Dr. Kun graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy in Uruguay and holds a BSEE; MSEE and Ph.D. in BME from UCLA. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of National Security Affairs (CHDS) and was a Professor of Homeland Security at the National Defense University (2003-2015). A (Lifetime) Fellow of the IEEE, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine. He was the founding Editor in Chief of Springer’s Journal of Health and Technology 2010-2020. He spent 14 years at IBM and later as Director of Medical Systems Technology at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. As Senior IT Advisor to AHCPR he formulated the IT vision and was the lead staff for High Performance Computers and Communications program and Telehealth. In July 1997, as an invited speaker to the White House, he was primarily responsible for the first Telemedicine Homecare Legislation signed by President Clinton, in August 1997. While a Distinguished Fellow at the CDC, as Acting Chief IT Officer for the National Immunization Program he formulated their IT vision on 10/2000. Kun received many awards including: AIMBE’s first-ever Fellow Advocate Award in 2009; IEEE-USA Citation of Honor Award, “For exemplary contributions in the inception and implementation of a health care IT vision in the US.” 2011 Golden Core Award by the IEEE Computers. Named: “Profesor Honoris Causa” by Favaloro University, (2009); “Distinguished Visitor” by the City of Puebla, (Mexico 2013). He is/was an EEE Distinguished Lecturer for the Computer Society, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and Chairman for SSIT’s DL Program. Kun is an Honorary Professor of the Electrical Engineering Dept. at the School of Engineering of the University (UDELAR) in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received the Medal of Merit in 2016 in Mexico from the National Unit of Engineering Associations. He was named Visiting Professor by the National Technological University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2017.

Victor Grimblatt has an engineering diploma in microelectronics from Institut Nationale Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG – France) and an electronic engineering diploma from Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Chile). He got his PhD on Electronics in 2021 from University of Bordeaux. He is currently R&D Group Director and General Manager of Synopsys Chile.
He has published several papers in IoT, EDA, Smart Agriculture and embedded systems development. Since 2012 he is chair of the IEEE Chilean chapter of the CASS. He has been part of several conferences TCP (ISCAS, ICECS, LASCAS) and Steering Committees. He is member of the IEEE CASS Board of
Governors for the period 2021 – 2023. He founded the Electronics for Agrifood SIG at CASS and chairs it. He was Chair of LASCAS Steering Committee from 2018 to 2022. He is CASS representative at the IEEE Climate Change TAB.
He was President of the Chilean Electronic and Electrical Industry Association (AIE) from 2017 to 2021.
From 2006 to 2008 he was member of the “Chilean Offshoring Committee” organized by the Minister of Economy of Chile.
In 2010 he was awarded as “Innovator of the Year in Services Export”. In 2022 he was awarded as “IEEE/AIE Best Engineer” in Chile. In 2023 he was awarded as IEEE R9 Outstanding Engineer”

Victor’s research areas are EDA (Electronic Design Automation), Climate Change, and Smart Agriculture

Dr. Edmundo A. Gutiérrez-D. received the PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium in 1993, with the thesis entitled “Electrical performance of submicron CMOS technologies from 300 K down to 4.2K”.  From 1988 to 1993 was a research assistant at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) in Leuven, Belgium. In 1993 joined as a researcher the Department of Electronics of INAOE. In 1996 spent one year as invited Professor at the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. In 1996 he also spent two months at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil as a Summer PhD lecturer. From 1999 to 2000 was appointed Head of the INAOE Department of Electronics. From 2000 to 2002 spent two years as Design Manager of the Motorola Mexico Center for Semiconductor Technology in Puebla City. In 2002 he was also invited Professor at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. From 2002 to 2005 rejoined INAOE as Professor of the Department of Electronics. From 2005 to 2007 was the Research Manager of the Intel Systems Research Center Mexico in Guadalajara City.

Prof. Gutiérrez is author of the book “Low Temperature Electronics, Physics, Devices, Circuits and Applications” (Academic Press, 2000), and the book “Nano-Scaled Semiconductor Devices, Physics, Modelling, Characterisation, and Societal Impact” (IET Press, 2016). He has supervised 4 M.Sc. and 15 PhD theses and has published more than 140 scientific papers and conferences in the field of physics of semiconductor materials and devices, including MOS transistors, temperature, optical, and magnetic sensors. He is Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Devices and Materials Reliability journal.

Currently Prof. Gutierrez is the General Director of the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) in Puebla, Mexico. Prof. Gutiérrez is an IEEE Fellow.