Keynote Speakers

Massimo V. Fischetti received the Laurea in Physics from the University of Milan in 1974 and the Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1978. In 1979 he joined STMicroelectronics, Italy, where he worked on hot-electron degradation of silicon dioxide. In 1983 he moved to the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he worked for more than twenty years on the theory of electron transport in insulators and silicon.

At IBM he co-developed the Monte Carlo device simulator DAMOCLES and showed that high-κ gate insulators reduce electron mobility in transistors. He later joined the University of Massachusetts Amherst and then UT Dallas. His current research concerns electronic transport in materials such as silicon nanowires and graphene.

He received the 2011 IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Mei-Yin Chou received her B.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University in 1980 and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986. She was ADVANCE Professor of Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Chair of its School of Physics from 2005 to 2010.

In 2011 she became Director and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, and adjunct professor at National Taiwan University. Her research is in theoretical condensed matter physics, in particular the electronic properties of novel materials.

She received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship and the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. She was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002 and Academician of Academia Sinica in 2014.

Mathieu Luisier received his degree in Electrical Engineering with highest honors in 2003 and his Ph.D. in 2007, both from ETH Zürich. He was appointed Associate Professor of Computational Nanoelectronics at ETH Zürich in 2016 and Full Professor in 2022.

His research covers computer-aided design of nanoelectronic devices, quantum transport, device physics and high-performance computing. He developed OMEN, a quantum transport simulator for nanotransistors and other nanostructures. He received an ERC Starting Grant in 2013.