Spencer Wells is a research scientist at Facebook Reality Labs where he works on developing materials to enable new optical and display systems and components for virtual and augmented reality. He received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with highest honors in 2013. Subsequently he received a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University in 2018 for research on “Processing and Devices for chemically Reactive Two-Dimensional Materials” under the supervision of Professor Mark Hersam. He has previously received awards including the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship and the Northwestern University Ryan Fellowship. He is the (co)author of 17 published papers, has over 2200 citations, an h-index of 11, and over 20 patent applications pending. Outside of work he enjoys reading, cycling, and running.
Zhiyuan Sun obtained his B.S. from the Materials Science Department at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) where worked in Prof. Qianwang Chen’s group from 2011 at the Hefei National Lab for Physical Sciences at the Microscale. After his graduation from USTC, Dr. Sun started pursuing his Ph.D. at Northwestern University under the supervision of Prof. Lincoln Lauhon and Prof. David Seidman, with research focuses on atom-probe tomography and semiconductor nanowire. Zhiyuan has published papers as first author and co-author in Nano Letters, ACS nano, Energy and Environmental Science et. al. He also served as reviewer for more than 20 journals, including ACS Nano, ACS Applied Science & Interfaces, and Nano-Miro Letters, and has peer-reviewed more than 100 manuscripts. Currently, Zhiyuan works at Apple Inc. as a Hardware Engineer, working on emerging interactive module for future consumer electronics.
Andrey Ivankin is a Co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer at TERA-print, a nanotechnology startup spun out of Professor Chad Mirkin’s lab at Northwestern University. He heads the engineering and technology development program at TERA-print and was behind the design of the Company’s two highly innovative desktop nanoprinters, which are already being used by >20 research groups worldwide for applications in materials science, biology, chemistry, and physics. Prior to TERA-print, Dr. Ivankin worked on advancing micro- and nanofabrication techniques at Northwestern University and single-molecule detection strategies at Northeastern University. Dr. Ivankin holds Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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SYMPOSIUM N2 – SEMINARS AND DISCUSSIONS
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Spencer Wells, Zhiyuan Sun, Andrey Ivankin
Location: Technological Institute LR4