Technical Committee – Circuits and Systems for Communications (CASCOM)

Annual Report 6/2015 – 5/2016, - MAY 22, 2016 @ 19:00 US CDT - DRAFT3 TC Chair: Tokunbo Ogunfunmi Secretary: Joseph R. Cavallaro

TC website: http://ieee-cas.org/community/technical-committees/casctc

1. TC memberships and appointments:

a. CASCOM now has 64 TC members, and there are candidates for TC. The

candidate will be voted by the members at the TC meeting at ISCAS in Montreal in May 2016: 1. Christoph Studer, Cornell University, USA 2. Jun Lin, Nanjing Univ, China 3. Bala Sid, Texas Instruments, USA 4. Faizad Khalid, Freelancer.com 5. Kyungki Kim, Daegu University, Korea.

b. TC co-chair members with 2 year period till May 2016:

TC Chair – Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (Santa Clara University, USA)

TC Vice-Chair (Chair-Elect) – Shoba Krishnan (Santa Clara University, USA)

TC Secretary – Joseph Cavallaro (Rice University, USA) c. New appointment for 2016-2018 TC co-chair members will be elected in TC

meeting. d. Two nominations were received for the position of Secretary, CASCOM TC

election: 1. Dr. Hanho Lee, Inha University, S. Korea 2. Dr. Maire O'Neill, Queens University of Belfast, N. Ireland

2. ISCAS 2016 involvements:

e. The CASCOM track (Track 3) received 124 papers in 12 sub-tracks. f. Of the 124 papers that were submitted to our track, 59 papers were accepted (48%

acceptance rate) with 41papers in 8 lecture sessions and 18 papers in 3 poster sessions.

g. 3 TC members served as CASCOM track co-chairs, Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Shoba Krishnan, and Joseph R. Cavallaro.

h. The CASCOM TC has 66 members. 33 TC members (or 50%) served as 2016 CASCOM track Reviewer Committee Members: Hassan Aboushady, Wael Badawy, Joseph Cavallaro, Jaehyouk Choi, Xinming Huang, Jin-Ku Kang, Rajendra Katti, Ji-Hoon Kim, Shoba Krishnan, Hanho Lee, Li Li, Weiqiang Liu, Liang Liu, Hsi-Pin Ma, Pui-In Mak, P. R. Mukund, Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Maire O'Neill, Vassilis Paliouras, Jongsun Park, Fernando Rangel De Sousa, Wee Ser, Ming-Der Shieh, Gerald Sobelman, Murat Torlak, Lan-Da Van, Miroslav Velev, Zhongfeng Wang, Zhiyuan Yan, Qiaoyan Yu, Chuan Zhang, Jingyi Zhang, Tong Zhang, Xinmiao Zhang, Danella Zhao

i. 9 Non-TC members served as 2016 CASCOM track Reviewer Committee Members: Patricia Desgreys, Jun Jin Kong, Shaodan Ma, Jin Sha, Christoph Studer, Miroslav Velev, Chung Wu Yik, Jingyi Zhang, Kai Zhang,

3. Reports on Activities from IEEE CASCOM TC Members. Of the 66 CASCOM TC members, 47 members (or 71%) reported on their activities. One TC member Prof. Tung-Sang Ng of the University of Hong Kong, China has retired and will be listed as an Emeritus CASCOM Member on the TC website. We thank Prof. Ng for his years of contributions to IEEE and CASS and the CASCOM TC. Our member reports include: Hassan Aboushady - ISCAS 2016 activities: RCM (October/November 2015) - awards, distinguished lecturer and honors: IEEE Distinguished lecturer (November 2015) 2nd Workshop on RF and Microwave Technology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/37121

- service on journal editorial boards TCAS-II Associate Editor (since January 2016) Joseph Cavallaro - service on journal editorial boards IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing: AE IEEE Signal Processing Letters: AE Journal of Signal Processing Systems: AE - conferences organized or chaired 2016 IEEE SiPS, Co-Chair Technical Program Committee 2016 IEEE TexasWISE, General Chair 2016 IEEE Asilomar Conference, Special Session Organizer on Full-Duplex Architectures - invited talks Panelist: GlobalSIP Symposium on Signal Processing on Graphics Processing Units and Multicores - participation in conference committees 2015 IEEE SiPS (TPC) 2015 IEEE GlobalSIP Symposium on Signal Processing on Graphics Processing Units and Multicores 2016 ICASSP (TPC) 2016 IEEE ASAP (TPC) 2016 Globecom (TPC) - other relevant professional activities (e.g. chair/organizer for professional activities, steering committee members, etc.) Secretary, IEEE CASCOM TC 2014-2016 Chair, Houston Chapter IEEE CASS Member, IEEE SPS Design and Implementation Technical Committee Student Branch Advisor, IEEE Chapter at Rice University Lap-Pui Chau - awards, distinguished lecturer and honors Distinguished lecturer: Lap-Pui Chau (IEEE Broadcast Technology Society) - service on journal editorial boards

IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems for Video Technology: AEs: Lap-Pui Chau IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: AEs: Lap-Pui Chau IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting: AEs: Lap-Pui Chau The Visual Computer: AEs: Lap-Pui Chau - conferences organized or chaired IEEE DSP 2015: Lap-Pui Chau, General Co-chairs ICICS 2015: Lap-Pui Chau, General Co-chairs - invited talks Keynote speech: Lap-Pui Chau, Computer Graphics International (CGI 2015) Tzi-Dar Chiueh Tzi-Dar Chiueh, Distinguished Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Tzi-Dar Chiueh, Senior Vice President, National Applied Research Laboratories, Taiwan. Tzi-Dar Chiueh, Steering Committee Member, IEEE Asia Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC). Jaehyouk Choi - ISCAS 2016 activities (e.g. RCM, Review, Session Chair, etc.) Jaehyouk Choi, RCM - Invited talks Jaehyouk Choi, "Study of Injection-Locked Clock Multipliers and Real-time Frequency-Calibration Techniques over PVT ", KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, Mar. 10, 2016. Jaehyouk Choi, "Circuit Solutions for Issues on LO-Generation for Multi-Band/Multi-Standard Cellular Transceivers ", Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Mar. 17, 2016. Ezz El-Masry CASCOM is Co-Chair of Session Communications V, ISCAS16 in Montreal. Andrea Gerosa President of the bachelor and master courses in Electronics Engineering at University of Padova. Jin-Ku Kang - ISCAS 2016 activities : Paper Selection Review - participation in conference committees : IEEE APCCAS 2016 Committee IEEE ISOCC 2016 Committee Rajendra Katti ISCAS 2016 RCM Ji-Hoon Kim - ISCAS 2016 activities (e.g. RCM, Review, Session Chair, etc.) Ji-Hoon Kim, Session Co-Chair of ISCAS 2016 Communications II Session. Ji-Hoon Kim, RCM - service on journal editorial boards Ji-Hoon Kim, Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, Associate Editor - conferences organized or chaired Ji-Hoon Kim, International SoC Conference (ISOCC) 2015, (Organizing Committee)

Ji-Hoon Kim, VLSI-SoC 2015, (Organizing Committee) - participation in conference committees Ji-Hoon Kim, ASP-DAC 2016 (TPC) Ji-Hoon Kim, SiPS 2015 (TPC) - other relevant professional activities (e.g. chair/organizer for professional activities, steering committee members, etc.) Ji-Hoon Kim, Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems 1, 2 Ut-Va Koc - publication: Jeffrey Lee, etc., "Demonstration of 112-Gbit/s optical transmission using 56GBaud PAM-4 driver and clock-and-data recovery ICs," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), p.1-3, Sept. 27-Oct. 1, 2015. - award: Winner of the 2015 Edison Patent Award honored by the R&D Council of New Jersey in the telecommunications category for "Frequency Estimation in an Intradyne Optical Receiver" (U.S. Patent 8,073,345), an innovation that qualitatively improves smart phone and high speed internet usage by enabling higher speed and higher capacity optical backhaul networks. -patent: Ut-Va Koc, "Methods For Segmented On-Chip Digital Interface Block" submitted in 2015. Alexander S. Korotkov - service on international journal editorial boards Alexander Korotkov, Editor in Chief, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University Journal. Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Control Systems, Russia Alexander Korotkov, Member of the Editorial Board, Radioelectronics and communications systems, Kiev, Ukraine - participation in conference committees Alexander Korotkov, Program Committee Member, 9th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 26 – 28 November 2015, Bursa, Turkey. - invited talks Alexander Korotkov, "Radio frequency identification systems. Application, Development, Perspective", International Conference: Integrated Circuits and Modules: design, fabrication, and application, 28.09-03.10.15, Russia. - other relevant professional activities (e.g. chair/organizer for professional activities, steering committee members, etc.) Alexander Korotkov, Senior Member, Chair, IEEE Circuits and Systems Chapter, North-West Russian Section, St. Petersburg Shoba Krishnan Technical/Program Committee Member: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (Circuits and Systems

for Communications TC Member, Chair Elect, 2015) IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (Circuits and Systems for Education and Outreach (CASEO) TC Member, 2015) Track Chair for Handling ISCAS Paper Review: Assigned by CASCOM-TC (2015). Honor: Santa Clara University’s Brutocao Family Foundation Award for Curriculum Innovation, September 2015.

