Keynote Speakers
Assoc. Prof. Kuan-Ting Lai
National Taipei University of Technology
Speech Title: Real-Time AI Companions for Immersive AR/VR: From LLMs to AI VTubers over Future Networks
Dr. Kuan-Ting Lai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science and Ph.D. from National Taiwan University. His career spans both academia and industry, from his early work as a video ASIC engineer at Quanta Computer to leadership roles in startups, including serving as VP of Technology at Arkados Group and co-founding the wireless charging startup AnyCharge. During his doctoral research, Dr. Lai was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, where he collaborated with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center on large-scale video event detection.
Dr. Lai's latest research focuses on autonomous unmanned systems, computer vision, and digital twin learning for AI-driven systems. He is the creator of AI Wings, the first open-source 5G multi-drone control platform, and has led award-winning student projects, including the ACM Multimedia Best Open-Source Software Award. Dr. Lai actively collaborates with industry to translate AI research into practical systems. He partnered with ELAN Electronics to commercialize an ADAS system using VR-augmented AI training. His recent industry collaborations also include cooperation with TSMC, Infineon, and embodied AI and VLA-based drone technologies with ITRI. His broader research vision is to combine autonomous unmanned vehicles, digital twins, and real-time AI agents to build deployable intelligent systems for future robotics and emerging applications.
Assoc. Prof. June Tay
Singapore University of Social Sciences
Dr. June Tay is an Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), Singapore. She received her B.Eng. (Hons.), M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom. Prior to joining SUSS, she worked as a Research Scientist at British Telecommunications (BT), where she contributed to Internet standardization through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). During her time at BT, she published research in computer networks and security and was granted six patents in these fields.
Before joining academia, she also served in Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) and taught ICT and electronics courses at several higher education institutions. Her research interests include satellite communications, computer networks, Quality of Service (QoS), network security, digital media technologies, and technology-enhanced education.
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