Glenn Batchelder, CEO BIND Biosciences, Inc.
Prior to joining BIND Biosciences, Mr. Batchelder was CEO of Acceleron Pharma, a company developing biotherapeutics for cancer and musculoskeletal disorders. He grew Acceleron from a research start-up to a clinical stage company with promising bone loss therapy in the clinic and a robust preclinical pipeline. Prior to Acceleron, Mr. Batchelder was Senior Vice President of Operations at Millennium Pharmaceuticals where he played an integral leadership role in the launch of VELCADE and was responsible for the commercial supply chain and technical operations for INTEGRILIN. Mr. Batchelder is on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University.

Jurron Bradley, Senior Analyst, Lux Research
As Senior Analyst at Lux Research, Jurron Bradley, leads the Nanomaterials Intelligence Service. Since joining Lux, he has spoken at several major conferences and has led the development of nanomaterials research including the major study, “Nanomaterials State of the Market Q3 2008: Stealth Success, Broad Impact”. After graduating from Georgia Tech, Jurron worked at Praxair, Inc. designing air separation and argon recycle plants and managed a thermodynamics lab. He also led and patented research efforts to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired boilers and worked on the development of technology to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from coal-fired boilers. He later joined Praxair’s technology planning and strategy group where he developed the strategic efforts for the entire research and development organization. Jurron received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Vanderbilt University and his doctorate in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. For his Ph.D. research, he quantified the consolidation process of fiber-reinforced polymer composites.

Ahmed Busnaina, W.L. Smith Professor and Director
Ahmed A. Busnaina, Ph.D. is the William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor and Director of National Science Foundation’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) for High-rate Nanomanufacturing and the NSF Center for Nano and Microcontamination Control at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He is internationally recognized for his work on nano and micro scale defects (particulate and chemical) mitigation and removal in semiconductor fabrication. He also involved in the fabrication of nanoscale wires, structures and interconnects. He specializes in directed assembly of nanoelements and in the fabrication of micro and nanoscale structures. He served as a consultant on micro contamination and particle adhesion issues to the semiconductor industry. He authored more than 350 papers in journals, proceedings and conferences. He is on the editorial advisory board of Semiconductor International, the Journal of Particulate Science and Technology. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Adhesion Society, a Fulbright Senior Scholar and listed in Who's Who in the World, in America, in science and engineering, etc.).

Michelle Chen, Assistant Professor in Physics, Simmons College
Michelle Chen is currently an assistant professor in Physics at Simmons College. She received her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Pennsylvania, and her MS and BA in physics from The University of Chicago. Her research is focused on developing nanosensors based on carbon nanotube field effect transistors for chemical and biological detections. She has worked extensively on functionalizing carbon nanotubes with oligomers such as single stranded DNA and RNA, as well as proteins. She and her colleagues have electrically detected explosives in the parts per million concentration using individual single-walled carbon nanotube devices functionalized with oligomers. She and her colleagues have also electrically detected adenoviruses using human receptor protein functionalized carbon nanotubes. While teaching and encouraging young students to pursue science and engineering, her future research goal aims to bridge nanotechnology, materials science, physics, and biology. She has various publications on carbon nanotube sensors, electrical properties of carbon nanotube fibers, quantum Hall effect on organic superconductors and GaAs semiconductors. She is a member of the Materials Research society, American Physical Society, and American Chemical Society.

Nerine Cherepy, Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab
Nerine Cherepy earned her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996. During her career, she has used nanoengineering methods for the development of a variety of innovative devices including photoelectrochemical solar cells, sensors and advanced fuel cells. Her current research is focused on advanced materials and device development for radiation detection applications. Among the promising new materials fabrication directions she is pursuing in collaboration with other scientists at LLNL, universities and industry are: transparent ceramic scintillators formed from ultra-high surface area nanoparticles, optical nanocomposites, glass ceramic scintillators and ordered nanostructures. Dr. Cherepy has over 40 publications and 10 patent disclosures (2 awarded, multiple pending). She is a member of the SPIE and the Materials Research Society.

Sang Choi, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Langley Research Ctr.
Dr. Sang Choi has been instrumental in developing the nano-technology program at NASA Langley Research Center since 1998. Dr. Choi’s contribution to NASA’s nanotechnology program ranges from his services as a Quantum Technology Committee (QTC) member in the inception of nanotechnology to his acumen of nascent and revolutionary technologies in the formative stage of the program. His creative and innovative ideas on nano-technology have been well placed into the formal programs at NASA Langley Research Center. As a task leader, he leads and guides NASA Langley’s R&D activities in the areas of microwave-driven smart membrane actuators with power allocation and distribution (PAD) circuitry, new submount technology for high-power laser diodes, room temperature organic superconductors under the super-polaron concept, new materials development for smart optics, bio-nanobattery, biofuel cells, quantum logic gates, field-injection light valves (quantum apertures) with surface plasmon polariton effects, and advanced thermoelectric generators. In particular, Dr. Choi has pioneered the new and novel concepts of smart optics, bionanobattery, quantum aperture, and bio-template fabrication of quantum-dots. Since 1990, Dr. Choi has authored or co-authored over 143 technical papers for journals and proceedings and 67 invention disclosures for patents (among them, 17 patents pending) and given over 53 technical and public talks on his research activities.

Sylvain Cofsky, Innovation and Research Advisory, Life and Physical Sciences, Canadian Space Agency
For more than 5 years, Mr. Cofsky has been a key player in NanoQuébec, an organization created by the Canadian and Quebec governments to structure nanotechnology in the Province of Quebec. In January 2007, after an excellent performance as Director (Innovation and later Industries), he became Director General. He was dedicated to bringing scientists and industrial leaders to work together, to more effectively transform the country's nanotech driving forces into economic assets. He also gave the inventors and pioneers the needed support to bring them into the USA, Europe and Asia arena. Since July 2008, he is directly involved in the Canadian Space Industry as Innovation and Research Advisor for the Life and Physical Sciences. Mr. Cofsky continues to use his skills as an organizer to highlight the country's finest elements for the exploitation of space. His sectors of activity are numerous and include those of the chemical, agrifood, nanotechnology, aeronautics and space industries. Mr. Cofsky obtained his undergraduate degree from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales of Montreal in 1990 and a masters degree in Science from the Université de Montréal in 1993.