Chang-Ho Lee IEEE RFIC 2016 - TPC for Sub-committee - Session chair for ”Advances in Processing and Materials for RF Applications”

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, 2016 A Multi-Level Class D CMOS Power Amplifier for an Out-Phasing Transmitter with a Non-isolated Power Combiner Hanho Lee Awards, distinguished lecturer and Honors

- Hanho Lee, 2015 IEIE SoC Design Group Award Service on Journal editorial boards

- Hanho Lee, Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, 2015, 2016, Associate Editor

- Hanho Lee, IEEK Journal, 2015, 2016, Associate Editor - Hanho Lee, IEEE Transaction on Circuits and System 1, 2, Reviewer - Hanho Lee, IEEE Transaction on VLSI Systems, Reviewer - Hanho Lee, IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, Reviewer - Hanho Lee, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Reviewer - Hanho Lee, IET Electronics letters, Reviewer

Conference organized or chaired - Hanho Lee, ISoCC’2015, Reviewer - Hanho Lee, ISoCC’2015, Session Chair

Participation in conference committees - Hanho Lee, CASCOM TC, VSA TC, Technical Committee Member - Hanho Lee, 2015 International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC2015), Technical

Program Vice Chair - Hanho Lee, International Symposium on Communications and Information

Technologies (ISCIT 2015), Technical Program Track chair - Hanho Lee, ISCAS’2016, RCM

Other professional activities - Hanho Lee, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Seoul Chapter, Secretary - Hanho Lee, IEIE Semiconductor Society, Secretary

Li Li Reviewer for ISCAS2016 and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II Zhengguo Li - Served as an RCM of ISCAS 2016 and an area chair of ICIP 2016; - Served as general chair of ICIEA 2016 and general co-chair of CCDC 2016; - Served as an AE of IEEE Signal Processing Letters and IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. Weisi Lin - ISCAS 2016 activities: RCM - awards, distinguished lecturer and honors: Elevated to IEEE Fellow (2016); Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2016-2017 - service on journal editorial boards:

IEEE Trans. on Image Processing IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Tech. IEEE Signal Processing Letters Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation - conferences organized or chaired: Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2017) - participation in conference committees: Area Chair: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2015, ICIP2016) IEEE International conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-16) IEEE Int’l Conf. Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2016) Tutorial Chair: Pacific-Rim Conf. On Multimedia (PCM), 2015 IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2016) - books published: L. Xu, W. Lin, and C.-C. Jay Kuo, Visual Quality Assessment by Machine Learning, Springer, 2015. - invited talks: Keynote Speech, International Workshop on Learning Semantics for Multimedia Big Data (LSMBD), in 3rd Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR2015), 3-6 Nov 2015. Tutorial speaker: IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP), 12 July 2015 IEEE International conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal processing (ICASSP), 2016 - other relevant professional activities (e.g. chair/organizer for professional activities, steering committee members, etc.): - Steering Committee: IEEE International Conf. Multimedia and Expo (ICME SC), 2014-2015 Nam Ling - awards, distinguished lecturer and honors

Nam Ling, APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer. Nam Ling, Sanfilippo Family Chair Professor, Santa Clara University, USA. Nam Ling, Cuiying Chair Professor, Lanzhou University, China. Nam Ling, Distinguished Professor, Xi'an University of Posts and

Telecommunications, China. Nam Ling, Outstanding Overseas Scholar, Shanghai University of Electric Power,

China. - service on journal editorial boards

Nam Ling, Associate Editor, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, Springer.

Nam Ling, Associate Editor, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing: An International Journal (MSSP), Springer.

- conferences organized or chaired Nam Ling, General Chair, 2015 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems

(SiPS), Hangzhou, China, October 14 - 16, 2015. Nam Ling, General Co-Chair, 8th International Conference on Ubi-Media

Computing (Umedia), Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 24 – 25, 2015.

- participation in conference committees Nam Ling, International Advisory Committee Member, The 10th IEEE Conference

on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), Auckland, New Zealand, June 15 - 17, 2015.

- invited talks Nam Ling, “A Brief Intro to Santa Clara University, Our Department, and Our

Research,” School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University (Chengdu Campus & Emei Campus), Chengdu, China, October 10-12, 2015.

Nam Ling, “Welcome Address: Sharing My Experience – as an International Student and as a Faculty,” International Graduate Student Orientation, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, USA, September 14, 2015.

- other relevant professional activities (e.g. chair/organizer for professional activities, steering committee members, etc.)

Nam Ling, Rep of the IEEE CAS Society MSA Technical Committee to the IEEE ICME Steering Committee.

Nam Ling, Member, APSIPA Membership Board. Liang Liu - ISCAS 2016 activities (e.g. RCM, Review, Session Chair, etc.) RCM and Review for ISCAS 2016 - Conferences organized or chaired Organize Special Session on “Circuits and Systems for 5G”, IEEE International Conference on ASIC, 2015 - Participation in conference committees Technical/Reviewer Committee Member: IEEE PIMRC 2016, IEEE NORCAS 2015, IEEE ICCVE 2015 - Books published C. Zhang, L. Liu, and V. Öwall, “Heterogeneous reconfigurable processors for real-time baseband processing: From algorithm to architecture”, Springer International Publishing, 2015 - Other relevant professional activities (e.g. chair/organizer for professional activities, steering committee members, etc.) Board Member, IEEE Sweden Solid-State Circuits/Circuits & Systems Joint Chapter Reviewer of International Journals: IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I, IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Process. Lett. Weiqiang Liu - ISCAS 2016 activities (e.g. RCM, Review, Session Chair, etc.) Weiqiang Liu, Session Co-Chair of ISCAS 2016 Cryptography & Security I Session. - awards, distinguished lecturer and honors Weiqiang Liu, Best Paper, 2015 ACM/IEEE Great Lakes Symp. VLSI (GLSVLSI) - service on journal editorial boards Weiqiang Liu, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Associate Editor Weiqiang Liu, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Guest Editor - participation in conference committees Weiqiang Liu, Program Committee Member, 2016 23rd IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (ARITH 23) - invited talks

Weiqiang Liu, "Physical Unclonable Functions for IoT Security", National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, Mar. 20, 2016. - other relevant professional activities (e.g. chair/organizer for professional activities, steering committee members, etc.) Weiqiang Liu, Senior Member, IEEE and Chinese Institute of Electronics Hsi-Pin Ma - ISCAS 2016 activities (e.g. RCM, Review, Session Chair, etc.)

