Keynote Speaker 

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. Hadi Heidari

IEEE Senior Member

University of Glasgow, UK

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

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.