Yunhao Lu
Zhejiang University
Title: Orbital Guided Design of Unconventional Two-dimensional multiferroic material
Keynote Speakers
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Ming Liu
Dean of the School of Electronics Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
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Yong Hu
Northeastern University, China
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Run-Wei Li
NIMTE, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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Tapan Kumar Nath
IIT Kharagpur, India
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Guoqiang Zhao
Institute of Physics, China
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Jun-Qiang Wang
NIMTE, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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Hongjun Xiang
Fudan University, China
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Richeng Yu
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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Qingfang Liu
Lanzhou University, China
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Yanfeng Jiang
Jiangnan University, China
Title: Title: Recent Progress in Developing STT-MRAM for Industrial Application
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Wenli Pei
Northeastern University, China
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Hiroaki Yoda
CEO & CTO at YODA-S, Inc., Japan
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Jinbo Yang
Peking University, China
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Xiang Ming Chen
Zhejiang University, China
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Yunhao Lu – Biography
Y.H. Lu received his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Science degrees from Zhejiang University in 2003 and 2008, respectively. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the National University of Singapore before joining Zhejiang University in 2010. He is Qiushi Distinguished Professor, and a Distinguished Professor under the National High-Level Talent Award Program at the School of Physics, Zhejiang University. His research group has long been committed to developing and applying unique first-principles calculation methods, conducting fundamental scientific research on exotic quantum properties in ferrofunctional functional materials and devices and atomic-level manufacturing technologies. He has published over 200 papers, including in journals such as Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Materials, Phys. Rev. Lett., and J. Am. Chem. Soc.. His total citations exceed 14,000, his H-index is 53, and he holds 5 authorized invention patents.
Ming Liu – Biography
Ming Liu received his Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University, Boston, USA. He was a Director Postdoctoral Fellow with the Argonne National Laboratory, USA. He is currently serving as a distinguished professor and the Dean of the School of Electronics Science and Engineering in Xi’an Jiaotong University. Dr. Liu has been involved in multidisciplinary research on applied magnetics, including spintronics, STT, SOT, and ME-based MRAM, TMR, and ME-based magnetic field sensors and ME antennas, flexible oxide functional materials and devices, and ferrites, ferroelectrics, and multiferroic materials and devices. He was a recipient of a few prestigious awards, including the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2019-2024), etc. He has published more than 200 papers in top-tier journals with 10000+ citations, including Science, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, etc. His publication has been selected as one of the ten outstanding papers of the decade in Advanced Functional Materials.
Yong Hu – Biography
Prof. Yong Hu is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Physics at the College of Sciences, Northeastern University, China. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Physics and Chemistry from Northeastern University in 2011. From 2016 to 2017, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Davis (UCD), the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). His research is dedicated to nanomagnetism, spintronics, and magnetocaloric materials, with a focus on the magnetic properties of nanoparticles, multilayer films, and bulk materials.
Run-Wei Li – Biography
Prof. Run-Wei Li obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics, CAS in 2002. He conducted postdoctoral research at Osaka University (JSPS Fellow) and Kaiserslautern University (Humboldt Fellow), later serving as a Senior Research Fellow at NIMS, Japan. Since 2008, he has been a Professor at NIMTE, CAS, and in 2025 became Chair Professor and Dean of Materials Science and Engineering at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo.
His research focuses on flexible and elastic functional materials and devices, with applications in areas such as tactile perception and health monitoring.He has authored over 300 SCI paperswith more than 16,000 citations. He has edited two monographs and contributed to three chapters. He holds 180+ granted patents, 10 of which have been commercialized. Prof. Li is a Fellow of CIE, a Senior Member of IEEE, and serves as a Member of the AUMS Council.