Hsi-Pin Ma, ISCAS 2016 RCM, Track 3.0 Circuits and Systems for Communications

- awards, distinguished lecturer and honors

Hsi-Pin Ma, Best Paper, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing.

- service on journal editorial boards

Hsi-Pin Ma, Special Issue on Revolutionizing mHealth through next generation communication technologies, Guest Editor, Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (EURASIP), 2015.

Hsi-Pin Ma, Review Editor, Neural Technology, Frontiers in Neuroscience. - conferences organized or chaired

Hsi-Pin Ma, TPC co-chair for e-Health Track of Selected Area in Communications in 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK.

- participation in conference committees

Hsi-Pin Ma, Technical Program Committee Member, International Conference on ITS Telecommunications, ITST 2015

Hsi-Pin Ma, Technical Program Committee Member, International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications & Services, IEEE HEALTHCOM 2015.

Hsi-Pin Ma, Technical Program Committee Member, International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, IEEE ICNC 2015

Hsi-Pin Ma, Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Conference on Connected Health, Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies, CHASE 2016.

- invited talks

Hsi-Pin Ma, “Wireless Healthcare: Electronics and Systems”, Invited talk, 3rd International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN2016), Delhi, India, Feb. 11-12, 2016.

Hsi-Pin Ma, “Wireless Healthcare and Life Style Applications”, the 3rd EITA-Bio Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 24-25, 2015.

Hsi-Pin Ma, “Optical Fibers with Micro Physiological Sensors in Art and Design”, Media Lab, Aalto University, Sept. 7, 2015. (with Prof. Wen-Shu Lai)

Hsi-Pin Ma, “A Patient-Centered mHealth Environment”, SPHERE Seminar, University of Bristol, UK, Sept. 3, 2015.

- other relevant professional activities (e.g. chair/organizer for professional activities, steering committee members, etc.)

Hsi-Pin Ma, Vice chair of e-Health Technical Committee (TC) in IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), 2016-2017.

Hsi-Pin Ma, Secretary of e-Health Technical Committee (TC) in IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), 2014-2015.

Hsi-Pin Ma, Secretary of Asia Pacific Region in IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), 2014-2015.

Pui-In Mak - ISCAS 2016 activities (e.g. RCM, Review, Session Chair, etc.) Pui-In Mak, RCM, IEEE Symposium on Circuits and systems (ISCAS), 2016, Canada - awards, distinguished lecturer and honors Pui-In Mak, Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2014-2015) Pui-In Mak, Distinguished Design Award, IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2015 Pui-In Mak, Silkroad Award, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2016 - service on journal editorial boards Pui-In Mak, IEEE Press, Board Member (2014-2016) Pui-In Mak, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (2014-2015), Senior Editor Pui-In Mak, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I – Regular Papers (2014-2015), Associate Editor - conferences organized or chaired Pui-In Mak, TPC Vice Chair, Asia-Pacific Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 2016, Macau - participation in conference committees Pui-In Mak, TPC Member, IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2015, China Pui-In Mak, TPC Member, IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2016, Switzerland - books published Zhicheng Lin, Pui-In Mak and R. P. Martins, Ultra-Low-Power and Ultra-Low-Cost Short-Range Wireless Receivers in Nanoscale CMOS, Series of Analog Circuits and Signal Processing (ACSP), Springer, Sept. 2015. Andrea Neviani - participation in conference committees European Solid-State Circuit Conference 2015 Technical Committee Member Tokunbo Ogunfunmi Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, General Chair, and Technical Program Committee Member, the 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS 2018), 2018.

Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems-II (03/2015-present) Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Senior Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (08/2014-present) Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Associate Editor, IET Electronics Letters, (08/2015-present) Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Associate Editor, Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (09/2011-present)

Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Member of ExComm Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter. Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Chair, IEEE CASCOM TC 2014-2016.

Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (IEEE IoT 2015).

Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Carnegie Foundation Visiting Professor ADF Fellowship, 2015 Maire O'Neill Awards, distinguished lecturer and honors At the 25th International Conference on Field-programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Sept 2015, my co-authored paper "FPGA Implementations of the Round Two SHA-3 Candidates", which was published in FPL 2010, was selected as one of 27 ‘significant papers’ deemed to have most strongly influenced theory and practice in the field over the last 25 years. Participation in conference committees Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, - Special Issue/Section on Emerging Technologies and Designs for Application Specific Computing (ASC) Conference Committees PCM - DATE 2016, IET ISSC 2016. Invited Talks Invited speaker on the Security and Resilience panel at the 2015 Global Grand Challenges. Summit organized by the Chinese, US and UK Academies of Engineering, Beijing, Sept 2015. Jongsun Park Awards: 2015 IEEE Power Electronics Society Transactions Second Prize Paper Award Service on Journal Editorial Boards: Associate Editor – Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (JLPEA) Associate Editor – Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science (JSTS) Guest Editor – IEEE Transactions on Multi-scale Computing Systems, special issue on Wearables, Implants, and Internet of Things. Conference Organized or Chaired: International SoC Conference (ISOCC) 2015 (Organizing Committee – Special Session Chair), Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems 2016 (Organizing Committee - Publication Chair), VLSI-SoC 2015 (Session Chair) Participation in Conference Committees: International SoC Conference (ISOCC) 2016 (Technical Program Committee Vice Chair), ASP-DAC 2016 (TPC), VLSI-SoC 2015, 2016 (TPC), HOST 2016 (TPC) Susanto Rahardja Susanto Rahardja, Technical Committee Member, Circuits and Systems for Communications (CASCOM), 2015, 2016. Susanto Rahardja, Technical Committee Member, Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA), 2015, 2016.

- ISCAS 2016 activities (e.g. RCM, Review, Session Chair, etc.)Susanto Rahardja, Track Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Montreal, Canada, May 22-25, 2016. - awards, distinguished lecturer and honors Susanto Rahardja, “State Specially Recruited Experts” Award, Central Government, People’s Republic of China, 2016 Susanto Rahardja, Distinguished Professor, Xi’an U of Posts & Telecommunications (2015-2018). - service on journal editorial boards Susanto Rahardja, Senior Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2014, 2015. Susanto Rahardja, Associate Editor, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2014, 2015, 2016. Susanto Rahardja, Best Paper Award Committee, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2015. - conferences organized or chaired Susanto Rahardja, General Co-Chair, 6th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Singapore, September 2014. Susanto Rahardja, General Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Jakarta, Indonesia, September 2014. Susanto Rahardja, Advisory Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 - participation in conference committees Susanto Rahardja, Reviewer, European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Nice, France, Aug 31 – Sep 4, 2015. Fernando Rangel - ISCAS 2016 as RCM -session chair at : 29th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design -SBCCI 2015 5th Workshop on Circuits and System Design - WCAS 2015 30th Symposium on Microelectronics Technology and Devices - SBMICRO 2015 - TC member for the conferences below, among others: 29th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design -SBCCI 2015 30th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design -SBCCI 2016 5th Workshop on Circuits and System Design - WCAS 2015 7th IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems- LASCAS 2016 22nd IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems -

ICECS2015 14th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference - NEWCAS 2016 - journal reviewer for among others: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II - TCAS-II IEEE Transactions on Microwave theory and techniques IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements Microelectronics journal - Chair of the IEEE Technical Chapter IM09/CAS04/COM19 (Brazil South Section) and organized the following Distinguished lectures: - Co-organzier and member of the steering committee of the 1st Symposium on Instrumentation Systems, Circuits and Transducers, INSCIT 2016 - Organized the 2nd Workshop on RF and Microwave Technology

- Received a grant from the CAS society in the framework of the 2015 IEEE CAS Special Latin American Outreach Results Wee Ser - ISCAS 2016 activities (e.g. RCM, Review, Session Chair, etc.) ISCAS 2016 TCM - service on journal editorial boards Editorial Board, Sensors - conferences organized or chaired TPC member International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications”, SIGMAP, 2015. Ming-Der Shieh - reviewer for several IEEE journals, including IEEE Trans. VLSI Systems, Computers, Design & Test of Computers. I have published one paper in IEEE Trans. CSVT and two in IEEE Trans. VLSI systems. I also helped arrange technical talks for IEEE CAS Society, Tainan Chapter, Taiwan. (1)Low-complexity High-throughput QR Decomposition Design for MIMO Systems, IEEE Trans. VLSI Systems, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 2342-2346, Oct. 2015. (2)Efficient Memory Addressing Algorithms for FFT Processor Design, IEEE Trans. VLSI Systems, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 2162-2172, Oct. 2015 (3)Depth-reliability-based Stereo Matching Algorithm and its VLSI Architecture Design, IEEE Trans. Circuit and System for Video Technology, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1038-1050, June, 2015. Gerald Sobelman

- RCM for ISCAS 2016 (CASCOM tracks)

- Appointed as Fulbright Specialist Program Roster candidate.

- Invited lecture series: “Design Verification with SystemVerilog,” University of

Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.

- Invited lecture: "VLSI Architectures for Communications," University of Southern

China, Hengyang, China.

