Speakers

Plenary Speaker

Keynote Speakers

Masaaki Tanaka received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1984, 1986, and 1989, respectively.  During the M.E. and Ph. D studies, he was engaged in the research of epitaxial growth and electronic/optical properties of III-V semiconductor low-dimensional nanostructures. In 1989, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Tokyo as a research associate and later in 1990 as a lecturer. There, he started to study heterostructures of dissimilar materials consisting of semiconductors, metals, and magnetic materials. In 1992, he joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) at Red Bank, New Jersey, in USA, as a visiting research scientist, where he studied molecular beam epitaxy and properties of ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures. In 1994, he returned to the University of Tokyo as an associate professor. Since then, he has been studying various materials, spin-related phenomena, and devices including magnetic semiconductors, ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures and nanostructures, magnetic tunnel junctions, spin transistors.  He is currently a professor of electrical and electronic engineering, and Director of the Center for Spintronics Research Network (CSRN), at the University of Tokyo. He has authored and coauthored over 300 scientific publications, and presented over 150 invited talks at international conferences and meetings. 
Dr. Tanaka is a Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), a member of the Physical Society of Japan and the Magnetics Society of Japan, and Leader of the Spintronics Research Network of Japan. He is a deputy editor of AIP Advances and a science committee member of AAPPS (Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies).

Dr. Koichiro ISHIBASHI has been a professor of The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan since 2011. He has been the Director of UEC ASEAN Research and Education Center (UAREC) since 2017. He launched HanoiUs-UEC Global Alliance Laboratory for Biomedical Electronics research with Le Quy Don Technical Univ.(LQDTU), National Hospital for Tropical Diseases (NHTD), Vietnam National University, University of Engineering and Technology(VNU-UET), and Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2019. He has been serving a guest professor at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Ho Chi Minh City University of Science since 2012. After receiving PhD degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1985, he worked at Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., at Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center(STARC) and at Renesas Electronics, where he had investigated low power technologies for high density SRAMs and MCUs. Since 2005, he has been a Fellow of IEEE for the technical contributions to developments of low-power SRAMs and MCUs. He has presented more than 200 academic papers at international conferences and journals including more than 20 invited presentations. He was awarded R&D 100 for the development of SH4 Series Microprocessor in 1999. His current interests are IoT technologies including Ultra low power LSI design technology, technologies for energy harvesting, sensor networks and applications, and Biomedical electronics using contactless sensors and data processing by AI. 

Eric Zusman is a senior policy researcher/area leader at the Institute for Global Environmental Studies in Hayama, Japan. Dr. Zusman holds a bachelors degree in Mandarin Chinese from Rutgers University, a dual Masters Degree in public policy and Asian studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. For much of the past two decades he has conducted research on environmental issues in Asia. This has included working with China’s Yellow River Conservancy Commission, the Chinese Research Academy on Environmental Science, Woodrow Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum as well as Taiwan’s Academia Sinica. He has published books and articles on water scarcity, air pollution regulation, environmental law, multilevel governance, sustainability transitions, low carbon development and the Sustainable Development Goals. He is currently serving as a lead author for the the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Chapter 17).

1. Research Interests: He has been interested in health-related water microbiology focusing on virus detection, water/wastewater treatment and risk management. He has conducted research on development of virus concentration method, disinfection and survey on occurrence of viruses in water in Japan and in Southeast Asian countries.
2. Education:
• B.S., Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan; 1993
• M.S., Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan; 1995
• Ph. D., Field of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan; 1998
 3. Job History:
• Mar 2019 – present, Professor (Dept. Urban Eng. The University of Tokyo)
• Sep 2016 – Aug 2018, Associate Professor (Environmental Engineering Program, Vietnam-Japan University)
• Oct 2007 – Mar 2019, Associate Professor (Dept. Urban Eng. The University of Tokyo)
• Apr 2004 – Oct 2007 Assistant Professor (Dept. Urban Eng, The University of Tokyo)
• Aug. 2002 – Mar 2004 Assistant Professor (Institute of Environmental Studies, School of Frontier Science, The University of Tokyo)
• Jan. 2002 – Jul. 2002 Assistant Professor (Dept. Urban Eng, The University of Tokyo)
• Apr. 1998 – Jan. 2002 Research Associate (Dept. Urban Eng, The University of Tokyo)
• Apr. 1997 – Mar. 1998 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
4. Service 
• Chair (2017-2019), Vice chair (2015- 2017), Secretary(2009-2013) of IWA Specialist group on Health-related water microbiology, Board of Director
• Board member (2011- ) of Food and Environmental Virology Society
• Editor (2019- ) of Journal of Food and Environmental Virology
• Editorial Board member (2019-) of Journal of Japan Water Works Association
• Chair (2019-) of Specialist group on Health-related water microbiology, Japan Society on Water Environment
• Secretary (2019-) of Environmental Engineering study committee, Japan Society of Civil Engineering
5. Honors and Awards (selected, 11 in total)
• The JSWE Paper Award, Japan Society on Water Environment, 2019
• Best Paper Award, Environmental Engineering Research, in the 44th Environmental Engineering Forum, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, November 28, 2008
• The JSWE Paper Award for Young Researchers, Japan Society on Water Environment, 2003

