Koichi Shimizu received M.S. (1976) and Ph.D. (1979) degrees, from University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He was Research Associate in University of Washington 1974-79. He was an Assistant-, an Associate- Professors, and a Professor in Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan in 1979-2016. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Hokkaido University, Japan, an Invited Research Professor of Waseda University, Japan and a Professor of Xidian University, Xi’an, China. He has been engaged in the studies of biomedical engineering including those of wave propagation in biological media, optical measurement, biotelemetry and biological effects of electromagnetic field. He served as an associate editor of IEEE Trans. ITB in 1999–2007. He has been a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, and an editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Nature. He is a member of IEEE, OSA, ISOB, IEEJ, IEICE and JSMBE. He received Research Promotion Award (1981), Best Paper Award (1995) and New Technology Development Award (2020) from Japan Society for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Antonio Gloria is Professor of Design and Methods of Industrial Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II. He is also professor of “Bio-Inspired Generative Design for Additive Manufacturing” and co-Head of the Research Innovation Center of Regenerative Engineering and Additive Manufacturing - RICREAMI. He was a Senior Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) (Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials – IPCB), and he is currently Associate Member/Researcher of the CNR-IPCB. Antonio Gloria is Associate Member and Visiting Professor of the CDRSP - Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal, as well as International Collaborator of the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing (SC3DP) - Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was and is involved in national and international projects. He also received international awards. He was awarded and appointed as “Future Leader” in Science and Technology (“Dialogue between Nobel Laureates and Future Leaders”, STS forum – October 2015, Kyoto, Japan). He is currently author of international papers, book chapters, communications/contributions in international and national conferences.
Andrey V. Emelyanov received the Ph.D. degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2014. He is a Leading Researcher with National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” and an Associate Professor with Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. His job description is divided into two directions: scientific and educational. His research interests include but not limited to solid state physics, resistive memory and neuromorphic computing. Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=8h_eCk0AAAAJ&hl=en Title: Optoelectronic and photosensitive memristive synapses for neuromorphic computing and vision systems Abstract: The pursuit of neuromorphic computing and vision systems (NCVSs) aims to replicate the extraordinary computational efficiency and low energy consumption of biological brains for cognitive tasks like pattern recognition and perception. Memristive devices, particularly when arranged in dense crossbar arrays, have emerged as a foundational technology for this purpose, as their analog resistive switching (RS) behavior can emulate synaptic functions. While first-order memristors, controlled purely by electrical stimuli, can replicate basic neural dynamics, advancing toward more complex biological realism requires the incorporation of second-order variables that modulate synaptic plasticity. In this context, light has emerged as a highly promising multi-parameter second-order stimulus. Optoelectronic and photosensitive memristors, whose long-term resistive states can be dynamically tuned by optical signals, offer significant advantages for NCVSs. These include reduced power consumption during network training, mitigation of sneak-path currents in arrays, and the direct integration of sensing and processing. This latter capability is crucial for biologically plausible vision systems, as visual perception accounts for over 80% of human environmental interaction, enabling applications such as efficient anthropomorphic robots. This presentation provides an overview of the fundamental optoelectronic and photosensitive RS mechanisms in memristors. It further examines the prospects and current limitations of these devices for the development of efficient, integrated neuromorphic computing and vision systems.