Technology breakthrough in the field of imaging/sensing

• Kazuko Nishimura
• • Panasonic Holdings Corporation, Japan

• Date: November 06, 2022 (Sunday)
• Time: 16:40 - 17:00 (UTC+8)
• Room: Auditorium 國際會議廳, 10F

In order to continue efficient production, comfortable life, and new lifestyles into the future, it is important to detect, acquire, recognize, and judge various information about people and the environment. Even in sensing technology, the required performance and functions are changing. I want to talk about what is necessary to realize them and what kind of breakthroughs are needed.

Kazuko Nishimura received the B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in technology and innovation from Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan in 2022. She joined the Semiconductor Research Center, Panasonic Corporation where she engaged in R&D of high-speed analog-to-digital converters in 1995. Her team developed ultra-high-speed ADCs; the world’s fastest CMOS ADC published in ISSCC 2000, and contributed for a lot of digital read channel applications; DVDs and DVCs. From 1998 to 2007, she joined the task force of optical communication systems, and developed fiber-to-the-home systems. Her team developed Gbit/s-class CMOS burst-mode optical transceivers. From 2009 to 2012, she worked in R&D of RF systems. Her team developed industry's-first LSI that integrated one-segment tuner and demodulation function. From 2006 to 2014, she developed CMOS image sensors and contributed various applications. Currently, she is a manager in R&D division, Panasonic Holdings Corporation and pursues research on the organic photoconductive film (OPF) CMOS image sensors and sensor applications. She serves A-SSCC data converter subcommittee chair and ISSCC Imagers, Medical, MEMS and Displays subcommittee, SSCS Adcom and Image Sensor Europe advisory board. She is a senior member of IEEE.

Bridging the Gap between Nanoelectronics and Circuits

• Vita Pi-Ho Hu
• • National Taiwan University, Taiwan

• Date: November 06, 2022 (Sunday)
• Time: 17:00 - 17:20 (UTC+8)
• Room: Auditorium 國際會議廳, 10F

Advanced nanoelectronics technologies, including novel transistor structures and new materials, are essential for SoC scaling and have played critical roles in realizing various innovations in mobile, high-performance computing, and automotive applications. In this talk, I will present our recent studies of memory technologies with advanced transistors and share some interdisciplinary work experience.

Vita Pi-Ho Hu is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University. She received Ph.D. degree in Electronics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2011. Her research interests include ferroelectric non-volatile memory, advanced nanoelectronics-based SRAM, monolithic 3D IC, and design technology co-optimization. She has authored over 100 refereed journal and conference papers regarding her research interests.

Dr. Hu has received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on IC Design and Technology (ICICDT), the Postdoctoral Research Award from Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) in 2014, the Best Paper Award at IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA) in 2015, Exploration Research Award from Pan Wen Yuan Foundation in 2017, MOST Young Scholar Fellowship in 2018, Outstanding Youth Award from the Electronics Devices and Materials Association (EDMA) in 2019, and Ta-You Wu Memorial Award in 2021. She was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA, in 2017. She has served as the technical committee member of the IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) (2018-present) and the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in 2022.

Flexible Electronics for Digital Healthcare

• Kyeongha Kwon
• • KAIST, Korea

• Date: November 06, 2022 (Sunday)
• Time: 17:20 - 17:40 (UTC+8)
• Room: Auditorium 國際會議廳, 10F

Viral outbreaks like COVID-19 highlight the growing role of non-contact, remote patient monitoring via wireless medical devices. Remote patient monitoring solutions collect medical health data and vitals, including blood pressure, heartbeat, hydration levels and various biomarkers of different diseases from the user’s devices. Often in the form of medical wearables and apps, users transform their smartphone into a mobile lab for advanced diagnostics and real-time disease surveillance. In this talk, I will introduce wireless, flexible devices such as an implantable cardiac monitor, and different non-invasive techniques to provide an outlook for the future developments needed to bridge spatial-temporal gaps in digital healthcare system.

Kyeongha Kwon (M’22) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2011 and 2018, respectively. From 2018 to 2020, she was with Center for Bio-integrated Electronics (CBIE), Northwestern University, IL, USA. Since 2020, she has been with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, where she is currently an assistant professor. Her research interests span a wide range of topics in wireline communications and biomedical systems.

Rising to the Top by Leaping over Adversity

• Alice Wang
• • Everactive, USA

• Date: November 06, 2022 (Sunday)
• Time: 17:40 - 18:00 (UTC+8)
• Room: Auditorium 國際會議廳, 10F

Most people picture rising to the top to be a linear path up a technical or managerial ladder. In reality, rising to the top is a journey and mindset with a lot of barriers and adversity to overcome. Dr. Alice Wang has experienced rising up the technical ladder as well as the managerial ladder, in both large corporations and small startups. In this talk, she will share stories about several bumps, ups and downs that she faced along the way and provide some tips and resources to help overcome adversity on your way to the top

Alice Wang received her Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1997, 1998, and 2004, respectively. She wrote the paper "A 180-mV Subthreshold FFT Processor Using a Minimum Energy Design Methodology" with Professor Anantha Chandrakasan which inspired a new research field in ultra-low power technology. After her PhD, she spent 8 years at Texas Instruments developing low-power circuit and system technology for mobile, application processors and radios. At MediaTek, Alice was an Assistant General Manager in High-Performance Processor Technology working on advanced processors for consumer electronics including Smartphones, Tablets and Smart TV's and managing the Foundation IP teams (Standard cell library, Memory and I/O). Her work on low-power technology has been showcased in 30+ IEEE publications and she has co-authored two books. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, Elected member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Advisory Committee and Executive Committee for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference.

Currently, Alice is the Vice President of Hardware and Fellow at Everactive working on Self-Power Wireless Sensing Product development for Industrial IoT applications. She was elected to the Advisory Committee for the Solid State Circuits Committee (2017-2019) and is an advisor and past chair of the Women in Circuits committee.