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Lih Y. Lin. Lih-Yuan Lin is an American electrical engineer whose research concerns photonics and nanotechnology. She is a professor in the University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

Research
Lin is particularly known for her development of micro-electromechanical optical switches. She has also explored the use of quantum dots as optical waveguides, and the applications of metal halide perovskites in integrated photonics. She has developed efficient solar cells based on quantum dots and optical tweezers for biological sampling, and contributed to optogenetics, the light-based control of biological cells, using quantum dots as a light source.

Education and career
Lin earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996.

She worked for AT&T Labs from 1996 until 2000, when she became Director of Optical Technologies at Tellium, an optical communications company based in New Jersey. She took her present position as a faculty member at the University of Washington in 2003.

Recognition
In 2010, Lin was named as an IEEE Fellow, "for contributions to optical micro-electro-mechanical systems switching technologies". She was named as a 2020 Optica Fellow, "for significant contributions to the research and development of MEMS optical switching technologies, and innovation in solution-processed photonic components and devices". She became a member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows, in its 2024 class, "for contributions in applying nanophotonics to biological and biomedical engineering research and broader impacts through promoting diversity".

References

External links
Home page
UW Photonics Lab

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
American women electrical engineers
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of Washington faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
Fellows of Optica (society)
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Resilience to Nature's Challenges. Resilience to Nature's Challenges  () was one of New Zealand's eleven collaborative research programmes known as National Science Challenges. Running from 2015 to 2024, the focus of Resilience to Nature's Challenges (RNC) research was enhancing New Zealand's resilience to natural hazards such as sea level rise, climate change, wildfire, and volcanoes.

Establishment and governance 
The New Zealand Government agreed in August 2012 to fund National Science Challenges: large multi-year collaborative research programmes that would address important issues in New Zealand's future. The funding criteria were set out in January 2014, with proposals assessed by a Science Board within the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE).

After a planning phase in 2014, MBIE approved the Crown Research Institute GNS Science as a host for the project. RNC was launched in March 2015 by Minister for Science and Innovation Steven Joyce, with interim Director Shane Cronin. The Māori name of Resilience to Nature's Challenges translates as  (resilience)  (challenges)  (of the enduring world).

RNC was hosted by GNS Science, with twelve other New Zealand research partners: BRANZ, Opus International, Resilient Organisations Ltd, Market Economics Ltd, the University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, Massey University, Lincoln University, Victoria University of Wellington, Scion, and NIWA. The Challenge involved 90 researchers and had an initial four-year allocation of $19.6 million.

Research 

RNC was set up around two major themes: Understanding Hazard and Risk (with research programmes on coastal hazards, volcanoes, weather and wildfires, and earthquakes and tsunamis), and Accelerating Resilience (incorporating research on both rural and urban communities, built environments, and Whanake te Kura i Tawhiti Nui—applying traditional Māori knowledge to hazard resilience). In December 2018 two research areas were added: multihazard risks, and resilience in practice.

References

External links 

 Resilience to Nature's Challenges website

National Science Challenges
Natural hazards in New Zealand
RV Robert Gordon Sproul. RV Robert Gordon Sproul, sometimes shortened to Sproul, is a research vessel operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet. The ship is named after Robert Gordon Sproul, the first system-wide president of the University of California.

Construction

The RV Sproul was constructed in Bayou La Batre, Alabama by Steiner Fabricators in 1981 under the name of Midnight Alaskan. It was built using a modified gulf coast design for use by oil rig companies.

Acquisition by Scripps

The vessel was purchased by Scripps director William Nierenberg on July 27, 1984, as a replacement for the outgoing RV E. B. Scripps. She was purchased from the chartering firm Midnight Boats, based in Louisiana, with SIO using the marine broker company Marcon International, Inc. After being purchased, she was renamed after Robert Gordon Sproul and underwent a number of modifications for increased scientific research along the Coast of California and Gulf of California.

She departed Louisiana in August and embarked on her first scientific cruise to study seals near the Yucatán Peninsula, then traveling through the Panama Canal and docking in San Diego in October 1984.

In 1991, then-captain Louis Zimm estimated the ship to be valuated at $3 million.

Between September 2014 and December 2015, Sproul completed all operations using 100% biofuel.

References 

1981 ships
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research vessels
Miklós Bendzsel. Miklós Bendzsel (born June 23, 1953, in Budapest) is a mechanical engineer, engineer-economist and former president of the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (HIPO).

