IMCS 2016 - The 16^th International Meeting
on Chemical Sensors July 10 (Sun) ~ 13(Wed), 2016 / Ramada Plaza Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea

Dr. Xiaogan Li received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering from Leeds University, U.K.. After two-year of post-doctoral study at the Ohio State University, USA, he joined Dalian University of Technology in the School of Electronic Science and Technology, China. His research interests are in the area of solid chemical gas sensing materials, including their synthesis, structural analysis, physics and chemistry of the gas sensing processes. He is the principal author of about 50 refereed papers and 5 patents. He also serves as the director of the institute for sensing technologies in Dalian University of Technology.

Dr. Zhengjun Zhang received his Ph.D from Tsinghua University in 1995, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. From 1996-1999 he worked respectively, in Augsburg University Germany as an Alexdanver von Humboldt research fellow, in Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute as a STA research fellow, and in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a postdoctoral research fellow. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Tsinghua University as an associate professor in 2001, and was promoted to be full professor in 2003. He is currently a professor and Dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University. His researcher interest covers the fabrication of nanostructures by physical vapor deposition approaches, chemical and bio-sensing based on surface plasmonic resonance and surface-enhanced Raman scattering using noble metal nanostructure. He has published ~200 papers in peer-reviewed journal, 5 book chapters, and 6 patents. He is the vice president of the Chinese Corrosion Science and Protection Technology Society, and the director of the Energy Engineering Division of this society. He also serves as a senior fellow of the Chinese Materials Research Society, and the vice Secretary general of the Chinese Vacuum Society.

W. Shin received his BS and MS degrees in material science and engineering in 1992 and 1994 from KAIST, Korea. After receiving a doctorate in applied chemistry from the Nagoya University in 1998, he has been employed as Japanese government officer, at NIRIN Nagoya, Japan (at present, AIST). He was appointed senior research scientist in 2004, and the group reader of the electroceramics research group in 2011. In 2008, he was appointed a professor, Dept. Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology, as subsidiary business. In 2010, he has founded a gas sensor company NAST co., and worked as CTO. He has developed various gas sensor technologies, gas sensor test method, and worked as Japanese expert in the working group for international standard, in ISO TC197. In 2013, he has won an achievement award in the 45th Ichimura Science Awards for his work on the development of thermoelectric device combined catalyst combustor and its applications

Kengo Shimanoe is a Professor in the Department of Energy and Material Sciences, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan since 2005. He is an active member of The electrochemical Society of Japan and U. S. He is also active in other scientific societies, some of which are being part of the Editorial Board Member of Journal of Sensor Science and Technology, and, Sensors and Materials, a research adviser in the National Institute of Material Sciences, and so on. He also contributes to the GOSPEL Workshop on Gas Sensors Based on Semiconducting Metal Oxides as part of the organizing team. He has a published approximately 280 scientific papers with a total citation of over 4200, written 9 books and has been invited to give lectures and talks on approximately 50 occasions. His current research interests include the fields of functional inorganic materials such as gas sensors, defect perovskite-type oxides, oxygen-separation membrane, electrode catalysts for oxygen-reduction or -evolution cathodes, and others.

1993 Ph.D ( Biotechnology), The University of Tokyo, Japan
1983-1996 Researcher, FUJITSU LABORATORIES, LTD.
1996-2004 Associate professor, Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba
2004-present Professor, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Research field: Electrochemical, photonic, and plasmonic microsensors. Microfluidics including the development of micropumps and valves, electrochemical autonomous devices, and droplet-based devices. Micro/nanorobots.

He received B. Eng. Degree in Applied Chemistry and M. Eng. Degree in Materials Science and Technology in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and Dr. Eng. Degree in 1997 from Kyushu University. He is then served as a research associate from 1997 to 2006, an assistant professor from 2006 to 2010 at Nagasaki University, and now an associate professor from 2010 at Nagasaki University. He has received some awards, such as Sano Award of the Electrochemical Society of Japan for a young distinguished researcher in 2002, Distinguished Paper Awards of the Electrochemical Society of Japan in 2001 and 2005, and Seiyama Award of Japanese Association of Chemical Sensors from Electrochemical Society of Japan in 2010. In addition, he was awarded with best paper presentation in 9th Asian Conference on Chemical Sensors (ACCS 2011). He published 107 peer-reviewed papers and holds 22 domestic and international patents.

