Keynote Speaker

Short Biography:
Male, born in June 1952 in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. Expert in microelectronics technology (integrated circuit manufacturing). Elected as Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2019, currently serving as Dean of the School of Integrated Circuits at Zhejiang University. He has long been engaged in China's integrated circuit chip industry and has made outstanding contributions.
He led or participated in the R&D of mass production process technologies for seven generations of chips (from 0.13 μm to 14 nm) under National Major Special Projects, overcoming key technical challenges including etching processes, thereby narrowing the gap with the world's advanced level to 3–5 years. He has published 116 academic papers and holds 67 authorized invention patents. As a principal contributor, he won four provincial/ministerial-level first prizes, including three National Science and Technology Progress Awards (Second Prize).

Keynote Speech 2

Superconducting Detectors for Applications from Astronomy to Quantum Science

Prof. Sheng-Cai Shi (史生才)

Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Short Biography:
Sheng-Cai Shi is a senior researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is also the chief scientist of the Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Laboratory at PMO. Currently, he serves as the chair of the PMO’s academic committee and the chair of the radio astronomy division of the Chinese Astronomical Society. He graduated from Southeast University (former Nanjing Institute of Technology) in 1985, received a master’s degree from the Purple Mountain Observatory in 1988 and a doctor’s degree from Japan’s Graduate University for Advanced Studies in 1996. He was awarded the Distinguished Young Researcher Scholarship from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 1998, was awarded the Ho-Leung-Ho-Lee Foundation Science and Technology Progress Award in 2019, and was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Keynote Speech 3

Recent Advances in Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Waveguide Integration for Broadband Systems and Ultrafast Electronics

Prof. Ke Wu (吴柯)

University of Montreal, Canada

Short Biography:
Dr. Ke Wu is Industrial Research Chair in Future Wireless Technologies and Professor of Electrical Engineering with Polytechnique Montréal (University of Montreal). He was the Canada Research Chair in RF and millimeter-wave engineering, NSERC-Huawei Endowed Chair, and the Founding Director of the Center for Radiofrequency Electronics Research of Quebec, and the Director of Poly-Grames Research Center. He has authored/co-authored over 1500 referred technical papers, and many books/book chapters and filed more than 90 patents. Dr. Wu was the organizer of numerous conferences and events including the General Chair of the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS – the largest IEEE annual conference). He was the 2016 President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S). He also served as the two-terms inaugural representative of North America in the General Assembly of the European Microwave Association (EuMA). He was the recipient of many awards and prizes including the 2019 IEEE MTT-S Microwave Prize, the 2021 EIC Julian C. Smith Medal, 2022 IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Educator Award, 2022 IEEE AP-S John Kraus Antenna Award, and the 2025 IEEE MTT-S Pioneer Award. He was an IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer. Dr. Ke Wu is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada, and the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

Keynote Speech 4

Material Discovery via Machine Learning and Research Lab Automation

Prof. Yang Hao (郝阳)

Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Short Biography:
Professor Yang Hao is currently QinetiQ/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair at Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K. Over the years, he has led several major research projects with total funding exceeding £25 M as PI, which include his Directorship of £4.6 M EPSRC QUEST Programme Grant and Co-I and Management Board Membership of £23 M Cambridge Graphene Centre. His research has been recognized both nationally and internationally through his books Antennas and Radio Propagation for Body-Centric Wireless Communications and FDTD Modeling of Metamaterials: Theory and Applications, (Artech House, USA) and highly cited articles published in leading journals, including Nature Com-munications, Advanced Science, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, IEEE PROCEEDINGS, and IEEE Transactions. These research results have been taken up by in-dustry in the U.K. and overseas. He has supervised more than 80 PhD students and postdoc-toral, employed by the industry and universities as a professor. Four of them set up respective spinouts. His research interests include transformation optics and metamaterials, which have led to many tangible benefits for a range of industrial products. One example is lens antenna designs for satellite communications. He has been instrumental in establishing a complete supply chain, entailing electromagnetic modelling, materials design and fabrication, lens structure manufacture, and antenna system development. This technology has been fully scoped and is currently commercialized under a $100 M startup of Isotropic System Ltd. (All. Space), Berkshire, U.K.
Dr. Hao is an Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, IEEE and IET. He was the recipient of many accolades, including the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2013, the BAE Chairman’s Silver Award in 2014, the AF Harvey Research Prize in 2015, and the Prestigious IEEE John Kraus Antenna Award and EurAAP Antenna Award in 2024. Internationally, he has achieved his reputation for his leadership in IEEE, being an Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS from 2013 to 2017 and founding a new open-access journal, EPJ Applied Metamaterials, dedicated to metamaterials research in 2015. He was an AdCom Member. He currently serves as the Chair of the Publication Committee for IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.

Keynote Speech 5

Latest developments of Microwave Vector Network Parameter Measurement Technologies

Prof. Fushun Nian (年夫顺)

Ceyear Technologies Co., Ltd. & The 41st Institute of CETC Key Laboratory of Electronic Testing Technology, China

Short Biography:
Fushun Nian is a Chief Scientist of CETC and Director of the Key Laboratory of Electronic Testing Technology. He was engaged in the R&D of microwave millimeter wave and THz test instruments with test frequency covering 100kHz-1.5THz, and developed a domestic universal test platform, and based on this platform he built many cutting-edge automatic test systems for ICs, on-wafer/on-chip antenna, 3D packing antenna, phased array antennas, massive MIMO beamforming/beamtracking antennas, stealth equipment RCS and other automatic test systems, to achieve independent innovation and independent controllable development.

Keynote Speech 6

Latest developments of Microwave Vector Network Parameter Measurement Technologies

Dr. Long Miao (苗龙)

Member Unit of the Liquid Crystal Division, China Optics and Optoelectronics Manufacturers Association (COEMA), China

Short Biography:
Long Miao is a Senior Engineer specializing in microwave and satellite communication systems. He is head of Communication Technology Team at Member Unit of the Liquid Crystal Division of COEMA.