Hongjun Xiang
Fudan University, China
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Qingfang Liu
Lanzhou University, China
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Wenli Pei
Northeastern University, China
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Jinbo Yang
Peking University, China
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Xiang Ming Chen
Zhejiang 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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Hiroaki Yoda
CEO & CTO at YODA-S, Inc., Japan
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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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).