Katia Grenier

Katia Grenier received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toulouse, France, in 2000. After a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Agere Systems (Bell Labs) in 2001, she joined the LAAS-CNRS in France and was engaged in RF MEMS circuits on silicon. From 2007 to 2009, she was with the Laboratory for Integrated Micromechatronic Systems of CNRS (LIMMS-CNRS) in the University of Tokyo, Japan, where she was engaged in launching research activities on miniature microwave-based biosensors. She is now the head of a research group at LAAS-CNRS with interests are focusing on the development of microwave-based systems for biological and medical sensing applications as well as for evaluating electromagnetic waves effects on the living.

Dr. Grenier is a member of the TC-28 of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and of the European Microwave Association. She serves as Program Committee member of several conferences and chaired the IEEE BioWireleSS 2015 & 2016, the IEEE International Microwave Bio Conference 2020. She is also involved in Women in Microwave events’ organization.

Wai Lee

Dr. Wai Lee is the Chief Technologist for the Sensing Business at Texas Instruments. Over his 29 years career at TI, he has led research and product development in DSP, high-speed serial interfaces, and audio amplifiers. He was elected TI Fellow in 2004. In the last ten years, he has been focusing on sensors and sensing products. Outside of TI, Wai has served in the technical program committee of several IEEE conferences, including International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and VLSI Circuits Symposium. He also served as the Technical Advisory Board chair for Innovative and Intelligent IoT Trust in Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) between 2017-19. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering at MIT.

Chan Wong

Chan Wong is the Manager of the Entergy Smart Meter Lab at New Orleans. He has more than 10 years industry experience in the power and automation industry involving digital substation, renewable, energy storage, IoT and emerging smart grid technologies. He holds a Ph.D Degree in Automotive engineering from Clemson University; MBA, MS and BS of Electrical Engineering from Tulane university.

Chan is a senior IEEE member and currently serves the DOE liaison of the PES Industry Technical Support Leadership Committee to foster collaboration between industry, DOE and IEEE communities. At the same time, he is a member of CIGRE, ANSI and IEC standards committee focusing on testing, interoperability, and cybersecurity. Further, he serves as the board of advisor of the Tulane Engineering Physic Department and Tulane Freeman Business School. His passion is to groom the next generation talents and young professional be a creative leaders and technology catalyst in the industry.

Brent Lunceford

Brent Lunceford, Managing Director, MEMSTRONICS. Brent is managing director of MEMSTRONICS serving the smart city, industrial automation, IoT and high reliability electronics markets. He has 25 years of experience in product development, operations management and business development for MEMS, sensors, semiconductors, wireless telemetry, remote monitor and control systems, mixed signal systems, and OEM integration. His career spans companies including 3M, Cypress Semiconductor, Silicon Light Machines, and the Microelectronics and Computer Corporation (MCC). At MCC he designed a new fab, led the startup, and managed fab operations where he co-developed a novel manufacturing architecture for optical and RF microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and advanced the technology to an acquisition by Teravicta Technologies-Austin’s first pure play MEMS company. Brent is the past Global Engagement Chair for IEEE Sensors Council, is founding Chair of IEEE Central Texas MEMS & Sensors Chapter, current Program Director and founding Officer of IEEE SF Bay Area MEMS & Sensors Chapter. He is also leading a webinar series to advance technology standards for IoT sensors cybersecurity and interoperability. Brent received his BS and MS degrees in Chemistry from Texas State University and executive MBA from The University of Texas at Austin.

Joseph Wei

Technology Ventures Group (TVG), LLC was founded in 2011 by Joseph Wei, a long-time Silicon Valley executive turned entrepreneur who pioneered key new technologies and markets that grew to over half a billion dollars in revenue. With its most recent client Qihu 360 Inc., TVG helped develop Lab360 Hardware Incubator as a US Innovation center working with startups focusing on AI/ML, IoT, Wearables, AR/VR, Robotics for healthcare, consumer, and enterprise markets. Previously, Joseph held executive positions with Inventec Corp., SGI, NEC, and DEC responsible for P&L, Sales and Marketing, Engineering and Investments.

Joseph serves as an advisor for several startups, a mentor for Alchemist Accelerator, Plug and Play Accelerator, European Innovation Academy, United Venture Agency, 10X Innovation Lab, and Women Startup Lab. He is an expert in wearables and IoT with a focus on health and medical applications.

