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.
Naoki Kawazu is a Senior Analog Design Manager of Automotive Development Department, Automotive Business Division at Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation. He joined Sony Corporation in 2008, where he has engaged in the development of CMOS Image Sensors.
In 2016, he joined the Automotive Business Division as a Senior Analog Design Engineer and engaged in the development of image sensors for automotive applications. In 2020, he joined EUDC, Europe Design Center, in Sony Europe Limited NUF. in Norway as an Analog Design Manager and led the development of next-generation image sensors. Currently, he holds 30+ patents and is developing next-generation image sensors as a Senior Analog Design Manager in Automotive Business Division.
Dr. Artem Shulga is the founder and CEO of QDI Systems, a deep-tech company based in Groningen, Netherlands, that pioneers quantum dot technology for advanced imaging applications, including X-ray and SWIR. Originally from Eastern Ukraine, he earned his PhD in quantum dots at the University of Groningen. Inspired by a research internship at the University of Tokyo, he founded QDI Systems in 2019 as a spin-off from the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. His work focuses on developing scalable, affordable imaging solutions.
Min-Woong Seo received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, in 2007 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan, in 2012 for his thesis on low-noise, high-dynamic-range CMOS image sensor using high-performance analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). From 2012 to 2014, he was a JSPS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Research Group, Imaging Devices Laboratory, Shizuoka University. He then served as an Assistant Professor at Research Institute of Electronics (RIE) from 2014 to 2016. From 2016 to 2018, he was an Associate Professor with Shizuoka University. In 2018, he joined the Semiconductor R&D Center (SRDC), 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 designs. He has been a member of TPC for the EI since 2018 and for the ISSCC since 2024. Additionally, he has been a steering committee member of the Korea Image Sensor Society since 2024, a board member of International Image Sensor Society since 2025, and an advisory board member of IS Asia since 2025.
Mahabir Gupta is Solutions & Products Consultant - IoT, Mobility & Data Security at Volvo - having more than 5 years of experience in software development and security evaluator experience in a broad range of industries including automobile, healthcare, construction, e-commerce, banking, IOT, and mobile gaming. He has solid understanding of full mobile and software development life cycles, penetration testing, EMVCo & PCI guidelines, security threat and agile methodologies. He is mobile passionate with extensive knowledge in defining project scope, requirement, technical specification and designing security threat of the architecture of the application.
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).
Luca Verre is Co-Founder and CEO of Prophesee, the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems. Prophesee’s patented technology is inspired by human vision, giving sight back to the blind and setting new artificial vision standards in industrial, aerospace & defense, mobility, XR and more.
Luca is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. He has extensive international management experience in the industrial and electronics sectors. His experience includes project and product management, marketing and business development roles at Schneider Electric. Prior to Schneider Electric, Luca worked as a Research Assistant in Photonics at the Imperial College of London. Luca holds a MSc in Physics, Electronic and Industrial Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and Ecole Centrale and an MBA from INSEAD.
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.
Yuichi Motohashi is the Senior Manager and Deputy Director of End Markets at GlobalFoundries, leading the global segment for automotive cameras, LiDAR, SerDes, and displays. With over 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Yuichi has specialized in CMOS image sensors. He began their career at Sony in Japan, developing CMOS image sensors for automotive applications from the ground up and taking projects from the conceptual stage to mass production with various automotive customers. Yuichi served as product manager, overseeing several products mainly for US and EU customers.
After his tenure at Sony, Yuichi joined the Japanese start-up TIER IV, where he developed cutting-edge automotive cameras for their autonomous vehicle platform. Currently, at GlobalFoundries, Yuichi is responsible for sensing devices, including CMOS image sensors, SPAD, silicon photonics LiDAR, and display drivers for the automotive segment.
Yuichi holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan, earned in 2006 and 2008, respectively. Yuichi holds more than 30 CMOS image sensor related patents.
Jeroen Hoet is the CEO and co-founder of eyeo, a Dutch startup specializing in image sensors enabled with advanced nanophotonic color-splitting. eyeo aims to redefine image sensing by overcoming traditional filter limitations and enhancing image quality, resolution and low-light performance.
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.