Christopher Cooper, Chief Science Officer, Seldon Technologies
In 2002 he and Christopher Cooper and co-founder Alan Cummings started Seldon Technologies based on the concept of purifying fluids with functionalized carbon nanotube filtration media. Mr. Cooper's patented discovery of carbon nanotube based purification media has led to $20M in funding from NASA, USAF and DARPA. Proprietary manufacturing processes have been developed enabling Seldon to produce large quantities of its new filtration media. Seldon is currently shipping ground and surface water disinfection products based on Seldon's patents worldwide. Mr. Cooper is supervising the science team that is developing novel filtration products for air, fuel and sea water purification under a grant from the USAF research laboratory. Prior to Seldon, Mr. Cooper held a research fellowship at Dartmouth College where he studied the effect of a single defect and Barry Phase on coherent current flow through nano-structured conducting loops at 30 mK using an in-situ ultra-low temperature scanning force microscope and. Applications included defects in IC's and quantum computation. He received his Masters of Science in Physics from the University of Washington where he worked as a member of a team researching the assembly of carbon fullerene structures through the reverse kinematics of C60 fragmentation using the nuclear accelerator at the University of Washington's Nuclear Physics Lab. During Mr. Cooper's studies for his Bachelors of Science in Physics from New Mexico State University he had a keen interest in molecular, atomic and nuclear physics. He is a co-author of the following publications: “Fragmentation Partners from Collisional Dissociation of C60” Physical Review Letters, 81(9), 1821-1824, August 1998, and “Alkali Carbide Fragmentation: A New Path to Doubly-Charged Negative Ions” Chemical Physics Letters, 274, 112-114, August 1997.

Dr. Amit Goyal, UT-Battelle/ORNL CORPORATE FELLOW, ORNL Distinguished Scientist & Battelle Distinguished Inventor, Fellow AAAS, ASM, ACERS, WIF, IOP, Oak Ridge Nat'l Lab / UT-Battelle
Dr. Amit Goyal is a Corporate Fellow at UT-Battelle/ORNL. His broad technical contributions have been in the area of large-area, low-cost, high performance “flexible electronic” devices, including superconducting devices, photovoltaics, etc., as well as in 3D self-assembly of nanodots of complex materials within another complex material for device applications. Dr. Goyal has co-authored over 300 publications, given 10 plenary talks and over 125 invited presentations in national and international conferences and published over 30 invited papers and book chapters. His work is highly cited with over 2000 citations from first and second author papers alone. Dr. Goyal has 53 issued patents comprising 48 US patents and 5 international patents. He has received numerous national & international awards of excellence. Select awards in the last two years include a 2008 Federal Laboratory Consortium Technology Transfer Award, 2007 R&D100 award, a 2007 MICRO/NANO 25 Award, the 2007 Pride of India Gold Award, the University of Rochester's 2006 Rochester Distinguished Scholar Medal, the 2006 ASM-IIM Distinguished Lecturer Award, a 2006 Nano 50 Award and the 2006 UT-Battelle Excellence in Technology Transfer Award. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), the World Innovation Foundation (WIF), the American Society of Metals (ASM), the Institute of Physics (IOP) and the American Ceramic Society (ACERS). He currently serves on the Advisory Boards of NanoTech Briefs, the Journal of the Korean Institute of Applied Superconductivity, Recent Patents on Materials Science and Superconductor Science & Technology.

Oleg L. Figovsky, Polymate, Israeli Research Center,
International Nanotechnology Research Center
Professor Oleg L. Figovsky is the founder, Director R&D of Israeli Research Center Polymate where he is carrying out research in nanostructured composite materials and coatings based on polymer and silicate matrix and nanoreinforced materials prepared by method of SDP. In 1982 he elaborated the first nanostructured anti-corrosion composite materials based LG-matrix where nanoparticles are forming during technological process by hydrolysis of TFS. In 1984 he elaborated the method of forming nanoheterogenic composite epoxy - rubber binders by using FSAM. Prof. Figovsky is also Director R&D of EFM, GmbH (Germany) , that are producing many nanocomposite materials based mainly on nonisocyanate polyurethane and liquid polybutadiene matrix. He is also the President of IAI (Israel), member of the European Academy of Sciences, Foreign Members of two Russian Academies of Sciences (REA & RAASN), the chairman of the UNESCO chair Green Chemistry. A few of his inventions in nanotechnology have received gold and silver medals at the IENA-98 (Nurnberg, Germany). From 1999 he is the editor-in-chief of the journal Scientific Israel Technological Advantages and from 2004 the editor of the international journal Alternative Energy & Ecology. In 2006 he received the Gold Angel Prize at the Genious-2006 exhibition. Polymate leading prof. Figovsky received a NanoTech Briefs Nano 50 Award in 2007. Prof. Oleg L. Figovsky has more than 500 patents and has published and lectured extensively; he is a constant author of Encyclopedia of Surface & Colloid Chemistry (USA).

Nigel Hampton, Program Manager, Neetrac
R. N. Hampton is the Program Manager for Reliability work at the National Electrical Energy Testing Research and Applications Center (NEETRAC) of Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA. Nigel has B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Bath in the UK and holds an M.Sc. in Polymer Engineering. He has spent more that 15 years working in the power cable arena, holding positions within BICC, Pirelli, Borealis, and NEETRAC.

Bill Hennessey, Founder and CEO, ALIO Industries
Bill has been an entrepreneur, mechanical engineer and marketing professional in the robotics, lasers and automation fields with nearly 30 years of experience. He has professional experience in engineering, manufacturing and sales/marketing management positions at large international corporations and small companies. Prior to founding ALIO in 2001, he co-founded Intrabay Automation, which designs and builds automation products for wafer cassettes, FOUP and reticle storage in the semiconductor market place. Prior to that, Bill was one of the top sales and marketing professionals in the laser measurement and robotic automation fields with two different large international corporations (Cincinnati Milacron and Yaskawa Electric). At Cincinnati Milacron’s Industrial Robot Division, he sold to Caterpillar, John Deer, GM, Ford, Chrysler and McDonnell Douglas advanced robotic systems. before being promoted to Director of Sales/Marketing for the Laser Measurement division, Chesapeake Laser Systems. At Yaskawa, he developed a new business segment in the semiconductor industry. Bill has a BS in Mechanical Engineering Technology and a minor in Business Administration from the University of Maine

