2023  FIRST  International Conference

FIRST 2023 Program Schedule

DAY 1

30 Oct 2023 (Monday)

9.00am – 9.30am

Opening Address / Welcome Speech

9.30am - 10.30am

Keynote 1

Professor Lin CAI
IEEE Fellow; NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow; Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) Fellow; Professor of University of Victoria; College Member of Royal Society of Canada

KEYNOTE: Self-Evolving and Transformative (SET) Protocol Architecture for 6G

10.30am - 11.30am

Keynote 2

Professor T. Russell HSING
IEEE Life Fellow; Fellows for the British Computer Society, AAIA and SPIE; Adjunct Professor in the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Visiting Professor in UC Davis

KEYNOTE: Where Technologist and Entrepreneur Meet to Stimulate Academic Spin-Offs

11.30am - 12.30pm

Lunch

12.30pm - 1.30pm

Keynote 3

Professor Pui-In MAK
IEEE Fellow; IET Fellow; RSC Fellow; Deputy Director (Research) Institute of Microelectronics of University of Macau; Chinese Academy of Sciences Overseas Expert

KEYNOTE:Passive-Intensive Bluetooth LE Receiver for Internet of Everything

1.30pm – 2.30pm

Keynote 4

Professor Chau YUEN
IEEE Fellow; Professor of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Editor-in-Chief for Springer Nature Computer Science

KEYNOTE: Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces Enabled Joint Computing and Communication in the Wave Domain

2.30pm - 3.00pm

Tea Break

3.00pm - 4.00pm

Keynote 5

Professor Howard Cam LUONG
IEEE Fellow; Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Associate Editor of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL) and IEEE Virtual Journal on RFIC; Technical program committee member of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

KEYNOTE:CMOS Frequency Generation - From RF to Millimeter-Wave and Sub-THz

4.00pm - 5.00pm

Keynote 6

Professor Kin K LEUNG
IEEE Fellow; Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computing Departments, Imperial College London

KEYNOTE:Machine Learning for Optimized Use of Network Resources

5.00pm

End of Day 1 Program

DAY 2

31 Oct 2023（Tuesday）

9.30am - 10.30am

Keynote 7

Professor Raafat MANSOUR
IEEE Life Fellow; Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE); Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC); Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo

KEYNOTE:Applications of Phase Change Material (PCM) Technology in Tunable Filters and in Other Reconfigurable Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Devices

10.30am - 11.30am

Keynote 8

Professor Rui Paulo Da Silva MARTINS
IEEE Fellow; Expert in Microelectronics; Academician of Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, Portugal; Vice President (Global Affairs); Chair Professor of University of Macau; Dean of Institute of Microelectronics, University of Macau

KEYNOTE: Analog and Mixed-Signal CMOS Circuits at the core of the A/D Interface in the Internet-of-Everything (IoE)

11.30am - 12.30pm

Lunch

12.30pm - 1.30pm

Keynote 9

Professor Tzong Lin WU
IEEE Fellow; Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering & Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU)

KEYNOTE: Signal Integrity Design for Air-filled Interconnect in 5G/6G Communication Network

1.30pm – 2.30pm

Keynote 10

Professor Yongxin GUO
Fellow of IEEE; Singapore Academy of Engineering; Full Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS); Director, Center for Peak of Excellence on Smart Medical Technology at NUS Suzhou Research Institute; Co-Director, Center for Smart Sensing and Artificial Intelligence, NUS Chongqing Research Institute

KEYNOTE: Electromagnetics in Medicine: Current Status and Challenges of Wireless Power Transfer, Antennas and Wireless Sensing

2.30pm - 3.00pm

Tea break

3.00pm - 4.00pm

Keynote 11

Professor Chip Hong CHANG
IEEE Fellow; Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

KEYNOTE: A Knife Cuts Both Ways – Attacks and Defenses of Deep Neural Networks

4.00pm - 5.00pm

Keynote 12

Professor Kiat Seng YEO
IEEE Fellow; Singapore Academy of Engineering Fellow; Singapore National Academy of Science Fellow; AAIA Fellow; Advisor (Global Partnerships) of Singapore University of Technology and Design; Distinguished Professor of School of Microelectronics, Tianjin University

KEYNOTE: Fusion of Technologies

5.00pm

End of Day 2 Program