Kevin Tshun Chuan Chai

Kevin Chai Tshun Chuan (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Glasgow, U.K., in 2002 and 2007, respectively, developing tissue cell imaging solution based on Electrical-Impedance-Tomography on a CMOS chip. He joined the Institute of Microelectronics, A*STAR, Singapore, in 2008, as a Research Scientist and developed a silicon-nanowire based biosensor readout system for the detection of biomarkers in cardiac disease. He received several competitive A*STAR grants as a PI/Co-PI for MEMS sensor-related applications in temperature, motion and sound detection, cell counting, electronic stethoscope system for the early detection of diastolic dysfunction in hypertensive heart disease, and so on. He currently heads a department of more than 30 IC designers working on various topics from AI powered hardware accelerators looking at both deep learning and neuromorphic methodologies, compute-in-memory using emerging memories, hardware security for edge IOT, power management solution with IVR, mmWave IC, and design acceleration techniques using machine learning.