Dr. Hitoshi Kasai has been a professor of Tohoku University, Sendai since 2016. After receiving a Ph.D. degree from Tohoku University in 1996, he worked at New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) until 1999, then became an Assistant Professor at Tohoku University. In 2004, he was promoted to be an Associate Professor at Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), Tohoku University, concurrently worked as a PRESTO researcher from 2007 to 2011, followed by a full Professor position at IMRAM from 2016. During his Ph.D., he was majored in the creation of organic crystals with the main focus was on their electronics and photonics applications. Not long after, he realized the extreme potential of the technique in the creation of nanocrystals composed of pure anticancer drug molecules. The obtained nano-prodrugs showed greatly enhanced delivery efficacy while reducing the side effects which were usually caused by drug carrier materials in the conventional methods. With the great dedication for the last decade, his laboratory has been one of the first initiation in the field and gradually strengthen the possibility of the carrier-free DDS. Until date, he has co-authored more than 300 publications including original papers, reviewing articles, book chapters and patents.

Prof. Nguyen Thanh Liem is a pioneer and innovator in pediatric endoscopic surgery and stem cell transplantation. He is internationally recognized inventor by his seven advanced operative techniques in the Pediatric Surgery. Regarding the stem cell studies, Prof. Liem is a pioneer of using stem cell therapy for unmet diseasesin childrensuch as cerebral palsy due to oxygen deprivation, due to neonatal icterus, due to intracranial hemorrhage, neurological sequelae after nearly death drwoning, Autism, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and liver cirrhosis due to biliary atresia. Throughout his career, he has been in charge of a number of important positions such as Director of Vietnam National Children Hospital from 2002 to 2012; Director of Vinmec International Hospital from 2013-2016; Vice president of Asian Association of Pediatric Surgery; President of Vietnam Association of Pediatric Surgery. Currently, Prof. Liem is the director of Vinmec Research Institute of Stem Cell and Gene Technology.
He has published 94 studies on the international journals and over 200 papers on domestic journals. He is also the co-author of surgery pediatrics textbooks published in UK and US such as Operative Pediatric Surgery, Ashcraft’s Pediatric Surgery, and Pediatric Laparoscopic and Thoracospoc Surgery. Prof. Nguyen Thanh Liem has been invited to give lectures and performed demonstrative surgeries in many countries.
By his dedicated and delightful contributions to the medical practices and research, he has been honored many prestige awards conferred by the Vietnam government like Ho Chi Minh Award, National Labor Hero Medal, Award of Vietnam Talent.
In 2018, he has been awarded the 2018 Nikkei Asia Prize in the Science and Technology category thank to his contribution to develop and popularize pediatric endoscopic surgery in Asia and the world. He is categorized in top 100 scientists of Asia by Sigapore journal in 2019.

Associate Professor Nguyen Viet Nhung, MD., PhD serves as Director of National Lung Hospital,Manager of Vietnam NTP,  President, Vietnam Lung Association and Member of newly established National Commison on Ending TB of Viet Nam. He has been appointed to be a member of WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Tuberculosis (STAG-TB) in Geneva scince 2016. Dr. Nhung has been principal investigator of many local and international research projects in TB and Lung diseases, including the first TB prevalence survey in the year 2006-2007, the second one in the year 2017 and ACT3 in Viet Nam.

Dr. Norio Ohmagari is acting as Director, AMR Clinical Reference Center and Director, Disease Control and Prevention Center of National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Japan.
Dr. Ohmagari has completed his clinical fellowship in Infectious Diseases at University of Texas-Houston. After serving as chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Shizuoka Cancer Center, in 2011 Dr. Ohmagari moved to NCGM which is one of six national medical centers in Japan with infectious diseases as main objective. At NCGM, Dr. Ohmagari has been acting as Director of the Disease Control and Prevention Center since 2012. He also serves as the director of AMR Clinical Reference Center, which is commissioned by Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan. 
Dr. Ohmagari is engaged in the care, prevention and research of infectious diseases from a global perspective. As a physician, Dr. Ohmagari is directly involved in the clinical management of patients with infectious diseases. Dr. Ohmagari is also actively working on activities with controlling antimicrobial resistance in Japan. At the same time, Dr. Ohmagari is working on the on-site response in infectious disease crisis management in Japan.

Invited Speakers

Le Van Lich’s main research interest is developing multiscale computational models for predicting microstructure evolution in materials using phase-field methods. In particular, he is interested in microstructure evolution during phase transformations, grain growth, ferroelectric, ferromagnetic and multiferroic domain switching. Recently, his group has developed a new phase-field model for compositionally graded ferromagnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroics composites and explored several novel electronic and magnetic properties of low-dimensional materials. His research group collaborates actively with numerous fellow computational materials scientists and physicists as well as with industrial companies.

Hisashi Inoue is a Researcher in the Research Institute for Advanced Electronics and Photonics at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology since 2020. He completed his Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Stanford University, where he studied low-dimensional superconducting phenomena in artificial oxide heterostructures. After he obtained Ph.D., he conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2016-2019 and as an assistant professor at Tohoku University from 2019-2020. His academic interest spans a wide range from combining advanced thin film fabrication techniques and high precision measurements to understand the physics of correlated materials to their device applications. He is particularly interested in superconductivity and quantum transport in thin films of complex oxides and topological materials. Recently his research focuses on developing superconducting junctions on topological materials for new computational techniques and the development of devices for biomimetic computing.

