Program

Yu Been Park is Managing Director of the Self-Driving & Robotics Division at MAUM.AI, where he leads WoRV—the company’s VLA (Vision-Language-Action) world model for robotics and vehicle control—and drives Physical AI from research to revenue. His team’s WoRV-driven advances earned an Outstanding Paper Award at NeurIPS 2024 and were accepted to ICRA 2025 (invited Oral), highlighting instruction-following autonomy grounded in world models and commonsense navigation. In partnership with industry (including Qualcomm collaboration showcased at CES 2025), Park is deploying a VLA-powered autonomous speed sprayer and delivering Korea’s first national autonomous agricultural-machinery certification using Physical AI. His work focuses on on-device inference, data engines for long-tail safety, and partnerships that translate frontier models into reliable mobility products

Max Kim is a Principal Engineer at Samsung, architecting SPAD-based sensors for LiDAR. With over a decade of experience in LiDAR, radar, and optical systems, he brings deep expertise in photonics, sensor modeling, and system architecture to advance next-generation perception technologies.

KyungMook Lim is a world-leading SoC (System on Chip) design expert who possesses over 21 years of experience spearheading Samsung’s mobile SoC design initiatives. During his tenure at Samsung, he successfully led various SoC development projects, including those for the MP3 Player, DVD Player, iPod/iPad SoC, iPhone SoC, and Exynos SoC. His significant contributions and achievements in this field earned him the prestigious Proud Samsung Award.

Dr. Krishna Kanth Avalur is the Founder and CTO of MOSart Labs, a fabless IC design company working on high-voltage mixed-signal SOCs and semiconductor workforce development. Earlier, he served as the Director of Analog Mixed-Signal R&D at AMS semiconductors. He is an IEEE Senior member and currently the Vice-Chair for IEEE CAS/EDS Hyderabad Chapter. He received his PhD from IIIT Hyderabad. He finished his B.Tech and M. Tech from IIT Bombay with Specialization in Microelectronics. He was awarded President of India Shankar Dayal Sharma gold medal and IIT Bombay Student Roll of Honour in 2002. His specialization includes sensors and sensor interfaces, high performance analog signal processing, power management for automotive and consumer semiconductor IC design. He worked earlier with Texas Instruments Bangalore and Qualcore Logic Hyderabad leading the Analog IC design teams. He is an adjunct professor at IIT Hyderabad and Digital University Kerala. He is on Academic council and Board of Studies member at several universities in India. He has 13 patents and 11 IEEE publications. He is an Associate Editor for TCAS-II for 2024 & 2025.

Yadav Preet is Head India Innovation Ecosystem at NXP Semiconductors. Prior to re-joining NXP in his second stint, he was working with Wipro as Analog Practice Head, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) – Wipro Senior Member, leading Analog & Mixed Signal Practice globally in VLSI Technology Group.
He has more than two decades of enriched Research & Development experience in the diversified Semiconductor industry. His expertise includes Analog and Mixed Signal (AMS) design & verification, core technology development of Process Design Kits (PDK) and Electronic Design Automation (EDA). He received B. Tech. degree in ECE from Kurukshetra University and M. Tech. degree in VLSI Design & CAD from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology.
During his first stint at Freescale/NXP Semiconductor, he worked on development of Process Design Kits, leading handful of technologies from matured to advance nodes. Further, he worked on Analog and Mixed Signal SOC Verification in Automotive Microcontrollers and Processors R & D at NXP.
He is Faculty Fellow at Technology Innovation Hub – DivyaSampark at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He is Adjunct Faculty (Professor) at ABV-IIITM Gwalior. He is Chairperson of IEEE Circuit and Systems Society (CASS), Delhi Chapter. He is Chair-Elect/Secretary of IEEE CASS – VLSI Systems & Applications Technical Committee (VSATC). He is member of IEEE CASS Standards Committees (SASD), IEEE CASS Industry Engagement Committees, and IEEE CASS Digital Communication Committees. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Alert. He is senior member of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) & IEEE Standards Association (SA). He is member of Board of Studies for reputed institutes. He received President Award in Scouts & Guides and accoladed with various awards of merit throughout his academics and industrial endeavor. He has multiple publications in international IEEE conferences, with three best paper awards on his name.
He is the youngest Fellow Member of Indian Society of Systems for Science and Engineering (ISSE), Fellow Member of The Institution of Electronics Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is member of VLSI society of India (VSI) and is core team member of VLSI Design (VLSID) Conference Steering Committee. He is actively associated with multiple community relations groups.