Biography :
Dr. Ovidiu Vermesan holds a PhD degree in microelectronics and a Master of International Business (MIB) degree. He is Chief Scientist at SINTEF, Oslo, Norway and received SINTEF’s 2003 award for research excellence for implementing an intelligent biometric system. He works on projects addressing nanoelectronics, edge AI, agentic AI, integrated sensor/actuator systems, generative edge AI, communication and autonomous systems. He published over 100 technical articles and conference papers. He is a member of the Alliance for AI, IoT and Edge Continuum Innovation (AIOTI) board. He is the coordinator of the Edge AI Technologies for Optimised Performance Embedded Processing (EdgeAI) project