Dinh Loc Duong received his Ph.D. from the Sungkyunkwan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (SAINT) in 2012. After his first postdoc period in the same lab from 2012 to 2014, he joined Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research in Kern’s department from 2014 to 2016 as a junior scientist. He was a research professor at IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) from 2016-2019. He was promoted as an assistant professor of Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University in 2019. He is leading the 2D magnetism group in CINAP. His current research interests are magnetic, superconducting, and topological properties of 2D materials, including their growth, characterization, and applications.

Trang Xuan Chi is now a Research Fellow at School of Physics and Astronomy, and ARC Centre for Future Low Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET), Monash University, Australia. Chi completed her PhD in Physics at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, where she ultimately gaining experience in fabrication and characterization of thin films and bulk topological materials, such as topological insulators, topological superconductors, Dirac semimetal, etc., which can be applied for spintronics, quantum computers, materials science, and semiconductors. After she obtained her Ph.D., she continuous her career as a research fellow at Monash University and an associate investigator at FLEET from 2019. At Monash University, her academic interest expands to magnetic topological insulator, including their growth, characterization, and applications.

Akihiro Kishimura received his B.S. degree under the supervision of Prof. M. Hidai from the University of Tokyo in 2000, and his PhD degree of engineering under the supervision of Prof. T. Aida from the University of Tokyo in 2005. He joined the research group of Prof. K. Kataoka in 2005 as a postdoctoral researcher, and became an assistant professor in Department of Materials Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 2006. Then, he moved to Kyushu University as an associate professor in 2013. He joined Science Council of Japan in 2016, and worked as the chair of Young Academy of Japan from 2017 to 2020. He is a member of the Global Young Academy from 2017.  
The present research focuses on the synthesis and structural analysis of polymeric nano-/micro-structures especially in aqueous media based on supramolecular approaches. The novel materials have been designed and developed particularly for biomedical applications, such as biocompatible nano-carriers for targeted drug delivery system (DDS), advanced nanosystems for nano-pathophysiology, novel nano-structured microcapsules and so on. Very recently, his group has developed new strategy of protein delivery system and enzyme-driven nano-reactors for therapeutic applications, and cytosol-mimic liquid matrix for full utilization of biomolecules in the industrial and medical context.

Hiroyasu Takemoto is an assistant professor in Institute of Innovative Research at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He received Ph.D. in polymer-based biomaterials from the University of Tokyo in 2013. He has been in Department of Medicine at the University of Tokyo, and he also belongs to Innovation Center of Nanomedicine in Kawasaki, Japan. His research interest includes development of bioresponsive polymer-based materials for drug delivery carriers. His research is often collaborated with companies, whereby some of his products are under development for industry. He also contributes to scientific community, as he is a member of American Chemical Society, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan, The Japan Society of Drug Delivery System, Japanese Society for Biomaterials. He has been awarded by Tokyo Tech, JST, and The Society of Polymer Science, Japan.

Dr. Dao received a Master degree and a PhD degree in School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) in 2011 and 2014, respectively. During 2014-2017, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, JAIST, Japan and a Researcher of JST-ImPACT Project, Japan. From 2018 until now, she works at Tohoku University as an Assistant Professor. Her research focuses on noble metals, biopolymers and nanostructures, for the applications of biosensing, diagnostic, and cancer therapy. Dr. Dao received several awards including: Young scientist fellowship to participate in the 67^th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Lindau, Germany, 2017; JSPS fellowship for attending 7^th HOPE Meeting with Nobel Laureates, Tokyo, Japan, 2015; Outstanding Performance Award for Master Course and Doctoral Course of Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan, 2011 and 2014, respectively; and Best Poster Award at E-MRS Spring Meeting, Lille, France, 2014.

Nguyen Chi-Cuong is currently a senior researcher at The Semiconductor Technologies Lab, Researcher Laboratories of Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP Labs). He received a Bachelor degree from The Materials Science Department of The National University of Sciences (HCMUNS) in 2009, a Master degree from Institute of Microsystem & Nanotechnology from NCKU in 2012, and a Ph.D. in The Materials Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in 2017, respectively. He then was a researcher at The Semiconductor Technologies Lab, Researcher Laboratories of Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP Labs) from 2018. His research interests include the micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), physics of semiconductors, pressuresensors, strain gauge, humidity sensors, gas sensors, MEMS sensor and its applications especially in IoT. Dr. Nguyen published above 4 journal articles and invited speaker for 5 international conferences. Also, Dr. Nguyen is a member organizer of the International Workshop on MEMS and Sensor System (IWMS) of SHTP Labs in 2018, 2019. (IWMS, website: iwms.shtplabs.org).

Hironao Okada received his BE from Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University in 2001, and his ME and PhD degree in precision engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2003 and 2007, respectively.  After working as a researcher at the University of Tokyo for one year, he became a researcher at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in 2008. He is currently a senior researcher at Sensing System Research Center, AIST.  His research interests are in wireless sensor network systems, low power wireless communication technology, and electrochemical sensors for biological information monitoring.  Now he is trying to apply them to livestock cattle health monitoring.  

Hiroaki Honma received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology, Aichi, Japan, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. He joined the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo in 2016 as a Project Researcher. Since 2020, he has been a Project Research Associate with the IIS, The University of Tokyo. His research interests include optical MEMS, power MEMS, and CMOS-MEMS.