Michael A. Heitkamp, Research Mgr, Biotechnology, Savannah River National Laboratory
Dr. Heitkamp has over 31 years of wide-ranging experience in environmental microbiology and biotechnology. He is currently the Research Manager for Biotechnology at the Savannah River National Laboratory located at the DOE's Savannah River Site near Aiken, SC. He provides technical oversight of a biotechnology R&D program with activities in environmental microbiology, bioremediation, biosensors, environmental genomics, proteomics and bioenergy to discover and develop technologies applicable to environmental management, national security and energy security. Prior to joining SRNL, he conducted research for Monsanto Life Sciences Company, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Dept. of Interior and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Dr. Heitkamp's training and experience span microbial ecology, microbial physiology, microbial tracking and the laboratory, pilot scale and field testing of novel microbial bioprocesses. Dr. Heitkamp has served on the Environmental Committee of the Public and Scientific Affairs Board of the American Society for Microbiology, Technical Steering Committee on U.S. EPAs Remediation Technology Development Forum (RTDF) and as an expert panelist on a variety of scientific workshops and symposia sponsored by DOE, DHS, DOD, CDC, NSF, Water Environment Research Federation, U.S. Corps of Engineers, American Chemical Society and several additional professional societies and other federal agencies.

Juzer Jangbarwala, Founder and CEO, Catalyx Nanotech, Inc.
Juzer Jangbarwala is the creative force behind Catalyx Nanotech, a manufacturer of high-purity nanomaterials, that evolved out of the Catalyx, Inc. incubator he founded. Having successfully steered five incubator spinoffs and three water treatment technology companies to the acquisition stage, Jangbarwala brings a proven track record of identifying a need in the chemical engineering market place, developing a commercially feasible and environmentally friendly product to service that need and putting a technical and marketing team together to commercialize the product. An entrepreneur with a life¹s ambition to improve the environment while innovatively producing clean water and energy, Juzer holds 14 patent and has authored multiple technical papers published in industry journals. He has officially represented the US Environmental Protection Agency as part of a US technical delegation to Taiwan, has been a member of the US EPA Round Table for Pollution Prevention, Common Sense Initiative, and serves on multiple United Nations NGO committees on water treatment. His patented products, now commercially popular have been awarded the USEPA ETV seal for innovative technologies.

Mark Kedzierski, Mechanical Engineer, NIST
Dr. Kedzierski received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 1987. In that same year, he joined the Thermal Machinery Group (now the HVAC&R Equipment Performance Group) as a Mechanical Engineer at the National Bureau of Standards. Since then he has investigated two-phase heat transfer of alternative and multi-component refrigerants with and without oil both on a fundamental basis. Dr. Kedzierski is applying a fundamental metric that resulted from the refrigerant/lubricant work to one for water quality. He also investigates micro-heat transfer as it relates to Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and nanolubricants to improve refrigerant boiling heat transfer. Dr. Kedzierski has taught several professional short courses on heat transfer enhancement and alternative refrigerants and heat transfer measurements. He also works closely with DuPont, Trane, Wolverine, UOP, ICI, and other companies to ensure that his research is of value to these U.S. Industries. He was recognized with the William P. Slichter award for his contribution to building and strengthening ties between NIST and Industry. Dr. Kedzierski has also received the Bronze Medal award from the Department of Commerce for improving the mechanistic understanding of heat-transfer-enhancing additives and refrigerant/lubricant mixtures. He is a co-author of "Condensation" Chapter 15 in Handbook of Heat Transfer, John Wiley & Sons. Dr. Kedzierski is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the past chairman of that organization's K-10 heat Transfer Equipment Committee, and past chairman of the Government Relations committee and an award committee.

Nicholas A. Kotov, Professor, President, Nico Technologies, Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan
Prof. Nicholas A. Kotov (PhD, Moscow State University, 1990) is a Professor at the Departments of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Nicholas Kotov is a recognized expert in nanostructured thin films, nanoscale self-organization processes, and layer-by-layer assembly with 170+ publications in a variety of peer-reviewed scientific magazines including Science, Nature, Angewante Chemie, Nano Letters, Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, Journal of American Chemical Society, Langmuir, and others. He is serving as a member of Advisory Board of nanotechnology journals such as Langmuir, Advanced Functional Materials, International Journal of Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology for Therapy and Diagnostics, and others. Kotov's areas of scientific interests include organized nanoscale systems and their optical, mechanical, electrical and biological properties. His group at the University of Michigan is developing now the concepts of ultrastrong composites, transparent electronics with carbon nanotubes, and hierarchical design of nanocomposites. Many of his inventions aretransferred to the start-up company Nico Technologies Corp. Nicholas A. Kotov is a recipient of multiple, college, national and international recognitions, which include NSF CAREER Award, Gutenberg Fellowship, Boeing Welliver Fellowship, Humboldt Fellowship, CNRS Fellowship, and Outstanding Young Scholar Award.

Yuji Kurono, Applications Engineer, Technical Marketing Division, Panasonic Electric Works
Yuji Kurono is currently responsible for technical support on Panasonic Electric Work's novel MID process know as MIPTEC in North America. Throughout his career he has been involved in the sales and development of a range of markets including consumer, industrial, medical and automotive markets. Prior to joining Panasonic, Yuji was Design Engineer at Alps Automotive. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

David Lashmore, Founder, NanoComp Technologies
David Lashmore is a founder of Nanocomp Technologies who, together with Joe Brown, invented the process to produce single wall carbon nanotube textiles and high strength carbon nanotube yarns now in production at Nanocomp. The textiles, made only of carbon nanotubes have breaking strength much higher than steel on a per weight basis with the yarns being even stronger. The textiles have recently been awarded the New Hampshire product of the year for 2006 and in addition were awarded a NASA TOP 50 Award. His work in synthesis of artificial super lattices is heavily cited and his development of a new kind of soft magnetic material was recognized as the lowest energy loss material of its type. He successfully founded two other businesses in micromechanical properties testing, powder metallurgy dealing with soft magnetic materials, thermal management and high strength steels. He presently is working on further increasing the strength of carbon nanotube based materials and exploring their extraordinary properties for energy generation, heat transport, and for use in batteries. He has over 34 issued patents and over 70 Archival publications and was awarded the Electrochemical Society Research Award, and AESF Research Award, andthe Blum Award.