- TPC member, IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, 2016

- TPC member, SiPS 2016 Yichuang Sun Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, 2016-2017 Editor of ETRI Journal (South Korea, on Info, Telecom and Electronics). Editor of Journal of Semiconductors (China, including Integrated Circuits and Systems). Editorial Board of Active and Passive Electronic Components. Guest Editor of Special Issue on 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, 2016. Guest Editor of Special Issue on Software Defined Radio Transceivers and Circuits for 5G Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, 2015-2016. Scientific Committee and TPC, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, 2015, 2017

TPC Member of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) - Cognitive Radio and Networks, 2016 TPC Member of IEEE International Conference on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Communications, since 2015, 2016 TPC IARIA International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, 2015, 2016 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Technical Committees Member on: ASP, CASCOM Myung Hoon Sunwoo

- Honorary chair for APCCAS2016 Murat Torlak, - ISCAS 2016, RCM, Review - participation in conference committees Murat Torlak, TPC, IEEE Global Communications Conference: Wireless Communications, 2016 - invited talks Murat Torlak, "Elements of interference alignment: From fundamentals to practice “, IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Aug. 25-28, 2015, Brussels, Belgium - other relevant professional activities (e.g. chair/organizer for professional activities, steering committee members, etc.) Murat Torlak, Senior Member, IEEE Lan-Da Van - Editorial Services IEEE Transactions on Computers (Associate Editor, Oct. 2014~Present) Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (Associate Editor, Oct. 2014~present, SCI-IF (2012): 0.642) - Technical/Program Committee Member: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (VLSI Systems and Applications TC Member, 2015) IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (Circuits and Systems for Communications TC Member, 2015) IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (Nanoelectronics and Gigascale Systems TC Member, 2015) NCTU Forum of Technology and Application of Internet of Things (Program Co-Chair, 2016). - Special Session: IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) (2015). Session Title: Advanced Techniques and Architecture for GPU Systems - RCM for Handling ISCAS Paper Review: Assigned by CASCOM-TC (2015). - Honor: 2015 NARL - CIC - Morsensor Innovation and Application Design Contest, 4th Place. (As a supervisor; Domestic Contest.) 2015 MOEA - Department of Commerce: Wearable Magic Future: Demo Technology Innovation Sharing Campus Workshop Contest, 2nd Place. (Co-supervised with Prof. Y. C. Tseng; Domestic Contest.)

2015 NCTU-Contest of Innovative IoT/M2M Service based on Reusable Platforms, 2nd Place. (As a supervisor; The teams from other universities in Taiwan can join this domestic contest.) 2015 NCTU-Contest of Innovative IoT/M2M Service based on Reusable Platforms, 3rd Place. (As a supervisor; The teams from other universities in Taiwan can join this domestic contest.) Zhongfeng Wang - Patents Issued: US patent application, Z. Wang, “Transcoding Scheme Techniques,” issued in Jan. 2016.

US patent application, Z. Wang, “Reduced Complexity Transcoding Scheme,” issued in Aug. 2015.

US patent application, Z. Wang, “Data Alignment over Multiple Physical Lanes,” issued in June 2015.

US patent application, Z. Wang, “Method and Systems for 2-Dimensional Forward Error Correction Coding,” issued in Sept. 2015.

- Professional Activities

Elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2015 for contribution to VLSI design and implementation of FEC coding.

Track chair for SOCC’15,

TPC member: ISCAS’15, SiPS’15,

Review committee member: ICASSP’15, - Publications: Z. Wang, etc, "Multi-Symbol Interleaved RS Codes and Two Pass Decoding Algorithm," in China Communications, in May 2016.

Z. Liu, J. Sha, C. Zhang, and Z. Wang, “A Stage-Reduced Low-Latency Successive Cancellation Decoder for Polar Codes,” in IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP’2015).

J. Lin, J. Sha, L. Li, C. Xiong, Z. Yan and Z. Wang, "A High Throughput Belief Propagation Decoder Architecture for Polar Codes," in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2016, Montreal, Canada.

B. Yuan, Y. Wang, and Z. Wang, "Area-Efficient Error-Resilient Discrete Fourier Transformation Design using Stochastic Computing," in ACM 26th Great Lakes VLSI Symposium (GLSVLSI’2016) .

B. Yuan, Y. Wang and Z. Wang, "Area-Efficient Scaling-free DFT/FFT Design using Stochastic Computing," in IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits Syst. (ISCAS’2016)

B. Yuan, C. Zhang and Z. Wang, "Design Space Exploration for Hardware-Efficient Stochastic Computing: A Case Study on Discrete Cosine Transformation", in IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’2016).

- Industry Standards Contributions:

1) Made major contribution to IEEE 400Gb Ethernet FEC coding scheme.

2) Z. Wang, "Further Analyses of Reducing Complexity for Data Alignment," IEEE 802.3bs logic ad hoc meeting, June 2015.

3) Z. Wang, "Reduced-Complexity Data Alignment Schemes for 400GE," in IEEE

P802.3bs task force meeting, July, 2015.

4) Z. Wang, "Toward Convergence of FEC Interleaving Schemes for 400GE," in IEEE P802.3bs logic ad hoc meeting, Aug.., 2015.

5) E. Baden, W. bliss, and Z. Wang, "2x200 FEC Architecture and Muxing," in IEEE P802.3bs task force meeting, Sept., 2015.

