IEEE INEC 2025 Plenary Speaker :
Professor, Chair of Future Electronics Chair of Physics by Courtesy, University of Hong Kong, Lance Li Lain Jong

Institution:

National University of Singapore

Current Positions:
  • Distinguished Professor
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Biographical details

Prof. Li is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National University of Singapore, He also serves as an Associate Editor for Nano Letters (ACS).

Professor Lain-Jong (Lance) Li received his BSc and MSc in chemistry at National Taiwan University. He obtained his PhD of condensed matter physics at Oxford University in 2006 with the support of Swire Scholarship. He then joined Nanyang Technological University Singapore as an Assistant Professor from 2006 to 2009. Since 2010, he has become an Associate Professor at Academia Sinica Taiwan. He joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in 2014 and became a Full Professor in 2016. He then took the Director position in Corporate Research at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), from 2017-2020.  He joined the department of mechanical engineering as a chair professor in nanomaterials for future electronics in March of 2021. 

His research is primarily focusing on solving these grand challenges for extending Moore’s Law and realizing high-performance future electronics.  He has owned more than 40 US patents and more than 15 Taiwanese patents. He is a highly cited scholar (2018-2024) with publication matrix: citation >88000, h-index 138.