He has currently interested on development of various electrochemical devices such as chemical sensors (mainly, gas sensors) and secondary lithium-ion batteries and design of the related mesoporous and macroporous materials.

Dr. Yasukawa received his PhD degree in applied chemistry from Tohoku University, Japan, in 2000. He received Research Fellow from The Royal society (U.K.) and worked as a research assistant at University of Glasgow (2000–2003) before joining Tohoku University as an assistant professor (2003–2007). He currently works as an associate professor at University of Hyogo, Japan (2007–present).
He has received Shikata Medal of the Polarographic Society of Japan in 2015, Seiyama Award of Japan Association of Chemical Sensors, the Electrochemical Society of Japan in 2013, Outstanding Researcher Award on Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems, CHEMINAS, and Outstanding Researcher Award on Analytical Chemistry, The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry, The Kinki Branch. He published 101 peer-reviewed papers and currently interested in development of highly-sensitive biosensors, particles and cell manipulation based on dielectrophoresis, and application of dielectrophoretic manipulation to analytical fields

Ho Won Jang received his Ph.D. from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of POSTECH in 2004. He worked in University of Wisconsin-Madison as a research associate from 2006 to 2009. After working in Korea Institute of Science and Technology as a senior research scientist, he joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Seoul National University in 2012 as an assistant professor. His research interests include the synthesis of nanostructured metal oxide thin films and 2-dimensional materials such as graphene and transition metal disulfides and the applications of those materials for various devices such as chemical sensors, solar water splitting cells, memristors, optoelectronics, and nanoelectronics. He published more than 125 papers in refereed international journals (total citations over 3050 and a h-index of 31 based on Web of Science) and presented more than 30 invited talks in international conferences. He is serving as an Editor for Electronic Materials Letters and an Editorial Board Member for Nano Convergence and Journal of Sensors Science and Technology.

Dr. Il-Doo Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) at KAIST. He received PhD degree (2002) in DMSE from KAIST. From 2003 to 2005, He was trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Harry L. Tuller at MIT, where he worked on low-voltage ZnO-based thin film transistors, Si-integrated microphotonic circuits, and metal oxide-based chemical sensors. In April of 2005, he returned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) as a senior research scientist. Since that time, he has established an electrospinning route for producing multi-component ceramic nanofibers. The key electrospinning techniques have been patented and successfully licensed to 4 different companies for commercialization of environmental chemical sensors and Li-ion batteries. He came to KAIST as a faculty member of DMSE in February of 2011. At present, his group (Advanced Nanomaterials and Energy Lab.) is focused broadly on novel synthetic methods to produce various nano-building blocks such as highly porous nanofibers and nanotubes via electronspinning route. Recently, he broadened his research scope to include highly sensitive and selective exhaled-breath sensors for the monitoring of specific diseases using bio-inspired nanocatalysts-loaded metal-oxide nanofibers. Besides the exhaled breath gas sensor applications using metal oxide nanofibers, he also introduced electrospinning processing for producing 1-D metal oxide-carbon composite nanostructures, especially optimized for applications in high capacity and long cycling Li-S and Li-O2 batteries, providing solution to the current limitations. So far, he has participated in writing 5 book chapters, published 139 peer-reviewed journal articles (including 19 cover-featured articles), and held 145 international patents. He had served as a conference chairman at the International Conference on Electrospinning (Electrospin 2012), which was successfully held in Jeju, Korea, from May 29 to June 1, 2012. Currently he is serving as a deputy editor of the Journal of Electroceramics and an associate member of Korea Academy and Science since 2012..

