Keynote Speakers

Prof. Amara AMARA
IEEE CASS Past President

Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University, China; National Key Laboratory on Spintronics

Biography: Amara is a computer scientist who received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1989. He started his career as an associate professor at Paris VI university for 3 years. After that, he joined ISEP (Paris Institute for Electronics) as the head of the Microelectronics Laboratory. He established the LISITE laboratory, which consisted of more than 40 researchers working in the areas of micro- and nanoelectronics, image and signal processing, and big data processing and analysis. Prof. Amara served as the Deputy Managing Director of ISEP in charge of Research and International Cooperation until March 2017. In June 2017, Prof. Amara joined Terre des hommes (Tdh), where he launched an international ICT for Development team. He led a joint team of Tdh, McGovern Foundation, and UNIGE that worked on artificial intelligence for child life saving (AI4CLS) in underserved countries. He is an IEEE Life Senior Member and an Academic Fellow of Geneva University.

Prof. Andrei Vladimirescu
IEEE Fellow

University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA

Biography: Andrei Vladimirescu (F’17) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.,He was a key contributor to the SPICE simulator at the University of California at Berkeley, releasing the SPICE2G6 production-level SW in 1981. He pioneered electrical simulation on parallel computers with the CLASSIE simulator as part of his Ph.D. He has authored a book The SPICE Book (J. Wiley, 1994). For many years he was the Research and Development Director leading the design and implementation of innovative software and hardware Electronic Design Automation products for Analog Devices Inc., Daisy Systems, Analog Design Tools, Valid Logic, and Cadence Design Systems. He is currently a Professor involved in research projects with the University of California at Berkeley, the Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, the Institut Supérieur d’Electronique de Paris, Paris, France, and a Consultant to industry. His current research interests include in the areas of ultra-low-voltage CMOS, design, simulation and modeling of circuits with new devices and circuits for quantum computing.