[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 110 (Thursday, June 24, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E687-E688]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




HONORING THE 175 INVENTORS INDUCTED AS THE 2020 FELLOWS OF THE NATIONAL 
                          ACADEMY OF INVENTORS

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                           HON. KATHY CASTOR

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 24, 2021

  Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the 175 
inventors who will soon be inducted as the 2020 Fellows of the National 
Academy of Inventors (NAI) in an induction ceremony in Tampa, FL that 
will feature a keynote address by U.S. Commissioner for Patents, Andrew 
Hirshfeld. To be named as a Fellow, these men and women were nominated 
by their peers and have undergone the scrutiny of the NAI Selection 
Committee, having had their innovations deemed as making significant 
impact on quality of life, economic development and welfare of society.
  Collectively, this elite group holds nearly 4,800 patents. This 
year's class of Fellows includes individuals from 115 research 
universities and non-profit research institutes spanning across the 
United States and the world. The now 1,403-member group of Fellows is 
composed of more than 165 presidents and senior leaders of research 
universities and non-profit research institutes, nearly 600 members of 
the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; 45 
inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 63 recipients of the 
U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and U.S. National 
Medal of Science, 40 Nobel Laureates, 392 AAAS Fellows, 264 IEEE 
Fellows and 184 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 
among other awards and distinctions. The NAI was founded in 2010 to 
recognize and encourage inventors with patents issued from the U.S. 
Patent and Trademark Office, enhance the visibility of academic 
technology and innovation, encourage the disclosure of intellectual 
property, educate and mentor innovative students and translate the 
inventions of its members to benefit society.
  We are greatly indebted to innovators such as the ones being inducted 
this month for their contributions to society through their inventions. 
I commend these individuals, and the organizations and taxpayers that 
support them, for the work they do to revolutionize the world we live 
in. As the following inventors are inducted, may it encourage future 
generations to strive to meet this high honor and continue the spirit 
of discovery and innovation.
  The 2020 NAI Fellows include: JD Albert, University of Pennsylvania; 
Naofal AlDhahir, The University of Texas at Dallas; Khalil Amine, 
Argonne National Laboratory; Ananth Annapragada, Baylor College of 
Medicine; Samuel Asirvatham, Mayo Clinic; William Bachovchin, Tufts 
University; George Barany, University of Minnesota; Randall Bateman, 
Washington University in St. Louis; Eric Beckman, University of 
Pittsburgh; Gary H. Bernstein, University of Notre Dame; Matt A. 
Bernstein, Mayo Clinic; Vaughn Betz, University of Toronto; Bir Bhanu, 
University of California; Riverside Venkat Bhethanabotla, University of 
South Florida; Ronald Biediger, Texas Heart Institute; Alexandra 
Boltasseva, Purdue University; Donal D.C. Bradley, King Abdullah 
University of Science and Technology; Bruce Branchaud, University of 
Oregon; Daniel Brown, Northwestern University; Susan K. Brown, Cornell 
University; Scott P. Bruder, Case Western Reserve; University Irwin 
Chaiken, Drexel University; V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University; 
Chih-hung Chang, Oregon State University; HsuehChia Chang, University 
of Notre Dame; Ramalingam Chellappa, Johns Hopkins University; Kuan-
Neng Chen, National Chiao Tung University; Jianjun Cheng, University of 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mung Chiang, Purdue University; Ki Chon, 
University of Connecticut; Keith M. Chugg, University of Southern 
California; Mark Clarke, University of Houston; Jason (Jingsheng) Cong, 
University of California, Los Angeles; Liming Dai, University of New 
South Wales; Rajesh Dave', New Jersey Institute of Technology; Valina 
Dawson, Johns Hopkins University; Nancy DeMore, Medical University

