"Empowering the Next Generation: Inspiring Change, Breaking Barriers, and Building the Future"

Hai (Helen) Li is the Marie Foote Reel E’46 Distinguished Professor and Department Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Duke University. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, and her Ph.D. degree from Purdue University. Her research interests include neuromorphic circuits and systems for brain-inspired computing, machine learning acceleration and trustworthy AI, conventional and emerging memory design and architecture, and software and hardware co-design. Dr. Li served/serves as the Associate Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor for multiple IEEE and ACM journals. She was the General Chair or Technical Program Chair of multiple IEEE/ACM conferences and the Technical Program Committee member of over 30 international conference series. Dr. Li has received many awards, including the IEEE Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, Ten Year Retrospective Influential Paper Award from ICCAD, TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Fellowship from Germany, ELATE Fellowship, nine best paper awards, and another ten best paper nominations from IEEE/ACM. Dr. Li is a fellow of IEEE, ACM, and NAI. s.

Prof. Dr. Hanaa Hachimi, Ph.D in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science and a Ph.D in Mechanics & Systems Reliability, I am Full Professor at National School of Applied Sciences, Ibn Tofail University of Kenitra, Morocco. President of the Moroccan Society of Engineering Sciences and Technology (MSEST). I am the Editor in Chief of “The International Journal on Optimization and Applications” (IJOA). I am Director of the Systems Engineering Laboratory (LGS) and IEEE Senior Member, precisely I am affiliated at the Big Data, Optimization, Service and Security (BOSS) team. I am Scientific Expert-Evaluator at the CNRST. I am Lecture and Keynote Speaker of the courses: Optimization & Operational Research, Graph Theory, Statistics, Probability, Cryptography, Reliability and Scientific Computing. I am Member of the Moroccan Society of Applied Mathematics (SM2A). I’m the General Chair of “The International Conference on Optimization and Applications” (ICOA) & the International Competition of Innovation (Let’s Challenge). Lions Club Member and UNESCO UIT-Chair Member. Previously Associate Professor & ex-Secretary General of Sultan Moulay Slimane University in Beni Mellal.

Nathalie Deltimple(SM’05-M’09)received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Bordeaux, France in 2005. She joined Bordeaux INP/ENSEIRB-MATMECA in the Electronics Department and the IMS Laboratory in 2006, where she is currently Professor and Deputy Director of IMS Laboratory, in charge of industrial partnerships. Her main areas of research are RF and microwave integrated circuit for wireless communications and space application, the development of integrated efficiency enhancement and linearization techniques. She is currently involved in European and national scientific programs about IC PA design in CMOS, BiCMOS and GaN technologies for 6G applications (Ka-band and D-band) as well as linearization techniques. Prof. Deltimple is involved in the technical program committees of IEEE MTT and CAS societies conferences (RWW (RWS-PAWR), ICECS, NEWCAS) and EuMA EuMW. She was the General Chair of ICECS 2018, TPC chair of IWS 2016, General TPC Chair EuMW 2019, chair of EuMIC 2024 and will be co-chair of ISCAS 2027. She serves as a reviewer for various IEEE conference and journal. Prof. Deltimple is the vice-chair of IEEE France section CAS chapter.

Thalita Nazaré is a PhD candidate at Maynooth University, affiliated with the Centre for Ocean Energy Research and the Hamilton Institute. Awarded the prestigious GEANT Future Talent Programme in 2023 and the Women in STEM (WISH) Hume Fellowship in 2022, her work focuses on sustainable computing through the modelling of dynamic systems. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from UFSJ, Brazil, and has experience as a lecturer in Brazil, Ireland and China. Her research interests include green algorithms, computer arithmetic, nonlinear systems, and the environmental impact of computation.