L. Zimmermann is active in the fields of optics, photonics, nanophotonics, and high-performance photonic-electronic integration. He currently serves as a Professor of silicon photonics at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) and as the team leader for silicon photonics group at IHP – Leibniz Institute für innovative Mikroelektronik, a global leader in silicon-germanium technology. In this role, he oversees and coordinates the Joint Lab Silicon Photonics, a strategic collaboration between IHP and TU Berlin, fostering innovative research at the intersection of academia and industry in silicon photonics. With over 100 scientific journal publications in photonics he made significant contributions to the field. Additionally, he has served as the technical program committee chair or subcommittee chair for multiple top-tier optics and photonics conferences, including the European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO), the IEEE Group IV Photonics, the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) and the IEEE Electron Device Meeting (IEDM). 

Lodovico Ratti (M’ 2000, SM’2013) is full professor of electronics with the University of Pavia, Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Italy. His main expertise is in the field of front-end electronics for highly segmented hybrid and monolithic radiation detectors, including CMOS imagers, CMOS SPADs and digital SiPMs. Lodovico Ratti’s research activity is also focuses on the study of ionizing radiation and displacement damage effects and the characterization of electronic noise in microelectronic devices and circuits. Target applications are in the area of high energy physics, astrophysics and photon science experiments. Lodovico Ratti is secretary of the Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee (RISC) of the Nuclear and Plasma Science Society (NPSS) and Chair of the NPSS Italy Chapter. He is a technology research fellow with the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). He is the team leader of the Electronic Instrumentation Group and is responsible for the Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory, Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia. Lodovico Ratti is author or co-author of more than 300 among papers published in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings, works presented at international conferences and book chapters. 

Lucio Pancheri received the M.Sc. degree in Materials Engineering and the Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. From 2006 to 2012 he has been a research scientist at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy, within the Integrated Radiation and Image Sensors (IRIS) research unit. In 2012 he joined the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Trento where he is currently Associate Professor of Electronics. His research activity has been mainly directed towards the development of CMOS integrated optical and high-energy radiation detectors for industrial, medical and research applications. He has authored or co-authored more than 210 papers in international journals and in the proceedings of international conferences.

Dr. Philippe Galy, born 1965, obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bordeaux (France) in 1994. He holds also a H.D.R. (academic research supervisor) from LAAS CNRS University of Toulouse in 2005. He has authored or co-authored over 150 publications, 4 books, and 140 patents portfolio. Philippe serves in several technical program committee and he is a reviewer for many symposiums and journals (Ex:Nature/VLSI/TED/TON/SSE/ESREF/ESSDERC/ICICDT/EUROSOI/CAS/JEDS/MicroMachine/Nanomaterial/JNM/JAP/EDL). He joined STMicroelectronics in 2005, working on ESD/LU and new solutions for device to SOC level in advanced CMOS and mature technologies (Bulk / FDSOI / planar & 3D). He develops tooling concepts for robust IP integration and supervises its developments till production. Moreover, its main R&D topics are on SCR, T2, TFET, BIMOS transistor, Beta-structure and other innovative devices for emerging neuromorphic, Qubit applications. Philippe is in charge for STMicroelectronics on Cryogenic Quantum/Design R&D with many international partners.  Based on these topics he supervises 16 PhD. He was already involved in National & European projects. Also, he joins the QuEng CDP group from Grenoble France.