Career 
Bendzsel graduated as a mechanical engineer from Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1976 and as an engineer-economist from Corvinus University of Budapest in 1983. Between 1976 and 1980 he was a research engineer at Gépipari Tudományos Intézet.

From 1980 he worked at Szellemi Tulajdon Nemzeti Hivatal. Bendzsel was president of the Office Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (HIPO).

He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Academic career 
Bendzsel is professor emeritus at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest.

Social engagement 
Bendzsel holds leading positions in several NGOs, such as the Hungarian Industrial Property and Copyright Association and the Hungarian Academy of Engineering.

He has been the co-chairman of the Association of Hungarian Database Distributors since 1997. At the 113th meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organization, held in Munich on March 4–6, 2008, he was elected as a member of the Administrative Council together with Mihály Ficsor. At the 126th meeting of the Administrative Council, held in The Hague on December 15, 2010, he was unanimously elected as vice-chairman of the Administrative Council. His term of office was for three years. At its meeting on October 16, 2013, the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organization re-elected Miklós Bendzsel as vice-chairman for a further three-year term.

He is a member of several governmental and inter-ministerial committees.

Bendzsel is vice-chairman of the National Anti-Counterfeiting Board and vice-president of the Assembly of the Berne Union of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization.

He is also a member of the European Design Leadership Board.

Personal life 
Bendzsel's grandfather, László Kazinczy, was a mechanical engineer at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and former chief designer of Gamma Optikail Művek, a Hungarian camera maker.

Awards 
Bendzsel was awarded the Hungarian Order of Merit in 2003 and the Dr. István Orbán Memorial Medal in 2016.

References 

Living people
1953 births
Engineers from Budapest
SolaX Power. SolaX Power (), also known as SolaX Power Network Technology, whose full name is SolaX Power Network Technology (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd., often referred to simply as SolaX, is a Chinese solar inverter maker founded in 2012. The company went public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on January 3, 2024. It supplies solar storage batteries to Project Solar. It also purchases batteries manufactured by LG, as well as Rept Battero.

SolaX mainly produces PV energy storage inverters, and energy storage batteries. Headquartered in Hangzhou, the company also established operations in overseas markets, such as Australia, and the US. It participated in the development of virtual power plants in Australia. In 2022, its revenues in Europe amounted to more than CNY 4.3 billion. In January 2024, it released the X1-IES and X3-IES series.

History 
SolaX was established in 2012. In 2013, it introduced the SK series of energy storage inverters. In 2014, the company entered the UK. In 2015, it formed a partnership with LG Chem. 

In 2021, SolaX launched its first commercial string inverter series. In January 2024, the firm was listed on the STAR Market. In its IPO, the company raised more than 2.2 billion yuan.

References 

2012 establishments
Photovoltaic inverter manufacturers
Manufacturing companies established in 2012
Companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange
2024 initial public offerings
NotebookLM. NotebookLM (Google NotebookLM) is a research and note-taking online tool developed by Google Labs that uses artificial intelligence (AI), specifically Google Gemini, to assist users in interacting with their documents. It can generate summaries, explanations, and answers based on content uploaded by users. It also includes "Audio Overviews," which summarize documents in a conversational, podcast-like format. The team building the product includes popular science author Steven Johnson and product manager Raiza Martin.

NotebookLM was initially launched in 2023 as "Project Tailwind". Google describes it as a "virtual research assistant". In addition to text files, NotebookLM can process PDFs, Google Docs, websites, and Google Slides. The "Audio Overviews" feature, released in September 2024, gained media attention for its ability to condense complex documents into podcast-style audio files. The 2024 Spotify Wrapped used this feature to generate podcast-style personalized overviews of individual listening habits.

Initially intended for researchers, NotebookLM has also been adopted by companies and students. In mid-October 2024, Google removed the "experimental" status/badge for the software. In December 2024, Google launched the paid version of NotebookLM, called NotebookLM Plus, to enterprises and paid Gemini subscribers.

References 

2023 software
Google software
Web applications
AI software
Note-taking software

External links 
 
 "How NotebookLM Was Made" episode of the Latent Space podcast
Jiří Matas. Jiří Matas  (; born 6 August 1964) is a Czech scientist specialising in pattern recognition. His areas of research include visual tracking, object recognition, image matching and retrieval, sequential pattern recognition, and RANSAC-type optimization methods.