Tetsuo Kan is Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan. Tetsuo Kan is now engaged in a research project to develop MEMS devices which can detect the near-infrared light, and applying the device to human health monitoring, chemical sensing, and spectroscopic sensing. He is interested in creating novel sensing methods and devices by using an interaction between micro/nano structures and electromagnetic waves, which is wavelength or polarization specific. Tetsuo Kan received his Ph.D. in 2006 from Department of Mechano-Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Dr. Dinh received his PhD degree from Griffith University (Australia) in 2017. He was awarded the prestigious Griffith University Postdoctoral Fellowship and worked at Griffith University until 2019. He then joined University of Southern Queensland as a Lecturer. Dr Dinh’s research interests include micro/nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), physics of semiconductors, sensors for harsh environments, soft robotics, stretchable & wearable electronics, and biosensors & bioelectronics. He has authored a Springer Nature book and published over 80 high-impact journal articles, including Science Advances, Nature Communications and many other Nature indexed papers. His work has also been featured on the cover of reputed journals in the field, as well as selected as Editor’s picks and spotlight papers. Dr Dinh has been named in the Early Achievers Leaderboard as one of the Australia’s top 40 Rising Stars researchers – the leaders of the future.

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Vinh is currently a researcher at Sensing System Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He received a Bachelor degree, a Master degree and a PhD from The University of Tokyo in 2010, 2012 and 2015, respectively. Before joining AIST, Dr. Nguyen was a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) from 2014 to 2016 and a project researcher at IRT Research Initiative, The University of Tokyo from 2016 to 2019. His research interests include MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical System), force sensors, applications of MEMS-based sensors in IoT, droplet dynamics and liquid repellent surfaces. Dr. Nguyen received several awards including outstanding paper awards at IEEE MEMS2014, IEEE MEMS2018, Transducers2017, JCK2018 and awards from NEC C&C Foundation, Funai Foundation and NF Foundation. He also has 13 patent applications pending. Dr. Nguyen is a co-founder of the Vietnamese Academic Network in Japan (VANJ, website: https://vanj.jp/) and the Vietnam Japan Open Innovation Network (VJOIN, website: https://vjoin.org/).

Yuki Okamoto received the B.E. M.E. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2015, 2017, and 2020, respectively. He is currently a Researcher at the Sensing System Research Center (SSRC) in the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. He is now engaged in a research project to develop a portable active particle sensor integrated with a MEMS micropump for environmental monitoring. His research interests include CMOS-MEMS sensor and actuators, especially in integrated microfluidics for Lab-on-a-chip and µTAS applications.

Yusuke Takei received the Ph.D. degree in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, in 2008. From 2008 to 2017, he was the project assistant professor at the Department of Mechano-Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the Sensing System Research Center (SSRC) in the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. His research interests include MEMS sensor and its application especially in biometric field. During his career, he was temporary worked in the Research and Development Division of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan, where he managed national projects on AI, sensing devices and lasers (2019.8~2020.7).

Assoc. Prof. Hoang Van Phuc received Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan in 2012. He has worked as postdoc researcher, visiting scholar at UEC, Tokyo, Japan; Telecom Paris, France and University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK during the period of 2012-2018. He is working as an Associate Professor, Vice Director at Institute of System Integration, Le Quy Don Technical University, Hanoi, Vietnam. He is serving as Vice Chair in International Affairs & Conferences, Radio-Electronics Association of Vietnam (REV). His research interests include digital circuits and systems, hardware security, embedded systems for Internet of Things, and VLSI architecture for digital signal processing. He has published more than 10 international journal papers and 40+ international research papers. He was the PI of 02 NAFOSTED funded projects and one World Bank funded project in hardware security. He was the Technical Program Chair of several IEEE international conferences such as ICDV 2017, MCSoC 2018, SigTelCom 2019 and ATC 2020. He is a member of IEEE.

Hiromitsu Awano received his Ph.D. degree in Informatics from Kyoto University in 2016. From 2013 to 2016, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 2016, he was with Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo. Then, in 2017, he joined the VLSI Design and Education Center, University of Tokyo, where he was an assistant professor. In 2019, he moved to the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, where he was an associate professor. In 2020, he joined the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, where he is currently an associate professor. His research interests include hardware accelerators for AI and cryptography, intelligent robotics, CAD for nanometer-scale circuit design, reliability of deep-scaled transistors. Dr. Awano is a member of IPSJ, IEICE and IEEE.

Dr. Mai-Khanh is currently is an assistant professor at System Design Center (d.lab), The University of Tokyo, Japan. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2011. He was a lecturer of Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Technology, National University, Vietnam from 2006 to 2013. Dr. Mai-Khanh worked as a post-doctoral researcher in from 2011 to 2013 in VLSI Design and Education Center (VDEC). Then, in 2013, he joined VDEC, The University of Tokyo, where he was an assistant professor.In 2019, he was a visiting scholar at Eindhoven University of Technology, Holland. His research interests include integrated micowave circuits, on-chip antenna, and magnetic sensing. He is a recipient of Best Paper Awards of: the Asian Symposium on Quality Electronic Design Symp. in 2010, the third rank of the 9th IEEE NEWCAS 2011, and of IEEE NEWCAS 2017. He has served as a reviewer on IEEE Journal of Sensor, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, Springer Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, and Electronic Letters of Institution of Engineering and Technology. He was a TPC chair of The First Int’l Workshop on Hardware Oriented Cybersecurity 2018, the TPC chair of Vietnam-Japan Scientific Exchange Meeting 2017, and a TPC member of Intl. Conf. on Integrated Circuits, Design, and Verification 2017.

