[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 11, 2026)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E127-E128]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
HONORING THE 2025 FELLOWS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS
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HON. KATHY CASTOR
of florida
in the house of representatives
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 169
inventors who will be inducted as the 2025 Fellows of the National
Academy of Inventors (NAI). An induction ceremony will take place on
June 4, 2026, in Los Angeles, California to celebrate these
distinguished inventors and their incredible accomplishments. The
ceremony will be presided over by Dr. Paul R. Sanberg, FNAI. 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 2,253 Fellows worldwide representing more
than 300 prestigious universities and governmental and non-profit
research institutes. Collectively, the Fellows hold more than 86,000
issued U.S. patents, which have generated over 20,000 licensed
technologies and 4,000 companies, and created more than 1.4 million
jobs. In addition, over $3.8 trillion in revenue has been generated
based on NAI Fellow discoveries.
Among NAI fellows, there are more than 170 presidents and senior
leaders of research universities and nonprofit research institutes,
over 796 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and
Medicine, about 60 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 76
recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and
U.S. National Medal of Science, and 59 Nobel Laureates, 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 2025 Fellows of the National
Academy of Inventors for this outstanding achievement. We must commend
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 following list of the names of the 2025 NAI Fellows Class:
Reza Abdolvand, University of Central Florida; Gregory
Abowd, Northeastern University; Anant Agarwal, The Ohio State
University; Ali AL-Marzouqi, United Arab Emirates University;
Mansoor Amiji, Northeastern University; Ana Claudia Arias,
University of California, Berkeley; Aravind Asokan, Duke
University; Gregory Auner, Wayne State University; Jennifer
Avari Silva, Washington University in St. Louis; Ahmad Bahai,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Hua ``Kevin'' Bai, The
University of Tennessee, Knoxville; David Baker, University
of Washington; Sathy Balu-iyer, University at Buffalo, The
State University
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of New York; Dafna Bari Sagi, NYU Langone Health; Matthew
Barth, University of California, Riverside; Haim Bau,
University of Pennsylvania; Magdy Bayoumi, University of
Louisiana at Lafayette; Zdenek Bazant, Northwestern
University; Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois Urbana-
Champaign; Suresh Bhargava, Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology; Stephan Biller, Purdue University; Christian
Brechot, University of South Florida; Igal Brener, Sandia
National Laboratories; Robert Brown, Case Western Reserve
University; J. Quincy Brown, Tulane University; Louis Brus,
Columbia University; Carol Carter, Stony Brook University;
Chan-Byoung Chae, Yonsei University; Krishnendu Chakrabarty,
Arizona State University; Joseph Chang, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore; Goutam Chattopadhyay, California
Institute of Technology & NASA Jet Propulsion Lab; Eugene
Chen, Colorado State University; Ji-Xin Cheng, Boston
University; Gari Clifford, Emory University; Gloria Coruzzi,
New York University; Sheng Dai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
& University of Tennessee, Knoxville; James Dalton, Louisiana
State University; Kapil Dandekar, Drexel University; Sylvia
Daunert, University of Miami; David Deamer, University of
California, Santa Cruz; Andr6 DeHon, University of
Pennsylvania; Zhiqun (Daniel) Deng, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory; Tomas Diaz de la Rubia, The University
of Arizona; Deepakraj Divan, Georgia Institute of Technology;
Ravi Droopad, Texas State University; Tal Dvir, Tel Aviv
University; Maher ElKady, University of California, Los
Angeles; Omolola Eniola-Adefeso, University of Illinois at
Chicago; Hongyou Fan, Sandia National Laboratories; Shanhui
Fan, Stanford University; Omar Farha, Northwestern
University; Benny Freeman, The University of Texas at Austin;
Tahir Ghani, University of California, Berkeley; Swaroop
Ghosh, The Pennsylvania State University; Barney Graham,
Morehouse School of Medicine; Rasim Guldiken, Oklahoma State
University; Jay Guo, University of Michigan; Satyandra Gupta,
University of Southern California; Vineet Gupta, University
of Texas Medical Branch; Hossam Haick, Technion--Israel
Institute of Technology; Eva Harth, University of Houston;
David Haussler, University of California, Santa Cruz; Donald
Haynie, Centers for DiseaseControl; Abdelsalam Sumi Helal,
University of Florida; Yehia Ibrahim, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory; Erick Iezzi, U.S. Naval Research
Laboratory; Ehsan Jabbarzadeh, University of South Carolina;
Yali Jia, OregonHealth & Science University; Eugene John,
University of Texas at San Antonio; Darren Johnson,
University of Oregon; Emil Jovanov, The University of Alabama
in Huntsville; Tibor Juhasz, University of California,
Irvine; Raghu Kalluri, The University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center; Dilhan M. Kalyon, Stevens Institute of
Technology; Raghuraman Kannan, University of Missouri-
Columbia; Mark Kelley, Indiana University; John Kellum,
University of Pittsburgh; Michael Koeris, U.S. Department of
War--Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Elisa
Konofagou, Columbia University; Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown,
Arizona State University; Florian Krammer, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai; Yue Kuo, Texas A&M University &
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Jih-Sheng ``Jason''
Lai, Virginia Tech; Carlito Lebrilla, University of
California, Davis; Jean-Pierre Leburton, University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jason Lewis, Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center; Guoqiang Li, Louisiana State
University; Jenshan Lin, National Science Foundation; Lih-
Yuan Lin, University of Washington; Stuart Lipton, The
Scripps Research Institute; Bin Liu, National University of
Singapore; Jun O. Liu, Johns Hopkins University; Ping Liu,
University of California, San Diego; Yan-Fei Liu, Queen's
University; Leslie M. Loew, University of Connecticut; Boon
Thau Loo, University of Pennsylvania; Dusan Losic, Adelaide
University; Jian Lu, City University of Hong Kong; Na (Luna)
Lu, Purdue University; Daniel Ludois, University of
Wisconsin-Madison; Alan Luo, The Ohio State University;
Barbara Lyons, Lawrence Technological University; Chris
Malachowsky, NVIDIA & University of Florida; Heidi M.
