Keynotes
Jan Rabaey
University of California at Berkeley, USA
Biography
Jan is a Professor in the Graduate School in the EECS Department the University of California at Berkeley, after being the holder of the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship at the same institute for over 30 years. He is a founding director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and the Berkeley Ubiquitous SwarmLab, and has served as the Electrical Engineering Division Chair at Berkeley twice. In 2019, he also became the CTO of the System-Technology Co-Optimization (STCO) Division of IMEC, Belgium.
Prof. Rabaey has made high-impact contributions to a number of fields, including low power integrated circuits, advanced wireless systems, mobile devices, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing. Some of the systems he helped envision include the infoPad (a forerunner of the iPad), PicoNets and PicoRadios (IoT avant-la-lettre), the Swarm (IoT on steroids), Brain-Machine interfaces and the Human Intranet. His current interests include the conception of the next-generation distributed systems, as well as the exploration of the interaction between the cyber and the biological worlds.
He is the primary author of the influential “Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective” textbook that has served to educate hundreds of thousands of students all over the world. He is the recipient of numerous awards, is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and has been involved in a broad variety of start-up ventures.
Luca Benini
Università of Bologna, Italy and ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Biography
Luca Benini holds the chair of digital Circuits and systems at ETHZ and is Full Professor at the Universita di Bologna. He received a PhD from Stanford University. Dr. Benini's research interests are in energy-efficient parallel computing systems, smart sensing micro-systems and machine learning hardware. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the ACM and a member of the Academia Europaea. He is the recipient of the 2016 IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg award, the 2020 EDAA achievement Award and the 2020 ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Award.
Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli
University of California at Berkeley, USA
Biography
Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli is the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. He is an author of over 1000 papers, 17 books and 2 patents in the area of design tools and methodologies, large scale systems, embedded systems, hybrid systems and innovation.
He was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in the area of Electronic Design Automation. He is a member of the Board of Directors of both public and privately held companies. He was a consultant or member of the Adviosry Boards of of several tech companies such as BMW, Mercedes, Magneti Marelli, Intel, ST microelectronics, HP, General Motors, United Technologies, Lutron, Lendlease and Elettronica. Currently, he is a member of the following boards/committees: Advisory Board, Xseed; Investment Committee of Indaco Ventures and Fondo Next. Board of Directors: Cadence, KPIT Technologies, eGap, Exein, Cy4Gate. He is Chairman of the Board of Quantum Motion, Innatera, Phoelex, e4Life and Phononic Vibes. From January 2013 to 2016, he was the President of the Strategic Committee of the Italian Strategic Fund. He was member of the Scientific Council of the Italian National Science Foundation (CNR) from 2001 to 2015. From February 2010 to December 2020, he had been a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Institute of Technology, where he is now a member of the Technical Scientific Committee. From July 2012 to July 2015, he was Chairperson of the Comitato Nazionale Garanti per la Ricerca. He is the Chairperson of the Strategy Board and of the International advisory Board of the Milano Innovation District (MIND). He is the recipient of several academic honors, research awards and honorary degrees including the IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Medal “for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields”. Alberto obtained an electrical engineering and computer science degree (“Dottore in Ingegneria”) summa cum laude from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1971 and holds four Honorary Doctorates from University of Aalborg, KTH, AGH and University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
Chris Van Hoof
KU Leuven, Belgium
Biography
Chris Van Hoof is a full professor at KU Leuven’s Faculty of Engineering Science, vice-president of Connected Health Solutions, and fellow at IMEC, and general manager of OnePlanet Research Center.
Van Hoof has published over 600 papers in journals, and conference proceedings and has given over 100 invited talks. His research has resulted in five startups, of which four are healthcare-related.
Van Hoof is the general manager of OnePlanet Research Center. In February 2019, the Dutch government provided a 65 million euro grant to create the research venture,[ which is a multidisciplinary collaboration agreement between IMEC, Wageningen University & Research, Radboud University, and Radboud University Medical Center.
At OnePlanet, Van Hoof oversees fundamental and applied research and aims to use the latest chip and digital technologies to create novel health and agriculture technology-based solutions. Agrifood and health scientists are developing technologies to help people eat and live healthier, while ensuring a sustainable supply chain.
Edoardo Charbon
Director Advanced Quantum Architecture Lab
Biography
Edoardo Charbon (SM’00 F’17) received the Diploma from ETH Zurich, the M.S. from the University of California at San Diego, and the Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, 1991, and 1995, respectively, all in electrical engineering and EECS. He has consulted with numerous organizations, including Bosch, X-Fab, Texas Instruments, Maxim, Sony, Agilent, and the Carlyle Group. He was with Cadence Design Systems from 1995 to 2000, where he was the Architect of the company's initiative on information hiding for intellectual property protection. In 2000, he joined Canesta Inc., as the Chief Architect, where he led the development of wireless 3-D CMOS image sensors. Since 2002 he has been a member of the faculty of EPFL, where he is full professor. From 2008 to 2016 he was with Delft University of Technology’s as full professor and Chair of VLSI design. He has been the driving force behind the creation of deep-submicron CMOS SPAD technology, which is mass-produced since 2015 and is present in telemeters, proximity sensors, and medical diagnostics tools. Since 2014, he has pioneered the use of Cryo-CMOS technology for the control of quantum devices, especially qubits, to achieve scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing. His interests span from 3-D vision, LiDAR, FLIM, FCS, NIROT to super-resolution microscopy, time-resolved Raman spectroscopy, and cryo-CMOS circuits and systems for quantum computing. He has authored or co-authored over 500 papers and two books, and he holds 30 patents. Dr. Charbon is the recipient of the 2023 IISS Pioneering Achievement Award, he is a distinguished visiting scholar of the W. M. Keck Institute for Space at Caltech, a fellow of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Photonics Society, and a fellow of the IEEE.