Program Overview, On Behalf of the Symposium Committee
I.3
16:00 - 16:50
Supriyo Datta
p-Bit: Between a Bit and a Qubit
I.4
17:00 - 17:50
Mohammed Gondal
Advanced Functional Materials Using Green Synthesis (PLAL) Technique and Their Applications in Energy Harvesting, Energy Storage and Photonic Devices
18:00 - 18:30
Break (Maghrib Prayer)
Emerging Technologies I: Nanoelectronics and Spintronics Moderator: Feras Al-Dirini
I.5
18:30 - 19:20
Sayeef Salahuddin
Ultrathin Ferroelectricity and Its Application in Advanced Logic and Memory Devices
19:30 - 20:00
Break (Isha Prayer)
I.6
20:00 - 20:50
Kerem Camsari
Massively Parallel Probabilistic Computing: A Device to System Roadmap
I.7
21:00 - 21:30
Feras Al-Dirini
Probabilistic Autonomous Sensing Using p-Bits: Towards Intelligence in Data Acquisition
I.8
21:30 - 22:00
Adel Abbout
Quantum Anoumalous Hall Effect and Anderson Chern Insulating Regime in Noncollinear Antiferromagnetic 3Q state
Session II: Wednesday - March 23, 2022
Emerging Technologies II: Photonics, Phononics and Optoelectronics Moderator: Khaled Gasmi
II.1
16:00 - 16:50
Xiaohang Li
The 4th Wave: Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductors
II.2
17:00 - 17:50
Zayd Leseman
Phononic Crystals: Experimental Investigations into RF Acoustic Components and Reduction of Thermal Conductivity
18:00 - 18:30
Break (Maghrib Prayer)
II.3
18:30 - 19:20
Steven DenBaars
GaN Based Materials and Devices for UV to Visible Photonics
19:30 - 20:00
Break (Isha Prayer)
Disruptive Technologies I: New Device Concepts Moderator: Burhan Saifaddin
II.4
20:00 - 20:50
Umesh Mishra
GaN: Driving Next Generation RF and Power Conversion Applications
II.5
21:00 - 21:50
Elaheh Ahmadi
(Ultra)Wide Bandgap Materials and Devices for Communication and Sustainability
Session III: Tursday - March 24, 2022
Non-Conventional Platforms: Flexible, Conformable and Wearable Devices Moderator: Jhonathan Rojas
III.1
16:00 - 16:50
Boon Ooi
Heterogeneous Integration of Semiconductor Materials and Devices on Unconventional Substrates
III.2
17:00 - 17:50
Sheng Xu
Plenty of Room Under the Skin: A Wearable’s Perspective
18:00 - 18:20
Break (Maghrib Prayer)
III.3
18:30 - 19:00
Jhonathan Rojas
Stretching the Boundaries of Inorganic Materials
III.4
19:00 - 19:30
Abdallah A. AlShehri
FracBots: Tiny Wireless Sensors in Oil & Gas Reservoir
19:30 - 20:00
Break (Isha Prayer)
Disruptive Technologies II: New Device Concepts Moderator: Burhan Saifaddin
III.5
20:00 - 20:30
Michael Vogl
Materials at the Intersection Between Floquet-engineering and Twistronics
III.6
20:30 - 21:00
Saleem Rao
Quantum Computing and Superconducting LC Circuit Based Qubits
III.7
21:00 - 21:00
Burhan Saifaddin
Closing Remarks, On Behalf of The Symposium Committee
Session I: Tuesday - March 22, 2022
Opening Session
Prof. Supriyo Datta
Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor
Purdue University
Supriyo Datta received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, India in 1975, his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979 and joined Purdue in 1981. At Purdue he has received the McCoy award for his contributions to science and has been inducted into the Book of Great Teachers. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to quantum transport modeling in nanoscale electronic devices. He is also known for his contributions to molecular electronics and spin electronics and received the Procter Prize from Sigma Xi. In 2012 he was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for quantum transport modeling in nanoscale electronic devices. In 2011 he received the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) as well as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has received two IEEE technical field awards: the 2002 IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award , and the 2008 IEEE Leon Kirchmayer Award.
