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Personal Information

Kea-Tiong (Samuel) Tang

  • Position: Professor
  • Degree: Ph.D
  • Tel/Fax: +886-3-5162178/+886-3-5715971
  • Email: kttang@ee.nthu.edu.tw
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  • Webpage: http://nbme.ee.nthu.edu.tw
  • Address: Department of Electrical Engineering National Tsing Hua University No. 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan

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Profile

 Dr. Kea-Tiong (Samuel) Tang received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan in 1996, and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1998 and 2001, respectively.
 During 2001–-2006, Dr. Tang was a Senior Electrical Engineer with Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., Sylmar, CA, USA. He designed mixed signal ASIC for the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, which became the first FDA approved device for retinal prosthesis. Since 2006, he joined the Electrical Engineering Faculty at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and is currently a full Professor. His research interests include bio-inspired learning chip, miniature electronic system, and biomedical implantable prosthetic device. He has actively collaborated with researchers in Nanoengineering and Microsystems, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Life Science, and Medical doctors, and has published more than 180 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in these research areas. He has led the largest electronic nose team in Taiwan to develop a system that can early detect and rapid diagnose ventilator-associated pneumonia. In 2017, Dr. Tang’s team has joined the Dynamical Biomarkers Group to win for 2nd place of the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, the global competition to revolutionize digital healthcare. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Wu Ta-You Memorial Award, National Innovation Award, and Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award.
 Dr. Tang is a senior member of IEEE. He is member of IEEE SSCS, CASS, EDS, and EMBS. He was the Past Chair of IEEE Biomedical and Life Science Circuits Systems Technical Committee (BioCAS). He is the current Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS). He has served as TPC member of ISSCC, IEDM, ASSCC, ISCAS, and BioCAS. He was IEEE CAS Chapter Chair of Taipei Section (2017-2018). He is now Chair of IEEE Taipei Section. He was a Board of Governor (BoG) of CAS Society, serving as Representative of Region 10 (2020~2021). He is the current Vice President – Regional Activities and Membership of IEEE CASS.

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Experience

Education

Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering

1998.09 - 2001.06

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

M.S., Department of Electrical Engineering

1996.09 - 1998.06

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

B.S., Department of Electrical Engineering

1992.09 - 1996.06

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Work Experience

Technical director

2017.05 - now
  • Division for Biomedical & Industrial IC Technology
  • Information and Communications Research Laboratories
  • Industrial Technology Research Institute, Zhudong, Taiwan.

Professor

2015.08 - now

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Department of Electrical Engineering

Associate professor

2011.08 - 2015.07

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Department of Electrical Engineering

Consultant

2010.01 - 2012.12

Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Material and Chemical Research Laboratories

Assistant professor

2006.08 - 2011.07

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Department of Electrical Engineering

Consultant

2006.04

Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., Sylmar, CA, USA.

Senior electrical engineer

2001.08 - 2006.04

Implant department, Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., Sylmar, CA, USA.

Research assistant

1997.02 - 2001.06

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Microsystems lab, Department of Electrical Engineering

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Special and Research Interests

  • Biomedical and neuromorphic circuit and system
  • Bio-inspired olfaction system
  • Medical implant, brain-machine interface, and neural prosthesis
  • Analog/Mixed signal VLSI

