Keynote Speaker
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.
Speech: Near and In-Memory Computing for AI: From Devices, Circuits to Architecture
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.
Speech: 50 Years of SPICE and Hundred-Billion Transistors per Chip Later
Prof. Chua-Chin Wang
Chair of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS-S), Tainan Chapter
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
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. Thuy Trong Le
San José State University, California, USA
Biography: Thuy T. Le was born in Quang Ngai, moved to Saigon in 1965, and left Vietnam for the United States in 1980 at the age of 23. Thuy received his Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. degrees all from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985, 1987, and 1990, respectively. Presently he is a Professor and Department Head of the Electrical Engineering Department at San José State University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of chip design, embedded systems, hardware accelerators, computational nuclear physics, and quantum computing.
Before joining San José State University, Thuy worked for Fujitsu America as an Application Specialist and Senior Consultant in the area of High-Performance Computing for scientific applications, and worked for Westinghouse Savannah River Laboratory as a Senior Research Engineer for the project of designing five production nuclear reactors for the United States Department of Energy. During his time in Berkeley as a doctoral student, he worked part-time as a Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a Nuclear Reactor Operator of the Berkeley nuclear research reactor, and a Technical Reviewer of Sierra Nuclear Corporation for the design of spent nuclear fuel casks for transportation and storage.
Professor Le has served as a General Chair, Technical Program Chair, Keynote Speaker, and Editor of many international conferences, symposiums, and journals. He has also served as an Advisor for a number of non-profit organizations and high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. He is a co-author of several computational nuclear reactor and radiation shielding codes. His publications include more than 60 technical papers and reports in areas of integrated circuits and digital system design, hardware accelerators, high-performance computing, computational nuclear reactor physics, and engineering curriculum development.
Speech: The State of Quantum Computing and the Future Roadmap