[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 59 (Monday, April 4, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E350-E351]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     HONORING THE 2021 FELLOWS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS

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                           HON. GREG STANTON

                               of arizona

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, April 4, 2022

  Mr. STANTON. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the 164 inventors 
who will soon be inducted as the 2021 Fellows of the National Academy 
of Inventors (NAI) in an induction ceremony in Phoenix, Arizona 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 over 4,800 patents. This year's 
class of Fellows includes individuals from 118 research universities 
and non-profit research institutes spanning across the United States 
and the world. The now 1,567-member group of Fellows is composed of 
more than 200 senior leaders of research universities and nonprofit 
research institutes, over 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, 45 Nobel 
Laureates, 450 AAAS Fellows, 314 IEEE Fellows and 251 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 
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 2021 NAI Fellows include:
  Katerina Akassoglou, University of California--San Francisco; Norma 
A. Alcantar, University of South Florida; Zhiqiang An, University of 
Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Treena Arinzeh, New Jersey 
Institute of Technology; Andrea Armani, University of Southern 
California; Santokh S. Badesha, Purdue University; Sanjay Banerjee, The 
University of Texas at Austin; Ravi Bellamkonda, Duke University; 
Ronald D. Berger, Johns Hopkins University; Madan M. Bhasin, Louisiana 
State University.
  Greg E. Blonder, Boston University; Jef D. Boeke, NYU Langone Health; 
Thomas Boland, The University of Texas at El Paso; Xandra O. 
Breakefield, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute; Joan F. 
Brennecke, The University of Texas at Austin; Marcel P. Bruchez, 
Carnegie Mellon University; Vladimir Bulovic, Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology; Anthony N. Caruso, University of Missouri-Kansas City; 
Babu Chalamala, Sandia National Laboratories; Joseph Chappell, 
University of Kentucky.
  Shaochen Chen, University of California, San Diego; Shigao Chen, Mayo 
Clinic; Yingying Chen, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; 
Shih Cheng-Yen, Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology; Tze-
Chiang Chung, The Pennsylvania State University; William W. Clark, 
University of Pittsburgh; Stuart L. Cooper, The Ohio State University; 
Max D. Cooper, Emory University; Gerard L. Cote, Texas A&M University; 
Douglas F. Covey, Washington University in St. Louis.
  Gregory P. Crawford, Miami University; Ronald G. Crystal, Weill 
Cornell Medicine; Fa F. Dai, Auburn University; Ted M. Dawson, Johns 
Hopkins University; Ananth Dodabalapur, The University of Texas at 
Austin; Patricia Donahoe, Massachusetts General Hospital Research 
Institute; Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, King Abdullah University of Science

