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     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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