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Program Committee

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PROGRAM CHAIR:
Stephanie Law
Pennsylvania State University
stephanie_law@avs.org

PROGRAM VICE-CHAIR:
Mark Losego
Georgia Tech
mark_losego@avs.org

2D MATERIALS (2D)

  • Topic Chair: Kai Xiao, Oak Ridge National Lab
  • Topic Co-Chair: Cristina Satriano, University of Catania, Italy
  • Rafik Addou, The University of Texas at Dallas
  • Matthias Batzill, University of South Florida
  • Jyoti Katoch/, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Huamin Li, University at Buffalo-SUNY
  • Peter Sutter, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
  • Fei Yao, University at Buffalo
  • Tiancong Zhu, Purdue University


ACTINIDES AND RARE EARTHS (AC)

  • Topic Chair: James G. Tobin, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
  • Topic Co-Chair: Ladislav Havela, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Topic Co-Chair: David Shuh, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Edgar Buck, Pacific Northwest National Lab
  • Tomasz Durakiewicz, Idaho National Lab
  • Krzysztof Gofryk, Idaho National Laboratory
  • Itzhak Halevy, Ben Gurion University Be’er Sheva, Israel
  • Alison Pugmire, LANL
  • Paul Roussel, AWE, UK
  • Eteri Svanidze, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany
  • Evgenia Tereshina-Chitrova, Institute of Physics CAS, Prague, Czechia
  • Gertrud Zwicknagl, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

ADVANCED MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPY TO EXPLORE FIELD-ASSISTED CHEMISTRY (AMS)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Shawn Kathmann, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Topic Co-Chair: Sten V. Lambeets, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Topic Co-Chair: Daniel Perea, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory


ADVANCED SURFACE ENGINEERING (SE)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Diana Berman, University of North Texas
  • Topic Chair: Filippo Mangolini, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Wan-Yu Wu , National United University, Taiwan

AI/ML FOR SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY (AIML)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Alain Diebold, SUNY Poly
  • Topic Co-Chair: Erica Douglas, Sandia National Lab
  • Topic Co-Chair: Tina Kaarsberg, Dept. of Energy

APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE (SE)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Jordan Lerach, PPG Industries
  • Topic Co-Chair: Alexander Shard, National Physical Laboratory, UK
  • Steve Consiglio, Tokyo Electron
  • Andrew Francis, Medtronic, Inc.
  • Jodi Grzeskowiak, Tokyo Electron
  • David Morgan, Cardiff University, UK
  • Hong Piao, FUJIFILM Electronic Materials USA., Inc.
  • Benjamen Reed, National Physical Lab, UK
  • Samantha G. Rosenberg, Kairos Power
  • P.M.A. Sherwood, Kansas State University
  • Timothy Spila, University of Illinois
  • Lyndi Strange, PNNL
  • Tanguy Terlier, Rice University
  • Jeff Terry, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Julia Zakel, IONTOF GmbH, Germany

ATOMIC SCALE PROCESSING (AP)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Bobby Bruce, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  • Topic Co-Chair: Eric A. Joseph, IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center
  • Heeyeop Chae, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Republic of Korea
  • Erin Cleveland, University of Maryland
  • April Jewell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/JPL)
  • Han-Bo-Ram Lee, Incheon National University, Republic of Korea
  • Alyssa Mock, Weber State University
  • Angelique Raley, TEL US
  • Bridget Rogers, Vanderbilt University
  • Junjie Zhao, Zhejiang University, China


AVS QUANTUM SCIENCE WORKSHOP (AQS)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Ekta Bhatia, NY CREATES and University at Albany SUNY
  • Topic Co-Chair: Kasra Sardashti, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Topic Co-Chair: Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Philippe Bouyer, Quantum Delta, The Netherlands
  • Joe Castellano, AIP Publishing
  • Charles R. Eddy, Jr., Office of Naval Research Global – London, UK
  • Sebastian Engelmann, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  • Sean Jones, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Sisira Kanhirathingal, Rigetti Computing
  • David Pappas, Rigetti Computing

BIOMATERIAL INTERFACES/BIOMATERIALS PLENARY (BP)

  • Topic Chair: Sapun Parekh, University of Texas at Austin
  • Topic Co-Chair: Christopher So, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
  • Pierluigi Bilotto, CEST GmbH, Austria
  • Kenan Fears, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
  • Morgan Hawker, California State Univ., Fresno
  • Markus Valtiner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  • Rong Yang, Cornell University


CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND IMAGING INTERFACES (CA)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Andrei Kolmakov, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • Topic Co-Chair: Xiao-Ying Yu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory


ELECTRONIC MATERIALS & PHOTONICS (EM)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Erin Cleveland, University of Maryland
  • Topic Co-Chair: Philip Sanghyun Lee, University of Kentucky
  • Parag Banerjee, University of Central Florida
  • Erica Douglas, Sandia National Lab
  • Michael A. Filler, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Cheng Gong, University of Maryland
  • Sang M. Han, University of New Mexico
  • Michael David Henry, Sandia National Lab
  • Jessica Hilton, SPECS-TII, Inc.
  • SeonHee Jang, University of Louisiana
  • Jason Kawasaki, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Seth King, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
  • Stephen McDonnell, University of Virginia
  • Rachael L. Myers-Ward, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
  • Guangxin Ni, Florida State University
  • Michelle M. Paquette, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • Daniel Pennachio, NRL
  • Angus Rockett, Colorado School of Mines
  • Nicholas Strandwitz, Lehigh University
  • Samantha Tomiko Jaszewski, Sandia National Lab
  • George Wang, Sandia National Lab
  • Haozhe Harry Wang, Duke University

LIGHT SOURCES ENABLED SCIENCE MINI-SYMPOSIUM (LS)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Jakub Drnec, ESRF, Grenoble, France
  • Topic Co-Chair: Jessica McChesney, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Topic Co-Chair: Slavomir Nemsak, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

MAGNETIC INTERFACES AND NANOSTRUCTURES (MI)

  • Topic Chair: Hendrik Ohldag, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Markus Donath, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
  • Axel Enders, University of Bayreuth, Germany
  • Thomas Feggeler, Brookhaven National Lab
  • Zheng Gai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Mikel B. Holcomb, West Virginia University
  • Jeffry Kelber, University of North Texas
  • Valeria Lauter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Greg Szulczewski, The University of Alabama
  • Peng Wei, George Washington University

MEMS & NEMS (MN)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Jaesung Lee, University of Central Florida
  • Topic Co-Chair: Yanan (Laura) Wang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Jorge Castro, University of Texas at El Paso
  • Robert Davis, Brigham Young University
  • Vikrant Gokhale, Naval Research Laboratory
  • Matthew Jordan, Sandia National Laboratories
  • Sushma Kotru, University of Alabama
  • Robert Roberts, University of Texas at El Paso
  • Christian Zorman, Case Western Reserve University

NANOSCALE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (NSP)

  • Topic Chair: Nikolai Klimov, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Topic Co-Chair: Alex Belianinov, Sandia National Laboratories
  • Topic Co-Chair: Deep Jariwala, University of Pennsylvania
  • Nancy Burnham, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Aubrey Hanbicki, Laboratory for Physical Sciences
  • Erin Iski, University of Tulsa
  • Joohoon Kang, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
  • Marek Kolmer, Ames Laboratory
  • Son Le, University of Maryland
  • Yongtao Liu, ORNL
  • Mausumi Mahapatra, Loyola University Chicago
  • Andrew Mannix, Stanford University
  • Taisuke Ohta, Sandia National Laboratories
  • Radislav Potyrailo, GE Research Center
  • Aditya Sood, Princeton University


PLASMA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (PS)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Kenji Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
  • Topic Co-Chair: Angelique Raley, TEL Technology Center America, LLC
  • Sumit Agarwal, Colorado School of Mines
  • John Arnold, IBM Research Div., Albany, NY
  • Philippe Bezard, IMEC, Belgium
  • Bobby Bruce, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  • Luxherta Buzi, IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center
  • Thierry Chevolleau, CEA-Leti, France
  • Maxime Darnon, CNRS, Laboratoire Hubert Curien
  • Emilie Despiau-Pujo, CNRS-LTM, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
  • Sebastian Engelmann, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  • Sathya Ganta, Applied Materials, USA
  • Michael Gordon, University of California at Santa Barbara
  • Hisataka Hayashi, DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., Japan
  • Yohei Ishii, Hitachi High Technologies America Inc.
  • W.M.M. (Erwin) Kessels, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Catherine Labelle, Intel
  • Thorsten Lill, Lam Research Corporation
  • David Lishan, Plasma-Therm LLC
  • Lei Liu, Lam Research Corp.
  • Pingshan Luan, TEL Technology Center, America, LLC
  • Kenji Maeda, Hitachi High Technologies, Japan
  • Nathan Marcha, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
  • Selma Mededovic Thagard, Clarkson University
  • Eric Miller, IBM Research Division, Albany, NY
  • Phong Nguyen, Air Liquide Laboratories
  • Nobuyuki Kuboi, Sony Corporation, Japan
  • Premkumar Panneerchelvam, KLA-Tencor
  • Erwine Pargon, CNRS-LTM, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
  • Floran Peeters, LeydenJar Technologies
  • Nicolas Posseme, CEA-LETI, France
  • Francois Reniers, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Mohan Sankaran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Jeffrey Shearer, TEL Technology Center, America, LLC
  • Yu-Hao Tsai, TEL Technology Center, America, LLC
  • Necip Uner, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
  • Christophe Vallee, University at Albany
  • Steven Vitale, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Scott Walton, Naval Research Laboratory
  • Jun-Chieh Wang, Applied Materials, USA
  • Mingmei Wang, Lam Research Corp.

QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MINI-SYMPOSIUM (QS)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Ekta Bhatia, NY CREATES and University at Albany SUNY
  • Topic Co-Chair: Kasra Sardashti, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Topic Co-Chair: Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Charles R. Eddy, Jr., Office of Naval Research Global – London, UK
  • Sebastian Engelmann, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  • Sean Jones, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Sisira Kanhirathingal, Rigetti Computing
  • Corey Rae McRae, University of Colorado Boulder/National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST)
  • David Pappas, Rigetti Computing
  • Drew Rebar, Pacific Northwest National Lab

SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY (EL)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Alyssa Mock, Weber State University
  • Topic Co-Chair: Megan Stokey, Milwaukee School of Engineering
  • Tom Tiwald, J.A. Woollam Co., Inc.
  • Stefan Zollner, New Mexico State University

SURFACE SCIENCE (SS)

  • Topic Chair: Nan Jiang, University of Illinois – Chicago
  • Florencia Calaza, UNL-Conicet, Argentina
  • Lifeng Chi, FUNSOM – Soochow Univ., China
  • Abner de Siervo, State University of Campinas, Brazil
  • M.Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano, Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry-CSIC, Spain
  • Dan Killelea, Loyola University Chicago
  • Barbara A.J. Lechner, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  • Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick, UK
  • Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Mildred Quintana, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico
  • Tim Schäfer, University of Göttingen, Germany
  • Dario Stacchiola, Brookhaven National Lab

SUSTAINABLE SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING (SM)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Adam Hock, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Topic Co-Chair: Jeff Terry, Illinois Institute of Technology

THIN FILMS (TF)

  • Topic Co-Chair: Mark Losego, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Topic Co-Chair: Junjie Zhao, Zhejiang University, China
  • Sarah Atanasov, Intel
  • Joe Becker, Kurt J. Lesker Company
  • David Bergsman, University of Washington
  • Ashley Bielinski, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Devika Choudhury, ASM
  • John Conley, Jr., Oregon State University
  • Adriana Creatore, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
  • Lauren Garten, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Steven M. George, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Elton Graugnard, Boise State University
  • Robert Grubbs, IMEC, Belgium
  • Subhadra Gupta, University of Alabama
  • April Jewell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/JPL)
  • Alex Kozen, University of Vermont
  • Adrie Mackus, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
  • Austin Minnich, California Institute of Technology
  • Siamak Nejati, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Blake Nuwayhid, Naval Research Laboratory
  • Gregory N. Parsons, North Carolina State University
  • Sagar Udyavara, Lam Research
  • Christophe Vallee, SUNY POLY, Albany
  • Richard Vanfleet, Brigham Young University
  • Rong Yang, Cornell University
  • Matthias Young, University of Missouri

UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION (UN)

  • Topic Chair: Morgan Hawker, California State University, Fresno
  • Topic Co-Chair: Liney Arnadottir, Oregon State University
  • Topic Co-Chair: Ashleigh Baber, James Madison University
  • Topic Co-Chair: Joshua Blechle, Wilkes University
  • Topic Co-Chair: Erin Iski, University of Tulsa

VACUUM TECHNOLOGY (VT)

  • Topic Chair: Sol Omolayo, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, University of California, Berkeley
  • Klaus Bergner, VACOM, Germany
  • Russell Gleason, Infleqtion
  • Christopher Malocsay, UC Components Inc.
  • Freek Molkenboer, TNO Science and Industry, the Netherlands
  • Jacob Ricker, NIST
  • Julia Scherschligt, NIST
  • Charles Smith, ORNL
  • Marcy Stutzman, Jefferson Laboratory
  • Alan van Drie, TAE Technologies
  • Martin Wuest, Inficon, Liechtenstein

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