Dear IBERNAM-CMC2 Community, IEEE Sensors Council Spain and French Chapters members and researchers,

We are pleased to announce the upcoming celebration of the 11th Franco-Spanish Workshop IBERNAM-CMC2 to be held in Zaragoza on November 9-10th 2023 .

Since 2002, we hold a joint Workshop between IBERNAM and CMC2 (the French thematic network on sensors and microsystems) where we have the opportunity to meet with our colleagues and informally discuss results, collaboration opportunities and future joint actions. The event this year will be in collaboration with the IEEE Sensors Council France Chapter and the IEEE Sensors Council and Systems Council spain Section Joint Chapter that will also commemorate the 10th year since its creation as well as the IEEE Sensors Council 25th anniversary.

The Spanish and French Chapters of the IEEE Sensors Council will sponsor the «Student Paper Contest» that will reimburse the winners for the conference registration fee.

The «Leivmotiv» of this 11th Edition is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. As this aspiration is in line with Horizon Europe, we encourage you all to detail the contribution of your idea to the SDGs in your abstract for the organization of our scientific program. The CALL FOR PAPERS is open from September 30th to October 20th (use the template). Please, send your abstract (in pdf format) to ibernamzgz@posta.unizar.es indicating your preference Oral/Poster Contribution. The scientific organizing committee will communicate the acceptance of abstract on October 31th.

The Workshop is organized as a collection of invited talks (3), with the participation of IEEE Sensors Council Distinguished Lecturer Giancarlo Fortino, oral communications (17), and a poster session, giving the opportunity to all attendees not to miss anything. Finally, the Workshop also features a social program, offering a unique framework for the exchange of ideas and the establishment of new collaborations.

We will soon share by e-mail more details about the scientific agenda, registration confirmation process, accommodations, as well as the social program. Please, register to receive all the information in your email.

Sincerely,

The organizing committee

REGISTRATION OPEN:

https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/376271 

AGENDA:

(Tentative agenda)

SPEAKERS:

Giancarlo Fortino from University of Calabria

Gartner estimates the global smart wearable computing systems (WCS) market will be worth more than US$100 billion in 2024, with an increasing growth caused by the COVID-19. The industry and public sector are then pushing for innovative WCS solutions with high levels of dependability and trustworthiness that can efficiently operate in increasingly complex scenarios. Great strives have been made to realize WCS for the 24/7 monitoring of single users based on 3-tier architectures involving wearables, edge, and cloud systems. However, new requirements, specifically targeting cooperative multiple users, demands for radically new approaches, as promoted by the community-oriented WCS (CO-WCS). In this keynote, we first provide an overview of WCS based on the SPINE Body of Knowledge research and development (https://projects.dimes.unical.it/spine-bok/). Then, we focus on the requirements of the next-generation CO-WCS based on a use case driven approach. Finally, we will discuss models, architectures and tools that would be needed to implement CO-WCS.

Biography:

Giancarlo Fortino (IEEE Fellow 2022) is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Dept of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems of the University of Calabria (Unical), Italy. He received a PhD in Computer Engineering from Unical in 2000. He is also distinguished professor at Wuhan University of Technology and Huazhong Agricultural University (China), high-end expert at HUST and NIST (China), senior research fellow at the Italian ICAR-CNR Institute, CAS PIFI visiting scientist at SIAT – Shenzhen, and Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Sensors Council. He was also visiting researcher at ICSI, Berkeley (USA), in 1997 and 1999 and visiting professor at Queensland University of technology in 2009. At Unical, he is the Rector’s delegate to Int’l relations, the chair of the PhD School in ICT, the director of the Postgraduate Master course in INTER-IoT, and the director of the SPEME lab as well as co-chair of Joint labs on IoT established between Unical and WUT, SMU and HZAU Chinese universities, respectively. Fortino is currently the scientific responsible of the Digital Health group of the Italian CINI National Laboratory at Unical. He is Highly Cited Researcher 2020-2022 in Computer Science by Clarivate. He had 25+ highly cited papers in WoS, and h-index=79 with 22000+ citations in Google Scholar. His research interests include wearable computing systems, e-Health, Internet of Things, and agent-based computing. He is author of 650+ papers in int’l journals, conferences and books. He is (founding) series editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Human-Machine Systems and EiC of Springer Internet of Things series and AE of premier int’l journals such as IEEE TASE (senior editor), IEEE TAFFC-CS, IEEE THMS, IEEE T-AI, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE SJ, IEEE JBHI, IEEE SMCM, IEEE OJEMB, IEEE OJCS, Information Fusion, EAAI, etc. He chaired many int’l workshops and conferences (130+), was involved in a huge number of int’l conferences/workshops (700+) as IPC member, is/was guest-editor of many special issues (80+). He is cofounder and CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l., a Unical spinoff focused on innovative IoT systems, and recently cofounder and vice-CEO of the spin-off Bigtech S.r.l, focused on big data, AI and IoT technologies. Fortino is currently member of the IEEE SMCS BoG and of the IEEE Press BoG, and former chair of the IEEE SMCS Italian Chapter.

