René Jonker (M. SC)

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René is EVP and GM of Edge and Cloud AI Division at Soitec. René joined Soitec since April 2023, holds an M.Sc in Electronics Engineering and brings over 20 years of semiconductor industry experience. 

After beginning his career at Philips Semiconductors, he transitioned to a managerial role at NXP, leading RF IC development sites in the United States and Singapore. René later joined Nexperia in Hong Kong as head of Operations and subsequently became Operations Manager for Automotive at ams-Osram in Singapore. 

His international experience spans Europe, the United States, Hong Kong and Singapore, where he is based, showcasing his proficiency in managing multi-site and multicultural teams.

Chip Hong Chang is a Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He held joint appointments as Assistant Chair of Alumni of the School of EEE from 2008 to 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. He has coedited six books, published 13 book chapters, more than 120 international journal (more than 90 are IEEE) papers and more than 200 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 60 keynotes, plenary, tutorials and invited seminars. Dr. Chang was conferred the 2022 VISTA award of excellence in hardware security. He currently serves as the Senior Editorial Board member of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), Senior Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensic and Security (TIFS), and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I (TCAS-I) and IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI) Systems. He has held key appointments in the organizing and technical program committees of more than 80 international conferences (mostly IEEE). He is the 2018-2019 IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecturer, a member of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA) World's Top Industry Scientist, a Fellow of the IEEE, IET and AAIA. 

Hussam Amrouch is a Professor heading the Chair of AI Processor Design at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He is, additionally, heading the Brain-inspired Computing at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence. Further, he is the head of the Semiconductor Test and Reliability at the University of Stuttgart. He received his Ph.D. degree with the distinction (summa cum laude) from KIT, Germany in 2015. He has more than 260 publications (including over 110 articles in many top journals like Nature Communications) in multidisciplinary research areas covering semiconductor device physics, circuit design and computer architecture. His research interest is transistor compact modeling, in-memory computing with a special focus on reliability, and cryogenic circuits for quantum computing. 

James Tandon is the founder of Cassia.ai, a semiconductor IP company that focuses on approximate computer arithmetic for AI/ML accelerator chips. He is also an associate professor of computer engineering at Cal State East Bay in Hayward, California, USA. Prior to that, Dr. Tandon worked in industry in the Advanced Development Division of Microchip Technologies, and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Tokyo. He graduated with his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2009.

Kai Ni received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China in 2011, and Ph.D. degree of Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA in 2016 by working on characterization, modeling, and reliability of III-V MOSFETs. Since then, he became a postdoctoral associate at University of Notre Dame, working on ferroelectric devices for nonvolatile memory and novel computing paradigms. He is now an assistant professor in University of Notre Dame since 2023 after joining Rochester Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. He has around 100 publications in top journals and conference proceedings, including Nature Electronics, IEDM, VLSI Symposium, IRPS, EDL, etc. His current interests lie in nanoelectronic devices empowering unconventional computing, domain-specific accelerator, and memory technology. 

SangHyeon Kim received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2009, 2011, and 2014, respectively. After his Ph.D., he was with Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Korea in 2014 until he moved to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea in 2019. Before joining KAIST, he was a post-doc at imec, Belgium from 2017 to 2018. He is currently an associate professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Korea. His current research interests include Next-generation computing/communication devices, monolithic 3D integration, MicroLED, thin-film imager, and MID-IR photonics, etc.

Dr. Kenneth E. Lee is the Senior Scientific Director of the Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES) Interdisciplinary Research Group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). In LEES, he drives the core program effort to create a novel CMOS + III-V platform to enable new integrated electronic and photonic systems.

Dr. Lee is also a co-Founder of nsc, an integrated circuit (IC) design spin-off from SMART, which uses proprietary technology developed in LEES to monolithically integrate CMOS and III-Vs, making possible new innovations in product, system and software design. nsc’s ICs embed III-V devices, such as GaN LEDs, at high density inside of silicon wafers, creating chips that will revolutionize multiple near-term, high-growth markets such as smart lighting, AR / VR displays and advanced wireless communications.

Prior to this, Dr. Lee had stints in Singapore’s Ministry of Defence, DSO National Laboratories and Temasek Laboratories at Nanyang Technological University.

Dr. Lee received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998 and 1999, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009, all in Electrical Engineering.

Dr. François Andrieu is CEA fellow and the head of Laboratory “Nano-devices for Memory and Computing” at CEA-Leti, Grenoble, France.

His fields of interest are: embedded NVM, Resistive-RAM and In-Memory-Computing, advanced CMOS transistors, stacked nanowires, 3D-sequential integration. He has been strongly involved in the development of the Fully-Depleted-Silicon-On-Insulator (FDSOI) CMOS technology at Leti and with STMicroelectronics, where he was assigned between 2012-2015 in the process-integration and technology-to-design groups.

He is the author or co-author of more than 34 patents, 240 conference abstracts or refereed journal articles, 11 invited papers and 3 book chapters. He has served in many conference TPCs (IEDM, VLSI-TSA, EDTM, ESSDERC, SSDM…) and is currently in the steering committee of ESSERC. He received the IEEE senior grade in 2018, the IEEE/SEE Brillouin award in 2018, the European ERC consolidator grant in 2019 and became CEA fellow in 2022.

Vita Pi-Ho Hu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. She received her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering and her Ph.D. from the Institute of Electronics at National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2004 and 2011, respectively. Dr. Hu's research interests include Ferroelectric FETs, advanced nanoelectronics, low-power/high-performance SRAM, monolithic 3D IC, and design technology co-optimization. She has authored or co-authored over 100 refereed journal and conference papers on these topics. Before joining NTU, Dr. Hu served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Central University from 2015 to 2019. Since 2018, Dr. Hu has been actively involved as a technical committee member of ISQED. She also served as a committee member for IEDM in 2022-2023 and as a subcommittee chair in 2024.

Jun Luo obtained B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and Technology from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in 2002, and he received M.S. degree in Inorganic Material from Xiamen University in 2005. He received Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics and Applied Physics from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, in 2010. After graduation, he has been working at the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMECAS), and now is a professor, the director of Integrated Circuit Advanced Process R&D Center of IMECAS, and the deputy director of IMECAS.

In the past 15 years, Dr. Luo has been engaged in the research of Integrated Circuit materials, process, and device technology. He has published 180+ papers in top international conferences and important academic journals such as IEDM, IEEE EDL, TED, Appl. Phys. Lett. etc. He has co-authored and edited 4 books, given a number of invited conference talks, and has 100+ granted patents. He is the main advisor for 10+ Ph.D. students and 20+ master students. He is currently serving as the chief editor of Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Engineering, as the deputy chief editor of Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, and as the contracted editor of Wiley Series in Materials for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications. He received the "Excellent Patent Award" from the State Intellectual Property Office, the "Zhu Li Yuehua Outstanding Teacher Award" from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the China Electronic Information Science and Technology Innovation Team Award. He has been selected as an outstanding member of the Youth Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Rui Zhang is a full professor and vice president with Institute of Micro- and Nano-Electronics, Zhejiang University, China. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 2012, and joined Zhejiang University from 2013. He has received several awards associated with his research, including the IEEE Paul Rappaport Award and the Award for Science and Technology of Beijing, China. His recent research interests include the technology development of high mobility channel MOSFETs (Ge and SiGe), the physics of metal-oxide-semiconductor devices and the mixed-signal circuits design based on novel devices.

Dr. Yida Li, IEEE Senior Member, is currently an Assistant Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. He graduated with a Ph.D from National University of Singapore in 2013, and was previously with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Hsinchu as a process R&D principal engineer working on metal deposition and sillicidation at the 7/5 nm technology node, with both technology node currently in mass production. Dr. Li has been conducting research at the forefront of microelectronics for more than a decade, covering materials, devices, and system architectures. He has published more than 70 papers in international academic journals and conferences.

Dr. Ahmedullah Aziz is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. He earned his Ph.D. in ECE from Purdue University in 2019, an MS degree in EE from Pennsylvania State University in 2016, and a BS degree in EE from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology in 2013. He received several awards and accolades for his research, including the ‘Translational Research Award’ & ‘Chancellor’s Innovation Award’ from UT Knoxville (2024), ‘New Faculty Researcher Award’ from American Society of Engineering Educators (2024), 'ACM SIGDA Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award (2021)' from the Association of Computing Machinery, 'Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award (2019)' from Purdue University, and 'Icon' award from Samsung (2013). He is a technical program committee (TPC) member for multiple flagship conferences (including DAC and ISCAS), and a reviewer for several reputed journals (including Nature, Advanced Materials). He serves as an editorial board member for multiple journals including - 'Scientific Reports', and 'Frontiers in Nanotechnology'. He also served as a review panelist for the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Aziz is an expert in device-circuit co-design and electronic design automation (EDA). His research portfolio comprises multiple avenues of exploratory nanoelectronics, from device modeling to circuit/array design. 

Yunkyung Kim received the Ph.D. in electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2010. She was a Senior Engineer with the Image Development Team, System LSI Business, Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea, from 2010 to 2014. She has been a Professor of Electronic Engineering with Dong-A University, since 2014, where she has been with the Department of ICT Integrated Safe Ocean Smart Cities Engineering, since 2020. Her current research interests include the pixel design of CMOS image sensors.