Keynote Speakers
Prof. Franco Maloberti
Division I Director of IEEE, Life Fellow of IEEE
Univeristy of Pavia, Italy
Biography: Franco
Maloberti received the Laurea degree in physics (summa cum laude) from the
University of Parma, Parma, Italy, in 1968, and the Dr. Honoris Causa Ph.D.
in electronics from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y
Electronica (Inaoe), Puebla, Mexico, in 1996.
He is Emeritus Professor, University of Pavia, Italy and Visiting Chair
Professor, University of Macau, China SAR. In 1993, he was a Visiting
Professor at The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-PEL), Zurich,
Switzerland and in 2004 Visiting Professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
From 2000 to 2002 he was the TI/J.Kilby Analog Engineering Chair Professor
at the Texas A&M University and from 2002 to 2004 the Distinguished
Microelectronic Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas.
His professional expertise is in the design, analysis, and characterization
of integrated circuits and analog digital applications, mainly in the areas
of switched-capacitor circuits, data converters, interfaces for
telecommunication, sensor systems, portable power management, and CAD for
analog and mixed A/D design. He has written about 600 published papers,
seven books and holds 36 patents.
He is Director of the Division I of IEEE. He was President of the IEEE CAS
Society, VP Region 8 of IEEE CAS (1995-1997), Associate Editor of
IEEE-TCAS-II, President of the IEEE Sensor Council (2002-2003), IEEE CAS BoG
member (2003-2005), VP Publications IEEE CAS (2007-2008). He was DL IEEE SSC
Society (2009-2010) and DL IEEE CAS Society (2006-2007; 2012-2013). He
received the 1999 IEEE CAS Society Meritorious Service Award, the 2000 CAS
Society Golden Jubilee Medal, and the IEEE Millenium Medal. He received the
1996 IEE Fleming Premium, the ESSCIRC 2007 Best Paper Award and the IEEJ
Workshop 2007 and 2010 Best Paper Award. He received the IEEE CAS Society
2013 Mac Van Valkenburg Award.
Prof. Massimo Alioto
Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Program for the IEEE CAS Society, Fellow of IEEE
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Biography: Massimo
Alioto is a Professor at the ECE Department of the National University of
Singapore, where he leads the Green IC group, the Integrated Circuits and
Embedded Systems area, and the FD-fAbrICS center on intelligent & connected
systems. Previously, he held positions at the University of Siena, Intel
Labs – CRL (2013), University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (2011-2012),
University of California – Berkeley (2009-2011), EPFL - Lausanne.
He is (co)author of 350+ publications on journals and conference
proceedings, and four books with Springer (with two more coming this
quarter). His primary research interests include ultra-low power and
self-powered systems, green computing, circuits for machine intelligence,
hardware security, and emerging technologies.
He was the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems and
Deputy Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics
in Circuits and Systems. He is currently the Chair of the Distinguished
Lecturer Program for the IEEE CAS Society, and was a Distinguished Lecturer
for the SSC and CAS Society. Previously, Prof. Alioto was the Chair of the
“VLSI Systems and Applications” Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society (2010-2012). He served as Guest Editor of numerous journal
special issues (JSSC, TCAS-I, JETCAS…), Technical Program Chair of several
IEEE conferences (ISCAS, SOCC, PRIME, ICECS), and TPC member (ISSCC, ASSCC).
His research group contribution has been recognized through various best
paper awards (e.g., ISSCC, ICECS), and in the ten technological highlights
of the TSMC 2020 annual report, among the others. Prof. Alioto is an IEEE
Fellow.
Prof. Gui-Lu Long
Tsinghua University, China
Biography: Gui-Lu Long, chair professor at
Tsinghua University & Vice-President, Beijing Academy of Quantum Information
Sciences. He received his BS from Shandong University in 1982 and Ph.D. from
Tsinghua University in 1987. He has been working in Tsinghua since 1987.
Between 1989-1993, he worked as a research fellow in the University of
Sussex working in Prof. J. P. Elliott’s group. During June-July 2002, he
visited Prof. Anton Zeilinger’s group.
Notably among his various achievements, he proposed the quantum secure
direct communication (QSDC), which transmits secure information directly
using quantum states, developing reliable transmission of information
through noisy channel into reliable and secure transmission of information
through a channel with both noise and eavesdropping; the linear combination
unitaries (LCU) quantum computing paradigm; the WISE (Wavefunction Is the
System Entity) interpretation of quantum mechanics; and developed a quantum
exact search algorithm and quantum algorithms for cryptography analysis and
so on. He was former AAPPS President and C13 vice-chair of IUPAP. He has
been invited to give talks on quantum information in various venues of IEEE
such as VTC, GLOBECOM and ICC. He is fellow of America Physical Society &
Institute of Physics of UK.
Prof. Qiang Li
Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
Founding Chair
of IEEE Chengdu SSCS/CASS Joint Chapter
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Biography: Qiang Li
received the B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from the Huazhong University
of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China and the Ph.D. in Electronic
Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in
2001 and 2007, respectively. He has been working on analog/RF and
mixed-signal circuits in both academia and industry, holding positions of
Engineer, Project Leader & Technical Consultant in Singapore. He has been an
Associate Professor at the Aarhus University, Denmark during 2011-2014, and
the Vice Dean of the School of Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics,
UESTC during 2014-2018. He is currently a full Professor at the University
of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), heading the analog
group. His research interests include low-voltage and low-power analog/RF
circuits, data converters, and mixed-mode circuits for biomedical and sensor
interfaces.
He has founded and is currently heading the UESTC Institute of Integrated
Circuits and Systems. In January 2018, The Institute is accredited as an
international collaboration platform (111 Project) co-supported by the
Chinese Ministry of Education and SAFEA.
Prof. Li serves as the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State
Circuits Society (SSCS), a member of the Technical Program Committee of IEEE
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), a member of the Technical
Program Committee of European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), and
a member of the Technical Program Committee of IEEE Asian Solid-State
Circuits Conference (ASSCC). He was a member of the Student Research Preview
(SRP) committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
and the TPC Chair of 2018 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and
Systems (APCCAS). He served/serves as a Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on
Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I) and an Associate Editor of
IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (OJCAS). He is the Founding Chair
of IEEE Chengdu SSCS/CASS Joint Chapter.