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Academic Society Services

  • Organizing Committee, International Workshop on Neuromorphic Systems and Neural Prostheses, 2009
  • Program Committee Member, International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science, 2010
  • Organizing Committee, International Workshop on Bio-inspired Systems and Prosthetic Devices, 2010, 2012~2014
  • Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2011~2021, Live Demo Chair (2016), BioCAS Track Chair (2015~2020), Tutorial Chair (2021).
  • Program Committee Member, Symposium on Engineering, Medicine, and Biology Applications, 2011~2016
  • Publicity Co-Chair, 5th IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems & Application Workshop (LiSSA’11), 2011
  • Program Committee Member, Session Chair, 9th Asian Conference on Chemical Sensors (ACCS), 2011
  • Technical Program Committee, IEEE TENCON, 2012
  • Technical Program Committee, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2012~2019, Publication Chair (2012), Live Demo Chair (2016, 2019), Tutorial Co-Chair (2018), Steering Committee (2019, 2020), Technical Program Chair (2021), General Chair (2022), Tutorial Co-Chair (2023).
  • Special Session Co-Chair, International Symposium on Bioelectronics and Bioinformatics, 2014
  • Technical Program Committee, IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, Track Chair (2014, 2016), Steering Committee Chair (2020, 2021), Publicity Chair (2023), General Chair (2024).
  • Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems, 2014
  • Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, SMB Subcommittee, 2014~2015
  • Organizing Committee, Asian-Pacific Summer School on Bio-inspired Systems and Prosthetic Devices, 2015
  • Technical Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2017.
  • Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test (VLSI-DAT), Subcommittee of Analog, Mixed Signal & RF Design, 2017~2020.
  • Technical Program Committee, IEEE Life Sciences Conference (LSC), 2017, Tutorial co-Chair (2018).
  • Technical Program Committee, IEEE NEWCAS 2018~2020.
  • General Vice Co-Chair, Taiwan and Japan Conference on Circuits and Systems (TJCAS), 2018.
  • Technical Program Committee, the 18th International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose (ISOEN 2019, 2022).
  • Local Arrangement Co-Chair (2019), Advisory Board (2020), Special Session Co-Chair (2021, 2022), IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS).
  • Steering Committee Chair, IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), 2020~2021.
  • Technical Program Committee, ML/AI Subcommittee, IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2021~2024.
  • Oversight Chair, IEEE Biosensors Conference, 2023.
  • Technical Program Chair, International Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems (ISICAS), 2023.
  • General Co-Chair, 20th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC 2023)
  • Technical Program Committee, Emerging Technologies and Applications, IEEE Asian Solid State Circuits Conference (ASSCC), 2023~.

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Awards

  • Outstanding paper award, Association of Chemical Sensors in Taiwan, 2010, 2012
  • Certificate of Merit, National Science and Technology Program for System-on-Chip, 2011
  • Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Taiwan Integrated Circuit Association, 2012
  • Outstanding Young Scholar Project, Ministry of Science and Technology, 2014-2017
  • Special Design Award, National Chip Implementation Center, 2011, 2012, 2014
  • Outstanding Design Award, National Chip Implementation Center, 2014
  • Wu Ta-You Memorial Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, 2014
  • National Innovation Award, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021
  • Taipei Biotech Awards, Technology Transfer Silver Medal Award, 2015
  • Outstanding Project Award, National Program of Intelligent Electronics, Ministry of Science and Technology, 2014, 2015, 2016
  • Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award, the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, 2018
  • Golden Silicon Award, Bronze Award (2013, 2018, 2019), Superior Award (2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021)
  • Futuristic Breakthrough Technology Award, 2019, 2021
  • Outstanding Industrial Research Award, 2020
  • Outstanding Teaching Award, EECS College, NTHU, 2022.

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Awards (Student Supervised)

