METAMEET2023

Stefano obtained a bachelor’s and master degree in Aerospace and Astronautical Engineering at Sapienza University (Rome - Italy). During his ph.D. he shifted his interest in Applied Experimental Nuclear Physics and Computer Science. While doctoral student, Stefano was hired by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) as Engineer and Scientist, he spent a decade working on High Energy Physics within the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Stefano worked on several cutting edge systems and advanced software as frontier research requires frontier technologies. After CERN, he decided to move to the US and he joined FloridaTech working on computational aspects (such as firmware, data-acquisition system, electronics).

Dr. EUGENE O. KAMENETSKII received diploma of Engineer in Electrical Engineering and the PhD degree in Physics and Mathematics from the Electrical Engineering Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1969 and 1986, respectively. He is presently with Ben Gurion University of Negev, Israel. He is an author (co-author) of 200 refereed journal and conference papers. He is an editor of 3 books: "Electromagnetic, magnetostatic, and exchange-interaction vortices in confined magnetic structures", Research Signpost Publisher (2008), “Fano Resonances in Optics and Microwaves”, Springer (2018), and ”Chirality, magnetism, and magnetoelectricity: Separate phenomena and joint effects in metamaterial structures”, Springer (2021). He is a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy (USA) since 2007. Research interests: Magnetic waves and oscillations, spectral theory of artificial atomic structures, metamaterials for microwave and optics applications, microwave microscopy, and microwave biosensing.

Jichun Li has been Full Professor at University of Nevada Las Vegas since 2000. His previous positions include Postdoc Fellow at University of Texas at Austin, Summer Research Faculty at U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, and Associate Director of Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) in University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). His research areas include Numerical Methods for PDEs and applications on Computational Electromagnetics, Groundwater Modelling, Image Processing, Inverse Problems and Parallel Computing. He has published 1 monograph "Time-domain finite element methods for Maxwell's equations in metamaterials" in the famous Springer Computational Mathematics book series, 1 graduate textbook, 1 translated monograph, co-edited 1 conference book and 3 special journal issues. He published over 140 SCI journal papers. Currently he serves on 4 international journal editorial boards (including one as Managing Editor, one as Editor-in-Chief).

I graduated in Physics at the University of Naples Federico II (110/110 cum laude) in 2001 with Prof. A. Romano. Second degree in Engineering with Prof. R. Batra at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2002. I took the first PhD in 2004 at the Technical University of Darmstadt with Prof. K. Hutter and the second PhD in 2006 at the University of Rome La Sapienza, with Prof. F. dell'Isola. In May 2011, I became assistant professor (ricercatore) and since June 2019 I am Associate professor at the International Telematic University Uninettuno. From 2014, I got the italian and French habilitations for associate and full professorship. Bibliometric indicators related to publications and citations: Bibliometrics Scopus (AU-ID: 57199322424): 97 papers, 4160 citations from 1496 documents, h-index 39. Bibliometrics ISI : 65 publications, 1680 total citations (1449 without self-citations), citing articles 684 (631 without self-citations ) h-index 27. In 2020 I was in the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University.

Fengxian Xin, male, Ph.D., Professor, visiting scholar of Harvard University, visiting scholar of MIT. His research interests are porous material/structure vibration and acoustics, structural dynamics, vibration and noise reduction theory and technology. He mainly studies porous material structure, acoustic metamaterials, vibration and noise reduction performance of metamaterials. Dr. Fengxian Xin has been elected into the youth a talent program of Xi'an Jiaotong University. Up to date, he has published over 80 SCI papersin JMPS, POF, JASA, JSV, APL and other important journals, ,and co-published 2 academic monographs. His research works were positively evaluated by 14 Chinese and foreign academicians, and his applied technology research has been applied in practice.He is awarded the Excellent Doctorate Dissertation award nomination of China, the Excellent Scientific and Technological Thesis Award of China Association for Science, and the National Machinery Industry Science and Technology Progress Award.

