[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 3, 2025)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E499-E500]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
HONORING THE 2024 FELLOWS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS
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HON. KATHY CASTOR
of florida
in the house of representatives
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 170
inventors who will be inducted as the 2024 Fellows of the National
Academy of Inventors (NAI). An induction ceremony will take place June
23-26, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia to celebrate these inventors and their
incredible accomplishments. The ceremony will be presided over by the
Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Coke
Morgan Stewart, and President of the National Academy of Inventors, Dr.
Paul R. Sanberg. To be named as a Fellow, these individuals were
nominated by their peers and underwent a review process by the NAI
Selection Committee, which ultimately deemed their innovations as
making a significant impact on the quality of life, economic
development and the welfare of their communities, the residents of
Florida and the United States.
The NAI Fellow program has 2,068 Fellows worldwide representing more
than 300 prestigious universities and governmental and non-profit
research institutes. Collectively, the Fellows hold more than 68,000
issued U.S. patents, which have generated over 20,000 licensed
technologies, 4,000 companies and created more than 1.2 million jobs.
In addition, over $3.2 trillion in revenue has been generated based on
NAI Fellow discoveries.
Among NAI fellows, there are more than 170 senior leaders of research
universities and nonprofit research institutes, over 755 members of the
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, 63 inductees
of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 70 recipients of the U.S.
National Medal of Technology and Innovation and U.S. National Medal of
Science, 57 Nobel Laureates, over 533 AAAS Fellows, over 395 IEEE
Fellows and more than 232 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts &
Sciences, among other awards and distinctions.
Founded by Dr. Paul R. Sanberg at the University of South Florida in
2010, the NAI's mission is 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 Florida
and communities all throughout the United States. Mr. Speaker, on
behalf of my neighbors in Tampa Bay and the citizens of Florida, I am
proud to honor the 2024 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
for this outstanding achievement. We owe a debt of gratitude to these
inventors for their invaluable contributions to society, which
continually propel us forward. May their example inspire future
generations to pursue their own paths of discovery and innovation,
ensuring a bright and innovative future for us all. I include in the
Record the 2024 National Academy of Inventors Fellows Class:
Ishwar Aggarwall, The University of North Carolina at
Charlotte; Pierre Agostini, The Ohio State University; Mark
Akeson, University of California, Santa Cruz; Yousef Al-Abed,
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research; Herb
Aldwinckle, Cornell University; Dan Ammon Jr., University at
Buffalo, The State University of New York; Alain Aspect,
Institut d'Optique Graduate School; Corinne E. Augelli-
Szafran, Southern Research Institute; Clinton Ballinger,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Robeit S. Balog, Texas A&M
University; Prith Banerjee, University of Illinois at
Chicago; Ronald Barrett-Gonzalez, University of Kansas,
Robert Bartlett, University of Michigan; Peter J. Basser,
National Institutes of Health; Moungi Bawendi, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; Dibakar Bhattacharyya, University of
Kentucky; Pratim Biswas, University of Miami; Silvia Blemker,
University of Virginia; William Branch, University of
Georgia; Malcolm Brenner, Baylor College of Medicine; Richard
K. Brow, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Edgar
B. Cahoon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jianfeng Ca,
University of South Florida; Hui Cao, Yale University; Arnold
Caplan, Case Western Reserve University; John M. Cioffi,
Stanford University; Corie L. Cobb, University of Washington.
Eric W. Cochran, Iowa State University; Daniel Codd,
University of San Diego; Todd J. Cohen, New York Institute of
Technology; Bruce N. Cronstein, New York University Grossman
School of Medicine; Maria Croyle, The University of Texas at
Austin; Anthony Czarnik, University of Nevada, Reno; Arvin
Dar, Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute Cancer Center;
Matthew Darr, Iowa State University; Hiranmoy Das, Texas Tech
University Health Sciences Center; Kenneth Dawson-Scully,
Nova Southeastern University; Edward J. Delp, Purdue
University; Horacio Dante Espinosa, Northwestern University;
Ying Fang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Aaron
Franklin, Duke University; Eby Friedman, University of
Rochester; Klaus Fruh, Oregon Health & Science University;
Lilit Garibyan, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard
University; Robert Garry, Tulane University; Manas Ranjan
Gartia, Louisiana State University; Arun K. Ghosh, Purdue
University; Simon Francis Giszter, Drexel University; Steven
Goldman, University of Rochester; Andrea Goldsmith, Princeton
University; David Gracias, Johns Hopkins University; Joel S.
Greenberger, University of Pittsburgh; Jaime Grunlan, Texas
A&M University; Ephraim Gutmark, University of Cincinnati.
