Dr. Gill Pratt is the Chief Executive Officer of Toyota Research Institute (TRI), where he directs research to create new capabilities for Toyota in Active Safety, Automated Driving, Robotics, and other Human Amplification technologies. He also serves in a global role guiding Toyota’s research strategy as Chief Scientist and Executive Fellow for Research of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Executive Advisor of Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc. (TCRDL), both in Japan. Prior to joining TRI as its founding CEO in January 2016, Dr. Pratt served as an Executive Technical Advisor to Toyota Motor Corporation.
Dr. Pratt previously led the Robotics Challenge, Robotics Research, and Neuromorphic Computing research programs for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he served as a program manager in the Defense Sciences and Tactical Technology Offices from January 2010 through August 2015.
Dr. Pratt was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Leg Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Subsequently, he was a founding Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Research at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Dr. Pratt’s academic research focused on robotics and intelligent systems. Specific areas of interest included interfaces that significantly enhance human/machine collaboration, mechanisms and control methods for enhanced mobility and manipulation, low impedance actuators, the application of neuroscience techniques to robot perception and control, and the impact of Robotics and AI on society. Dr. Pratt holds several patents in series elastic actuation and adaptive control.
Dr. Pratt earned Doctor of Philosophy (1990), Master of Science (1987), and Bachelor of Science (1983) degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. His Ph.D. thesis was in the field of spiking computation in natural and artificial neural systems. Dr. Pratt also worked for the Physics and Computer Science Research Departments of Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
Dr. Pratt’s plenary talk at IEEE DTDA2026 will provide valuable insights into the human-centered artificial intelligence, robotics and the evolving relationship between humans and advanced technologies.

Kohsuke Kudo, MD, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Diagnostic Imaging at Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine and Head of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Hokkaido University Hospital, Japan. He is a board-certified radiologist specializing in neuroradiology and advanced medical imaging.
As both a radiologist and a software developer, he has developed medical image analysis software since 2006. His major developments include the Perfusion Mismatch Analyzer (PMA) and PMAneo, a platform for CT and MR perfusion analysis in acute ischemic stroke. PMAneo received regulatory approval as software as a medical device in Japan in 2020 and is now used in clinical practice.
He also leads multidisciplinary projects on the clinical implementation of AI in radiology, including image enhancement, lesion detection and segmentation, quantitative analysis, and clinical decision support. His work focuses on bridging the gap between technological innovation and everyday clinical practice through collaboration among clinicians, engineers, researchers, and industry partners.

Arokia Nathan is a leading pioneer in the development and application of thin film transistor technologies to flexible electronics, display and sensor systems, and mm-Wave radios on glass. Following his PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada in 1988, he joined LSI Logic USA and subsequently the Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, before joining the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Waterloo, Canada. In 2006, he joined the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London as the Sumitomo Chair of Nanotechnology. He moved to Cambridge University in 2011 as the Chair of Photonic Systems and Displays, and he is currently a Bye-Fellow and Tutor at Darwin College. He has over 600 publications including 6 books, and more than 150 patents and four spin-off companies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), Royal Academy of Engineering, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Society for Information Displays, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Inventors. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices Society and Sensor Council, a Chartered Engineer (UK), and winner of the 2020 IEEE EDS JJ Ebers Award. He is currently the President of the IEEE Electron Devices Society.

This MQ lecture will examine the rapid development of thin-film semiconductor oxide electronics and their growing importance in enabling future generations of large-area semiconductor technologies. It will review recent progress in oxide thin-film transistors, with particular emphasis on their distinctive advantages, including high charge-carrier mobility, optical transparency, and compatibility with low-temperature fabrication processes. By connecting fundamental materials physics with practical device engineering, the lecture will demonstrate how amorphous and nanocrystalline oxide materials can support the development of scalable, large-area, and mechanically flexible electronic platforms. Applications across high-resolution display backplanes, wearable sensors, and transparent integrated electronic systems will be explored. The lecture will conclude by highlighting the potential of oxide electronics to play a central role in the development of energy-efficient, adaptive, and ubiquitous large area, CMOS-compatible technologies for the future.

Dr. Suda is a Professor of Electronics at Nagoya University from 2017. He was born in 1969 in Japan. He received the B.E. (1992), M.E. (1994) and Ph. D. (1997) degrees from Kyoto University. From 1992 to 1997, he worked on molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) and structural and optical characterization of ZnMgSSe strained quantum well structures for short-wavelength optoelectronics. In 1997, he began research on group-III nitride semiconductors (III-N) and SiC as a Research Associate at Kyoto University. His research interests include optical/electrical/structural characterization of III-N and SiC materials, heteroepitaxial growth of III-N by MBE, functional integration of III-N and SiC materials by atomic-scale interface control, design and fabrication of SiC and GaN-based power devices, optoelectronic devices and MEMS devices. He has authored or co-authored over 350 publications in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. Dr. Suda is Director of Transformative Electronics Facilities (C-TEFs, clean room facilities for wide-bandgap semiconductor devices) of Nagoya University. Dr. Suda is a Fellow of The Japan Society of Applied Physics.

GaN vertical power devices offer great potential for highly efficient power conversion in power electronics. This keynote reviews recent progress in GaN-on-GaN vertical power devices, including ion implantation and MOS technologies, and discusses the key challenges and future prospects toward ultra-low-loss power devices.

