2025 CS MANTECH Plenary & Invited Speakers

Plenary Speaker – Huili Grace Xing

Huili Grace Xing is currently the Director of SUPREME – a SRC JUMP2.0 research center, the William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University, and having recently served as the Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies of the College of Engineering.

She is a recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, ISCS Young Scientist Award, and the Intel Outstanding Researcher Award. She is a fellow of APS, IEEE & AAAS.

She received B.S. in physics from Peking University, M.S. in Material Science from Lehigh University and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara, respectively. She was a faculty with the University of Notre Dame from 2004 to 2014. Her research focuses on development of III-V nitrides, 2-D crystals, oxide semiconductors, recently also multiferroics & magnetic materials: growth, electronic and optoelectronic devices, especially the interplay between material properties and device development for high performance devices, including RF/THz devices, tunnel field effect transistors, power electronics, DUV emitters and memories. Together with her colleague Debdeep Jena, they were the first to demonstrate distributed polarization doping (DPD), especially the p-type DPD in nitride semiconductors. This doping scheme is fundamentally different from impurity doping and modulation doping, thus dubbed as the 3rd generation of doping science by Xing. Polarization doping is particularly powerful in polar ultrawide bandgap semiconductors since it might be the only known method to achieve both n-type and p-type in an UWBG semiconductor with doping properties akin to shallow impurity dopants.

Plenary Speaker – Steven DenBaars

Steven DenBaars is a Distinguished Professor of Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Mitsubishi Chemical Professor in Solid State Lighting & Display, and Executive Director of the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. SSLEEC has helped pioneer the advent of high efficiency LED Lighting, LED Displays, laser displays, and energy efficient power electronics. Professor DenBaars received his BS from the University of Arizona, MS and PhD from the University of Southern California. Professor DenBaars was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett-Packard Optoelectronics development, where he developed high brightness red LEDs in San Jose and Penang, Malaysia. Professor DenBaars joined the University of California, Santa Barbara faculty in 1991 where he conducts research on wide-bandgap semiconductors (GaN based) and their application to Micro-LEDs, UV LEDs, VCSELs, Laser Diodes, 5G Electronics, RF and high-power electronic devices. Professor DenBaars has co-founded 4 companies in compound semiconductors (Nitres, Soraa, SLD Laser, Akoustis). He is the recipient of the ISCS Quantum Device Award (2021), Aron Kressel Award, IEEE Photonics Society(2010) and IEEE Fellow(2008). He has published over 1200 peer reviewed publications(H-index of 151) and is the named inventor on 150 U.S. Patents. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Member of National Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Invited Speaker – Paul S. Martin

Paul S. Martin is currently SVP for Display at Mojo Vision and inspired by the opportunity to work with the Mojo Vision team to reimagine how the people access, view, and share information beyond current mobile platforms.

Paul has a PhD in Physics from MIT, has been contributing to LED related research, product development and management for over 25 years and has contributed on more then 50 U.S. patents.

Paul is passionate about pushing the envelope of LED technology and has been a leader in developing LEDs that form the foundation for several LED market firsts including; first high volume 1W LED (Lumileds Luxeon 1, 2000), first functional LED Flash (Sony Ericsson K700, 2004), first LED backlit LCD TV (Sony Qualia 005, 2004), first LED Automotive High Beam/Low Beam (Audi R8, 2007), first “L-Prize” 60W LED Bulb (Philips, 2011), and first regulated Automative LED Signaling Bulb (2016) among others.

Invited Speaker – Maki Kushimoto

Maki Kushimoto is an Associate Professor in Department of Electronics at Nagoya University, Japan, since 2024. She received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Nagoya University in 2013 and 2016, respectively.

Her research interests are in crystal growth of nitride semiconductors, optical characterization, and development of devices. In recent years, she has been focusing on the development of deep UV light emitting devices.

Invited Speaker – Atsushi Yamada

Atsushi Yamada received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2000, 2002, and 2005, respectively. He joined Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. In 2005, transferred to Fujitsu Limited in 2021, and has been engaged in crystal growth of Gallium Nitride by metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). His current research interests include the development of next-generation RF power device technologies.