Anton Hofmeister is Group Vice President and General Manager of Central R&D for ST’s Analog, Power, MEMS and Sensors (APMS) Group and has held this position since December 2021. He has also served as Managing Director of ST's German subsidiary since 2016.

Hofmeister joined Thomson Semiconductors (a predecessor company to STMicroelectronics) in Munich/Germany in 1986. He subsequently held management positions in product marketing, key account management, and corporate strategic marketing. In 1997, Hofmeister was appointed Director of a System R&D team in San Diego, USA, and became Director of the Print Head Business Unit in 2000. In 2005, he was appointed General Manager of the Microfluidics Division and has broadened his responsibility with the MEMS Actuator Division in 2015, a role he kept until December 2021. During his career, Hofmeister worked for ST in Germany, France, USA and Italy, his current location.

Hofmeister has previously served as a board member of the Singapore-based Molecular Diagnostics company Veredus Laboratories. He is part of the Governing Council of the MEMS& Sensor Industry Group (MSIG) at SEMI and co-chairman of the Board of the European Association on Smart Systems Integration (EPoSS). 

Dr. Huang-Jen Chiu had served as a Distinguished Professor at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) for years. During his tenure, he also held several key leadership positions, including Dean of the College of Industry–Academia Innovation (2024 - 2025), Dean of Research and Development (20211 - 2024), Dean of Industry–Academia Collaboration (2018 - 2022), and Director of the Center for Power Electronic Technologies (2013 - 2021).

In August 2025, Dr. Chiu joined Delta Electronics as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Power and System Business Group (PSBG). In this role, he leads the advancement of next-generation power technologies while actively fostering industry–academia collaboration and talent development, contributing to technological innovation and industrial transformation. In the meantime, he is also an IEEE Fellow, an Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, where he continues to support the advancement and dissemination of research in the field of power electronics.

Patrick Received PhD/ECE from UT/Austin/USA in 1992. He was with IDT/USA from 1992 to 2004, during which, he was involved in Research and Development in CMOS manufacturing and integration. From 2004 to 2017, he was with IME/A*STAR in Singapore, where he served as the Deputy Executive Director focusing on Research and Development, and had been Program Director of Nanoelectronics/Photonics, TSV, and Emerging memory (RRAM, MRAM), and GaN-on-Si (See below in detail), and Integrated Quantum Photonics, LiDAR, Integrated Neuromorphic Chips. Meanwhile, he was responsible in corresponding business development and strategic pre-competitive partnership development with MNC (incl. tier-1 Foutrane-500 companies) and academics (local, and US/EU, Japan, China).

Since 2017, he, as co-founder, has been with Advanced Micro-Foundry/Singapore focusing on Silicon Photonics’ industrialization. He has (co-) authored > 300 journal and conferences, and holds > 50 granted patents, and he has been given invited talks in many international conference, workshops (incl. OFC panels on Silicon Photonics Industry activities in 2017, 2021, and 2022). He was a recipient of IEEE GES award for Best paper award on their narrow Wire MOS devices (2008), Singapore’s National Technology Award (2008) and President Technology Award (2010).

He was the IEEE JSTQE Guest Editor (GE) for Special Issue on “Silicon Photonics” (2014) and “High Density Integrated Multipurpose Photonic Circuits” (2022), IEEE JSTQE Primary Guest Editor (PGE) for Special Issue on Silicon Photonics and Hybrid-Integration-on-Silicon-Photonics, PIC for AI/ML (2016 & 2022, 2024), and “400G IMDD” (2027), and he is the IEEE JSTQE Senior Editor (2021-Present). And he is the D3 (Active Component) Chair for OFC/2025.

Kwok Wai Ma graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with Bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering and Ph.D. in Power Electronics, in 1988 and 1995 respectively.

He joined Infineon Technologies in 2005 and is currently Senior Principal Engineer, leading all system application engineering activities in Asia Pacific region for Industrial and Consumer Power applications, from product application, application development, technology launch and application innovation, in wide range of appliance, industrial and infrastructure applications. Since 2014 he has led the technology launch activities of SiC power device in Asia.

