Kavya Kereman is a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Her work has advanced sustainable energy solutions, earning distinctions such as the EMS Sustainability Fund Award (2023), the Outstanding Women Research Award (2020), and multiple conference awards for presentations. Her research interests include optoelectronics, photovoltaics, memristors, and sensors.
Dr. Kai Wang, a researcher at Huanjiang Laboratory, currently serves as an assistant professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Zhejiang University. He earned his PhD in polymer engineering from The University of Akron in 2017 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Virginia Tech and an assistant research professor in Pennsylvania State University. His research group focuses on a broad range of topics, including the conceptualization of flexible optoelectronics, bio-inspired intelligent imaging techniques, and the development of soft lattice materials and devices for clinical medical applications.
Prof. Bed Poudel is a Research Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania
State University. Dr. Poudel holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Boston College, specializing in nanostructured thermoelectric materials, and brings over 15 years of experience in nanomaterial synthesis, characterization, and device fabrication. His
research, which now also includes applications in sensors, has resulted in more than 20 patents and over 100 peer-reviewed publications. In 2008, he was awarded the R&D 100 Award for innovation in thermoelectrics.
