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TC-32 Chair

Ye Chow Kuang

The University of Waikato

New Zealand

Ye Chow Kuang

Biography

Associate Professor Kuang Ye Chow (M'05-SM'13) graduated with a first class degree honours in Electromechanical Engineering from the University of Southampton in 2000. He completed my PhD study four years later in the Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory University of Southampton. He joined the School of Engineering, Monash University in 2005 where he has worked for over a decade now. He served as Associate Head of School (2012-2016) and University committees growing new courses, build the graduate research infrastructure of the School and transformed the School of Engineering into research intensive department.

Ye Chow's research is closely tie to the application of statistics and computer intelligence in large scale industrial automation. His research interest covers quantification of uncertainty in engineering applications, test technologies, machine learning, reliability analysis and statistical signal processing. He worked with leading multinational corporations, developed new techniques and data handling methodologies that are used by the industry partners. Recently, his works have expanded to cover measurement uncertainty evaluation methods which has wide application in science and technological areas (medical research, structural design, mechanical systems modelling, etc.).

Ye Chow is the winner of 2012 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Faculty Course Development Award and 2014 International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) Excellence Award in Best Practices / Innovation in International Education. The awards were given to him to recognize his innovations in industrial-linked education that enhances key professional skills and work-readiness with the direct industrial sponsorship and outstanding contribution to internationalization of engineering education.

Ye Chow is active in professional societies. He is a Chartered Engineer registered under the Institution of Engineering and Technology UK; the Chair of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Technical Committee on Fault Tolerant Measurement Systems (TC-32) since 2016. He has co-founded IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Malaysia Chapter and IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Society Malaysia Chapter. He serves as editor and reviewer for several well-known academic journals and various international conferences under IEEE umbrella.

Affiliation(s)

The University of Waikato

New Zealand

TC-32 Co-Chair

Lorenzo Ciani

University of Florence

Italy

TC-32 Member

Melanie Ooi

The University of Waikato

New Zealand

Melanie Ooi

Biography

Melanie Ooi is an emerging researcher and engineering specialist in Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Computer Engineering and Computational Intelligence. She is currently an Associate Professor at The University of Waikato, New Zealand. While working in close collaboration with several leading multinational electronics companies, she has developed new testing techniques and test data processing methodologies that have been adopted by the industry partners. In the recent years she has also successfully researched on new measurement uncertainty evaluation approaches and frameworks with application to a multitude of science and technology areas (medical research, structural design, mechanical systems modelling, etc.). Her research competence and capability are evident from the extensive and fast growing list of publications, research grants and projects, as well as successfully supervised postgraduate students.

In addition, Associate Professor Ooi was particularly successful in the area of undergraduate and postgraduate education. She introduced several innovations and a well-structured education program enhancing key professional skills and thus increasing work-readiness and employability of engineering graduates that were successfully adopted and implemented by Monash University and RMIT University in their Southeast Asian campuses. They have been strongly supported by multinational electronics companies such as Intel, Freescale Semiconductor and National Instruments.

Her high professional achievements have been acknowledged by several prestigious awards including the Outstanding Young Engineer Award of the Year 2014 from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, 2014 Excellence Award from the International Education Association of Australia, 2011 Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council to mention a few.

She is Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society (I&MS); I&M AdCom (2019-2022)|| Young Professional Program Representative (2018)|| Distinguished Lecturer (2016 - December 2017), Distinguished Lecturer and Secretary of the Technical Committee on Fault Tolerant Measurement Systems (TC-32) of the IEEE I&MS. She is also Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and UK Chartered Engineer.

Affiliation(s)

The University of Waikato

New Zealand

Donald Bailey

Massey University

New Zealand

Adam Osseiran

Edith Cowan University

Australia

Adam Osseiran

Biography

Associate Professor Adam Osseiran is the Director of the Australian National Networked TeleTest Facility for Integrated Systems (NNTTF), a Major National Research Facility Program initiated and funded by the Australian Federal Government and the Western Australian State Government.

Dr. Adam Osseiran received his B.Sc. (1981) and M.Sc. (1982) from the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble-France. He received a Ph.D. in microelectronics (1986) from the INPG, National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble in France. After his Ph.D., Adam Osseiran joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) where he was involved in over 20 major R&D Microelectronics and Electronic System design projects. He also organised over 40 seminars and tutorials for the Swiss industry in various microelectronics related fields.