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of South Carolina; Reza Derakhshani, University of Missouri-Kansas 
City; Robert Desnick, Mount Sinai Health System; Michael Diamond, 
Washington University in St. Louis; Steven Eschrich, H. Lee Mott Cancer 
Center & Research Institute; Gary Evans, Southern Methodist University; 
Robin Felder, University of Virginia; Albert J. Fornace Jr., Georgetown 
University; Gordon Freeman, Harvard University; Alexander Fridman, 
Drexel University; Andres Garcia, Georgia Institute of Technology; 
Sharon Gerecht, Johns Hopkins University; M. Monica Giusti, The Ohio 
State University; Charles Glabe, University of California, Irvine; 
Martin Gleave, The University of British Columbia; Michael Goldfarb, 
Vanderbilt University; Carol Greider, Johns Hopkins University; Paul 
Hansma, University of California, Santa Barbara; Joseph Harding, 
Washington State University; William Harris, Massachusetts General 
Hospital Research Institute; Jibo He, Wichita State University; Sidney 
Hecht, Arizona State University; Richard Heller, University of South 
Florida; Paul Hergenrother, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 
James Hickman, University of Central Florida; Rodney JY Ho, University 
of Washington; Eric Holmes, Florida State University; David Horsley, 
University of California, Davis; Tony Jun Huang, Duke University; Scott 
Hultgren, Washington University in St. Louis; David Hunn, The 
University of Texas at Arlington; Laurence Hurley, The University of 
Arizona; Louis Ignarro, University of California, Los Angeles; Bahram 
Jalali, University of California, Los Angeles; Susan James, Colorado 
State University; Nikil Jayant, Georgia Institute of Technology; 
Michael Jewett, Northwestern University; Lizy Kurian John, The 
University of Texas at Austin; Henry Kapteyn, University of Colorado 
Boulder; Thomas Katsouleas, University of Connecticut; Mark Kay, 
Stanford University; Michael Keidar, The George Washington University; 
Mark Kendall, Australian National University; Michael Kessler, North 
Dakota State University; Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan; 
Konstantin Kousoulas, Louisiana State University; Boris Kovatchev, 
University of Virginia; Chung-Chieh ``Jay'' Kuo, University of Southern 
California; Hoi-Sing Kwok, The Hong Kong University of Science and 
Technology; Michael Lebby, Glynwdr University in Wales, UK; Pooi See 
Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Xiuling Li, 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Lanny Liebeskind, Emory 
University; James Lillard, Morehouse School of Medicine; Chwee Teck 
Lim, National University of Singapore; Julia Ljubimova, Terasaki 
Institute for Biomedical Innovation; Laurie Locascio, University of 
Maryland; Gerald Loeb, University of Southern California; David Luzzi, 
Northeastern University; Hongbin Ma, University of Missouri-Columbia; 
Anant Madabhushi, Case Western Reserve University; Duncan J. Maitland, 
Texas A&M University; Tadeusz Malinski, Ohio University; John Mauro, 
The Pennsylvania State University; Bill McCutchen, Texas A&M 
University; Donald McDonnell, Duke University; John McGlone, Texas Tech 
University; Richard Melker, University of Florida; Anton Middelberg, 
University of Adelaide, Australia; Richard Miles, Texas A&M University; 
Charles Mistretta, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jin Kim Montclare, 
New York University; Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado Boulder; 
Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina; Vijaykrishnan 
Narayanan, The Pennsylvania State University; Denise Ney, University of 
Wisconsin-Madison; Robert A. Norwood, The University of Arizona; Thomas 
O'Halloran, Northwestern University; Ann Palmenberg, University of 
Wisconsin-Madison; Eleftherios Papoutsakis, University of Delaware; 
Keshab Parhi, University of Minnesota; Norbert Pelc, Stanford 
University; Vir V. Phoha, Syracuse University; Peter Pidcoe, Virginia 
Commonwealth University; Leonard Pinchuk, University of Miami; Ralph 
Pollier, Louisiana State University; Behnam Pourdeyhimi, North Carolina 
State University; David Puleo, University of Mississippi; Judit Puskas, 
The Ohio State University; David Putnam, Cornell University; Si Zhao 
(Joe) Qin, City University of Hong Kong; Tariq Rana, University of 
California, San Diego; Thomas Ranney, North Carolina State University; 
Vilupanur Ravi, California Polytechnic State University; E. Premkumar 
Reddy, Mount Sinai Health System; Elsa Reichmanis, Lehigh University; 
Martin Richardson, University of Central Florida; Naphtali Rishe, 
Florida International University; Michael A. Rogawski, University of 
California, Davis; Jannick Rolland, University of Rochester; Jean-
Francois Rossignol, University of South Florida; Ashutosh Sabharwal, 
Rice University; Joshua Sakon, University of Arkansas; Ravi Sandhu, The 
University of Texas at San Antonio; Edward Schuchman, Mount Sinai 
Health System; Gregory Schultz, University of Florida; Yang Shao-Horn, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Arlene Sharpe, Harvard 
University; Rahul Shrivastav, University of Georgia; Sachdev Sidhu, 
University of Toronto; Larry Sklar, The University of New Mexico; 
Daniel K. Sodickson, New York University; David Stephens, Emory 
University; Szymon Suckewer, Princeton University; Timothy Swager, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nongjian Tao, Arizona State 
University; Nitish Thakor, Johns Hopkins University; Albell I. Titus, 
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; John Trent, 
University of Louisville; Van N. Truskett, The University of Texas at 
Austin; Din-Ping Tsai, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Ranji 
Vaidyanathan, Oklahoma State University; George Varghese, University of 
California, Los Angeles; John Volakis, Florida International 
University; Luis Von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon University; Bipin Vora, 
Illinois Institute of Technology; Haiyan Wang, Purdue University; 
Lihong Wang, California Institute of Technology; Joyce Y. Wong, Boston 
University; Neal Woodbury, Arizona State University; Han-Chung Wu, 
Academia Sinica; Changhuei Yang, California Institute of Technology; 
Gerald Zamponi, University of Calgary; Ling Zang, The University of 
Utah; Feng Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Liangfang 
Zhang, University of California, San Diego; Jia Zhou, The University of 
Texas Medical Branch; MengChu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology; 
S. Kevin Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences & The Chinese University of 
Hong Kong.

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