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Bio: Haohong Wang is an award-winning industry leader and scholar, who leads TCL's AI research, strategic partnerships, content development, and streaming services in North America. He is the founder of TCLtv+ and the visionary behind the TCL FILM MACHINE program, the world’s first accelerator for AI filmmaking. Recognized as one of the "Top 20 Transformative Triumphs in Home Entertainment" by Media Player News in 2024, the program has redefined the industry. As a pioneer in AI filmmaking, Dr. Wang has served as Executive Producer on eight groundbreaking generative AI films, which have earned accolades like Best AI Film, Best AI Short, and Best AI Animation at multiple international film festivals. Before joining TCL, Dr. Wang held leadership and technical roles at AT&T, Qualcomm, Marvell, and Cisco. His contributions to the field have garnered numerous honors, including the IEEE MMTC Distinguished Service Award, the APSIPA Industrial Distinguished Leader Award, and the Red Dot Winner Award. Dr. Wang has co-authored five books, published over 100 papers, and held more than 160 patents. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Communications and served in the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He has chaired the IEEE ICME Steering Committee, the IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, and IEEE Technical Committee on Human Perception & Multimedia. He was the General Chair of ACM Multimedia 2017, and IEEE ICME 2011, and the TPC Chair of IEEE Globecom 2010. Dr. Wang earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, USA.

Bio:  Dr. Achin Bhowmik is the chief technology officer and executive vice president of engineering at Starkey, a privately-held medical devices company with over 5,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s research and development, engineering, and program management organizations, and is leading the drive to transform hearing aids into multifunctional communication and health devices.

Previously, Dr. Bhowmik was vice president and general manager of Perceptual Computing at Intel, where he was responsible for R&D, operations, and businesses in the areas of 3D sensing and interactive computing, computer vision and artificial intelligence, autonomous robots and drones, and immersive virtual and mixed reality devices.

Dr. Bhowmik is an adjunct professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and an affiliate faculty member of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. He has also held adjunct and guest professor positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Liquid Crystal Institute of the Kent State University, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. He has authored over 200 publications, including two books and over 80 granted patents.

Dr. Bhowmik serves as an industry representative for the US FDA Digital Health Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council, board of trustees for the National Captioning Institute, board of directors for Mojo Vision and OpenCV, board of advisors for the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership at the University of California, Berkeley, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is also on the advisory boards of several technology companies.

His awards and honors include Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), President and Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID), Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Artificial Intelligence Excellence award by the Business Intelligence Group, Gold Globee award for “Most Innovative Person of the Year in Healthcare”, Top 25 Healthcare Technology CTOs by the Healthcare Technology Report, Notable Leaders in Healthcare by Twin Cities Business, Healthcare Heroes award by the Business Journals, Industrial Distinguished Leader award from the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, TIME’s Best Inventions, and the Red Dot Design award.

Bio: Leo is the Director of US Operations for Engineered Arts. Since the first time he watched R2-D2 trundle across the screen in Star Wars, Leo’s wanted to build robots.  Leo’s first career stop was at Linear Technologies (acquired by Analog Devices in 2017) as an application engineer. He was lucky enough to be able to help some of Silicon Valley’s best and brightest on their projects. Getting tired of solving other peoples’ problems instead of his own, Leo made his way over to Google’s applied science arm [X] in 2014 where he helped them design and build giant 75 foot tall and 150 foot tall balloon launching robots for Project Loon. After the wind-down of Loon in 2021, Leo led the Electrical Engineering team at Verdant Robotics where he designed and built a multi-action autonomous agricultural robot that enabled Verdant to secure their first commercial contracts.  In 2023, Leo was chosen to build out Engineered Arts first international expansion. He was tasked with building out the US office which not only became profitable within 6 months but also allowed Engineered Arts to expand their service area and footprint. 

Bio: Jiadi Zhu is the CEO and co-founder of CDimension, a company pioneering the next frontier of chip design through innovations in atomically-thin 2D materials. Under his leadership, CDimension has developed proprietary low-temperature, wafer-scale processes that enable the vertical stacking of compute, memory, and power- delivering chips that are faster, denser, and vastly more efficient than traditional architectures.

A recognized expert in 2D materials integration, Jiadi has authored over 30 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier journals such as Nature Nanotechnology and Applied Physics Reviews, with his research cited more than 2,400 times. He is also an active contributor to the semiconductor research community, serving as a reviewer and “golden reviewer” for over 10 top-tier journals, including Nature Electronics and Advanced Materials.

Before founding CDimension, Jiadi spent a decade at the frontier of semiconductor research at MIT, TSMC and Peking University, where he focused on integrating novel materials like MoS₂ with conventional silicon platforms. Today, he is leading CDimension’s mission to make 1000x performance improvements a reality, redefining what’s possible for the future of AI hardware.

Bio: Dr. Shuxue Quan is currently the Senior Director of Research on AI/GenAI, CV and camera technologies at the AI Center of Samsung Research America. He received PhD degree in Imaging Science from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2002. Later, he was a researcher, architect, and director of R&D at Sony, Qualcomm, Micron and Broadcom, and then at Qualcomm again, and OPPO Research Institute respectively. Dr. Quan founded the OPPO XR Research in 2018, which supported OPPO announcing AR Glass and MR Glass in 2020 and 2022. Now he is responsible for AI/GenAI empowering smartphone, XR and robotics at Samsung Research America.