Keynote
Keynote Speaker
Assoc. Prof. Sung-Nien Hsieh
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, NTUST
Title
Millimeter Wave Radars for Vibration Monitoring
Biography
Sung-Nien Hsieh (Member, IEEE) was born in Hualien, Taiwan. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2000 and the Ph.D. degree in Communication Engineering in 2009, both from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. From 2009 to 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Institute of Astron- omy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei. He then held engineering positions at Compal Electronics, Inc. (2014–2015) and Airoha Technology Corporation (2015–2017). From 2017 to 2020, he was a Technical Manager at Wistron Corporation, Taipei, where he worked on millimeter-wave radar systems for healthcare applications. Between 2018 and 2019, he was a Visiting Engineer with the Computer Science and Artificial Intel- ligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, collaborating with Prof. Dina Katabi’s group on radar-based healthcare tech- nologies. Since 2020, Dr. Hsieh has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Elec- tronic and Computer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei. He has served as a Board Member of the Taiwan Microwave Association and vice chair of IEEE APS Taipei Chapter since 2025. His research interests include microwave circuit design and measurement, radar sensing for industrial and medical applications, and antenna array technologies.
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Yuta Izumi
Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology
Title
Advances in Multi-Modal SAR for Infrastructure Monitoring
Abstract
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a powerful remote sensing technology capable of observing surface conditions and deformation regardless of weather or daylight. This keynote will briefly introduce the fundamental principles of SAR, followed by recent developments in ground-based SAR and multi-modal SAR sensing for high-resolution displacement monitoring.Practical applications will be presented through infrastructure and slope-monitoring case studies conducted in Japan, including bridges and landslide-prone areas. These examples demonstrate the potential of SAR-based sensing to support early detection of deformation, preventive maintenance, and disaster risk reduction. Future prospects for intelligent and continuous infrastructure monitoring will also be discussed.
Biography
Yuta Izumi (Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Chiba University, Japan, in 2016 and 2018, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in radar remote sensing from Tohoku University, Japan, in 2021. From 2018 to 2020, he was a JSPS Research Fellow (DC1). From 2019 to 2020, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. From 2021 to 2022, he was a JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. From 2022 to 2025, he was an Assistant Professor at the Muroran Institute of Technology, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry and polarimetry, with applications in disaster mitigation and structural health monitoring. Dr. Izumi is a recipient of the Student Paper Award at ISRS 2017, the President Award from Chiba University in 2018, the Dean’s Award from the Graduate School of Advanced Integration in 2018, the Science Young Researcher Award from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society All Japan Joint Chapter in 2019, and the Student Poster Award at IEICE-AP 2020, 2019 Hokkaido Science and Technology Incentive Award.
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Sureswaran Ramadass
University College Dublin Malaysia Campus (RUMC), Penang
Title
-To Be Announced-
Biography
Professor Sureswaran Ramadass is currently the Head of Programme (Bsc Medical Informatics) at RUMC, Penang. He was earlier awarded Professor Emeritus by the Malaysian University of Science and Technology (MUST), where he still supervisors postgraduate students. His last position was as the Chairman of the ITU/UN (International Telecommunications Union) IPv6 and IOT Center of Expertise. His focus areas include 5G, IPv6 and Cybersecurity. Prior to this, he was the founding Director and Professor at the National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence (Nav6), Universiti Sains Malaysia. As the Director of Nav6, he was instrumental in the successful implementation of IPv6 in Malaysia. He obtained his BsEE/CE (Magna Cum Laude) and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Miami in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He graduated top student in the College of Engineering. He obtained his PhD from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 2000 while serving as a full time faculty. Some of his recognitions include being awarded : The "Anugerah Tokoh Negara" (National Academic Leader) for Innovation and Commercialization in 2008 by the Minister of Higher Education. This award is given in recognition to contributions to Innovation and commercialisation in the area of science and technology. Emeritus Chair, IPv6 Forum Education Programme. The Wireless World Research Forum Fellow in April 2010. This fellowship award was presented in recognition to his contribution in the area of Next Generation Networks and IPv6. Malaysian Innovation Award by the Prime Minister in 2007 and again by the Minister of Science and Technology in 2009. These Awards were given in recognition for his contribution towards innovations in the areas of Multimedia Conferencing Systems and Real-time Advanced Security Monitoring.
Keynote Speaker
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Raseeda Hamzah
Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Matematik, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia
Title
Beyond the Surface: Real-Time Deep Learning and Attention-Based Feature Fusion for Underwater Drone Vision
Abstract
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) have become indispensable tools for maritime exploration, subaquatic search-and-rescue, and environmental tracking. However, underwater drone vision faces severe operational bottlenecks due to the low resolution, poor contrast, and intense acoustic noise inherent in sonar imagery. While conventional two-stage algorithms exhibit latency issues and traditional single-stage convolutional networks (such as YOLO) struggle to preserve global semantic relationships, Real-Time Detection Transformers (RT-DETR) offer a highly promising paradigm shift. This keynote address introduces US-DETR (Underwater Sonar Detection Transformer), a cutting-edge object detection architecture engineered specifically for underwater drone deployment. By integrating a novel Enhanced Feature Interaction (EFI) module and a Nonlocal Attention Feature Fusion (NAFF) module, the framework significantly heightens an autonomous platform's awareness of global context and cross-scale spatial dependencies. This approach yields a highly responsive vision system capable of accurately capturing small, low-contrast submerged targets in real time.
Biography
Associate Professor Dr. Raseeda Binti Hamzah is an academic and researcher at UiTM Kampus Jasin who holds a PhD in Information Technology and Quantitative Sciences, a Master of Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Electronics Engineering with Honours. With a strong research focus on applied technologies such as artificial intelligence, deep learning, and the Internet of Things, she has built an extensive academic portfolio comprising 81 publications, including 57 indexed works. Dr. Raseeda is highly active in research funding, having secured 25 total grants—22 local and 3 international—as both a Principal Investigator and a Project Member. Furthermore, she is a dedicated mentor with 15 postgraduate supervisions, having successfully guided five PhD students to completion, and she applies her expertise professionally as an appointed consultant for a think-tank project under the Ministry of Rural and Regional Development.