Tapan Kumar Nath – Biography
The presenter is a professor in the Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He was a postdoc fellow in Duke univ., NCSU, US, TIFR, India and visiting fellow in University of Sheffield, U.K. He is also a senior researcher in the field of Magnetism & Magnetic materials. He has published about 230 papers in interational journals, received several research awards, grants, guided about 25 Ph.D. students 25 M.Tech and 50 M.Sc. students, google h-index 42
Guoqiang Zhao – Biography
Guoqiang Zhao is a Senior Visiting Scholar at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2013, his research has focused on novel quantum materials—including diluted magnetic semiconductors, superconductors, topological magnetic systems, and spin supersolids—investigated primarily via muon spin relaxation spectroscopy and complementary experimental techniques. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals such as PNAS, Nature Communications, and the Physical Review series. His work has been recognized with more than 20 awards, including the Excellent Young Scientist Award at the 19th China High Pressure Science and Technology Conference, the Best Creativity Award at the First Postdoctoral Competition of Henan Province, the UCAS-BHP Billiton Scholarship, and the Director’s Prize for Academic Excellence at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Zhao is actively engaged in academic service. He currently serves as President of the Postdoctoral Union of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vice President of the 34th Beijing Postdoctoral Union, and Deputy Director of the Expert Committee on Information Materials and Devices at the National Materials and Devices Scientists Think Tank.
Jun-Qiang Wang – Biography
My Introduction: Jun-Qiang Wang, distinguished professor in the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science. His research interest focuses on the designing advanced magnetic functional properties of amorphous alloys and studying the nonequilibrium nature of glasses (including metallic glasses, lunar glasses, sulfide glasses, etc.). He discovered the relaxation units in glasses that follow exponential kinetics, which is named as Relaxun. The interactions between relaxuns and their influence on properties of metallic glasses are studied. He is also interested in developing magnetic materials using artificial intelligence. He has published more than 200 papers in jounals like PNAS, PRL, Nature Commun, Adv Mater.
Hongjun Xiang – Biography
Hongjun Xiang is a Xie Xide Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics at Fudan University, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and a Chief Scientist for the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He completed his undergraduate and doctoral studies at the University of Science and Technology of China (1997–2006) and conducted postdoctoral research in the United States (2006–2009). Professor Xiang specializes in computational condensed matter physics, with significant contributions to the modeling of multiferroics and the development of computational methods, including machine learning approaches. His representative achievements include: proposing a universal model for spin-order-induced ferroelectricity, offering a general physical picture for a broad class of multiferroics; establishing the "four-state method" for calculating magnetic interactions and magnetoelectric coupling strength, a technique now widely adopted by research groups globally; breaking the traditional paradigm that ferroelectricity requires polar point groups by proposing the concept of "fractional quantum ferroelectricity"; and developing the commercialized software package PASP for material modeling. His research has been published in leading journals such as Phys. Rev. Lett. (over 40 papers), Science, Nat. Mater., Nat. Comput. Sci., Nat. Mach. Intell., Nat. Commun., and Phys. Rev. X. He has received numerous honors, including ICTP Prize (2018), APS Fellow (2021), Huang Kun Physics Prize (2023), Xplorer Prize (2024), and First Prize of the Shanghai Natural Science Award (2024).
Richeng Yu – Biography
Prof. Dr. Richeng Yu earned his Ph. D in 1993 and is working as a Professor in the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He worked as a post-doctor in Mainz University, Germany in 1997-2000, and as a visiting scholar in University of California, Berkeley in 2004-2005. Now his research interests lie in synthesis, structure and physical properties of functional materials
Qingfang Liu – Biography
Professor Qingfang Liu received her bachelor's degree in June 1998 from the School of Physical Science and Technology at Lanzhou University. In June 2003, she earned her Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the same university and began her teaching career there in the same year.From January 2011 to January 2012, she conducted visiting research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Victoria, Canada, focusing on nanomagnetism. She has published over 200 academic papers in experimental research on magnetism and magnetic materials, as well as micromagnetic simulations. In 2007, she received the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program from the Ministry of Education. In 2009, she was recognized as a "Female Role Model" at Lanzhou University, and in 2012, she was awarded the title of Outstanding Female Employee in the Gansu Provincial Science, Education, and Culture System. In 2020 and 2021, she was honored as an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor in Gansu Province (2019-2020) and (2020-2021). Currently, her research primarily focuses on experimental studies and micromagnetic simulations in areas such as magnetization dynamics in magnetic thin films, novel magnetic structures, and magnetic sensors.