Jeremy Levy, Prof., University of Pittsburgh, Dir, Ctr. for Oxide- Semiconductor Materials for Quantum Computation
Jeremy Levy is currently a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, and is Director of the Center for Oxide-Semiconductor Materials for Quantum Computation. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his Ph. D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. His research interests span a variety of areas within nanoscience and condensed matter physics, including ferroelectric oxides, oxide-semiconductor heterostructures, semiconductor quantum dots and nanoscale oxide electronics. He is also an Associate Editor of Quantum Information Processing.

Jing Li, Senior Scientist, NASA Ames Research Ctr.
Jing Li received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 1996 from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Following her doctoral studies, she was a post-doctoral fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories. After that, she was the lead scientist at Cyrano Sciences where she developed an electronic nose from concept to a commercial product in two years. The product was launched in 2000. Dr. Li is currently a Senior Scientist/Principle Investigator at NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology where she directed the development of a first nanodevice in a system format that was launched in March 2007 and successfully flying in space for chemical detection. This nano chemical sensor unit (NCSU) system is aboard a Navy satellite, Midstar-1. She led the project of NCSU that won 2007 NASA Ames Honor award. She worked with a team at NASA on nanoelectronic devices that resulted in a NASA TGIR (Turning Goals into Reality) Award (2002). Dr. Li has 2 Patents awarded and 8 are pending, and she has authored 22 technical publications and has presented on numerous occasions by invitation at international and national events. She is currently a vice chair of Sensor Division in the Electrochemical Society (ECS).

Hera Lichtenbeld, Vice President European Operations, nanoTox®
Hera Lichtenbeld joined nanoTox® in 2007. She has over 15 years of international research and management experience. In addition to nanoTox, she also holds a position at the Technology Transfer Office Biomedbooster (Maastricht, The Netherlands) were she is Director of Technology Transfer. She is responsible for novel lead discovery, IP management, market intelligence, licensing and business development. Previously Dr. Lichtenbeld held a position as Associate Director Research & Technology at Dyax , Inc (Cambridge, MA & Liege, Belgium) a biopharmaceutical company where she was responsible for pre-clinical research and lead discovery. She brought various new leads which resulted in successful out licensing deals. Before joining Dyax, she was a post-doc and Faculty Instructor at Harvard University, Boston MA. She also worked as a Staff Scientist at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta GA and at the Imperial College, St. Mary's Hospital, London UK. Hera Lichtenbeld obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Maastricht (1993) and performed the work for her Master's thesis at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA (1988).

Ted Lynch, President & CEO, Strategic Marketing Innovations, Inc.
Mr. Lynch holds a Bachelors degree in Astronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy and a Masters degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His education and decades of hands-on experience have shaped the SMI philosophy of thoroughly exploring all the technical implications of new technologies. By understanding the science behind the business, Mr. Lynch is uniquely prepared to identify all the opportunities presented by federal appropriations and policy.

Joseph B. Milstein, Partner/Patent Attorney, Hiscock & Barclay
Dr. Milstein is a patent attorney who chairs his law firm's Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Area. He is admitted to the practice of law in MA and NY, and is registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office. He focuses his practice on the preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications, both nationally and internationally and counsels clients in patent prosecution strategy, assessing intellectual property for business transactions and/or litigation, and technology licensing. Dr. Milstein has represented a number of institutions of higher education in patent matters, including the California Institute of Technology, Cornell Univ., MIT, Syracuse Univ., Univ. of CA, the Univ. of MA, the State University of New York, the University of Washington, and others, as well as businesses ranging in size from start-ups to Fortune 50 corporations. He has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in electrical engineering and electronics, including semiconductor processing, circuitry and software, telecommunications, nanotechnology, haptic interaction and virtual reality systems, quantum computing, photonic bandgap materials and applications, optical devices, optical communications, holography, biomedical engineering, medical instruments and diagnostic methods, material processing equipment and methods, and internet business methods. Prior to becoming a patent attorney, he held positions at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory as a Section Head and Research Chemist, at the Solar Energy Research Institute (now the National Renewable Energy Laboratory) as Program Manager of the High-Efficiency Silicon Solar Cell Program, as Technical Director at CENTORR, Associates, Inc., and as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Electrical Engineering in Massachusetts.

Manu Sebastian Mannoor, Research Assistant, Microelectronics Research Center (NJIT)
Manu Sebastian Mannoor is a graduate student at the Department of biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology. As a Research assistant at the Microelectronics Research Center, NJIT he has been actively doing research for the develelopment of microfabricated electronic sensing platforms to detect biomolecular interactions. In collaboration with Rational Affinity Devices LLC, Manu Sebastian has developed novel nanoscale sensing mechanisms to detect DNA and protein targets. His supervisor is Dr. Dentcho V.Ivanov. Manu recieved his B.S degree in Electronics and Communication engineering from University of Calicut india.

Martin Margala, Senior Member IEEE, Prof., UMass Lowell.
Professor Martin Margala received an M.S. degree in Microelectronics from Slovak Technical University, Slovakia, in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1998. He is currently an associate professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has been with the University of Rochester in New York and with the University of Alberta in Canada. From 1998 to 2003 he had been an adjunct scientist at the Telecommunications Research Labs, Edmonton, Canada. He is a member of STC, ITRS workgroup on DFT, and a member of program committees for many conferences and symposia in design and test. His main research interests are Multi-Gigahertz Testing and Reliability, Room Temperature Terahertz Circuits and Systems, Ballistic Operation, Adaptable Circuits and Architectures. He holds one patent, with five others pending, and is the author or coauthor of more than 100 publications in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings on integrated circuit design and test.

Jeff Morse, Managing Director, Nat'l Nanomanufacturing Network
Jeff Morse is the Managing Director of the National Nanomanufacturing Network, a new organization sponsored by the National Science Foundation through the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Previously, Jeff was a Senior Scientist in the Center for Micro and Nano Technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since 1985. He received his BS (1983) and MS (1985) Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a PhD (1992) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His interests and expertise includes semiconductor devices and physics, advanced micro/nanofabrication processes, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microfluidics, catalytic microreactors, and micro-fuel cells. Jeff’s work has appeared in 15 journal publications, 45 conference presentations, with and additional 30 invited lectures at academic departments, industry research centers and technical meetings. Jeff additionally holds 15 patents in several technical areas.