Title of Presentation:
p-Bit: Between a bit and a qubit
Prof. Mohammad A. Gondal
Distinguished Professor
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
Mohammed Ashraf Gondal is a Distinguished Professor at Physics Department, Coordinator of Laser Research Group at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Senior Research Fellow of K. A. CARE and Visiting World Class Professor (MOE Indonesia). He received the PhD degree in Applied Physics from University of Bonn (Germany) in 1983. He worked on many collaborative research projects with scientists from world renowned universities including MIT, Free University Berlin, Heidelberg University Germany, Nanjing University China and NUS Singapore. His research interests are in the areas of nanotechnology, photonics, quantum optics, materials science energy harvesting (third generation solar cells), energy storage (super capacitors), applied/chemical physics, sensors, laser remote sensing (LIDAR), environmental pollution monitoring, development of laser based analytical techniques (PAS, LIBS, LEI), wetting & non wetting surfaces for oil water separation & self-cleaning applications, synthesis of nano-composites and quantum dots using novel Pulsed Laser Ablation in Liquids Technique (PLAL) as well wet chemical methods and their novel applications in corrosion inhibition, petrochemicals, photo-catalysis for production of high value hydrocarbons (CO¬¬¬2 utilization) & hydrogen production by water splitting, removal of organic pollutants as well water disinfection of bacteria and pathogens. In addition to cutting edge applied research, he is working on design and fabrication of lasers as well laser induced atomic and molecular spectroscopy as a fundamental research for understanding of dynamics of atoms and molecules. Dr. Gondal has published over 552 research papers in international journals & conferences, a book as well many book chapters, 30 US patents, H-index 52, over 10050 citations. He is a member of numerous international journal’s editorial boards and winner of many national and international awards including prestigious Al-Marai Scientific Innovation Prize.
Title of Presentation:
Advanced Functional Materials Using Green Synthesis (PLAL) Technique and Their Applications in Energy Harvesting, Energy Storage and Photonic Devices
Emerging Technologies I: Nanoelectronics and Spintronics
Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin
TSMC Distinguished Professor
University of California - Berkeley
Sayeef Salahuddin is the TSMC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California Berkeley. Salahuddin received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from BUET (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) in 2003 and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2007. He joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley in 2008. Salahuddin is a fellow of the IEEE and the APS.
Salahuddin is a co-director of the Berkeley Device Modeling Center and Berkeley Center for Negative Capacitance Transistors. He served on the editorial board of IEEE Electron Devices Letters (2013-16) and was the chair the IEEE Electron Devices Society committee on Nanotechnology (2014-16).
Salahuddin has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the US Government on early career scientist and engineers. Salahuddin also received a number of other awards including the NSF CAREER award, the IEEE Nanotechnology Early Career Award, the Young Investigator Awards from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the Army Research Office (ARO) and best paper awards from IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems and from the VLSI-TSA conference. In 2012, Applied Physics Letters (APL) highlighted two of his papers among 50 most notable papers among all areas published in APL within 2009-2012. Salahuddin also received the George E Smith Award from the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
Title of Presentation:
Ultrathin Ferroelectricity and Its Application in Advanced Logic and Memory Devices
Dr. Kerem Çamsarı
Assistant Professor
University of California – Santa Barbara
Kerem Çamsarı received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2015, where he continued on as a post-doctoral researcher between 2015 and 2020 before joining the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in UC Santa Barbara in 2020.
