IEEE TENCON 2016Region 10 Conference

22‐26 Nov, 2016Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Conference General Chair: A AlphonesIEEE Singapore Section

4‐5 Mar 2016 Chiba, Japan

Conference Theme for TENCON 2016

Dr Tan Guan HongSenior Director

(Smart Nation Systems & Solutions) GovTech, Singapore

Dr Tan Guan Hong joined GovTech as Senior Director (Smart Nation Systems & Solutions) on1 August 2016. He has over 36 years of working experiences as various roles in a MNC (PhilipsElectronics 1980–1993), a Technology Start-up Company (SysEng 1994–2009), a ListedCompany (Tritech Group 2009–2012), President of Singapore Industrial AutomationAssociation (2006–2012) and Director for Technology in A*STAR I2R (2012–2016). He hasextensive cross domain experiences in Electrical, Electronics, Civil, Water and BusinessManagement throughout his Engineering journey. He founded SysEng (S) in 1994 as a TestEngineering Company. In 2002, he developed Real Time Monitoring systems for ConstructionIndustry in Deep Excavations, Tunnels, Bridges and High Rise Buildings. In 2008, he expandedinto Real Time Water Quality & Quantity monitoring business. SysEng was acquired by theTritech Group in 2009 to expand into China and India. He was the conference chair for IoTAsia2016 and active in the IoT applications. In I2R, he was responsible for Technology Developmentand Productivity Programme to help SMEs improve Productivity using ICT. He was also theCluster head for Robotics and Autonomous Vehicle Programmes.

Keynote SpeakersResponding to Digital revolution

Mr. Rudy SchalkDirector of Rolls-Royce@

NTU Corporate Labs, Singapore

Mr. Rudy Schalk is Director of Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Labs, brings over 25 years ofexperience in technology development and commercialization. This includes leading variousresearch collaborations with Stanford and Ohio State Universities, together with roles workingwith industry including Lockheed Martin, Flextronics, Xiaomi & Google. Over the past decadeRudy has served as a Director and held P & L responsibility for several business units atFlextronics in both the USA and Singapore. Rudy has been involved in technology developmentin Singapore for the past 5 years, interfacing with organizations such as ETPL, IPI and IDA.

Keynote Speakers

Technologies for Future Aerospace

Professor Barry L. ShoopIEEE President and

Chief Executive Officer

Barry L. Shoop is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineeringand Computer Science at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. During his 20 years at West Point he hasserved in a number of key leadership positions including Director of the Photonics Research Center andDirector of the Electrical Engineering Program. Currently as Professor and Head he is responsible for anundergraduate academic department with over 79 faculty and staff supporting ABET accredited programs inelectrical engineering, computer science, and information technology. The department engages over 1800students each year and has 4 affiliated research centers including the Cyber Research Center, Network ScienceCenter, Photonics Research Center and a burgeoning Robotics Program. Dr. Shoop holds 1 patent and hasauthored or co- authored 8 books and book chapters, and over 146 publications. He received a B.S. from thePennsylvania State University in 1980 and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1992, both in electricalengineering. His research interests include optical information processing, neural networks, image processing,disruptive innovations and educational pedagogy. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA and SPIE, and a memberof Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealthof Virginia.

Keynote SpeakersHow Advances in Technology are Changing the Face of Leadership

Activities Deadline Status

IEEE Conference Record Created

13 Nov 2015 Done with MoU

Website opened 04 Feb 2016 Done with PCO

Special Sessions Deadline 20 June 201624 July 2016 (revised)

Done

Paper Submission Deadline 20 June 201624 July 2016 (revised)

Done

Invitation for Exhibition/Sponsorship

26 Feb 2016 Done

Final paper Submission 18 Oct 2016 Done

Early Bird registration 18 Oct 2016 Done

Conference event 22 ‐25 Nov 2016 Done

Upload of IEEExplore 10 Feb 2017 Done

Financial Budget 15, Mar 2017 To be completed soon

Conference Activity Schedules

Invited Special Sessions (15)• Computational Intelligence Techniques and Applications• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)• Power Electronics and Drives• Recent Advances in Security and Safety for Intelligent Transportation Systems• Magnetics and Spintronics• Monitoring and Prognostics• Renewable Energy based Microgrids and Sustainable Development• Smart Distribution Systems Technology and Management• Enhancing Power Quality, Reliability and Economic Performance of Microgrids• Wearable Medical Devices and Healthcare Computing• Engineering Medicine and Biology• Evolutionary Optimization Methods Applied to Smartgrid• Recent Advances in Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems• Methodologies for VLSI System Optimization and Recent Advances• Recent Challenges in Biomedical Applications

• Biomedical Imaging• Biomedical Signal Processing• Wearable Sensors and Healthcare Monitoring• Machine Learning• Neural Networks• Swarm and Evolutionary Computation• Antennas, Propagation and Comput.. EM• Optical Communications• RF Millimeter Wave Circuits and Systems• Wireless Communications and Networks• Computing Architectures and Systems• Image Processing• Signal Processing• Video Processing• Intelligent Transportation Systems

Technical Sessions • Network and Cyber Security• Electronic Devices and Material processing• Nano‐electronics• Internet of Things• Humanitarian Technologies• Robotics,Control, Instrume.. and Automation• Microgrids and Distributed Generation• Motors and Drives• Power Generation and Distribution• Power Quality• Power System Monitoring, Control and 

Protection• Renewable Energy resources and Technology• Switching Circuits and Power Converters

• Paper Submissions:  1509 papers• Accepted papers:  1006 papers• Acceptance rate:  66.6%• Final Presented papers: 833 papers + 8 no show• Oral presented: 522• Interactive Forum presented: 311• Registered Participants: 848

Conference Papers Statistics

Country No. of PapersAustralia 26Bangladesh 23Brazil 1China 57France 2Germany 1Hong Kong 5India 305Indonesia 15Italy 1Japan 121Korea 17Malyasia 19

Nepal 1New Zealand 3Pakistan 1Philippines 69Romania 1Russia 1Singapore 123South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 1Spain 2Taiwan 4Thailand 27United Kingdom 8United States 9Viet Nam 5

848

Conference Delegates Statistics

WIE Special Session

Oral session                           Interactive Session

IEEE HardTech summit & Workshop on Innovations in Forensic, Biomedical & Health Bioinformatics

lIn conjunction with TENCON2016, a hardware technology summit and abio-informatics workshop was held at Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore on 26-Nov-2016.lFull fledged summit of sessions, demos and exhibits with a participationof 180+ attendees from across the Asia Pacific region.