Riccardo Colella (Senior Member, IEEE) Riccardo Colella is a Researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), and adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Salento, Italy. His research activity is mainly focused on analog/RF circuit modeling and design for fully passive RFID sensing, non-linear circuit modelling and memristors, RF-DC energy conversion circuits and systems, circuits for passive monitoring of electric power lines, and 3D-printable electronics, transmission line modelling. He serves as Vice President for member services of the IEEE Council on Radio-Frequency Identification since 2023. Currently, he is a member of the IEEE MTT-20 Technical Committee, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Radio-Frequency Identification (IEEE JRFID). He serves/served as a Chair in Organizing Committees of topical IEEE-sponsored conferences. He was the recipient of the International URSI Young Scientist Award, the IEEE MTT C&S Italy Award, and the “Giorgio Barzilai” scientific award. He has authored approximately 150 papers published in international journals and conferences, two book chapters with international diffusion, and holds a patent 

Massimo De Vittorio is Full Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and principal investigator of the Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Lecce – Italy, where he has served as Director for the past 10 years. His research activity deals with the development of science and technology applied to nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, and nano and micro electromechanical systems (NEMS/MEMS) for applications in the fields of technology for healthcare and ICT. He is currently focusing his research on implantable probes for manipulating and recording brain activity and on wearable and skin sensors based on flexible piezoelectrics for monitoring and controlling pathophysiological signals and symptoms in real-time. Author of about 450 manuscripts in international journals, 14 patents, 10 book chapters, and more than 70 invited/keynote talks to international conferences, he is also senior editor of the Journal IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, member of the editorial board of the Journal Microelectronic Engineering (Elsevier). He is the recipient of the 2023 Novo Nordisk Foundation Research Laureate Award and of the 2024 Fellow Award from the International Micro and Nano Engineering Society (iMNEs).

Laurent Grenouillet received the Engineer degree in physics in 1998 from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA)in Lyon, France, and the PhD degree in electronic devices in 2001. From 2001 to 2009 he worked at CEA-Leti on Optoelectronics and Silicon Photonics. In 2009, he joined IBM Alliance in Albany, USA to contribute to the development of FDSOI technology and tookpart to the FDSOI technology transfer to Global Foundries (22FDX) in 2015. Back in France, he joined the Advanced Memory Device Laboratory at CEA-Leti where he worked on resistive switching memory devices. In 2018 he started to work on ferroelectric HfO2-basedmemories (FeCaps, FeRAM, FTJs) and he is now leading the Ferroelectric Memory group at CEA-Leti. Laurent Grenouillet authored or co-authored over 110 papers (conferences and journals) and has filed over 60 patents. He also serves as committee member in differentmemory-related conferences (IRPS, IMW, NVMTS and SSDM).

Silvia Rizzato graduated (magna cum laude) in Physics at University of Salento in April 2013 and got her Ph.D in Physics and Nanosciences in July 2017 with a thesis entitled “Optimization of magnetoresistive, plasmonic and SAW devices for spintronics and sensing”. After her Ph.D., she held a post-doc position at CNR-NANOTEC Institute within the European project UE-H2020-ICT: Magnetic Diagnostic Assay for neurodegenerative diseases (MADIA), G.A. nr. 732678.

She is currently a researcher at the Department of Mathematics and Physics of University of Salento funded by PNRR project “IRIS- Innovative Research Infrastructure on applied Superconductivity”. Her research activity is focused on the development of new devices and processes for spintronics and sensing. In particular, she worked on the fabrication and optimization of surface acoustic waves devices and on the development of nanostructured transducers by means colloidal lithography. She also had expertise in lithography, preparation and processing of magnetoresistive sensors and their characterization by means of magnetotransport experiments. 

Luca Francioso received the Laurea in Physics in 2001 from the University of Lecce. Since 2001 he has been afferent to the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems of the National ResearchCouncil (CNR-IMM) in the Sensors and Microsystems group, with research activity dedicated to micromachined silicon systems and thin-film solid-state gas sensors. In 2005, he is a visiting researcher at CNM-CSIC (Centro Nacional de Microelectronica) in Barcelona,with activities on the fabrication of energy-efficient micromachined gas sensors. Since 2008, he gains the researcher position at the Lecce unit of the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (CNR-IMM), with research activities in the areas of MEMStechnologies, finite element simulation, engineering of chemical sensors and wearable devices for energy harvesting. As of 2019, he has been promoted as Senior Researcher and Research Manager in 2023. Current research interests are related to i) wearable devicesfor chemical and biological sensing ii) biosensors and advanced EIS detection techniques iii) design and fabrication of Lab-On-Chip and microphysiological platforms. He is currently the head of the Multifunctional Devices Design and Characterization Laboratory(M2DCLab) and the Micro-Nano BioSystems (MNBS) laboratory at the CNR-IMM in Lecce, with a group of 10 researchers.