Kenneth M. Golden is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah. His research is driven by interests in sea ice, the climate system, composite materials, statistical physics, polar ecology and remote sensing. He has published papers in a wide range of journals in mathematics, science and engineering, been on eighteen polar expeditions to study sea ice, and given over 500 invited lectures on six continents, including three presentations in the U.S. Congress. Golden is an award winning teacher and research mentor to over 90 young investigators, from high school students and undergraduates in majors across science and engineering to mathematics graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. His work has been covered by media around the world, including profiles in Science, Scientific American, Physics Today, and a BBC series, with numerous interviews on radio, television, and the internet. Golden is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, cited for “extraordinary interdisciplinary work on the mathematics of sea ice,” an Inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and a Fellow of the Explorers Club, whose members have included Neil Armstrong, Sir Edmund Hillary, Robert Peary, and Jane Goodall.

Dr. Pal carried out his research work at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science and got Ph.D. degree in 1997 from Jadavpur University. He started his Post-Doctoral venture with a short term assignment at University of Roma, Italy under the framework of an Indo-Italy exchange project. He successfully completed the prestigious Science and Technology Association (STA) fellowship of Govt. of Japan during 1998-2000. He also made a short term visit to Kotel’nikov Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics, MOSCOW under an Indo-Russian exchange project. Dr. Pal joined as a Lecturer in Physics at The University of Burdwan in May 2002 in Solid State Physics group. He moved to CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CMERI), a premier research institute, in 2010 as Principal Scientist. Presently, he is a Senior Principal Scientist (Professor) at CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CSIR-CGCRI) and fully involved in synthesis of materials and fabrication of devices in the area of nanomaterials based semiconductor gas sensors prepared by chemical route for monitoring environment and human health. He has published more than 110 research articles in the International Journals of high repute. Dr. Pal has supervised 7 Ph.D.’s, 2 candidates are in the pipelines. He completed 10 Major Research Projects and 2 are ongoing sanctioned by different funding agencies. He contributed 5 Chapters in the different important books including Encyclopaedia on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He has also delivered several Plenary talks in the conferences, acted as a Chairman for various technical sessions and also organised many conferences in various capacities. He has been serving as one of the potential Referees to various International Leading Journals of ACS, RSC, Elsevier, Springer-verlag, Wiley and many Indian journals. He is also serving /served as key members in various research bodies. To mention few, he has served as an Advisory Board member of South African Nanoscience Initiative (SANi). Also, he is Executive committee member of West Bengal State Council of Science and Technology. Dr. Pal served as Member in Apex body (Court) of The University of Burdwan, Planning committee member of West Bengal State Council of Science and Technology. He received Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal in 2016. Dr. Pal became a Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology in 2018.

Lei Wang is currently a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Barbara. Lei Wang graduated from Shandong University (China) with a bachelor's degree in Physics in 2014. After that, he continued his graduate studies at Shandong University and the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he focused on developing high power quantum cascade lasers (QCLs), including semi-insulating InP regrowth and phase-locked arrays of QCLs. He joined the UCSB iPL in 2017 as a Ph.D. student. He is focusing on QD laser development and laser integration for silicon photonics

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Dr. Douglas Lecorchick III is currently an Assistant Professor within the College of Science and Technology at Fairmont State University. Douglas earned a Doctorate of Education in 2017 from North Carolina State University with a research focus of the engineering design process and problem formulation navigation of high school students. Previously, Douglas was an Assistant Professor at Berea College within the Technology and Applied Design department. Douglas was also a STEM Education Specialist for Lee County School District in Sanford, North Carolina. During his three years with Lee County School District, Douglas redesigned the drafting course trajectory of Southern Lee High School’s Academy of Engineering resulting in the school districts first ever industry certifications in AutoCAD, Inventor, and SOLIDWORKS. North Carolina Department of Instruction has recently published an engineering problem solving unit Douglas wrote for the Teachers@Work initiative through Caterpillar Inc. Douglas also started Lee County’s first Technology Student Association (TSA) chapter for two of the three middle schools within the district. Most excitingly is the 5th Grade Academic & Intellectually Gifted STEM Club Douglas created which brings over 70 gifted 5th grade students together monthly for unique STEM challenges facilitated by high school students which was featured in INSPIRE magazine in October, 2017 (Issue 152). Douglas has presented at international education conferences in Liaoning and Beijing, China and Bogota, Colombia; hosted professional development workshops for ESSDACK in Hutchinson, Kansas; and is currently a part of designing a STEAM elementary school to be opened in Lee County, North Carolina. For the past 22 years Douglas has traveled throughout America and to various countries including Costa Rica, Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, China, and Thailand to speak for a non-profit motivational and self-improvement organization.