Martin Moskovits, CTO of API Nanotronics Inc.; President API Nanofabrication and Research Corp
Dr. Martin Moskovits is CTO of API Nanotronics Inc. and President of its API Nanofabrication and Research Corp. division that develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of nano-optical products including deep UV polarizers based entirely on arrays of oxide nanowires. API Nanotronics is a defense contractor which produces quality electronics and magnetics for avionics communications applications, and power control and management. Prior to his present tenure he was Dean of Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Moskovits is a chemical physicist and materials scientist with over 250 publications and over a dozen patents in the area of nanotechnology and nanowire fabrication and application in electronics and sensors. He is also known for his work on the application of plasmonic nanosrtructures to the development of sensors based on surface-enhanced Raman.

Cherry Murray, Principal Associate Director for Science and Technology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dr. Cherry Murray became the Principal Associate Director for Science and Technology (PAD-S&T) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on October 1, 2007, after joining the Lab in December, 2004 as Deputy Director for Science and Technology. Murray is a physicist who has been nationally recognized for her work in surface physics, light scattering and complex fluids. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Discover Magazine named her one of the "50 Most Important Women in Science" in 2002. Murray, formally Senior Vice President for Physical Sciences and Wireless Research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies first joined Bell Labs in 1978 as a member of the technical staff. She held a number of positions over the years, including department head for low temperature physics, department head for condensed matter physics and semiconductor physics and director of Bell Lab's physical research lab. In 2000, Murray became vice president for physical sciences and then senior vice president in 2001. In this role, Murray managed the wireless, nanotechnology and physical research laboratories and was Chairman of the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium. As the PAD-S&T, Murray manages 3500 personnel and leads the Laboratory's core science and technology activities. This includes the development of the strategic science and technology plan; development of standards for and oversight of scientific research performance and program quality; line management and oversight of efforts to recruit, develop and retain the Laboratory's scientific, engineering and technical workforce. Murray also directs the Laboratory's $150 million institutional research and development program. Murray received her BS and Ph.D in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A member of the National Academies “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” Committee, she is Chair of the Division of Engineering and Physical Science of the National Research Council and serves on the American Institute of Physics Governing Board. Murray is also Fellow and on the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and chair of the Physics Section of AAAS, as well as Fellow and President Elect of the American Physical Society (APS). In 1989, she won the APS Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, and in 2005, the APS George E. Pake Prize. She is the author of two patents and more than 75 publications.

Lawrence Murray, President and Founder, Novelx
Dr. Murray has an MS and Ph.D. from Cornell University in Applied Physics and BS from California Institute of Technology in Applied Physics. Dr. Murray has been working on advanced electron beam lithography and electron beam tools since the early '90s starting at IBM Research; first developing disruptive technology and later managing system integration and test groups. He has a strong background in design and simulation of miniature optical and electron optical MEMS devices, as well as reliability and failure analysis. Dr. Murray has published over 30 papers and holds 13 patents and patents pending relating specifically to MEMS devices and electron beam columns.

Larry Nagahara, Project Manager, National Cancer Institute Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer
Dr. Larry Nagahara is a Nanotechnology Projects Manager for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, where he oversees the development of promising diagnostics and therapeutics projects and helps turns them into applications that will eventually benefit cancer patients. He also currently represents NCI on the NIH Bioengineering Consortium, BECON, to foster support for bioengineering research and on the Trans-NIH Nano Task Force which is tasked to develop NIH-wide scientific and policy vision for nanotechnology. Dr. Nagahara has been actively involved in nanotechnology for over 15 years, most notably novel scanning probe microscopy development, carbon nanotube applications, molecular electronics, nanoenergy, and nanosensors. Prior to joining NCI, he was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Motorola and led their nanosensor effort. He was a member of Motorola’s Scientific Advisory Board (comprising the top 1.5% of Motorola’s technologists), an advisory member of U.S. Army Materiel Command Nanotechnology Executive Roundtable, and an industrial liaison for NSF-NIRT projects, and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) projects. He is also currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Arizona State University and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal. Dr. Nagahara has published over 80 technical papers, 3 book chapters, and 1 book pending as well as over 15 patents issued/filed in the field of nanotechnology. Larry Nagahara received his B.S. degree in physics from the University of California, Davis, and a Ph.D. in physics from Arizona State University. He was a post-doctorate fellow at the University of Tokyo, Japan and later joined the Faculty of Engineering as an assistant professor. In 1994, Dr. Nagahara joined Motorola and spent three years at the Joint Research Center for Atom Technology in Tsukuba, Japan, before relocating to Motorola Labs in Arizona. In 2007, he joined the NCI in Bethesda, Maryland.

Erkinjon Nazarov, Chief Scientist, Sionex Corporation
Erkinjon is a pioneer in differential mobility spectrometry technology and was involved in the development of differential mobility spectrometers at Uzbek Academy of Sciences in the former Soviet Union and at New Mexico State University where he was an Associate Professor in Chemical & Biological Sciences. He has extensive experience in the design, fabrication and evaluation of differential mobility spectrometry-based sensors. Erkinjon has authored over 100 publications including technical papers, articles and a number of patents. He holds a Ph.D. from Ioffe Physical Technical Institute Polytechnic University in Leningrad and a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russia.

Takeo Nishikawa, Medical Sensing Development Project Supervisor, OMRON Corporation
Takeo Nishikawa, a supervisor of medical sensing development project, core technology center in OMRON Corporation. He received M.S. from graduate school of engineering, Kyoto University in 1999. He entered OMRON Corporation in 1999 and developed micro optical devices. From 2003 to 2005, he worked in graduate school of frontier bioscience, Osaka University as an entrusted researcher. He is now developing the medical sensor based on photonic detection system in OMRON Corporation.

Bart Norton, Director of Marketing & Sales, Asemblon
Mr. Norton is an inventor, engineer and entrepreneur who was awarded a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie-Mellon University.  He has been a pioneer in digital diagnostic medical devices including cineangiographic film projection, linear ultrasound and whole-body CT scanning and also worked in the field of automation and robotics. Mr. Norton’s varied background led him to participate in developing a system for on-board hydrogen storage for vehicles and stationary energy storage applications.  Hydrogen is stored in an organic molecule at standard temperature and pressure.  The molecule is liquid over a wide temperature range and is as safe to handle as gasoline or diesel fuel.