In January 1995 he was appointed Professor of microelectronics at the Engineering Institute of Geneva-Switzerland where he initiated the microelectronics laboratory and completed several development projects with the local R&D institutes and industry including CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). In 1999 he became the European Technical Manager for Opmaxx Inc. a US start-up Company, and participated in its transformation into Fluence Technology. In 2000 he became Technical Director at Integrated Measurement Systems (IMS), Oregon based company specialised in the Design for Test and Built-In Self-Test techniques for Integrated Circuits.

Adam Osseiran is member of several Conference Program and Steering Committees. From 2000 to 2005 he was the Chair of the International Working Group of the IEEE Std 1149.4 Mixed-Signal Test Bus Standard. He received six certificates of appreciation, a Continuing Service Award and a Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE and the Computer Society for his contributions and numerous services to the engineering community.

Adam is currently chairperson of the Western Australian IEEE Section and five IEEE Chapters. He is the Chairperson of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement (Australian) Chapter. He is Vice Chair of the Test Technology Technical Council Asia and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He was member of the Award Selection Committee for the EDAA outstanding PhD dissertations Award where, with two other members he participated in the scoring and selection of the best PhD dissertation out of shortlisted PhD submissions from all over the world.

Adam is Project Evaluator since 2007 for the ICT Competence Network of Switzerland (ICT-net) reviewing and ranking research projects submitted by academia and industry researchers from Switzerland. He is a regular Evaluator for the Italian Government Program CINECA reviewing and ranking research developments done by Italian lead researchers.

Adam Osseiran holds seven patents in the field of design of CMOS structure dedicated to optoelectronics image sensors for automotive applications, systems and sensors for environmental monitoring and in the field of display architecture.

Adam Osseiran was the Editor of a book, “Analog and Mixed-Signal Boundary-Scan, A guide to the IEEE 1149.4 Test Standard”, published in 1999 by Kluwer Academic Publisher. He is the co-editor of a book entitled “VLSI-SOC: From Systems to Silicon” published in September 2007 by Springer Publisher. He has published many papers and participated in several panels and round table discussions at major international conferences. Adam Osseiran supervised several PhD and Master Students in Australia and in Europe. He was the main examiner for more than 30 PhD theses dissertation in Australia, Asia and in Europe.

Prof Osseiran is a regular reviewer of the following Journals: IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, IEEE Sensors Journal, Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, and the VLSI Design Journal. He is member of the IEEE Test Technology Education Panel (TTEP) for the selection of the tutorials to be given at selected international conferences.

Adam was President of the Inventors Association of Australia and co-founder of Innovate Australia (www.innovateaustralia.org). He was finalist of the prestigious WA Innovator of the Year Award in 2011, 2012 and in 2014. In 2010 and 2013 he founded three technology companies in the field of environmental monitoring.

Affiliation(s)

Edith Cowan University

Australia

Alan Finkel

Monash University

Australia

Vincenzo Piuri

University of Milan

Vincenzo Piuri

Biography

Vincenzo Piuri has received his Ph.D. in computer engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy (1989). He has been Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at George Mason University, USA. He is Full Professor in computer engineering (since 2000) and has been Director of the Department of Information Technology at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.

His main research interests are: theory and industrial applications of neural networks, machine learning, intelligent measurement systems, signal and image processing, pattern analysis and recognition, biometrics, industrial applications, fault tolerance, digital processing architectures, embedded systems, and arithmetic architectures. Original results have been published in more than 350 papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, books, and book chapters.

He is Fellow of the IEEE, Distinguished Scientist of ACM, and Senior Member of INNS. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal (2013-15), and has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. He has been IEEE Director, IEEE Delegate for Division X, President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the IEEE Systems Council, Vice President for Membership of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and Vice President for Education of the IEEE Biometrics Council.

He received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award (2002) for the contributions to the advancement of theory and practice of computational intelligence in measurement systems and industrial applications, the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award (2008), and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Meritorious Service Award (2009). TC-6 Chair

Affiliation(s)

University of Milan

Moi-Tin Chew

Massey University

New Zealand

Sunil Das

University of Ottawa

Canada

Sunil Das

Biography

The next generation of integrated circuitry, featuring reconfigurability, selfrepair, fault-tolerance and self-manageability relies on chips that can effectively self-test. The paper "Fault Tolerant Systems Design in VLSI Using Data Compression Under Constraints of Failure Probabilities," published in the December 2001 issue of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement by Sunil R. Das, Chittoor V. Ramamoorthy, Mansour H. Assaf, Emil M. Petriu and Wen-Ben Jone is a powerful reference for professionals who develop these new chips. The paper offers a lucid case for the importance of response data compaction, as well as an extensive overview of the various built-in self-test (BIST) methods available.

