Dr. Amit Goyal is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo; a Member of US National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Inventors; a Fellow of AAAS, MRS, IEEE, APS, ASM, ACERS, IOP, WIF and WTN; and a Member of the US National Materials & Manufacturing Board (NMMB). He has co-authored over 360 publications and has 85 issued patents.  He was ranked by Thompson-Reuters as the most cited author worldwide in the field of high temperature superconductors from 1999-2009. He is the Director of the Lab for Heteroepitaxial Growth of Functional Materials & Devices, and the Director of the NYS Center of Plastics Recycling Research & Innovation at SUNY. He served as the Founding Director of the Institute on Research and Education on Energy, Environment & Water (2015-21), and is an Emeritus Corporate Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Lab. He has received numerous accolades including DOE’s E.O. Lawrence (EOL) Award in the inaugural category of Energy Science & Innovation.  The EOL award is given by the DOE Secretary on behalf of the President. Selected additional honors include: TEN R&D 100 awards, the R&D Magazine's "Innovator-of-the-Year" award (2010), Three National Federal Lab Consortium Awards for Tech. Transfer, and the SUNY-Buffalo President’s Medal (2019), the. highest award at the University at Buffalo.    

Keynote talk title: High-performance, heteroepitaxial, device layers for wide-ranging electrical and electronic applications.