Nian Sun Editor

Nian Sun is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Bioengineering, Director of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Integrated Ferroics, Northeastern University, and founder and Chief Technology Advisor of Winchester Technologies, LLC. He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University. Dr. Sun was the recipient of the Humboldt Research Award, NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, the Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, Outstanding Translational Research Award, etc. His research interests include novel magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials, devices and microsystems, novel gas sensors and systems, etc. He has over 300 publications and over 30 patents and patent applications. One of his papers was selected as the “ten most outstanding full papers in the past decade (2001~2010) in Advanced Functional Materials”. Dr. Sun has given over 180 plenary/keynote/invited presentations and seminars. He is an editor of Sensors, and IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, and an elected fellow of the IEEE. Shashank Priya is currently Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, and serves as Associate Vice President for Research and Director of Strategic Initiatives. His research is focused in the areas related to multifunctional materials, energy harvesting and bio-inspired systems. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed high impact journal papers / books chapters and more than 60 conference proceedings covering these topics. He has published ten US patents and edited ten books. His research group is interdisciplinary, consisting of materials scientists, physicists, mechanical engineers, roboticists, and electrical engineers. This allows the group to conduct integrated research addressing several aspects at the material, component, and system level. He is the founder and chair of the Annual Energy Harvesting Society Meeting. He is a member of the Honorary Chair Committee for the International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications (IWPMA). He is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society. Gopalan Srinivasan is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Oakland University in Michigan. He graduated with a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (India) and was a Research Associate at West Virginia University and a Research Professor at Colorado State University. He joined Oakland University in 1988. Gopalan’s research interests are the physics of multiferroics, magneto-electric effects in composites, and applications for sensors and signal processing devices. His research projects are supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the DoD funding agencies. He has 4 patents, 350 publications, and more than 18,000 citations.