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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, his research
interests include nonlinear circuit and system theory,
neural networks, and signal processing. He is the main
organizer of the International Symposium on Signal, Circuits and Systems, ISSCS, held in Iasi every two years
since 1993. Dr. Goras was the recipient of the IEEE Third
Millennium Medal.

University, China. From 2011 to 2014, Zhan worked in
several research labs in USA focusing on video coding
standardization and codec ASIC design. Dr. Ma's research focuses include computational imaging, and AIbased future video coding. Dr. Ma was awarded the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, 2018
PCM Best Paper Finalist, 2019 IEEE BTS Best Paper
Award, and 2020 IEEE MMSP Grand Challenge Best Image Coding Solution.

André Kaup
André Kaup is Full Professor and Head
of the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing at Friedrich-Alexander University ErlangenNürnberg, Germany. He served as Head
of the Department of Electrical Engineering and was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.
He was a principal engineer and group manager at Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich, Germany. He is
a member of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing
Technical Committee, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He served as
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits
and Systems for Video Technology. He has authored
around 400 papers and has over 120 patents granted or
pending. His research interests include image and video
signal processing and coding.

Ricardo Reis

Alexander S. Korotkov
Alexander S. Korotkov received the Dipl.
Eng. degree in electronics in 1984, the
Ph.D. degree in 1991, and the Dr.Sc. (advanced) degree in electrical engineering
in 2000, all from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia.
Dr. Korotkov is currently a professor at the University. He
is the author of 3 books and more than 220 articles. His
research interests are integrated circuits theory, design,
and computer simulations. Dr. Korotkov is the founder
and chair of CASS chapter, IEEE, St. Petersburg, the member of the CASCOM Tech. Comm., IEEE, Secretary of the
IEEE Russia North-West Section (2002-2005). Dr. Korotkov has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Pt II (2003-2005).

Branimir Reljin
Branimir Reljin (SM 2007) received the
PhD (1983) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade,
Serbia, where he was full professor. His
research interests are in CAS and SP in
which he (co-)authored more than 500
papers and 4 books. In 2015 he was promoted as Professor Honoris Causa from the University " Tibiscus " in Timisoara, Romania. He is a Member of the Academy of
Engineering Sciences of Serbia. He was a Chairman of
the joint CAS-SP Chapter of the IEEE Section of Serbia
and Montenegro. For past activities this chapter was
awarded several times: " Chapter-of-the-Year for Region 8 "
(2009); " CAS-Society Substantial Activities of the
Chapter " (2012); " SP-Society Certificate of Merit " (2015),
and " Certificate of Appreciation " (2017).

Ricardo Reis has an EE Degree from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
(UFRGS), Brazil, and a Ph.D. degree in
Microelectronics from INPG, France.
Doctor Honoris Causa by the University
of Montpellier (2016). Full professor at
UFRGS. His main research includes physical design automation, design methodologies, fault tolerant systems and
microelectronics education. More than 650 publications
including books, journals and conference proceedings. He
received the 2015 IEEE CASS Meritorious Service Award.
He was VP of CASS for two terms (2008/2011). Founder of
the Rio Grande do Sul CAS Chapter. Founder of several
conferences like SBCCI and LASCAS. General/Program
Chair of conferences like LASCAS, ICECS, ISVLSI, SBCCI,
VLSI-SoC, PATMOS. Member of CASS BoG and CEDA BoG.

Zhan Ma
Prof. Zhan Ma received his Ph.D. from
the New York University in 2011, and his
B.S. and M.S. from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2004 and 2006 respectively. Dr.
Ma is an Associate Professor in the
School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing
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Salil Kumar Sanyal
Prof. Salil Kumar Sanyal, Ph.D. had been
associated with Jadavpur University,
Kolkata, India during 1982-2016. His current research domain includes VLSI Circuit Design, Cognitive Radio, Reconfigurable Architecture, CBNS System Design
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