List of speakers (as of Jan. 2024)

• MIYANO Kenjiro, Program Director
• Omar Sharif, Embassy of the United States of America
• Deepankar Medhi, Program Director, Division of Computer and Network Systems, NSF
• The Evolution of International Research Collaboration
  Allen Baum, CPU Architect, Esperanto Technologies
• Where should researcher development head to in Japan: The views of a Program Manager
  Jorge N. Tendeiro, Professor, Office of Research and Academia-Government-Community Collaboration, Hiroshima University
• Introduction to the ASPIRE research projects in Telecommunications
  YAMANAKA Naoaki, ASPIRE Program Officer/Professor, Keio University/President-Elect, IEICE
• Open digital infrastructure through the convergence of telecommunications and AI
  ESAKI Hiroshi, Professor, Graduate school of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
  (Germany) Tarik Taleb, Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ruhr University Bochum
• Research on sensing, actuation, communication, and intelligent signal processing infrastructure for ambient intelligence
  OTSUKI Tomoaki, Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University
  (US) Zhu Han, Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston
  (UK) Trung Quang Duong, Chair Professor, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast
  (Norway) Thomas Zinner, Professor, Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  (Canada) Octavia Dobre, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Memorial University
  (Australia) Manoranjan Paul, Professor, School of Computing, Mathematics, and Engineering, Charles Sturt University
• Multi-physics based system design for future ICT networks
  KAWANISHI Tetsuya, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
  (Germany) Thomas Kürner, Professor, Institute for Communications Technology, Technische Universität Braunschweig
• Inclusive creation of next generation cyber infrastructure
  NAKAO Akihiro, Professor, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
  (Finland) Matti Latva-aho, Professor, Faculty of information technology and electrical engineering, University of Oulu
• Introduction to the ASPIRE research projects in Semiconductors
  AMANO Hideharu, ASPIRE Program Officer / Professor, Keio University
• Establishment of international collaboration networks for advanced atomic-layer processing
  HAMAGUCHI Satoshi, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
  (US) David Graves, Professor, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
• Demonstrating “probabilistic supremacy” with creating foundation for large-scale, integrated, spintronic probabilistic computer
  FUKAMI Shunsuke, Professor, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University
  (US) Kerem Camsari, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

ASPIRE for Rising Scientists Poster Presentations

Semiconductors

• Exploring adaptive data compression hardware for next-generation highly efficient computational infrastructure
  UENO Tomohiro, Research Scientist, Center for Computational Science, RIKEN
  (US) Franck Cappello, Senior Computer Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
  (Canada) Jason Anderson, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
• Development of a coarse-grained logic array platform for ASIC design universalization
  KOSUGE Atsutake, Lecturer, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
  (US) Priyanka Raina, Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, Stanford University
• Development of novel nano selective-area epitaxy of III-V nanowires and nano photonics applications
  TOMIOKA Katsuhiro, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology and Research Center for Integrated Quantum Electronics (RCIQE), Hokkaido University
  (Australia) Hark Hoe Tan, Professor, Research School of Physics, Australia National University

Telecommunications

• Hyperdimensional communication technologies for 6G networks
  OTA Kaoru, Professor, Graduate School, Muroran Institute of Technology
  (Canada) Ekram Hossain, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba
• Intelligent and integrated optimization framework of high-frequency channel environment for next-generation wireless communications
  SUGIURA Shinya, Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
  (UK) Lajos Hanzo, Professor, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
• Resilient cyberspace generative framework with communication, sensing and learning integration
  SUTO Katsuya, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications
  (Finland) Mehdi Bennis, Full professor, Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu
  (Canada) Ning Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor