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Dr. Xiaojun Guo is currently Professor with Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He completed his PhD in Electronic Engineering at University of Surrey, UK in 2007. Before joining Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2009, he worked in Plastic Logic (now FlexEnable), UK. His research interests include device technologies (transistors, sensors, displays and energy harvesters), hybrid transistor circuit design, heterogeneous integration architectures, and disruptive manufacturing approaches towards making friendly “human-machine-environment” interface electronics. He has authored more than 70 technical papers in international journals, and given more than 20 invited talks in international conferences. He serves as Chair of IEEE EDS Flexible Electronics and Displays Technical Committee (2016-2019), Senior Editor of Flexible and Printed Electronics, and Editor of IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices and Journal of Electron Device Society.

Dr. Xu is currently an assistant professor at UC San Diego. He received his B.S. in Chemistry and Molecular Engineering from Peking University and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He did his postdoctoral studies in stretchable electronics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His group is interested in developing soft wearable electronics for health monitoring and human-machine interfaces. His research has been presented to the Congressmen and Congresswomen as testimony of NIH extramural research during a Congressional Hearing. He has been recognized by many awards, including NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, NIH Trailblazer Award, Wellcome Trust Innovator Award, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, SPIE DCS Rising Researchers, IEEE Sensor Council Early Career Technical Achievement Award, and MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award. He is a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and a Frontier of Engineering of the National Academy of Engineering. He serves Nano Research as a Young Star Editor.

Mike Turner obtained BSc and PhD from the University of Bristol, working on the synthesis of new organometallic complexes, before moving to the United States to investigate new routes to polyphosphazenes. He returned to the UK to work at the University of Sheffield on the mechanism of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction and was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to investigate the synthesis of novel polymers. He moved to the University of Manchester in April 2004 to a Chair in Materials Chemistry and to be Director of OMIC. Current research focusses on the synthesis of novel conjugated organic materials, the processing of these materials into devices such as light emitting diodes, solar cells and transistors and the application of these devices.

Prof. Matti Mäntysalo received the D.Sc. (Tech.) degree in electrical engineering from the Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, in 2008. From 2011 to 2012, he was a Visiting Scientist with the iPack Vinn Excellence Center, School of Information and Communication Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently a Professor of Electronics with Tampere University. His current research interests include printed electronics materials, fabrication processes, stretchable electronics, sensors, and the integration of printed electronics with silicon-based technology (hybrid systems). He has published over 100 papers. He is active in IEEE, IEC, and Organic Electronic Association. He was a recipient of the Academy Research Fellow Grant (2015-2020) from the Academy of Finland. He has awarded by Nokia Research Center from the first inkjet printed GSM baseband integration.