Kofi Makinwa (IEEE fellow) holds degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (B.Sc., M.Sc.), Philips International Institute, Eindhoven (M.E.E.), and Delft University of Technology, Delft (Ph.D.). From 1989 to 1999, he was a research scientist at Philips Research Laboratories, where he designed sensor systems for interactive displays, and analog front-ends for optical and magnetic recording systems. In 1999 he joined Delft University of Technology, where he is currently an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Engineering and Head of the Microelectronics Department.

Dr. Makinwa holds 30+ patents, has authored or co-authored 250+ technical papers and 10 books, and has co-edited 6 more. He has been on the program committees of several other IEEE conferences, including the VLSI symposium and ESSCIRC. He is a co-organizer of the Advances in Analog Circuit Design (AACD) workshop.

He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and a member of the editorial board of the Proceedings of the IEEE, the society’s flagship journal.

Stoyan Nihtianov (M’93-SM’98) received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics from the Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1980 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 till 1995 he was an Associate professor at the Technical University in Sofia, teaching and researching in the field of smart sensors and sensor systems. From 1995 until 2000 he was with the Laboratory of Electronics, University of Technology - Delft, The Netherlands, where he was a senior research fellow engaged in the research and development of methods and electronic equipment for non-destructive testing. From 2000 till 2021 he was with ASML in the Netherlands, in managing and technical positions. After his retirement in 2021 Stoyan Nihtianov continues to be associated with ASML.

From 2003 till 2024 he was a part-time professor at the Electronics Instrumentation lab of TU Delft, leading a research group working on industrial electronic instrumentation. Stoyan Nihtianov is an honorary professor of the Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria.

He has authored or co-authored three books and four book chapters, more than 190 peer-reviewed journal and conference scientific papers in the field of intelligent sensors and sensor interface electronics. He holds 28 patents.

Martijn Snoeij received his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D degree from Delft University (The Netherlands) in 2001 and 2007, respectively. In 2007, he joined Texas Instruments in Germany where he is a senior analog circuit designer. He has worked on a range of precision analog IC designs that include a precision fluxgate magnetic sensor, CMOS analog sensor front-ends, chopper-stabilized instrumentation amplifiers as well as bipolar amplifiers with JFET inputs. He also has been actively involved in IC process development for precision circuitry and sensors. Dr. Snoeij has authored or co-authored 18 IEEE papers and holds 12 patents.

Drew Hall received the B.S. degree in computer engineering with honors from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2005 along with M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2008 and 2012, respectively. In the past, he has held internship positions with General Electric, Bentley Nevada Corporation, and National Semiconductor Corporation where he worked on low-power, precision analog circuit design. He worked as a research scientist at the Intel Corporation from 2011 to 2013 in the integrated biosensors laboratory. In 2012 he joined the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

His research interests include bioelectronics, biosensors, analog circuit design, medical electronics, and sensor interfaces. Dr. Hall was the recipient of the 2011 Analog Devices Outstanding Designer Award, won 1st place in the inaugural international IEEE Change the World Competition, and took 1st place in the BME-IDEA invention competition. He is also a Tau Beta Pi fellow.

Jens Anders (Senior Member, IEEE) received the MSc degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2005, the Dipl.-Ing. degree from the Leibniz University

Hannover in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2011. From 2013 until 2017, he was an

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Integrated Sensors with the Institute of Microelectronics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany. He is a Full Professor and the Director of the Institute of Smart Sensors, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. At the same time, he is the co-director of IMS CHIPS Stuttgart. Dr. Anders has authored or co-authored several books, book chapters, and more than 200 journals and conference papers. His current research interests include mixed-signal circuit

design for sensing applications, including sensors for materials science and biomedical applications, emphasizing first- and second-generation quantum sensors. Dr. Anders received the 2012 ITG Publication Award, the Best Live Demo Award at the 2017 IEEE Sensors Conference, the 2019 Helmholtz Center Berlin Technology Transfer Award, and one of the 2020 Sony Europe Research Awards.