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Dr. Minh-Quoc Nghiem is a Researcher at the National Centre for Text Mining, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. He received his PhD from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan in 2014, and taught at the Faculty of Information Technology of Ho Chi Minh City University of Science, Vietnam National University from 2014 to 2017. He is currently leading a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project from Innovate UK. His research interests include statistical text processing, text summarization, and active/proactive methods for corpus building.

Dr. Nguyen Luu Thuy Ngan is a lecturer in the Faculty of Information Science and Technology, the University of Information Technology – a member of Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City. She holds a PhD degree in computer science from the University of Tokyo, Japan. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan from 2012 to 2013. Her current research focus is natural language processing for the Vietnamese language. She has published more than 40 papers on biomedical language processing, language learning assistance and Vietnamese language processing.  

Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son received a B.Sc. degree (honor program) and a M.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Science, VNU-HCM, in 2008 and 2011. He obtained a Ph.D. degree from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, in 2015. He is currently a post-doc researcher at KDDI Research Inc., Japan. His research interests include natural language processing, privacy, security, and anonymization. In particular, he studies the threats of malicious human-written texts and computer-generated texts. He has proposed detectors to identify privacy-related texts including private, paraphrased, translated, and adversarial texts. Based on the detection, he has suggestions solutions to prevent private-text disclosures by anonymization, detect the disclosers by fingerprint, and build a certified system defending adversarial texts. 

Nguyen Tuan Hung received PhD’s degree in theoretical physics with a Joint Program for Leading Graduate Schools at Tohoku University in March 2019. Since April 2019, he has been an assistant professor at Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University. He was awarded the Aoba Society Prize for the Promotion of Science from Tohoku University in 2017 and Research Fellowships for Young Scientists from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) since 2018. His main fields of research are on the theory and simulation of fundamental energy conversion and storage.

After received B.S. degree in Ho Chi Minh University of Technology (Bach Khoa) in 2013, he became an R&D employee in CAE field of Tachi-S Engineering company in 3 years. Then, he got M.S. degree in the same university in 2015, received JSPS DC and was awarded Ph.D. degree at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) in 2020. Also, he was a former researcher in Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (Inria Nord Europe, Lille, France). Currently, Dr. Pho performs Postdoctoral Research Fellowship supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS PD) in Soft Haptics Lab, JAIST until 2022 Mar.
Major: Mechanical Engineering and Robotics

Hiroto Tanaka received the BSc degree in mechanical engineering in The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2003, MSc degree in information science and technology in The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan in 2005, and the PhD degree in information science and technology in The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan in 2008. He was a JSPS research fellow in The University of Tokyo from 2006 to 2009, a postdoctoral fellow in Harvard University from 2009 to 2011, and an Assistant Professor in Chiba University from 2011 to 2015. Since 2015, he is an Associate Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include fluid dynamics, biomechanics, biomimetics, and soft robotics of flying and swimming animals such as penguins and hummingbirds. Currently, he is leading one of the teams in “Science of Soft Robots” of JSPS KAKEHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas.
URL: http://www.tanakah.mech.e.titech.ac.jp/index_e.html

Yuya Morimoto received the M.E. degree in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo in 2009. Between 2009 and 2011, he worked at Fujifilm Corporation for R&D of medical endoscopes. He received his Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo in 2014. After assistant professor at Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo in 2014 – 2019, he is currently associate professor of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. He has been recognized with numerous honors including IKUSHI prize from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2014, and Young Award for Excellence from Society for Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems in 2017. His research interests are BioMEMS for biofabrication and biohybrid systems.

Dr. Takuya Umedachi is a soft-roboticist inspired by primitive living organisms such as amoeba and caterpillars. His research focus on decentralized control (i.e. bio-inspired controller) and self-formation of soft-bodied animals, which are modeled and verified by developing robotic testbeds with digital fabrication (including 3D printing and Printed electronics). He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Communication Engineering from Tohoku University, in 2009.
• 2008 – 2010: He was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC2) in the same lab.
• 2010 – 2011: He was a Research Fellow of the CREST, Japan Science and Technology under Prof. Ishiguro.
• 2011 – 2012: He has been a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD), worked in the Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Hiroshima University
• 2012 – 2016: He worked in the Department of Biology, Tufts University under Prof. Barry A. Trimmer, the chief editor of J. of Softrobotics.
• 2016 – 2019: He is a project lecturer at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.
• 2019 – Now: He is currently an associate professor at Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University.

