Featured Speakers

Prof. Nikola Kasabov

Professor Nikola K Kasabov is a Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Fellow of the INNS College of Fellows, DVF of the Royal Academy of Engineering UK. He has a Masters and a PhD degrees from TU Sofia and Doctor Honoris Causa from Obuda University, Budapest. He is the Founding Director of KEDRI and Professor of Аuckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He is а Visiting Professor at IICT Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Dalian University, China. He is the Director of Knowledgeengineering.ai and member of the advisory board of Conscium.com. Kasabov is Past President of the Asia Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS) and the International Neural Network Society (INNS). Since 2022 he established the N3BG group in Bulgaria. Kasabov has published more than 700 works in neural networks and brain-inspired computation. More information of Prof. Kasabov can be found in: https://academics.aut.ac.nz/nkasabov and https://www.knowledgengineering.ai.

Prof. J. Joshua Yang

J. Joshua Yang is the Arthur B. Freeman Chair professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. His current research interest is Post-CMOS hardware for neuromorphic computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, where he published several pioneering papers and holds 120 granted US Patents. He is the Founding Chair of the IEEE Neuromorphic Computing Technical Committee and the director of USC-Airforce Center of Excellent on Neuromorphic Computing. He is an Associate Editor of Science Advances (AAAS). He was elected to the IEEE Fellow and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow for his contributions to resistive switching materials and devices for nonvolatile memory and neuromorphic computing.

Prof. Yoshihiro Iwasa

Yoshihiro Iwasa earned his Ph.D. in 1986 from The University of Tokyo, where he later held positions as a research associate and then a lecturer. In 1993-1994, he was a visiting scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, USA. In 1994, Iwasa was promoted to associate professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), before ascending to the position of full professor at the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University in 2001. In 2010, he made the move to the Department of Applied Physics at The University of Tokyo. Iwasa transitioned in 2024 to RIKEN as a deputy director of Center for Emergent Matter Science. His research expertise lies in the realm of nanomaterial physics including 2D materials through an interdisciplinary device concept, iontronics that means ion-driven electronics.

Prof. Alberto Salleo

Alberto Salleo is the Hong Seh and Vivian W.M. Lim Professor in the School of Engineering and Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Salleo obtained his Laurea degree in Chemistry from the University of Rome in 1994, his PhD in Materials Science from UC Berkeley in 2001 and was a post-doc at Xerox PARC until 2005. His research focuses on the characterization and use of conjugated polymers in optoelectronics and bioelectronics. Salleo is a Clarivate highly cited researcher since 2015, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the Materials Research Society and the European Academy of Sciences as well as a member of Academia Europaea. He was awarded the 2010 SPIE Early Career Award in 2010 and the Gores Award for excellence in teaching, Stanford’s university-wide highest teaching honor, in 2016.

Prof. Simon Brown

Prof. Simon Brown is a physicist at the University of Canterbury and a Principal Investigator in the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. His current work focuses on nano-electronic devices with brain-like properties, and in particular on percolating networks of nanoparticles. In the past few years his group have demonstrated a range of applications, including speech recognition and integer factorization. Simon holds a number of patents and was founder of NZ’s first nanotechnology company.

Prof. Huaqiang Wu

Prof. Huaqiang Wu is the Dean of School of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received the bachelor degree in MSE from Tsinghua University in 2000 and a Ph.D. in EE from Cornell University in 2005. After that, he worked for AMD and Spansion as Senior Research Engineer, working on advanced Flash memory devices. He joined Tsinghua University as associate professor in 2009 and became full professor in 2018.

His research topics include emerging memory devices and alternative computing paradigms, and he has authored over 200 journal papers and conference proceedings in Science, Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Electronics, ISSCC, IEDM, VLSI, etc. He holds over 100 patents in the US and China, with more than 30 commercialized, and has incubated four high-tech companies, successfully bringing resistive memory technology to market.

He serves as an associate editor of IEEE EDL and TCAS-II, the TPC chair of EDTM 2021, and TPC member of VLSI and VLSI-TSA. He has given multiple invited talks at IEDM, IRPS, IMW, MRS, GLS-VLSI, etc.