Biography
Jiří Matas received received an MSc degree in cybernetics (with honours) from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1987 and a PhD degree from the University of Surrey in 1995 with Josef Kittler serving as his thesis advisor. He became associate professor at Czech Technical University in 2005 and full professor in 2010. In 2016 he was named Finland distinguished professor (FiDiPro) at Oulu and Tampere Universities.

Matas is an editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computer Vision and was an associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence from 2009 to 2013. 

Matas served as programme chair for the 2004 and 2016 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) and the 2007 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), as well as general chair for both ECCV and CVPR in 2022.

From 2011 to 2017 he was a member of the computer science panel of the European Research Council.

According to the website Research.com, Matas is currently the #1 CompSci scientist in the Czech Republic based on discipline h-index.

Selected articles

References

External links
 Google Scholar

1964 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Surrey
Czech computer scientists
Science for Technological Innovation. Science for Technological Innovation  () was one of New Zealand's eleven collaborative research programmes known as National Science Challenges. Running from 2015 to 2024, the focus of Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI) research was physical science and engineering research for New Zealand's economic growth.

Establishment and governance 
The New Zealand Government agreed in August 2012 to fund National Science Challenges: large multi-year collaborative research programmes that would address critical issues in New Zealand's future. The funding criteria were set out in January 2014, with proposals assessed by a Science Board within the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE).

After a planning phase in 2014, MBIE approved the Crown Research Institute Callaghan Innovation as a host for the project. SfTI was formally launched on 16 September 2015 by the Minister for Science and Innovation Steven Joyce; its inaugural director was Margaret Hyland. The Māori name of Science for Technological Innovation translates as  (bringing together)  (the world of science)  (the world of innovation).

RNC was hosted by Callaghan Innovation, with twelve other New Zealand research partners: the University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, Massey University, Lincoln University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Waikato, AUT, GNS Science, AgResearch, Scion, and Lincoln Agritech. The Challenge involved over 285 researchers over 36 organisations. In November 2018 the project received a second tranch of funding, totaling $72.7 million.

Research 

SfTI's research focus was fourfold: hi-tech materials; manufacturing and design; IT data analytics and modelling; and sensor, robotics and automation. One of its projects was the development of needle-free injections for people with diabetes. Another was the development of a remotely-operated submersible to monitor mussel aquaculture.

References

External links 

 Science for Technological Innovation website

National Science Challenges
Barbara Linke. Barbara Sabine Linke (born 1977) is a German-American mechanical engineer whose research concerns sustainability in manufacturing, abrasive machining, and personal-scale 3D printing. She is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Davis.

Education and career
Linke earned a diploma in mechanical engineering from RWTH Aachen University in Germany in 2002, and completed a doctorate (Dr. Ing.) there in 2007. After postdoctoral research with Fritz Klocke at Aachen and with David Dornfeld at the University of California, Berkeley, she joined the University of California, Davis in 2012.

Linke earned a German habilitation through RWTH Aachen University in 2015, with the habilitation thesis Life Cycle and Sustainability of Abrasive Tools (Springer, 2016). She was promoted to associate professor in 2018 and full professor in 2023. In 2022 the university named her as a Chancellor's Fellow. At Davis, she heads the Manufacturing and Sustainable Technology Research Lab.

Recognition
Linke was the recipient of the 2009 F.W. Taylor Medal of the International Academy for Production Engineering, and one of the 2013 recipients of the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award of SME (the former Society of Manufacturing Engineers).

She was elected as an ASME Fellow in 2023.

References

External links
Home page

1977 births
Living people
German mechanical engineers
German women engineers
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
Women mechanical engineers
RWTH Aachen University alumni
University of California, Davis faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Kelsey Stoerzinger. Kelsey Stoerzinger is an American chemist who is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota. Her research considers the design of materials and processes for renewable energy storage. She is interested in the design of sustainable catalysts that make use of earth abundant materials. She was awarded the 2025 American Chemical Society Marks-Ipatieff Prize.

Early life and education 
Stoerzinger is from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. She attended Eagan High School, where she became "captivated" by the oboe. She was an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, where she was an oboe major, but decided to switch major after seeing so many leading women scientists. She eventually worked in the laboratory of Teri W. Odom, where she developed surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. She spent a summer interning at Dow Corning and another at General Motors. During her undergraduate studies, she was awarded a Churchill Scholarship to spend a year at the University of Cambridge, where she worked with a spin echo spectrometer. She moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a graduate student, where she studied the catalytic activity of oxides with Yang Shao-Horn. As a doctoral student, she was recognized by the Materials Research Society for her efforts to identify optimized oxides. Specifically, she looked to understand the relationship between the structure and function of oxides.  Stoerzinger joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow, where she studied photo-electrochemical and electrochemical interfaces. In 2018 she became a staff scientist at PNNL.

