Keynote Speakers

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  Mohan Lal Kolhe

  Research field: Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems, Smart Grid and Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Systems, Electric Vehicles, Hydrogen Energy Technologies, Solar Photovoltaic and Wind Energy Systems Engineering, Electro-Mechanical-Chemical Energy Conversion and Management, Power System Dynamics, Electrical Machines, Energy Conversion and Management, Techno-Economics of Energy Systems.

  Professor, University of Agder, Norway.

  Prof. Dr. Mohan Lal Kolhe is a full professor in smart grid and renewable energy at the Faculty of Engineering and Science of the University of Agder (Norway). He is a leading renewable energy technologist with three decades of academic experience at the international level and previously held academic positions at the world's prestigious universities, e.g., University College London (UK / Australia), University of Dundee (UK); University of Jyvaskyla (Finland); Hydrogen Research Institute, QC (Canada); etc. In addition, he was a member of the Government of South Australia’s first Renewable Energy Board (2009-2011) and worked on developing renewable energy policies. Professor Kolhe is an expert evaluator of many prestigious international research councils (e.g., European Commission: Erasmus+ Higher Education – International Capacity Building, Royal Society London (UK), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC UK), Cyprus Research Foundation, etc.). In addition, many international organizations have invited him to deliver keynote addresses, expert lectures, workshops, etc. He has also been a member of many academic promotional committees. Professor Kolhe has been successful in obtaining competitive research funding from prestigious research bodies (such as the Norwegian Research Council, EU, EPSRC, BBSRC, NRP, etc.) for his work on sustainable energy systems. His work on energy systems and electrical & electronic engineering has been recognised in the top 2% of scientists worldwide consistently from 2020 to 2023, according to Stanford University matrices based on Elsevier data. His top 10 publications have received an average of more than 200 citations each, making him an acknowledged pioneer in his profession on a global scale.

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  Luigi Fortuna

  Research field: System Theory, Control Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, Complex Systems, Robust Control, Chaos, Cellular Neural Networks, Soft Computing, Bio-inspired Robotics, Model Order Reduction.

  Professor, STM Lab+, Italy.

  Luigi Fortuna (Life Fellow, IEEE; Fellow, IEICE & AIAA) received the degree in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) from the University of Catania, Italy, in 1977. He became a Full Professor of System Theory in 1994 and served as the Dean of the Engineering Faculty at the University of Catania (2005–2012). He is currently with the University of Palermo. He has authored over 760 scientific publications and is co-author of 24 books. He has coordinated numerous EU and national research projects (e.g., FIRB, PRIN, CLWAR) and collaborated with leading institutions including JET (UK), ENEA, the Italian Space Agency (ASI), and EURATOM/Eurofusion. His research spans control theory, nonlinear circuits and systems, complex networks, and bio-inspired robotics. Prof. Fortuna holds 11 patents and has held key editorial roles (e.g., Editor-in-Chief of book series by Springer and World Scientific). According to Scopus, his work has received over 13,700 citations with an H-index of 67 (as of 2025). He remains a leading figure in systems and control engineering.

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  Yoshiaki Daimon Hagiwara

  Research field: ADC, DRAM and High-speed Cache SRAM Buffer Memory Chips, Micro Controller Chips, Semiconductor Chips for AIPS Robotics, Solar Cell Energy Solutions.

  Professor, Sojo University, Japan.

  Hagiwara graduated California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California in USA with BS71 with honor, MS1972 and PhD1975 with the major in Electric Engineering and with the minor in Physics. In February1975, he joined Sony in Tokyo, Japan and was engaged first in the early development of Sony image sensors. While working for Sony from 1975 to 2008, he was engaged in the early developments of image sensor and the digital camera chip set including the ADC, DRAM and high-speed Cache SRAM buffer memory chips and micro controller chips. Before retiring from Sony at the end of July 2008, he was engaged in the PS2 and PS3 chip set developments. He was invited to talk at CCD1979, ECS1980, ESSCIRC2001, ESSCIRC2008 and ISSCC2013. While working at Sony until July 2008, he was serving as a visiting professor at Caltech since 1998 to 1999 in the office of Prof. C. A. Mead in Electrical Engineering department and also in the offices of Prof. T.C. McGill and Prof. James McCaldin in Applied Physics department. He was also serving as a visiting professor since 2003 till 2006 in the office of Prof. Haruo Kobayashi in Electrical Engineering department at Gunma University in Japan.
  

