Speakers

Amr Adly, IEEE Fellow

President, Egyptian-Japanese University for Science and Technology, Egypt

Professor, Cairo University, Egypt

Bio: An IEEE Fellow, Professor of Electrical Power and Machines, and former Deputy Minister of Higher Education in Egypt. He is a leading expert in computational electromagnetics, magnetic modeling, and coupled multiphysics simulations.

Omololu Akin-Ojo, APS Fellow

Senior Lecturer, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Bio: An APS Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics, with a PhD from the University of Delaware (USA). His research is in the methods and applications of electronic structure theory to different systems, including magnetic materials, search for new compounds, and the prediction of their properties using ab initio and machine learning techniques. He is passionate about science and technology for African development. 

Ran Cheng

Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside, USA

Bio: Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on the theoretical quantum fundamentals of magnetism, particularly in antiferromagnetic spintronics and transport phenomena in magnetic heterostructures.

Randy K. Dumas

Applications Scientist at Quantum Design, Inc., USA

Bio: He received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of California, Davis on the topic of reversal mechanisms in magnetic nanostructures. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden he studied next generation magnetic and spin wave based data storage and processing paradigms. Randy joined Quantum Design in 2016 and his specialty continues to lie primarily in magnetic characterization of both fundamentally interesting and technologically relevant materials.

Amal El-Ghazaly

Assistant Professor, Cornell University, USA

Bio: Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She specializes in developing novel, tunable magnetic materials to create power-efficient, high-frequency devices for next-generation telecommunications and high-force density actuators for haptic systems.

Hesham El-Sayed

Professor, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Bio: A prominent researcher specializing in magnetic anisotropy. His work focuses on the fundamental mechanisms of anisotropic behaviors in magnetic materials, exploring how these properties can be tailored for advanced magnetic devices and data storage.

Joo-Von Kim

Senior Researcher, C2N-CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France

Bio: A Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche) at the Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies. His research focuses on theoretical and computational spintronics, investigating nonlinear magnetization dynamics, magnetic skyrmions, and the application of spintronic devices in neuromorphic computing.

Kyung-Jin Lee (IEEE Fellow and IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer)

Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), South Korea

Bio: An IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer, he is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. His work explores the theoretical boundaries of spintronics, challenging traditional assumptions in spin-transfer torque and magnetization dynamics.

Ping Liu (IEEE Fellow and APS Fellow)

Distinguished Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, USA 

Bio: An IEEE and APS Fellow, he is a Distinguished Professor of Physics. He is a pioneer in the field of nanocomposite magnets, focusing on the design, synthesis, and characterization of advanced permanent magnetic materials for clean energy applications.

Sara Majetich (IEEE Fellow and APS Fellow)

Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Bio: An IEEE Fellow and APS Fellow, she is a Professor of Physics specializing in the synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanoparticles. Her research bridges the gap between fundamental nanomagnetism and applications in data storage and biomedicine.

Hossein Sepehri-Amin

Distinguished Researcher, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan 

Bio: A Distinguished Researcher at NIMS, specializing in magnetic materials. He is a leading expert in the multiscale characterization of high-performance permanent magnets, focusing on the correlation between microstructure and coercivity mechanisms in Nd-Fe-B based materials.

Rudolf Schaefer

Founder and CEO, Evico Magnetics, GmbH, Germany
Researcher and Honorary Professor, IFW Dresden & TU Dresden, Germany

Bio: An IEEE Fellow, Head of Magnetic Microstructures at IFW, and Honorary Professor at TU Dresden. He is a world-renowned authority on magnetic domains and MOKE microscopy and is a co-author of the definitive textbook Magnetic Domains.

Yayoi Takamura

Professor, University of California, Davis, USA 

Bio: Professor and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Davis. Her work investigates the growth of complex oxide thin films and heterostructures, exploring how interface engineering and microstructure can tailor functional magnetic and electronic properties.