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Jeffrey Mathews is a Senior Analyst in the Semiconductor and Component markets. At TechInsights, Jeffrey is responsible for creating and driving research products across multiple component domains, scaling business unit revenues, and ensuring industry visibility. His expertise in market analysis and research is widely respected in the industry and his insights on the smartphone component technology market are highly valued by clients. His research focuses on components reliant on semiconductor technologies including image sensors, display panels, memory chips, and battery cells. He has a passion for researching these continuously evolving market landscapes and uncovering trends that influence technology growth. Prior to joining TechInsights, Jeffrey worked for International Data Corporation, where he was responsible for researching and analyzing the personal computing devices domain while providing market insights to clients and media.
Takahiro Koyanagi received his Master’s degree in information electronics engineering from Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan in 2009. He joined Panasonic Corporation in 2009, where he initially engaged in the development of organic light-emitting devices as a light source for illumination until 2013. Since 2013, he has been involved in the development of organic photoconductive film (OPF) CMOS image sensors and recently he has been leading the design and development of organic photoelectric conversion units. His team has made five presentations on OPF CMOS image sensors at ISSCC(2016, 2017, 2018) and ISE(2019,2024).
Anas Chalak, is Technology & Market analyst, Imaging at Yole Group. He is a member of the Imaging & Display team, within the More than Moore activities. Anas contributes on a day-to-day basis to follow the 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 the generation of supercontinuum light source in an integrated mid-infrared photonic platform. Later, he worked as a research engineer on the optical optimization of a 3D FMCW lidar system in CEA-Leti, Grenoble, France. Anas obtained a Master’s in Nanoscale Engineering from École Centrale de Lyon, France.
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.
Erik Chen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Artilux, responsible for strategic initiatives, corporate growth, technology-market fit and business development across the globe since its establishment in 2014. He has led Artilux to become the renowned world leader of GeSi photonic technology by growing a team with top talents worldwide to empower continuously technology advancement for multiple growing market segments and successfully landing numerous well-known MNCs as strategic partners and customers.
Prior to co-founding Artilux, Erik was a researcher at Stanford University in the US from 2007 and then joined Intel Labs as a senior research scientist in 2010. He is passionate on exploring novel semiconductor devices including advanced logic, memory and integrated photonic system to identify and demonstrate a comprehensive and compelling technology solution for problems requiring multidiscipline perspectives.
Erik earned both Ph.D. and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. He holds more than 100 granted and pending patents worldwide and also has authored and co-authored several publications in premier technical journals and conferences, covering heterogeneous integration on CMOS platform, 3D-IC, silicon photonics, GeSi sensing, imaging and more.
Albert Theuwissen received the degree in electrical engineering and his PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1977 and 1983 respectively. In 1983 he joined Philips Research Labs (the Netherlands) and in 2002 he started working for DALSA. His whole career he was involved in R&D of solid-state image sensors.
He issued several patents and he is author or coauthor of 240+ technical papers, including a textbook "Solid State Imaging with Charge Coupled Devices". He acted as general chairman of the International Image Sensor Workshop in ’97, ’03, ‘09 and in ’15, and as International Technical Program Chair of the ISSCC2010.
In 2001, he became part-time professor at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He left DALSA in 2007, and founded Harvest Imaging. Since then he is fully focusing on training, teaching and consulting in the field of solid-state imaging technology.
In 2011 he received the Electronic Imaging of the Year Award and in 2017 he was elected as the President of the International Image Sensor Society.
Gpixel is an international company providing high-end customized and off the-shelf CMOS image sensor solutions for industrial, medical, scientific, and professional imaging applications. Gpixel’s standard products include the GMAX and GSPRINT global shutter, fast frame rate sensors, the GSENSE high-end scientific CMOS image sensor series, the GLUX series of high sensitivity sensors for surveillance, the GL series of line scan imagers, the GLT series of TDI imagers, GTOF series of iTOF imagers, and the GCINE series of sensors for professional video and photography. Gpixel provides a broad portfolio of products leveraging the latest technologies to meet the ever-growing demands of the professional imaging market
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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
As a dedicated "Principal" ZEISS expert, Markus Cappellaro follows the trends in image sensors technology from the customer and user perspective for a wide range of applications in light microscopy. It stretches from documentation in routine applications to scientific imaging at the highest level. This is his basis for his many years as product manager for digital camera systems at Carl Zeiss Microscopy, where he is responsible for a complete digital camera portfolio. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technical University of Munich and loves sports fencing as one of his favorite pastimes because, like his job, it requires precision, speed and strategy.
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).
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.
Robert Henderson is a Professor of Electronic Imaging in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He obtained his PhD in 1990 from the University of Glasgow. From 1991, he was a research engineer at the Swiss Centre for Microelectronics, Neuchatel, Switzerland. In 1996, he was appointed senior VLSI engineer at VLSI Vision Ltd, Edinburgh, UK where he worked on the world’s first single chip video camera. From 2000, as principal VLSI engineer in STMicroelectronics Imaging Division he developed image sensors for mobile phone applications. He joined University of Edinburgh in 2005, designing the first SPAD image sensors in nanometer CMOS technologies in the MegaFrame and SPADnet EU projects. This research activity led to the first volume SPAD time-of-flight products in 2013 in the form of STMicroelectronics Flightsense series which perform an autofocus assist function in more than 150 different smartphone models, recently passing the 1 billion module milestone. He benefits from a long term research partnership with STMIcroelectronics in which he explores medical, scientific and high speed imaging applications of SPAD technology. In 2014, he was awarded a prestigious ERC advanced fellowship. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
