Keynotes
prof. Sergio Cerutti
Sergio Cerutti, Professor in Biomedical Signal and Data Processing at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He has been the Chairman of the same Department from 2000 to 2006. His research interests are mainly in the following topics: biomedical signal processing (ECG, blood pressure signal and respiration, cardiovascular variability signals, EEG and evoked potentials), cardiovascular modelling, neurosciences, regulation and standards in medical equipments and devices. Since 1983 he has taught a course at a graduate level on Biomedical Signal Processing at Engineering Faculties (Milano and Roma) as well as at Specialisation Schools of Medical Faculties (Milano and Roma). He has been Elected Member of IEEE-EMBS AdCom (Region 8) in the period 1993-1996. He is actually Fellow Member of IEEE and of EAMBES and Associate Editor of IEEE Trans BME. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE-EMBS Summer School on Biomedical Signal Processing: he was the local organiser of four Summer Schools held in Siena. He is author of more than 400 international scientific contributions (more than 160 on indexed scientific journals).prof. ZHANG, Yuan Ting
- Head, Division of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Director, Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Fellow of AIMBE, Fellow of FIAMBE, IEEE Fellow
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (TITB)
Dr. Y.T. Zhang received his Ph.D. from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, in 1990. He was a Research Associate and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary between 1989 and 1994. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as a Lecturer in 1994, became an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Professor in 2002. He serves as the Director of Joint Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering. At CUHK, he has developed and teaches courses including biomedical modelling, medical instruments and sensors, and telemedicine techniques and applications. His research activities have focused on the development of bio-models and bio-signal processing techniques to improve the performance of medical devices and biosensors, particularly for telemedicine. His work has been published in several books, over 20 scholarly journals, and numerous international conference proceedings.Dr. Zhang held various positions in professional organizations. He served the Technical Program Chair of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). He was the Chairman of Biomedical Division of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers in 1996/97 and 2000/01. He was elected and served as an AdCom member of IEEE-EMBS in 1999 and the Vice-President of the IEEE-EMBS in 2000 and 2001. He serves currently as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and an Editorial Board member for the Book Series of Biomedical Engineering, published by Wiley and IEEE Press. He is the General Conference Chair of the 27th Annual International Conference of IEEE-EMBS.
Research interests of prof. Zhang lie in wearable medical devices and biosensors for mobile health, biological signal processing and modelling, telemedicine, and neural engineering.
Prof. Bruce Wheeler
Bruce Wheeler is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida and Interim Chair of the Department. He has been a Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and served as Founding and Interim Department Head. He has also been a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Beckman Institute, and a member and former chair of the Neuroscience Program. He is the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. He received the B.S. degree from MIT and later the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and has been with the University of Illinois since 1980. He has also served as Associate Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Illinois. Prof. Wheeler’s research interests lie in the application of electrical engineering methodologies, signal processing and microfabrication, to the study of the nervous system, including the microlithographic control of the patterns of growth of neurons in vitro so as to permit stimulation and recording with microelectrode arrays. Hopefully this work will lead to better understanding of the behavior of small populations of neurons and lead to better insights into the functioning of the brain. He also has had involvement in algorithm development for directional hearing aids. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AIMBE
Constantinos B. Papadias
Constantinos B. Papadias was born in Athens, Greece, in 1969. He received the Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1991 and the Doctorate degree in Signal Processing (highest honors) from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France, in 1995. From 1992 to 1995, he was Teaching and Research Assistant at the Mobile Communications Department, Eurécom, France. From 1995 to 1997 he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Stanford University's Smart Antennas Research Group. In November 1997 he joined the Wireless Research Laboratory of Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ, as Member of Technical Staff and was promoted to Technical Manager in 2002. From 2004 to 2005 he was an adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University. In 2006 he joined Athens Information Technology (AIT) in Athens Greece, as an Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 2007. Since 2008 he is also AIT's Doctoral Program Academic Director. In parallel, he is an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Information Networking Institute (INI). His research interests range from baseband wireless communications and smart antennas (most recently compact antenna arrays) to scheduling and system-level optimization of wireless systems to cognitive radio and multihop wireless sensor networks. He has authored over 100 papers and book chapters on these topics. His distinctions include the 2002 Bell Labs President’s Award, the 2003 IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Young Author Best Paper Award and ESI’s “most cited paper of the decade” citation in the area of wireless networks. He has also made standards contributions (most notably as the co-inventor of the Space-Time Spreading (STS) technique that was adopted by the cdma2000 wireless standard for voice transmission) and holds 9 patents.
He has participated in several research projects funded by the European Commission and DARPA and has served on the steering board of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) from 2002-2006. Currently, he is the Technical Manager of the FP7 FET projectCROWN, which deals with the concept of cognitive radio.He is involved in the organization of several technical conferences and journal special issues and is the co-editor of a book on MIMO systems, as well as the co-author of an upcoming book on system-level MIMO. He has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and is currently an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and the Journal of Communications and Networks (published in Korea). He was the industrial liaison of the Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE (2003-2009), as well as a National Representative / Expert of Greece in the FP7 program “IDEAS” (2007-2009). Dr. Papadias is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
Huan-Bang Li
Miloš ORAVEC
Miloš ORAVEC was born in 1967 in Bratislava, Slovakia. He received the MSc., and Assoc. Prof. degrees in telecommunication engineering and PhD degree in applied informatics from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia in 1990, 2002, and 1996, respectively. He is with the Department of Applied Informatics and Information Technology of Slovak University of Technology. He spent several research stays abroad, e.g. RWTH Aachen, Germany, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. He is the author of over 80 scientific papers. His work has been published also in several books, e.g. “Selected Methods of data Compression“ (Faber, Bratislava, 1996), ”Neural Networks for Digital Signal Processing“ (Faber, Bratislava, 1998), awarded by Literature Foundation of Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, the chapter in “Speech, Audio, Image and Biomedical Signal Processing using Neural Networks“ (Springer Verlag, Germany, 2008). He is a member of IET. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning and neural networks, biometrics, data analysis and prediction, signal processing, and communication networks.
Mischa Dohler
Mischa Dohler is now Senior Researcher with CTTC in Barcelona. Prior to this, from June 2005 to February 2008, he has been Senior Research Expert in the R&D division of France Telecom working on cooperative communication systems, cognitive radios and wireless sensor networks. From September 2003 to June 2005, he has been lecturer at King's College London, Centre for Telecommunications Research. At that time, he has also been London Technology Network Business Fellow for King's College London, as well as Student Representative of the IEEE UKRI Section and member of the Student Activity Committee of IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Africa, Middle-East and Russia). He obtained his PhD in Telecommunications from King's College London, UK, in 2003, his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Dresden University of Technology, Germany, in 2000, and his MSc degree in Telecommunications from King's College London, UK, in 1999. Prior to Telecommunications, he studied Physics in Moscow. He has won various competitions in Mathematics and Physics, and participated in the 3rd round of the International Physics Olympics for Germany. In the framework of the Mobile VCE, he has pioneered research on distributed cooperative space-time encoded communication systems, dating back to December 1999. He has published more than 110 technical journal and conference papers at a citation h-index of 19 and citation g-index of 37, holds several patents, co-edited and contributed to several books, has given numerous international short-courses, and participated in standardisation activities. He has been TPC member and co-chair of various conferences, such as technical chair of IEEE PIMRC 2008 held in Cannes, France. He is editor for numerous IEEE and non-IEEE journals and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