Keith Hearon, Boston University; Larry Heck, Georgia
Institute of Technology; Wolfgang Heidrich, King Abdullah
University of Science and Technology; Joseph P. Heremans, The
Ohio State University; Mark Hoffman, University of Missouri-
Kansas City; Kaibin Huang, The University of Hong Kong;
Bertram Jacobs, Arizona State University; Hamid Jafarkhani,
University of California, Irvine; Shibin Jiang, The
University of Arizona; Christopher S. Johnson, Argonne
National Laboratory; Sergei V. Kalinin, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory;
Homayoon Kazerooni, University of California, Berkeley; Brian
G. Kiernan, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Steven
Koester, University of Minnesota; Johann Walter Kolar, ETH
Zurich--Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich; Farinaz
Koushanfar, University of California, San Diego; Ferenc
Krausz, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching,
Germany; Ashok Kumar, University of South Florida; Eren
Kurshan, Princeton University; Ioannis Kymissis, Columbia
University; Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University; Gregory
Lanza, Washington University in St. Louis; Matthew Laskoski,
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory; Chih-Kung Lee, National
Taiwan University.
Hui (Helen) Li, Florida State University; Hai Li, Duke
University; Wenbin Lin, University of Chicago; Walter Ian
Lipkin, Columbia University; Xuedong Liu, University of
Colorado Boulder; Devinder Mahajan, Stony Brook University;
Abhijit Mahalanobis, The University of Arizona; Stanton F.
McHardy, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Michael
McLaughlin, The University of Adelaide; Shawn A.
Mehlenbacher, Oregon State University; Charles L. Melcher,
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Tommaso Melodia,
Northeastern University; Rajesh Menon, The University of
Utah; Theodore Moise, The University of Texas at Dallas;
David Morse, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research
Institute; Javad Mostaghimi, University of Toronto; Naima
Moustaid-Moussa, Texas Tech University; Christopher Murray,
University of Pennsylvania; Tina M. Nenoff, Sandia National
Laboratories; Gabriele Neumann, University of Wisconsin-
Madison; Kytai T. Nguyen, The University of Texas at
Arlington; Michael Niederweis, The University of Alabama at
Birmingham; Thomas Nosker, Rutgers, The State University of
New Jersey; Rafail Ostrovsky, University of California, Los
Angeles.
Cynthia Owsley, The University of Alabama at Birmingham;
Cengiz Ozkan, University of California, Riverside; Makarand
Paranjape, Georgetown University; Dan Peer, Tel Aviv
University; Yuri Karl Peterson, Medical University of South
Carolina; Konstantin Petrukhin, Columbia University;
Wellington Pham, Vanderbilt University; Edwin Piner, Texas
State University; Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware;
Francisco Quintana, Harvard University; Muhammad Rabnawaz,
Michigan State University; P. Srirama Rao, Virginia
Commonwealth University; Ramesh Raskar, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; Edward Ratner, University of
Houston; Jeff Reed, Virginia Tech; Fan Ren, University of
Florida; Catherine L. Riddle, Idaho National Laboratory;
Guillermo Risatti, University of Connecticut; Carol Robinson,
University of Oxford; Cliona Mary Rooney, Baylor College of
Medicine; Alberto Salleo, Stanford University; Richard
Samulski, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Gaurav N. Sant, University of
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California, Los Angeles; Edward Sargent, Northwestern
University; Charles Shoemaker, Tufts University; Daniel
Siegwart, UT Southwestern Medical Center; Neal Sikka, The
George Washington University; Blake Simmons, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory.
Rajesh Singh, Morehouse School of Medicine; Anand
Sivasubramaniam, The Pennsylvania State University; Yiqiao
Song, Harvard University; Vivek Sujan, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory; Zhaoli Sun, Johns Hopkins University; Nian Sun,
Northeastern University; Yang Tao, University of Maryland,
College Park; Ravi Thadhani, Emory University; Voon-Yew
(Aaron) Thean, National University of Singapore; Ashley
Parkinson Thrall, University of Notre Dame; Martin Thuo,
North Carolina State University; Theo T. Tsotsis, University
of Southern California; Francisco Valero-Cuevas, University
of Southern California; Omid Veiseh, Rice University; Victor
Veliadis, North Carolina State University; Uzi Vishkin,
University of Maryland, College Park; Edmund Waller, Emory
University; Angela Wandinger-Ness, The University of New
Mexico; Guoan Wang, University of South Carolina; Grace J.
Wang, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Dean C. Webster, North
Dakota State University; Di Wei, University of Cambridge;
Marc Steven Weinberg, Draper Laboratory (CDSL), Ulrich
Wiesner, Cornell University; Hugh E. Williams, RMIT
University.
Peter Wipf, University of Pittsburgh; Gary E. Wnek, Case
Western Reserve University; Jang-Yen Wu, Florida Atlantic
University; Wei Wu, University of Southern California; Younan
Xia, Georgia Institute of Technology; Longya Xu, The Ohio
State University; Zhen Xu, University of Michigan; Mengsu
(Michael) Yang, City University of Hong Kong; Yang Yang,
University of California, Los Angeles; Jianhua Yu, University
of California, Irvine; Carlos A. Zarate Jr., National
Institutes of Health; Junshan Zhang, University of
California, Davis; Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Binghamton
University, State University of New York; Ji-Guang (Jason)
Zhang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Min Zou,
University of Arkansas.
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