Quanxi Jia is an Empire Innovation Professor and National Grid Professor of Materials Research at the University at Buffalo (UB), the State University of New York. He is also the Scientific Director of New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics. Prior to taking his Professional Research Teaching Leave from Los Alamos National Laboratory and joining UB in August 2016, he was the Director of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center operated jointly by Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Xian Jiaotong University, China, and his Ph.D in the same field from University at Buffalo. 

Quanxi’s research areas include synthesis and study of the structure-property relationships of nanostructured materials, multifunctional materials, and thin films; development of novel deposition techniques for the growth of electronic materials; as well as development and fabrication of novel solid-state microelectronic/electro-optic devices. Quanxi has authored/co-authored over 450 peer-reviewed journal articles, has delivered more than 100 invited talks, and holds 48 U.S. patents. He serves as the co-editor-in-chief of Materials Research Letters, and sits on the editorial board of several academic/professional journals. Quanxi’s professional achievements have been widely recognized. Among his many awards and honors are two prestigious R&D 100 awards, the 2005 Asian-American Engineer of the Year Award, and the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer. He is an elected Fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society, the American Ceramic Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.