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and Technology; Thomas H. Epps, University of Delaware; Rong Fan, Yale 
University; Liesl Folks, The University of Arizona.
  Holloway H. Frost, Jr., The University of Texas at Arlington; Bruce 
K. Gale, The University of Utah; Bruce C. Gates, University of 
California; Davis, Jordan J. Green Johns Hopkins University; Paula T. 
Hammond. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Benjamin G. Harvey, 
Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division--NAWCWD China Lake; Ayanna 
Howard, The Ohio State University; James E. Hubbard, Jr., Texas A&M 
University; Alex lgnatiev, University of Houston; David Jaffray, 
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Cherie R. Kagan, 
University of Pennsylvania; Hari Kalva, Florida Atlantic University.
  Richard B. Kaner, University of California, Los Angeles; Anumantha G. 
Kanthasamy, University of Georgia; Sanjiv Kapoor, Illinois Institute of 
Technology; Jeffrey Karp, Harvard University; Frederick A. Kish, Jr., 
North Carolina State University; George Koob, National Institutes of 
Health; Joerg Lahann, University of Michigan; Sidney E. Law, University 
of Georgia; Kelvin H. Lee, University of Delaware; Gwo-Bin Lee, 
National Tsing Hua University.
  Craig A. Lehmann, Stony Brook University; Xingen Lei, Cornell 
University; Henry A. Lester, California Institute of Technology; King 
C. Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Xiaochun R. Li, 
University of California, Los Angeles; Chenzhong Li, Tulane University; 
Zhiyong Liang, Florida State University; Jianming Liang, Arizona State 
University; Zhi-Pei Liang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 
Ming C. Lin, University of Maryland, College Park.
  Steven R. Little, University of Pittsburgh; Zheng-Rong Lu, Case 
Western Reserve University; Yi Lu, The University of Texas at Austin; 
Serge Luryi, Stony Brook University; Thomas R. Mackie, University of 
Wisconsin-Madison; Shlomo Magdassi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 
Ajay Malshe, Purdue University; Terry Matsunaga, The University of 
Arizona; John A. McLean, Vanderbilt University; Craig H. Meyer, 
University of Virginia.
  Alan J. Michaels, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University; Jeffrey Milbrandt, Washington University in St. Louis; 
Sumita B. Mitra, University of South Florida; Osama Mohammed, Florida 
International University; Subhra Mohapatra, University of South 
Florida; Duncan T. Moore, University of Rochester; Daniel Moran, 
Washington University in St. Louis; Morton M. Mower, University of 
Colorado Denver; Russell J. Mumper, The University of Alabama; 
Govindarajan Muralidharan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
  Sri R. Narayan, University of Southern California; D. Scott NeSmith, 
University of Georgia; Tse Nga Ng, University of California, San Diego; 
Vincent C. Njar, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Richard D. Noble, 
University of Colorado Boulder; Anson Ong, The University of Texas at 
San Antonio; Abraham Oommen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Karen 
Panetta, Tufts University; Khanh D. Pham, Air Force Research 
Laboratory; Rosalind W. Picard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 
Lawrence Pileggi, Carnegie Mellon University; Jill Pipher, Brown 
University; Brian W. Pogue, Dartmouth College; Maurizio Prato, 
University of Trieste.
  Samuel Prien, Texas Tech University; Jose C. Principe, University of 
Florida; Susan E. Quaggin, Northwestern University; Clive Randall, The 
Pennsylvania State University; Amanda Randles, Duke University; 
Theodore W. Randolph, University of Colorado Boulder; Venigalla B. Rao, 
The Catholic University of America; Nalini K. Ratha, University at 
Buffalo, The State University of New York; Behzad Razavi, University of 
California, Los Angeles; Charles M. Rice The Rockefeller University.
  Subrata Roy, University of Florida; Bulent Sarlioglu, University of 
Wisconsin-Madison; Majid Sarrafzadeh, University of California, Los 
Angeles; Richard Sayre, New Mexico Consortium; David V. Schaffer, 
University of California, Berkeley; Richard A. Schatz, Duke University; 
Julie M. Schoenung, University of California, Irvine; Richard R. 
Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Chandan K. Sen, Indiana 
University; Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California.
  Fergus Shanahan, University College Cork; K.B. Sharpless, The Scripps 
Research Institute; Pei-Yong Shi, The University of Texas Medical 
Branch; Andrei Shkel, University of California, Irvine; Steven J. 
Simske, Colorado State University; Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia 
Institute of Technology; Alexander H. Slocum, Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology; Jill P. Smith, Georgetown University; Joshua Smith, 
University of Washington; Susan L. Sokolowski, University of Oregon.
  Milan Sonka, University of Iowa; Natalie Stingelin, Georgia Institute 
of Technology; Gerald B. Stringfellow, The University of Utah; Luyi 
Sun, University of Connecticut; Earl E. Swartzlander, Jr., The 
University of Texas at Austin; Juming Tang, Washington State 
University; Michael M. Thackeray, Argonne National Laboratory; Ganesh 
Thakur, University of Houston; Bruce Tromberg, National Institutes of 
Health; Mark E. Van Dyke, The University of Arizona.
  Thirumalai V. Venkatesan, The University of Oklahoma; Jian-Ping Wang, 
University of Minnesota; Binghe Wang, Georgia State University; Nien-
Hwa Wang, Purdue University; Shan X. Wang, Stanford University; Bennett 
C. Ward, Virginia Commonwealth University; James J. Watkins, University 
of Massachusetts Amherst; Anthony S. Weiss, The University of Sydney; 
Gregory F. Welch, University of Central Florida; David G. Whitten, The 
University of New Mexico.
  David Williams, University of Rochester; Darren Woodside, Texas Heart 
Institute; Hong Yan, City University of Hong Kong; Paul G. Yock, 
Stanford University; Richard A. Yost, University of Florida; Habib 
Zaghouani, University of Missouri-Columbia; Ya-Qin Zhang, Tsinghua 
University; Ming-Ming Zhou, Mount Sinai Health System.

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