Email: g.fortino@unical.it

Address: University of Calabria, , Calabria, Italy

Pantelis Georgiou from Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Professor of Biomedical Electronics

Microchip Technology enabling Rapid Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases -From AMR to COVID-19
Seminar abstract:
In the last decade, we have seen a convergence of microelectronics into the world of healthcare providing novel solutions for early detection, diagnosis and therapy of disease. This has been made possible due to the emergence of CMOS technology, allowing fabrication of advanced systems with complete integration of sensors, instrumentation and processing, enabling design of miniaturised medical devices which operate with low-power. This has been specifically beneficial for the application areas of DNA based diagnostics and full genome sequencing, where the implementation of chemical sensors known as Ion-Sensitive Field Effect Transistors (ISFETs) directly in CMOS has enabled the design of large-scale arrays of millions of sensors that can conduct in-parallel detection of nucleic acids. Furthermore, the scaling of CMOS with Moore’s law and the integration capability with microfluidics has enabled the creation of hand-held and portable rapid diagnostic systems for infectious diseases.
In this talk, I present how my lab is advancing the areas of DNA and RNA detection for rapid diagnostics of infectious diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) through the design of CMOS based Lab-on-Chip systems using ISFETs. I will showcase Lacewing, our latest handheld diagnostic system which is able to rapidly identify bacterial and viral infections in under 30 minutes, communicating results in real-time to the cloud for epidemiological surveillance. Results from our latest trials for detection of Malaria and bacterial resistant infections will be shown in addition to our most recent efforts in tackling the COVID-19 outbreak.

Biography:

Pantelis Georgiou currently holds the position of Professor of Biomedical Electronics at Imperial College London within the Department
of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is the head of the Bioinspired Metabolic and Infection Technology Laboratory in the Centre for
Bio-Inspired Technology; a multi-disciplinary group that invents, develops and demonstrates advanced micro-devices to meet global challenges in biomedical science and healthcare. His research includes ultra-low power micro-electronics, bio-inspired circuits and systems, lab-on-chip technology and application of micro-electronic technology to create novel medical devices. Application areas of his research include new technologies for treatment of diabetes such as the artificial pancreas, novel Lab-on-Chip technology for genomics and diagnostics targeted towards infectious disease and cancer, and wearable technologies for rehabilitation of chronic conditions.
Prof. Georgiou graduated with a 1st Class Honours MEng Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2004 and Ph.D. degree in 2008 both from Imperial College London. He then joined the Institute of Biomedical Engineering as Research Associate until 2010, when he was appointed Head of the Bio-inspired Metabolic Technology Laboratory. In 2011, he joined the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, where he currently holds an academic faculty position. He has made significant contributions to the development of integrated chemical-sensing systems in CMOS for Lab-on-Chip applications. He has pioneered the development of the Ion-Sensitive Field Effect Transistor, an integrated pH sensor which is currently being used in next generation DNA sequencing machines and rapid diagnostic systems for detection of infectious diseases. Prof. Georgiou is a senior member of the IEEE and IET and serves on the BioCAS and Sensory Systems technical committees of the IEEE CAS Society. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Sensors and TBioCAS journals. He is also a member at large on the IEEE sensors council.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards related to the technology used in this proposal. In 2013 he was awarded the IET Mike Sergeant Medal, as a result of his track record for leading a multidisciplinary team and developing innovative medical devices with direct translation and application on real patients. In 2017 he was also awarded IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award in the area of Sensor systems for significant contributions to sensing systems, specifically “innovations in Ion-Sensitive Field Effect Transistors for diagnostics and DNA detection systems”. From 2017-18 he was also an IEEE Distinguished lecturer in circuits and systems.
Finally, he has authored over 350 peer-reviewed publications related to healthcare technology, has successfully secured over £8 million in healthcare related research funding (EPSRC, The Wellcome Trust, H2020, NIHR, NiH), and has built core expertise within his lab consisting of electrical engineers, software engineers, molecular biologists and clinicians to innovate in medical device technology with current ongoing collaborations within the NHS and now also in Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan and Africa. 

Email: pantelis@imperial.ac.uk

Address: 902 Electrical Engineering South Kensington Campus,London, United Kingdom