Keynote Speakers

Prof. Amara AMARA
IEEE CASS Past President

Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University, China; National Key Laboratory on Spintronics

Biography: Amara is a computer scientist who received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1989. He started his career as an associate professor at Paris VI university for 3 years. After that, he joined ISEP (Paris Institute for Electronics) as the head of the Microelectronics Laboratory. He established the LISITE laboratory, which consisted of more than 40 researchers working in the areas of micro- and nanoelectronics, image and signal processing, and big data processing and analysis. Prof. Amara served as the Deputy Managing Director of ISEP in charge of Research and International Cooperation until March 2017. In June 2017, Prof. Amara joined Terre des hommes (Tdh), where he launched an international ICT for Development team. He led a joint team of Tdh, McGovern Foundation, and UNIGE that worked on artificial intelligence for child life saving (AI4CLS) in underserved countries. He is an IEEE Life Senior Member and an Academic Fellow of Geneva University.

Prof. Andrei Vladimirescu
IEEE Fellow

University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA

Biography: Andrei Vladimirescu (F’17) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.,He was a key contributor to the SPICE simulator at the University of California at Berkeley, releasing the SPICE2G6 production-level SW in 1981. He pioneered electrical simulation on parallel computers with the CLASSIE simulator as part of his Ph.D. He has authored a book The SPICE Book (J. Wiley, 1994). For many years he was the Research and Development Director leading the design and implementation of innovative software and hardware Electronic Design Automation products for Analog Devices Inc., Daisy Systems, Analog Design Tools, Valid Logic, and Cadence Design Systems. He is currently a Professor involved in research projects with the University of California at Berkeley, the Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, the Institut Supérieur d’Electronique de Paris, Paris, France, and a Consultant to industry. His current research interests include in the areas of ultra-low-voltage CMOS, design, simulation and modeling of circuits with new devices and circuits for quantum computing.

Prof. Chua-Chin Wang
Chair of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS-S), Tainan Chapter

National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan

Biography: Chua-Chin Wang (SM'04) was born in Taiwan, in 1962. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwain, in 1984, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1988 and 1992, respectively.,He then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and became a Full Professor in 1998. His recent research interests include mixed-signal circuit design, low-power and high-speed circuit design, communication interfacing circuitry, and bio-chips. He founded SOC group in Department of Electrical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University in 2005. He is currently serving as the Director of Engineering Technology Research and Promotion Center (ETRPC), National Sun Yat-Sen University.,Dr. Wang is the Chair of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS-S), Tainan Chapter. He is also the founding Chair of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), Tainan Chapter, and the founding Councilor of IEEE NSYSU Student Branch. He is also a member of the IEEE CASS Multimedia Systems Applications (MSA), VLSI Systems and Applications (VSA), Nanoelectronics and Giga-scale Systems (NG), and Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Technical Committees. Currently, he is also serving as the Associate Editor of International Journal of VLSI Design. He is also a Guest Editor of International Journal of Electrical Engineering. In 2007, he was elected to be IEEE CAS-S Nanoelectronics and Giga-Scale Systems (NG) Technical Committee Chair to serve a two-year term from 2008. In the same year, he was elected to be the DLP (Distinguished Lecturer Program) speaker of IEEE CAS-S. He was the General Chair of 2007 VLSI/CAD Symposium.

