The State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI (SKL-AMSV) of the University of Macau (UM) held the 2nd meeting of its third Academic Committee on 22 October 2025. During the meeting, committee members conducted a comprehensive review of the laboratory’s recent developments, affirmed its research direction, and offered constructive suggestions on future strategies and the industrialization of research outcomes.
Attending the meeting from the Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) were U-Sang U, President of the Administrative Committee, and Kong-On Chan, Senior Manager of the Department of Science and Technology Development and Cooperation. Representing UM were Rui Martins, Vice Rector (Global Affairs) and Director of the Institute of Microelectronics, and Pui-In Mak, Director of SKL-AMSV. The meeting was chaired by Ming Liu, Director of the Frontier Institute of Chip and System at Fudan University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Academic Committee members present included Franco Maloberti, Emeritus Professor at the University of Pavia; Zhihua Wang, Professor at Tsinghua University; Howard Luong, Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Seng-Pan U, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Macao Institute of Industrial Technology; Massimo Alioto, Professor at the National University of Singapore; Chi-Hou Chan, Vice President of City University of Hong Kong; Qiang Li, Professor at Hamburg University of Technology; Yu Wang, Head of the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University; Nanjian Wu, Professor at the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shouyi Yin, Dean of the School of Integrated Circuits at Tsinghua University; and Michael Kraft, Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium.
UM’s delegation also included SKL-AMSV Deputy Director Sai-Weng Sin, Laboratory Infrastructure Coordinator Man-Kay Law, Industrial Collaboration Coordinator Yan Zhu, Coordinator of Microelectronics GBA Branches Chi-Hang Chan, as well as professors, and associate professors from the laboratory.
The meeting featured presentations on the laboratory’s recent achievements, closed-door discussions, and evaluation reports. Prof. Mak presented updates on the lab’s infrastructure development, research output, collaboration with industries and joint laboratories, and efforts to integrate microelectronics education with industrial development. Liu praised the lab’s accomplishments in research, talent cultivation, and community engagement. The Academic Committee recommended that SKL-AMSV further focus on original technology breakthroughs, strengthen industry-academia collaboration, promote technology transfer and innovation, and enhance international cooperation and talent development to reinforce its role as a leading microelectronics innovation hub in the Greater Bay Area.