Jun Ohta received the B.E., M.E., and Dr. Eng. degrees in applied physics, all from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1981, 1983, and 1992, respectively. In 1983, he joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hyogo, Japan. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Optoelectronics Computing Systems Center, the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 1998, he joined the Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan, as an associate professor. He was appointed a professor in 2004 and retired from his professorship in 2024. He continues to be appointed as a research professor. He also works as the Executive Director and Vice President of NAIST from 2021 to the present. His current research interests include smart CMOS image sensors for biomedical applications and retinal prosthetic devices. Dr. Ohta received several awards, among them the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon, Japan, Tateishi Prize, Niwa-Takayanagi Distinguished Achievement Award, and Ichimura Prize. He serves as a member of several technical program committees, including ISSCC and VLSI Symposium, and as an Editorial Board member of J. Eng., IET, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., and Sensors and Materials. He also served as the General Co-Chair of the 2019 IEEE BioCAS, Nara, Japan, a Distinguished Lecturer for SSCS, and an IEEE Fellow Society/Technical Council Evaluator (EMBS). He is a Fellow of IEEE, JSAP, and ITE.

This keynote presents photoceuticals as an emerging therapeutic approach enabled by implantable optoelectronic semiconductor devices. Pharmaceuticals offer molecular specificity but often lack spatial and temporal precision, whereas electroceuticals provide localized, programmable stimulation but limited cell-type specificity. Photoceuticals combine optical sensing and optogenetic stimulation to enable more selective monitoring and control of neural circuits. Recent advances in implantable CMOS imagers, SPAD sensors, electrophysiological integration, and micro-LED stimulators support this concept. Future systems will require safe gene delivery, long-term biocompatibility, efficient powering, thermal management, and closed-loop control, potentially using distributed implantable sensing and stimulation modules.

Hyeon-Jin Shin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Semiconductor Engineering at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea, where she joined in November 2023. Since August 2025, she has also served as the Director of the Advanced Nano-fab at GIST for Emerging Low-power Semiconductor (ANGELS). Prior to joining GIST, she worked at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Samsung Electronics, from 2002 to 2023, where she served as a Research Master and Team Leader for graphene and two-dimensional materials research. While working at SAIT, she received her Ph.D. in Nanoscience from Sungkyunkwan University in 2010. Her research focuses on the science and technology of next-generation integrated semiconductor devices based on emerging low-dimensional and quantum materials, including graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, boron nitride, and topological semi-metals. Scientifically, she explores advanced thin-film growth techniques, novel material properties, and innovative device concepts using two-dimensional materials. Technologically, she develops high-performance, CMOS-compatible integration processes to enable the transition of emerging materials from lab-scale demonstrations to industrial fabrication. She has published more than 95 papers in high-impact journals, including Nature and Nature Electronics, with over 11,300 citations and an h-index of 43, and holds more than 100 U.S. patents.

Artificial intelligence is expanding from data centres to edge devices, autonomous systems, healthcare, and space applications, creating new demands for future electronics. Beyond high performance, high integration density, and low power, devices must also withstand harsh conditions such as elevated temperatures and radiation. In this talk, I will discuss materials strategies for AI-era electronics, focusing on logic devices and interconnects. Our work includes 2D material-based logic transistors for 3D integration and topological semimetals for environmentally robust interconnects. Finally, I will highlight integrated material systems that jointly address performance, power, density, manufacturability, and environmental resilience.

Yunjia Li is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University, where he served as an Associate Professor from 2016 to 2021. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Process Engineering from ETH Zürich in 2014. His research focuses on capacitive/inductive sensors, actuators, and energy harvesters, spanning from MEMS design and microfabrication technologies to readout circuits and system integration for industrial applications. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He served multiple positions in the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, as Chair of the Technical Committee on MEMS and Nanotechnologies, member of the publication committee, IES representative in the IEEE Nanotechnology Council AdCom and steering committee member of the IEEE JMEMS. He is also affiliated with industry and developed technologies that have been commercialized. He served as the CTO of microGauge (now VAT microGauge, Switzerland). He has co-founded and serves as CTO of two spin-off companies from his research group: Senternity LLC and PaSense LLC, specialized in self-powered sensors and industrial gas sensing systems, respectively.

This talk focuses on the development of the self-powered sensors based on different energy harvesting technologies. The evolution of the energy harvesters and sensors from concept to prototypes and eventually products will be presented. The implementation of different self-powered sensing systems consisting of the sensors, energy harvesters, power management strategies, and packaging technologies will be discussed. Application related issues such as reliability issues and challenges in industrial environment will also be discussed.

Min-Ho Seo received his B.S. degree in Nanomechatronics Engineering (Magna cum laude, 2011) from Pusan National University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2013 and 2018, respectively. From 2018 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Information and Electronics Research Institute at KAIST. He then joined the Center for Bio‐Integrated Electronics (CBIE, Rogers Group) at Northwestern University as a postdoctoral researcher from 2019 to 2020. Since 2020, he has been with the School of Biomedical Convergence Engineering at Pusan National University, where he is currently an associate professor. His research focuses on nano/microelectromechanical systems (N/MEMS) and wireless electronics for biomedical applications. In particular, he develops hardware solutions for the wireless diagnosis, treatment, and management of diseases both inside and outside the body using micro/nano device technologies. His areas of interest include neurological and metabolic disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, and stroke.

Bioelectronics is emerging as a key enabling technology for next-generation digital healthcare, but reliable operation remains challenging because electronic systems must function under complex mechanical and environmental conditions in the human body. My research aims to overcome these mismatches through the integrated development of functional materials, soft and miniaturized devices, wireless sensing and stimulation systems, and AI-based data analysis, ultimately enabling robust and trustworthy bioelectronic healthcare platforms. In this keynote, I will focus on neuromodulation, with particular emphasis on safe, reversible, and localized neural inhibition. I will introduce the limitations of conventional inhibitory approaches and present our recent work on soft implantable neural cooling systems designed to modulate peripheral nerve activity through controlled local temperature reduction. Finally, I will highlight the potential of localized neural cooling for safe and reversible control of peripheral nerve activity and demonstrate its feasibility through in vivo animal experiments.