Dear TTTC Members,

the election for TTTC Chair and Vice-Chair is open. In order to vote you must have a valid IEEE Computer Society Membership Number.

TTTC Chair Candidate

Giorgio Di Natale received the PhD in Computer Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in 2003 and the HDR (Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches) in 2014 from the University of Montpellier II (France).
He is currently Director or Research for the National Research Center of France at the TIMA Laboratory, a joint research laboratory between the CNRS and the University of Grenoble aLPES.
His research interests include hardware security and trust, secure circuits design and test, reliability evaluation and fault tolerance, software implemented hardware fault tolerance, and VLSI testing.
He has been involved in projects funded by the EU, Italy and France. He has been the scientific leader of the FP7 CLERECO project for the CNRS partner (2013-2016). From 2012 to 2016 he was also the action chair of the COST Action TRUDEVICE (Trustworthy Manufacturing and Utilization of Secure Devices), the biggest European research network on hardware security and trust.
He also actively contributed in the organization of the main international conferences in his domain (general chair of DATE20, program chair of DATE17, program chair of ETS16, member of the executive committee of DATE since 2012, member of organizing committee of ETS and VTS since 2010). He belongs to the program committees of many conferences (DATE, VTS, ETS, IOLTS, DSD, DTIS, FDTC, GLSVLSI, HOST, CS2), he is associate editor of Transactions on Computer, and he served as peer-reviewer for many journals (ToCAS, ToCAD, ToVLSI, D&T, JETTA).
From 2018 to 2019 he served as vice chair of the TTTC, while from 2013 to 2016 as chair of the European section of the TTTC. He is Golden Core member of the Computer Society and Senior member of the IEEE.

Position statement
"If elected I will try my best to continue and strengthen the activities of the TTTC that aim at providing professional service to all test technology people worldwide. In particular, I will pay special attention to the following activities:
1. To promote test related events such as conferences, symposiums and workshops.
2. To continue and strengthen the TTTC tradition of bridging academic and industrial world in the test technology area.
3. To continue and strengthen the TTTC tradition of sharing valuable know-how and experience between testing professionals.
4. To promote education programs among different countries
I will do my best to provide the requested services within my capacities.
Giorgio Di Natale (TTTC Chair candidate)"

Vice Chair candidates:

Victor Champac received the Electrical Engineering Degree in 1987 from the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1993 from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain. From 1988 to 1993 he was Associate Professor at the Electronic Engineering Department of the UPC. In 1993 he joined the National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (Mexico) where he is Titular Professor. In 2001-2002 he held a full year sabbatical at Motorola, and in 2010-2011, he held a sabbatical at the University of California (UCSD).
Dr. Champac is a co-founder of the Latin American Group of TTTC. He was Vice-Chair of this organization in the period 1999-2003, and since then, he serves as its Chair. He served as co-General Chair of the 2nd, 9th and 13th IEEE Latin American Test Workshop (LATW). He has also served as Guest Editor of the Journal of Electronics Testing-JETTA (Springer Publisher) and is a member of the Editorial Board of JETTA. He has served as program and organizing committee member of several international conferences and workshops. Dr. Champac received the best paper award of the IEEE LATW in 2008. He has published more than 90 papers in international refereed journals and conferences.
Xiaowei Li received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1991. He is currently Chair Professor of VLSI Testing and Fault-Tolerant Computing at Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), CAS. He is Deputy (Executive) Director of State Key Lab of Computer Architecture (ICT, CAS). He is Vice-Chair of the Academic Degree Evaluation Committee at ICT. He is also Chair Professor of School of Computer and Control Engineering at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing). Before joining ICT in 2000, he was an Associate Professor of Department of Computer Science at Peking University.
His technical interests include VLSI testing, fault-tolerant computing and hardware security. He has supervised 36 Ph.D. students and has published over 390 technical papers and 4 books in these areas, holds over 68 patents and 45 software copyrights. He has served on the program committee of IEEE international conferences, including ITC, VTS, ATS, DATE, DAC, AsianHOST, etc. He was the Program Chair of ATS’03, General Chair of ATS’07, and served as Chair of ATS Steering Committee (2011-2013), member of ITC-Asia Steering Committee. He served as Vice-Chair of TTTC (2018-2019), and Asia and Pacific Regional TTTC (2004-present). He was Founder of China Test Conference in 2000. He served as Chair of CCF (China Computer Federation) Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing (2008-2015). He serves as Chairman of the board of supervisors of CCF (2020-2024). He serves an associate editor of IEEE TCAD, IEEE TCAS II, JCST, JOLPE, JETTA, etc.
He is recipients of China National Technology Innovation Award (2012), China National Science and Technology Progress Award (2015), and China National Outstanding Scientists Award (2016). He is a Fellow of CCF, and a senior member of IEEE.
Peilin Song is a Principle Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he manages the Circuit Diagnostics and Testing Technology department. He joined IBM in 1997 and has since worked in the area of design for testability, fault diagnostics, and recently hardware security and reliability. He has more than 100 publications and holds 69 US patents.
He has served on several Program committees of major IEEE conferences, including IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) and International Test Conference (ITC). He is the co-Program Chair of 2019 & 2020 VTS. In 2004, he received the IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) Paul Rappaport Award. He has been a Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society since 2006 and a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award in 2006. He received the IEEE 2005, 2006, and 2007 Computer Society Outstanding Contribution and Meritorious Service Awards. In 2015, he received the Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award from OSA. He received his Ph.D. in EE from the University of Rhode Island in 1997.

To vote send an email to ballot@ieee-tttc.org with subject TTTC Election including the following information:

Your valid IEEE Computer Society Membership Number.
Your vote for One candidate for chair, and Two candidates for Vice Chair. You can choose from the candidates listed above or indicate the full name of other candidates that are valid IEEE Computer Society members.

The deadline to cast your vote is Dec. 31th, 2019. For any questions please contact ballot@ieee-tttc.org