Sunil R. Das has published extensively in areas including switching and automata theory, digital logic design, threshold logic, fault-tolerant computing, graph theory and microprogramming and microarchitecture. A Fellow of the IEEE, the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Society for Design and Process Science, he is a member of numerous IEEE societies as well as the Association for Computing Machinery. His honours include the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award and Meritorious Service Award, and he was named a Golden Core Member of the Society in 1998. He is currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Ottawa's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Affiliation(s)

University of Ottawa

Canada

Edwin Tan

Monash University

Malaysia

Fakhrul Alam

Massey University

New Zealand

Lorenzo Ciani

University of Florence

Italy

Arvind Rajan

Brookfield Asset Management

Australia

Arvind Rajan

Biography

Arvind Rajan can be characterized as an energetic and highly intelligent young engineer in the field of measurement uncertainty evaluation & analysis, reliability analysis and probabilistic design optimization of engineering systems.

He graduated from Monash University with BEng (First Class Honours) degree in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering in 2014 at the top of his graduating class whereby he was named the Best Graduate (equivalent to a valedictorian). In 2015, he received a full scholarship to pursue his postgraduate study with the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University. He is currently in his final year of PhD study. Throughout the course of his postgraduate research thus far, Arvind has been largely instrumental in introduction of several novel measurement uncertainty estimation techniques and development of relevant software tools. Apart from his research activities, he has been also profoundly involved in delivery of specialist undergraduate program units including Industrial Instrumentation and Measurement Technologies, Advanced Engineering Data Analysis and Digital Systems with excellent teaching results and student feedback.

Arvind is an active Graduate Student Member of IEEE as well as member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) and its Technical Committee of Fault Tolerant Measurement Systems (TC-32). He has published 6 research papers with the refereed professional journals and 5 papers in peer-reviewed international IEEE conferences. Young Professional Program Representative (2018-2019)

Affiliation(s)

Brookfield Asset Management

Australia

Serge Demidenko

Massey University

New Zealand

Serge Demidenko

Biography

Dr. Serge Demidenko Ph.D. (M’91- SM’94- F’04) is currently a Professor in Electronics, Information, and Communication Systems at the School of Food and Advanced Technology, Massey University, New Zealand.

Professor Demidenko received an ME (Computer Engineering) from the Belarusian State University of Informatics & Radio Electronics in 1977 and Ph.D. (Engineering Cybernetics & Information Theory) from the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in 1984. He holds also two post-doctoral academic degrees – Senior Scientist (Control Engineering) and Docent (Informatics, Control, and Computer Engineering) awarded by the State Higher Attestation Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Republic of Belarus respectively, as well as a Certificate in Teaching (Higher Education) from Singapore Polytechnic in conjunction with Sheffield University, UK.

His professional career encompasses industry and academia in the Asia Pacific region and Europe (Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, UK, Italy, Belarus). While with the industry, he progressed from Junior Electronics Design Engineer to a Head of the Joint (Industry-Academy) Test Lab of a large computer systems manufacturing company. Since the mid-90s, he has held several senior academic positions including Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University; Head of the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University; Head of the School of Engineering, Monash University; Head of the Centre (School) of Technology, and Head of the Centre (School) of Communication & Design (concurrent appointments) as well as Vice-President Academic, RMIT International University; Associate Head of the Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, and others.

The areas of his research specialization include Signal Processing, Instrumentation and Measurement, Electronics Design and Testing, and Computer Systems. He is the author of 4 books, over 200 papers, and 25 engineering patents. He has been the recipient of several national, regional and university awards for excellence in research and teaching.

In addition to being a Fellow of IEEE, Professor Demidenko is the IEEE Computer Society (CS) Golden Core Member, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, and a Member of the European Academy of Science and Arts (Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea). He is also UK Chartered Engineer.

Professor Demidenko has been active in the field of technical publications. He is an associate editor of six international peer-reviewed journals and has been a reviewer for numerous journals and conferences. He also devotes his time and energy to professional societies, committees, registration and accreditation bodies while holding various roles in IEEE and IET. He has also contributed to the organization of numerous international conferences and symposia.

Affiliation(s)

Massey University

New Zealand