Biography:

Ya-Chin King received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1992, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of California, Berkeley, in 1994. She received her PhD degree in 1999 from University of California, Berkeley, on thin oxide technology and quasi-nonvolatile memories. She joined the faculty of National Tsing Hua University at Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1999. Her early research topics include: device reliability, CMOS image sensors and novel memory devices. She received the “NTHU New Researcher Award” in 2003 and the “Outstanding Youth Electrical Engineer Award” and the “Ta-You Wu Memorial Award”. She was also awarded with the “NTHU Distinguished Research Award” starting from 2007. Since 2008, she has been the leader of NTHC Flash Center and has organized many collaborative projects with its team members on the development of novel non-volatile memory technologies. Her work on LTPS technologies and ReRAM have received the “Best Paper Awards” by the International Society for Display Information Conference in 2010 and IEEE ASIC Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems in 2014, respectively. In technology innovation, over 100 patents have been granted to her research team over the past decade. She is currently a Professor of National Tsing Hua University, Institute of Electronics Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering and Chair of NTHU-tsmc Center. She is also a TSIA member and has served on Technical Program Committee of International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications (VLSI-TSA) and the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM).

Biography:

PEI-WEN LI (Senior Member, IEEE) received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University in New York City in 1994. Since 2015, she is a Professor in the Institute of Electronics at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) (as National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in 2021). Prior to joining NCTU in 2015, she was a Distinguished Professor, Chair of Electrical Engineering Department, and Director of Nano Science and Technology at National Central University. She was a Research Visiting Scholar at Caltech in 2011–2012. She worked with Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation on DRAM technology integration in 1995-1996. Her research themes focus on experimental germanium nanostructures and devices, encompassing quantum-dot single-electron transistors, qubits, and photodetectors, making use of self-assembly nanostructures in silicon integration technology.

Dr. Li was the chair of IEEE Taipei Section. She is an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer, chair of WiED, BoG member, and has served on the VLSI Technology, Education, WiED, and Meetings committees of IEEE Electron Devices Society. She has been an associate editor for the Journal of Electronic Materials since 2023, an editor of IEEE Journal of Electron Device Society since 2022, and an editorial board member of Applied Physics A, Springer since 2020. She is a senior member of the IEEE Electron Device Society and serves on various IEEE conference committees. She is the Micron Chair Professor since 2024 and recognized as Outstanding Engineering Professor Award (2025) from Chinese Institute of Engineers, NSTC Future Technology Award (2025), Outstanding Research Award from Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (2025).

Biography:

Darsen D. Lu received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering with special honors from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2005, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007 and 2011, respectively. His Ph.D. work focused on compact models for multiple-gate CMOS, which led to the creation of industry standard compact models for FinFETs (BSIM-CMG) and UTB-SOI devices (BSIM-IMG). From 2011 to 2015, he was with IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, where he was involved with research and development for 14nm, 10nm and 7nm CMOS technologies, as well as 20nm phase change memory, with an emphasis on TCAD-based device design and process development. He is currently a Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C. His current research focuses on ferroelectric memory technologies, including the fabrication, characterization, modeling, and design of ferroelectric FinFETs, and non-volatile SRAM. His research team specializes in the application of ferroelectric memory technology towards computing-in-memory and neuromorphic computing. He is currently a senior member of IEEE. He is a recipient of the 2018 Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association’s Young Faculty Award.