ADF 2025 Rising Stars Asia

14 Nov 2025

RSE_Program

16 Nov 2025, Sunday

Time	Event	Venue
18:45	Bus Pickup at Hotel Lobby
19:00 – 21:00	Welcoming Reception	Lobby Area, College of Engineering Building

17 Nov 2025, Monday

Venue: Room 203 Lecture Hall, College of Engineering Building

Time	Event / Title	Speaker
08:20	Bus Pickup at Hotel Lobby
08:45	Registration Opens
09:00 – 09:20	RSE Opening & Welcome Remarks	Professor Wen-Chang Chen President, National Taiwan University Professor Mao-Hsiung Chiang Dean, College of Engineering, National Taiwan University Professor Tzong-Lin Wu Dean, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University
09:20 – 09:50	Plenary Lecture Engineering Education in an Age of Sudden Influx: Prospects for Taiwan	Professor Jia-Yush Yen President, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology *Moderated by Professor Mao-Hsiung Chiang*
09:50 – 10:10	Discussion
10:10 – 10:20	Group Photo Taking
10:20 – 10:50	Coffee Break
Transforming Engineering Education: Cultivating Inclusive Leadership and Global Citizenship for the Next Generation *Moderated by Professor Louis Ge* *Associate Dean, College of Engineering, National Taiwan University*
10:50 – 11:20	Keynote speech 1 Empowering Emerging Scholars to Lead with Purpose and Global Impact: Advancing Progress for All	Professor Rita Henderson Deputy Dean, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Sydney
11:20 – 11:50	Keynote speech 2 A different engineering education?	Professor Fu-Ling Yang Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University
11:50 – 12:20	Panel Discussion	Professor Rita Henderson Deputy Dean, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Sydney Professor Fu-Ling Yang Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University Professor Silvija Gradečak-Garaj Vice Dean for Research & Technology, College of Design & Engineering, National University of Singapore Professor Tomonori Nagayama Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
12:20 – 13:50	Lunch
Bridging Academia, Industry, and Society *Moderated by Professor Tzong-Lin (Jay) Shieh* *Associate Dean, College of Engineering, National Taiwan University*
13:50 – 14:20	Keynote speech 3 Clean Energy, Digital Futures, and the Human Element	Associate Professor Sara Badr Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
14:20 – 14:50	Keynote speech 4 Rising Together: Women Engineering Impact Beyond Boundaries Across Academia, Industry, and Society.	Professor Alicia Kyoung Jin AN Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
14:50 – 15:20	Keynote speech 5 Agentic over Monolithic LLM: On Bridging Academia, Industry, and Society	Professor Seung-won Hwang Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University
15:20 – 15:50	Panel Discussion	Associate Professor Sara Badr Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo Professor Alicia Kyoung Jin AN Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Professor Jiangyong Hu Director, Centre for Water Research, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore Professor Yunmi Park Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University UNSW Professor Megan Lord Associate Dean Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Engineering, UNSW Sydney
15:50 – 16:20	Coffee Break
16:20 – 17:50	Participants’ Elevator Pitch	Moderated by Prof. Homer YEN Executive Director for International Aﬀairs, College of Engineering, National Taiwan University
17:50 – 18:30	Transportation
18:30 – 20:00	Workshop Dinner	Tai Da Table Restaurant

18 Nov 2025, Tuesday

Venue: Room 203 Lecture Hall, College of Engineering Building

Time	Event / Title	Speaker
08:20	Bus Pickup at Hotel Lobby
Pioneering in AI, Semiconductors, and Emerging Technologies *Moderated by Professor Jian-Jang Huang* *Associate Dean, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University*
09:00 – 09:30	Keynote speech 6 Program-Guided Robot Learning: Toward Interpretable and Generalizable Robotic Intelligence	Professor Shao-Hua Sun Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
09:30 – 10:00	Keynote speech 7 The Soft Touch in Robotics	Professor Cecilia Laschi Director of the Advanced Robotics Centre and Co-Director of CARTIN – Centre for Advanced Robotics Technology and Innovation Provost’s Chair Professor of robotics, National University of Singapore
10:00 – 10:30	Keynote speech 8 Emerging CFET SRAM Technologies for AI-Era Memory Scaling	Professor Vita Pi-Ho Hu Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
10:30 – 11:00	Panel Discussion	Professor Shao-Hua Sun Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University Professor Vita Pi-Ho Hu Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University Professor Cecilia Laschi Director of the Advanced Robotics Centre and Co-Director of CARTIN – Centre for Advanced Robotics Technology and Innovation Provost’s Chair Professor of robotics, National University of Singapore
11:00 – 12:30	Poster Session
12:30 – 13:50	Lunch
13:50 – 14:30	Free Time
14:30 – 16:00	Mentoring Session *Moderated by Professor Pei-Te Chiueh* *Associate Dean, College of Engineering, National Taiwan University* Venue: Room213/215, College of Engineering Building	National University of Singapore Professor Jiangyong Hu Assistant Professor Sunmi Shin UNSW Dr Shukla Poddar Seoul National University Professor Junghye Lee The University of Tokyo Associate Professor Sara Badr National Taiwan University Professor Vita Pi-Ho Hu Associate Professor Hsin-Tien Lin HKUST Professor Weijia ZHANG Professor Xiaomeng LI
16:30 – 18:00	Coffee Break Meetings with Deans / Department Heads of Engineering of Organizers
18:00 – 18:30	ADF & RSE Closing Remarks Venue: Room 203 Lecture Hall, College of Engineering Building	2026 Host Presentation