Prof Chang Chip Hong
IEEE Fellow

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Biography: Chip Hong Chang received the B.Eng. (Hons.) degree from the National University of Singapore, in 1989, and the M. Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He served as a Technical Consultant in industry prior to joining the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), NTU, in 1999, where he is currently a Professor. He is also chief consultant of Rock Solid Research Lab. He held joint appointments with the university as Assistant Chair of Alumni of the School of EEE from June 2008 to May 2014, Deputy Director of the Center for High Performance Embedded Systems from 2000 to 2011, and Program Director of the Center for Integrated Circuits and Systems from 2003 to 2009, and was consultant to Flextech Electronics and Panasonic Singapore Laboratory. He has coedited six books, published 13 book chapters, more than 100 international journal papers (>80 are in IEEE) and more than 180 refereed international conference papers (mostly IEEE). His current research interests include hardware security, AI security, biometric security, trustworthy sensing and hardware accelerators for post-quantum cryptography and edge computational intelligence. He has delivered more than 50 keynotes, tutorials and invited seminars, including tutorials at the 2017 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2017) and 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2017). He is the recipient of the 2006 NTU Research Outstanding and Award Recognition Scheme, the 2007 British High Commission Collaboration Development Award for Microelectronics and Embedded Systems and the 2007 Canada Microsystems Strategic Alliance of Quebec Collaboration Development Award, co-recipient of the AsianHOST 2021 Best Paper Award, PrimeAsia-2010 Gold Leaf and Silver Leaf Certificates, and coauthor of the finalist of AsianHOST 2019 best paper award, AsianHOST 2017 Cisco best paper award, ISCAS 2015 best student paper award competition and VLSI 95 best paper award. He was conferred the Venus International Foundation 2022 Science and Technology Award (VISTA 2022) of Excellence in Hardware Security.
Dr. Chang currently serves as the Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensic and Security, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I and IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. He also served as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensic and Security and IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems from 2016 to 2019, IEEE Access from 2013 to 2019, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I from 2010 to 2013, Integration, the VLSI Journal from 2013 to 2015, Springer Journal of Hardware and System Security from 2016 to 2020 and Microelectronics Journal from 2014 to 2020. He guest edited around 10 special issues and served in the organizing and technical program committee of more than 70 international conferences (mostly IEEE, including IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems) and served in the organizing and technical program committees of more than 70 international conferences (mostly IEEE). He has served in the 2019 and 2020 IEEE CASS Fellow Elevation Committee and 2020 IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecture Program Selection Committee. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the IET, and an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer 2018-2019.

Prof. Hadi Heidari
IEEE Senior Member

University of Glasgow, UK

Biography: Professor Hadi Heidari (PhD, SMIEEE, FHEA, FRSA, MIET, CEng) is a distinguished Professor of Nanoelectronics at the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK. He currently heads the Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering Division and is a recipient of the prestigious EPSRC Open Fellowship. Prof. Heidari leads the Microelectronics Lab (meLAB), which is at the forefront of research in integrated micro/nanoelectronics, focusing on cutting-edge applications in medical wearables, implantables, and industrial technologies like quantum computing and ultrasound systems.
In addition to his academic roles, Prof. Heidari is the CTO and co-founder of Neuranics, a deep neurotechnology company developing next-generation magnetic sensors for wearable neural interfaces.
Under his leadership, meLAB has been instrumental in securing over £30 million in national and international research projects and has attracted more than £10 million in funding from prominent research councils and organizations, including UKRI (EPSRC and Innovate UK), the European Commission, the Royal Society, the British Council, the Scottish Funding Council, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Prof. Heidari is also a member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland (YAS) and serves on the eFutures Steering Group, an EPSRC-funded network that represents the UK’s electronic systems academic community. He is a member of the EPSRC College and regularly reviews proposals for the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and the Royal Society of New Zealand. Prof. Heidari is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA). He previously served as a Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Fellow.
Prof. Heidari has held several prominent positions within IEEE, including serving as a Member-at-Large on the IEEE Sensors Council (2020-2023) and as a Board of Governors member for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2018-2020). He is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and is on the editorial boards of multiple journals, such as the Elsevier Microelectronics Journal, IEEE Sensors Journal, and Frontiers in Neuroscience. He has played a significant role in organizing numerous IEEE conferences, including serving as General Chair for IEEE ICECS 2020 and 2022 in Glasgow, Technical Program Chair for IEEE PRIME 2019, and as a committee member for events like the UK Circuits and Systems Workshop (UKCAS), IEEE SENSORS, ICECS, BioCAS, PRIME, and ISCAS.
Prof. Heidari is a prolific author with over 280 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals and conferences. His contributions have been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the 2020 IET Healthcare Technologies Early Career JA Lodge Award, the 2019 IEEE Sensors Council Young Professional Award, the University of Glasgow’s 2018 Rewards for Excellence prize, the Silk Road Award from ISSCC 2016, the Best Paper Award from IEEE ISCAS 2014, and the Gold Leaf Award from IEEE PRIME 2014.

