Calvin Chao received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, US in 1987 and 1992, respectively. He is currently a Deputy Director of Mixed Signal and RF Solution Division, Design Technology Platform, R&D of TSMC. Prior to joining TSMC in 2009, he worked at MicroMedia Inc., e-Phocus Inc., Burr-Brown Corp., and IBM Microelectronics, on diverse projects including CIS design, image processing, analog and mixed-signal IC design, device modeling, characterization, reliability physics, and process development. He authored and co-authored 43 journal and conference papers and 40 US patents. Recently he served as a member of the Technical Program Committee of ISSCC IMMD, IISW, and Electronic Imaging.

Edoardo Charbon received the Diploma from ETH Zurich, the M.S. from UCSD, and the Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1988, 1991, and 1995, respectively, all in electrical engineering and EECS. He was subsequently with Cadence Design Systems and Canesta Inc. Since 2002 he has been a member of the faculty of EPFL, where he is full professor. From 2008 to 2016 he was with Delft University of Technology. He has pioneered CMOS SPAD image sensors and cryo-CMOS circuits and systems for quantum computing. He has authored or co-authored over 500 papers and two books, and he holds over 30 patents. Dr. Charbon is the recipient of the 2023 IISS Pioneering Achievement Award, he is a distinguished visiting scholar of the Keck Institute for Space at Caltech, a fellow of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Photonics Society, and a fellow of the IEEE.

Boyd Fowler joined OmniVision in December 2015 and is the CTO. Prior to joining OmniVision he was a founder and VP of Engineering at Pixel Devices where he focused on developing high performance CMOS image sensors. After Pixel Devices was acquired by Agilent Technologies, Dr. Fowler was responsible for advanced development of their commercial CMOS image sensors products. In 2005 Dr. Fowler joined Fairchild Imaging as the CTO and VP of technology, where he developed SCMOS image sensors for high performance scientific applications. After Fairchild Imaging was acquired by BAE Systems, Dr. Fowler was appointed the technology directory of the CCD/CMOS image sensor business. He has authored numerous technical papers, book chapters and patents. Dr. Fowler received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1990 and 1995 respectively.

Robert Henderson is a Professor of Electronic Imaging in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He obtained his PhD in 1990 from the University of Glasgow. From 1991, he was a research engineer at the Swiss Centre for Microelectronics, Neuchatel, Switzerland. In 1996, he was appointed senior VLSI engineer at VLSI Vision Ltd, Edinburgh, UK where he worked on the world’s first single chip video camera. From 2000, as principal VLSI engineer in STMicroelectronics Imaging Division he developed image sensors for mobile phone applications. He joined University of Edinburgh in 2005, designing the first SPAD image sensors in nanometer CMOS technologies in the MegaFrame and SPADnet EU projects leading to the first volume SPAD time-of-flight products. He is an advisor to Ouster Automotive and a Fellow of the IEEE and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Rihito Kuroda received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in management science and technology from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2005, 2007, and 2010, respectively. He was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research from 2007 to 2010. Since 2010, he is with the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He is engaged in researches on process, device, design and characterization of advanced CMOS image sensors. He received the 2016 nac High Speed Imaging Award. He has been serving as a TPC member and a sub-committee chair of IEDM in 2015-2017, IEEE Sensors in 2014-2016 and Electronic Imaging since 2015 and several other international conferences.

Guy Meynants received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium in 1994 and 1998. From 1994 to 1999, he worked on CMOS active pixel image sensors at IMEC. He was one of the co-founders of FillFactory in 2000 (sold to Cypress Semiconductor mid 2004). In 2007, he founded CMOSIS to develop advanced professional image sensors and lead the company through its incubation phase as CEO and since 2009 as CTO & VP R&D. End of 2015, AMS acquired CMOSIS and he became AMS Engineering Fellow. Since 2019 he is with Photolitics and KU Leuven. His main research interest are in low noise, global shutter and high speed CMOS imagers. He invented 34 patents in the field of image sensors and analog circuit design, and co-authored 75 publications.

Shouleh Nikzad is the Chief Technologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She assumed the role of JPL CTO after near four years leading JPL’s Science Division where all aspects of research in astrophysics, planetary science, and Earth science were conducted. A JPL Fellow, Senior Research Scientist, and Principal engineer. Trained as a physicist and electrical engineer, she is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary researcher and strategic and innovative leader with strong track record in transforming ideas into reality, bringing concepts into products and fruition, and leading teams to success. She is best known for her work in invention, development, and deployment of ultraviolet detectors, image sensors, coatings, as well as ultraviolet instruments and associated science for space and terrestrial applications. Much of her inventions focus on nanoscale engineering of surface and interfaces. In her own words, “I work in nanoscale to have impact in galactic scale.” She is a community builder and a leader through collaboration, inspiration, and empowerment. She is the first woman to serve at JPL’s Science Division leadership.

Yusuke Oike received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2005. In 2005, he joined Sony Corporation. From 2010 to 2011, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He is now in charge of research and development of architectures, circuits, and devices for image sensors as Deputy Senior General Manager of Sony Semiconductor Solutions, Japan. He is appointed as Distinguished Engineer of Sony Group Corporation. He is also a board member of Sony Advanced Visual Sensing AG at Zurich. He has served as the program chair and the symposium co-chair of VLSI Symposium 2021 and 2022, respectively, and also as TPC member of ISSCC from ’12 to ’16.

