The functions of electronics have been quickly expanding to new application areas including wearable healthcare, implantable therapeutics, brain-machine interfaces, internet-of-things, soft robotics, artificial intelligence, and self-driving cars. Along this trend, the integration of data acquisition, i.e., sensing, and data analysis, i.e., computing, is becoming more and more important. For the realization of ubiquitous sensing and intelligent computing, taking inspiration from biological systems for the creation of new operation mechanisms and the incorporation of unconventional properties can bring a wealth of benefits, such as enhanced sensitivity, higher compatibility for bio-integration, better mechanical compatibility, more efficient computing operation, reduced power consumption, the deployment of edge computing, and simplified system design. In the recent decade, this new technological trend has spurred a new research area that encompasses the development of new physics and chemistry, new electronic materials (e.g., organic semiconductors and electronic-ionic mixed conducting polymers, ionic hydrogels), new device categories (e.g., organic electrochemical transistors, artificial synaptic devices, soft devices, memory devices), new system designs, and new algorithms. This symposium aspires to bring together worldwide experts to discuss both fundamental and applied research progress in this broad field, with the topics expanding from the design of bio-inspired conductors, semiconductors, dielectrics, the development of flexible and stretchable bioelectronic devices, the creation of new biosensors, the development of brain-inspired neuromorphic computing, and the combination of artificial intelligence with bio-integrated sensing, etc.

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