V. Della Marca was born in Modena, Italy, in 1983. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 2008, where he worked on the electrical characterization of resistive memories. In 2013, he obtained his Ph.D. from Aix-Marseille University, in collaboration with STMicroelectronics, Im2np, and CEA-LETI. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Microelectronics and Telecommunications at Aix-Marseille University. His research, conducted at theIm2np laboratory, focuses on the modeling and electrical characterization of non-volatile memories and devices integrated in embedded-NVM environments. Recently, his work has centered on the development of new memory and transistor architectures based on in-trench devices, as well as complex test structures. These technologies have applications in low-power, high-reliability, and AI-driven products.

IEEE Life Fellow, 2014-2016, President of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He received Dipl. Ing. (MSc EE) degree, from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1971, and MSc and Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1982.

Prof. Oklobdzija served as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and Circuits and Systems Society.

He worked as Research Staff Member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1982-1991, where he made contributions to RISC processor, super-scalar and supercomputer design. Several of his patents are cited, in particular: register renaming, which enabled implementation of modern super-scalar computers.

From 1988-1990, he was IBM faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley, 1991-2006 professor at the UC Davis, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Korea IT Assessment Program, 2003, EPFL, Switzerland, 2004, and Sydney University 2006-7.

Prof Oklobdzija served as consultant to: Sun Microsystems, Bell Laboratories, Texas Instruments, Hitachi, Fujitsu, SONY, Intel, Samsung and Siemens Corp.

He served on the Editorial Board of IEEE MICRO, Journal of Low Power Electronics, and publishing board of Taylor-Francis as well as Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Computers 2000-2006, IEEE TVLSI 1995-2003, IEEE TCAS II, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing. He was Technical Program Chair (2008) and General Chair for the International Symposium on Low-Power Design (2010), General Chair for the International Symposium on Computer Arithmetic: ARITH-20 (2011) and ARITH-13 (1997). General Chair for DCAS-2008 and IASTED Conference on Circuits, Signals and Systems (2006), ISSCC program committee member from 1996 to 2003, 2007, First Asian ASSCC, ICCD, PATMOS and numerous other conference committees. In 2012 Prof. Oklobdzija retired from academia and spent next 11 years in machine learning startup companies designing processors and arithmetic units.

He holds 25 U.S.A. patents, published 180 refereed papers, 6 books, dozens of book chapters on circuits and technology, computer arithmetic and computer architecture.

Massimiliano Di Ventra obtained his undergraduate degree in Physics summa cum laude from the University of Trieste (Italy) in 1991 and did his PhD studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in 1993-1997. Since 2004, he is  professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. Di Ventra has worked on a variety of topics in condensed matter physics such as the theory of quantum transport in nanoscale and atomic systems, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, DNA sequencing/polymer dynamics in nanopores, and memory effects in nanostructures. Recently, he has introduced the MemComputing paradigm of computation. He has been invited to deliver more than 350 talks worldwide on these topics including 17 plenary/keynote presentations. He has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals, 5 textbooks, and has 11 granted patents (7 foreign). He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics, the IEEE, and a foreign member of Academia Europaea. In 2018 he was named Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics, he is the recipient of the 2024 Humboldt Research Award, the 2020 Feynman Prize for theory in Nanotechnology, and is a 2022-2023 IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Lecturer. He is the co-founder of the startup MemComputing, Inc. 