  In 1992 he also served as a member of JEDEC memory standardization committee and also as the IEC TC47　technical committee chair of the international standard committee (IEC). He also served as the international program chair and an operational committee member in IEEE EDS sponsored ICMTS conferences, IEEE ISSCC conferences for which he served as the ISSCC Asian Committee chair and also as the ISSCC international technical program committee (ITC) chair in series. He was also a member in the program committee (PC) and the operational committee (OC) and is now serving in the advisory committee (AC) of the IEEE Cool Chips conferences in series. He also taught from 2020 to 2021 the AIPS, Artificial Intelligent Partner System for AI robotics at Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan.
  

  In 2008 he founded and worked as the president of Artificial Intelligent Partner System, AIPS, a nonprofit research organization, NPO, registered by Kanagawa prefecture government in Japan. Since 2017, he is serving as an operational committee (OC) member and also as a technical program committee (PC) member of Department of Education in Society of Semiconductor Industry Specialists (SSIS) in Japan. Since 2009 till 2017, he taught graduate and undergraduate students as a full professor of Information and Communication Science department and is still now serving as a specially appointed professor at the president office in Sojo University in Kumamoto-city, Japan working for developments of semiconductor chips for AIPS robotics and Solar Cell energy solutions. He is Caltech Distinguished Alumni, IEEE Life Fellow and AAIA Fellow.

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  Mohamad Sawan

  Research field: Smart Medical Devices Including Brain-Computer Interface, Biosensors and Actuators, Which Involve Microelectronics, Microfluidics, Nanophotonics, Integrated Circuits, Microfabrication, Energy Harvesting, Signal Processing, Wireless Communication, Microsystem Integration, Assembly, Packaging, and In Vivo Validation.

  Professor, Westlake University, China.

  Mohamad Sawan (FRSC, FCAE, FEIC, Life Fellow IEEE) is a leading scientist in smart medical devices, known for his pioneering work in implantable and wearable microsystems. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sherbrooke in 1990 and held professor positions at Polytechnique Montréal from 1991 to 2018. From 2001 to 2015, he held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Smart Medical Devices. He joined Westlake University in 2018 as a Chair Professor, where he founded and directs the Center of Excellence in Biomedical Research on Advanced Integrated-on-chips Neurotechnologies (CenBRAIN Neurotech). Prof. Sawan has held key editorial roles, including Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and founder/Editor-in-Chief of the ELSP Neuroelectronics Journal. He is also the founder of the IEEE NEWCAS conference and co-founder of IEEE-BioCAS and IEEE-AICAS. His research focuses on brain-computer interfaces, biosensors, actuators, and integrated microsystems for medical applications. He has published over 1,000 papers, 25 monographs, and received over 19,600 citations with an H-index of 67.

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  Gwee Bah Hwee

  Research field: Hardware Security, Hardware Assurance, Asynchronous Circuit, Machine Learning and Image Processing.

  Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

  Dr Bah-Hwee Gwee received his BEng (Hons) degree from University of Aberdeen, UK, in 1990. He received his MEng and PhD degrees from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 1992 and 1998 respectively. He was an Assistant Professor in School of EEE, NTU from 1999 to 2005 and has been an Associate Professor since 2005. He had held several school administrative committee appointments including Chairman of EEE Career Guidance Committee from 2000 - 2005, Chairman of EEE Outreach Committee from 2005 - 2009, Assistant Chair (Students) EEE from 2010 - 2014 and has been the Assistant Chair (Outreach) EEE since 2017. He is the Deputy Director of National Integrated Centre for Evaluation (NiCE). Dr Gwee was the Principal Investigator (PIs) of a number of research projects including the ASEAN-European Union University Network Programme, Ministry of Education (MoE) Tier-1 and Tier-2, Defence Science Organisation, Defence Science and Technology Agency, Temasek Laboratories@NTU, A-STAR PSF, Cybersecurity Agency, National Research Foundation projects. He was also the co-PIs of DARPA (USA), NRF (SOCure), NRF (CHFA), NTU-Panasonic, NTU-Lingköping and GAP (Proof of Concept) Fund research projects. His total research grant is amounting to more than US$15m. He has filed 8 US patents in circuit design and hardware security, 5 of them have been granted by US PTO. His research interests include hardware security, hardware assurance, asynchronous circuit, machine learning and image processing. Dr Gwee was awarded Defence Technology Prize Team (R&D) category in 2016, TL@NTU Scientific Award, 2016, TL@NTU Best Publication Award in 2012 and the NTU EEE Teaching Excellence Award – Year 3 in 2013. He has co-founded 2 start-ups. Dr Gwee was the Chairman of IEEE Singapore Circuits and Systems Chapter in 2005, 2006, 2013 and 2016. He has been the members of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) DSP, VSA and Bio-CAS Technical Committees (TC) since 2004. He was the Chairman of IEEE CASS DSP TC from 2018 - 2020. He has served in the Organizing Committees for IEEE BioCAS-2004, IEEE APCCAS-2006, Technical Program Chair for ISIC-2007, ISIC-2011, ISIC-2016 and served in the steering committee for IEEE APCCAS 2006 - 2008. He was the General Chair of IEEE DSP 2018, IEEE SOCC 2019, IEEE ISICAS 2021 and will be the General Chair of ISCAS 2024 (IEEE CAS Society flagship conference). He was the Associate Editor for IEEE CAS Magazine (from 2020 – present), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I – Regular Papers (T-CAS I) from 2012-2013 and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II – Express Brief (T-CAS II) from 2010 - 2011, from 2018 – 2019 and from 2020 – 2021. He serves in the editorial board of IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine from 2021 – 2022 and Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (CSSP) from 2007 - 2012. He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for CAS Society from 2009 – 2010 and from 2017 - 2018. He was the keynote speaker of IEEE MCSoC 2021, IEEE PAINE 2020 and IEEE APCCAS 2020.
  
