Neuromorphic Engineering: From Hardware to Applications Workshop

Prof. Suting Han is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received Ph.D. in Physics and Materials Science from City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR in 2014. From 2014 to 2016, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at City University of Hong Kong. She joined Shenzhen University in 2016 as associate professor (tenure track) and was promoted to full professor (tenured) in 2021 and then distinguished professor in 2022. She was visiting professor in department of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, US in 2019. She joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as associate professor (tenured) in 2023. Her research interest includes flash memory, memristor, neuromorphic computing and in-memory computing systems. To date Prof. Han has published over 180 journal articles with 16,800 citations and h-index of 68 (Google Scholar) as first and corresponding author. She is the reviewer for over 50 journal including Science, Nature etc. Prof. Su-Ting Han is an Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances, she is an awardee of NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund and she has been listed as world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University (career-long impact). She is also the associate editor of JMCC and Materials Advances.

Arindam Basu received the B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2005, the M.S. degree in Mathematics and PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta in 2009 and 2010 respectively. Dr. Basu received the Prime Minister of India Gold Medal in 2005 from I.I.T Kharagpur. 

He is currently a Professor in City University of Hong Kong in the Department of Electrical Engineering and was a tenured Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University before this. 

He is currently an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and an Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors journal, Frontiers in Neuroscience, IOP Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering. He has served as IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecturer for 2016-17 period. Dr. Basu received the best student paper award at Ultrasonics symposium, 2006, best live demonstration at ISCAS 2010 and a finalist position in the best student paper contest at ISCAS 2008. He was awarded MIT Technology Review’s TR35 Asia Pacific award in 2012 and inducted into Georgia Tech Alumni Association’s 40 under 40 class of 2022.

He is a technical committee member of the IEEE CAS societies of Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Sensory Systems and Neural Systems and Applications (past Chair).

Bert Shi is a Chair Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he has been a faculty member since 1994. He is currently the Acting Dean of the Fok Ying Tung Graduate School and director of the Center for Aging Science. He served previously as the Acting Dean of the School of Engineering and as the Head of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering. He has held visiting positions in the EECS Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in neuromorphic engineering, artificial intelligence, bio-inspired signal processing and robotics, computational neuroscience, developmental robotics and machine learning. Prof. Shi was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “for contributions to the analysis, implementation and application of cellular neural networks.” He was twice appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.  He has served on the editorial boards of a number of IEEE Transactions has chaired Technical Committees and Conferences in his research area.