The 12th imec Handai International Symposium was held at SANKEN

　On Wednesday, November 8, 2023, the 12th imec Handai International Symposium was held at SANKEN, Osaka University.

imec and Osaka University have collaborated in a multitude of research fields on a departmental level over an extended period of time since the Collaboration Framework Agreement was concluded between SANKEN and imec in November 2011. One of the obvious proofs is this Symposium, which has been held alternately in Japan, Belgium, and the Netherlands every year since the first one was held at SANKEN. The Graduate School of Information Science and Technology has joined this Agreement since May 2018, and we have been promoting joint research in a wide range of technical fields and exchanging students and researchers.

This symposium began with keynote speeches by imec Vice President Chris Van Hoof and Professor and Director of SANKEN Tohru Sekino. The symposium included online lectures from the imec side (including imec-NL and OnePlanet), and researchers of Osaka University (the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the Graduate School of Human Sciences and SANKEN) provided diverse research findings and topics. Furthermore, there were intriguing presentations from Tokyo Institute of Technology and Hokkaido University, with which SANKEN collaborates as a member of Network Joint Research for Materials and Devices.

Totally 70 researchers participated (including online presenters), and there was a lively technical discussion and information exchange, and the event ended with a lab tour of SANKEN: visiting Nagai Lab. and Nogi Lab.

This symposium will be held annually far into the future, and Osaka University will further solidify mutual commitments to diverse research collaborations and academic exchange programs with imec.