on the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Dr. Goldsmith is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has received several awards for her work, including the Marconi Prize, the IEEE Education Medal, the ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contribution Award, the IEEE Sumner Technical Field Award, the ACM Athena Lecturer Award, the ComSoc Armstrong Technical Achievement Award, the Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, the WICE Mentoring Award, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s Women of Influence Award, and induction into the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame. She is author of the book ``Wireless Communications'' and co-author of the books ``MIMO Wireless Communications,” “Principles of Cognitive Radio,” and “Machine Learning and Wireless Communications,” all published by Cambridge University Press, as well as an inventor on 29 patents. She received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley. Dr. Goldsmith is the founding Chair of the IEEE Board of Directors Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. She served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2009, as founding Chair of its Student Committee, and as founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. She has also served on the Board of Governors for both the IEEE Information Theory and Communications Societies. At Stanford she served as Chair of Stanford’s Faculty Senate and for multiple terms as a Senator, and on its Academic Council Advisory Board, Budget Group, Committee on Research, Planning and Policy Board, Commissions on Graduate and on Undergraduate Education, Faculty Women’s Forum Steering Committee, and Task Force on Women and Leadership. Nena Golubovic, Director of Design for Innovation Program in Sciences and Engineering, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Princeton University. Nena is an experienced entrepreneur and investor with a track record spanning over two decades, specializing in technology and product development alongside managing the operational and financial facets of startup enterprises. She has earned recognition for her impact in the MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) field, successfully introducing pioneering products to the automotive, consumer electronics, and medical device markets. Before joining Princeton, Nena was instrumental in spearheading the US focused international expansion of IP Group plc. As the Managing Director, she launched and managed the STEM-oriented investment portfolio and led a team that specialized in technology investments. Her expertise was critical in identifying, conducting due diligence, and structuring numerous startup ventures that originated from academic research. In her current role at Princeton, Nena collaborates closely with faculty, interdisciplinary research centers, and the university's administration to advance innovation-centric initiatives. Her efforts are focused on harnessing the extensive research and scholarly achievements of Princeton's faculty to generate meaningful real-world impacts, while ensuring alignment with the university's overarching objectives for innovation and entrepreneurship. Connor Hart, CTO, Quantum Catalyzer. Dr. Connor Hart received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2015 and his PhD in Physics from Harvard University in 2020, working in the lab of Ronald Walsworth. He is currently CTO of Quantum Catalyzer, a start-up company pursing the development of quantum sensing technologies for a range of applications. David Hill, Research Scientist, SRI International. Dr. David Hill received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018. He has over 10 years’ experience in materials science, specifically in designing nano and microscale optoelectronic devices, with 15 peer-reviewed publications and two patent. Marcus N. Hultmark, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University. Marcus Hultmark is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, and he is the director of the Princeton Gas Dynamics Lab. His research interests include a variety of problems related to fluid mechanics, with focus on problems involving turbulence both in engineered system and the environment. An important part of his research program is the development and evaluation of new sensing techniques to investigate these phenomena with high accuracy, including velocity, temperature and humidity sensors. He is co-founder of Tendo Technologies which is a Princeton based company that commercializes some of the technologies developed in his research lab. Iain McCulloch, Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor in Energy and Environment. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University. Iain McCulloch is the Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, as well as holding a Visiting Professor position in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. He previously held joint appointments as Professor of Chemical Science and Director of KAUST Solar Center at KAUST, as well as a Chair in Polymer Materials in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College. Before joining academia, he spent 18 years managing industrial research groups at Hoechst in the US and Merck in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the European Academy of Sciences and a Member of Academia Europaea. He is the recipient of the 2022 Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers Prize, the 2020 Blaise Pascal Medal for Materials Science, the Royal Society of Chemistry 2020 Interdisciplinary Prize, 2014 Tilden Medal for Advances in Chemistry and the 2009 Creativity in Industry Prize. His interests are in the design and investigation of organic semiconducting materials. Ian McKendry, Chief Operating Officer, HiT Nano. Ian McKendry is the Chief Operating Officer at HiT Nano, a Princeton University spun out start-up manufacturing energy storage materials for rechargeable battery cathodes and thermochemical energy storage systems. Ian received his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Temple University and conducted his postdoctoral work at Drexel University and Los Alamos National Lab, where his research background spanned materials chemistry, electrochemistry, and process scale-up. Reza Moini, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University. Reza