Chii-Wann Lin received his B.S. from Department of Electrical Engineering, NCKU in 1984. He then started his career in biomedical engineering with M.S. degree from Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, NYMU in 1986. He received his Ph.D. from CWRU, USA in 1993. He joined the Center for Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, NTU from Sept. 1993. He is now a professor in Institute of Biomedical Engineering and holds joint appointments in both Department of Electrical Engineering and Institute of Applied Mechanics, NTU. He is also a member of IEEE EMBS and Chinese BMES. He was the President of Taiwan Association of Chemical Sensors (ACST) from 2008-2010 and served as the chairperson for international steering committee of ACCS 2013 and ACCS 2015. He is director of NTU-ITRI Joint Nano Research Center from Sept. 2014. His research interests include biomedical micro sensors, optical biochip, surface plasmon resonance, bio-plasmonics, and e-health devices. He has involved in two medical device startup companies based on technology transfer from his research outcomes.

Dr. Sheikh A. Akbar is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Founder of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements (CISM) at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, USA. His recent work deals with synthesis-microstructure-property relations of ceramic bulk, thin-film and nano-structures. Dr. Akbar was the Chair of the 12th International Conference on Chemical Sensors (IMCS-12) held in 2008. This meeting was attended by scientists and engineers from more than 30 countries. His sensors received three (3) R&D 100 Awards as part of the 100 best inventions of 2007 and 2005 selected by R&D Magazine and 2005 NASA TGIR (turning goal into reality) award. Dr. Akbar is the recipient of the 2012 Electrochemical Society Sensor Division Outstanding Achievement Award, the 2002 Tan Chin Tuan Fellow of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and the 2001 Fulrath Award and the 2002 W.E. Cramer Award of the American Ceramic Society. He was elected a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2001. He also received the 1993 B.F. Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award for the development of a rugged and durable CO/H2 sensor; one of three national awards. Dr. Akbar has served on the International Advisory Committee of CIMTEC conferences, Steering Committee of the International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE), Technical Steering Committee of the US-DOE Sensor and Controls Program, and the Steering Committee of the US-Japan Conference on Sensor Systems for the 21st Century. He has co-organized sensor symposia for the American Ceramic Society, the Electrochemical Society, ICMAT (Singapore) and ICC3 (Japan). Dr. Akbar has co-edited 2 books on sensors. In 2003, he served as the Guest Editor for two special sections of the Journal of Materials Science, “Chemical Sensors for Pollution Monitoring and Control” and “Chemical and Bioceramics.” Recently, he was the Principal Editor of special issues entitled, “Nano-structured Ceramic Oxides: Challenges and Opportunities” and “Energy and Environment: Role of Advanced Materials” published by the American Scientific Publisher in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He was also the Guest Editor of a special issue entitled, “Sensing at the Nano-scale: Chemical and Biosensing” published in 2012 in Sensors. Dr. Akbar is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanomanufacturing, Materials Focus, Journal of Sensors, Ceramics International, Journal of Nanomaterials and Sensor Letters. He has published more than 200 technical papers and holds 8 patents.

Dr. Kevin Johnson earned his PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Washington in 2003. His doctoral work involved the development of chemometric data analysis methodologies for novel high-speed gas chromatographic instrumentation. Following this, he was awarded a National Research Council postdoctoral associateship at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-Washington, D.C., where he conducted research into building diagnostic and predicative capabilities for mobility fuel quality assessment through chemometric modeling utilizing spectroscopic and chromatographic analyses. Since 2005, Dr. Johnson has served as a staff scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory-Washington, DC, where his work centers on research and development of strategies for chemical sensing, multisensor fusion, sensor array design, and methods for trace vapor generation/validation.

