Courses & Events

2026 US-Asia Technology Management Center Annual Meeting

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

04:30 pm - 06:30 pm

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US-Asia Technology Management Center (US-ATMC) Director Dr. Richard Dasher will discuss US-ATMC’s major accomplishments in a review of the Center’s research, education, and outreach programs over the last year, and the Center’s plans for the 2026 – 27 academic year.

Our keynote speaker this year is Prof. Reinhold Dauskardt, Dept. of Materials Science Engineering, Stanford University, on “Materials Science @ Stanford: The Last (1919 – 2019) and Next Century”.

We’ll also hear from US-ATMC Visiting Scholars as they present brief remarks on their activities and research findings over the past year.

Video Recordings:

US-ATMC Update and Strategic Overview from Dr. Richard Dasher, Director, US-ATMC

For a copy of Dr. Richard Dasher’s slides, please go here.

Keynote from Prof. Reinhold Dauskardt, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University on “Materials Science @ Stanford: The Last (1919 – 2019) and Next Century” and audience Q&A

Introductions to research by current US-ATMC visiting scholars

• • Yueyuan “Jenna” Yang, Executive Vice President and Head of AI Innovation & Business Development, Nippon Life X Silicon Valley
  • Akifumi Ishii, Assistant Manager, Hamamatsu Iwata Shinkin Bank and Community Manager, FUSE Accelerator
  • Daisuke Tanaka, Strategic Innovation & Partnership Lead (Silicon Valley Office), Hokkoku Bank Ltd.
  • Keisuke Kuwano, Planner, Innovation Strategy HQ, JR East Railways
  • Yukari Saito, Manager, JR East Information Systems (JEIS)
  • Taro Nakamura, Senior Manager, Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
  • Hiroaki Matsushima, RM Trust

 

About Prof. Reinhold Dauskardt:

Reinhold Dauskardt is the Ruth G. and William K. Bowes Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and has additional appointments as Professor in Mechanical Engineering, the Biodesign Institute and the Department of Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine.

The underlying theme of his research is to enable innovation and design of high-performance materials and devices by exploiting the fundamental connection between material structure and resulting thermomechanical function and reliability. His research group studies the chemistry and molecular structure of materials in bulk form or thin films and their thermo-mechanical behavior, adhesive and cohesive fracture properties, and behavior under complex loading and environmental conditions. Materials include thin-film and layered structures for nanoscience and energy technologies, high-performance laminates, biomaterials and soft tissues.

Dauskardt and his group have worked extensively on integrating new nano and molecular materials into emerging technologies and pioneered quantitative methods for adhesion and cohesion characterization for which he was awarded the prestigious Semiconductor Industry Association University Researcher Award in 2010 for research which has provided substantive and sustained contributions to semiconductor industry science and technology. His research on soft tissues and wound healing has concentrated on establishing a biomechanics framework to understand and control the biological processes that determine the effects of treatments and exposures on damage processes in human skin for which he was awarded the Henry Maso Award for fundamental contributions to the advancement of cosmetic and skin science, and scar formation in healing cutaneous wounds. Experimental studies are complimented with computational and modeling simulations.

His research includes interaction with a wide range of researchers in academia, research laboratories, industry, and clinical practice. He has served as editor for a number of journals, organized international conferences and symposia, and published over 300 articles in the scientific literature. Dauskardt has contributed significantly to leadership in Stanford’s multidisciplinary materials efforts which spans several departments, schools, and the SSRL.

Dauskardt has been involved in a range of university academic and materials research leadership roles at Stanford. He is an established international leader in the broader materials and device technical and scientific communities where he has managed several large multidisciplinary research activities. He has served as organizer of a range of international conferences and symposia including the Symposium on Solar Photovoltaics Materials, Manufacturing and Reliability at the upcoming ICMAT2015 Conference in Singapore.