Moini is Assistant Prof. of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University since January 2021. He is the director of Architected Materials and Additive Manufacturing Lab and is an associated faculty with the Princeton Institute of Materials and the Andlinger Center of Energy and Environment. He earned his Ph.D. from the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University in 2020. His research focuses on understanding the fracture mechanics of architected brittle and quasi-brittle infrastructure materials using experiment, theory, and simulation. Enabled by robotic additive manufacturing techniques at several length scale, his work entails the interplay between design and autonomy in the manufacturing context. Alex I. Norman, Executive Director, Princeton Materials Institute. Dr. Alex Norman is the Executive Director of Princeton Materials Institute (PMI). Prior to joining Princeton University, Alex has held various positions in R&D technical leadership in industry including ExxonMobil, United Technologies (now Raytheon Technologies) and Ingredion. Most recently Alex was the Director of Materials R&D for a NJ-based biomaterials start-up company, Modern Meadow. Alex holds a BS degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield (UK), where he worked on the self-assembly and transition kinetics of aqueous block polymers. During his postdoctoral studies at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), University of Maryland and New York University, Alex worked on X-ray, neutron and light scattering to probe structure and morphology across a variety of polymer and protein solutions. Throughout his industrial career, Alex continued to work with National Labs and University core facilities to bring SAXS capabilities to solve industrial problems and support product development. Alex has held positions as a Program Chair at the PMSE division of the American Chemical Society and currently is a symposium organizer for the TechConnect World meetings. Yevgeny Raitses, Managing Principal Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). Lecturer in Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University. Yevgeny Raitses is a Principal Research Physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). He received his PhD from the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology in 1997 before coming to PPPL in 1998. He has made significant contributions to the field of experimental plasma physics with applications to plasma thrusters, processing and synthesis plasmas, and plasma diagnostics. He has over 200 publications on these topics. His current research is focused on plasma-wall interactions, control of cross-field discharges, electron-beam generated plasmas for materials processing and plasma propulsion, plasma-based technologies for synthesis of nanomaterials and sustainability, and dusty plasmas. He is the Director of the Princeton Collaborative Research Facility, the Head of the PPPL Hall Thruster Experiment (HTX) and Laboratory for Plasma Nanosynthesis (LPN). Dr. Raitses is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is also an Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Physics. Richard A. Register, Director, Princeton Materials Institute. Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University. Richard A. Register is Director of the Princeton Materials Institute and Eugene Higgins Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. His research interests revolve around micro- and nanostructured polymers, such as semicrystalline polymers, block copolymers, polymer blends, and ionomers, ranging across their synthesis, physics, properties, applications, and recycling. Previously, he served as chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering from 2008-2016, and as Director of the NSF-supported Princeton Center for Complex Materials from 2005-2008. He received the Charles M.A. Stine Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2002, and was honored with the Distinguished Teacher Award in 2018 and Distinguished Service Award in 2023, both from Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, of the American Chemical Society, and of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin (with Stuart Cooper *67), and a Master of Chemical Engineering Practice and bachelor’s degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Chemistry from MIT. Samantha Roberts, ASRC Nanofabrication Facility Director, City University of New York. Samantha Roberts received a Ph.D. in physics in 2014 from Cornell University, studying electrical-mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene in the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics. Post graduation she joined Case Western Reserve University working on high-temperature silicon carbide electronics, then in 2016 joined Columbia University as a research scientist and lab manager to develop state-of-the-art silicon nanophotonics in the group of Michal Lipson. She left Columbia to join the ASRC Nanofabrication facility at CUNY in June 2022 and accepted the role of Nanofabrication Facility director in December of 2022. Samantha’s current research interests lie in using artificial intelligence and data science to assist both users and managers of shared-user nanofbrication facilities to do their research in a more efficient manner. Additional interests lie in aiding workforce development in the semiconductor field, supporting the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. Samantha brings to the ASRC Nanofab directorship 18 years of experience designing and fabricating electrical, photonic and mechanical devices, using the shared-user facilities at Cornell, Columbia, CUNY ASRC, Brookhaven National Labs, Princeton and UPenn, and hope to enhance the academic and industrial user experience in shared-user nanofabrication facilities as a whole. Robert Schoelkopf, Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics. Founding Director of the Yale Quantum Institute, Yale University. Co-founder and Chief Scientist, QCI. Robert Schoelkopf is the Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics at Yale University, and the Founding Director of the Yale Quantum Institute. His research focuses on the development of superconducting devices for quantum information processing, which are leading to revolutionary advances in computing. He and