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The 2026 Nature Forum on the Future of Sensing Technologies will take place in Seoul, South Korea, on 13 April 2026. Hosted in partnership with Yonsei University, Sungkyunkwan University, and Hanyang University, this one-day meeting marks the official launch of Nature Sensors, a new journal dedicated to connecting and empowering the global sensing community.
The Forum will bring together scientists, engineers, and researchers from across disciplines to explore the current state and future directions of sensing technologies. The programme will feature expert talks, discussions on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field, and an interactive session in which Nature Sensors editors and leading experts will jointly examine key issues and potential solutions shaping the next generation of sensing.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to engage with researchers during a dedicated poster session, providing a platform for students and participants to showcase their work and exchange ideas.
Join us in Seoul for a day of scientific insight, community building, and a first look at the vision behind Nature Sensors.
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Speakers
Xinge YU
City University of Hong Kong, China
Xinge Yu is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at City University of Hong (CityU), the Member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences, Young Member of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering. He is the Associate Director of Institute of Digital Medicine at CityU, Associate Director of Hong Kong Centre for Cerebro-cardiovascular Health Engineering. Prof Yu is the recipient of NSFC Distinguished Young Scientist Grant (Scheme A), RGC Research Fellow, NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Grant (Hong Kong & Macao), Innovators under 35 China (MIT Technology Review), New Innovator of IEEE NanoMed, MINE Young Scientist Award, Stanford's top 2% most highly cited scientists etc. Prof. Yu is the Associate Editor of Science Advances, Microsystem & NanoEngineering, Bio-Design and Manufacturing etc. Xinge Yu’s research group is focusing on skin-integrated electronics and systems for VR and biomedical applications. He has published 200 papers in Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, Science Advances etc., and 50 patents filed/granted.
Sheng Xu
Stanford University, USA
Dr. Sheng Xu is a tenured professor and the inaugural Director of Emerging Technologies in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Electrical Engineering. He earned his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Peking University and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Subsequently, he pursued postdoctoral studies at the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research group is interested in developing new materials and fabrication methods for soft electronics, with a particular focus on wearable ultrasound technology. His research has been presented to the United States Congress as a testimony to the importance and impact of NIH funding. He has received numerous honors, including the NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, NIH Trailblazer Award, Sloan Fellowship, IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award, ETH Zürich Materials Research Prize for Young Investigators, MRS Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award, and a finalist of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. He is a Fellow of AIMBE, IEEE, and MRS.
John A. Rogers
Northwestern University, USA
Professor John A. Rogers began his career at Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997, and served as Director from the end of 2000 to 2002. He then spent thirteen years at the University of Illinois, as the Swanlund Chair Professor and Director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. In 2016, he joined Northwestern University as the Simpson/Querrey Professor, where he is also Director of the Institute for Bioelectronics. He has co-authored nearly 1000 papers and he is co-inventor on more than 100 patents. His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), the Benjamin Franklin Medal (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021), the James Prize from the NAS (2022) and the IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award (2024). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Simone Fabiano
Linköping University (LiU)
Joshua Yang
University of Southern California
Zheng Vitto Han
Shanxi University, China
Zheng Vitto Han is a research professor at the Institute of Optoelectronics, Shanxi University, China. He also serves jointly as the deputy lab director at the Liaoning Academy of Materials (LAM) and the director of the Institute of Quantum Materials and Devices at LAM in Shenyang, China. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Néel Institute, CNRS, France, and conducted postdoctoral research at Columbia University in New York City. His research primarily focuses on the emerging physical properties of functional materials at mesoscopic scales and on further implementing these interesting properties in future applications of nano-assemblies and nanoelectronics. Over the past few years, his team has uncovered a series of novel physical phenomena and nanostructures, such as the demonstration of a finFET with a single atomic fin, the realization of robust quantum Hall phases through the interfacial charge transfer and the induced charge orderings, the development of van der Waals polarity-engineered 3D integration of 2D complementary logic. The related works have been published in journals including Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Electronics, and Nature Communications.
Kilwon Cho
Postech
Nae-Eung Lee
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
Panelists
Silvestro Micera
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Joseph Wang
University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA
Joseph Wang is a Distinguished Professor of Nanoegineering, a SAIC Endowed Professor and the Director of the Center of Wearable Sensors (CWS) at University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA. Dr. Wang has made pioneering contributions to the fields of wearable sensors, biosensors, and microscale robots. He is a member of the US National Academy of Inventors, and of the European Academies of Engineering and of Science and Arts, and a fellow of the RSC, ECS and AIMBE. He has authored over 1300 research papers, 12 books, and 60 patents. He has been a has been a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher since 2015 (H Index 216). Wang holds Honorary Professor from 11 different universities and is the recipient of 3 National American Chemical Society Awards for Analytical Chemistry (2024), Electrochemistry (2006) and Instrumentation (1999), of the Ralph Adams Pittcon Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry, of the Talanta Medal, 2021 IUPAC Analytical Chemistry Medal, the Breyer Medal (Australia), Heyrovsky Medal (Czech Republic) the Speirs Medal (RSC), and the IEEE Sensor Achievement Award, 2021.
Wei Gao
California Institute of Technology, USA
Wei Gao is a Professor of Medical Engineering and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator in Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego in 2014 as a Jacobs Fellow and an HHMI International Student Research Fellow. In 2014-2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is an Associate Editor of Science Advances, npj Flexible Electronics, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, and Sensors & Diagnosis. He is a recipient of NSF Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, IAMBE Early Career Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, Pittcon Achievement Award, IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, and Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year in Engineering and Technology. He is a World Economic Forum Young Scientist, a Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science), and an AIMBE fellow. His research interests include wearable biosensors, digital medicine, bioelectronics, flexible electronics, and micro/nanorobotics. For more information about Gao’s research, visit www.gao.caltech.edu.
Jeehwan Kim
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lim Chwee Teck
National University of Singapore
Lance Li
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr. Lain-Jong (Lance) Li is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science at the National University of Singapore. He has held esteemed positions, including Chair Professor of Future Electronics at The University of Hong Kong and Director of Corporate Research at TSMC. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and serves as an Associate Editor for Nano Letters under the American Chemical Society.
Dr. Li completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemistry at National Taiwan University in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Subsequently, he worked as a Senior R&D Engineer at TSMC from 1997 to 2002. He obtained his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Oxford in 2006 and commenced his academic career as an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He served as an Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica in Taiwan in 2010 and joined KAUST in Saudi Arabia in 2014, where he advanced to the position of Full Professor by 2016. Dr. Li returned to TSMC as the Director of Corporate Research in late 2017. In 2021, he was appointed as a Chair Professor at The University of Hong Kong, and in 2025, he joined the National University of Singapore. His research is focused on Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), tool design, device fabrication and integration, and the growth of 2D semiconductor materials, including graphene and boron nitride. He holds over 60 U.S. patents and has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher from 2018 to 2024, with more than 500 publications, 84,000 citations, and an H-index of 134 according to the AD Science Index.
Kiana Aran
University of California, San Diego