Mansour, Florida International University; H. Alan Mantooth,
University of Arkansas; David Martin, University of Delaware;
Prasant Mohapatra, University of South Florida; Yaakov
Nahmias, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Arokia Nathan,
University of Cambridge; Maiken Nedergaud, University of
Rochester; Daniel Nelson, University of Maryland, College
Park; Henry Nguyen, University of Missouri-Columbia; David
Nolte, Purdue University; John O' Shea, National Institutes
of Health; Subba Reddy Palli, University of Kentucky;
Bernhard Palsson, University of California, San Diego;
Dipanjan Pan, The Pennsylvania State University; Marios-
Christos Papaefthymiou, University of California, Irvine;
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, University of Minnesota;
Chandrakant D. Patel, Hewlett-Packard & University of South
Florida; Stacey Patterson, Florida State University; Sanjoy
Paul, Rice University; Dehua Pei, The Ohio State University;
Danyll J. Pines, University of Maryland, College Park; Kevin
W. Plaxco, University of California, Santa Barbara; Marc
Porter, The University of Utah; George Prendergast, Lankenau
Institute for Medical Research; Shashank Priya, University of
Minnesota; Eric Prossnitz, The University of New Mexico;
Alfredo QuinonesHinojosa, Mayo Clinic; Sdnivasa Raghavan,
University of Maryland, College Park; Barry Rand, Princeton
University; Arijit Raychowdhury, Georgia Institute of
Technology; Jochen Reiser, University of Texas Medical
Branch; Shunlin Ren, Virginia Commonwealth University; C.
Patrick Reynolds, Texas Tech University Health Sciences
Center; R. Michael Roe, North Carolina State University;
Steven Rosenberg, National Institutes of Health; Todd
Rosengwt, Baylor College of Medicine; Joe Ruscito, Medical
University of South Carolina; John Ruter, University of
Georgia; Alan Saltiel, University of California, San Diego;
Paul Santene, University of Toronto; Marios Savvides,
Carnegie Mellon University; Patrick Schnable, Iowa State
University; Mark Schoenfisch, The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill; John Schroeder, Texas Tech
University; Mathias Schubert, University of Nebraska-Lincoln;
James Schwob, Tufts University; Mohamed Seleem, Virginia
Tech; Mark Sheplak, University of Florida; James Simon,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Dennis Slamon,
University of California, Los Angeles; Barbara Slusher, Johns
Hopkins University; J. Cory Smart, Georgetown University;
Stuart Smith, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte;
Gurindar Sohi, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Stephen
Soper, University of Kansas; Timothy A. Springer, Harvard
University; Mircea Stan, University of Virginia; Hung-Jue
Sue, Texas A&M University; Shang-Hua Teng, University of
Southern California; Kevin J. Tracey, The Feinstein
Institutes for Medical Research; Philip R. Troyk, Illinois
Institute of Technology; Chad A. Ulven, North Dakota State
University; Kripa K. Varanasi, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; Jesse Wainright, Case Western Reserve University;
Andrew Wang, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center; Yan Wang, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Adam Wax,
Duke University; Rob Webster, Vanderbilt University; John
Weidner, University of Cincinnati; David C. Weindorf, Georgia
Southern University; Muthu B.J. Wijesundara, The University
of Texas at Arlington; Tien Yin Wong, Tsinghua University;
Tzong-Lin Wu, National Taiwan University; Cheryl Xu, North
Carolina State University; Yajun Yan, University of Georgia;
Lan Yang, Washington University in St. Louis; Yasha Yi,
University of Michigan; Richard Zare, Stanford University;
Wen Zhang, New Jersey Institute of Technology;Otto Zhou, The
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Zi-Qiang
Zhu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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