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Dr. Premakumara is a development planner, holds a PhD in Management Development from the Nihon Fukushi University, Japan in 2006. He has over 25 years’ experiences in working with academic, government, nongovernmental organisations, bilateral and international development agencies. Currently, he works as a Deputy Director of the IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (CCET) at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan and assists developing countries and cities in improving waste management in more sustainable manner. His work focuses on developing integrated/holistic waste management strategies at national and local levels, application of participatory learning and action methods to promote 3Rs (reduce, reuse and recycling) and circular economy/ resource efficiency societies, integration of informal sector and women participation in waste management, and linkages between waste and climate change as well as sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Nguyen Tien Dat (born January 5th, 1985, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam), a senior research fellow at National Center for Global Health and Medicine. He is trying to discover the detail mechanism of a transporter in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) disease. Dat studied biotechnology at University of Science, VNU-HCMC, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 2007 and a master’s degree in 2010. He moved to Japan and received a Ph.D (2014) in life science from Kyoto Institute of Technology. After graduation, he received fellowships to study at Kyoto University, where he carried out research on the fibrosis and got a worldwide patent about murine model for fibrosis research. From 2018, he moves to National Center for Global Health and Medicine, where he joined the Department of Molecular Immunology and Inflammation as current position. He and colleagues found that SLC15A3, a cell transporter, is important for IPF. He hopes his finding will open the way for the development of therapies for this incurable disease.

Education and Position
• Vice Dean, School of Biomedical Engineering, International University, VNU-HCM
• Lecturer, School of Biomedical Engineering, International University, VNU-HCM (2019-now)
• Researcher and Lecturer, University of Science, VNU-HCM (2006 –2019)
• Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan (2015-2017)
• Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan (2012-2015)
• Master of Science in Biochemistry, University of Science Ho Chi Minh (2007-2010)
• Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, University of Science Ho Chi Minh (2002-2006)
Research Interest
• Pharmaceutical Engineering: the development of innovative biomaterials for biomedical applications such as nanomedicine for treatment of oxidative stress-induced diseases in gastrointestinal tract, especially ulcerative colitis, as well as colitis-associated colon cancer. Injectable Hydrogel in cardiovascular disease, targeting gene therapy and immunotherapy are also research interest.
• Drug discovery and development from natural compounds. Extraction, purification and improvement of bioavailability, bioactivity in vitro and in vivo
• Medical biochemistry: Metabolism of biomolecules in pathogenicity
Publications
• 20 ISI papers with high impact factor
• 8 international patents (Japan, US, EU)
• 3 international book chapters
• More than 80 conferences
Awards
• 17 best/outstanding presentation awards in international conferences.
• Giải thưởng Thanh niên Quả cầu vàng 2018 (Vietnam Young Scientist Award)
• Gương mặt trẻ Việt Nam tiêu biểu 2018 (Outstanding Young Face Vietnam)
• Giải thưởng Sáng tạo Thành phố 2019 (Ho Chi Minh Creative Award)

Chikahisa SUMI was appointed as Director of Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (OAP), International Monetary Fund, on September 28, 2016. He has worked on Asia and the Pacific counties for seven years in the IMF, including leading missions to the Philippines, Singapore, New Zealand and Fiji. He also headed the Financial Sector Surveillance Group of the Asia and Pacific Department (APD), and led the Future of Asia’s Finance project including the publication of “The Future of Asian Finance” book in 2015. 
Before returning to IMF, Mr. Sumi held key positions in the Japanese Government, including Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, and Deputy Commissioner of Financial Services Agency. He also headed Japan’s Debt Management Office, and acquired many friends among financial market participants through intensive dialogue with them. 
Born in Osaka, Japan, Chikahisa holds LL.B. from the University of Tokyo (1982) and MBA from Harvard University (1986), where his friends started to call him Chuck. Married, one daughter, and enjoys various types of fishing.

Dr. Thai-Ha Le is the Director of Research and Senior Faculty Member at Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management (FSPPM), Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV). She holds Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and PhD in Economics from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore where she completed her PhD study within two years. Prior to joining FUV, Dr. Le worked at RMIT University Vietnam as a tenured Senior Lecturer for seven years. Her primary research fields include Energy Economics, Environmental Economics and Applied Economics. Dr. Le is an active researcher who has published 40 scholarly research articles in international, peer reviewed journals such as Energy Economics, The Energy Journal, Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Resources Policy, Economic Modelling, International Review of Financial Analysis, Empirical Economics, Applied Economics, Annals of Operations Research, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. She has consulted for Asian Development Bank (ADB) Headquarters and Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). Dr. Le is also a recipient of multiple competitive research grants and fellowships such as The Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) Fellowship for Young Scholars in 2013, the Public Diplomacy Federal Assistance Award by The U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s Public Affairs Section in 2018 and the National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) funds for research in social sciences and humanities in 2019 as the principal investigator. Besides, she serves as an external reviewer for the Vici Social Sciences and Humanities programme under the NWO Talent Programme, The Dutch Research Council (NWO).

Tran Thi Bich is a senior lecturer and researcher at the National Economics University (NEU) of Vietnam. She received her PhD degree in economics from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2008. She has been teaching several subjects in Statistics and Quantitative Analysis such as Statistical Theories, Business Decision Making, Business Statistics, and Data Analysis. Over the last ten years, she has worked extensively on many development economics and policy issues in Vietnam. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran has expertise in productivity, labour market, public administration, and institution studies. She has participated in a range of research activities and consultancy projects dealing with economic development, administration, impacts of policies and institutions on economic growth and productivity. She is also the author of several journal articles and academic papers. Her significant publications are in the Journal of Development Studies, the International Journal of Production Economics, the Public Administration and Development, the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (previously known as the Journal of Socio-Economics), the Journal of Asia-Pacific Economy, and the Asian Economic Journal. 