Research and career 
Stoerzinger was an assistant professor at Oregon State University in 2019. She worked on water splitting and the development of chlorine-containing byproducts. She was awarded a United States Department of Energy Early Career Award to design new catalysts for ammonia production.  In 2023, Stoerzinger joined the University of Minnesota. Stoerzinger combines X-ray and vibrational spectroscopy to better understand the steady-state and operational properties of electrodes used in electrocatalysis.

Awards and honors 
 2021 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
 2021 Intel Rising Star Award
 2022 International Society of Electrochemistry Electrochemical Materials Science Award
 2022 Materials Research Society Nelson "Buck" Robinson Science and Technology Award
 2022 Electrochemical Society Energy Technology Division Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator Award
 2025 American Chemical Society Marks-Ipatieff Prize

Selected publications

References 

Living people
People from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American chemists
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Northwestern University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of Minnesota faculty
American women chemists
21st-century American women scientists
Chemists from Minnesota
List of discrete and integrated graphics processing units. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are specialized electronic circuits designed to accelerate the processing of images, videos, and complex graphics tasks. They are essential components in various computing devices, ranging from personal computers to data centers. GPUs are broadly categorized into two types: Discrete GPUs and Integrated GPUs.

Discrete GPUs 
Discrete GPUs are standalone graphics cards with their own dedicated memory, typically installed in a PCIe slot on a motherboard. They are primarily used in high-performance scenarios such as gaming, professional graphics work, and scientific computing. Discrete GPUs are known for their superior performance compared to integrated GPUs, as they do not share resources with the CPU.

Integrated GPUs 
Integrated GPUs are built into the same chip as the CPU and share the system's memory. They are designed for more energy-efficient and cost-effective computing, making them suitable for everyday tasks such as web browsing, video playback, and light gaming. Integrated GPUs are commonly found in laptops, budget desktops, and mobile devices.

References 

Graphics processing units
Lists of computer hardware
Sattar Hashemi. Sayyid Sattar Hashemi (; born in 1976) is an Iranian university professor, researcher and politician who serving as the Minister of Information and Communications Technology of Iran since August 2024, in the Government of Masoud Pezeshkian.

Biography
He was born in 1976 in Yasuj city of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad provinces. In 1998, he completed his bachelor's degree in computer engineering majoring in hardware from Isfahan University of Technology. In 2001, Hashemi obtained his master's degree in artificial intelligence from the Iran University of Science and Technology, and in the same year, he entered the specialized doctoral program of this university, and in 1386, simultaneously from the Iran University of Science and Technology and the Monash University Australia graduated in the field of artificial intelligence.

On 21 August 2024, his candidacy for the post of minister for the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in the Government of Masoud Pezeshkian was introduced by president Masoud Pezeshkian. His nomination was confirmed in the Islamic Consultative Assembly (the Iranian parliament) with 264 votes in favor.

References

External links

1976 births
Living people
Communications ministers of Iran
People from Yasuj
Government ministers of Iran
Desiré Whitmore. Desiré Delia Whitmore (born September 8, 1980) is an American laser physicist, science communicator, and physics educator at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

Early life and education
Whitmore was raised in Southern California and developed an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at an early age. She attended Antelope Valley College, where she earned an Associate of Science degree in physical sciences. She then transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering. Whitmore went on to earn her Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in chemical and material physics from the University of California, Irvine.

Career
Whitmore's research focuses on laser spectroscopy and the development of ultrafast laser systems. Her PhD research focused on the development of very fast laser systems to study the vibrations of single molecules, electrons traveling across metal surfaces, and the fluorescence of semiconducting quantum dots. She conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, where she designed and built tabletop attosecond X-ray laser systems, which produce the fastest laser pulses ever measured.

Whitmore has taught physics and laser technology courses at Irvine Valley College, and helped develop the photonics initiative at the Advanced Technology & Education Park (ATEP). She has also worked as a science curriculum specialist and developer at the Lawrence Hall of Science, where she created a science curriculum and learning materials for K–8 students. As of 2024, Whitmore is a senior physics educator at the Exploratorium, where she leads professional development workshops for middle and high school teachers.

References

Laser researchers
African-American physicists
African-American women scientists
Living people
American science communicators
Antelope Valley College alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of California, Irvine alumni
1980 births