Keynote Speakers

Professor Andrew Maynard is a scientist, author, thought leader, and Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions in the ASU School for the Future if Innovation in Society. He is the founder of the ASU Future of Being Human initiative, Director of the ASU Risk Innovation Nexus, and was previously Associate Dean in the ASU College of Global Futures. His work focuses on successfully transitioning to a future where transformative technologies from artificial intelligence and quantum computing to gene editing, nanotechnology, automation, and more, have the power to fundamentally change every aspect of society. He writes about emerging technologies and responsible innovation on The Future of Being Human Substack.

Professor Maynard is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, serves as co-chair of the Institute for the Advancement of Nutrition and Food Science (IAFNS) Board of Trustees, is a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research President’s Advisory Committee, has served on a number of National Academies of Sciences committees, and has testified before congressional committees on several occasions. Since 2008 he has worked closely with the World Economic Forum in a number of capacities, including chairing and serving on various Global Agenda Councils/Global Future Councils, and contributing to the WEF/Scientific American annual list of Top Ten Emerging Technologies.

Hyuk-Jae Lee earned his B.S. M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Seoul National University in 1987 1989, respectively. Subsequently, he pursued a Ph.D. degree in electrical computer engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, USA, successfully completing it in 1996.

From 1996 to 1998, he served on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LS, USA. Following this, from 1998 to 2001, he held the position of Senior Component Design Engineer with the Server Workstation Chipset Division at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, OR, USA.

In 2001, Dr. Lee joined the School of Electrical Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, where he currently holds the position of Professor. Additionally, he founded Mamurian Design, Inc., Seoul, a fabless SoC design house specializing in multimedia applications.

Dr. Lee also served as the President of IEIE (The Institute of Electronics Information Engineer) in Korea. His research interests primarily center on computer architecture SoC (System-on-Chip) design tailored for AI (Artificial Intelligence) applications.

Prof. Guo received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2004. He is currently a full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, and Director of Advanced Intelligent Image and Vision Technology Research Center. He was Vice Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Director of the Innovative Business Incubation Center, Office of Research and Development. He was Visiting Scholar at the Digital Video and Multimedia Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, USA from June to August, 2015, and the Signal Processing Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA from July 2002 to June 2003 and June-November, 2014. His research interests include multimedia signal processing, biometrics, computer vision, and digital halftoning.

Dr. Guo is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Fellow of the IET. He has been promoted as a Distinguished Professor in 2012 for his significant research contributions. He has received many awards, including Best Paper Awards (IEEE ICCE-TW 2020, IS3C 2020, NSSSE 2020, ICSSE 2011 and 2020, ICS 2014, and CVGIP 2005, 2006, 2013, 2016, and 2019), Outstanding Contribution Award from Taiwan Consumer Electronics Society in 2021, Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award from Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, Taiwan in 2016, Outstanding Research Contribution Award from Institute of System Engineering in 2017, Excellence Research Awards from his university for five times (2008, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020, and 2022, this award is evaluated and issued every three years), Outstanding Industry-Academia Collaboration Awards from Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2013. Outstanding youth Electrical Engineer Award from Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2011, Outstanding young Investigator Award from Taiwan Institute of System Engineering in 2011.

Shoji Kasahara was born in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Pref., Japan, in 1965. He received the B. Eng. degree from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1989. He received the M. Eng. and Dr. Eng. degrees from the Division of Applied Systems Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. He was with the Educational Center for Information Processing at Kyoto University from 1993 to 1997 as an Assistant Professor.

In 1996, he was a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Waterloo, Canada, in July 1996. From 1997 to 2005, he was with the Department of Information Systems, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan. From 2005 to 2012, he was an Associate Professor of the Department of Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Since 2012, he has been a Professor of Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan. His research interests include queueing theory and performance analysis of computer and communication systems. He is a fellow of IEICE and ORSJ, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of INFORMS, IPSJ, and ISCIE.