Min-Woong Seo received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, in 2007 and 2009, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan, in 2012. From 2012 to 2014, he was a JSPS Research Fellow at the Imaging Devices Lab., Shizuoka University. He then served as an Assistant Professor at Shizuoka University from 2014 to 2016, and as an Associate Professor from 2016 to 2018. In 2018, he joined the Semiconductor R&D Center at Samsung Electronics, Hwaseong, Korea. His research interests include CMOS imaging devices, low-noise/HDR imaging, time-resolved image sensors, global-shutter image sensors, pixel-/column-parallel ADCs for imagers, and mixed-signal circuit design. He has been a member of TPC for the EI since 2018 and for the ISSCC since 2024. Additionally, he has been a steering committee member of the Korea Image Sensor Society since 2024 and a board member of IISS since 2025.

Johannes Solhusvik received his PhD in 1996 on CCD and CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) design at ISAE, Toulouse, France. After which he joined ABB (Norway). In 1999 he established Photobit (Norway) CIS design center which became Micron in ‘01. He expatriated during 2004-06 to Micron’s CIS HQ in USA, managing design teams in USA, Japan, UK and Norway. He then repatriated to focus on CIS R&D. In 2009 he joined the Micron spin-off, Aptina (Norway), where he served as Fellow and CTO of Automotive BU until ‘12 when he joined OmniVision as General Manager of their Europe Design Center. In 2020 Dr. Solhusvik joined Sony and is VP and Head of Sony Semiconductor Solutions Europe. Dr. Solhusvik is IISS board member and has served as TPC member of ISSCC from ‘05 to ‘11, and of ESSCIRC from’11 until present.

Daniel Van Blerkom is the Chief Technology Officer at Forza Silicon Corporation in Pasadena, California. Daniel received the B.S in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992, and the M.S and Ph.D in Applied Physics from the University of California, San Diego in 1993 and 2000 respectively. Daniel was with Photobit Corporation from 1998 to 2001. In 2001 Daniel co-founded Forza Silicon, which designs and manufactures leading edge custom image sensors. He holds 15 image sensor patents and was co-recipient of the Jack Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper at ISSCC 2008.

Chiao Liu is currently the Director of Research at Meta Reality Labs, where he leads a team developing sensors, sensing systems, and AI algorithms for SmartGlasses, AR glasses, and Robotics. Prior to joining Meta, Dr. Liu served as a Principle Architect at Microsoft, where he was responsible for sensing and computing solutions for their Hololens AR products. He also held a position as a Technical Fellow at BAE Systems Fairchild Imaging, where he contributed to the success of Fairchild’s SCMOS image sensor technologies and their applications in scientific, biomedical, and industrial fields. Earlier in his career, he was instrumental in the development of the first-generation CMOS iToF sensors at Canesta (subsequently acquired by Microsoft). Mr. Liu earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Eric R. Fossum is the John H. Krehbiel Sr. Professor for Emerging Technologies, Director of the PhD Innovation Program, and Vice Provost, Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer at Dartmouth. He co-founded and led Photobit (sold to Micron, spun out as Aptina and acquired by ON Semi), was CEO of Siimpel and co-founded Gigajot. For the invention of the CMOS active-pixel image sensor with intra-pixel charge transfer “camera-on-a-chip” at JPL/Caltech, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and shared the Queen Elizabeth Prize for the creation of digital imaging sensors with Smith, Tompsett and Teranishi. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE and Optica. He co-founded the IISS and was its 1st President. He holds over 175 US patents and has published over 300 papers. For fun, he and his wife operate a hobby farm in New Hampshire.

Junichi Nakamura received the B.S. and M.S. in electronics engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1979 and 1981, and a Ph.D. in electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2000. During his career he worked at Olympus Optical Co., Japan, NASA JPL, CA, Photobit Corporation, CA. He established Photobit’s Japan Branch that became Micron’s Japan Imaging Design Center in 2001, and currently ON-Semi Japan in Tokyo. He co-founded Brillnics in 2014 and is serving as Chief Scientist. Dr. Nakamura is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers of Japan. He was Editor and a Contributor for a textbook “Image Sensors and Signal Processing for Digital Still Cameras”. He received the Takayanagi Memorial Award in 2009 for his contribution to CMOS Image Sensor developments. He served as the 4th IISS President from 2021 to 2025.

Nobukazu Teranishi is a specially appointed professor at Shizuoka University. Since 1978, he has developed image sensors at NEC Corporation (1978 – 2000), Panasonic Corporation (2000 -2013), University of Hyogo (2013 – 2022), and Shizuoka University (2013 – Present). His leadership and image sensor technology development, including the pinned photodiode invention, were honored by the government organizations as well as societies; He won the National Invention Awards, Commendation by Minister of State for Science and Technology, Niwa-Takayanagi Award from the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE), IEEE EDS J. J. Ebers Award, a Fellow of the ITE, and a Fellow of the IEEE, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, a Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon, and the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award. He co-founded the IISS and was its 2nd President. He has authored and co-authored 46 journal papers and holds 46 Japanese patents and 21 US patents.

Albert Theuwissen received the EE degree from the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1977 and his PhD degree in 1983. Then he joined Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven (the Netherlands). He is author or coauthor of over 180 technical papers and issued several patents. He is co-founder of IISS and 3^rd President. He also served as the International Technical Program Chair ISSCC 2010. In 2001, he was appointed as part-time professor at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.In April 2002, he joined DALSA and in September 2007, he started his own company “Harvest Imaging”. In 2008, he received the SMPTE’s Fuji Gold medal. He is an IEEE Fellow and member of SPIE. In 2011 he was elected as “Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year”.