The Image Sensors Europe conference attracted the highest calibre business-oriented speakers from the international digital imaging industry.
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Since 2011, Vladimir Koifman is CTO of Analog Value Ltd. developing new approaches in image sensor design. Prior to that, in 2004, Vladimir co-founded Advasense image sensor company acquired by Pixim, and, later, by Sony. Prior to that, he co-founded AMCC Israel analog design center. In 90s, Vladimir worked for Motorola Semiconductor, developing mixed signal processors for the company's mobile phones. Vladimir has authored 10 papers and received over 50 patents. Among his other activities, Vladimir maintains Image Sensors World blog over the last 10 years.
Dr. Jörg Kunze has received his Diploma in Physics from the University of Kiel and his PhD from the University of Hamburg. He joined Basler in 1998, where he is currently Teamleader of New Technology. Jörg serves as an expert for image sensors, camera hardware, noise, color fidelity, 3D- and computational imaging and he develops new algorithms for color image signal processing. Many of Baslers patents name him as inventor.
Tetsuo Nomoto received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in applied physics from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1988 and 1990, respectively.
In 1990, he joined Olympus Optical Corporation, Nagano, Japan, where he was involved in the development of charge modulation device image sensors. He joined Sony Corporation, Kaagawa, Japan, in 2001, where he has been engaged in the development of CMOS active pixel sensors. Since 2019, he has been Head of Sony Semiconductor Solutions Europe.
He received Walter Kosonocky Award in 2007 and 2011. He also received IEEE SSCS Japan Industry Contribution Award in 2019.
Makoto Monoi received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, in 1983, and the Ph.D. degree in management science and technology from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2010.
He joined Toshiba Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan, in 1983, where he had been involved in the research and development of CCD and CMOS image sensors. In 2016, he joined HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES JAPAN K.K., Tokyo, Japan, where he belongs to Tokyo Research Center and is leader of image sensor team.
Yutaka Hirose graduated from University of Tokyo with M.E., in 1987. From 1987 to 1989, he was engaged in development of an optical recording system at NEC. In 1995, he received Ph.D. from Princeton University. From 1996 to 2001, he was at Texas Instruments Japan and worked for development of DRAM and CCD. From 2001, he has been with Panasonic Corporation and engaged in development of RF & THz devices and CMOS imagers.
Albert Theuwissen was born in Maaseik (Belgium) on December 20, 1954. He received the degree in electrical engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1977. His M.Sc. thesis work was based on the development of supporting hardware around a linear CCD image sensor.
From 1977 to 1983, his work at the ESAT laboratory of the Catholic University of Leuven focused on semiconductor technology for linear CCD image sensors. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1983.
In 1983, he joined the Micro Circuits Division of the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven (the Netherlands) as a member of the scientific staff.
In 1995, he authored the book "Solid-State Imaging with Charge-Coupled Devices". This work is still considered as one of the main textbooks in the field of solid-state imaging. In 1998 he was nominated as an IEEE distinguished lecturer.
In March 2001, he became part-time professor at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
In April 2002, he joined DALSA Corp. to act first as the company's Chief Technology Officer and later as the Chief Scientist of DALSA Semiconductors.
In 2008 Albert Theuwissen received the SMPTE's (Society for Motion Pictures and Television Engineers) Fuji Gold Medal for his contributions in research, development and education in the field of solid-state image capturing.
After several executive positions in B2B Sales and Marketing, Dr.-Ing. Ronald Mueller founded Vision Markets in 2014 with the mission to support companies to grow in the Imaging field. Quickly, Vision Markets became the leading Marketing and Management Consulting Company dedicated to the global Machine Vision industry. With a team of currently 8 co-workers Vision Markets has already supported over 55 SMEs as well as multi-billion dollar companies from Tokyo to Vancouver. The quality of the offerings derives from the technical know-how of imaging technologies, the market expertise built since 2002, and the executive management experience of its consultants. On this basis, Vision Markets enables its clients to grow with strategic consulting services in Marketing, Sales, Product Management, and Corporate Acquisitions. Operational outsourcing services like recruiting, public relations management, writing of marketing content, and digital marketing are complementing the portfolio. Furthermore, Ronald is member of several Machine Vision innovation award juries.
