Carlo G. Pantano received his B.S. Degree in Engineering Science from Newark College of Engineering in 1972, and the M.E. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida in 1974 and 1976. His graduate work was primarily in surface science and biomaterials with George Onoda and Larry Hench, and then he spent two years in surface science at the University of Dayton Research.  He joined Penn State’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 1979 with a focus on glass surfaces and coatings. He is a Fellow of both the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and the AVS. He is a former Chair of the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the ACerS, and a former US Council Representative for the International Commission on Glass. He was awarded the 2005 George W Morey award for outstanding technical contributions to the field of glass science and technology.

Professor Chung obtained his B. S. in Chemistry from Chung Yuan University (Taiwan) in 1976. He came to the U. S. for his graduate study in the Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania in 1979. After finishing his Ph.D work in 1982 on conducting polymers (with Professor A. J. MacDiarmid, Nobel Laureate), he spend two years as a Research Scientist at Institute for polymers and Organic Solids (with Professor Alan J. Heeger, Nobel Laureate), University of California, Santa Barbara. Between 1984 and 1989, he was a Senior Research Staff in Corporate Research, Exxon Company. In 1989 he joined the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University as an associate professor and became professor of Polymer Science in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 1993. He is author of about 200 professional publications, including 2 books and 45 U.S. patents.

Long-Qing Chen is Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at the Pennsylvania State University.  He is a short-term visiting Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University under the short-term 1000-Scholar program, a guest Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University, and a guest Professor of Physics at the Beijing University of Science and Technology in China. He received his B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University in China in 1982.  After spending one year as an assistant instructor at Zhejiang University, he came to the United States in 1983 and received his M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1985 and a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1990.  After a two-year post-doc appointment with Professor Armen G. Khachaturyanat Rutgers University, he joined the faculty at Penn State as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in 1992.  He was promoted to Associated Professor in 1998 and Professor in 2002. Professor Chen teaches undergraduate thermodynamics of materials and graduate kinetics of materials processes and also co-teaches one graduate course and one undergraduate course in computational materials science in the department.  Professor Chen's main research interest is developing multiscale computational models for predicting microstructure evolution in materials using a combination of atomistic/first-principles calculations and phase-field methods.  In particular, he is interested in microstructure evolution during phase transformations, grain growth, Ostwald ripening, ferroelectric and multiferroic domain switching, and coupled ionic/electronic transport in electrochemical systems.  His research group collaborates actively with numerous experimental groups, applied mathematicians, and other fellow computational materials scientists and physicists as well as with more than a dozen companies and national labs.  Professor Chen has published over 350 authored or co-authored papers (H-index = 51, Number of Citations >10,000), 1 patent licensed by Intel, and co-edited 3 books in the area of computational materials science of microstructures and properties.  He has given more than 200 invited talks including 6 at the Gordon Research Conferences.  Professor Chen's current and former graduate students have received more than 40 awards including Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold and Silver Medal Awards, American Ceramic Society Graduate Excellence in Materials Science Awards, Acta Materialia best student paper award, Penn State Materials Research Institute best Ph.D. thesis research award, TMS Young Leader Award, etc.  Professor Chen received numerous awards for his work including:

• ONR Young Investigator Award (1995)
• NSF special research creativity award (1999)
• Wilson Award for Excellence in Research from his college (2000)
• University Faculty Scholar Medal in Engineering at Penn State (2003)
• Outstanding Overseas Young Scholar by the Chinese Natural Science Foundation (2004)
• Changjiang Chair Professorship by the Chinese Ministry of Education (2004)
• Guest Professor at Beijing University of Science and Technology (2004)
• Guggenheim Fellow (2005)
• Royal Society Kan Tong Po Fellowship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2005)
• ASM Materials Research Silver Medal (2006)
• American Physical Society Fellow (2008)
• D. B. Robinson Distinguished Lecture at University of Alberta (2010)
• Materials Science and Engineering Departmental Teaching Award of Students’ Choice (2010)
• TMS EMPMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award (2011)
• Short-Term 1000-Talent Program Visiting Professorship at Tsinghua University (2011)
• Bo Yugang Visiting Professorship at Zhejiang University (2012)
• ASM Fellow (2012)
• Penn State Distinguished Professorship (2013)
• Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow (2013)