He has over 40 research papers published and 10 patents granted or pending. He is a senior member of IEEE and received the Top Innovator Award from Infineon Asia Pacific in 2023.

Ionut Radu is Senior Director, Emerging Technologies at Soitec. He leads the path finding and worldwide partnerships with industrial and academic innovation platforms supporting strategic developments of engineered substrate technologies for semiconductor industry.

Dr. Radu obtained his B.S. and Ph.D in physics from University of Bucharest and Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg respectively. Dr. Radu has 25 years of experience in semiconductor and material development and he has co-authored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and reference handbooks and holds 80 patents. Ionut is an IEEE Fellow and he serves on several IEEE conference committees.

Chuan Seng Tan is a Professor of Electronic Engineering at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006. His current research focuses on the process technology of three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs) and engineered substrates (Si/Ge/Sn) for group-IV photonics. He has authored numerous journal and conference publications and holds several intellectual property (IP) rights related to 3D technology and engineered substrates. Notably, nine of his inventions have been licensed to a spin-off company. He has also co-edited and co-authored five books on 3D packaging technology.

He is a Fellow of IEEE (Class of 2022) and a recipient of the Exceptional Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) in 2019. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE-EPS from 2019 to 2023. Since 2019, he has also been a Fellow of the International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Society (IMAPS) and was awarded the William D. Ashman - John A. Wagnon Technical Achievement Award in 2020.

Dr. (Tony) Son Tung Ha received his Ph.D degree in Applied Physics from the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) in 2018. He currently serves as Principal Investigator and Deputy Head of the Advanced Optical Technologies Department at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore.

He also holds a joint-appointment and leads several flat-optics projects at the National Semiconductor Translation and Innovation Centre (NSTIC). Dr. Ha’s research has been recognized globally with a number of prestigious awards such as Young Individual Research Grant Award (2021, by Singapore); Next ASEAN Innovator (2023, by the Korean Ministry of Science and ITC); Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2024, by Australian Research Council); and Rising Stars in Optics (2024, by Journal of Optics - IOP Science Publisher, UK).

Dr. Xianshu Luo received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from HKUST in 2010. He began his career at A*STAR IME, focusing on silicon photonics and heterogeneous optoelectronic integration, and later co-founded Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF) in 2017, where he led the development of silicon photonics platforms and process design kits (PDKs). He returned to IME in 2023 as a Principal Scientist and currently serves as Head of the Silicon Photonics Department at IME and Vice President of Advanced Photonics Platform Technology at NSTIC, leading the development of next-generation multi-material photonics heterogeneous integration technologies.

Dr. Luo is an Optica Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, SPIE Lifetime Member, and PMI member. He has served as Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for several leading journals, including IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Optica Photonics Research, Advanced Photonics Nexus, and PhotoniX Synergy. He has also served as Chair, Co-Chair, or Technical Program Committee Member for major international conferences, including the IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference, IEEE Photonics Conference, and OFC. He has authored more than 200 publications, contributed to five book chapters, and holds over 30 patents.

Dr. Carlos Mazure has been working close to A*STAR as an advisor since May 2021. On July 2024 he joined the Institute of Microelectronics – A*STAR as Chief Strategy Officer.

With 40 years of experience in the global semiconductor industry, Dr. Carlos Mazure is presently member of several international advisory committees and company boards in Singapore and Europe.

Chairman and Executive Director of the SOI Industry Consortium since July 2014 through December 2020. Under his leadership the SOI Industry Consortium has been promoting with the SOI ecosystem the development of the SOI platforms worldwide and helping accelerate the SOI market growth. The SOI Industry Consortium joined the industry association SEMI in January 2021, where Carlos Mazure was an advisor till December 2021.

Carlos Mazure was with Soitec till October 2020. Executive Vice President and Advisor to the CEO since April 2019, and EVP & CTO, Head of Corporate R&D and CTO at Soitec from January 2001 through March 2019.

