Editor-in-Chief and Editors

Arokia Nathan is currently a Bye-Fellow and Tutor at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1988. He joined LSI Logic USA, and subsequently, the Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, before joining the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Waterloo, Canada. In 2006, he joined the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, UK, as the Sumitomo Chair of Nanotechnology. He moved to Cambridge University in 2011 as the Chair of Photonic Systems and Displays. He has more than 600 publications, including six books, and more that 110 patents and four spin-off companies. He is the co-founder of Cambridge Touch Technologies, UK and VISBAN Networks UK where he is a Director and Chief Technical Officer. He is a Fellow of IEEE and SID, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices Society and Sensor Council, a Chartered Engineer (UK), Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), and winner of the 2020 IEEE EDS JJ Ebers Award.

Lecture Topics
- Flexible Electronics
- Oxide Semiconductor Electronics
- Ultralow Power Transistors and Sensor Interfaces
- Active Matrix OLED Displays
- TFT Compact Modeling and Parameter Extraction
- Nanoscale Large Area Electronics

Dr. Isaac Chan, a seasoned leader with two decades of engineering innovations, currently drives touch sensor technologies at Apple. Holding a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, his expertise spans thin-film processes, touch sensor design, and material science, specializing in highly-integrated and foldable displays. His contributions on high-resolution patterning technologies on both roll-to-roll plastic and glass have shaped billions of consumer electronic devices, delivering seamless user experiences. Prior to Apple, he led R&D teams at the Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, where he developed flexible AMOLED displays and medical X-ray sensors. Throughout his career, Dr. Chan’s work has resulted in 74 patents in these fields.

Sean Garner is a principal research scientist within Corning’s Science & Technology division where he has worked for more than 25 years. He received a B.Eng. degree in Engineering Physics (Applied Laser and Optics) from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Electrophysics) from the University of Southern California. At Corning, Sean works in areas of materials processing and device prototyping focusing on the integration of new substrate, cover glass, and packaging concepts within optoelectronic devices and systems.

Xiaojun Guo is now Professor in Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received the Bachelor degree from Jilin University (China) in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Surrey (UK) in 2007, both in electronic engineering. He worked on EDA for VLSIs in Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University during 2002-2003. His PhD research was on system-on-panel integration with low-temperature poly-Si TFTs. Before joining Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Aug. 2009, he had been working in Plastic Logic Ltd., Cambridge, UK, on research and development of printed polymer TFTs backplanes for flexible displays, and technology transfer for manufacturing. His group at Shanghai Jiao Tong University is now focusing on device and integration of printable thin film transistors and functional devices including displays, sensors and memories. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 technical papers in international journals and conference.

Lecture Titles

-Thin-fi lm transistor for Flexible Heterogeneous Integration

-Organic thin-fi lm Transistor for Display and Sensor Integration

-Low power Flexible Hybrid Integration for IoT

-Active-Matrix Backplane Design and Integration for Advanced Displays

Sung-Min Jung is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK. He received his PhD degree in Electronic Materials and Device Engineering from Inha University, Republic of Korea, in 2004. Before joining the University of Cambridge, he worked at LG Display Co., Ltd. for 14 years, serving as a Chief Research Engineer focused on pioneering next-generation display convergence technologies. He has published 93 patents and over 50 peer-reviewed academic papers and conference presentations on topics such as quantum-dot light-emitting diode (QD-LED) displays, stereoscopic/autostereoscopic 3D displays, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) optics for head-mounted and head-up displays in immersive display systems, among other display convergence technologies. He is currently focusing on advancing high-image quality display technologies for immersive displays and developing other next-generation smart display systems.

Ioannis (John) Kymissis is an electrical engineer teaching at Columbia University. His area of specialization is solid state electronics and device fabrication, with an emphasis on thin film devices and the use of organic semiconductors in his work. He graduated with his SB, M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT, and after working as a post-doc and at QDVison, joined the faculty at Columbia University in 2006. John has won a number of awards for his work, including the NSF CAREER award, the IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport award, the Vodaphone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Award, and the MIT Clean Energy Prize. He is currently serving as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Society for Information Display and is the general chair for the 2013 Device Research Conference.

Lecture Topics

- Organic semiconductors, single chip sensors, flexible electronics, micro-LEDs

Peyman Servati (Ph.D., P.Eng.) is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, where he leads Flexible Electronics and Energy Laboratory (FEEL) (http://feel.ece.ubc.ca/) and a is member of Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC). His research interest lies in scalable synthesis and characterization of nanowires and nanostructures, fabrication of flexible electronics and transistors, and development of low-cost photovoltaic devices. Before joining UBC in 2006, he was a research associate at the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE) of the University of Cambridge, UK, working on nanowires and printable nanocomposite materials. From 2004 to 2005, he was a senior research scientist with Ignis Innovation Inc., a spin-off company of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, working on novel organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays. Dr. Servati has more than eighty papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, has four patents, and has co-authored three book chapters. His doctoral thesis on mechanically flexible and plastic electronics won the 2005 Doctoral Prize from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. He is the winner of 2006 Canada-UK Millennium Research Award and Bronze Medal in the XXV International Physics Olympiad, China, 1994.

Prof. Kai Wang has been associated with the School of Electronics and Information Technology at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China since 2014. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 2008 and continued his pursuit of excellence as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at Thunder Bay Health Science Centre (Canada). During this time, he conducted cutting-edge research on radiation detector and image sensor. In 2011, he joined Apple Inc. as a senior hardware development engineer, further enhancing his expertise in touch sensors and human-machine interface technologies. His contributions to the scientific community include publishing over 120 journal papers and conference proceedings. He has also coauthored more than 40 patents, many of which have been transferred to industry.