Dr. Vivek Vasagar is currently a Lead product development Chemist at PPG Industries in Pittsburgh, USA. Dr. Vasagar earned his Ph.D. Degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2018 in Polymer Science and Engineering with a research focus on Gas separation membranes and flame retardant polymers. Before joining PPG, Dr. Vasagar worked for Sherwin Williams company as a Senior Research Chemist in Pittsburgh, USA region. His research interests include membrane science, free-volume, transport behavior, corrosion engineering, and coatings. He is an active member of the Royal Society of science. In addition, currently, he serves on 4 international journalson guest editorial boards.

Xianzhong Chen is an Associate Professor within the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences at Heriot-Watt University (HWU), UK. He is leading the Experimental Nanophotonics Group at HWU, which is dedicated to the fundamental physics of metasurface and its application in ultrathin optical devices for imaging, defence, display and information processing. His current main research interests include metalenses, holograms, optical vortex beams and polarization detection. The ultrathin nature and unusual functionalities have enabled the discovery of new phenomena and the development of novel prototype devices for future technologies. To explore the commercial applications of novel nanodevices and integrated optical systems, he has built connection with industry, including STMicroelectronics, Renishaw and Holoxica. He has published 78 papers, including Nature Communications, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, and Light: Science & Applications. His previous work on macroscopic invisibility cloaking of visible light was selected as one of the "Top 10 Breakthroughs " by Physics World and Top 100 Stories " by Discover Magazine. He is an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Nanotechnology.

Jian-An Huang is an tenure-track assistant professor and a group leader of the Jianan lab of Nanophotonic Biosensors in University of Oulu at Finland. He received a Ph.D. degree on reproducible surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy biosensors from City University of Hong Kong. Then Jian-An worked as a postdoc on scanning near-field optical microscopy and low-dimentional semiconductor photodetectors at University of Hong Kong, and plasmonic nanotechnologies at Italian Institute of Technology before joining University of Oulu. His group combines plasmonic nanostructures (nanotube, nanopore, nanopillar) with molecular manipulation methods for single-cell, single-particle and single-molecule biosensing toward digital healthcare and personalized medicine. He is a member of the Nano Letters early career board and the Italian Society of Optics and Photonics.

Maria Principe is a senior researcher in Experimental Physics of Matter at Engineering Department of University of Sannio. She received the degree (2004), M.S. (2006) in Telecom Engineering cum laude and honorable mention, and the PhD (2010) in Information Engineering from the University of Sannio. Her main research activities focus on design and development of optical metamaterial and metasurfaces, based on plasmonic or dielectric nanostructures, for high precision metrology and for sensing applications. She received several prizes, among which the Fulbright fellowship in 2010 and the L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award in 2018. She is author of about 190 papers, 3 book chapters, and several technical reports and conference papers.

Dr. Omid Akbarzadeh Pivehzhani is working with Nanotechnology and Catalysis Research Centre since 2016. His main research area is heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic reaction engineering. He has spent 10 years in academic-industrial projects as a research officer and post-doctoral. Dr. Omid has worked 5 years in the oil and gas industry as a chemical engineer. He developed advanced smart catalysts, especially for the oil and gas industries. Dr. Omid has contributed to two PETRONAS Research Sdn Bhd industrial catalyst projects and worked on an international Airbus R&D project in NANOCAT. Currently, he is the PI of the graphene catalyst project at Hokkaido University in Japan, project member of FRGS grant in UTP and assigned to the NANOCAT center project. Dr. Omid was the Chairman, keynote speaker and organizing committee of many international conferences. He is currently the supervisor of three Ph.D. students from different countries. He has published many ISI papers; book chapters and has two approved and granted patents. Also, he has hands-on experience and passed several pieces of training on handling different types of equipment which are being widely used for material synthesis, characterization and performance evaluation. He is in close collaboration with other departments, government agencies and universities around the world. He is visiting researcher of Jiangsu University China and Hokkaido University Japan. He is a member of the society of petroleum engineers (SPE) and Senior Member of Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society. Omid awarded a full fellowship from UTP during Ph.D. and were involved for lab demonstrator and teaching in the different courses of chemical engineering. He awarded Silver Medal in 27th International Invention & Innovation Exhibition (ITEX 2016), Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in Malaysia and Silver Medal of Post Graduate Research Project in the 35th Science & Engineering Design Exhibition (SEDEX 35).