Emanuele Ostuni, VP of Business Development, Nano-Terra
Emanuele Ostuni is currently the Vice President of Business Development at Nano Terra, a company recently established to commercialize the technology portfolio of George Whitesides from Harvard University: he oversees the formation of new collaborations.  Prior to Nano Terra, Emanuele was a Manager at McKinsey & Co. in the Boston and Philadelphia offices where he worked with healthcare and high-tech clients on issues of strategy, growth, licensing and M&A.  Before McKinsey Emanuele was a Senior Research Investigator at Surface Logix, where he helped to establish the company and developed the Pharmacomer platform for discovering new drugs (currently, 4 phase II programs).  Emanuele was a Glaxo Wellcome fellow at Harvard University where he completed his PhD in Physical Chemistry under the supervision of George Whitesides.  He was the recipient of an NSF summer fellowship at NIST to study small angle neutron scattering, and holds BS (cum laude) and MS (distinction) degrees in chemistry from Georgetown University.  Emanuele has co-authored over 30 publications and is co-inventor on over 30 patents.

Maria Ochomogo, Research Fellow at The Clorox Company
Dr. Ochomogo is a Research Fellow at The Clorox Company, where she holds technical responsibilities in the emerging technologies area, focusing on exploring upstream technologies. Her role is to find the right technology – market match combination, followed by development, and adaptation to the different business applications. She has been a major contributor to a multitude of products in the expansion of the Clorox brand equity, including a nano technology developed for two of the natural GreenWorks products line. These products have been very successful in the consumer market and have impacted the sustainability arena. Maria received her PhD in Chemistry from Louisiana State University with 25 years of experience in product development and formulations. Also, she has various publications including 36 granted patents. Dr. Ochomogo has been at Clorox for 18 years where she has held different assignments leading different aspects of technology evaluation and innovation programs. Some of these are; managing the Surface Care Program for Home Care and pioneering the internal Emerging Technology Brokering Program. Prior to Maria joining Clorox, she had worked at Chevron Chemical in their R&D group. Her role at Chevron was managing one of their formulations groups.

Mimi Panagiotou, CTO, Microfluidics International Corporation
Dr. Panagiotou is the CTO of Microfluidics International Corporation. Microfluidics develops high shear fluid processors for processing multiphase fluids and nanomaterial formulations. Applications of the technology include drug delivery, electrode materials for batteries and fuel cells, nanoceramics for optical coatings and carbon nanotube dispersion. Dr. Panagiotou has responsibility for the overall direction of Microfluidics technology and leads the development of Microfluidics Reaction Technology (MRT), an award winning process intensification technology to manufacture nanosuspensions bottom up. Prior to Microfluidics, Dr. Panagiotou was a Manager at Arthur D. Little and a Principal Scientist at Physical Sciences. In her previous positions, Dr. Panagiotou was involved in the development of drug eluting, polymer coatings for stents, insulin inhalation devices and spectroscopy based sensors. Dr. Panagiotou holds a MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. She co-authored over 60 papers for journals and conference proceedings and is a co-inventor of two patents.

Yeonjoon Park, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington Univ.
Dr. Yeonjoon Park received Ph.D. of Engineering from Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering at University of California at Berkeley in 2003. Since then he has supported NASA Langley Research Center as a research scientist at Science Technology Corporation and National Institute of Aerospace at Hampton, Virginia. His materials research includes advanced growth, fabrication, and characterization of semiconductors, electro-optical materials, thermoelectric materials, and ferroelectric materials. His recent works also include the world's smallest micro-spectrometer system and vibration compensating Scanning Electron Microscope(SEM). Dr. Park has filed 43 NASA invention disclosures, published 40 journal papers and proceedings, and received four NASA Langley Research Center Innovation Committee Board (ICB) Awards and two NASA Langley recognitions of appreciation for mentorship in LARSS program.

Jon Pratt, Mechanical Engineer, Manufacturing Metrology Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Jon R. Pratt received the B.S. degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Iowa State University (ISU) in Ames, Iowa in 1984, the M.S. degree in Engineering Mechanics from ISU in 1993, and the Ph. D. degree in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1997. He is a mechanical engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland where he is the project leader and principle investigator in the Small Force Metrology Laboratory. His research focuses on fundamental issues in the accurate measurement of small forces using atomic force microscopy, including the creation of new instruments and devices for directly probing force interactions between individual atoms.

Bryan W. Reed, Physicist, Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab
Bryan Reed is a physicist and electron microscopist working in the Chemistry, Materials, Earth, and Life Sciences Directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He is responsible for the design and development of electron optics for LLNL's unique Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscope (DTEM), an in situ instrument capable of taking images of evolving micro- and nanostructures with nanosecond-scale temporal resolution. Bryan is a central member of a multidisciplinary team that is using the DTEM to reveal never-before-seen details of phase transformations, chemical reactions, and defect dynamics. His interests include complex systems, nanoscale electronics and plasmonics, nonequilibrium material processes, and the mathematical structure of engineered grain boundary networks. He earned a BS degree in Physics from Harvey Mudd College, with award-winning research in plasmon-coupled light emission. His doctorate (Applied Physics, Cornell University) included development of coupled micro/ nanoelectromechanical systems (resulting in two patents) and electron spectroscopic investigations of surface charge density waves in silicon nanostructures. Bryan continued these research themes as a postdoctoral research faculty member at the University of Washington before taking his present position at LLNL, where he focuses on ultrafast material dynamics and electron microscope development.

Joseph Riemer, President, Sono-Tek Corporation
Dr. Riemer is President of Sono-Tek Corporation of Milton, NY, a global leader in the design and manufacture of ultrasonic atomization systems used for accurate and uniform spraying of specialty liquid chemicals by numerous industries worldwide. He received his Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and his BS in Food Engineering and Biotechnology from Technion, Israel. Dr. Riemer has over 25 years of business management and scientific leadership experience specializing in R&D, Operations Management and Technology Transfer. Dr. Riemer held assignments for 7 years with Pfizer as Director of Global Operations Development, and Director of R&D Process Development for the Adams Confectionery division. Prior to joining Sono-Tek he managed for 6 years JR Consulting, a management consulting practice serving clients in the Biotech and Pharmaceutical and Food industries.

Martin Rogers, Dir. of Advanced Materials Group, Luna Innovations Inc.
Dr. Martin E. Rogers is the Director of the Advanced Materials Group within Luna Innovations Incorpated. He recieved his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Virginia Tech in 1993 where he developed a strong expertise in polymer synthesis and characterizations. At Eastman Chemical Company, he collaborated with analytical and engineering experts to develop polymeric materials for food packaging, film and fiber applications. He worked as a researcher at Reichhold, Inc. developing new resins for use in fiber reinforced composites. At Luna, Dr. Rogers manages a group of scientists and engineers pursuing new technologies in mulitfunctional coatings and composites. Current research interests include indicating coatings, self decontaminating coatings, self healing materials and additives for fiber reinforced composites.