He served on the technical program committee for Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE) in 2020, 2021, 2022 and the IEEE Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC) 2020, 2021. He is a founding member of the Technical Committee on Quantum, Neuromorphic and Unconventional Computing within the IEEE Nanotechnology Council where he leads the unconventional computing section. He has received the IEEE Magnetics Society Early Career Award and an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award for his work on probabilistic computing. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Title of Presentation:
Massively Parallel Probabilistic Computing: A Device to System Roadmap
Dr. Feras Al-Dirini
Assistant Professor
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
Dr. Feras Al-Dirini joined the Electrical Engineering Department at KFUPM in September 2017, as an Assistant Professor, coming from the University of Melbourne in Australia, where he was working in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department since 2015. Dr. Al-Dirini completed the PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne - Australia in 2015 and the B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering at Princess Sumaya University for Technology - Jordan, with the highest honors, in 2011. In 2009 and 2010, he was an exchange student at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign - USA, and in the summer of 2009, he was a Research Intern with the Institute for Microsystems Technology, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg - Germany. His research interests are in the fields of Nano electronics and Nanotechnology, within which he has published 15 peer-reviewed journal articles and 12 conference papers, including an invited paper. Dr. Al-Dirini was a recipient of the Australian Postgraduate Award and the National ICT Australia Ph.D. Top-Up Scholarship from 2011 to 2015. He is a member of the IEEE and a member of the Australian Nanotechnology Network.
Title of Presentation:
Probabilistic Autonomous Sensing Using p-Bits: Towards Intelligence in Data Acquisition
Dr. Adel Abbout
Assistant Professor
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
After an Msc in theoretical physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris) Dr. Adel Abbout got his Phd in condensed matter theory from the Pierre and Marie Curie university in 2012. He then moved to university of Caen for a short postdoc on thermoelectric transport in mesoscopic systems. In 2015, he joined the spintronic group at Kaust where he worked on different topics such as topological insulators, magnetization dynamics, topological superconductors, spin torque, twisted bilayer graphene an random matrix theory. He joined the department of physics at KFUPM in 2019.
Title of Presentation:
Quantum Anoumalous Hall Effect and Anderson Chern Insulating Regime in Noncollinear Antiferromagnetic 3Q state
Session II: Wednesday - March 23, 2022
Emerging Technologies II: Photonics, Phononics and Optoelectronics
Dr. Xiaohang Li
Associate Professor
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Xiaohang Li obtained Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology where he received the Institute’s highest graduate student honor, the Edison Prize. Afterwards he joined KAUST and is now an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Applied Physics. His research focuses on growth, materials, physics, and devices of wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconductors for next-generation photonics and electronics. He has been a pioneer of several research areas including UVC lasers and boron nitride alloys. He has authored 100 journal and 130 conference publications. He has given 100 invited talks, seminars, and tutorials. He has 30 issued and pending patents. His team has developed the Polarization Toolbox software used by researchers from over 70 universities and companies. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Harold M. Manasevit Young Investigator Award from the American Association for Crystal Growth, the SPIE D. J. Lovell Scholarship, and the IEEE Photonics Graduate Student Fellowship. He has served as an Associate Editor of Photonics Research, an editorial board member of Journal of Semiconductors, and a committee member of several top conferences including IWN, EMC, ICMAT.
Title of Presentation:
The 4th Wave: Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductors
Dr. Zayd C. Leseman
Associate Professor
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
Zayd C. Leseman is a faculty member of the Mechanical Engineering Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has more than 20 years of experience in research at the micro/nanoscale. Specifically, ZL’s research focuses on understanding the mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties of nanostructured materials by integrating experimental and computational techniques. Through manipulation of their structure-property relationships, he is able to create disruptive nanomaterials for the energy, semiconductor, and defense sectors. As a result of his cutting-edge research he produces high impact publications, licensed technologies, startup companies, and partnerships with businesses to develop novel nanomaterial characterization methods.
Title of Presentation:
Phononic Crystals: Experimental Investigations into RF Acoustic Components and Reduction of Thermal Conductivity
Prof. Steven P. DenBaars
Mitsubishi Distinguished Professor
University of California - Santa Barbara
Steven P. DenBaars is a material scientist, electrical engineer, and academic. He is a Professor of Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Executive Director of the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prof. DenBaars is a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for contributions to gallium nitride-based materials and devices for solid-state lighting, lasers, and displays. He was also selected as an IEEE Fellow, and recipient of the IEEE Aron Kressel Award.
