Keynote & Plenary Sessions

Presentation Title III-Nitride based LEDs and Laser Diodes Abstract
Presentation Date & Time July 5(Wed.), 14:45-15:30 (KST)
Speaker Prof. Shuji Nakamura *Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
Affiliation University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Biography Shuji Nakamura obtained B.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokushima, Japan in 1977, 1979, and 1994, respectively. He joined Nichia Chemical Industries Ltd in 1979. In 1993 and 1995 he developed the first group-III nitride-based high-brightness blue and green LEDs. He also developed the first group-III nitride-based violet laser diodes (LDs) in 1995. Since 2000, he has been a professor of Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.
Presentation Title Nano Materials for Ultimate Li ion Battery and beyond Abstract
Presentation Date & Time July 5(Wed.), 14:00-14:45 (KST)
Speaker Executive Vice President. Hyuk Chang
Affiliation Samsung SDI
Biography '20.12 ~ Present Head of SDI R&D Center / EVP, Samsung SDI
'20.01 Head of Small Battery Business / EVP, Samsung SDI
'18.12 Head of Electronic Materials Business / EVP, Samsung SDI
'16.12 Head of SDI R&D Center / EVP, Samsung SDI
'14.12 Head of Materials Research Center, Executive VP (EVP), Samsung Electronics, SAIT
'11.12 Appointed 'Samsung Fellow', Samsung Group Senior Vice President, Samsung Electronics SAIT
'06.01 Vice President, Samsung Electronics, SAIT
'92.04 Principal Researcher, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
'90.08 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
※ Over 120 Technical Publication and 30 US Patents on electrochemistry and nanophase materials of
     energy conversion and storage materials research
Presentation Title Advancement of Instrumentation for Transmission Electron Microscopy Abstract
Presentation Date & Time July 5(Wed.), 13:00-13:50 (KST)
Speaker Prof. Maximilian Haider
Affiliation Corrected Electron Optical Systems GmbH (CEOS) & KIT, Germany
Biography Maximilian Haider studied physics in Kiel and Darmstadt and received his PhD in 1987 in Darmstadt with an experimental work which was carried out at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). In 1989 he became a Group Leader within the Physical Instrumentation Program at the EMBL. In 1992 he started a project to set up a Cs-corrector for a 200 kV TEM together with Prof. Rose in Darmstadt and Prof. Urban in Juelich. In 1996 he founded CEOS GmbH in Heidelberg together with Joachim Zach.
His major achievements are listes as follow:
1997: successful development of the first Cs-corrector for high resolution TEM finished
2005: the Innovation Award of the State of Baden Württemberg (Rudolf Eberle Award) together with Dr. Joachim Zach
2006: the Karl Heinz Beckurts Preis together with Prof. Rose and Prof. Urban
2008: an Honorary Professorship at the University of Karlsruhe
2008: the Honda Prize together with Prof. Rose and Prof. Urban for their achievements in aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy for high-resolution visualization of atomic structure
2011: Wolf Prize in Physics together with Prof. Harald Rose and Prof. Knut Urban.
2013: Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Physics together with Prof. Harald Rose and Prof. Knut Urban.
2015: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Microscopical Society.
2015: NIMS Award 2015.
2019: Member of the Class 2019 Fellows of the Microscopy Society of America
2020: Kavli Prize together with H. Rose, K. Urban and O. Krivanek
2021: Distinguished Scientist Award of the MSA
Presentation Title Atomically Thin Canvas for Quantum Optoelectronics Abstract
Presentation Date & Time July 6(Thu.), 13:00-13:50 (KST)
Speaker Prof. Hongkun Park
Affiliation Harvard University, USA
Biography Hongkun Park is Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University. He is also a Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Harvard Quantum Initiative, Harvard Center for Brain Science, and Harvard Stem Cell Institute. His research interests lie in exploring solid-state photonic, optoelectronic, and plasmonic devices for quantum information processing as well as developing new nano- and microelectronic interfaces for living cells, cell networks, and organisms. He is also developing ultra-sensitive quantum sensors to address problems in condensed matter physics, structural determination, and biological sensing. Awards and honors he received include Ho-Am Foundation Prize in Science, NIH Director's Pioneer Award, US Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Scientist of the Year Award, Korean American Scientists and Engineers Association & Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, William Draper Harkins Lectureship, University of Chicago, the Kavli Lectureship, and A. R. Gordon Distinguished Lectureship.
Presentation Title Semiconductor Innovations for the AI Era Abstract
Presentation Date & Time July 7(Fri.), 13:00-13:50 (KST)
Speaker Dr. Vijay Narayanan
Affiliation IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Biography Dr. Narayanan received his B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1995), and his M.S. (1996) and Ph.D. (1999) in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. After completing post-doctoral research at Arizona State University, Dr. Narayanan joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in 2001 where he pioneered High-ĸ /Metal Gate Research and Development from the early stages of materials discovery to development and implementation in manufacturing. These High-ĸ /Metal Gate materials form the basis of all recent IBM systems processors and of most low-power chips for mobile devices. Currently, Dr. Narayanan is an IBM Fellow and Senior Manager at IBM Research where he leads a worldwide IBM team developing Analog Accelerators for AI applications and novel materials innovation elements for advanced CMOS Logic. Dr. Narayanan is an IEEE Senior Member and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011. He is an author of over 100 journal and conference papers, holds more than 230 US patents, and has edited one book: “Thin Films On Silicon: Electronic And Photonic Applications”.