J. Steven Rutt, Partner, Foley & Lardner
J. Steven Rutt is a partner with Foley & Lardner. He is vice-chairman of the Nanotechnology Industry Team and a member of the Chemical & Pharmaceutical Practice. His practice includes patent counseling, IP licensing and agreements, patent landscaping and clearance opinions, patent prosecution, patent litigation support, trade secrets, and trademarks. His technology background is with materials and polymers including applications in nanotechnology, cleantech, printed electronics, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and biotechnology. His work experience also includes risk arbitrage counseling. An area of focus for Dr. Rutt is coordinating the delivery of all aspects of IP legal services to emerging companies and representing them in their agreement negotiations. Dr. Rutt is a frequent writer and conference presenter with respect to nanotechnology and the law, actively helping to lead and participating in Foley's Nanotechnology Industry Team. For example, in June 2008, he participated in and coordinated Foley's participation in the NSTI Nanotechnology and Cleantech Conferences, Boston, MA. Also, in May 2008, he moderated a panel at the NanoBusiness Alliance Conference on Nanotechnology in Health Care and spoke twice at the Licensing Executive Society meeting on Quality Nanotechnology Patents and Nanotechnology Patent Licensing. Also, in February 2008, he moderated a panel of venture capitalists and an equity analyst on the subject of nanotechnology-cleantech investment at the IBF Nano Applications Forum in Palm Springs. Also, he moderated a roundtable on patent strategy including inputs from the Patent and Trademark Office's nanotechnology administrator and European patent counsel. In October 2007, he spoke in Toronto to an Ontario technology transfer group (OnSETT) on nanotechnology IP and to an Orlando angel investor group on IP due diligence. Moreover, in June 2007, he spoke to the President's Counsel of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) on "NNI's Impact Measured in Patents." Furthermore, in May 2007, he presented at the NSTI Nanotech 2007 on Nanotechnology in Brand Protection; and in April 2007, he spoke to the Aerospace Industry Association (AIA) on filing suit against the federal government in view of a controversial case, Zoltek v. U.S. (he also advised on an amicus brief by the NanoBusiness Alliance for Zoltek supporting a Supreme Court review of the case). Actively involved in legal training programs, he also presented a CLE seminar on "New US PTO Rules" in September 2007 and "Counseling Clients on PCT, EPO, and ex-US Patenting," July 2008. He is the ABA co-chair for the PCT/WIPO subcommittee and meets with WIPO officials and law firms outside of the U.S. to monitor WIPO and PCT developments. He also is a member of the Licensing Executive Society (LES) and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).

Henry I. Smith, Professor of Electrical Engineering; Co-Director, NanoStructures Laboratory, MIT
Henry I. Smith received his BS degree from Holy Cross College in 1958, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Boston College in 1960 and 1966, respectively. From 1960 to 1963 he served as an officer in the US Air Force. He was an Assistant Professor of Physics at Boston College, 1966-68. From 1968 to 1980, Dr. Smith was at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he worked on surface-acoustic-wave devices and pioneered the development of techniques for fabricating nanometer structures. He founded the Submicrometer Technology Group at Lincoln Lab in 1977 and served as its leader until 1980 when he left to pursue full-time teaching and research at MIT. He was appointed a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the NanoStructures Laboratory, which he founded. From 1990 to 2005 he held the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Chair in Electrical Engineering. Prof. Smith relinquished his tenured chair in 2005 but continues to teach and supervise graduate-student research at MIT. Prof. Smith’s research includes nanofabrication, electronic and photonic devices, and a wide range of applications of nanostructures. Prof. Smith is responsible for a number of innovations in nanoscale science and engineering and is a a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the APS, AVS, MRS, OSA and Sigma Xi. He is the recipient of the Cledo Brunetti Award of the IEEE, the Baccus Award of SPIE, the Robert H. Hill Memorial Award and a citation from the Electrochemical Society. Prof. Smith serves on the International Advisory Board of the MacDiarmid Institute of New Zealand; the Advisory Committee of the International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication; the International Program Committee of the Micro and Nanoengineering Conference, and the Scientific Advisory Board of Nantero, Inc., NanoNex and NM2. He is the founder and President of an MIT spin-off company, Lumarray, Inc. and Chairman of Principia Technology Group, an international consulting and technology partner.

Sivasubramanian Somu, Associate Research Scientist, NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, Northeastern Univ.
Sivasubramanian Somu Ph.D. is an Associate Research Scientist at the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. His is experienced in standard micro and nanofabrication methods, solid state devices, nano-electro mechanical systems and electron transport in 1D systems. Currently, his experimental research primarily focuses on fabrication and characterization of non-volatile nano electro-mechanical switches in which a single wall carbon nanotube serves as the actuation element. Of secondary importance his research also involves fabrication and testing of devices such as multiple marker bio-sensors, microbatteries, nano radiation detectors and chemical sensors. Concurrently, his theoretical research addresses quantum electro hydro-dynamical treatment of particles and carbon nanotubes in the presence of applied electric field during directed assembly. Quantum field theoretical treatment of phase transition and their applications are also carried out by him for analyzing ferroelectric and ferromagnetic memory elements.

Carey Tanner, Research Scientist, Luna nanoWorks
As a research scientist at Luna nanoWorks, Carey Tanner currently leads the division's efforts in graphene and carbon nanotube characterization and application development. She also manages a R&D lab devoted to processing and analytical study of these materials. Carey received her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she gained expertise in ultrathin film deposition and characterization for Si and wide bandgap microelectronic devices. She received her BS in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Vasco Teixeira, Associate Prof of Materials Physics
Editor-in-chief: Journal of Nano Research
Vasco Teixeira is Associate Professor in Materials Physics and has a PhD degree by University of Minho, Braga-Portugal in Applied Physics. His speciality is science and technology of multilayered and nanocomposite functional thin films and nanostructured surfaces. He is Editor-in-chief of Journal of Nano Research, JNanoR. From January 2001 till January 2005, Teixeira was Head of the GRF-Functional Coatings Group at Institute of Materials and is now the leader of the research line: Advanced Coatings for High Efficient Energy Systems. He has authored and co-authored more than 75 scientific papers and presented 9 invited lectures. He organised and participated in several scientific committees of several national and international conferences. He is Vice-President of the SOPORVAC-Portuguese Vacuum Society. He is member of the Executive Committee of the SNN-Society of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Chair for the European Advisory Scientific Committee of the SNN, member of the Executive Council (Councillor-2004-2007) and 2007-2010 Triennium of IUVSTA-International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique, and Applications. Teixeira is also member of Directive Council of the Portuguese Materials Society. and Coordinator of TTES-Surface Engineering and Heat Treatment Division of the SPM-Portuguese Materials Society and Technical Advisory Member of Tribological and Decorative Coatings of the SVC-American Society of Vacuum Coaters He was the national delegate for European Action COST 522 and member of the management committee of the COST 522.

