Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speakers



Chikara Ohta
Vice Dean,
Graduate School of System Informatics,
Kobe University,
Japan

 
Biography
Chikara Ohta was born in Osaka in July 1967. He received his Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD degrees in Communication Engineering from Osaka University in 1990, 1992, and 1995, respectively. After working at Gunma University and the University of Tokushima, he was an associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering of Kobe University from November 2002 to April 2010 and a professor there from January 2015. He will be the Vice Dean of the Graduate School of System Informatics of Kobe University in 2024 and 2025. From March 2003 to February 2004, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Since January 1993, he has been a member of IEEE ComSoC for over 32 years and a TPC member of many IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM, PIMRC, etc. He served as TPC Co-Chair for IEEE CQR-WS2019 and 2020, IEEE ICC2021 CQR Symposium, and IEEE GLOBECOM2022 CQR Symposium. He also served as Secretary of the IEEE CQR Technical Committee (CQR-TC) in 2021 and 2022 and was the Vice Chair for Operations from 2022 to 2025. As a contribution to the IEEE Kansai Chapter, he was a member of the Awards Committee from 2006 to 2022 and is now the chair of the Chapter Operation Committee (COC) from 2023 to 2026. He is researching optimization and performance evaluation of communication networks and their applications.



SHAO-YI CHIEN
Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan University,
Taiwan

 
Biography
Shao-Yi Chien received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan, in 2003. In 2004, he joined the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, as an Assistant Professor. Since 2012, he has been a Professor. Prof. Chien served as the Chair of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee in 2017—2019. Dr. Chien is an expert in AR/VR, eye tracking, computer vision, real-time image/video processing, video coding, computer graphics, and system-on-a-chip design. He has published more than 300 papers and granted more than 40 patents. Since 2018, he is the founder and CEO of Ganzin Technology, Inc., an eye tracking solution provider for AR/VR/smart-glasses, which is the most easy-to-integrate solution on the market.



Moustafa Nawito
Dean,
Faculty of IT & Technology,
IU International University of Applied Sciences

Founder and CEO,
Polymath Analog,
Germany

 
Biography
Moustafa Nawito attained his Dr.-Ing. (Magna cum laude) in Microelectronics from Stuttgart University in Germany in 2017.

In 2008 he was appointed as technical director of the research center for digital broadcasting at GUC in cooperation with Fraunhofer Institute IIS in Erlangen Germany. In 2009 he cofounded the “Center for Artificial Intelligence” and also the Egyptian IEEE chapter for computational intelligence which received the best chapter award in 2009.

In 2010 he joined the Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart IMS CHIPS as a senior ASIC designer and was responsible for developing circuits for camera systems, industrial sensors and biomedical intelligent implants for Bosch, Daimler, and other industrial clients.

Since 2017 he is founder and CEO of the company Polymath Analog and works closely with customers providing innovative and reliable ASIC solutions for biomedical applications, IoT, Industry 4.0 and automotive, with emphasis on advanced analog design.

In 2020 he joined the IU International University of Applied Sciences as a professor and founding chair of the electrical engineering program and serves as the dean of the faculty of IT & Engineering since 2024.

Prof. Nawito is the author of several publications, including the textbook "CMOS Readout Chips for Implantable Multimodal Smart Biosensors (Springer)". His research interests include the design of low power data converters, high precision sensors and organic and implantable electronics. He is a senior member of IEEE, VDE, OE-A and other technical societies and associations. He is the chair of the SSCS chapter and secretary of the CAS chapter in German.