Sara Pellegrini is a pixel architect leading the advanced photonics sensors technology development activities in STMicroelectronics’ centre of competence for imaging in Edinburgh. In this role she works in close collaboration with the silicon, process, module and system R&D teams to define and develop the Imaging Division photonics pixel roadmap and specification. In addition to this she works with external collaborators on several R&D projects within STMicroelectronics’ Imaging PhD Programme.
Sara graduated in Electronics Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1999 and received her PhD in Physics from Heriot-Watt University in 2006. She has authored and presented several papers on SPAD and SPAD-based systems and applications
David Schie is the CEO of AIStorm, an AI-in-Sensor startup with operations in Silicon Valley, Graz, Budapest and Houston. Funded by Tower Semiconductor, Egis Technology, Linear Dimensions Semiconductor and Meyer Corporation, AIStorm has developed AI-in-CIS technology which can provide significant power, noise, speed and processing advantages. David Schie was educated at the University of Toronto in analog IC design and has held several high-level management positions up to Sr. VP with responsibilities including product definition, engineering, and P/L for leading companies including Maxim, Micrel, and Semtech.
Matteo Perenzoni is currently the Head of the Integrated Radiation and Image Sensors (IRIS) research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy. He graduated in Electronics Engineering from the University of Padova and in 2004 he joined FBK, as a researcher in the field of smart CMOS image sensors design. During 2014, he has been visiting research scientist in the Microelectronics department of TU Delft, Netherlands. Since 2017 he leads the IRIS group, with a team of almost 30 researchers, with the mission of developing novel sensing and imaging solutions. He has a long-term experience in radiation and image sensor using CMOS technologies, with focus on single-photon detection and 3d imaging.
Ljubomir Jovanov received his dipl. ing. and mr. ing. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. In 2011, he earned a PhD in applied sciences
From Ghent University, Belgium. His main research interests are in the field of quality enhancement of color and depth video, including denoising, super-resolution, deconvolution, sensor fusion between the two modalities and multiview video processing.
Dr. Bernd Buxbaum studied Microelectronics and Business Administration at Darmstadt University of Technology as well as University of Siegen and received his Ph.D. in Optoelectronics 2002. He is founding CEO/CTO of pmdtechnologies ag and Chairman of the Executive Board (CEO). He is also an entrepreneur and investor in High-Tech companies as well as member of several supervisory boards and lecturer at Universities.
Ramses Valvekens is managing director at Easics, a SoC, FPGA and ASIC design company, active in imaging, industry 4.0, healthcare, space and other markets. To this day, he vividly remembers his first encounter with neural networks, in 1996, when he used them to implement an optical character recognition system. In 1993 he co-invented, at Imec, the first soft microprocessor on FPGA, for which he received the Barco/VIK-prize. He holds two master degrees in electronics engineering from KU Leuven.
Tapani Ryhänen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Emberion Oy, a SME company established in Espoo Finland and in Cambridge UK in June 2016. Emberion produces infrared imaging solutions for various industrial machine vision and night vision applications based on Emberion’s own unique nanomaterial technologies. Before establishing Emberion he has worked in several different business roles at Nokia over 21 years, leading Nokia’s research and development of sensor and material technologies and their applications. He has authored more than 70 publications, numerous patents, eight book chapters, and a book. He has given more than 60 plenary, keynote or invited presentations in scientific conferences. There are more than 6500 citations to his publications. His is one of the creators of Nokia's awarded Morph concept and an author and editor of a book “Nanotechnologies for Future Mobile Devices”. He is a member in the Scientific Advisory Committee of the EU Graphene Flagship Project.