Taekwang Jang (S’06-M’13-SM’19) received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from KAIST, Korea, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2013, he worked at Samsung Electronics Company Ltd., Yongin,Korea, focusing on mixed-signal circuit design, including analog and all-digital phase-locked loops for communication systems and mobile processors. In 2017, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and worked as a post-doctoral research fellowat the same institution. In 2018, he joined ETH Zürich as an assistant professor and is leading the Energy-Efficient Circuits and Intelligent Systems group. He is also a member of the Competence Center for Rehabilitation Engineering and Science, and the chairof the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, Switzerland chapter.His research focuses on circuits and systems for highly energy-constrained applications such as wireless sensor nodes and biomedical interfaces. Essential building blocks such as a sensor interface, energyharvester, power converter, communication transceiver, frequency synthesizer, and data converters are his primary interests. He holds 15 patents and has (co)authored more than 80 peer-reviewed conferences and journal articles. He is the recipient of the 2024IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society New Frontier Award, the SNSF Starting Grant, the IEEE ISSCC 2021 and 2022 Jan Van Vessem Award for Outstanding European Paper, the IEEE ISSCC 2022 Outstanding Forum Speaker Award, and the 2009 IEEE CAS Guillemin-Cauer BestPaper Award. Since 2022, he has been a TPC member of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IMD Subcommittee, and IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (ASSCC), Analog Subcommittee. He also chaired the 2022 IEEE InternationalSymposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT), Frequency Generation Subcommittee. Since 2023, he has been serving as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) and was appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Solid-StateCircuits Society in 2024.

Baptiste Jadot is a CEA-Leti expert on cryogenic CMOS (cryo-CMOS) circuits and semiconductor spin qubit physics. In 2020, he received a Ph.D. degree in quantum nano-electronics from the Grenoble Alps University for his work on coherent spin transport, during which he demonstrated a spin qubit shuttling protocol with unprecedented fidelity. He later joined CEA-Leti (Grenoble, France) as a permanent researcher among the quantum silicon taskforce. He is in charge of designing and measuring demonstrators co-integrating cryo-CMOS circuits and qubits at cryogenic temperatures, to study the scalability of many-qubit architectures. His research topics includes the design of cryo-CMOS circuits to bias or readout large numbers of qubits, as well as other aspects involving spin qubit physics and enabling technologies.

Anabela Veloso received a Ph.D. from INESC/IST-Lisbon University, Portugal in 2002. Since 2001, she has been working at imec, in Leuven, Belgium, where she is a principal member of technical staff. Currently, her main research interests are in the areas of advanced CMOS device physics, integration, characterization, and technology, with recent focus on the exploration of scaled nanowires/nanosheets-based FETs (with lateral or vertical transport), logic with backside power delivery and functional backside, and overall novel device schemes that also take into consideration possible new options for transistor engineering and connectivity by using both wafer sides. She has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers published in peer-reviewed international conference proceedings and technical journals, presented 32 invited conference talks, and has been (co-)inventor of more than 25 filed/granted patents. She has also been serving in several conference committees including IEDM, SSDM, ECS Meeting, IIT, EDTM, IWJT, and the Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits.

Matteo Pisati is Sr. Director at Synopsys, where he is leading the Pavia design center since 2021. He has 20+ years’ experience in the SerDes field, starting from the MS. and Ph.D. degrees at University of Pavia (’01, ‘05), going through his experience in the industry, from STMicroelectronics till to Synopsys.

Giovanni Francesco Ciani received his Master Degree in Physics in 2014 at University of Bari and got his Ph.D. title in Astroparticle Physics in 2019 at Gran Sasso Science Institute (L’Aquila, Italy) where he worked in the underground Laboratory of Gran Sasso (LNGS) in the framework of the LUNA collaboration. After periods spent in ATOMKI Laboratory (Debrecen, Hungary) and in Circe (Caserta, Italy), in 2021 he came back in Bari as Assistant Professor. Starting from September 2023, he is Technologist in the Bari division of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN).  Presently he is coordinator of the High Technologies service of INFN, Bari consisting in clean rooms and metrology service where detectors for High energy physics and Applied Physics are developed and assembled.