Title: Vibration and Wave Control via Reconfigurable Matter with Embodied Programmability and Intelligence
Biography: Dr. Kon-Well Wang is the A. Galip Ulsoy Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and Stephen P. Timoshenko Professor of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at the University of Michigan (U-M).  He has been the U-M ME Department Chair from 2008 to 2018, and has served as a Division Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation for two years, 2019-20. Wang received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, worked at the General Motors Research Labs as a Sr. Research Engineer, and started his academic career at the Pennsylvania State University in 1988. At Penn State, Wang has served as the William E. Diefenderfer Chaired Professor, co-founder and Associate Director of the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence, and a Group Leader for the Center for Acoustics & Vibration. He joined the U-M in 2008. Wang has received various recognitions, such as the ASME Rayleigh Lecture Award, the Pi Tau Sigma-ASME Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, the ASME J.P. Den Hartog Award, the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, the ASME Adaptive Structures and Materials Systems Prize, and the ASME N.O. Myklestad Award.  He has been the Editor in Chief for the ASME Journal of Vibration & Acoustics, and an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for various journals.  Wang is a Fellow of the AAAS, ASME, IOP, and RAeS.

Title: More Than Energy Harvesting – A Pathway to Self-sustained AIoT Sensing System
Biography: Dr. Chengkuo Lee received his Ph.D. degree in precision engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1996. Currently, he is the GlobalFoundries Chair Professor in Engineering and director of the Center for Intelligent Sensors and MEMS at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He co-founded Asia Pacific Microsystems, Inc. (APM) in 2001, where he was Vice President of R&D from 2001 to 2005. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), A-STAR, Singapore. His research interests include MEMS, NEMS, nanophotonics, Si Photonics, metamaterials, energy harvesting, wearable sensors, flexible electronics, artificial intelligence of things (AIoT), Internet of Things (IoT), electroceuticals and biomedical applications. He has trained 40+ Ph.D. students graduated from NUS and co-authored 490+ journal articles and 380+ conference papers. He holds 10 US patents. His Google Scholar citation is more than 34000. He is the associate editor-in-chief of Trans. Nanotechnology (IEEE), and editor-in-chief of Intern. J. Optomechatronics (Taylor & Francis). He is on the Executive Editor Board of J Micromechanics and Microeng. (IOP, UK). He is the Associate Editor of J. MEMS (IEEE), Chip (Elsevier), and Internet of Things (Elsevier). He serves as the general chair of IEEE OMN2016, IEEE NEMS 2018 and APCOT2024. He serves on the steering committee and technical program committee for various conferences such as Transducers 2015, IEEE MEMS 2015, IEEE NEMS 2015, IEEE SENSORS 2018, IEEE MEMS 2019, Transducers 2019, IEEE MEMS 2020, and Transducers 2021, etc.

Title: A Deep Fusion of Piezoelectric Structures and Power Electronics toward Self-powered Systems and Potential Versatile Structures
Biography: Dr. Junrui Liang is a tenured Associate Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology and the Director of the Center for Intelligent Power and Energy Systems, ShanghaiTech University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010. Dr. Liang has an interdisciplinary research and working experience in smart materials and structures, power electronics, and IoT systems and applications. His research interests include electromechanical dynamics, mechatronics, power conversion circuits and systems, low-energy IoT systems, renewable energy, etc. As of May 2024, Dr. Liang has authored and co-authored more than 160 peer-reviewed technical papers in international journals and conferences. He is ranked among world’s top 2% scientists in the lists released by Stanford University and Elsevier. He and his students have received several paper awards in the conferences such as ICAST 2008, IEEE ICIA 2009 & 2010, ASME SMASIS 2020, VEH 2021 & 2022+1, IEEE IESES 2023, and SMSS 2023. Dr. Liang serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs and IET Circuits, Devices & Systems. He was the General Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Vibration and Energy Harvesting Applications (VEH 2019) and Track Chair of the IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS 2023 & 2024). In 2022, Dr. Liang and his colleagues founded ViPSN Ltd. (vipsn.cc), a small business focusing on self-powered IoT systems and applications.

Title: Triboelectric Energy Harvesting Materials for Biomedical Applications
Biography: Dr. Sang-Woo Kim is the YONSEI World-Class Fellow Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University. Currently, he is the Director of the Center for Human-oriented Triboelectric Energy Harvesting and the Center for National Core Materials Research, both funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea. After completing his PhD at Kyoto University and a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, he joined Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in 2009. He was later honored as an SKKU Fellow Professor in 2019. In February of this year, he moved to Yonsei University. His recent research interests are focused on piezoelectric/triboelectric nanogenerators, implantable medical devices, self-powered wearable electronics, and 2D materials. Prof. Kim has a publication record, with over 350 research papers published, including articles in prestigious journals such as Science and Nature (with an H-index of 90). He has also delivered over 100 Plenary, Keynote, and Invited talks at international and domestic conferences. He served as the Chairman of the 4th NGPT (Nanogenerators and Piezotronics) conference, Seoul in 2018, and an Associate Editor of Nano Energy (Elsevier) from 2012 to 2022. Currently, Dr. Kim holds the position of Vice President at the Materials Research Society of Korea and serves as an Executive Board Member of Advanced Electronic Materials (Wiley). Additionally, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Korean Journal of Materials Research and the Journal of Sensor Science and Technology.