Biography: Prof. WEI received Master degree in Engineering from the Department of Radio and Electronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1984. He received Doctor degree in Applied Science in 1991 from the Laboratory of Electronics, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium and then became the assistant professor in the same laboratory. From 1989 to1991, he also worked as a research fellow in ARAMIS, Belgium. Dr. WEI returned to China in 1995. From 1998 to 2005, he worked for Datang Telecom Technology Co., Ltd. successively as Vice-President, President & CEO. He was the founder, President & CEO and Chairman of the Board of Datang Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. from 1996 to 2005. He was the CTO of Datang Telecom Industry Group from 2005 to 2006. 

Dr. WEI is now the Dean of the Department of Micro- and Nano-Electronics, Director of the Institute of Microelectronics, Director of the Research Center for Mobile Computing, Tsinghua University and professor of Peking University. Dr. WEI is the Vice President of CSIA, President of VLSI Design Branch, CSIA and the President of Communication Specific IC Committee, CIC. He is the fellow of CIE.

Biography: Prof. Hao Min received his PhD degree from Fudan University in 1991. During 1995-1998, he was a visiting associate professor in Stanford University focusing on CMOS image sensors technologies. Meanwhile he was the consultant at a number of IC design companies in Silicon Valley. From 1998 to 2005, he served as director of the State Key Laboratory of ASIC & System, Fudan University. He is currently vice dean of School of Microelectronics, research director of the AUTO-ID Lab of Fudan University. He was General Manager of Shanghai Huahong Integrated Circuits Co., Ltd. during 1998-2006 where his team developed the first contact-less smart card chip which was successfully applied to the Shanghai Public Transportation System and designed the chip for the second generation ID cards of China. He is co-founder of Shanghai Quanray Electronics. He has contributed over 80 papers and over 20 patents authorized or pending.

Biography: Prof. dr. LIU Zewen received his BS degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology (USTC), Hefei, China in 1983 and received his Ph.D degree in Microfabrication from the University of Paris-sud (Paris XI), Paris, France in 1997. He is currently full professor in Institute of Microelectronics at Tsinghua University (IMETU). His research interests are MEMS and Micro/nano system technologies, including materials, process and devices of RF-MEMS, NEMS, and integrated sensors.

He was the pioneer in X-ray lithography for IC application and RF MEMS technology for communication application. He was awarded the Chinese National Award for his contribution in the works on lithography, and the Tsinghua University Excellent Teacher Award for his contribution in MEMS research. He is the American IEEE member, Chinese CIE and CSMNT member.

He has published more than 150 technical papers in the academic journal and conference. He is an inventor of more than 20 patents.

Biography: Joseph Xie received the MS and PhD degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The United States of America. He has been visiting Professor of Microelectronics of Fudan University since 2001. Prior to joining Fudan, Xie worked as Fellow and Associate Professor of Singpoare MIT Alliance (SMA) program from 1998-2001. 

He also worked for Intel (CA, USA), Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (Singapore), and SMIC (China). His research interests include Integrated MEMS sensor technology, Advanced CMOS process technology, and IGBT process technology.

Xie is the founder of QST Corporation, the leading motion sensor company in China. Xie is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Lifetime Member of American Physical Society.

Biography: Jun Yang received the PhD degrees from Southeast University of China. Now he is currently in National ASIC System Engineering Research Center, School of Electronic Science in Southeast University. His research interests include Near threshold circuit design and Re-configurable computing.

He is now close collaborated with SMIC and TSMC to develop near threshold IP, such as embedded memories, standard cell library and other RF components. Jun Yang owns 3 US patents, 1 EU patent, over 30 Chinese patents and over 30 technical papers. Before his near threshold circuit design, he developed over several ASIC or SoCs for industry partners. And he got the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2014 for the innovation in POS chips.

Biography: Xiaoning Qi received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, California, USA. Currently he is CEO of C-SKY Microsystems and Chairman and President of Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association (CASPA), USA. Previously, he held senior management and technical positions in Intel, Rambus, Synopsys and Sun Microsystems all in California USA working on integrated circuit devices, micro-processor design and platform electrical design for semiconductor systems. Xiaoning published more than fifty technical papers, one book and one book chapter and a dozen of invited talks. He holds two US patents. He is a reviewer for numerous IEEE Journals and international conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Biography: Justin received the MS (1999) and PhD (2003) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, USA, and the BS (1997) degree in Electrical Engineering from Nanjing University, China. He is currently with QST Corporation, China as VP of MEMS Technology. Prior to joining QST, Justin worked for several high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, USA. His research interests include MEMS sensors and actuators.

Justin has developed MEMS products with several hundred million units sold. He led the QST MEMS R&D team to win the 2014 China’s Best Design Team Award from Global Sources. He owns more than 20 issued or pending patents, and 8 technical papers. He has consulted in a top-notch MEMS consulting firm in Silicon Valley, served as session chair and taught short courses in professional conferences, and reviewed papers for Journal of MEMS, Sensors and Actuators, Journal of Mechanical Design, Int. Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, and Journal of Electrical Devices. Justin is a senior member of the IEEE, and a Chinese National 1000-plan expert.

Biography: Since 2004, Richard Shi has been a Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he joined in 1998. From 1994 to 1998 he worked for Analogy (now part of Synopsys), Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (now Conexant Systems), and the University of Iowa. He received a prestigious Doctoral Prize from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada and a Governor-General's Silver Medal in 1995 for his PhD Dissertation in Computer Science. 

His primary research interests are in the area of computer-aided design and test of VLSI circuits and systems. His recent research activities include also VLSI implementation of communication systems, three-dimensional VLSI circuits, and radiation-hardened electronics. He has supervised over 20 PhD students and post-doctoral research fellows. 

Richard Shi was elected to a Fellow of the IEEE in 2005 for his contributions to computer-aided design of mixed-signal integrated circuits. He has received several awards for the research work done by him and his students. Richard Shi is a key contributor to IEEE std 1076.1-1999 language standard (VHDL-AMS). He was the founding Chair of IEEE International Behavioral Modeling and Simulation Conference. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems---Express Briefs.

Biography: Qing-Qing Sun received his Ph.D. degrees in microelectronics and solid state electronics from Fudan University, Shanghai, in 2009. He received B.S. (2004), Fudan University, in Physics. In 2009 he joined the department of microelectronics, Fudan University, as a Lecturer. He was promoted to be Associate Professor and Full Professor in 2011 and 2013, respectively. 

He has authored or co-authored more than 90 papers in journals and conferences and awarded more than 20 patents. His research interests include novel semiconductor devices, atomic layer deposition, resistive switching memories and advanced interconnect technology. In 2015, he received support from National Natural Science Foundation-Outstanding Youth Foundation and the National Young Top-notch Talent Program.