Prof. Kumar T. Nandha
The Univerisity of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Malaysia
BIO: Prof. Nandha earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Madras and the National Institute of Technology, India. He later completed a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Nottingham. He joined the University of Nottingham Malaysia as an assistant professor in 2005, where he now holds the position of Professor of Electronics. Before this, he served as the Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the same university.
Prior to his academic career, he worked at Intel Corporation as a senior pre-silicon validation engineer. During his time at Intel, he was involved in gate-level validation of the ICH4 and ICH5 IO chips. He also served as the gate-level validation lead for the ICH6 IO chip, and as the RTL validation lead for legacy units of the ICH7 and ICH8 IO chips.
Prof. Nandha has 21 years of experience in academia and four years in industry. His research interests include emerging non-volatile memory (memristor), VLSI design, testing, fault and defect tolerance in digital systems, FPGA, in-memory computing, neuromorphic computing, and approximate computing. He has been honoured with the Lord Dearing Award for his outstanding contribution to teaching and student learning at the University of Nottingham. He has published over 100 papers in renowned international journals and conferences. He has secured research grants totalling approximately RM 2 million and contributed to six books published by IET, CRC, and Springer.
He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society and is currently an Associate Editor of IET Circuits, Devices and Systems. Additionally, he has been a member of the technical committees for more than 100 IEEE international conferences. He was the Tutorial Chair for the Asian Test Symposium 2020. He has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at VIT University, India.
Prof. Nandha is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), Chartered Engineer (UK), a Senior Member of IEEE, a Member of IET, and a Member of the TRIZ association.
Asst. Prof. Can Li
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
BIO: Dr. Can Li is an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. He earned his BSc and MSc from
Peking University in 2009 and 2012 respectively, and his PhD from the
University of Massachusetts in 2018. Before joining the University of Hong
Kong, he worked at Hewlett Packard Labs. He received the Early Career Award
from the UGC of Hong Kong and the Excellent Young Scientist Fund Award from
the NSFC in 2021, followed by the Croucher Tak Wah Mak Innovation Award in
2023. He actively contributes to the academic community by serving on
organizing and technical committees for multiple international conferences
such as EDTM, DAC, ICCAD, DATE, ISMC, etc. He is currently serving as IEEE
EDS Conference Platform Ad Hoc Committee Chair and a member of IEEE EDS
neuromorphic technical committee.