6) Z. Wang and P. Sun, "Toward Convergence of FEC Interleaving Schemes for 400GE," in IEEE P802.3bs task force meeting, Sept., 2015.

7) P. Anslow, etc, and Z. Wang, "Comment 28: PCS Lane forming," in IEEE P802.3bs task force meeting, Nov., 2015.

8) Z. Wang, "Clear Remaining Issues for 400GE FEC," IEEE 802.3bs logic ad hoc meeting, Oct. 2015.

9) Z. Wang, P. Sun, and M. Gustlin, "Alignment Marker Lock/Unlock Schemes for 400GE," IEEE 802.3bs logic ad hoc meeting, Dec. 2015.

10) P. Sun, Z. Wang, and T. Wang, "400GE FEC Modes," IEEE 802.3bs logic ad hoc meeting, Dec. 2015.

An-Yeu (Andy) Wu

- IEEE Services Keynote Speech & Invited talks Plenary Talk on “Thermal/Traffic-aware 3D Network-on-Chip (NoC) Designs,” in 2015 IEEE Taiwan and Japan Conference on Circuits and Systems (TJCAS’15), Tokushima, Japan, Aug. 2015.

- Editorial Services - Senior Editorial Board member, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics

in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), 2016-2017 - Associate Editor, Journal of Signal Processing Systems (JSPS),

2012/02~present.

- Conference Services (TPC members, Session Chair) 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Lisbon, Portugal - Session Chair 2015 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), Hangzhou, China - TPC Member and Session Chair 2015 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuit Conference (A-SSCC), Xiamen, China - TPC Member and Session Chair

- Other Professional Activities (i.e., anything you deem relevant and worth mentioning) - Board of Governor (BoG) Member (2016-2018), IEEE Circuits and Systems

Society (CASS). - Steering Committee Member (on behalf of CASS, 2016-2017), IEEE Trans. VLSI

Systems. - Awards and Honors - IEEE Fellow, 2015

For contributions to DSP algorithms and VLSI designs for communication IC/SoC - Best Student Paper Award, 2015 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems

(SiPS), Oct. 2015.

Zhiyuan Yan

- ISCAS 2016 activities (e.g. RCM, Review, Session Chair, etc.): I served on the RCMs of both CASCOM and VSA. - service on journal editorial boards: senior area editor for IEEE Transactions of Signal Processing until December 2015; associate editors for IEEE Transactions of Signal Processing, Journal of Signal Processing Systems (Springer), and IEEE Access. - conferences organized or chaired: TPC co-chair for 2015 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS 2015) - participation in conference committees: steering committee of GLSVLSI, -other activities: guest co-editor for three specials issues of Journal of Signal Processing Systems; chair of DISPS TC of the IEEE SP Society. Qiaoyan Yu - Organizers: Conferences, Workshops, Panels, Special Sessions, Tutorials, etc. Publication Chair for the 28th edition of the Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems Symposium (DFT), 2015 Program Chair for the 29th edition of the Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems Symposium (DFT), 2016 Session Chair for IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2016 RCM: handled 10 papers for ISCAS’16 Special Sessions: contributed one paper to ISCAS’16 special session TPC member for DFT’16, GLSVLSI’16, ISCAS’16 - Invited talks: plenary sessions, keynotes, invited lectures, tutorials, … Q. Yu, Aug. 2015, “Hardware Security and Trust,” Invited Talk, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China. Q. Yu, Aug. 2015, “Hardware Trojan Detection in Networks-on-Chip,” Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference EDA Workshop, Taiwan. - Editorial services IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IET CDS, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Reviewer Integration, the VLSI Journal, Associate Editor, Reviewer Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Associate Editor Microelectronics Journal, Associate Editor Chuan Zhang - Organizers: Conferences, Workshops, Panels, Special Sessions, Tutorials, etc. Special session organizer for ISCAS2015, DSP2015, SiPS2015, SOCC2015, ASICON2015, and ICASSP2016. - Invited talks: plenary sessions, keynotes, invited lectures, tutorials. Plenary session for International Workshop on Polar Code held in the week preceding ISIT. Tutorial presenter for VTC-Spring2016. - Editorial services

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Reviewer Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Reviewer Journal of Signal Processing Systems (JSPS), Reviewer

- Awards and honors for year 2015-16

Best Student Paper Award for ASICON2015. Second Prize for InnovateAsia-1st 5G Mobile Algorithm Competition. Best Paper Award candidate for SiPS2015. Tong Zhang - ISCAS 2016 activities: RCM - service on journal editorial boards: Editor of Journal on Signal Processing Systems; Guest editor of a special issue in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - participation in conference committees: IEEE SiPS Xinmiao Zhang - ISCAS 2016 activities (e.g. RCM, Review, Session Chair, etc.) RCM & session chair ISCAS 2016 - service on journal editorial boards TCAS-I AE - participation in conference committees TPC: GLOBECOM 2016, NVMW 2016 Publication Chair SOCC 2016 - other relevant professional activities (e.g. chair/organizer for professional activities, steering committee members, etc.) Chair for the IEEE Signal Processing Society Seasonal Schools in Signal Processing program, Jan. 2013-Dec. 2015. Zhengya Zhang - Service on journal editorial boards Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—II: Express Briefs Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

