Bio.: Giovanni De Micheli is a research scientist in electronics and computer science. He is credited for the invention of the Network on Chip design automation paradigm and for the creation of algorithms and design tools for Electronic Design Automation (EDA). He is Professor and Director of the Integrated Systems Laboratory and Scientific Director of the EcoCloud center at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was Director of the Electrical Engineering Institute at EPFL from 2008 to 2019 and program leader of the Swiss Federal Nano-Tera.ch program. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1979), a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of California at Berkeley, 1980 and 1983).
Prof. De Micheli is a Fellow of ACM, AAAS and IEEE, a member of the Academia Europaea and an International Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current research interests include several aspects of design technologies for integrated circuits and systems, such as synthesis for emerging technologies. He is also interested in heterogeneous platform design including electrical components and biosensors, as well as in data processing of biomedical information. He is author of: Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1994, co-author and/or co-editor of ten other books and of over 900 technical publications. His citation h-index is above 100 according to Google Scholar. He is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of IMEC (Leuven, B) and STMicroelectronics.
Prof. De Micheli is the recipient of the 2022 ESDA-IEEE/CEDA Phil Kaufman Award, the 2019 ACM/SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award, and several other awards.

Bio.: Jaijeet Roychowdhury is a Professor of EECS at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include machine learning, novel computational paradigms, and the analysis, simulation, verification and design of cyber-physical, electronic, biological, nanoscale and mixed-domain systems. Contributions his group has made include the concept of self-sustaining oscillators for Ising-based and von Neumann computation, novel machine-learning techniques for dynamical systems, theory and techniques for oscillator phase macromodels, injection locking and phase noise, multi-time partial differential equations, techniques for model reduction of time-varying and nonlinear systems, and open-source infrastructures for reproducible research.
Roychowdhury received a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1987, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley in 1993. From 1993 to 1995, he was with the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Laboratory, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA. From 1995 to 2000, he was with the Communication Sciences Research Division, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. From 2000 to 2001, he was with CeLight Inc. (an optical networking startup), Silver Spring, MD. From 2001-2008, he was with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Digital Technology Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Roychowdhury was cited for Extraordinary Achievement by Bell Laboratories in 1996 for work on MOS homotopy. His student Tianshi Wang and he won the Bell Labs Prize in 2019 for their work on Oscillator Ising Machines. Over the years, he has authored or co-authored seven best papers and a distinguished paper. He has served on technical and administrative committees within several conferences and professional organizations, including ICCAD, DAC, DATE, ASP-DAC and CEDA. Roychowdhury was a co-founder of Berkeley Design Automation, a startup later acquired by Mentor Graphics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Bio.: Dr. Sung Kyu Lim is Motorola Solutions Foundation Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees from the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1994, 1997, and 2000, respectively.
In August 2001, he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology an assistant professor. He is currently the director of the GTCAD (Georgia Tech Computer Aided Design) Laboratory at the School.
Dr. Lim's research is focused on architecture, design, and EDA for 2.5D and 3D integrated circuits. His prolific output includes authoring over 400 papers on these subjects. He received the Best Paper Award by the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems in 2022 and by the ACM Design Automation Conference in 2023. Dr. Lim was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2006. His research was notably highlighted in the Communications of the ACM in 2014 as a Research Highlight. Dr. Lim is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to “EDA and tradeoff for 3D integrated circuits.”
During 2022-24, he served the position of Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) within the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) in August 2022, where he was responsible for overseeing programs in electronic design automation (EDA).

Bio.: Professor Schlichtmann (b. 1964) explores design automation methodologies for complex (digital and analog) electronic circuits and systems. These often consist of billions of components and need to be designed using sophisticated optimization and analysis algorithms. In recent years, his research has increasingly addressed emerging technologies (photonics, microfluidic biochips, neuromorphic architectures).
Professor Schlichtmann studied electrical engineering at TUM and obtained his doctorate for a thesis on computer-aided design, and also pursued a postgraduate business degree during this time. He then worked for Siemens AG and Infineon Technologies AG in a number of technical, managerial and executive positions for about 10 years. In 2003, Professor Schlichtmann was appointed to a professorship at TUM. In addition to his research and teaching activities, he coordinates international study programs in both Munich and Singapore (TUM Asia). He furthermore serves as program director of the TUMCREATE research project in Singapore and is is a member of various advisory boards and of the acatech National Academy of Science and Engineering.

