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.

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.

Vladimir Koifman is founder and CTO of Analog Value Ltd. Prior to that he was co-founder of Advasense Inc., acquired by Pixim/Sony Image Sensor Division. Prior to co-founding Advasense, Mr. Koifman co-established the AMCC analog design center in Israel and led the analog design group for three years. Before AMCC, Mr. Koifman worked for 10 years in Motorola Semiconductor Israel (Freescale) managing an analog design group. He has over 20 years of experience in VLSI industry and has technical leadership in analog chip design, mixed signal chip/system architecture and electro-optic device development. Mr. Koifman has more than 80 granted patents and several papers. Mr. Koifman also maintains Image Sensors World blog.

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 2006 he worked as senior researcher in IMEC-NL on power management and sensor interfacing for wireless sensor node. 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 25 patents in the field of image sensors and analog circuit design, and co-authored 50 publications.

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.

Shouleh Nikzad is a JPL Fellow, Senior Research Scientist, Principal Engineer, and PI for Advanced Detectors, Systems, and Nanoscience at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Dr. Nikzad is the Head of NASA-JPL’s Science Division where all aspects of research in astrophysics, space science, planetary science, and Earth science are conducted. She holds visiting faculty and lecturer appointments at the Caltech Physics Math, and Astronomy Division and Engineering and Applied Sciences Division. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, APS, IEEE, SPIE, and Optica. Her recent recognitions include American Astronomical Society’s 2023 Weber Award, IEEE Photonics Aron Kressel Award 2022, SDW’s Lifetime Achievement Award-IAU renamed (540413) as Asteroid Nikzad (2022), SPIE Luminary 2021, SPIE’s Meinel Technology Achievement Award (2021), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal (2020). She holds over 20 US patents and has over 200 publications including peer reviewed articles, proceedings, book chapters, review papers, popular articles, and editorials.

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.

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 to head up their Automotive Design Center in Norway. Dr. Solhusvik has an adjunct position at University of Oslo, 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.

Yibing Michelle Wang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, P. R. China in 1992 and 1994, respectively. She received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 2001. She joined Photobit Corp. in 1998 working on automotive sensors and invented a dual sensitivity pixel for high dynamic range imaging. In 2001, she was with Centellax Inc. working on 40Gbps optical transceiver and SERDES designs. Since 2002, she joined Forza Silicon Corp. leading and participating in medical, automotive and cinematography sensor designs. In 2008, she joined Hynix Semiconductor America leading product design effort on mobile image sensors. In 2011, she joined Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. working on innovative solutions for advanced image sensors, 3D sensors and optical interconnects. She has 22 US patents issued and more pending.

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.

Nobukazu Teranishi is a professor at University of Hyogo and Shizuoka University. Since 1978, he has developed image sensors at NEC Corporation (1978 – 2000) and at Panasonic Corporation (2000 -2013). 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. He co-founded the IISS and was its 2nd President. He has authored and co-authored 105 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”.