Zaw Htoo (Ethan) Aung bring 27+ years of extensive international experience including 16+ years in the semiconductor manufacturing sector combined with 8 years in senior operational and commercial management and leadership positions across various industries and regions across Asia and Australia. During his 16+ years in the semiconductor manufacturing sector, Ethan has worked in various engineering roles in technology nodes ranging from 280nm to 45nm with Global Foundries in Singapore and Silanna Semiconductor in Australia. His comprehensive skill set in the semiconductor industry encompasses process integration, yield enhancement, new product and process development and introduction, technology transfer, process optimization, failure analysis, test and production management. Ethan experiences include leading and managing complex large-scale new process and product development projects from design layout validation to qualification, test, process fine-tuning, and yield improvement to high-volume manufacturing (HVM). Ethan has held multiple senior executive positions with multinationals and mid-large size companies in Asia.  His management expertise includes leading multi-dimensional operations, growth strategies, business development, managed P&L and corporate finance and led diverse teams. His prior roles include as a CEO, managing a company generating annual revenue of ~USD180 million and over 1,100 employees and as an Asia Geneal Manger role overseeing operations, strategic growth, business development and sales across multiple markets in Asia including Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Ethan holds MBA from University of Newcastle in Australia, MSc in Consumer Electronic from Nanyang Technological University from Singapore, Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Business from Emeritus Institute of Management and Bachelor of Engineering from Yangon Technology University in Myanmar.

Victor is an expert in a multidisciplinary domain spanning nanotechnology, polymer manufacturing, surface engineering, micro/nano-systems development and biological systems. He is the Deputy Director and a Technology Ambassador of the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (ANFF-Vic), Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University and co-founder and CSO of Proton Intelligence. He is one of the founding research leaders of the Centre to Impact Anti-Microbial Resistance, a CI in the ARC Training Centre for Cell and Tissue Engineering Technologies (CTET), in the Engineering Biological Models and Systems Node and in the Monash Future Sensing Node. He has developed novel technologies and devices (such as SU-8 based Micro-optical electromechanical systems), he has helped creating novel commercial products (such as resists and polymers commercialised by micro resist technology GmbH), and he has cofounded two micro/nanotechnology-based start-ups.

Sima Dimitrijev received the B.Eng., M.Sci., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Nis, Nis, Yugoslavia, in 1982, 1985, and 1989, respectively. He is currently a Professor at the School of Engineering and Built Environment, and the Director of Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of Principles of Semiconductor Devices, 2nd Ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) and a member of the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports.

Anthony is an experienced Chartered Mechanical Engineer with a solid trade background in manufacturing. He started his career as a fitter, turner and CNC machinist and when he acquired his Bachelor degree (Mechanical Engineering) moved to Flinders University working for the Medical Device Partnering Program (MDPP) and the Fiber Optic Sensing device group. Here he worked on a variety of projects spanning across multiple disciples as a research engineer. Anthony now is the manager of the Flinders University Engineering Services Team (EST), where he manages a group of professional staff that service the College of Sciences and Engineering on engineering research and teaching needs.

Niels Quack is currently serving as Academic Director of the Research and Prototype Foundry at the University of Sydney. He received the M.Sc. degree from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2005, and the Dr.Sc. degree from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), Switzerland, in 2010. From 2011 to 2015, he was Postdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Scholar with the Integrated Photonics Laboratory, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. From 2014 to 2015, he was Senior MEMS Engineer with Sercalo Microtechnology, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. From 2015 to 2021, he was SNSF Assistant Professor at EPFL and in 2022 he joined The University of Sydney, Australia, as Associate Professor in Micro- and Nanosystems. He is a Steering Committee Member of the IEEE International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN) and served as General Chair of the IEEE OMN 2018 and the Latsis Symposium 2019 on Diamond Photonics. He has served as Committee Member for the most prestigious conferences in the field, including ECOC, MEMS, CLEO, SPIE OPTO, Transducers or MNE. He serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (JMEMS) and for the SPIE Journal of Optical Microsystems (JOM).