Keynote Speakers
Friday, May 30, 2025
8:30 AM
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Dr. Tarek Lahdhiri, PhD, PE, PMP, BB-DFSS, SM-IEEE
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Dr. Lahdhiri received the degree of MS-EE in Communication Systems in 1990 and the PhD degree in Control Systems in 1995.
Dr. Lahdhiri is currently working for General Motors LLC in Warren, Michigan,
where he is holding the position of Global Strategy Leader for Real-Time Control Systems Simulations and Automation
within the GM Software and Services Department. He is also the Chairman of the GM Global Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL)
Steering Committee and the System Architect for the Baseline Simulation Framework Agile teams in the GM HIL ART.
Dr. Lahdhiri is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Michigan, licensed Project Management Professional (PMP)
by the Project Management Institute (PMI), and Black Belt DFSS (B-DFSS) certified by General Motors LLC.
He also holds the Electrical Vehicle Validation Journeyman Certification and Electrical Vehicle Validation Apprentice Certification
Dr. Lahdhiri authored and co-authored over 16 journal papers and 35 conference papers and his
areas of interest include Control Systems, Systems Engineering, Real-Time Modeling and Simulation, and Engineering Management.
Dr. Lahdhiri is a Senior IEEE member (S-IEEE), and has been leading several activities within the IEEE organization.
Currently, he is the IEEE Region 4 (Central USA) Director Elect and EIT Conference Coordinator.
He is also a member of the IEEE-USA Career Professional Development (CPD). Dr. Lahdhiri held the position of
IEEE-USA Vice President of Career Member Services (2018-2019)
Dr. Lahdhiri is the recipient of the 2001 IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award, the 2004 IEEE-USA Professional Leadership Award,
and the 2007 IEEE-USA Citation of Honor Award, and the 2012 IEEE Region 4 Jack Sherman Award.
Contact Dr. T. Lahdhiri
e-mail: lahdhiri@ieee.org
Friday, May 30, 2025
6:30 PM
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Dr. Thach N. Nguyen
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Dr Thach N. Nguyen is interventional cardiologist at the Methodist Hospital, Merrillville IN and
St Mary Medical Center, Hobart IN. He is clinical assistant professor at the Indiana University
School of Medicine, Academic Dean at Tan Tao University (TTU) School of Medicine, Long An,
Vietnam. He was Co-Chair of the International Commitee of the Society of Cardiac Angiography
and Intervention (SCAI) 2016-2018, Washington DC. He is lead editor of Management of
Complex Cardiovascular Problems (4th edition 7/2016 by Wiley Blackwell, Oxford UK) and
Practical Handbook of Advanced Interventional Cardiology (planned for 6th edition, 10/2025 by
Wiley Blackwell). He is editorial consultant of Journal of Interventional Cardiology, Chinese
Medical Journal, etc. His research interests are about flow in coronary artery, the initiation,
growth, rupture and non-rupture of atherosclerotic plaque. He is featured in Who's Who in
America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in
Health Care and Medicine.
Saturday, May 31, 2025
8:30 AM
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Dr. Alvin Chin
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Alvin Chin is Research Scientist at Discovery Partners Institute, University of Illinois System
researching in mobile social networks, IoT, AI and data science. He was previously Principal Data Scientist
at RXO Inc., where he led a team of junior data scientists for deploying data science models for pricing
customer rates for loads to production. Previously, he was an Innovation Research Engineer at
BMW Manufacturing in Greenville, SC, USA and AI and Emerging Technology Researcher, IT Innovation and Research
Silicon Valley in BMW Technology Corporation in Mountain View, CA, USA, where he worked on applying research
in AI and emerging technologies like democratizing AI, neuromorphic computing, quantum computing and causal
machine learning to business problems within BMW. Prior to that he was Senior Researcher, Machine Learning
in BMW Technology Corporation, Chicago at BMW North America, BMW Group where he worked on big data and
machine learning for improving driving behaviour and enabling intelligent driving. His previous research
involved studying user behavior in driving and in social networks, conducting data analytics of machine
learning algorithms in BMW Connected, mining big data from the car data, and creating recommendations of
items based on user profiling and context such as predicted destinations and trips, to provide intelligent
user and car experiences.
Previous to BMW, he was Senior Researcher at Microsoft (previously at Nokia) in Beijing working in the Xpress Internet Services team of the Mobile Phones Services department, Microsoft Mobile Oy. Prior to that, he was previously in the Mobile Social Experiences group at Nokia Research Center, Beijing. At Nokia Research Center, he explored how the mobile phone could be used for creating physical proximity social networks to capture and infer context for social activity and collaboration in real physical environments, designing rich user experiences to interact with others in an indoor environment as well as with other social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter, and also designing improved people recommendation systems that take into account physical context.
Alvin has a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and a Masters degree in Software Engineering from
the University of Waterloo and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.
Alvin is an active user of social networking and Web 2.0 technologies, and is a member of various program
committees such as ACM KDD, SocialCom, ACM Hypertext, IEEE CPSCom, UIC/ATC, Ubicomp, CSCW and IEEE Vehicular
Technology Conference. He is an ACM Senior Member and an IEEE Senior Member.
Alvin is also active in the Chicago community, as Chair of the IEEE Chicago Section, Chair of the ACM Chicago chapter,
Chair of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Chicago chapter, Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Chicago chapter,
President of the University of Toronto Alumni Association in Chicago, Board Member of the Chicago Sister Cities
Toronto Committee, and Member of the Board of Governors at The Metropolitan Club.
To contact Alvin for any research inquiries, speaking opportunities, or professional service, e-mail him
at alvin.chin AT ieee.org. The best way to contact Alvin is via e-mail, WeChat, Facebook, Twitter(X), and LinkedIn.