He received his Bachelors of Science in the field of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Arizona, graduating with the university’s highest distinction and as the Valedictorian of his class. He completed his Masters in Science with Honors in the field of Materials Science in 1986 and in 1988 received his PhD in Electrical Engineering, after which he joined the Hewlett-Packard Optoelectronics Division as a member of the technical staff. He joined the University of California, Santa Barbara faculty in 1991. He was the recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1994 and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Fellow Award in 2005, Viiterbi Award, USC Distinguished Alumni Award. He has 70+ patents filed and 800+ publications and has been cited more than 85,000 times.
Title of Presentation:
GaN Based Materials and Devices for UV to Visible Photonics
Disruptive Technologies I: New Device Concepts
Prof. Umesh Mishra
Donald W. Whittier Distinguished Professor
University of California - Santa Barbara
Umesh K. Mishra is a professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1990–Present). He is the CTO, co-founder and board member of Transphorm, founded in 2007. Mishra’s company Transphorm was selected by the World Economic Forum as a 2013 Technology Pioneer for its innovations in GaN technology, the solutions from which can cut total world electrical energy waste by up to 10 percent. Prof. Mishra is a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for contributions to the development of gallium nitride electronics and high-speed, high-power semiconductor electronic devices. He is also a fellow of IEEE and a recipient of both the IEEE David Sarnoff Award and the ISCS Quantum Device Award.
Mishra earned a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in 1979. He went on earn his M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University in 1981 and Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1984 and served as a principal staff engineer at General Electric. Prof. Mishra has over 1,000 publications and ranks among the top 1% on the most highly cited researchers in the world and an h-index of 125. He has 70+ patents filed and 800+ publications and has been cited more than 69,000 times.
Title of Presentation:
GaN: Driving Next Generation RF and Power Conversion Applications
Dr. Elaheh Ahmadi
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Elaheh Ahmadi received her BS and MS degrees both from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2008 and 2010 respectively. She then moved to USA and joined Prof. Mishra’s group at UC Santa Barbara in 2010, where she worked on epitaxial growth and characterization of GaN-based electronic devices. After earning her PhD degree in 2015, she started her postdoctoral research in Prof. James Speck’s group working on epitaxial growth and characterization of Ga2O3 devices. She joined the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor in Jan 2018. She received AFOSR YIP and ONR YIP awards in 2020 and NSF CAREER award and DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2021.
Her research interests are Epitaxial growth and characterization of III-N and Oxide semiconductors for electronic, optoelectronic, and MEMs applications. Design, fabrication and characterization of novel (ultra)wide bandgap devices for high power and high frequency applications.
Title of Presentation:
(Ultra)Wide Bandgap Materials and Devices for Communication and Sustainability
Session III: Thursday - March 24, 2022
Non-Conventional Platforms: Flexible, Wearable and Conformable Devices
Prof. Boon S. Ooi
Professor
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Boon S. Ooi is currently a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at KAUST. His research interests include wide bandgap optoelectronics and optical communications. To date, he has published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has given over 70 invited tutorials or keynote talks in internationals conferences such as OFC, CLEO, Photonics West, ACP, and IPC. He is an inventor or co-inventor of more than 60 issued or pending U.S. and international patents.,Prof. Ooi is an active participant in the technical community. He has served on the organizing committees, including as the Organizing Chair, for many IEEE, OSA, SPIE, and MRS conferences. He has served on the Editorial Board of IEEE Photonics Journal and Optics Express as a Senior Editor or an Associate Editor. He has also served as a Guest Editor or a Lead Guess Editor for the Special Issue of IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics and Optics Express. He is a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI), OSA, SPIE, and IoP.
Title of Presentation:
Heterogeneous Integration of Semiconductor Materials and Devices on Unconventional Substrates
Dr. Sheng Xu
Associate Professor
University of California - San Diego
Dr. Sheng Xu is currently an associate professor at the University of California San Diego. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, followed by postdoctoral studies in the Materials Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His group is interested in developing new materials and fabrication strategies for flexible energy harvesting and health monitoring devices. His research has been presented to the U.S. Congress as a testimony of NIH’s extramural research. He has been recognized by many awards, including MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, Wellcome Trust Innovator, Sloan Fellowship, IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award, SPIE Rising Researchers, NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, NIH Trailblazer Award, ETH Zurich Materials Research Prize for Young Investigators, and MRS Outstanding Early Career Investigator. He is a Kavli Fellow of National Academy of Sciences and a Frontier of Engineering of National Academy of Engineering.