Yanfeng Jiang – Biography
Yanfeng Jiang got hisPh.D degree on June, 2000, from Lanzhou University in China. His major is Condensed Physics. His research interests include magnetic materials and devices, semiconductor materials and devices, biological sensors, machine learning based on DNN and diffusion model, etc..He has published over 200 papers.
Wenli Pei – Biography
Dr. Wenli Pei received Bachelar from Kunming University of Science and Technology. He received Master and Ph.D. degrees in materials science from Northeastern University in 1999 and 2002, respectively. Then, he became a Postdoc Fellow at Tohoku University and Akita University from 2003 to 2007. He was the visiting scholar at the Akita University in from 2009 to 2019. Now, he is a full professor at College of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University. His research interests mainly focus on the structural design, fabrication and performance optimization of the magnetic materials and nanomaterials.
Hiroaki Yoda – Biography
Mr. Hiroaki Yoda is a founder and a CEO/CTO at YODA-S, Inc. Before founding YODA- S, Inc., he worked for Toshiba Corporation and Kioxia Corporation as a senior fellow.
His main field of research is magnetic devices, and he gave more than 6 invited talks on HDD heads & more than 70 invited talks on MRAMs.
In the field of MRAM, he did the world 1stdemonstration of low power STT-writing using MTJ with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy during NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) spin-RAM program (2006-2010). Now, he is actively working on SOT-writing using MTJs with strain-induced magnetic anisotropy. He is the recipient of the awards: Nikkei BP grand award on GMR heads (1996), Ichimura Industrial award on HDD read & write heads (2006), Japan national invention award on HDD read &write heads (2007), Toshiba President Award (2010), ImPACT Program Certificate of Appreciation (2019).
Jinbo Yang – Biography
Professor Jinbo Yang, Ph.D., of Peking University, has long focused on magnetism and structure-property relationships in novel magnetic functional materials, with outstanding achievements in developing novel permanent magnets and extending their applications. He designed and constructed the high-resolution, high-intensity neutron diffractometer at the China Advanced Research Reactor (CARR). He holds more than 30 national invention patents and has published over 400 papers in internationally renowned journals, including Physical Review Letters, Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, and Science Advances, accumulating over 10,000 citations. He has delivered more than 30 keynote speeches at academic conferences and served as chair of the 2018 International Conference on Rare-Earth Permanent Magnets. His honors include the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award of China, two Beijing Natural Science Awards (Second Prize), and the 2021 International Outstanding Achievement Award in Permanent Magnet Materials Research.
Xiang Ming Chen – Biography
Dr. Xiang Ming Chen is currently a Chair Professor of Materials Science in School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
He graduated from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University (China) in December 1981, and he was awarded the Doctor Degree in Engineering by The University of Tokyo (Japan) in March 1991. He spent three years to serve as a research engineer at Yokohama R&D Laboratories, Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. (Japan) before he returned to China to become an Associate Professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University in July 1994. He was promoted Professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University in November 1996.
He is author or co-author for over 520 papers on the peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Nature Commun., Adv. Funct. Mater., J. Am. Ceram. Soc., Phys. Rev. B, Appl. Phys. Lett., Chem. Mater. and so on. He has given more than 100 invited, keynote or plenary talks at international conferences. He has 28 Chinese patents and 1 US patent with his name. He is a winner of National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, China (2000); a winner of Okazaki Kiyoshi Award, Japan (2007), a winner of Excellence Award for Dielectric Physics in China (2025), a winner of Wakino Award (2025). He received the title of Professor of Cheung Kong Scholars Programme in 2002. He is fellow of The American Ceramic Society (2013), academician of World Academy of Ceramics (2023), and he has served as associate editor of J. Am. Ceram. Soc. since 2007.
His current research interests cover the fields of multiferroic materials, microwave dielectric ceramics, ferroelectric and relaxor ferroelectric materials, as well as dielectric ceramics for energy storage applications.