2024 CNF Annual Meeting

Thank You for Joining Us at the 2024 CNF Annual Meeting!

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated in the 2024 CNF Annual Meeting. Your support and enthusiasm truly contributed to the success of this event, and we are deeply grateful for your involvement. It was a pleasure to connect with all of you, and we sincerely hope that you had an enriching and enjoyable experience.

Please join us in congratulating this year’s award winners, listed below, for their outstanding achievements and contributions.


Award winners group photo

CNF NELLIE YEH-POHLIN WHETTEN MEMORIAL AWARD

Kathleen Smith Whetten Award Winner    Kathleen Smith
Applied and Engineering Physics
Cornell University
CNF Principal Investigator: Huili Grace Xing
      

CORNING BEST USER PRESENTATION AWARD

EK Kim - Corning Best Presentation Award Winner    

EK Kim
"Aluminum Nitride Based High-Electron-Mobility Transistors for RF Power Amplification"
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cornell University
CNF Principal Investigator: Huili Grace Xing

 

      

CNF BEST PRESENTATION AWARD

      
    Eric Yelton
"The Effects of Radiation on Superconducting Qubits”
Physics Department
Syracuse University
CNF Principal Investigator: Britton Plourde

BEST USER POSTER AWARD

    Ben Ash
"Continuous Operation Lithography-free Photonics in the Linear and Nonlinear Regime"
Applied and Engineering Physics
Cornell University
CNF Principal Investigator: Peter McMahon
      
    Miranda Brunette
"Improving the Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Bacterial Polysaccharides"
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
CNF Principal Investigator: Meredith Silberstein
      
Eitan Jentis - Best User Poster Award Winner    Eitan Jentis
"2D Nanopatterned Membrane for Studying Mechanotransduction in Striated Muscle"
Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University
CNF Principal Investigator: Jan Lammerding
      
    Jaehyo Park
"A miniaturized high-density soft brain probe for stable, long-term hippocampus recordings"
Neurobiology and Behavior
Cornell University
CNF Principal Investigator: Azahara Oliva and  Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz
      

SCHEDULE

Click here to download the 2024 Annual Meeting Schedule (pdf

 

8:00am-8:45am  Registration & Breakfast Buffet
 
8:45am-9:00am  OPENING REMARKS

Judy Cha, CNF Director
Women in Science!
 
     Ron Olson, CNF Director of Operations
Overview of CNF
 
9:00am-9:45am  KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Beth Keser, VP of Manufacturing Technology
Zero ASIC Corporation
"Chiplets and the Future of Electronic Packaging" 
      
9:45am-10:00am  Break

Session Chair - Chris Alpha


 
10:00am-10:15am  Damian Helbling, Associate Professor 
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
"Aqueous Emissions of Organofluorine-Containing Chemicals from Electronics Manufacturing"
Helbling Research Group
 
10:15am-10:30am  Chenyun Yuan, Graduate Research Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate (PI: Christopher Ober)
Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University
"Stochastics-Controlled, PAG-Free, Water-Developable EUV Photoresists Based on Sequential Polypeptoids"
Ober Research Group
      
10:30am-10:45am  Giancarlo D’Orazio, Ph.D. Student (PI: Sadaf Sobhani) 
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
"Micro-Additive Manufacturing of CO2 Reduction Reactor Membranes”
Sobhani Research Group
      
10:45am-11:00am  Scout Fronhofer, Ph.D. Student (PI: Lois Pollack)
Department of Applied and Engineering Physics (AEP), Cornell University  
“3D-Printed Microfluidic Mixers for Time-Resolved X-Ray Scattering of Biomolecules” 
Pollack Research Group
      
11:00am-11:15am  Break
      

Session Chair - Phil Infante


      
11:15am-11:30am  Noah Clay, Vice President of Sensor Technology
VOC Health Inc.
"Developing Carbon Nanotube Sensors for Early Stage Cancer Detection"
      
11:30am-11:45am  Zhongmou Chao, Schmidt AI in Science Postdoc Fellow (PI: Susan Daniel) 
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
"Recreating the Biological Steps of Viral Infection on a Cell-Free Bioelectronic Platform to Profile Viral Variants of Concern"
Daniel Research Group
      
11:45am-12:00pm  Quynh Sam, Ph.D. Candidate (PI: Judy Cha)
Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University
"Nanomolding of Two-Dimensional Materials for Next-Generation Electronics"
Cha Research Group
      
12:00pm-12:15pm  CNF EQUIPMENT OVERVIEW
Ron Olson, CNF Director of Operations 
      
12:15pm-1:10pm  Buffet Lunch, Carrier Ballroom, Statler Hotel
      

Session Chair - Garry Bordonaro


1:10pm-1:30pm  Allison Godwin, Dr. G. Stephen Irwin ’67, ’68 Professor in Engineering Education Research, Associate Director CNF 
RF Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
"Education and Workforce Developments and Impacts"
Godwin Research Group
      
1:30pm-1:45pm  Youn Jue (Eunice) Bae, Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
"Spin-photon Coupling Using Superconducting Resonator"
Bae Research Group
      
1:45pm-2:00pm  Gustavo Alvarez, Ph.D. Candidate (PI: Zhiting Tian)
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
“Polarity-Dependent Thermal Conductivity in Wurtzite Aluminum Nitride Under External Electric-Field”
Tian Research Group
      
2:00pm-2:15pm  EK Kim, PhD Candidate (PI: Grace Xing) 
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
”Aluminum Nitride Based High-Electron-Mobility Transistors for RF Power Amplification” 
Xing Research Group
      
2:15pm-2:30pm  Zhengdong Gao (PI: Qiang Lin) 
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester
"On Chip LiNbO3/InP Microcomb Laser" 
Lin Research Group
      
2:30pm-2:45pm  Joseph Dill, Graduate Research Assistant (PI: Grace Xing) 
School of Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University
"Low- and High-Field Transport of Holes in GaN: Towards pFETs for GaN CMOS”" 
Xing Research Group
      
2:45pm-3:00pm  Break
 

Session Chair - Jeremy Clark 


      
3:00pm-3:15pm  Amit Lal, Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
"AI Applied to the Cornell NanoScale Facility"
Lal Research Group
      
3:15pm-3:30pm  Jaehong Choi, Graduate Research Assistant (PI: Greg Fuchs) 
Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University
“Low-barrier Nb/ZrOx/Nb Josephson Junction”
Fuchs Research Group
      
3:30pm-3:45pm  Eric Yelton, Graduate Student (PI: Britton Plourde)
Physics, Syracuse University
"The Effects of Radiation on Superconducting Qubits”
Plourde Research Group
      
3:45pm-4:00pm  Ben Ash, Undergraduate Research Assistant (PI: Peter McMahon)
Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University
"A Two-Dimensionally Programmable Photonic Chip for Information Processing”
McMahon Research Group
      

Evening Session

      
4:00pm-5:00pm  Cleanroom tours & Poster Set-up
      
5:00pm-7:00pm  POSTER SESSION & VENDOR SHOWCASE 
User Presentations, Poster Awards, and the Nellie Yeh-Poh Lin Whetten Memorial Award will be given out at 6:30 p.m. 
      
     Don't forget to stop by the Goldman Lounge to try CNF's VR content!

 

PHOTO GALLERY

Photo Credits: Chris Kitchen Photography

 
    
       
    
       
    
       
    
       
    
       
    
       
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