Bio.: Dr. Jinjun Xiong is an Empire Innovation Professor with the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University at Buffalo (UB) . He received his Ph.D. degree in 2006 from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with an Outstanding Ph.D. Award, his M.S. degree from University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2002, and his M.S. and B.S. degrees from Tsinghua University in 2000 and 1998, respectively.
Before joining UB in 2021, Dr. Xiong was Program Director and Senior Research Scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. He co-founded and co-directed the IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research with Prof. Wen-mei Hwu. Under their leadership, the C3SR center has expanded from the early days' eight faculty members in 2016 to close to 40 faculty members in 2021. The success of the C3SR center also led to the creation of the new IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute, a joint $200-million research investment between IBM and UIUC. Dr. Xiong also co-founded the IBM Smarter Energy Research Institute and led a number of enterprise-scale collaborations with world-wide electric utility companies to address sustainability issues with renewable integration.

Bio.: Prof. Tim CHENG Kwang-Ting was appointed Vice-President for Research and Development with effect from April 1, 2022. He joined HKUST in May 2016 as the Dean of Engineering, in concurrence with his appointment as Chair Professor jointly in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
He graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1988 with a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Before joining HKUST, he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he served since 1993. Prior to teaching at UC Santa Barbara, he spent five years at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
At UC Santa Barbara, Prof. Cheng had taken up various important academic leadership roles, such as Founding Director of the Computer Engineering Program from 1999 to 2002, Chair of Department of ECE from 2005 to 2008, Acting Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research in 2013 and Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research from 2014 to 2016 where he helped oversee the research development, infrastructure, and compliance of UCSB’s research enterprise with over US$200 million extramural research funding.
A highly respected teacher-scholar and internationally leading researcher with excellent experience in fostering cross-disciplinary research collaboration, Prof. Cheng is a world authority in the field of electronics testing and design verification, as well as an impactful contributor across a wide range of research areas including design automation of electronic and photonic systems, computer vision, and medical image analysis. He had previously served as Director of the US Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Center for 3D Hybrid Circuits which integrated CMOS and nano-memristors for future computing systems. He has published more than 500 technical papers, co-authored five books, held 12 US patents, and transferred several of his inventions into successful commercial products. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (HKAES). His works are of high impact with due recognition from the field, including 12 best paper awards and one Distinguished Paper Citation in major conferences and journals, as well as a Pan Wen Yuan Foundation Award for Outstanding Research. He was also recognized in the 50th Design Automation Conference (DAC) in 2013 as a Top 10 Author in DAC’s Fourth Decade and a Prolific Author.
Prof. Cheng has been very active in providing professional services to the IEEE and to the academic community at large. Having served as the editor-in-chief of IEEE Design & Test of Computers, on the boards of IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation’s Board of Governors and IEEE Computer Society’s Publications Board, and on various technology advisory or working groups including the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), Prof. Cheng has been internationally known as an eminent member of the field.
In 2020, he received HK$443.9 million funding from the Hong Kong government’s InnoHK research clusters initiative to lead the founding of the AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems for which four world-renowned universities participate. The multidisciplinary center aims to advance IC design to help realize ubiquitous AI applications in society.

Bio.: Sachin Sapatnekar received the B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1987, the M. S. degree from Syracuse University in 1989, and the Ph. D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. He worked at Texas Instruments during the summer of 1990, and at Intel Corporation during the summer of 1997. His other major educational qualifications include self-taught basic juggling under the long-distance tutelage of the world-renowned Klutz School in 1991, and the PADI Open Water Diver Certification from Deep Sea Divers Den in 2001. With his once-a-decade average of trying something new, he is sure to remain his same old boring self until 2011. So boring that it's well past 2011, and this hasn't been updated. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University from 1992 to 1997. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Robert and Marjorie Henle chair and the Distinguished McKnight University Professorship. His current research interests lie in developing efficient techniques for computer-aided design of integrated circuits and are primarily centered around physical design, timing and simulation issues, and optimization algorithms. He has served on the editorial boards of several IEEE journals, including as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on CAD. He was a Technical Program Co-chair in 2006 and 2007 for the Design Automation Conference (DAC), and the General Chair in 2010. He has also been the Technical Program Chair and General Chair for the International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) and the Tau workshop, and Program Chair for the International Conference on VLSI Design in India. He is a recipient of the NSF Career Award, the SRC Technical Excellence Award, the SIA University Researcher Award, Best Paper Awards at the DAC'97, ICCD'98, DAC'01 DAC'03, ISPD'09, ISQED'10, ASYNC'16, ISQED'19, and ICCAD'21 conferences, a Best Poster Award at IRPS'12, and the ICCAD Ten-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award in 2013 and 2016.conferences, a Best Poster Award at IRPS'12, and the ICCAD Ten-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award in 2013 and 2016. He has been a Fulbright Senior Researcher at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona in 2013, and a DJ Gandhi Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2014. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (2003) and the ACM (2016).