TechConnect World 2018
 

Technical Program Co-Chairs


Matthew Laudon, TechConnect
Bart Romanowicz, TechConnect
Fiona Case, TechConnect

2018 Symposia Chairs

Mansoor M. Amiji, Northeastern University, USA
Thomas Anchordoquy, University of Colorado, USA
Wolfgang S. Bacsa, University of Toulouse, France
Sara Brenner, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, USA
Elizabeth Burton, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute (BECI), USA
Ahmed Busnaina, Northeastern University, USA
Fiona Case, Nano Science and Technology Institute, USA
Ronad Coutu, Marquette University, USA
Phillip Demokritou, Harvard University, USA
Lynn Foster, BPT Pharma, USA
Edward Furlani, University at Buffalo SUNY, USA
Slade Gardner, Big Metal Additive, Inc., USA
Charles Geraci, CDC/NIOSH/EID, USA
Imre Gyuk, U.S. Department of Energy, USA
Bahman Habibzadeh, US Department of Energy
Greg Haugstad, University of Minnesota, USA
Christian Hoepfner, Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy System, USA
Sean Ireland, Fiberlean Technologies Ltd., USA 
James Johnston, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Mandakini KanungoCorning, Inc., USA
Trevor Keel, Material Value, UK
Jan KosnyFraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE, USA
Kock-Yee Law, Research and Innovative Solutions, USA
Martin Leser, Nestle Research Center Lausanne, CH
C. Rebecca Locker, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, USA
Prithwiraj Maitra, Johnson and Johnson, USA
Michael Makowski, PPG Industries R&D, USA
Sha-Chelle Manning, Pioneer Natural Resources, USA
Chris Menzel, Fujifilm Dimatix, Inc., USA
Boxia Mi, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Prakash Nallathamby, University of Notre Dame, USA
World L-S Nieh, U.S. Forest Service, USA
Jan-Steffen Niehaus, CAN Center for Applied Nanotechnology, Germany
Alex Norman, ExxonMobil Chemical, USA
Kwang OhUniversity at Buffalo SUNY, USA
Michele Ostraat, Aramco Services Company, USA
Pierre Panine, Xenocs SA, France
Anil Patri, U.S Food & Drug Administration, USA
Johan Pluyter, S.C. Johnson, USA
Martin Poitzsch, Aramco Research Center-Boston, USA
Elena Polyakova, Graphene 3D Lab, USA
YuanQiao Rao, Dow Chemical Company, USA
Rick Ross, 3M Company, USA
Robert Ryan, Twining, Inc., USA
Brent Segal, Lockheed Martin, USA
Anirudha Sumant, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Sally Tinkle, IDA/Science & Technology Policy Institute, USA
Loucas TsakalakosGE Global Research, USA
Thomas Twardowski,  Twardowski Scientific, USA
Scott Twary, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Hasan Uludag, University of Alberta, CA
Krassimir Velikov, Unilever, Netherlands
William (Cy) Wilson, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Wendel Wohlleben, BASF SE, Germany
Dalia Yablon, SurfaceChar LLC, USA
Jenny Zhen Yu, California State Polytechnic University, USA
Xing Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, SG
Steven Zullo, NIBIB/NIH, USA