his collaborators founded the field of circuit quantum electrodynamics and have produced many firsts in the field of solid-state quantum computing, including the development of the transmon qubit, a “quantum bus” for information, and the first demonstrations of quantum algorithms and quantum error correction with integrated circuits. Schoelkopf, who came to Yale as a postdoctoral researcher in 1995, joined the faculty in 1998, becoming a full professor in 2003. In 2015, he and his colleagues founded Quantum Circuits, Inc., a venture-backed startup in New Haven working to build the world’s first useful quantum computers. Professor Schoelkopf’s work has been recognized with several honors and awards, including the Joseph F. Keithley Award of the American Physical Society (2009), the John Stewart Bell Prize (2013, with Michel Devoret )for fundamental and pioneering experimental advances in superconducting qubits, the Fritz London Memorial Prize for Low Temperature Physics (2014, with Devoret and John Martinis), the Max Planck Forschungspreis (2014), the CT Medal of Science (2017), and the National Academy of Science’s Comstock Prize in Physics (with Devoret). Professor Schoelkopf is a member of the National Academy of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Leslie M. Schoop, Associate Professor of Chemistry. Associate Director, Princeton Center for Complex Materials, Princeton University. Leslie Schoop is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and the Associate Director at the Princeton Center for Complex Materials. Leslie is a 2015 Ph.D. graduate of Princeton and works at the interface between chemistry and physics, using chemical principles to find and synthesize quantum materials with exotic physical properties. Leslie obtained her Diploma in Chemistry from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany and did her postdoctoral studies at the Max Plank Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. Leslie is the recipient of the NSF Career award, the office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program, the Sloane Fellowship, the Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering and the EPiQS Materials Synthesis Investigator from the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. Naveen Verma, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Director of the Program in Entrepreneurship, Princeton University. Naveen Verma received the B.A.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the UBC, Vancouver, Canada in 2003, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2005 and 2009 respectively. Since July 2009 he has been at Princeton University, where he is current Director of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on advanced sensing systems, exploring how systems for learning, inference, and action planning can be enhanced by algorithms that exploit new sensing and computing technologies. This includes research on large-area, flexible sensors, energy-efficient statistical-computing architectures and circuits, and machine-learning and statistical-signal-processing algorithms. Prof. Verma has been involved in a number of technology transition activities including founding start-up companies. Most recently, he co-founded EnCharge AI, together with industry leaders in AI computing systems, to commercialize foundational technology developed in his lab. Prof. Verma has served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, and on a number of conference program committees and advisory groups. Prof. Verma is the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards, including several best-paper awards, with his students. Jun Wang, Director in Packaging Innovation, Global Design & Packaging, Colgate-Palmolive Company. Jun Wang currently works as a Director in Packaging Innovation, Global Design and Packaging group, Colgate-Palmolive Company. Wang owns a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry and has over 30 years experience on polymers. Between 2014-2020, He led the development of the first-of-its-kind recyclable plastic tube, which received recognitions from the recycling industry, including the APR (Association of Plastic Recyclers in NA) and PRE (Plastic Recyclers Europe). Currently, Wang from Colgate, together with Dow and ACS Green Chemistry Institute, is initiating an industry-academia-NGO consortium on the natural polymers, NPC, to seek an alternative solution to curb the plastic pollution from the underexplored area of natural polymers. Outside his Colgate role, Wang is a co-founder of Asia-Pacific Sustainable Plastics Alliance (ASPA). ASPA is to promote the plastic circular economy in APAC and the world. Michael A. Webb, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University. Michael Webb is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering department at Princeton University. He is also affiliated faculty with Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering, and the Princeton Materials Institute. His research emphasizes computational approaches, including hierarchical simulation and machine learning, for understanding and designing materials, principally polymer-based systems, for diverse applications. Specific interests relate to characterizing interfacial phenomena and physics in heterogeneous environments, simulating and controlling the behavior of stimuli-responsive systems, and formulating data-efficient strategies for machine learning of polymer properties. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, a Howard B. Wentz Junior Faculty award at Princeton University, a Doctoral New Investigator award from the ACS Petroleum Research Foundation. He has also been featured as an `Emerging Investigator’ in the journal Molecular Systems, Design, & Engineering and as a `Rising Star’ in ACS Polymers Au. He obtained a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2011, his Ph.D in 2016, and performed postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory between 2016-2019. Claire E. White, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University. Claire White is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. She completed her graduate studies in 2010 at the University of Melbourne supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award from the Australian government. After receiving her PhD, she worked as a postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory and was awarded a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. White’s research at Princeton University focuses on understanding and optimizing engineering and environmental materials, including sustainable cements and materials for carbon capture, utilization and storage. This research spans multiple length and time scales, utilizing advanced synchrotron and neutron-based experimental techniques, and atomic and mesoscale simulation methodologies. Professor White is the recipient of a number of awards including an NSF CAREER Award, the RILEM Gustavo Colonnetti Medal, the Howard B. Wentz Jr. Junior Faculty Award (Princeton University), and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching (Princeton University). Aimy Wissa, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University. Prof. Aimy Wissa joined the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Princeton University as an Assistant Professor in January 2022. Before Princeton, she was an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Science and Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She is the director of the Bio-inspired Adaptive Morphology (BAM) Lab. Wissa was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, and she earned her doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland in 2014. Wissa’s work focuses on the modeling and experimental evaluation of dynamic and adaptive bioinspired structures and systems, such as avian-inspired and insect-inspired wings and robotic systems with multiple modes of locomotion. Wissa is a McNair Scholar. She has received numerous awards, including the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator and NSF’s CAREER awards. Dan P. Woodie, Director, Micro/Nanofabrication Center, Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University. Daniel Woodie joined the PMI in January as the Director of the Micro/Nanofabrication Center. He comes to Princeton with over 25 years of fabrication and facility management experience, as a Process Engineer for a CMOS production facility at Lockheed Martin, and 24 years at Cornell University, as a manager at the Cornell NanoScale Facility and the Safety Manager / Facilities Engineer for the College of Engineering. Dalia Yablon, Founder, SurfaceChar. Technical Program Chair, TechConnect. Dalia Yablon is the founder of SurfaceChar, an AFM and nanoindentation based measurement, consulting, and training company in the Greater Boston area since 2013. Dalia also serves as Technical Program Chair of TechConnect World. In addition to editing a book on “SPM in Industrial Applications” (Wiley), Dalia’s research focuses on nanomechanical characterization methods and soft material characterization. She holds an A.B. in Chemistry from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Columbia University. Chao Yan, Founder and CEO, Princeton NuEnergy. Dr. Chao Yan serves as the Co-Founder and CEO of Princeton NuEnergy. Prior to establishing the company, Dr. Yan held the roles of research scientist and entrepreneur, specializing in the domains of energy conversion, fuels, and batteries. He is notably recognized as a co-inventor of cutting-edge direct recycling technology for lithium batteries. Dr. Yan boasts an impressive track record, with numerous high-impact publications and notable conference presentations in the field of physical chemistry and battery materials, solidifying his status as a leading expert in this domain. Dr. Yan earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and completed his post-doctoral research at Princeton University, further cementing his credentials and expertise in this field. Nan Yao, Director, Imaging and Analysis Center. Professor of the Practice in the Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University. Professor Nan Yao is a leading scholar with core expertise in materials characterization for interdisciplinary research and applications. Yao is the founding director of the Imaging and Analysis Center and the inaugural professor of the practice in the Princeton Materials Institute. As a teacher, he is an eleven-time teaching award recipient at Princeton. As a scientist, he has published two books and over 300 scientific articles with contributions including the co-discovery of the first natural quasicrystal, a finding that has revolutionized the science of natural crystal chemistry by identifying the third form of solid in nature besides crystalline and non-crystalline. He has received numerous honors, including election to the Microscopy Society of America, the Royal Microscopical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ali Yazdani, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics. Director, Princeton Center for Complex Materials. Inaugural Co-director, Princeton Quantum Initiative, Princeton University. Ali Yazdani is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics (appointed in 2024) and has been a member of Princeton’s faculty since 2005. Yazdani was named the Class of 1909 Professor of Physics in 2015 and director of Princeton Center for Complex Materials, an NSF-funded center for materials research in science and engineering. He was appointed co-director of the Princeton Quantum Initiative in 2023. His research focuses on high-resolution quantum microscopy and spectroscopy and in applying these tools to make new discoveries about fundamental properties of quantum states of matter. For his research accomplishments, Yazdani has been recognized with several awards and honors including the Humboldt Research Award and the 2023 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize from the American Physical Society. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, American Association for Advancement of Science, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Yazdani also is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Yazdani graduated from the University of California-Berkeley with a degree in physics and from Stanford University in 1995 with a Ph.D. in applied physics. After working as a postdoctoral scientist at IBM, he started his own independent research group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before joining Princeton University’s physics department. He has held visiting professorships at Stanford University and at Cambridge University (Trinity College) and has been a Loeb Lecturer at Harvard University.