Title of Presentation:
Plenty of Room Under the Skin: A Wearable’s Perspective
Dr. Jhonathan Prieto Rojas
Assistant Professor
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
Jhonathan Rojas received his bachelor degree in electronics engineering from the National University of Colombia in 2009, including an exchange year at the Technology University of Munich (TUM) as recipient of the DAAD young engineers scholarship. He then joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2009,where he received the KAUST Graduate Fellowship and Provost Award. He completed his master’s degree and PhD degree from KAUST in electrical engineering in 2010 and 2014, respectively. Dr. Rojas joined King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) as Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department from Fall 2015. His research interest includes novel micro- and nanofabrication techniques for energy harvesting and flexible/stretchable/wearable electronics, as well as design, development and characterization of novel structures for diverse applications.
Title of Presentation:
Stretching the Boundaries of Inorganic Materials
Dr. Abdallah Alshehri
Petroleum Engineering Specialist
Saudi Aramco
Abdallah Alshehri is a petroleum engineering specialist at Saudi Aramco Advanced Research Center (EXPEC ARC) participating in industry-leading research on reservoir monitoring & surveillance. He received the Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA in 2018.
Currently, He is an expert in reservoir monitoring and surveillance that capitalize on 4th Industrial revolution (4IR) technologies and Artificial Intelligent (AI) technologies. He is the leader of Deep Diagnostic team with Reservoir Engineering Technology Division under EXPEC Advanced Research Center, Saudi Aramco. The function of his team is to create innovative technologies to improve reservoir description and evaluation for better reserves assessment and well placement as well as to enhanced monitoring and surveillance to ultimately improve recovery.
His research interests include wireless underground sensor networks, in-suite sensing methodologies and applications for oil and gas reservoir monitoring and surveillance.
Title of Presentation:
FracBots: Tiny Wireless Sensors in Oil & Gas Reservoir
Disruptive Technologies II: New Device Concepts
Dr. Michael Vogl
Assistant Professor
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
Michael Vogl is a theoretical physicist working as Assistant Professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). Before KFUPM he received his PhD in May 2020 from the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Gregory A. Fiete. He received his Master's in January 2014 under the supervision of Oleg Pankratov and Sam Shallcross at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His Bachelor's was obtained in August 2011 at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg under supervision of Michael Thies.
His research interests cover a wide array of different topics in condensed matter theory. They range from strongly correlated electron systems in equilibrium to far-from-equilibrium Floquet theory. As theoretical techniques he applies and develops both powerful non-perturbative analytical and numerical methods.
Title of Presentation:
Materials at the Intersection Between Floquet-engineering and Twistronics
Dr. Saleem Ghaffar Rao
Associate Professor
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
Saleem Rao is an Associate Professor of Physics at KFUPM. In 2005, he received his Ph.D. in Physics (fabrication and characterization of CNT-based integrated circuits) from Florida State University. After completing his Ph.D., he served as faculty in the USA and in Pakistan, and in 2009 he joined KFUPM as an Assistant Professor. His area of research is nanostructure-based integrated circuit fabrication and its characterization. Since 2018, he is actively involved in superconducting quantum-chip fabrication and low-temperature characterization in collaboration with UC Berkeley.
Title of Presentation:
Quantum Computing and Superconducting LC Circuit Based Qubits
Date & Time
Session I: Tuesday - March 22, 2022 @ 15:40 PM (KSA Time GMT +3)Session II: Wednesday - March 23, 2022 @ 16:00 PM (KSA Time GMT +3)Session III: Thursday - March 24, 2022 @ 16:00 PM (KSA Time GMT +3)
