SSCS INPIRE PROGRAM
SSCS INSPIRE professional meeting 2026
“Inspiring New Students to Pursue Integrated Circuits Regional Education (INSPIRE)” supports IEEE SSCS Chapters in the organization of flexible outreach and inspiration activities aimed at encouraging young students to pursue studies and careers in integrated circuits.
The program allows SSCS Chapters to propose and implement innovative in-person outreach initiatives adapted to their local educational contexts. Virtual activities are not permitted.
These activities are expected to instill student interest, understanding, and confidence in electronic circuitry concepts while promoting the visibility and engagement of IEEE and SSCS among students and people from industry and academia.
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- Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional
- No. 2508
- Gustavo A. Madero, Distrito Federal
- Mexico 07360
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- Co-sponsored by SSCS INSPIRE PROGRAM
- Starts 20 May 2026 12:00 AM UTC
- Ends 29 May 2026 06:00 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Alvin
The evolution of the CMOs transistors from planar to Gate-All-Around
Biography:
Alvin Loke is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel, San Diego, working on analog design/technology co-optimization for Intel’s Angstrom-era CMOS. He has previously worked on CMOS nodes spanning 250nm to 2nm at Agilent, AMD, Qualcomm, TSMC, and NXP. He received a B.A.Sc. in engineering physics from the University of British Columbia, and M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford. After several years in CMOS process integration, Alvin has since worked on analog/mixed-signal design focusing on a variety of wireline links, design/model/technology interface, and analog design methodologies. Alvin has been an active IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) volunteer since 2003, having served as Distinguished Lecturer, AdCom Member, CICC Committee Member, Webinar Chair, Denver and San Diego Chapter Chair, as well as JSSC, SSCL, and Solid-State Circuits Magazine Guest Editor. He currently serves as the VLSI Symposium Secretary, SSCS Global Chapters Chair, and again as Distinguished Lecturer. Alvin has authored over 70 publications including the CICC 2018 Best Paper and invited short courses at ISSCC, VLSI Symposium, CICC, and BCICTS. He holds 29 US patents and recently received the ISSCC 2024 Outstanding Forum Speaker Award.
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Carlos
Introduction to circuits for IA/ML
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Dr. Carlos Tokunaga is a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation and leads the Reliability and Resiliency Circuit Technology Group at the Circuit Research Lab. Carlos received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He is an IEEE Senior Member and serves as a Member-at-Large in the IEEE SSCS Adcom. He currently serves as the Conference Chair for CICC and is a TPC member of ISSCC. He served in the VLSI Symposium TPC 2019-2024. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Open Journal of SSCS and is an SSCS Distinguished Lecturer 2025-2026. He received Intel Lab’s Gordon Moore Award in 2018. He has published over 50 technical papers in refereed conferences and journals and received 78 patents.
SSCS INSPIRE professional meeting 2026