Plenary Talks

Prof. Li-Chyong Chen

Distinguished Research Fellow, Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, & Director, Center of Atomic Initiative for New Materials, & Professor, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University

Professional Employment History

• Director (2018-present), Center of Atomic Initiative for New Materials; Director (2012-2018), Research Fellow (2000-present) and Associate Research Fellow (1994-2000) in the Center for Condensed Matter Sciences; Teaching Assistant in Physics Department (1981-1983), National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
• Technical Member: Materials Scientist (1989-1994), General Electric, Corporate Research and Development, Materials Research Center, Schenectady, NY, USA
• Significant Professional Services/Appointments: Li-Chyong has organized numerous international symposia and was appointed as one of the four Meeting Chairs for the MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, USA (2009). She was a member of the Board of Directors for MRS (2017-2019) and served the Commission on Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter in the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (2018-2021).
• Currently, she is a member of the Board of Trustees, National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan (2018-present) and also on the Executive Committee, Book Series in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, World Scientific Publishers (2015-present).

Education

Honors/Awards

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Prof. Chi-Chang Kao

Director

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

SLAC Director Chi-Chang Kao, a noted X-ray scientist, came to SLAC in 2010 to serve as associate laboratory director for the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. He became SLAC’s fifth director in November 2012.

Previously, Kao served for five years as chairperson of the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. He undertook major upgrades to the light source's scientific programs and experimental facilities while developing potential science programs for NSLS-II, one of the newest and most advanced synchrotron facilities in the world. His research focuses on X-ray physics, superconductivity, magnetic materials and the properties of materials under high pressure.

Kao earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1980 from National Taiwan University and a doctorate in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 1988. He joined Brookhaven shortly afterward, working his way from NSLS postdoctoral research assistant to chair. Kao also served as an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University.

He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2006 and was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010 for his many contributions to resonant elastic and inelastic X-ray scattering techniques and their application to materials physics, as well as for his leadership at the NSLS.

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Prof. Stephen R. Quake

Head of Science of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, President of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network, and Prof. of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Standford University

Professional

Co-chair, Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma and Serum (CNAPS) conference (2022)

Co-Chair, Single Cell Genomics Gordon Conference (2022)

Scientific Advisory Board, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Center (2018-present)

Scientific Advisory Board, Pioneer Campus of the Helmholtz Association, Munich (2018-present)

Scientific Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (2018-present)

External Advisory Board, Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University (2018-present)

Scientific Founder and Board member, Mirvie (2018-present)

Scientific Founder and Board member, Bluestar Genomics (2016-present)

Scientific co-Founder and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, Karius (2015-present)

Scientific co-Founder and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, Molecular Stethoscope (2015-present)

Member, Advisory Panel for Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering, Packard Foundation (2014-present)

Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle WA (2012-present)

Honors and Awards

Prof. Ue-Li Pen

Director and Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica

Fields of Specialty

I am a theoretical astrophysicist who studies systems where basic physical effects can be isolated from astronomical complexities. My research projects include Fast Radio Burst (FRB) and pulsar lensing, non-linear dynamics of the cosmic neutrino background, 21cm intensity mapping, leading to the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). My work on 21 cm intensity mapping opens a new window for the precision study of dark energy and neutrinos. My use of natural plasma in our galaxy as a giant telescope spawned the field of scintillometry, enabling new glimpses into enigmatic pulsars and the unsolved fast radio bursts.

Academic and Other Employment History

Honors/Awards

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