Joseph is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the largest non-profit, professional organization with over 420,000 worldwide in 160 countries. He is the Founding Chair of the Silicon Valley Startup SIG for YP (SCV Chapter), Chair of Region 6, Admissions and Advancement – Senior Membership, Treasurer of Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (SCV Chapter), Chair-Emeritus of Santa Clara Valley Section (SCV), Chair-Emeritus of Region 6 Central Area, Sponsorship Chair for Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), and Vice-Chair – Partnerships on the 2022 IEEE Entrepreneurship Steering Committee. He is also a recipient of the 2020 Santa Clara Valley Section Chair Special Award, 2015 Regional 6 Director Special Award, and a member of the IEEE-HKN Honor Society.

Joseph received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and completed entrepreneurship courses at Stanford University.

R. Chris Roberts

Robert Chris Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He received the B.S. degree, the M.S. degree, and the Ph.D. degree in from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. At UTEP he directs the Convergent Microsystems Laboratory where his research is in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and additive manufacturing, particularly the use of additive manufacturing
for microfabrication in the areas of packaging, energy, and healthcare. He previously worked as a researcher at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR from 2012-2018.

Srikanth Chandrasekaran

Sri has been associated with the IEEE Standards Association for the past 10 years focused on developing key program that address core issues of security, identity, trust and building end-to-end trustworthy devices and systems across emerging areas such as IoT/Smart Cities, Quantum Computing, Machine Learning, Sensors and Blockchain. Sri also heads the standardization efforts for IEEE SA for the Asia Pacific region and drives the IEEE Blended Learning Program initiative, an eLearning platform, focused on bridging skills for students in emerging technologies and lateral skilling of industry professionals.

Prior to joining IEEE, Sri was associated with Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (formerly Motorola Inc.) for 17 years, managing a global Electronic Design Automation R&D team. Sri received the Accellera Technical Excellence Award in 2009 for his leadership and contributions to design automation standardisation.

Tao Li

Tao Li is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Previously he was an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, where he served as a research faculty member with the Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSensing and Systems (WIMS2). He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering (precision instruments) from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2009.

Dr. Li’s research interests include micromachined sensors and actuators, microfluidic devices, microsystems for biomedical and environmental applications, sensor interfaces and embedded systems, microsystem packaging, and nontraditional microfabrication technologies. He has authored >40 journal and conference publications and book chapters, and holds 7 patents issued or pending. He received the CEAS College Master Educator Award from the University of Cincinnati in 2021. He has served on the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Sensors Conference since 2013 and in the Organizing Committee since 2019.

Calogero Maria Oddo

Calogero Maria Oddo has a Ph.D. in BioRobotics from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (SSSA), Pisa, Italy, M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa, 1st and 2nd level degrees in Industrial and Information Engineering as a honors college student of SSSA (3% success rate), all with honors.
He is Associate Professor of Bioengineering and he coordinates the Neuro-Robotic Touch Laboratory at The BioRobotics Institute of SSSA. He has over 65 international journal publications and 7 patents, and a track record in integrating biorobotics, neuroscience and industrial applications, with research interests in tactile sensing. He has 2900+ citations and 25 H-index in Scopus. He has a growing portfolio of successful research grants, with scientific responsibilities within EU and National projects. He is Senior Member of the IEEE and he served as Vice-Chair (2018-2020) of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Sensors Council.

Fabrice Labeau

Fabrice Labeau is an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the holder of the NSERC/Hydro-Québec Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Information Infrastructure for the Power Grid. He received the Electrical Engineer degree in 1995 from Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and the Diplôme d’études spécialisées en Sciences Appliquées, orientation Télécommunications also from UCL in 1996. From 1996 to 2000, he was with the Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory of UCL. From January to March 1999, he was a visiting scientist to the Signal and Image Departement (TSI) of ENST Paris. He received a Ph.D. degree in September 2000 from UCL.

He is or was a TPC member for many international conferences(such as VTC, WCNC, EUSIPCO, …). He was part of the organizing committee of ICASSP 2004 in Montreal and the Technical Program Committee co-chair for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in the Fall of 2006. He is a TPC co-chair for ICIP 2015 and VTC 2012-Fall.

In 2008, he receved the Outstanding Service Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS). He currently is the VTS Executive Vice-President, Chapters Committee chair and Distinguished Lecturer Program administrator.

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