Speakers
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Since 2021 Tom van der Dussen leads the High Tech NL cluster Semiconductors. Supported by a team of experts he plays an important role towards the 100+ companies within this cluster and towards the wide ecosystem within the Netherlands. The High Tech NL Semiconductors cluster is recognized as a ‘first point of contact’ within the Dutch industry and has close bonds with politics, international companies and parties, but also similar communities around the world. Among others Tom strives to unite and bond all individual companies. Via this way they exchange knowledge, create (international) partnerships to develop new innovations and of course increase their companies business. Close partnerships and mutual interests are most important to stay or become in the global lead.
About Tom personally: Tom has a 20+ year background in sales and marketing, global business development. Started his professional career at Philips in Eindhoven, worked within IT companies for 8 years and travelled the world for a Philips Lighting spin-off company. Grew up in Eindhoven, still lives in the Brabant province, to relax he spends time in the gym, likes to brew his own beer and has lots of books he still wants to read.
Anku Jain is Managing Director of MediaTek India. MediaTek Inc. is a leading Taiwan based global fabless semiconductor company that powers nearly 2 billion devices a year. Anku is heading MediaTek’s pan India operations with offices in Noida, Bangalore and Mumbai. He is also responsible for heading multiple R&D business units in Noida in addition to Indian Govt relations. With an experience spanning over 30 years, he has been focused on building strong teams and grooming leaders who can deliver on the global stage. He is also an avid angel investor riding on the India growth story. Anku is a B. Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and has done an executive program in business management program from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Anku’s expertise include business leadership, strategy, managing cross cultural teams, site operations and engineering proficiency related to innovations in embedded software, telecom, semiconductor and mobile phone design. He has multiple patents in the field of mobile telephony.
Ankur Gupta is an associate professor at Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE) in IIT Delhi. He received the Ph.D. degree from IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 2015. Earlier, he worked as ASIC circuit designer with Texas Instruments Inc., where he developed high-voltage and low-power interfacing (I/O) circuits. He also worked with GlobalFoundries Singapore for RF-CMOS process development. He has several papers and patent in the field of high-voltage device and circuit design. His current research interests include high-voltage RF device design, RF microelectronics, and device–circuit co-design.
Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel studied Mathematics with Physics at the University of Amsterdam, received a PhD from Leiden University, and was postdoc at Brown University and software engineer at Indian Hill Bell Laboratories in the US. He has held professorships at Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Leiden University, and Utrecht University. In 2012 he was elected as member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.
He was Head of both the Mathematical Institute and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, and Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. Currently, he is Head of Scanner Research at ASML and professor by special appointment at Utrecht University.
His research interests include applications of mathematics in industrial context with emphasis on data science, dynamical systems, inverse problems, and (stochastic) time-delayed feedback control theory. He is co-author of two influential books on differential delay equations.
Shanthi Pavan received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from IIT Madras, Chennai, India, in 1995, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees from Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, in 1997 and 1999, respectively. After a five year stint in industry, he joined IIT Madras, where he is currently the NT Alexander Institute Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering. Prof.Pavan is the author of Understanding Delta-Sigma Data Converters (second edition, with Richard Schreier and Gabor Temes), which received the Wiley-IEEE Press Professional Book Award for 2020. His research interests are in the areas of high-speed analog circuit design and signal processing. Dr. Pavan is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and the Indian National Science Academy, and the recipient of several awards, including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 2012 and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award in 2009. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers and on the Technical Program Committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and is a two-term Distinguished Lecturer of the Solid-State Circuits Society. He currently serves as the Vice-President of Publications of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and on the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits editorial board. He is an IEEE Fellow
Luc Augustin received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology. He is the CTO of SMART Photonics, where he is responsible for the technology roadmap, strategy and R&D. His expertise is in photonics, fabrication and characterisation of InP photonic integrated circuits. Prior to SMART he worked at Solland Solar, Philips Research and Cedova, where he always has been active in the development, pilot production and optimization of innovative technologies.
End of 2023 Luc is appointed as Associate Professor at TU/e Eindhoven. His area of research is large scale integration of PICs.
He is board member of the IEEE Photonics Benelux chapter, member of the JePPIX steering committee, and member of the Board of Stakeholders of Photonics21.
Martijn Heck has a PhD in electrical engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, on the topic of photonic integration, where he is currently a full professor (since 2020). Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Free University of Amsterdam (2008-2009) and the University of California Santa Barbara, US (2009 – 2013), and an Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark (2013 – 2020). He was the Scientific Director and founder of the Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute (2021 – 2024). His research is focused on photonic integration, from technology development, including heterogeneous integration techniques, to applications in sensors, microwave and terahertz photonics, quantum technology and chip-to-chip and on-chip interconnects.
Harijot Singh Bindra is an Assistant Professor at the Integrated Circuit Design Group, University of Twente, The Netherlands. He received his PhD degree (cum laude) from the University of Twente in 2019. He obtained his Master’s in Technology degree in VLSI design from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi in 2010. He worked as a Scientist in the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) from 2008-2010 and as Senior Design Engineer at Cadence Design Systems, India from 2012-2014. He served as an Associate Editor in the Transactions of Circuits and Systems – 1 (2021-23) and is currently a Technical Program Committee member for European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC). He was recently awarded the VENI-2023 grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). His research interest is in low energy circuit design techniques, high speed serial links, data converters, sensor readout circuitry, low-power radio front-ends. He was also part of 4TU Interdisciplinary Plantenna consortium investigating RF sensing principles for plant health monitoring.
Assistant-professor Piyush Kaul received the B.E. degree in electronics and communication engineering at Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India, in 2012, and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 2017, where he completed his Ph.D. in integrated circuits, IC-group with the Department of Electrical Engineering, in 2024. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Integrated Circuits group in the department of Electrical Engineering at TU/e. His current research interests include electronics-photonic integration, integrated millimeter-wave/THz systems, and novel structures for IC-to-antenna transitions.
Arnoud van der Wel was born in the Netherlands in 1974 and grew up in Tanzania.
He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Twente, where he received the master’s degree in 1997. In 2000, he graduated from the teacher’s training college at the same university, making him a qualified physics teacher. Subsequently, he obtained the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) at the IC-Design group of the University of Twente for his thesis “MOSFET LF noise under large signal excitation”.
Arnoud has been working for NXP in Eindhoven since 2005, and is currently with the Analog & Mixed Signal Competence Center. He holds 15 patents, and has authored or co-authored over 15 peer-reviewed papers. He leads a team of analog circuit designers designing cutting edge analog & mixed signal IP in advanced CMOS and SOI processes, in the fields of power management, data converters and references.
