Dr. Ronald Müller boasts over two decades of expertise in the global Imaging market. His passion for the diverse applications of this technology began well before he earned his doctorate in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Since 2014, Dr. Müller has been driving the growth of ambitious companies in the Imaging industry, worldwide. As Managing Partner of Vision Markets he established the leading management consulting firm with four synergistic service areas: Strategy, M&A, Marketing, and Recruitment.
In addition to his consultancy work, Dr. Müller is an active contributor to the global vision community. He is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences, a regular author in trade publications, and serves on the Board of Directors of the EMVA, the Advisory Board of the Image Sensors conference, and several innovation award juries.
Jaehyuk Choi received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2004, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2006, the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2013.
From 2013 to 2015, he was a Research Staff Member at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Samsung Electronics, Suwon, South Korea, where he developed depth sensors and low-power image sensors. He has been with Sungkyunkwan University since 2016. He is currently an associate professor at Department of Semiconductor Systems Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea. In 2020, he co-founded SolidVue Inc., a LiDAR startup company in South Korea. He is currently a co-CEO of SolidVue. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE ISSCC Silkroad Awards in 2020 and 2021.
Abhinav Agarwal is currently a Member of Technical Staff with Forza Silicon (Ametek Inc.) and was instrumental in recently establishing a Forza India design center in Bangalore. He is a technical lead for various CMOS image sensors chips designed at Forza Silicon in applications ranging from cinematography, automotive and biomedical. As a lead author, he has presented papers at several prominent conferences like the International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW), IEEE VLSI Symposium on Circuits and Technology. He received the best student paper award at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference in 2020. Abhinav is also passionate about improving the design and verification flows related to CMOS Image Sensors and has presented multiple collaborative articles with Siemens EDA at the Design Automation Conference (DAC). Prior to his role Forza, Abhinav was graduate researcher at Caltech working in implantable medical devices resulting in several US patents.
Dr Xinyang Wang is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Gpixel Group. With over 20 years’ experience in CMOS image sensor design, he has been responsible for designing and managing off-the-shelf and customized image sensor projects for industrial, medical, consumer and space applications.
Dr Wang received his PhD degree from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 scientific publications and hold more than 30 patents regarding CMOS image sensor design. He also serves in the technical committee of SPIE Electronic Imaging (EI) and the International Image Sensor Workshop (ISSW).
Myung-Jae Lee received B.S./M.S./Ph.D. degrees in EEE from Yonsei University (South Korea) in 2006/2008/2013. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher with TU Delft (The Netherlands) in 2013-2017 and a Scientist with EPFL (Switzerland) in 2017-2019, where he worked on advanced single-photon sensors and applications as well as coordinating and managing several research projects as a Co-PI. In 2019-2024, he was a Principal Research Scientist (PI) with KIST (South Korea), where he led the R&Ds of SPAD and SiPM detectors/sensors for LiDAR, biomedical, and quantum applications.
Since 2024, he has been an Associate Professor with Yonsei University (South Korea), where he has been leading the R&Ds of silicon photonics and optical interconnects as well as next-generation SPAD/SiPM/APD detectors/sensors for various applications. He has published 120+ papers in international journals and conferences. He holds 30+ patents and has received 20+ awards/honors. He has delivered 50+ invited talks, has been working as a technical advisor for various domestic & foreign companies, and has been serving as a (steering/organizing) committee member of several conferences.
Hayato Wakabayashi is a General Manager of Department 9, Research Division 1 at Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation. He received a M.S in the Engineering from Osaka University and Ph.D. from Tohoku University, Japan respectively. He served on the technical program committee of the symposium on VLSI Circuits from 2014 to 2017 and had been engaged in a member of the technical program committee of International Solid-State Circuits Conference from 2017 to 2021. And he received the Walter Kosonocky Award for the paper of back-illuminated CMOS image sensor in 2011. He also serves the vice chair in the technical committee on Integrated Circuits and Devices (ICD) from 2023 in Japan. Currently he has been responsible for the research and development of future imaging and sensing devices technology, low power circuits and AI systems.
Dr. Ha Manlyun has been working in the CMOS Image Sensor field for over 20 years, and has been working as a head of a related department at DB HiTek since 2019. He has contributed to the process development of CMOS Image Sensors and the advancement of the Foundry industry. Dr. Ha received his MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from KAIST, Korea, and has been listed as an author or co-author in more than 20 domestic and international papers and 40 patents related to Image Sensors. He is currently working as a technical committee member at the Korea Semiconductor Conference after 2009, and is also working as a TPC member at the International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW) after 2019.
Now he serves the Korea Image Sensor Study section committee member from 2024.
Min-Woong Seo received his Ph.D. degree from Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan, in 2012, with a dissertation focused on low-noise, high-dynamic-range CMOS image sensors using high-performance analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). From 2012 to 2014, he was a JSPS Research Fellow at the Imaging Devices Laboratory of Shizuoka University. He then served as an Assistant Professor at the Research Institute of Electronics (RIE), Shizuoka University, from 2014 to 2016, and as an Associate Professor from 2016 to 2018. In 2018, he joined the Semiconductor R&D Center (SRDC) at Samsung Electronics, Hwaseong, Korea.
His research interests include CMOS imaging devices, low-noise imaging, time-resolved image sensors, global-shutter image sensors, pixel-/column-parallel ADCs for imagers, and mixed analog/digital circuit design. He has been serving on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of Electronic Imaging (EI) since 2018 and of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) since 2024. He has also been a steering committee member of the Korean Image Sensor Society (KISS) since 2024, a board member of the International Image Sensor Society (IISS) since 2025, and an advisory board member of Image Sensors (IS) Asia since 2025.
Anas Chalak is Technology & Market analyst at Yole Group. He is a member of the Imaging team. Anas contributes on a day-to-day basis to follow imaging technology activity to provide market and technology analysis, as well as contributing to the production of relevant reports and projects. Previously, Anas carried out research focusing on integrated mid-infrared photonics. Later, he worked as a research engineer on the optical optimization of a 3D FMCW lidar system in CEA-Leti, France. Anas obtained a Master’s in Nanoscale Engineering from École Centrale de Lyon, France.
