Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Maryam Shojaei Baghini
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Professor Maryam Shojaei Baghini has M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Major Electronics) from Sharif University of Technology (1999) followed by Post-Doctoral Research at IIT-Bombay. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay. Professor Shojaei’s research areas include CMOS integrated circuits and systems for biosignal instrumentation, electrical-biological interfacing, signal acquisition, device-circuit co-design in emerging technologies and RF IC design. She also works on the interfacing aspects of various biosensors, electrochemical sensors and electrodes, EMI-immune designs for wearable/ mobile/ portable biomedical devices, sensor-circuit-system integration and energy harvesting circuits and systems. Professor Shojaei is inventor/co-inventor of 6 issued US patents and inventor/co-inventor of 21 filed patent applications. She is author/co-author of 43 international journal papers and 95 international conference papers. She is a member of technical committee of International VLSID Conference, ISQED, ISVLSI and ASQED. She has served in the Emerging Applications and Technologies sub-committee of IEEE A-SSCC (sister conference of IEEE ISSCC) from 2009 to 2014. She was track chair of Signal Processing and VLSI track, IEEE INDICON 2013.
Prof. M. Tanveer
Ramanujan Fellow, Associate Professor, IIT Indore
Dr. M. Tanveer is Associate Professor and Ramanujan Fellow at the Discipline of Mathematics of the Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Prior to that, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab of the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. During 2012 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT), Jaipur. He received the Ph.D degree in Computer Science from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Prior to that, he received the M.Phil degree in Mathematics from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. His research interests include support vector machines, optimization, machine learning, deep learning, and applications to Alzheimer's disease and dementias. He has published over 100 referred journal papers of international repute. His publications have over 2500 citations with h index 28 (Google Scholar, July 2022). Recently, he has been listed in the world's top 2% scientists in the study carried out by Stanford University, USA.
Prof. Atif Shamim
Electrical and Computer Engineering
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Professor Shamim's research is focused on applications like personal area network, automotive radars, wearable and implantable wireless sensors, wireless powering and renewable energy. The following specific research projects are being pursued - CMOS RF SoC design (RFICs with on-chip antennas), Antenna design, integration and miniaturization techniques, 3D IC packaging and embedded passives in LTCC, LCP, and IPD environments for SoP applications, Ferrite LTCC based tunable and reconfigurable circuits carbon-based nano radio design (Carbon nano-tube and Graphene mediums), Flexible RF electronics (inkjet printing on paper, plastics, etc), Energy harvesting through ambient resources (infrared, EM), Wearable and Disposable wireless sensors
Prof. Piyush Maheshwari
The British University in Dubai
Senior Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Dr. Piyush is a recognized technology leader, educationist, and distributed systems researcher, with many years of academic and corporate R&D experience. His current research interests are IoT- and cloud-based software systems, enterprise architecture, and smart city applications. He had worked as an academic at UNSW-Sydney, Griffith University-Australia, and Amity University Dubai. He had also extensively contributed to R&D and innovation management of centers of excellence in companies like IBM, Ericsson, and DELL.
Prof. Hesham Omran
Dr. Hesham Omran received the B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. degrees from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2007 and 2010, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, in 2015, all in Electrical Engineering. From 2008 to 2011, he was a Design Engineer with Si-Ware Systems (SWS), Cairo, Egypt, where he worked on the circuit and system design of the first miniaturized FT-IR MEMS spectrometer (NeoSpectra), and a Research and Teaching Assistant with the Integrated Circuits Lab (ICL), Ain Shams University. From 2011 to 2016 he was a Researcher with the Sensors Lab, KAUST. He held internships with Bosch Research and Technology Center, CA, USA, and with Mentor Graphics, Cairo, Egypt. In 2016, he rejoined the ICL, Ain Shams University, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He created the Mastering Microelectronics YouTube channel with 8k+ subscribers. He co-founded Master Micro in 2020 to develop the Analog Designer’s Toolbox (ADT), a novel EDA tool that defines a new paradigm for analog IC design. Dr. Hesham has received several awards including the Egyptian State Encouragement Award for Engineering in 2019, Ain Shams University Encouragement Award for Technology in 2022, and the Design Automation Conference (DAC) Innovator’s Award in 2022. He has published 40+ papers in international journals and conferences. His research interests are in the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, especially in analog and mixed-signal CAD tools and design automation.
Professor Dr. Jonathan Blackledge
Stokes Professor, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK
Jonathan Blackledge holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics and a
Doctorate in Mathematical Information Technology. He has published over 300
research papers and books, has filed 20 patents and technologies to license,
and has been a supervisor to over 400 post-graduate students, including 72 Ph.D.
and 28 post-doctoral students. After a
career in academia, industry and the scientific civil service, in 2008, he was elected
to the Science Foundation Ireland’s Stokes Professorship, based at the
Technological University Dublin where he has been an Honorary Professor since
2012.
He currently holds professorships with a
number of universities and research institutes including the University of Wales,
the University of Western Cape, the Warsaw University of Technology and the
University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor for
Research. His research interests include
post-quantum cryptology and electronic warfare and is directing R & D
programs focusing on Cybersecurity, Decentralised Digital Economies, and Data
Analytics, working with SAS, Smart Data and Assets Limited and the UK National
Health Service, respectively. He is a Fellow of Institutes which include the
Institute of Physics, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, the
Institute of Engineering and Technology, and is a life-long Fellow of the
British Computer Society. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the City and
Guilds London Institute for his contributions to work-placed based learning and
apprenticeship training schemes and, in the same year, was elected a Freeman of
the City of London for his contributions to economics