Prior to Soitec, from 1994 through 2000 Carlos was with Infineon (Munich, Germany), and initiated Infineon/Toshiba FeRAM Alliance in Japan. From 1993 through 1994 he worked for IBM/Infineon DRAM Alliance (Fishkill, NY); and from 1990 through 1993 at Advanced Products Research and Development Laboratory (APRDL), Motorola (Austin, Texas) on BiCMOS ultra fast SRAMs. Carlos started his career at the Siemens Corporate R&D in Munich, Germany, in 1984.

Carlos Mazure is IEEE Fellow, PhD from the Technical University Munich, Germany. Authored/co-authored 120+ technical papers, holds 100+ US patents.

Professor Ng Geok Ing received his Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since joining the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore in the School of EEE in 1995, he has held several key appointments including Head of the Microelectronics Division, Founding Programme Manager of the MMIC Design Centre at the Temasek Laboratories@NTU (TL@NTU) and Director of the Silicon Centre of Excellence (SiCOE). In 2000, he co-founded DenseLight Semiconductor Pte Ltd. which is a NTU spin-off company. Currently, he holds joint appointment with the A*Star Institute of Microelectronics serving as the Executive Director of the National Semiconductor Translation and Innovation Centre (GaN), formerly known as the National GaN Technology Centre (NGTC). He also holds concurrent appointments as the Programme Director of the Centre for Microsystem Technologies (CMT) at the Temasek Laboratories@NTU and the Director of the Centre for Micro- and NanoElectronics (CMNE) in the School of EEE.

His current research specializations include (1) Gallium Nitride (GaN) High-Electron-Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) and (2) III-V compound semiconductor devices for high-frequency and Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) applications. He has authored and coauthored more than 300 international journal and conference papers and delivered plenary and invited talks at several international conferences. He holds two granted patents and 5 filed patents.

In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious Singapore’s Defense Technology Prize for his outstanding technological contributions in MMIC R&D. He is also the recipient of the 2023 Singapore Defence Technology Prize – Individual (R&D) Award for the significant technological contributions in building up Singapore’s indigenous R&D capabilities in Gallium Nitride MMIC technologies for defence applications.

Vempati Srinivasa Rao is the Director and Head of the Heterogeneous Integration Department at the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Singapore. With over 20 years of experience in advanced semiconductor packaging and integration, he leads the development of next-generation technologies including fine-pitch RDL, TSV interposers, wafer-to-wafer (W2W) and chip-to-wafer (C2W) hybrid bonding for heterogeneous chiplet integration.

His research focuses on fan-out packaging, 2.5D integration, and 3D chip stacking, enabling high-performance semiconductor systems. He has authored or co-authored over 80 journal and conference publications in electronic packaging.

Mr. Rao holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (Materials Science) from the National University of Singapore and a Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from NIT Warangal, India.

Professor Yeo Yee Chia leads Singapore's first RIE Flagship in Semiconductors and is A*STAR's Deputy Chief Executive (Innovation & Enterprise), helping to shape the future of one of Singapore's most strategically important industries. He is also Professor of Electrical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). An award-winning, internationally recognised semiconductor researcher, Professor Yeo has published over 700 research papers and is an inventor of over 400 US patents. More than 40 PhD students graduated under his tutelage.

Recognised with the Singapore Young Scientist Award in 2006 for his research in nanoelectronics and semiconductor devices, Professor Yeo went on to receive the National Research Foundation Fellowship (NRFF) in 2008. The Fellowship enabled him to establish an independent research programme at the National University of Singapore, where he pursued research in strain engineering for next-generation semiconductor manufacturing, deepening his work on transistor technologies aimed at enabling faster and more energy-efficient chips.

His research leadership later took him to TSMC, where he served as Director of Research and Development. Working at the forefront of semiconductor innovation, he co-developed TSMC's industry-leading 7 nm, 5 nm, and 3 nm technologies, which have impacted the world in areas such as high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics.

Supported under the Returning Singapore Scientists Scheme, Professor Yeo returned to Singapore and joined A*STAR in 2022, bringing with him the experience of translating cutting-edge research into industrial innovation at global scale. Drawing on experience across academia, industry and national R&D, he now leads efforts to deepen Singapore's semiconductor capabilities, accelerate research translation, strengthen industry partnerships and nurture the next generation of scientific talent.