Advisory Board

Dr. Samuel I. Stupp is Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. He directs Northwestern’s Simpson Querrey Institute and the Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science, an Energy Frontiers Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Professor Stupp is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Spanish Royal Academy, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

His awards include the Department of Energy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Materials Chemistry, the Materials Research Society Medal Award, the American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry, the American Chemical Society Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry, the International Award from The Society of Polymer Science in Japan, the Royal Society Award in Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry, and the 2020 Nanoscience Prize from the International Society of Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering. He has received honoris causa doctorates from Eindhoven Technical University in the Netherlands, the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and the National University of Costa Rica.

Dr. Peidong Yang is currently a professor of Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering, S. K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Chair Professor in Energy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a senior faculty scientist at Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He is the director for California Research Alliance by BASF and for the Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute at Berkeley. Yang received a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University. Yang is well known for his work in nanostructure synthesis and characterization, having co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 45 granted US patents.

In 2010, Yang was ranked as the top materials scientist and among the top 10 chemists of the decade 2000-2010 by Thomson Reuters, in order of citation impact. He is the 2014 Thomas Reuters Citation Laureate for Physics. Yang has received numerous awards including National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2001), ACS ExxonMobil Solid State Chemistry Award (2001), Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics(2004), ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (2005), National Science Foundation A. T. Waterman Award (2007), Scientific American 50 Award (2008), MRS Medal, Baekeland Medal(2011), R & D 100 Award (2010, 2012), MacArthur Fellow (2015), DOE E. O. Lawrence Award (2015) and Global Energy Prize (2020).

Kangguo Cheng is currently the most prolific inventor in US with over 2,200 issued US patents. He was the first inventor in US receiving over 2,000 granted patents (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prolific_inventors). He is a Master Inventor and has served as a Chair of Invention Review Board of IBM. He also served IBM Strategic Patent Taskforce Committee in Semiconductor.

Kangguo has over 20 years of hands-on experience in semiconductor technology, and his contributions include developing the multiple generations of embedded dynamic random-access memory (eDRAM) and successfully incorporating eDRAM in the world-first high performance server chips. He also played a key role in developing fully depleted SOI (FDSOI) technology which now becomes a viable low-power CMOS technology. He has over 100 peer-referred papers and several book chapters on semiconductor technology.

He has given multiple seminal presentations at prestigious conferences such as International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) and VLSI-Symposia. He received multiple technical awards in IBM including Outstanding Technology Achievement Award and Research Division Award. Kangguo received a Bachelor of Engineering degree and a Master of Engineering degree both from Tsinghua University, China, and a Ph.D. degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Member of IBM Academy of Technology, Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and serving multiple conference committees.