Dr Barsan’s research focuses on the understanding and application of surface interactions of materials with gases. Since 1984, when he started his scientific carrier at the Institute of Materials Physics and Technology in Bucharest, he was interested in the basic understanding of phenomena taking place at the surface of metal oxides operated in realistic conditions for gas sensing. Besides that, he also explored different technologies for devising better gas sensing materials and innovative sensors. In Bucharest he also gained experience in applying gas sensors to practical applications and the design and fabrication of monitoring instrumentation such as leak detectors and alcoholmeters. Currently, he is holding a Research Professor (since December 2005) position at the institute and he is a Supervisor for Doctoral Theses at the University of Bucharest (since November 2008).
Since 1995 he is a senior researcher at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the University of Tübingen where, since 1999, is leading together with Prof. Udo Weimar the Gas Sensor research group. Since 2010 he is allowed to supervise PhD research. In Tübingen, he advanced his interest in the basic understanding of sensing with metal oxide pioneering the operando approach; the latter employs a host of spectroscopic and phenomenological characterization techniques, applied in sensor operation conditions, for a complete description of the gas sensing and transduction processes. Dr. Barsan is currently developing novel metal oxide materials by taking advantage of all existing knowledge and infrastructure for the operando studies and he tries to extend the expertise of the group in the direction of oxide electronics and catalysis. He is also exploring biomimetic approaches for gas sensing and novel synthesis and deposition technologies for improved selectivity and sensitivity
On the technology side, he invented the hybrid microsensor production technology based on the combination of sensing layers based on pre-processed powders and micromachined Si transducers. In 2001, with funding from private investors, he co-founded Advanced Sensing Devices (ASD), which merged with Applied Sensors in 2003 and established itself as a leading European company in the field of gas sensor technology and application developments. During his working period at ASD and Applied Sensors, between May 2001 and December 2006, he was involved in the development and industrialization of micro gas sensors and their application to the automotive field; to date, more than 30 million devices, of the type invented by Dr. Barsan, were commercialized by AppliedSensors (now ams Sensor Solutions Germany GmbH).

Dr. Eugenio Martinelli is an associate professor in electronics at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His Research activities are concerned with the development of chemical and biological sensors, artificial sensorial systems (olfaction and taste) and their applications, sensor interfaces, data processing. He authored more than 150 peer-reviewed papers on international journals and conference proceedings. He has been responsible of three experiments during the ENEIDE Space Mission on the International Space Station (April, 2005) and of one research project with the Italian Space Agency (2006). Dr. Martinelli is also Principal Investigator of three projects (National Institute of Health and Veronesi Foundation Grants) on the development of sensorial systems for medical applications (cancer identification, tuberculosis). He is also member of the “IEEE task Force on Computational Intelligence for Chemometric and Chemical Sensing”.

Ping WANG born in May 1962. He received the B.S. degree, M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from Electrical Engineering of Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China in 1984, 1997 and 1992, respectively. From 1992 to 1994 he is Post-doctoral Fellow in Biosensor National Special Lab, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. At present, He is Professor of Biomedical Engineering of Zhejiang University, while he is Director of Biosensor National Special Laboratory and Director of Key Lab for Biomedical Engineering of National Education Ministry of China, Zhejiang University. He is a member of The International Society for Olfaction and Chemical Sensing (ISOCS) ,a member of Asia-Pacific Regional Steering Committee of International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS).a member of International Steering Committee of Asian Conference on Chemical Sensors (ACCS). He is also a Director of Biomedical Measurement Society of China, Vice-Director of Ion & Biosensor Society and Vice-Director of Biomedical Sensors Technique Society of China. Besides, he is a visiting scholar at Edison Sensors Laboratory of Case Western Reserve University, USA and Biosensor and Bioinstrumentation Laboratory in University of Arkansas, USA, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Current research interests and projects: Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Electronic Nose and Electronic Tongue; Cell and Molecular-based Biosensors, Mimetic Olfaction and Taste Sensors; Bio-MEMS and Bio-NEMS (Bio-Micro and Nano-Electro-Mechanical System).