Karl von Gunten, Dir. of Marketing, Nextreme Thermal Solutions
With more than 25 years of experience in marketing, Karl brings a deep knowledge of technology and strategic communications to the electronics industry. He is Director of Marketing at Nextreme Thermal Solutions where he launched the company in early 2005. Prior to joining Nextreme, Karl oversaw the regional office of Brodeur Worldwide and managed PR efforts for industry leaders such as IBM, Nortel, Acterna, and Internet Security Systems. His expertise also includes crafting launches of high-technology start-up companies, including Opensite Technologies, Netsation and Cronos, which led to successful acquisitions. Karl began his career at IBM where he helped launch the IBM PC in the early 1980s. He later developed and managed worldwide marketing and communications programs for several key IBM software and hardware products. Karl serves on the Board of Advisors for North Carolina State University College of Management and serves as an advisor for Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. Karl holds a B.A. in Physics from Wittenberg University.

Morris Wang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Chemistry, Materials, Earth, and Life Science Directorate.
Dr. Yinmin (Morris) Wang received his PhD in materials science and engineering from Johns Hopkins University in May, 2003, and master degrees in both computer science (2003) and materials science (1999), also from Johns Hopkins University. His research interest generally aims at synthesis of nanostructured materials (1-3D) and understanding the atomistic mechanisms controlling their mechanical, electrical, and mass-transport behavior, using HRTEM, STEM/EELS, AFM, high-energy synchrotron source, and other advanced characterization tools, as well as molecular dynamics simulations. Current research subjects include mechanical behavior of bulk nanostructured materials and thin films; piezoelectric behavior of semiconducting oxide nanowires; biosensing and energy harvesting nanodevices (nanopiezotronics); mechanical and mass-transport behavior of carbon nanotubes and nonmetallic nanowires; applied transmission electron microscopy. Dr. Wang has published 54 journal articles, 7 conference proceedings, 1 book chapter, 1 patent, and delivered 10 invited talks internationally. Dr. Wang was the recipient of a graduate student silver medal from MRS in 2002, and the first recipient of distinguished Harold Graboske Fellowship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). During his two-year stint (2004-2005) as the Harold Graboske Fellow, Dr. Wang received four Directorate Awards for Excellence in Publication. Dr. Wang serves as a referee for over a dozen international journals and several funding agencies. Dr. Wang’s other recognition includes Frost and Sullivan Emerging Technology award (2006) and Marquis Who’s Who (2007, 2008 edition).

Christoph Wälti, Group Leader, University of Leeds
Christoph Wälti graduated with a degree in Physics from ETH Zürich, Switzerland. In 2000, he received a PhD in Physics from the Laboratory of Low Temperature Physics at same institution for his studies on the superconductivity of heavy fermion materials. Shortly afterwards, he was awarded a Swiss Marie Curie Fellowship which allowed him to extend his research interests into a new area and he moved to the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he worked on DNA-based self-assembled nanoscale molecular complexes. In 2003, he was awarded an EPSRC Advance Fellowship and since 2004 he is at the University of Leeds working on molecular nanotechnology with particular focus on self-assembly applications and the interface between biology and semiconductors.

Jennifer Xu, Electronics Engineer, NASA Glenn Research Center
Dr. Jennifer Xu received her Ph.D. degree in environmental chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. She held a post-doctoral position at the Case Western Research University from 1998 to 2000, and also worked for Sensor Development Corp. and QSS, Inc., before joining the Sensors and Electronics Branch, NASA Glenn Research Center in 2003. Dr. Xu is working on developing a variety of chemical microsensors, using microfabrication and nano technologies for aerospace applications, including low-false-alarm fire detection, fuel leak detection, engine emissions and health monitoring, and environmental monitoring. She holds memberships in AIAA Sensor System Technical Committee, the International Aircraft Fire Prevention Working Group, and the American Chemical Society. Dr. Xu has been selected for the 2007 National Women of Color in Technology Award, received an R&D 100 Award in 2005 and a NanoTech Briefs Nano 50 Award in 2008, and is the recipient of several NASA citations, including the 2005 NASA Turning Goals into Reality Award and a 2006 NASA Space Act Award.

X. Nancy Xu, Assoc. Prof. in Chem. & Biochemistry, Biological Chem. Track, Dir. of PhD Program in Biomed. Sciences, Old Dominion Univ
Dr. X. Nancy Xu is a tenured associate professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Biological Chemistry Track Director of PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences at Old Dominion University. She is a principle investigator of major research programs supported by NSF and NIH, focusing on exploring new frontiers of nano/bio science and technology. Dr. Xu has contributed significantly to an array of scientific research fields, including development of photostable multiple-color single nanoparticle probes and single nanoparticle biosensors for sensing and mapping singe protein molecules on single living cells at the nanometer (nm) spatial resolution in real-time. Her research group pioneered the study of transport, biocompatibility and toxicity of nanoparticles in single living cells and zbrafish embryos using single nanoparticle optics. She has published an array of leading research papers in ultrasensitive bioanalysis and nanobiotechnology, edited a book, and presented numerous papers at national/international conferences. She has served as a peer-reviewer for a wide variety of journals and grant-review panels and as an invited organizer of symposia in chemistry and bioengineering at national/international conferences. Dr. Xu received her BSc degree in Physical Chemistry from Xiamen University and her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Mississippi. She conducted her postdoctoral research at UT-Austin and at DOE-Ames Lab Iowa State University. She joined the faculty of Old Dominion University as an assistant professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1998 and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2004.