2018 Review Committee

Wade Adams, Rice University, USA
I. Yucel Akkutlu, Texas A&M University, USA
Evangelyn Alocilja, Michigan State University, USA
Mansoor Amiji, Northeastern University, USA
Tom Anchordoquy, University of Colorado, USA
Mohamed Ansari, Universiti Tenaga Nasional Kajang, MY
Wolfgang Bacsa, University of Toulouse, FR
Osman Basran, Purdue University, USA
Jean Berthier, Consultant, USA
Massimo Bertino, Virginia Commonweath University, USA
Gregory R. Bogart, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Sara Brenner, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, USA
Paul Brookes, EMD Performance Materials Corp., USA
Elizabeth Burton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Ahmed Busnaina, Northeastern University, USA
Noor Butt, Preston University, IN
Willard (Bill) Capdevielle, Oil Patch Engineering, PLLC, USA
Ennio Capria, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, FR
Fiona Case, Nano Science and Technology Institute, USA
Martin Case, Johnson & Johnson, USA
Hongda Chen, U.S. National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USA
Chang-Hwan Choi, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Amit Choubey, Intel, USA
Aram Chung, Korea University, KR
Ronad Coutu, Marquette University, USA
Zheng Cui, Suzhou Institute of Nanotech, CN
Thierry Darmanin, University of Nice, FR
Philip Demokritou, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Mauris DeSilva, 3D PARS, USA
Alison Elder, University of Rochester, USA
Jeffrey Fagan, National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA
Antoine Fécant, IFP Energies nouvelles, FR
Joe Fox, Ashland Inc., USA
Edward Furlani, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA
Slade Gardner, Big Metal Additive, Inc, USA
Dariusz Gawin, Technical University of Lodz, PL
Charles Geraci, CDC/NIOSH/EID, USA
Hamid Ghandehari, University of Utah, USA
Valeriy V. Ginzburg, The Dow Chemical Company, USA
Shubhodeep Goswami, GE Global Research, USA
Imre Gyuk, U.S. Department of Energy, USA
Greg Haugstad, University of Minnesota, USA
Tim Hebrink, 3M Corporate Research Process Laboratory, USA
Michael Helmus, Consultant, USA
Donna Lee Ho, U.S. Department of Energy, USA
Christian Hoepfner, Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy System, USA
Michael Z. Hu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Ming-Huang Huang, Corning Corporate R&D, USA
Kiki Ikossi, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, USA
Sean Ireland, Fiberlean Technologies Ltd, USA
Mikhail Itkis, University of California, Riverside, USA
Bjorn Petter Jelle, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, NO
Jim Johnston, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Larry Judovits, Arkema, Inc., USA
Oana Jurchescu, Wake Forest University, USA
Mandakini Kanungo, Corning, USA
Trevor Keel, Material Value, USA
Jan Kosny, Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, USA
Jana Kukutschova, Technical University Ostrava, CZ
Manish Kumar, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Raj Kumar, ASM America, USA
James Lamb III, Brewer Science, USA
Senentxu Lanceros, BC Materials, USA
Matthew Laudon, TechConnect, USA
Kock-Yee Law, Research and Innovative Solutions, USA
Martin Leser, Nestle Research Center Lausanne, CH
Thomas Fengyuan Li, NXP Semiconductors, USA
James Alexander Liddle, National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA
C. Rebecca Locker, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co., USA
Kenneth Loh, University of California, San Diego, USA
Ji Ma, Qualcomm/Pixtronix, USA
Prithwiraj Maitra, Johnson & Johnson, USA
Michael Makowski, PPG Industries, USA
Patrick Malenfant, National Research Council of Canada, CA
Anil Mane, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
George Maracas, U.S. Department of Energy, USA
Mehran Mehregany, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Chris Menzel, Fujifilm Dimatix, Inc., USA
Meyya Meyyappan, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Baoxia Mi, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Yifei Mo, University of Maryland, USA
Moein Moghimi, Newcastle University, UK
Ron Munson, Consultant, USA
Prakash Nallathamby, University of Notre Dame, USA
Chang-Yong Nam, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Andrzej Napieralski, Technical University of Lodz, PL
World Nieh, U.S. Forest Service, USA
Jan-Steffen Niehaus, CAN Center for Applied Nanotechnology, DE
Greg Nordin, Brigham Young University, USA
Alex Norman, ExxonMobil Chemical, USA
Kwang Oh, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA
Michele Ostraat, Aramco Services Company, USA
Pierre Panine, Xenocs, FR
Anil Patri, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USA
Karsten Pinkwart, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, DE
Johan Pluyter, S.C. Johnson, USA
Martin Poitzsch, Aramco Research Center-Boston, USA
Elena Polyakova, Graphene 3D Labs, USA
Spencer Pugh, Michelman, USA
Yuan Qiao Rao, The Dow Chemical Company, USA
Suraj Rawal, Lockheed Martin, USA
Mark Reed, Yale University, USA
Riley Reese, TNO, NL
Bart Romanowicz, TechConnect, USA
Rick Ross, 3M Company, USA
Robert Rudd, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Elmira Ryabova, Advenira Enterprises, Inc., USA
Robert Ryan, Twining, Inc., USA
Brent Segal, Lockheed Martin, USA
Neeraj Sharma, 3M Corporate Research Laboratory, USA
Nitin Shukla, Fraunhofer CSE, USA
Ginger Sigmon, Energy Frontier Research Center, USA
Dmitri Simberg, University of Colorado, USA
Emilie J Siochi, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Anirudha Sumant, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
James Thornsberry, Atlas Roofing Corporation, USA
Sally Tinkle, IDA/Science & Technology Policy Institute, USA
Maria Torija, NVE Corp., USA
Loucas Tsakalakos, GE Global Research, USA
Thomas Twardowski, Twardowski Scientific, USA
Scott Twary, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Hasan Uludag, University of Alberta, CA
Vuk Uskokovic, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Krassimir Velikov, Unilever R&D Vlaardingen B.V., NL
Erika Vreeland, Consultant, USA
Scott Williams, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Adria Wilson, U.S. Department of Energy, USA
William (Cy) Wilson, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Wendel Wohlleben, BASF SE, DE
Yiliang Wu, TE Connectivity, USA
Dalia Yablon, SurfaceChar LLC, USA
Jenny Zhen Yu, California State Polytechnic University , USA
Guoan Zheng, University of Connecticut, USA
Xing Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, SG
Steven Zullo, NIBIB/NIH, USA

Conference Operations Manager

Sarah Wenning, NSTI & TechConnect Group, USA

 
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