Krishna Persaud, PhD, FRSC, FInstMC, graduated with BSc Hons Biochemistry at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK in 1976, MSc in Molecular Enzymology at the University of Warwick,UK, in 1977 and a PhD specialising in olfactory biochemistry in 1980. He subsequently worked at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, University of Pisa and the Medical College of Virginia extending his knowledge in the Chemical Senses. He was appointed lecturer in Instrumentation and Analytical Science at UMIST, Manchester, UK in 1988, and progressed to his current position of Professor of Chemoreception at the University of Manchester, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science. He has been involved in research in chemoreception, crossing disciplines from biological aspects of olfaction to sensor arrays, electronics, signal processing and pattern recognition, and commercial development of artificial olfaction technologies. He has been involved in the development of gas sensor arrays for sensing odours based on conducting polymers, that became commercialised by Aromascan plc, and is currently a director of Multisensor Systems Ltd. He has had a wide number of external activities such as Exchange Coordinator for the GOSPEL Network of Excellence, Committee member of the NOSE II forum, Executive secretary and Treasurer of the European Chemoreception Organisation (ECRO), and is current President of the International Society for Olfaction and Chemical Sensing (ISOCS). He has been an associate editor for a number of journals that include Materials Science and Engineering C, Biochemical Journal, IEEE Sensors Journal, Sensors and Actuators B. He has received a number of awards that include the Prince of Wales Award for Technological Innovation Certificate 1995, European Space Agency Certificate of Achievement in 1997, Silver Medal Royal Academy of Engineering, 1999, Water Industry Impact Award 2015. He has over two hundred and twenty publications in the field of chemical sensing.

Prof. Geyu Lu received his BS and MS degrees from Department of Electronic Science, Jilin University, China in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and received Dr. of Eng. from Department of Materials Science and Technology, Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan in 1998. Between 1988 and 1994, he was a lecturer in Department of Electronic Science, Jilin University, China. From 1998 to 2006, as a senior research scientist, he developed gas sensors and gas alarms in Yazaki Meter Co. Ltd. He has been a professor at the College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University since 2006. His research field includes Chemical sensors (gas sensors based on semiconducting oxides, solid electrolytes, polymers and catalysts, humidity sensors), sensor systems and smart instruments, nanomaterials, as well as dye sensitized solar cell. He obtained some awards including China National Outstanding Youth Science Funds (2006), Scientific and Technological Progress Prize of Ministry of Machinery (1997), Scientific and Technological Progress Prize of State Education Commission (1991) and Significant Achievement Rewards of State Science and Technology Commission (1990). He has published 150 peer-reviewed papers.

Anton Koeck received his master’s degree (1986) and PhD (1989) in Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. After a 4-years Post Doc position at the Walter Schottky Institute, Technical University Munich, he was head of the Optoelectronics research group from 1993 to 1997 at the Institute for Solid State Electronics, Vienna University of Technology, where he habilitated in the field of Optoelectronics in 1998. Then he was professor for Physics and Material Science at the Wiener Neustadt University for Applied Sciences, where he was heading the MEMS research group. From 2004 to 2013 he was deputy head of the business unit Nano Systems, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Vienna, where he established the research on gas sensors based on nanomaterials. Since 08/2013 he is key researcher at the Materials Center Leoben (MCL) in the microelectronics department and is head of the gas sensor research group. Major focus is CMOS and 3D-system integration of nanotechnology based gas sensors. Anton Koeck has more than 160 publications and conference contributions and is coordinator of the FP7-project “MSP – Multi Sensor Platform for Smart Building Management” (1.9.2013 – 31.8.2016), Project No. 611887, FP7-ICT-2013-10).

Dr. Rivas is Full Professor at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences, Cordoba National University (UNC), Argentina, and Superior Researcher of Argentine Research Council (CONICET). He received the awards Ranwell Caputto (National Academy of Sciences of Argentina, 2001), Rafael Labriola (Argentinean Chemical Society, 2004) and Konnex on Nanotechnology (Fundación Konnex, 2013). Dr. Rivas is Editor of Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical and member of the editorial board of Electroanalysis. He is author of more than 150 peer review papers and several book chapters, with more than 5,600 citations and H factor of 41. He presented numerous plenary and invited lectures. He was President of the Argentinean Association of Analytical Chemists (2007-2009). Dr. Rivas was the Head of the Physical Chemistry Department at Chemical Sciences Faculty (UNC, 2009-2010). He has participated very actively in different Argentine Science and Technology organisms coordinating Chemistry Committees at CONICET, Ministry of Science and Technology of Cordoba, and National Agency for the Scientific and Technological Promotion. Current research activities of Dr. Rivas are focused on the functionalization of carbon nanostructures and nanoparticles, the design of bioanalytical platforms based on the use of aptamers, DNA, enzymes, antibodies and polymers, and the development of electrochemical enzymatic and affinity (bio)sensors devoted to the quantification of relevant (bio)markers.