Prof. Thuong Le Tien
IEEE Member

HCMCity University of Technology, Vietnam National University, Vietnam

Biography: Thuong was born and grew up in Saigon, now HoChiMinh City, Vietnam. He got Bachelor and Master Degrees in Engineering from the Hochiminh city University of Technology, HCMUT, Vietnam in 12-1980 and 1995 in respectively, since May-1981 he has been a teaching assistant then the lecturer in the Electronics & Telecommunications Department, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. He had spent 3 years in the Federal Republic of Germany as a visiting scholar at the Ruhr University of Bochum from 1989 until 1992. He received the Ph.D. in Telecommunications from the University of Tasmania, Australia in 9-1998. He served as Deputy Department Head for many years and had been the Telecommunications Department Head from 1998 until 2002. He had also appointed for the second position as the Director of Center for Overseas Studies since 1998 up to May-2010. His areas of specialization include: Communication Systems, Digital Signal Processing and Electronic Circuits. He has published the teaching articles for university students related to Electronic Circuits 1 and 2; Digital Signal Processing & Wavelets; Antenna & Wave Propagation, Communication Systems. He was awarded the title Associate Professor and then National Distinguished Lecturer from the Academic State Council and the Chairman of National in 2003 and 2008 in respectively. He was awarded the title Full Professor by the Academic State Council in October 2016.

Invited Speaker

Assoc. Prof. Sylvain Eimer

Beihang University, China

Biography: Dr. Sylvain Eimer is a distinguished researcher and associate professor with extensive expertise in thin film deposition, spintronics, and nanotechnology. His work spans fundamental research and applied science, focusing on materials for advanced magnetic devices.
Dr. Eimer earned his Ph.D. in Physics, specializing in materials physics and chemistry, from Sorbonne University in Paris. He also holds a master's degree in materials science and a DEST in industrial processes, complementing his bachelor's degree in mathematics and technology. His research has made significant contributions to nanoscience, nanotechnology, and the development of magnetic thin films and heterostructures.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Eimer has held research positions at prestigious institutions, including the IPCMS laboratory at CNRS, GREYC laboratory in Caen, and the University of Paris-Saclay. Since 2020, he has been part of the Micro-Nano Science and Technology Research Center at Beihang University’s Hefei Innovation Research Institute, where his work focuses on developing spintronics devices and exploring irradiation techniques to optimize thin-film performance. In May 2024, he was appointed as an associate professor at the National Spintronics Key Laboratory in ZFAI Hangzhou, where he advances research in spintronic materials and devices.
Dr. Eimer's research interests include the fabrication and characterization of magnetic multilayers for ultrathin memory applications, using novel deposition methods and low-energy ion irradiation. His recent studies have addressed the magnetic properties and spin-orbit interactions in Pt/Co multilayers under diverse conditions, including flexible substrates, with applications in energy-efficient and wearable spintronic devices.
An accomplished scholar, Dr. Eimer has published in leading journals such as Science China Information Science and Physical Review B. His work on perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in multilayer films and ion irradiation has provided valuable insights into tailoring magnetic properties for next-generation technologies.

Assoc. Prof. Shunji Nishimura

National Institute of Technology, Oita College, Japan

Biography: Shunji Nishimura is an accomplished Associate Professor at the National Institute of Technology, Oita College, specializing in computer science. With specific expertise in the semantics of digital circuits, Dr. Nishimura combines academic rigor with industry experience to advance the understanding and application of this critical field in modern technology.
Before transitioning to academia, Dr. Nishimura worked as an engineer at a semiconductor company, gaining invaluable hands-on experience in cutting-edge technologies and the practical challenges of semiconductor design and development. This industry background informs his research and teaching, bridging the gap between theoretical concepts and real-world applications.
Dr. Nishimura holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from Kumamoto University and a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Tohoku University. Passionate about the pursuit of scientific truth, he actively contributes to research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and knowledge dissemination through publications and conferences.
As an educator and researcher, Dr. Nishimura is committed to inspiring innovation and fostering the next generation of computer scientists, ensuring his work has a lasting impact both in academia and industry.