Plenary Speakers

Professor Jackie Y. Ying

Professor Jackie Y. Ying is a world authority in nanostructured materials. She is currently Executive Director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore and Editor in Chief of Nano Today the premier international publication dedicated to reviews covering all aspects of nanoscience and nano technology.

She has received international recognition for her work including receiving awards such as:

> American Ceramic Society Ross C Purdy Award
> David and Lucile Packard Fellowship
> Office of Naval Research and National Science
> Foundation Young Investigator Awards
> Camille Dreyfus Teacher- Scholar Award
> American Chemical Society Faculty Award
> American Chemical Society Faculty Fellowship Award in Solid-State Chemistry
> Technology Review TR100 Young Innovator Award, and American Institute of Chemical Engineers
> American Institute of Chemical Engineers Allan P.Colburn Award
> World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
> Member German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Professor Ying received her B.E. and Ph.D. from The Cooper Union and Princeton University, respectively. She joined the faculty at MIT in 1992, where she was Professor of Chemical Engineering until 2005.

Professor Yunzhi Wang

Professor Yunzhi Wang is a leader in the development and application of the phase field method at multiple length and time scales to phase transformations and plastic deformation in crystalline solids.

His work is part of a greater effort in developing microstructure- and micromechanism-based modelling tools at the Centre for Accelerated Maturation of Materials (CAMM) at OSU.

He received his M.S. (1992) and Ph.D. (1995) in Materials Science and Engineering from Rutgers University. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU) in 1996 as an assistant Professor and became an associate Professor in 2002 and a full Professor in 2005.

His research interests are also in the field of theoretical modelling and computer simulation of microstructural evolution in multi-component, multi-phase and polycrystalline materials.

Professor Bill Clyne

Professor Clyne is a Director of the Gordon Laboratory, which is supported by several industrial partners. He is also the Director of DoITPoMS a global initiative to disseminate educational materials science resources.

After completing his PhD in Cambridge (1976), Bill Clyne held University posts in Brazil, Switzerland and Surrey, before returning to Cambridge in 1985 and being appointed to a personal chair in 1999.

He has authored ~300 papers, 2 textbooks and 20 software packages, and supervised ~70 PhD students.

Research interests include surface coatings, fibre network materials, for various thermo-mechanical and bio-mechanical applications.