Douglas Paul has a MA degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics and a PhD from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at the Cavendish along with being a Fellow and Wine Steward at St Edmunds College, Cambridge before moving to the University of Glasgow, UK in 2007. From 2010 to 2015 he was Director of the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre in the University of Glasgow and since 2015 he has held an EPSRC Quantum Technology Established Research Fellowship and a Dstl Visiting Fellowship. He presently runs a research group of over 20 people with an active grant portfolio of over £24M mainly concentrating on quantum technology with chip scale (cold) atom systems, MEMS gravimeters, Ge on Si single photon avalanche detectors, range-finding / lidar and single electron devices. He is a member of the UK Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Metrology / Timing, QuantiC (the UK Quantum Technology Hub for Quantum Enhanced Imaging) and the UK Quantum Technology Hub for Quantum Communications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute of Physics and the Higher Education Academy and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He has previously sat on the UK Home Office Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Scientific Advisory Committee and presently sits on the MOD Defence Science Expert Committee and the UK Government Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.
Working experience:
1996 - 1998 Design Engineer Hardware and Firmware Ansari
1998 - 2003 Design Engineer Hardware and Firmware Ibeo Lasertechnik
2003 - 2009 Head of Sensor Development Ibeo Automobile Sensor
2010 - present Head of Sensor Development, Co Founder and Share Holder Ibeo Automotive Systems
Scientific education
1992 - 1995 Dipl Ing . Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Applied Science Hamburg
1995 - 1996 BEng Hons in Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Portsmouth (UK)
Umar Piracha is a Staff LiDAR Systems Engineer at AEye. He has a Masters from the University of Southern California and a PhD from the College of Optics (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida, where he developed a LiDAR system using a mode locked laser for high resolution ranging at tens of kilometers of distances. He has experience working for large and small companies, including Intel, Imec, and Luminar Technologies, and has successfully co-founded a fiber sensing startup. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Associate Editor for SPIE’s Optical Engineering Journal, and serves as a reviewer for NSF’s SBIR program. Dr. Piracha has 32 conference and journal publications and 3 patents.
Edoardo Charbon (SM’00 F’17) received the Diploma from ETH Zurich, the M.S. from the University of California at San Diego, and the Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, 1991, and 1995, respectively, all in electrical engineering and EECS. He has consulted with numerous organizations, including Bosch, X-Fab, Texas Instruments, Maxim, Sony, Agilent, and the Carlyle Group. He was with Cadence Design Systems from 1995 to 2000, where he was the Architect of the company's initiative on information hiding for intellectual property protection. In 2000, he joined Canesta Inc., as the Chief Architect, where he led the development of wireless 3-D CMOS image sensors. Since 2002 he has been a member of the faculty of EPFL, where is a full professor since 2015. From 2008 to 2016 he was with Delft University of Technology’s as Chair of VLSI design. He has authored or co-authored over 350 papers and two books, and he holds 21 patents. Dr. Charbon is a distinguished visiting scholar of the W. M. Keck Institute for Space at Caltech, a fellow of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Photonics Society, and a fellow of the IEEE.
Dakota S. Robledo received his Ph.D from the Thayer School of Engineering in June 2019. While at Thayer, Dakota helped to develop and realize the Quanta Image Sensor technology through statistical modeling, device simulation and fabricated device testing. He is currently a Senior Image Senor Scientist at Gigajot Technology where he helps to further develop and commercialize the Quanta Image Sensor technology.
Raul is a serial entrepreneur. He has created four companies in different fields in the mobile robotics space for warehouse automation and autonomous driving 3D perception. He has hired 200+ people and raised over $125 million including an IPO.
Raul has obtained 35 different awards for his engineering and entrepreneur career, among them as best Spanish Engineer and the MIT Technology Review – Top 10 Innovators Under 35 and filed 27 patents.
Over the last 30 years, Dana Diezemann has brought her experience to the three largest manufacturers of industrial cameras in hardware development, support and product management. In more than 350 training sessions, lectures and coachings, Dana has inspired many people, taught them a lot of expertise and inspired them in camera technology.
Dr. Denis Sallin received his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering and PhD degree in microelectronics from EPFL, in 2011 and 2016 respectively.
His technical expertise focuses on electronics and microelectronics system design, as well as semiconductor devices characterization, including photodetectors.
Since 2016, he’s been with ActLight SA, currently in the role of Director of Engineering. His main tasks are overseeing the R&D activities as well as managing and growing the engineering team.
