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Vijay K. Varadan is currently the Twenty-First Century Endowed Chair in Nano-and Bio-Technology and Medicine, and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering (College of Engineering) and Neurosurgery (College of Medicine) at University of Arkansas. He is also a Professor of Neurosurgery at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. He also holds honorary doctorate degrees in Nano-, and Bio-Technologies and Medicine from India. He joined the University of Arkansas in January 2005 after serving on the faculty of Cornell University, Ohio State University and Pennsylvania State University for the past 39 years. He is also the Director of the Center of Excellence for Nano-, Micro-, and Neuro-Electronics, Sensors and Systems and the Director of the NSF Center for Wireless Nanosensors and Systems (WiNS). He is also a Director of the Global Institute of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine (GINTEM). The purpose of this Institute is to create a global effort to solve current and future medical concerns using advanced nanotechnologies by developing Research Hospitals at selected overseas countries. Varadan has concentrated on the design and development of various electronic, acoustic and structural composites, smart materials, structures, and devices including sensors, transducers, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), synthesis and large scale fabrication of carbon nanotubes, NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS), microwave, acoustic and ultrasonic wave absorbers and filters. He has developed neurostimulator, wireless microsensors and systems for sensing and control of Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, glucose in the blood and Alzheimer’s disease. He is also developing both silicon and organic based wireless sensor systems with RFID for human gait analysis and sleep disorders and various neurological disorders. He was a founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Smart Materials and Structures. He was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Smart Nanosystems in Engineering and Medicine, and Editor of the Journal of Advanced Materials Research. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication and Microsystem. He serves on the editorial board of International Journal of Computational Methods. He has published more than 500 journal papers and 15 books. He has 15 patents pertinent to conducting polymers, smart structures, smart antennas, phase shifters, carbon nanotubes, and implantable device for Parkinson’s patients, MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes. He is a fellow of SPIE, ASME, Institute of Physics, Acoustical Society of America. He has many visiting professorship appointments in leading schools overseas.
Linfeng Chen received his B. Sc. degree in modern applied physics (major) and his B.Eng. degree in machine design and manufacture (minor) from the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1991, and he received his PhD. degree in physics from the National University of Singapore in 2001. From 1991 to 1994, he was an assistant lecturer at the Department of Modern Applied Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. From 1994 to 1997, he was a research scholar with the Department of Physics, National University of Singapore. From 1997 to 2001, he worked at the DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, as a project engineer and later a member of technical staff. From 2001 to 2005, he was a research scientist at the Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore. Since 2005, he has been a member of research faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is a senior member of IEEE. His research interests mainly include microwave electronics, functional nanomaterials, and energy harvesting and storage devices.