  

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  Tee Hui Teo

  Research field: Integrated Circuits, Artificial Intelligence, IC Design, Device Characterization and Modelling.

  Senior Lecturer, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.

  Tee Hui Teo graduated with Master of Engineering and Ph.D. from National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University in 2000 and 2009 respectively in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. Since 1996, he was with Sharp, ST-Microelectronics, Intelligent Micro-Devices (Matsushita), and etc. as a senior Integrated Circuits (IC) designer, prior to joining Institute of Microelectronics, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore as principal investigator in advanced IC design R&D. In 2010, he joined education sector for setting up both Analog and Digital IC design courses and laboratories for Technical University of Munich, Asia. He is currently with Singapore University of Technology and Design. T. Hui is a Senior Member of IEEE, and Fellow of IES (Institution of Engineers Singapore). He has served as General Chair of several international academic conferences, as well as Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor of several international journals.

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  Muhammad Junaid

  Research field: Short-Circuit Current, Current Limitations, Fast Switching, Rated Voltage, Short-Circuit Fault, Electric Aircraft, Electric Field Strength, Electrode Gap, Electrode Geometry, Electrode Materials, Power System.

  Associate Professor, China University of Mining and Technology, China.

  Muhammad Junaid (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, in 2020. Since late 2020, he has been serving as an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at King's College Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and a Lecturer in Power Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology, Pakistan. He has been involved in ten funded projects, presiding over eight of them, holds 11 patents, and 56 publications. His research focuses on alternatives to the SF6 gas and key technologies for fault current interruption, including vacuum interrupters, cryogenic dielectrics, and high voltage insulation. Dr. Junaid He is a member of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering (CSEE), the European Society for Applied Superconductivity (ESAS), and IAENG Hong Kong, and a life member of the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC).

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  Hao Lu

  Research field: Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Devices, Key Technologies for Heterogeneous Integration of Gallium Nitride, Key Processes for Compound Semiconductors.

  Associate Professor, Xidian University, China.

  Hao Lu received the received the Ph.D. degree in School of Microelectronics from Xidian University, Xi'an, China. He is now an Associate Professor of Xidian University. His research interest is GaN-based microwave/millimeter wave electronic devices and key technologies of heterostructure integration. He has published more than 60 technical papers in IEEE IEDM, IEEE Electron Devices Letters, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Applied Physics Letters, Science China-Information sciences. etc., including 26 first-author publications. He holds 33 chinese patents (12 Granted patents). Has made several oral/invited presentation at international conferences such as IEDM, IEEE WiPDA, IEEE ICTA, IWN, APWS, etc. He won the IEEE WiPDA-Asia Best Presentation Award, AMSE Best Presentation Award, Best Researcher Award, the first xinyuan science and technology innovation award, and Xidian Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Funding and other awards. He serves Guest Editor at Micromachines Journal, Editor Committee of JEEE. He is IEEE Member, and member of the China Institute of Electronics.