Jongbaeg Kim received the BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1997, the MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin, TX, in 1999, and the PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, He was with Dicon Fiberoptics Inc., Richmond, CA, from 2004 to 2005, where he designed and developed high-performance optical MEMS components for telecommunication applications. He then joined the Yonsei University, where he is currently a professor with the School of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests are modeling, design and fabrication of sensors, actuators, microsystems, and integrated nanostructures on MEMS.

Takamichi NAKAMOTO received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He worked for Hitachi in the area of VLSI design automation from 1984 to 1987. In 1987, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology as a Research Associate. In 1993, he became an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 1996 to 1997, he was a Visiting Scientist at Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland, WA, USA. He is currently a Professor with Precision & Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is interested in odor sensing system, olfactory display and human interfaces.

Fernando GARZON holds a joint appointment as a UNM Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and a Faculty Research Scientist at Sandia National Laboratory in the 1815 organization, The Advanced Materials Laboratory. He received his B.S.E. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and completed his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering with a focal area of Solid State Chemistry in 1988. His research interests include: the development of advanced gas sensors, fuel cell materials technology, energy storage technology, high temperature materials and devices, electronic conducting transition metal oxides, thin film growth, ceramic membrane technology, and solid state ionics. Dr. Garzon also leads a team in the development of advanced explosives forensic technology in support of national security and public safety efforts. Fernando GARZON has co-authored over 150 scientific publications with more than 6900 citations and served as an editor for the Electrochemical Society Publication series, Solid State Ionic Devices. He is the inventor of an R&D 100 award winning high temperature combustion control sensor, and a new class of solid-state gas sensors for hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitric oxides. He holds ten patents in electrochemical technology. Fernando was the 2012 Los Alamos Fellow’s Prize recipient for Research Leadership, the 2009 DOE Fuel Cell Program Research Award winner, and was recognized in Scientific American’s Top 50 Science and Technology Achievements for 2003. Fernando GARZON is the Past Chairman of the High Temperature Materials Division of the Electrochemical Society. He was named a Fellow of the Society in 2008, served as Vice President from 2009-2012, and is the President of the Electrochemical Society for 2012-13, Serves on the Council of Past Presidents, and is currently a member of the ECS Technical Affairs committee. He is also a member of the Materials Research Society, the American Ceramics Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Jong-Ho Lee (SM’01) received the B.S. degree from Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, in 1987 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul, in 1989 and 1993, respectively, all in electronic engineering.
In 1993, he worked on advanced BiCMOS process development at ISRC, Seoul National University as an Engineer. In 1994, he was with the School of Electrical Engineering, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Chonpuk, Korea. In 2002, he moved to Kyungpook National University, Daegu Korea, as a Professor of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Since September 2009, he has been a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul Korea. From 1994 to 1998, he was with ETRI as an invited member of technical staff, where he worked on deep submicron MOS devices, device isolation. From August 1998 to July 1999, he was with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, as a postdoctoral fellow, where he was engaged in the research on sub-100 nm double-gate CMOS devices. He has authored or coauthored more than 219 papers published in refereed journals and over 331 conference papers related to his research and has been granted 85 patents in this area. His research interests include CMOS technology, non-volatile memory devices, thin film transistors, sensors, neuromorphic technology, and device characterization and modeling.
Prof. Lee is IEEE Fellow and a Lifetime Member of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea (IEEK). He has been served as a subcommittee member of IEDM, ITRS ERD member, a general chair of IPFA2011, and IEEE EDS Korea chapter chair. He received 18 awards for excellent research papers and research excellence. He invented bulk FinFET, Saddle FinFET (or bCAT) for DRAM cell, and NAND flash cell string with virtual source/drain, which have been applying for mass production.