Professor Mahmoud Shafik is an international expert who has made a personal distinction and international leadership recognition, in the field of Intelligent Mechatronics Systems and Digital Technology, with more than 20-years industrial applied research experience in Intelligent Systems, Hardware and Software, AI, IoT, Industrial 4.0, 3D Smart Sensors and Actuators for Autonomous Vehicle, Machine Learning, Robotic Systems, Machine Vision, Steer-by-wire, Innovation for Sustainable Engineering, Control and instrumentation, Cancer Treatment using CVD Diamond Radio Therapy Technology, Information Technology for Blind and Visually Impaired people, Chronic Diseases ICT Technological Solutions, Assisted Living Technology, AD-HOC Wireless Technology, TeleHealth, Telecare, Climate Change, Electro-Rheological Fluid Micro Actuators Technologyand Software Tools.Shafik has also a number of patents in these areas of industrial applied research and sustainable technology. Shafik has been chairing and leading several industrial applied research projects from European Commission, and UKResearch Councils, of a budget of several millions and have made a great economic and social impact in his area of expertise in UK and EU. His research work has brought many innovative outcomes that have been commercially explored by several Small to Medium (SME’s) and Large enterprise (LE’s) organisations around the world. This includes and not limited to: Intersurgical Ltd – UK, Veslatec Oy – Finland, Semelab plc. – UK, PTW Freiburg – Germany, Neotek – France, Kirchmayer Handel & Consulting GmbH – Austria, Spectrum Telecom Installations Ltd – Ireland, Diamond Materials GmbH – Germany, Fireworks International Ltd – UK, Pirotecnia Oscense SA – Spain, Total Motion Systems Ltd –UK, Micromech Limited – UK, Smart Technology Ltd – UK, Audi -Germany, Ford – UK, Schlumberger – France, Nissan – Japan and Rolls Royce - UK. Shafik is the Senior lead academic of College of Science and Engineering collaboration programs. He has made an outstanding contribution to the College and University, as a whole. This is where he has successfully contributed to the vision and business plans to the new research and enterprise foundation (IISE) environment. He has also in confidence contributed to the accreditation of a number of Derby engineering and technology programmes…etc. Shafik has been supervising and external examiners for several PhD, and MSc research students across UK and worldwide.

Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak was born in Koszalin, Poland, on December 30, 1965. He graduated in mathematics (numerical methods and programming) from the University of Gdansk, Poland in 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2007 in computer science from the Polish – Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. From 1991 to 1994 he was a civilian programmer in the High Military School in Koszalin. He was a teacher of mathematics and computer science in the Private Economic School in Koszalin from 1995 to 1999. Since March 1998 he has worked in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland and since October 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Chair of Computer Science and Management in this department. His research interests connect mathematics with computer science and include computer vision, artificial intelligence, shape representation, curve interpolation, contour reconstruction and geometric modeling, numerical methods, probabilistic methods, game theory, operational research and discrete mathematics.

Cristian Ravariu received the B.S.(1993), Ph.D (2001), PostDoc (2012) degrees at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania in the Electronic Devices domain and Bioelectronics. Between '93-'99 he activated as researcher at the Institute of Microtechnology Bucharest, in the field of Electronic Devices Simulation and Silicon technology. Now, he is Full Professor at Polytechnic University of Bucharest, being interested in novel electronics devices development and integrated biosensors. He has published more than 200 articles in Journals and Proceedings of Conferences. Dr. Ravariu is the current Chairman of Romanian IEEE-Electron Device Chapter.

Experienced Associate Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in intelligent lighting systems, electronic circuit design, lasers, Algorithms and Science. Strong education professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Erciyes University and Boston University.