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. Shashank Priya is Professor and Vice President for Research in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. His research is focused on multifunctional materials, energy harvesting, and bio-inspired systems. His research group is interdisciplinary, consisting of materials scientists, physicists, mechanical engineers, roboticists, and electrical engineers, which 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), and he is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society. 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.