Yoshiki Matsui is a Professor of Operations Management at the Open University of Japan (OUJ) and Yokohama National University (YNU) both. He has been working at YNU for more than 32 years, and taught management science, business statistics, operations management, logistics, and supply chain management for undergraduate and graduate students. He joined the Faculty of Liberal Arts at OUJ with a cross-appointment contract between OUJ and YNU from 2018 where he teaches operations management and prepares a course on supply chain management. He also serves as a co-director of the MBA Program at Vietnam Japan University (VJU) in Hanoi, Vietnam. He has been to Vietnam more than 30 times since 2006 to deliver lectures and speeches at universities, international conferences, symposia, and seminars. His research topics cover various issues in manufacturing management, operations management, supply chain management, quality management, lean and just-in-time production, technology and innovation management, and new product development. He has published papers in International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, Operations Management Research, Management Research Review, Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, Sustainability, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, International Journal for Quality Research, Journal of Japanese Operations Management and Strategy, and so on. He is currently the president of Japanese Operations Management and Strategy Association and a member of Production and Operations Management Society, European Operations Management Association, Academy of Management, Decision Sciences Institute among others. He served for the Asia Pacific Decision Sciences Institute as a president and vice-president.

Latest education: Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
Experience: 
• 2017-now: Postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Hematology, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
• 2009-2012: Lecturer, Department of Hematology, School of Medicine, Univ. of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam 
• Grant: JSPS grant for young researcher,  FY 2018-2019, Modeling Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell lymphoma in mouse based on its genetic lesions
Awards:
• 2018: TIDE (Tsukuba Advancing Initiatives for Diversity and the Environment) Women’s Award for Young Female Researcher
• 2017: Abstract Achievement Award, the 59^th Annual Meeting and Exposition of American Society of Hematology, 2017
• 2012: Young Presenter Award, National Congress on Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Vietnam

Dr. Tran Huynh Ngoc currently works as a scientist at Toyota Technological Institute, Japan. His research interests are power network control and stability, voltage control in distribution system penetrated by renewable generation, and optimal operation of smart grid with combined-heat-power systems, renewable generations, and electric vehicle charging.
Dr. Ngoc received B.Eng. degree (first-class honor) in electrical engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam, in March 2003, and became a lecturer at the same university right afterward. He completed Master program at the Power Systems Research Laboratory, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand in May 2010 and Ph.D. program at The University of Tokyo in March 2015. From May 2015 to March 2016, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Advanced Energy, Graduation School of Frontier Science, The University of Tokyo. From April 2016, he has been working in the Control Systems Laboratory, Toyota Technological Institute.

Van-Long Pham received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vietnam, in 2014. He received the M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Soongsil University, South Korea, in 2016. He has received the Dr.Eng. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, in 2020. His research interests include the design and control of DC-DC converters and power inverters, battery management systems, and electromagnetic interference filters.

Nguyen Anh Dung was born in Binh Thuan province, Vietnam, in 1990. He received his B.S. degree in the Department of Control Engineering and Automation from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam, in 2013, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2015 and 2018, respectively. He is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the Future Energy Electronics Center (FEEC) in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA. 
His research interests include high efficiency and high power density converters, digital control of power converters, bidirectional DC-DC converters for energy storage systems, and magnetic design for power converters.

Pham Nam Hai is an associate professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology with expertise in spintronics, and a visiting associate professor at Center for Spintronics Research Network (CSRN), the University of Tokyo. His research interests include ferromagnetic nanoclusters, ferromagnetic semiconductors, ferromagnet/semiconductor hybrid systems, topological insulators, and their applications to spintronic devices including magnetic sensor, spin-based transistor, SOT-MRAM, race-track memory, and skyrmion. He is currently a research director for the Japan Science and Technology – CREST research program “Spin-orbit-torque magnetic memories utilizing topological surface states”, where he developed the most efficient spin current source using a topological insulator for SOT-MRAM and racetrack memory. He received the SSDM Young Researcher Award (‘09), the Ando Memorial Award (‘14), the Marubun Research Award (‘17), the German Innovation Award (Gottfried Wagener Prize) (‘19), and the MSJ Outstanding Research Award (‘20).

Le-Minh Nguyen is currently a Professor of School of Information Science and a director of the Interpretable AI center at JAIST. He is the head of the Machine Learning and Natural language Understanding Laboratory at JAIST. He received his B.Sc. degree in information technology from Hanoi University of Science, and M.Sc. degree in information technology from Vietnam National University, Hanoi in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Information Science from School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) in 2004. He was an Assistant professor at School of information science, JAIST from 2008 to 2013 and Associate Professor at JAIST from 2013 to 2019. His research interests include machine learning & deep learning, natural language processing, and legal text processing.