  • Honorable mention, The First International Contest of Application in Nano-micro Technology, Taiwan district, 2009
  • College Student Research Creative Award, National Science Council, 2009
  • Honorable Mention, Biomedical Engineering Symposium on Biosignal, Biosensor, Bioelectronics, and Bioengineering, 2009
  • Honorable Mention, Special Topic Competition, Dept. of E.E., 2009
  • Superior Award, Biomedical Engineering Symposium on Biosignal, Biosensor, Bioelectronics, and Bioengineering, 2010
  • 2nd Prize, Special Topic Competition, Dept. of E.E., 2010
  • 1st Prize, Special Topic Competition, Dept. of E.E., 2013
  • Student and Young Investigator Society (SYIS) award, first prize, International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose (ISOEN), 2013
  • Best paper Award, 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Bioelectronics and Bioinformatics (ISBB2014)
  • Honorable Mention, Master Thesis Award (2013, 2018), PhD Thesis Award (2014), Taiwan Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Superior Award, Master Thesis Award, Taiwan Engineering Medical Biology Association, 2014
  • 1st Prize, PhD Thesis Award, Taiwan Engineering Medical Biology Association, 2015
  • Honorable Mention, Master Thesis Award, Taiwan Engineering Medical Biology Association, 2016, 2020.
  • Best paper, Ting-I Chou et al, “A Low-power E-Nose Chip for Rapid Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Diagnosis”, Symposium of Engineering, Medical, and Biology Applications (SEMBA), 2017.
  • Best paper, Ting-I Chou et al, “A 0.7 V Capacitance-to-Digital Converter for Interdigitated Electrode Capacitive Vapor Sensors”, 2017 New Generation of Circuits and Systems (NGCAS) , 2017.
  • Best paper, De-Ming Wong et al, “Development of an Electronic Nose Based Breath Detection Method for Lung Cancer Identification”, 4th IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation 2018. (IEEE ICASI 2018).
  • Best paper, Chen-Yu Fang et al, “A fast gas concentration estimation method based on metal-oxide-semiconductor gas sensors”, 4th IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation 2018. (IEEE ICASI 2018).
  • Best paper, Yi-Han Ou-Yang et al, “A 0.65-V 10-bit 320kS/s SAR-DAC with Charge Averaging Switching Skip Algorithm”, the 14th Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), 2018.
  • Honorable Mention, Master Thesis Award, Taiwan Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2018
  • Bronze medal, Intelligent SoC Innovative Project Contest, 2022.
  • Silver medal, Intelligent SoC Innovative Project Contest, 2023.

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Invited Talks

  • “In-Sensor and In-Memory Computing for TinyML”, Keynote, IEEE 16th International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), Oct 2022, China.
  • “A miniature Gas Sensing System for Breath Analysis”, Keynote, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Electronic Communications, Internet of Things and Big Data (ICEIB), Jul 2022, Taiwan.

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Journal Editorial Services

  • Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), 2022~2023.
  • Associate Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), 2020~2021.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), 2014~2019.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019~
  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Neuromorphic Engineering.
  • Associate Editor, International Journal on Machine Intelligence and Sensory Signal Processing
  • Guest Editor, Journal of Automated Methods and Management in Chemistry
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), Special Issue for ISCAS 2013.
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), Special Issue, September 2014.
  • Review Editor, Frontiers in Neural Technology.

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Journal Paper Reviewer

  • IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
  • IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems – I
  • IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems – II
  • IEEE Sensors Journals
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
  • Sensors
  • IEICE Transaction on Electronics
  • Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering
  • The Scientific World Journal
  • Micromachines
  • Nanoscale

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Conference Paper Reviewer

  • IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems
  • IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  • IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference
  • IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems & Application Workshop
  • Symposium on VLSI Circuits
  • International Symposium on Bioelectronics and Bioinformatics
  • International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science
  • Biomedical Engineering Symposium on Biosignal, Biosensor, Bioelectronic, and Bioengineering
  • European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design
  • IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems
  • IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits & Systems

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Academic Memberships

Member of

  • IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS)
  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS)

    •       ■  Vice President – Regional Activities and Membership, 2022~2023.
          ■  Board of Governor, 2020 ~ 2021.
          ■  Digital Communications AdHoC Committee, 2020~2021.

  • IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)
  • IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS)

TC Member of

  • IEEE Life Science Systems and Applications (LiSSA)
  • IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Society (BioCAS)

    •       ■  Secretary, May 2014 ~ April 2016
          ■  Chair Elect, May 2016 ~ April 2018
          ■  Chair, May 2018 ~ April 2020

  • IEEE Taipei CAS Chapter Chair, 2017 ~ 2018
  • IEEE Taipei Section, Vice Chair (2019 ~ 2020), Chair (2021~2022).

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