Prof. Frank Park
(Keynote Speaker)
IEEE Fellow
Seoul National University, South Korea

Biography: Prof. Frank Chongwoo Park received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, followed by his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1991. From 1991 to 1995, he was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California at Irvine. Since 1995 he has been the Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University.

Prof. Park's research interests are in robot mechanics, planning and control, vision and image processing, and related areas of applied mathematics. He has been an IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Lecturer, and received best paper awards for his work on visual tracking and parallel robot design. Having served on the editorial boards of the Springer Handbook of Robotics, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR), Robotica, and the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, Prof. Park has also held adjunct faculty positions at the NYU Courant Institute and the Interactive Computing Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the current editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, the developer of the EDX course Robot Mechanics and Control I, II. He is also a co-author of the book, "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning and Control" published in 2017.

Prof. Ruxu Du
(Keynote Speaker)
Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering
The Zhongke Jianchi Biotechnology Co., Ltd,
China

Biography: Prof. Ruxu Du was born in China in 1955. He received his Master’s degree from the South China University of Technology in 1983 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1989. He has taught in the University of Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada (1991⎯1999), the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Florida. USA (1999⎯2001), the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong SAR (2001⎯2018), and the South China University of Technology (2018⎯2021). Prof. Du is the founding director of the Guangzhou Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Advanced Technology (2011⎯2016), the founding dean of S. M. Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology, as well as the founding director of the Institute of Precision Engineering in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Prof. Du’s areas of research include AI applications in medicine, precision engineering, design and manufacturing (metal forming, machining, plastic injection molding and etc.), as well as robotics and automation. He has published over 500 papers in various academic journals and international conferences. He is the associate editor / the members of editorial board of six international journals.

Prof. Yang Chai
(Keynote Speaker)
IEEE Fellow
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hong Kong, China

Keynote Lecture:Bioinspired in-sensor Computing for Artificial Vision

Abstract: The demand for accurate perception of the physical world leads to a dramatic increase in sensory nodes. However, the transmission of massive and unstructured sensory data from sensors to computing units poses great challenges in terms of power‐efficiency, transmission bandwidth, data storage, time latency, and security. To efficiently process massive sensory data, it is crucial to achieve data compression and structuring at the sensory terminals. In‐sensor computing integrates perception, memory, and processing functions within sensors, enabling sensory terminals to perform data compression and data structuring. In this talk, I will describe our team’s efforts towards bioinspired in-sensor computing for artificial vision. I will talk about the framework of the in-sensor computing and demonstrate a few vision sensors for different scenarios, including visual adaptation, motion perception, as well as event-driven vision sensors for spiking neural network.

Biography: Prof. Yang Chai is the Chair Professor of Semiconductor Physics of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, an IEEE Fellow, an Optica Fellow, IOP Fellow, and AAIA Fellow. He is the Director of Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things, the Director of Joint Research Center of Microelectronics, and the Associate Dean of Faculty of Science (Research) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also the Chair of Semiconductor Nanotechnology Alliance, the Vice President of the Physical Society of Hong Kong, and an Associate Editor of ACS Nano. His current research interest mainly focuses on emerging electronic devices. He is also He is a receipt of the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs in Engineering and Technology for his work on “Breaking the Wall of Efficient Sensory AI Systems”, the BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize, The Croucher Senior Fellowship, The Ho Leung Ho Lee (HLHL) Foundation Science and Technology Innovation Award, and NSFC Distinguished Scholar.