Conference ChairAdrienne Stiff-RobertsDuke University
Program ChairStephanie LawPenn State University
TreasurerMark WisteyTexas State University
SecretaryMona EbrishVanderbilt
Organizing Committee
Meet the organizing committee of EMC 2026, dedicated experts leading advancements in electronic materials research and innovation.
EMC Officers
Ex-Officio Members
- Daniel Wasserman
University of Texas
- Wojciech Jadwisienczak
Ohio University
Members at Large
- Andrew Allerman
Sandia National Laboratories
- Kris Bertness
National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Suzanne Mohney
Penn State University
- Jamie Phillips
University of Delaware
- Christian Wetzel
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Members
- Sadhvikas Addamane
Sandia National Laboratories
- Elaheh Ahmadi
University of California Los Angeles
- Ganesh Balakrishnan
University of New Mexico
- Matt Brubaker
National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Srabanti Chowdhury
Stanford University
- Kevin Daniels
University of Maryland-College Park
- Theeradetch Detchprohm
Georgia Institute of Technology
- Daniel Ewing
Department of Energy’s Kansas City National Security Campus
- David Estrada
Boise State University
- Esmat Farzana
Iowa State University
- Susan Fullerton
University of Pittsburgh
- Lauren Garten
Georgia Institute of Technology
- Gerd Grau
York University
- Deidra Hodges
Florida International University
- Mihee Ji
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
- Sriram Krishnamoorthy
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Charles Lutz
Lumentum
- Jay Mody
Intel Corporation
- Leland Nordin
University of Central Florida
- Robert 'Chris' Roberts
University of Texas, El Paso
- Jae-Hyun Ryou
University of Houston
- Paul J. Simmonds
Tufts University
- Sarah Swisher
University Of Minnesota
- Pawan Tyagi
University of the District of Columbia
- Hongping Zhao
The Ohio State University
- Joshua Zide
University of Delaware
Invited Organizers
Thaddeus Asel
US Air Force Research Laboratory
Seth Bank
The University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Beechem
Purdue University
Anhar Bhuiyan
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Leonard Brillson
The Ohio State University
Joshua Caldwell
Vanderbilt University
Francesca Cavallo
University of New Mexico
Zizwe Chase
University of Illinois Chicago
Guohai Chen
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science, Japan
Ramana Chintalapalle
University of Texas at El Paso
Suprem Das
Kansas State University
Hemant Dixit
Wolfspeed
Matthew Doty
University of Delaware
Russell Dupuis
Georgia Institute of Technology
James Edgar
Kansas State University
Savannah Eisner
Columbia University
Jimy Encomendero
Cornell University
Kurt Eyink
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
Qhalid Fareed
Texas Instruments
Daniel Feezell
University of New Mexico
Michael Flatte
University of Iowa
Canek Fuentes-Hernandez
Northeastern University
Shizuo Fujita
Kyoto University
Rachel Goldman
University of Michigan
Cheng Gong
University of Maryland
Mark Goorsky
University of California, Los Angeles
Chirag Gupta
University of Wisconsin Madison
Doug Hall
University of Notre Dame
Michael Hamilton
Auburn University
Matthew Hardy
Naval Research Laboratory
Umer Hassan
Rutgers University
Masataka Higashiwaki
Osaka Metropolitan University
Karl Hirschman
Rochester Institute of Technology
Jennifer Hite
University of Florida
Karl Hobart
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Anthony Hoffman
University of Notre Dame
Shanthi Iyer
NC A&T State University
David Janes
Purdue University
Anderson Janotti
University of Delaware
Nidhin Kurian Kalarickal
Arizona State University
Rehan Kapadia
University of Southern California
Jyoti Katoch
Carnegie Mellon University
Munho Kim
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jung-Hyun Kim
Ohio State University
Andrew Koehler
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Yasuo Koide
National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Rachel Koltun
Northrop Grumman
Sanjay Krishna
The Ohio State University
Rachel Kurchin
Carnegie Mellon University
Joon Seop Kwak
Korea Institute of Energy Technology
Ioannis Kymissis
Columbia University
Lincoln Lauhon
Northwestern University
Nathan Lazarus
University of Delaware
David Lederman
UC Santa Cruz
In-Hwan Lee
Korea University
Minjoo (Larry) Lee
University of Illinois
Takhee Lee
Seoul National University
Patrick Lenahan
The Pennsylvania State University
Andrej Lenert
University of Michigan
Connie Li
Naval Research Laboratory
Xiaohang Li
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Xiuling Li
University of Texas Austin
Xinyu Liu
University of Notre Dame
Luke Lyle
Penn State University
Nadeemullah Mahadik
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Kyle McNicholas
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Zetian Mi
University of Michigan
Anders Mikkelsen
Lund University
Parsian Mohseni
Rochester Institute of Technology
Aaron Muhowski
Sandia National Laboratories
Kunal Mukherjee
Stanford University
Hari Nair
Cornell University
Mahesh Neupane
US Army Research Laboratory
Joseph Ngai
The University of Texas at Arlington
Ratnakar Palai
University of Puerto Rico
Shubhra Pasayat
University of Wisconsin Madison
Becky Peterson
University of Michigan
Lisa Porter
Carnegie Mellon University
Ferdinand Poudeu
University of Michigan
Nate Quitoriano
McGill University
Joan Redwing
The Pennsylvania State University
Volker Rose
Argonne National Laboratory
Mike Scarpulla
The University of Utah
William Scheideler
Dartmouth
Eric Seabron
Howard University
Thomas Searles
University of Illinois Chicago
Jung-Hun Seo
University at Buffalo
Tae-Yeon Seong
Korea University
Shadi Shahedipour-Sandvik
SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Patrick Shea
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Michael Snure
Air Force Research Laboratory
Michael Spencer
Morgan State University
Marko Tadjer
U. S. Naval Research Laboratory
Darlene Taylor
North Carolina Central University
Rainer Timm
Lund University
Stephanie Tomasulo
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Gregory Triplett
Saint Louis University
Andrei Vescan
RWTH Aachen University
Christine Wang
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
George Wang
Sandia National Laboratories
Jonathan Wierer
North Carolina State University
Man Hoi Wong
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
William Wong
University of Waterloo
Huili Grace Xing
Cornell University
Ke Xu Rochester
Institute of Technology
Eilam Yalon
Technion University of Science and Technology
Fei Yan
North Carolina Central University
Angel Yanguas-Gil
Argonne National Laboratory
Heayoung Yoon
University of Utah
Edward Yu The
University of Texas at Austin
Kin-Man Yu City
University at Hong Kong
