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.
Florian Domengie, PhD. is a Senior Technology and Market Analyst within the Photonics & Sensing division at Yole Intelligence (Yole Group). Florian is engaged in technology and market analyses for various imaging technologies and contributes to the production of relevant reports and projects. Prior to Yole, he worked in STMicroelectronics in the process and technology development fields, and in R&D project management. Florian has authored or co-authored numerous papers and has five patents in semiconductor R&D and manufacturing. He holds an 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).
Lindsay Grant joined OmniVision Technology in January 2016 as the Vice President of Process Engineering and was promoted to Senior VP of Process Engineering at the end of 2019. He leads the pixel and process technology development for CMOS image sensors (CIS), developing sub-micron CIS pixels, advanced wafer stacking technology, near infra-red (NIR) sensor performance enhancement and in-pixel high density capacitors. OmniVision has used in-pixel high density capacitors for high dynamic range (HDR) and per-pixel signal sampling in both rolling shutter and voltage domain global shutter (VDGS) sensors, as well as in event driven sensors (EVS).
Prior to joining OmniVision, Mr Grant was Technical Director and Fellow at ST Microelectronics (STM) in the Image Sensors Division where he worked on the development of image sensor pixel and process technologies for 16 years. In 1999 he worked on the first CIS pixel design fabricated at STM Crolles. This was the start of many years of rapid pixel development in the CIS industry, in which STM was an active participant. Later he led his team to pioneer STM development activities in single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) devices.
Federico Canini received the M.Sc. degree with honors in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna in 1994.
In 1995 he started his activity in Datalogic covering many engineering roles inside the R&D department, developing innovative products based on imaging technologies, establishing a laboratory for image sensor characterization, and investigating the correlations among image sensor performance and vision system performance. He is the author of 104 patents of invention (26 patent families) and 8 design patents. Federico currently is the Senior Technology Advisor for Datalogic Group and the R&D Director of the Scan Engine Division at Datalogic IP Tech, in his role he is pushing the technology growth at Group level taking care of and developing core technologies.
Jan Bogaerts co-founded Gpixel NV in August 2018 and is Gpixel’s global Chief Technology Officer. In his various roles as senior designer, chief scientist and principal engineer at FillFactory (later Cypress), Imec, CMOSIS (co-founder, later AMS), Jan has been continually pushing the development of images sensors for space, scientific, medical, industrial, aerial and photo/video imaging applications. Since receiving MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the KU Leuven, Jan has been published over 40 times and has contributed to many major conferences and workshops. He is also author of several granted patents on the development, design and operation of CMOS image sensors including the world’s first radiation-tolerant APS, global pipelined shutter pixels and ramp ADC architectures, etc.
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Emilie Huss is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at STMicroelectronics, specialized in pixel design with over a decade of experience in the field. She has been working at ST Microelectronics since 2006, where she has been involved in the development of several cutting-edge pixel technologies. Emilie is now responsible for the development and support of pixel technology for clients at Foundry Business.
Emilie Huss holds a Physics engineering degree from ENSPG in Grenoble with an option in Physics of Devices, as well as an Electronics and Micro and Nanoelectronic Master's Degree from Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France.
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.
Carl Philipp Koppen joined pmdtechnologies ag in 2013 and received his master´s degree in electrical engineering from University of Siegen, Germany, in 2016. His master thesis dealt with a rolling shutter in iToF image sensors. His activities include iToF pixel design, circuit design, layout and measurement campaign support. Most recently, he coordinated the analog design work for the pixel array and the analog (readout) circuitry of the image sensor in the present work.
Svorad Štolc is the CTO at Photoneo, where he leads the company's research and development efforts in 3D sensing and automation technologies. He is an expert in 3D imaging, machine vision, artificial intelligence, and parallel computing. Svorad holds a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Comenius University in Bratislava and the Slovak Academy of Sciences, respectively. For several years, he led a research group focused on computational photography and 3D sensing at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH in Vienna. Svorad is passionate about developing innovative technologies that solve real-world problems, especially in the field of industrial automation using 3D machine vision empowered with AI.
Christian Mourad is a technology enthusiast and customer-oriented professional with demonstrated experience in semiconductor development, project execution and product definition. He has been working for 17 years in the semiconductor industry, and over 10 years in the imaging and 3D sensing field.
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.
Nasim, as the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Edgehog, is driving the commercialization of antireflective glass nanotexturing, leading to broad-band antireflection properties. Before edgehog, she was the CTO and co-founder of a startup specializing in solar-powering GPS trackers. Nasim's expertise lies in scalable manufacturing processes. She has past industry experience in glass fiber and solar panel manufacturing, and she contributes as a committee member in IEC standard development for the solar panel cleaning process. She holds a PhD in solar engineering from the National University of Singapore, focused on light scattering.
