 Professor CHEN Wenshuai | [Presentation Title] Biopolymer Nanofibers for Sustainable Water Harvesting Prof. Chen is a professor in the College of Materials Science and Engineering at Northeast Forestry University. He received his B.S. degree (2008) and Ph.D. degree (2013) in Wood Science and Technology from Northeast Forestry University, China. His research interests include wood physics, biopolymer nanofibers, and the development of wood-based materials and functional systems for sustainable energy and environmental sciences. He is co-author of more than 120 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has received many awards and honors, including the Heilongjiang Youth May Fourth Medal, the Outstanding Youth Foundation of National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program of CAST, 2023 energies award, Second Prize of LiangXi Natural Science Award, the China Forestry Youth Science and Technology Award, and the Youth Science and Technology Award of Heilongjiang Province of China. |
 Professor GUO Xiaojun | [Presentation Title] Panel-scale Integration: From Displays to More-than-Moore Prof. Guo is currently Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received his Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the University of Surrey, UK, in 2007. He worked at Plastic Logic, Cambridge, UK, before joining Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2009. He is working on thin-film transistors, semiconductor displays, panel-scale integration and advanced packaging. He has more than 100 publications in journals and conference proceedings. He is serving Associated Editor of IEEE TED/J-Flex/OJ-ID, IEEE EDS BoG Elected Members-at-Large and is IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer. |
 Professor LI Danfeng | [Presentation Title] Nickelates: Exotic High-temperature Superconductors Prof. Li is an Associate Professor of Physics and Associate Dean for Research and Postgraduate Education in the College of Science at City University of Hong Kong. He received his BEng from Zhejiang University, MPhil from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and PhD in Quantum Matter Physics from the University of Geneva. He later joined Stanford University as a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow. His research focuses on complex oxide heterostructures, unconventional quantum materials, low-dimensional superconductivity, and emergent interfacial phenomena. In 2019, he co-led the discovery of the first nickelate superconductor. His work has been recognized by the 2025 Asian Young Scientist Fellowship, the 2024 Outstanding Research Award in Oxide Electronics, the 2023 AAPPS–APCTP C. N. Yang Award, and selection to the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (China) in 2021. |
 Professor LIN Yen-Hung | [Presentation Title] Geared Towards Viable Perovskite Photovoltaic Technologies Prof. Lin is an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He develops perovskite optoelectronic devices for energy and display applications, integrating materials science and device physics to tackle stability, scalability, and manufacturability. Before joining HKUST, he worked at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London and served as a senior R&D engineer at AU Optronics. He earned his PhD from Imperial College London and earlier degrees from National Taiwan University. He has received the MRS Gold Award and the Imperial Solid-State Physics Prize. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for PRX Energy. |
 Professor LING Haifeng | [Presentation Title] Photo-adaptive Visuomorphic Electronics for Efficient Machine Vision Prof. Ling is a full professor in the Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT). He received his Ph.D. in organic electronics from NJUPT. Then he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, respectively. His research interests focus on organic flexible neuromorphic electronics. |
 Professor YANG Cheng | [Presentation Title] Dynamically Engineering Nanostructured Electrodes for Advanced Electrochemical Devices Prof. Yang is a Tenured Associate Professor at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School. Before joining Tsinghua in 2011, he obtained his BS in Nanjing University and PhD in Department of Chemistry, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He also worked as Post-Doc in Department of Mechanical Engineering at HKUST and visited School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology as a research faculty. His work focuses on the morphological evolution patterns and control methods of metal micro/nano structures, and their applications in the field of energy storage and hydrogen energy. |
 Professor ZHANG Shiming | [Presentation Title] Wearable Bioelectronics: Materials, Devices, and AI-Embedded Hardware-Software Co-Design Prof. Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Bioelectronics at HKU Electrical and Electronic Engineering and an affiliated faculty member at HKU SBME, where he leads the Wearable, Intelligent, and Soft Electronics (WISE) research group. He earned his PhD with the highest honor in Canada as a Vanier Canada Scholar from Ecole Polytechnique, Universite de Montreal. He spent three years at UCLA as a postdoctoral scholar and group leader in the Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics in bioelectronics and was promoted to an affiliated faculty member at the Terasaki Institute at UCLA before moving to Hong Kong. His research focuses on the scientific understanding of charge transport in emerging mixed ion-electron conducting materials and on designing new mixed-conducting devices for bioelectronics, including soft electronics, biosensors, and biocomputing. His research team discovered macroscopic semiconducting behavior in bulky hydrogels, leading to a paradigm shift from two-dimensional thin film electronics to three-dimensional bulky gel electronics and laying the material foundation for next-generation soft and wearable electronics. Prof. Zhang serves as the Technical Committee Member on Biomedical Devices for IEEE Electron Device Society, the Guest Editor for Advanced Science and Soft Science, and is on the international advisory board of Advanced Electronic Materials. |
 Professor ZHOU Yuanyuan | [Presentation Title] Perovskite Microstructural Disorder Prof. Zhou is a university-endorsed Star Faculty and tenured Associate Professor at HKUST. He obtained his B.S. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University and his Ph.D. degree from Brown University, both in materials science and engineering. He has authored more than 130 journal publications with 15,000 Google citations and 61 H-index. He has received numerous prestigious honors and awards, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Excellent Young Scientist, the Global Academy of Chinese Chemical Engineers' (GACCE) Future Chemical Engineering Scholar Award, and the HKUST Star Faculty. Prof. Zhou’s research group leverages fundamental innovations to transform semiconductor science and technologies. His flagship contributions in the perovskite field have been published in top-tier journals, including Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Energy, and Nature Synthesis. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Energy Chemistry (Elsevier) and an Advisory Board Member for Device (Cell Press). |