Plenary Speakers

AI-assisted design of functional polymers for a sustainable world

Prof. Ramprasad is presently the Regents’ Entrepreneur, and the Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Chair Professor and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in the School of Materials Science & Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (or Georgia Tech). He received his B. Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, an M.S. degree in Materials Science & Engineering at the Washington State University, and a Ph.D. degree also in Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Ramprasad’s area of expertise is in the development and application of first principles and data-driven materials computational tools, and more broadly in the utilization of such methods for the design and discovery of new materials.

Prof. Ramprasad is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and the Max Planck Society Fellowship for Distinguished Scientists. He has authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, 7 book chapters and 8 patents. He has been a Guest Editor for the Journal of Materials Science, is in the Editorial Advisory Board of npj Computational Materials, delivered over 300 invited talks at Universities and Conferences worldwide, and has organized several international symposia. He was the Organizer & Chair of the inaugural Gordon Research Conference in 2022 on Computational Materials Science and Engineering.

Net Zero and Circular Economy Shaping the Future of Sustainable Polymers 

Academician Seeram Ramakrishna is a world-renowned professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), which is ranked among the top 3 universities in the world for interdisciplinary research. He is named among the World’s Most Influential Minds (Thomson Reuters) and a highly cited researcher with 210 H-Index and about 207,800 citations. Highest professional distinctions include an Academician | Fellow of UK Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng); Chinese Academy of Engineering; Singapore Academy of Engineering; Indian National Academy of Engineering; ASEAN Academy of Engineering & Technology; and International Academy of Engineering and Technology. He received a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and TGMP from Harvard University, USA. He received advanced research experiences from MIT and Johns Hopkins University, USA and KIT, Japan. He is an Honorary Professor at the Tsinghua University, China and IIT Hyderabad, India. He made seminal contributions in understanding and enhancing the biological, chemical, electrical, electronic, mechanical, and physical responses of nanofibers | nanomaterials. He advocates intelligent materials and circular materials. Out of three decades of working at the National University of Singapore (NUS), about 15 years of senior academic leadership includes NUS Vice-President (Research Strategy); Dean of NUS Faculty of Engineering; Director of NUS Enterprise; Director of NUS Industry and Technology Relations Office (INTRO); Director of NUS International Relations Office (IRO); Chairman of Solar Energy Institute of Singapore (SERIS); Director of NUS Bioengineering Initiative; and Director of NUS Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI).