INPACE EU-Indo Pacific Workshop on Semiconductors

Singapore, October 29, 2025

As part of the EU-Indo-Pacific Digital Partnership Conference 2025, organised by the INPACE project, the SiNANO Institute is pleased to host an international workshop on 29 October 2025 at the National University of Singapore.

This high-level event will bring together leading experts to discuss key topics shaping the semiconductor ecosystem, including Advanced Functionalities, Manufacturing, Supply Chains and International Cooperation,New Materials and Emerging Memories, Advanced Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration.

Programme

13:45 – 14:00

Welcome

Francis Balestra – Cluster “Enabling technologies – chips for the future leader” leader– SiNANO Institute, CNRS-GINP

8:40 – 10:40

Advanced functionalities

Part 1

8:40 “Semiconductor Flat Optics” Son Tung Ha, IMRE, A*STAR
9:00 “Green Intelligent & Connected Systems at the Trillion Scale – Sustainably” Massimo Alioto, NUS
9:20 “Development of Smart Sensor Systems for Sustainable Agri-Food and the Environment” Alan O’Riordan, Tyndall National Institute
9:40 “Artificial Sensory Neuron for In-Sensor Spiking Neural Network” Joon-Kyu Han, Seoul National University
10:00 “ZnO thin films and nanowires for piezoelectric energy transducer applications” Gustavo Ardila, University Grenoble-Alpes
10:20 “On-Device AI Sensors: Gaussian Transistors and Light-Driven Spikes for Deepfake Detection and Forest Fire Monitoring” Hocheon Yoo, Hanyang University

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee-Break

11:15 – 11:35

Advanced functionalities

Part 2

11:15 “Gas sensors for health management using IoT devices” Ken Uchida, Tokyo University

11:35 – 12:15

Advanced packaging and Heterogenous integration

11:35 “Beyond Silicon Photonics: Next-Generation Multi-Material Integration Platform Technology” Xianshu Luo, A*STAR
11:55 “Advanced packaging and Heterogenous integration” Mitsu Koyanagi, Tohoku Universit

12:15 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 14:20

Manufacturing, Supply chains and International Cooperation

13:30 “Supply and Value Chains & International Cooperation between Europe and Indo-Pacific”, Francis Balestra, SiNANO Institute, CNRS-GINP – INPACE
13:50 “Forging a Collaborative Future: Europe-Indo-Pacific Partnership in Heterogeneous Semiconductor Packaging with Photonics” Shankara Prasad, IIT Guwahati

14:20 – 15:20

New materials and Emerging memories

14:20 “Modeling framework for 2D-material FETs aimed at Sensing, Neuromorphic, and Secure Electronics” Sheikh Aamir Ahsan, National Institute of Technology Srinagar
14:40 “Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials for Electronic and Photonic Applications” Beng Kang Tay, Philippe Coquet, CINTRA, Joint CNRS-NTU-Thales research laboratory, Singapore
15:00 “Numerical Simulations of 2D Material–Metal Heterojunctions for Atomristors” Alessandro Cresti, CNRS

15:20 – 16:00

Coffee-Break

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