Speakers
Prof. Ercan Altinsoy, Technische Universität Dresden
Ercan Altinsoy has always been passionate about sound, music and haptics. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Istanbul and became a research and teaching assistant at the chair of mechanical vibrations and acoustics. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Ruhr University Bochum. He was keen to expand his knowledge on psychoacoustics, sound design and multimodal interaction and to develop new ideas, during his doctoral study. After his Ph.D., Ercan Altinsoy worked at the industry as consultant for acoustics and haptics. In 2006, he started Lecturing at the Dresden University of Technology. He holds the chair of acoustic and haptic engineering. He is Lothar-Cremer medalist of the Acoustical Society of Germany, DEGA. His research interests include product sound and vibration design, vehicle acoustics, multimodal interaction design, auditory and haptic interfaces for virtual environments, tactile psychophysics and psychoacoustics.
Prof. Merle Fairhurst, Technische Universität Dresden
Professor Merle Fairhurst is a cognitive neuroscientist with strong interdisciplinary ties that facilitate cross-talk with philosophers and engineers. She studies the interaction between sensory signals that allow us to make sense of the world around us and to successfully interact with human and virtual agents. Her projects range from trying to understand what makes touch help us trust others to identifying factors that make interacting in a group different to interacting in pairs. As a classical singer, she is passionate about the special cases of sensory perception in music and art. And, as a mother of five, she strongly believes in promoting women in academia.
Prof. Yitian Shao, Technische Universität Dresden
Yitian Shao works as a junior professor at the CeTI and TU Dresden since July 2022. Before joining CeTI, He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. His research focuses on wearable technologies, haptic interfaces, augmented/virtual reality, and artificial tactile sensing. His long-term research goal is to create haptic feedback technologies that provide immersive experiences for users to touch and feel objects in a virtual environment. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), US, in 2020. He also earned an M.S. degree from UCSB in 2019. He worked as a research intern at Microsoft Applied Sciences Group in 2019. He received a B.E. degree in electrical engineering and automation from Tianjin University, China, in 2013.
Prof. Anindya Nag, Technische Universität Dresden
Anindya Nag has completed B. Tech. degree from West Bengal University of Technology, India in 2013, M.S. degree at Massey University, New Zealand in 2015 and a Ph.D. degree from Macquarie University, Australia, in 2018. He has worked as a lecturer in Dongguan University of Technology, China from February 2019 to August 2020. He has also earned postdoctoral fellowships in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia and Shandong University, China. He is currently a junior professor in Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. His research interests are in the area of MEMS, flexible sensors, printing technology and nanotechnology-based smart sensors for health, environmental and industrial monitoring applications. His paper, “Wearable Flexible Sensors,” has been one of the top 25 downloaded papers in the IEEE Sensor Journal from June 2017- September 2018. Dr. Nag has authored and co-authored over 90 research articles in books, journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters.
Maike Heitkamp-Mai, Technische Universität Dresden
Maike Heitkamp-Mai is International Affairs Advisor at the School of Engineering Sciences at Technische Universität Dresden. She is responsible for the school’s international partnerships, in particular the initiation of new research cooperation, the acquisition of third-party funding for international projects and the creation of institutional framework conditions that enable and simplify international cooperation for scientists. She is Diplom-Frankreichwissenschaftlerin and holds a Master of Business Administration.
Prof. Mahesh Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Mahesh Kumar has received M.Tech degree in Solid State Materials from IIT Delhi and Ph.D degree in Engineering from IISc Bangalore, India. He worked at Central Research Laboratory of Bharat Electronics Ltd. Bangalore as Scientist from 2005 to 2013. He has received INSA Medal for Young Scientists-2014 by Indian National Science Academy, the MRSI Medal-2016 by Materials Research Society of India, DAE-Young Achiever Award-2016 by BRNS, Research Excellence Award 2020 by IIT Jodhpur and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize by The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He is recipient of the Brain Pool Program-2022 by Korean National Research Foundation, Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowships-2021; The Royal Society International Exchange Award-2021; JSPS Invitation Fellowship-2021, PIFI Visiting Scientist fellowship-2021 by Chinese Academy of Science; Duo-India Professor Fellowship-2020, Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy Fellowship-2018 and INSA-DFG International Bilateral Exchange Award-2015. Recently INAE awarded him Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship 2022. He is also Editorial Board member of Nanotechnology, IEEE Sensors Journal, Bulletin of Materials Science and Nano Express. He is also Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Physics. He is founding Member and served as Chair of Indian National Young Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 170 research articles. His research interests are focused on 2D materials, Nanomaterials, Sensors, Semiconductor materials and devices.
Prof. Taku Hachisu, University of Tsukuba
Taku Hachisu received a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Electro-Communications, Japan 2015. He is an assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He was a visiting student at INRIA in Rennes, France, an internship fellow at Microsoft Research in Beijing, China, and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include augmented/virtual reality, haptics, human–computer interactions, and wearable devices.
Dr. Md. Eshrat E. Alahi, Walailak University
Md. Eshrat E. Alahi, an esteemed member of the IEEE, holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He also obtained an M.Sc. in Information and Automation Engineering from the University of Bremen in Germany, as well as a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Military Institute of Science and Technology in Bangladesh.
Currently serving as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Engineering and Electronics at the School of Engineering and Technology, Walailak University in Thailand, Dr. Alahi has an impressive background. Previously, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Alahi's contributions to the academic community are substantial, with over 55 research papers published in renowned journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. His exceptional work has been acknowledged by esteemed journals for its high quality. As a Principal Investigator (PI), he has successfully secured numerous research grants from prestigious institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Notably, he was honored with the CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) in recognition of his outstanding Post-Doctoral Research achievements.
In the field of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Dr. Alahi has been ranked among the top 2% of scientists for the year 2020/2021 due to the high citations of his research works. His research interests encompass a wide range of areas, including sensor design and fabrication, smart sensing applications, and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Dr. Sayan Dey, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
Sayan Dey received his PhD from the department of Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur in 2020. Soon after, he started working as a postdoctoral fellow at IIT Bombay till October 2021. He received the Fulbright-Nehru postdoctoral fellowship and joined as a visiting scientist at Columbia University, USA in November 2021.
His research areas include semiconductor device fabrication, chemical sensors, electrical spectroscopy, nanostructured materials and sensor interfacing electronics. He has published several research articles in reputed, peer reviewed international journals and conferences. He co-owns an Indian patent for his work on a highly selective chemoresistive toluene vapor sensor.
He has been awarded the national award for best thesis (Innovative Student Projects Award) twice, in 2015 and 2020, by the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), respectively, for his M.Tech and Ph.D. dissertations and is currently a member of the INAE since December 2020. He is the reviewer of several reputed, peer-reviewed scientific journals and has co-authored two text books on electronic device fabrication and materials processing.
He has more than six years of experience in nanostructure growth, solution based synthesis, sensor device fabrication, and handling clean room facilities. He is specially trained in handling X-ray diffraction, Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM), optical spectroscopes, thin film deposition and optical lithography units and building microdevice characterization setups.
Dr. Van, Nguyen Thi Phuoc, University of Southern Queensland
Van, Nguyen Thi Phuoc completed her doctoral degree at Massey University in New Zealand 2020, specialising in the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology. From 2020 to 2022, she worked as a researcher at the Big Data Integration Research Center at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan. She is a research fellow at the Centre for Health Research, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her primary focus lies in adaptive prediction modelling for healthcare applications. Her research interests encompass vital signs sensing systems, sensing technology for monitoring human healthcare conditions, the application of artificial intelligence in HIV/STIs risk prediction, and healthcare navigator systems.
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