IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Day 2022 & SEACAS Workshop & Student Hackathon
- Time: December 2-4, 2022
- Venue: VNU Information Technology Institute – Meeting room #503, Building E3, No. 144 Xuan Thuy Road, Cau Giay District, Hanoi, Vietnam
IEEE South East Asia workshop on Circuits and Systems organized by IEEE CAS Vietnam Chapter will be hosted by VNU Information Technology Institute (VNU-ITI), Vietnam National University, Hanoi. SEACAS is a forum for students, professors, researchers and CAS members in South-Est Asia country to exchange ideas, research results and experience to build a successful CAS chapter. This year, we will warmly welcome the following distinguished guests from IEEE CAS:
- Amara Amara, Past IEEE CASS President, France.
- Myung Hoon Sunwoo, IEEE CASS President-Elect, Korea.
- Yoshifumi Nishio, IEEE CASS Vice President – Regional Activities and Membership, Japan.
- Fakhrul Zamman Rokhani, SEA Ambassador, IEEE CASS, Malaysia
IEEE CASS Day 2022, SEACAS Workshop and Student Hackathon will be held from December 2 to December 4 2022 at VNU-ITI. IEEE CASS Day will be held on December 2, 2022 with Vietnamese CAS members, invited speakers and CASS Distinguished Guests. SEACAS Workshop and Student Hackathon will be held from December 3 to December 4, 2022 with CAS members and students from South-East Asia countries.
Registration link for CASS Day 2022 (9:00-12:00 on December 2, 2022): https://forms.gle/ohMaQvSJ4sAZobh37
SEACAS 2022 Program
| Time (Hanoi) | December 2 |
| 9:00-9:15 | Registration & opening session |
| 9:15-9:30 | CASS Promotion Talks
The CAS Society: General Prof. Amara Amara, CT4D Strategist at Terre des hommes, France
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| 9:30-9:45 | The Future of the CAS Society
Prof. Myung Sunwoo, Ajou University in Suwon, Korea |
| 9:45-10:00 | CASS Membership Benefits
Prof. Yoshifumi Nishio, Tokushima University, Japan |
| 10:00-10:15 | CASS Educational Activities
Prof. Fakhrul Zaman Rokhani |
| 10:15-10:30 | Tea Break |
| 10:30-10:45 | Talk#1: RISC-V and research activities at VNU-ITI
Duy-Hieu Bui, VNU-ITI, Vietnam |
| 10:45-11:00 | Talk: HW Security
Van-Trung Nguyen, Van-Phuc Hoang, LQDTU, Vietnam |
| 11:00-11:15 | Talk: Analog/mixed-signal Design
Thanh-Loan Pham-Nguyen, HUST, Vietnam |
| 11:15-12:00 | Chapter Initiation meeting |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-17:00 | Visit Vietnam Museum of Ethnology |
| 18:00-20:00 | Dinner with CASS volunteers |
| Time (Hanoi) | December 3 |
| 9:45-10:00 | Hackathon announcement & Hackathon start |
| 10:00-12:00 | Chapter Officer presentation on Best Practices for Managing/Organizing a Chapter. |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch SEACAS participants |
| 14:00-16:00 | Research presentations by Chapter Officer |
| Time (Hanoi) | December 4 |
| 10:00-12:00 | SEACAS Hackathon continue |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch SEACAS participants |
| 14:00-15:00 | SEACAS Hackathon continue |
| 15:00-17:00 | Hackathon presentation/judging |
| 18:00-20:00 | Dinner/Award Ceremony |
Speakers’ Biography
Professor Amara AMARA obtained the HDR (Confirmation of Leading Research Capabilities, Highest French Title) from Evry University, Ph.D. in computer science in 1989 and Master in microelectronics and computer science in 1984 from Paris VI University. In 1988 he joined IBM research and development laboratory at Corbeil-Essonnes as a researcher, where he was involved in SRAM memory design with advanced CMOS technologies. From 1989 to 1992, he was associate professor developing microelectronics academic programs for CEMIP (Paris and Ile-de-France Center for Microelectronics Education) and took part actively to many European Research Projects. In 1992 he joined ISEP (Paris Institute for Electronics) in charge of the Microelectronics Laboratory where he headed a joint team (Paris VI and ISEP) involved in High Speed GaAs VLSI circuit design. He was Deputy Managing Director of ISEP in charge of Research and International Cooperation. His research interests are mainly focusing on Low Power circuit design and on Design and Technology Interactions for advanced Electron Devices (SOI, DGates FD SOI, Ultra Thin Body SOI, 3D Integration etc…) In 1999, he did a sabbatical at Stanford University where he joined Professor De Micheli’s group. His current position is ICT for Development Strategist at “Terre des hommes” an International NGO specialized in Child Protection.