Dr. Nguyen T. Hong Van holds a PhD from the University of Paris Diderot and IRFU, CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique) in Saclay, France for her studies in experimental high energy physics with the ATLAS-LHC experiment. She is a principle researcher of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) and a staff member of the Institute of Physics (VAST). She is also a associate professor and teaching at the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH, Vietnam-France Univ.) and the Graduate University of Science and Technology (VAST). Her fields of research interest include experimental and phenomenological particle physics (neutrino physics, Higgs physics, etc.) and mathematical physics (SUSY, quantum groups, etc.). She is amongst the founding members and the leader (from the Vietnam side) of the Vietnam-Japan joint neutrino group in the Institute For Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Education (IFIRSE), ICISE, Quy Nhon. Currently, she is participating in the T2K experiment as a member of the IOP and the IFIRSE. 
Dr. Hong Van has been also involved in other scientific and education activities in Vietnam, being a member of the executive committee of the Vietnam Theoretical Physics Society (VTPS), one of  the organizers (sometimes, one of the main organizers) of different national and international school, workshops and conferences, lecturing at international school such as Vietnam schools of physics (VSOP’s), Vietnam schools on neutrinos (VSON’s) and other particle physics schools (organized in Hanoi, Hue and Quy Nhon), giving invited talks in national and international conferences, etc. 

Do Duc Tonreceived B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical engineering from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, in 2007 and 2009, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical engineering from Dongguk University, South Korea, in 2014. From 2008 to 2009, he was a Lecturer at Division of Electrical Engineering, Thuy Loi University, Vietnam. He was at Division of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University, as a Postdoctoral Researcher in 2014. He was also a senior researcher at Pioneer Research Center for Controlling Dementia by Converging Technology, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea from May 2014 to Aug 2015. From Sep 2015, he has joined Department of Robotics and Mechatronics, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include advanced control system theories, electric machine drives, renewable energy systems, uninterruptible power supplies, electromagnetic actuator systems, targeted drug delivery systems, and nanorobots. He received the best research award from Dongguk University in 2014. He is a senior member of IEEE since 2012. He was the Lead Guest Editor for a special issue of Mathematical Problems in Engineering on “Advanced Control Methods for Systems with Fast-Varying Disturbances and Applications”. He is currently an associate editor of IEEE Access.

Dr. Momoe Takeuchi (Ph.D. in health science/ health policy and planning) is a health systems expert with a broad experience of working in multiple countries and health systems settings in Asia and the Pacific for more than 20 years.
In 2001, Dr Takeuchi joined WHO Headquarters in the team of health financing and evidence for health policy and also worked in the Department of planning and programme management of WHO Headquarters. In 2006, she moved to the WHO Bangladesh country
office to engage in polio eradication and immunization, followed by her assignment in health systems strengthening in the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office from 2008 to 2012.  She was then selected to work as a Senior Programme Management Officer in WHO Cambodia country office in 2012, and was reassigned as a Health Systems Development Advisor in the same office from 2014 till 2017. 
Dr Takeuchi moved to WHO Viet Nam country office in July 2017 to take up a position of a team coordinator for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Since last year, Dr Takeuchi is also overseeing a team working on healthy lifestyle and environment. Currently, her teams are supporting the Ministry of Health in various key priorities of the government of Viet Nam in order to achieve UHC including primary health care reform, healthy ageing, health promotion and risk factor reduction, antimicrobial resistance, regulatory systems strengthening, among others.

Dr. Wynn Huynh Tran is a residency and postdoc fellowship trained physician specialist in rheumatology and dermatology, an assistant professor of medicine and pharmacy, and a prolific writer and social media public figure with 223K sub/24M views on Dr. Wynn Tran Official Youtube Channel and 100k followers on Facebook. Dr. W Tran teaches MD/PharmD students/residents/fellows and directing an advanced pharmacist practitioner residency program at Wynn Medical Center, a multi-specialty clinic in Los Angeles, founded by Dr. Tran. During Covid-19, Dr. Wynn Tran has made 75 educational videos about Covid-19 on Youtube channel based on thousands of articles from reputable journals. Dr. Tran also treats a number of Covid-19 patients at his clinic.  Dr. Tran is the author of 3 books, a reviewer or contributor of 7 medical textbooks, an author or co-authors a number of publications. Dr. Tran founded VietMD.net, a nonprofit organization in U.S. dedicating to Medical English and USLME teaching.  

Dr. Tran Ngoc Dang, is currently a lecturer in Department of Environmental
Health, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City (UMP HCMC). He obtained his bachelor degree in Public Health from UMP HCMC in 2010. He got the Japanese Government scholarship (MEXT) to pursue his master of Public Health degree, majoring in molecular epidemiology; and the doctoral degree majoring in environmental epidemiology at the university of Tsukuba in 2014, and 2017 respectively. Dang is a junior
researcher, with his interest in investigating the effects of air pollution, climate change, and health as well as the interaction between environmental and genetic factors in disease’s mechanism. So far he has published about 35 peer-reviewed publications in ISI international
journals, including prestigious journals such as Environmental Health Perspective, American Journal of Public Health, Scientific Reports, Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, BMC Medical Genetics. Dang won several awards and scholarships, such as the first ranking award in the National conference for young researchers
in medical science in Vietnam in 2016, and 2018 respectively. To response to COVID 19, Dang is doing research and innovative solutions in preventing COVID 19 in Viet Nam.

Dr. Yamashiro was born in Okinawa, Japan. He got a Ph.D. degree at the University of Ryukyus in 2011, then worked at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas as a Post-doctral Researcher. In 2014, He moved back to Japan and worked at University of Tsukuba, Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA) as a assistant professor. His current research interest is mechanotransduction of vessel wall and how its integrity regulated under mechanical stress.
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