Technical Talk by Keynote Speakers
The conference itinerary includes a diverse array of technical events geared towards societal advancement under the auspices of the IEEE Society. Key highlights of the event encompass a series of technical talks featuring contributions from four esteemed keynote speakers actively engaged in technological advancements:
Keynote Speakers
Ricardo Reis is a full-time professor at the Informatics Institute of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. His main research includes physical design automation, design methodologies, fault tolerant systems and microelectronics education. He has more than 750 publications including books, journals and conference proceedings. He was vice-president of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) and he was also president of the Brazilian Computer Society (two terms) and vice-president of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society. He is an active member of CASS and he received the 2015 IEEE CASS Meritorious Service Award. He was vice-president of CASS for two terms (2008/2011). He is the founder of the Rio Grande do Sul CAS Chapter, which got the World CASS Chapter of The Year Award 2011, 2012, 2018 and 2022, and R9 Chapter of The Year 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2020. He is a founder of several conferences like SBCCI and LASCAS, the CASS Flagship Conference in Region 9. He was the General or Program Chair of several conferences like IEEE ISVLSI, SBCCI, IFIP VLSI-SoC, ICECS, PATMOS. Ricardo was the Chair of the IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Steering Committee, vice-chair of the IFIP WG10.5 and he is Chair of IFIP TC10. he received the Researcher of the Year Award in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. He is a founding member of the SBC (Brazilian Computer Society) and also founding member of SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society). He was member of CASS DLP Program (2014/2015), and he has done more than 70 invited talks in conferences. He is the CASS representative at the IEEE IoT Technical Committee. Ricardo received the IFIP Fellow Award in 2021 and the ACM/ISPD Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. He received the 2023 IEEE CASS John Choma Educational Award and the 2024 Best Associate Editor of IEEE CASS Magazine. He is also Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE CEDA (2024-2025).
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Professor at Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, at Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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Domenico Zito received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering (micro-nano-electronics) from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. Since 2023 has been a Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland. He has authored 150+ articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings, nine books, and book chapters. His current research interests include the design of integrated devices, circuits and systems for emerging wireless communication, contactless sensing, imaging and quantum computing applications, for which he pioneered several technology developments. To date he has participated and coordinated several EU projects in Industrial Competitiveness and Excellent Science pillars, most of them identified as successful models across the EU framework programmes.
In 2005 was selected as the 1st of top-3 Europe’s innovators in wireless technology by the European Commission receiving the Mario Boella (VP Union Radio Science Institute) Prize. He was the recipient of the Start-Up Laboratory of the Year at the Irish Laboratory Awards in 2014, the IEEE Education Society Award for his Distinguished Contributions and Leadership in Engineering Education in 2015, and three best paper awards at the IEEE conferences. He has served as a TPC Member and Chair of IEEE conferences such as the European Solid-State Device/Circuit Research Conference, International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, and as Guest Editor, Associate Editor and Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
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Girishankar G is currently the Deputy Director, Compute and AI division, MediaTek Bangalore and responsible for high-speed low-power CPU and GPU processors and custom SRAM circuit designs. He had earlier co-founded Immensa Semiconductors, a foundation-IP company, which was acquired by Mediatek. He had also worked with Texas Instruments as Senior Technologist and was responsible for standard cell libraries and PPA (Power/Performance/Area). Giri has 13 US patents granted and many more filed. He has also published multiple research articles in IEEE proceedings and journals.
Girishankar Gurumurthy,
Deputy Director, Compute and AI division, MediaTek Bangalore
Title of the Talk: Trends in VLSI : Past, Present and Future
Brief Abstarct: The talk primarily covers latest technology trends in semiconductor design and VLSI space, the challenges involved in chip design, the latest process technology nodes, latest in telecommunications, including both HW and SW aspects of VLSI design and how it’s expected to shape up in future with AI and beyond. It’s primarily targeted at a young audience and gives a flavour of what it’s like to work in this domain.
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