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.
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.
Florian is engaged in the technology and market analyses for various imaging technologies and contributes to the production of the relevant products and custom projects. Prior to Yole Group, Florian has worked in STMicroelectronics for more than 13 years in process and technology development fields, and in R&D projects management. Florian has authored and co-authored numerous papers and five patents in semiconductor R&D and manufacturing. Florian holds a MSc in Engineering Physics, Materials and Microelectronics from INSA Toulouse (France), and a PhD in Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics from the University of Grenoble-Alpes (France). He is currently also a SEMI MEMS & Imaging Sensors Summit advisory committee member.