Professor Myung Hoon Sunwoo (SM’01–F’11) received a B.S. degree from Sogang University in 1980, an M.S. degree in EE from KAIST in 1982, and a Ph.D. degree in ECE from the University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A, in 1990. He worked for ETRI in Daejeon, Korea, from 1982 to 1985, and for the Digital Signal Processor Operations, Motorola, in Austin, Texas, from 1990 to 1992. Since 1992, he has been with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University in Suwon, Korea, where he is currently a Professor. He has authored over 450 papers, holds more than 110 patents, and has won more than 50 awards. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (2002–2003) and a co-editor of books, including “Selected Topics in Biomedical Circuits and Systems” (River Publishers Series in Circuits and Systems, 2021). He served as the General Chair of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2012 in Seoul, Korea, and the General Co-chair of ISCAS 2021, Daegu, Korea. As the IEEE CASS VP-Conferences, he launched the IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) in 2019. Currently, he is the director of the Medical Image Based Intelligent Diagnostic Internal Solutions (MIIDS) Research Center. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE CASS (2009-2010), serving on the CASS Board of Directors (BoG) (2011 – 2016) and as the IEEE CASS VP of Conferences (2018–2021). Recently, he was elected as IEEE CASS President-Elect (2022–2023) and is currently an IEEE Fellow. His current research interests are artificial intelligence circuits and systems, low-power algorithms and architectures, medical imaging diagnosis, and deep-learning-based channel coding.
Professor Yoshifumi Nishio received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama Japan, in 1988, 1990, and 1993, respectively. In 1993, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Tokushima University, Tokushima Japan, where he is currently a Professor. From May 2000 he spent a year in the Laboratory of Nonlinear Systems (LANOS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) as a Visiting Professor. He is an adjunct professor of Xi’an Jiaotong University from 2012 and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) from 2019. His research interests are in the areas of nonlinear circuits engineering, including analysis and application of chaos in electrical circuits, analysis of synchronization in coupled oscillatory circuits, development of analyzing methods for nonlinear circuits, theory and application of cellular neural networks, neural network architecture, complex networks, evolutionary computation, and bio-signal processing. He was the Chair of the IEEE CAS Society Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems (NCAS) during 2004-2005, the Steering Committee Secretary of the IEICE Research Society of Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA) during 2004-2007, the Chair of the IEEE CAS Society Shikoku Chapter during 2011-2014, a member of the IEEE CAS Society Board of Governors during 2012-2017, and the Vice President on Regional Activities and Membership of the IEEE CAS Society during 2018-2021. He was an Editor of the IEICE Fundamentals Review during 2007-2012 and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers during 2004-2005, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Express Briefs during 2012-2013 and 2016-2019, the IEEE CAS Magazine during 2008-2009, and the RISP Journal of Signal Processing during 2005-2012. He is currently serving as a Secretary for the NOLTA, IEICE (from 2009) and an Associate Editor for the IEEE CAS Society Newsletter (from 2007) and International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (from 2015). He is also a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the IEICE and the RISP. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the IEICE and the RISP.
Professor Fakhrul Zaman Rokhani received the B.S. degree in University of Technology Malaysia, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota, USA. He is presently an associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). He heads the Gerontechnology program at MyAgeing Institute and Smart System and System-on-Chip (S3oC) research group. He was with Intel Penang Design Center as visiting professor, was with Huawei Technologies, visiting scholar at the ASIC & Systems State Key Lab at Fudan University, visiting professor in several universities including Turkey, Sudan and Indonesia, among others. His current research interests include designing energy-efficient system-on-chip (SoC), design automation, IoT system integration, and sensors for food quality application. Within CAS Society, currently, he serves as Chair of AdCom for Education, AdCom Digital Communications, Institute for Global Education committee and Ambassador for SEA chapters. He has served as ExCom for Strategic Communication for Malaysia section. At local chapter, he has served/currently serving as CAS ExCom for financial and communication, chapter chair for IEEE Consumer Electronics, ExCom for GOLD/YP, among others. On the publication front, he has been contributing as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems–I: Regular Papers (from 2021), CAS Society newsletter (from 2016), founding Editor-in-Chief CAS Malaysia chapter newsletter (2015-2018), and Technical Program Chair/Publication Chair/Track chairs of several IEEE CASS conferences. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and a corporate member of IEM and registered professional engineer and professional technologist.
Hosting institution
VNU Institute of Information Technology (VNU-ITI) is a member research institute of Vietnam National University, Hanoi, established in 2001. The VNU-ITI has a mission to train high-quality experts in Vietnam. doctoral level, participating in undergraduate and postgraduate training in the field of information technology at universities and units affiliated to Vietnam National University, Hanoi; scientific research, application implementation, consulting and technology transfer in the field of information and communication technology in order to contribute to the socio-economic development of the country; training professional skills, fostering and improving science and technology qualifications, popularizing new technologies for domestic and foreign enterprises, units and individuals.
The Institute of Information Technology currently has 5 technology research and development units: (1) Database and information systems; (2) Information system security; (3) Network and communication technology; (4) Natural language recognition and processing technology; (5) Multimedia technology and virtual reality. The team of scientists of the Institute of Information Technology is carrying out many research activities, topics and projects at the state, ministerial, VNU and international levels related to important technology issues such as: : data science; artificial intelligence (AI); virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR); photo/video processing; safety information; blockchain; Internet of Things (IoT); Embedded System; IC and FPGA design, security design for RFID…