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and Systems Conference. She has
also served as a guest editor for IEEE
Journal of Solid-State Circuits. She is a
Senior Member of the IEEE and a member
of the SSCS, the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society, the Society for Neuroscience,
Women in Circuits, and Women
in Neural Engineering. She has received
numerous fellowships and awards,
including the National Academy of
Engineering Gilbreth Lectureship, the
Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigatorship,
the Keysight Early Career Professorship,
the Hellman Fellowship,
and the National Science Foundation
CAREER Award. She was named one of
MIT Technology Review's top 35 global
innovators under the age of 35 and one
of MedTech Boston's top 40 healthcare
innovators under 40.
Kazuko Nishimura re -
ceived her B.E. degree
in mechanical engineering
from Osaka University,
Japan, in 1995. That
same year, she joined
the Semiconductor Research Center,
Panasonic Corporation, where she had
been engaged in the R&D of high-speed
ADCs. Her team developed ultrahighspeed
ADCs and contributed to numerous
digital read channel applications.
From 1998 to 2007, she served on the
task force of optical communication
systems and developed fiber to the
home systems. Her team developed
Gbit/S-class CMOS burst-mode optical
transceivers. From 2009 to 2012, she was
engaged in the R&D of radio-frequency
systems. Her team developed the industry's
first LSI that integrated a one-seg
tuner and demodulation functions.
From 2006 to 2014, she was engaged
in the R&D of CMOS image sensors and
contributed to the mass productions of
various cameras. Now, she is a manager
in the Technology Innovation Division
(an R&D research division) at Panasonic
Corporation and has been engaged
in the research and management of
organic photoconductive film CMOS
image sensors and sensor applications.
She has authored and coauthored
seven international journal papers and
conference papers. She holds more
than 50 patents.
Esther RodriguezVillegas
is a full professor
of low-power
electronics at Imperial
College London, U.K.;
she originally worked
on engineering techniques to drastically
reduce power in ICs. She subsequently
focused her research on life
science applications, founding the
Wearable Technologies Lab. This lab
specializes in creating innovative wearable
medical technologies to improve
the management and diagnosis of
chronic diseases as well as in neural
interfaces to facilitate brain research
while improving animal welfare.
Rodriguez-Villegas is also a founder,
co-CEO, and chief science officer of two
active life sciences companies, Acurable
and TainiTec. Esther has received many
international recognitions and awards,
including two European Research Council
grants (2009 and 2016), a global
XPRIZE-award (2014), and an AAALAC
Global 3Rs Award for Europe (2018).
She was also named the top scientist/
engineer in Spain under the age of 36 in
2009 (Complutense Award).
Hoi-Jun Yoo is a Fellow
of IEEE and ICT Chair
professor in the School
of Electrical Engineering
and director of the
System Design Innovation
and Application Research Center at
KAIST (formally, the Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology). He
is the current chair of the Steering Committee
of the Asian Solid-States Circuits
Conference (A-SSCC) (2020-2024) and
was the TPC chair of ISSCC 2015, and a
plenary speaker at ISSCC 2019 with the
presentation " Intelligence on Silicon:
From Deep Neural Network Accelerators
to Brain-Mimicking AI-SoCs. " He has
served as a member of the executive
committee of ISSCC, Symposium on
VLSI, and A-SSCC. He also served as an
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer
(2010-2011) and as TPC chair of the
International Symposium on Wearable
Computers 2010 and A-SSCC 2008. He
was a guest editor of IEEE Journal of
Solid-State Circuits and IEEE Transactions
on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
and is an associate editor of IEEE
Journal of Solid-State Circuits and IEEE
Solid-State Circuits Letters. His current
research interests are bio-inspired artificial
intelligence (AI) chip design, multicore
AI-SoC design, including deep
neural network accelerators, networks
on a chip, and high-speed and lowpower
memory.
He has published more than 250 pa -
pers and written or edited five books:
DRAM Design (1997, Hongneung),
High Performance DRAM (1999, Hongneung),
Low Power NoC for High Performance
SoC Design (2008, CRC), Mobile
3D Graphics SoC (2010, Wiley), and BioMedical
CMOS ICs (coedited with Chris
Van Hoof, 2010, Springer), and many
chapters of books. Yoo received the
Order of Service Merit from the Korean
President in 2011 for his contribution
to the Korean memory industry; the
scientist/engineer of the month award
from the Ministry of Education, Science,
and Technology of Korea in 2010;
and the Kyung-Am Scholar Award in
2014. He also received the Electronic
Industrial Association of Korea Award
for his contribution to dynamic RAM
technology in 1994; the Hynix Development
Award in 1995; the Korea Semiconductor
Industry Association Award
in 2002; the Best Research of KAIST
Award in 2007; the Excellent Scholar
of KAIST Award in 2011; and the Best
Scholar of KAIST Award in 2019. In
addition, he was a corecipient of the
Asia South Pacific Design Automation
Conference Design Award in 2001;
the A-SSCC Outstanding Design Award
in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, and
2014; the ISSCC/Design Automation
Conference Student Design Contest
Award in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011;
the ISSCC Demonstration Session Recognition
in 2016, 2017, 2019, and
2020; and the Best Paper Award of the
IEEE International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence Circuits and Systems
in 2019.
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