Nguyen Van Hieu is director and professor at International Training Institute for Materials Science (ITIMS), Hanoi University of Science and Technology. He received MSc. degree in materials science at ITIMS in 1997 and his PhD degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at University of Twente in The Netherlands in 2004. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Korea University from 2006-2007. He has joined ITIMS since 2004, and he became associate professor and full professor in 2009 and 2015, respectively. He has been elected as a scientific member of physical committee of NAFOSTED (National Foundation of Science and Technology of Vietnam) in the periods of 2012-2014 and 2015-2017. His research focuses on synthesis, characterizations of nanomaterials for gas sensor and biosensor applications. He has published more than 85 ISI papers and his H-index is about 22 from Google scholar. He has been a guest editor for several special issues of the “Journal of Nanomaterials” and conference organizer of ICAMN 2012 and 2014 (International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology) as well as several domestic conferences.

Jean-Paul Viricelle received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 1994 at Ecole des Mines of St-Etienne (France). He has worked as a post-doctoral student on the oxidation of ceramic composite materials in University of Limoges (France) from 1995 to 1997. Since 1998, he has been working as associate professor in MICC department (Microsystems, Instrumentation and Chemical Sensors) attached to SPIN research centre (Natural and Industrial Process Sciences) in Ecole des Mines of St-Etienne. Professor, he now manages PRESSIC department (Process and Reactivity of solid-gas systems, Instrumentation and Sensors, 20 persons). His research activity is focused on electrical properties of solids for development of chemical gas sensors, solid oxide fuel cells and micro-preconcentrators.
A few figures: 14 PhD supervised, 43 publications, 80 communications, 4 patents Members of “CMC2” board (“Club des Microcapteurs Chimiques” : French national society of chemical sensors)

Toshiyuki Usagawa was born in Yamaguchi, Japan on February 19, 1953. He receivedB.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1976 and 1981, respectively. His PhD thesis is “Spin Dynamics with Relaxation of Superfluid 3He”. He joined the Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., in 1982. His research areas covered AlGaAs/GaAs Hetero-junction Electron Devices, one-dimensional electron gas systems, Homo-epitaxial YBCO related SNS Josephson Junction Devices, ESR-Imaging with aid of nanometer-scaled probes (molecular imaging). He has been devoted to the research and development of MOSFET type hydrogen gas sensors since 2007. He is now engaged in Center for Technology Innovation-Electronics, Information electronics Research Department, Hitachi, Ltd.

Wooyoung Lee is a Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University in Korea. He received a BS degree in metallurgical engineering from the Yonsei University in 1986, an MS degree in metallurgical engineering from the Yonsei University in 1988. He received a PhD degree in Physics from University of Cambridge, England in 2000. He is also the Director, Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Yonsei University. In recent years, his research interests have centered on various chemical sensors, thermoelectric materials and devices, quantum transports in nano-devices and novel permanent magnets. He has received a number of awards in nano-related research areas, including a Service Merit Medal (2008) due to contribution on the development of intellectual properties in Korea. He has authored and co-authored over 200 publications, and has edited several special books on nanostructured materials and devices.

Professor DMITRI B. PAPKOVSKY leads the Biophysics and Bioanalysis lab at the University College Cork since 1997, working on new O2 sensing and imaging systems, phosphorescence based sensing materials and applications, bioanalytical systems for hypoxia research and analysis of cellular function and metabolism, advanced tissue models. He is also Co-PI of the Irish Photonics Integration Centre (www.ipic.ie) funded by the Science Foundation Ireland, one of the founding members of the UCC Analytical and Biological Chemistry Research Facility (www.abcrf.ie), founder and CSO of an Irish biotech company Luxcel Biosciences (www.luxcel.com). Research accomplishments of Prof. Papkovsky in the area of sensors include development of MitoXpress® and MitoImageTM probe families for O2-sensing and imaging, and a set of metabolic assays currently being used by many research labs and pharma companies. He was also involved in development of Optech® and GreenLight® oxygen sensor based systems commercialized by Mocon and Luxcel. Prof. Papkovsky has 190+ research papers, 30+ reviews and book chapters, and 23 families of patents and patent applications. His h-index is 39.