Pawel Latawiec is the CTO at Metalenz, where he leads metasurface design and engineering efforts. He holds a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology and a PhD in applied physics from Harvard University. His team is focused on constructing novel architectures for metasurface imaging and illumination and developing computational techniques for scalable objective-first design and fabrication.
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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
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.
Anthony Huggett Ph.D. has worked in the imaging field since joining Micron Imaging in late 2006. He has been responsible for several innovations including on-chip dewarping in cameras, and is a named inventor on over 25 US patents.
After his study for electrical engineering (1997) and a first job in an IT consulting company, Matthias Schaffland joined Sensor to Image in 2003. He was involved in the development of custom specific machine vision components and IP cores for the protocols GigE Vision, CoaXPress and USB3 Vision. In his current position as IP Core product specialist, he supports customers with IP Cores and custom applications around the mentioned interface technologies.
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.
Kazuhiro Morimoto received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in applied physics from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and the Ph.D. degree in microsystems and microelectronics from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2011, 2013, and 2020, respectively. Since 2013, he has been working for Canon Inc., Japan as a semiconductor device engineer. He engaged in pixel design of large-format CMOS image sensors. In 2017, he joined AQUALab, EPFL, Switzerland as a doctoral assistant, where he received Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Award and Fritz Kutter Award for his research outcomes. His interests include multi-megapixel SPAD image sensors for low-light imaging applications, and time-resolved applications such as LiDAR sensing, fluorescence lifetime imaging, and Raman spectroscopy.
Dr Renato Turchetta received the M.S. degree in Physics from the University of Milan (Italy) in 1988 and the Ph.D. from the University of Strasbourg (France) in 1991. In 1999 he joined the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. In 2001 he founded a design group developing custom CMOS image sensors (CIS). With his team he developed the first CIS product for electron microscopy, a 16Mpixel, rad-hard sensor, as well as a global shutter, 5 million frames per second, megapixel CIS. In 2014 he co-founded Vivamos Ltd., a spin-off set up with the goal to commercialise his 6.7 Mpixel, wafer-scale, video rate CIS. He was executive director of the company until the end of 2016. In 2017 he co-founded IMASENIC, where he is the CEO. Renato is member of the Advisory Board of the Image Sensors Europe conference since 2011. He also authored or co-authored over 100 papers in peer-review journals and 10 patents.
Adi Xhakoni received a Masters degree in electronics engineering from the Politecnico di Milano University, Italy in 2009. From 2010 to 2015 he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the KU Leuven University in Belgium where he performed research in the field of 3D-stacked imagers. His PhD research was tackling readout circuits for high speed and low noise imaging, based on Incremental Sigma Delta ADCs. After receiving his PhD in 2015, he joined ams as an image sensor designer. He is now Principal Engineer and Chip Architect focusing on 3D stacked global shutter image sensor developments. He has co-authored several journal and conference papers, a book chapter, and more than 10 patent applications.
Dr. Claudio Jakobson is VLSI architect and senior principal engineer at SCD. He received the Ph.D. and M.Sc. degree from Technion, where he is currently adjunct professor teaching mixed signal circuit design. Formerly he has been Principal Engineer at Samsung leading the design of CMOS image sensors and Technology Leader at Intel. Dr. Jakobson is Senior Member of IEEE, he is inventor of several patents and has published over 40 journal and conference papers.
Artem defended his PhD thesis dedicated to the engineering of devices based on quantum dots under the supervision of Prof. M. A. Loi in the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. The dissertation entitled “Colloidal Quantum Dot Field-Effect Transistors - From Electronic Circuits to Light Emission and Detection” was awarded the "Best GEC PhD Thesis Award". In March 2019 Artem founded QDI systems B.V. and was appointed as the CEO. He has a strong background in semiconductor electronics and know-how in the fabrication of optoelectronic devices based on QDs. His motivation is to run the new business and commercialize the discoveries he made during and after his PhD research.
Julien Michelot received both his master’s degree in Micro and Nanotechnology for integrated circuits in 2009, and his Ph.D. degree in Micro and Nanoelectronics in 2012, from the Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP), France. During his Ph.D. thesis, he developed vertically pinned photodiodes for in-depth charge storage in small pitch pixels for STMicroelectronics and IMEP-LAHC, France. Since 2012 he is involved in the development of innovative imaging solutions for various application fields at PYXALIS, a CMOS image sensor design company in the Grenoble Imaging Valley in France. He is currently in charge of pixel development as well as image sensor characterisation.