- Participation in conference committees Program committee member, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SIPS) 2015 Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) 2015 Review committee member, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal processing (ICASSP) 2015

- Invited Talks Invited talk, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, July 2015. Invited talk, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, July 2015. Invited talk, Cirrus Logic, Austin, TX, July 2015. Invited talk, Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech), Orlando, FL, March 2016. Danella Zhao - ISCAS 2016 activities (e.g. RCM, Review, Session Chair, etc.) RCM, review paper submissions and serve as a session chair - awards, distinguished lecturer and honors Received Lockheed Martin Endowed Professorship in Computer Science/Computer Engineering - service on journal editorial boards Elsevier Journal on Computer Communications Technical Committee Member - conferences organized or chaired

General Chair: 29th IEEE International SoC Conference 2016 General Chair: IEEE Outreach Workshop on Multicore/Many-core SoC Design & Development collocated with IEEE SOCC 2015 TPC Chair: 28th IEEE International SoC Conference 2015 - participation in conference committees TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 15-16 TPC Member: IEEE International Conference on ASIC 2015 TPC Member: IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) 15-16 TPC Member: IEEE International SoC Conference 15-16 TPC Member: International Workshop on RTL and High Level Testing 15-16 TPC Member: IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop 15-16 - other relevant professional activities (e.g. chair/organizer for professional activities, steering committee members, etc.) Steering committee member: IEEE International SoC Conference Session Chair: IEEE International Symposium on NOCs 2015 Session Chair: IEEE International SoC Conference 2015 Best Paper Award Selection Committee Member: IEEE International SoC Conference 2015 Wei Xing Zheng ISCAS 2016 activities (e.g. RCM, Review, Session Chair, etc.)

Wei Xing Zheng served as a RCM of Technical Committee of the 49th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'2016), Montreal, Canada, May 2016.

Wei Xing Zheng serves as Session Chair of Session C1L-L: Wireless Mobile I at ISCAS'2016, Montreal, Canada, May 2016.

- awards, distinguished lecturer and honors

Wei Xing Zheng was honoured as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering by Thomson Reuters in September 2015.

- service on journal editorial boards

Wei Xing Zheng, Associate Editor, Automatica.

Wei Xing Zheng, Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Wei Xing Zheng, Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.

Wei Xing Zheng, Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

Wei Xing Zheng, Associate Editor, IET Control Theory & Applications.

Wei Xing Zheng, Associate Editor, Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing. - conferences organized or chaired

Wei Xing Zheng served as International Liaison and an Organizing Committee Member of the 3rd IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP'2015), Chengdu, China, July 2015.

Wei Xing Zheng served as Local Arrangements Chair and an Organizing Committee Member of the 2015 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC'2015), Sydney, Australia, September 2015.

Wei Xing Zheng serves as International Program Committee Vice Chair and Conference Editor of the 14th IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Complex Systems: Theory and Applications (LSS'2016), Riverside, California, USA, May 2016.

Wei Xing Zheng serves as International Program Committee Co-Chair of the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA'2014), Guilin, China, June 2016.

Wei Xing Zheng serves as Reginal Chairman and an Organizing Committee Member of the 35th Chinese Control Conference (CCC'2016), Chengdu, China, July 2016.

Wei Xing Zheng serves as Invited Sessions Chair and an Organizing Committee Member of the 6th Australian Control Conference (AUCC'2016), Newcastle, Australia, November 2016.

- participation in conference committees

Wei Xing Zheng served as a Program Committee Member of the 34th Chinese Control Conference (CCC'2015), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, July 2015.

Wei Xing Zheng served as a Program Committee Member of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA'2015), Lijiang, Yunnan, China, August 2015.

Wei Xing Zheng served as an International Program Committee Member of the 4th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems (CHAOS'2015), Tokyo, Japan, August 2015.

Wei Xing Zheng served as an International Program Committee Member of the 17th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID'2015), Beijing, China, 19-21 October 2015.

Wei Xing Zheng served as a Technical Program Committee Member of the 5th Australian Control Conference (AUCC'2015), Gold Coast, Australia, November 2015.

Wei Xing Zheng served as a Program Committee Member of the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'2015), Osaka, Japan, December 2015.

Wei Xing Zheng serves as a Technical Program Committee Member of the 28th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC'2016), Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, May 2016.

Wei Xing Zheng serves as an International Program Committee Member of the 2016 UKACC (United Kingdom Automatic Control Council) International Conference on Control (UKACC'2016), Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, September 2016.

Wei Xing Zheng serves as a Program Committee Member of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'2016), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 2016.

- books published Xiuming Yao, Ligang Wu and Wei Xing Zheng, Filtering and Control of Stochastic Jump Hybrid Systems. Springer, Berlin, 2016. - other relevant professional activities (e.g. chair/organizer for professional activities, steering committee members, etc.)

Wei Xing Zheng serves on the International Steering Committee of the IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS). Wei Xing Zheng serves on the Steering Committee of the Australian Control Conference (AUCC).