Osamu Tabata
Fellow of IEEE & IEEJ
Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Japan
Osamu
Tabata received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Nagoya Institute
of Technology, Japan, in 1981 and 1993, respectively. Since
April 2005, Osamu Tabata has been a Professor at Graduate School
of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan. October 2019, he moved
to Kyoto University of Advanced Science as a founding Dean of
New Engineering School launched in April 2020. From 2022 Dec, he
is an Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of
Engineering. He is currently engaged in research on micro/nano
processes, MEMS, DNA nanotechnology.
He is an editorial board member of the Microsystems &
Nanoengineering and Journal Sensors and Actuators. From 2020, he
has been serving as a chair of the Robert Bosch Award Committee
for EDS. He is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers and Institute of Electrical Engineer
Japan.
Hans Zappe
Fellow of SPIE & Optica
University of Freiburg, Germany
Hans
Zappe, an internationally leading researcher in the areas of
optical microsystems and micro-optics, is Professor of
Micro-optics at the University of Freiburg in Germany.
Born in Paris and raised in New York, he earned BSc and MSc
degrees from MIT in 1983 and a PhD from the University of
California, Berkeley in 1989, all in Electrical Engineering. He
worked at IBM (USA); the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid
State Physics (Germany); and the Centre Suisse d’Electronique et
de Microtechnique (Switzerland) before joining the Department of
Microsystems Engineering at the University of Freiburg in 2000.
Prof. Zappe is Editor-in-Chief of the SPIE Journal of Optical
Microsystems and is a Fellow of SPIE and Optica.
Dae-Eun Kim
Yonsei University, Korea
Dae-Eun Kim is currently a Full Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Professor Kim received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Professor Kim served as the President of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering and the President of the Korean Tribology Society. He also served as the Editor-in-Chief of IJPEM, Senior Editor of JMST, and Associate Editor of ASME J. of Tribology. He currently serves in the editorial board of several tribology journals including Tribology Letters and Friction. Professor Kim has received many awards from various professional societies and institutions including the Ministerial Commendation from the Korea Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and the Science and Technology Pojang National Award from the Korean President. Professor Kim is a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) and a Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. His research interests are tribology, coatings and surface modification.