The purpose of BIOSTEC is to bring together researchers and practitioners, including engineers, biologists, health professionals and informatics/computer scientists, interested in both theoretical advances and applications of information systems, artificial intelligence, signal processing, electronics and other engineering tools in knowledge areas related to biology and medicine. BIOSTEC is composed of five co-located conferences, each specialized in a different knowledge area.
Program Chair
Ana Roque, UCIBIO, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Program Chair
Athanasios Tsanas, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Program Chair
Nathalie Bier, Research Center of the Institut de gériatrie de Montréal, Canada
Upcoming Submission Deadlines
Regular Paper Submission Extension:
October 6, 2021
Position Paper Submission:
October 29, 2021
Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission:
December 9, 2021
(See Important Dates for more information)
Ana Fred, Instituto de Telecomunicações and University of Lisbon, PortugalHugo Gamboa, LIBPhys, Physics Department, Nova School of Science and Technology, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal
Federico Cabitza, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, ItalyChristoph Hölscher, ETH Zurich, SwitzerlandKatja Bühler, VRVis, AustriaClaudia Pagliari, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Scaling-Up Healthcare with Conversational Agents - Scale-IT-upChairs: Hannes Schlieter, Tobias Kowatsch and Kai Gand
Submission: November 26, 2021
System Engineering in Healthcare - SEMChairs: Ali Alghamdi, Saleh Binobaid and Saad Aldoihi
Submission: November 26, 2021"COVID-19 epidemic data mining and EXploration" - COVID-ex 2019Chairs: Agnieszka Duraj and Piotr Szczepaniak
Submission: November 26, 2021Engineering and Fabrication of Biocompatible and Bioinspired Materials - BENEFICIALChair: Saibal Mitra
Submission: November 26, 2021Wearable HealthCare - WHCChairs: Vítor Carvalho, José Machado, Demétrio Matos and Filomena Soares
Submission: November 26, 2021Dealing with the Change in European Regulations for Medical Devices - ClinMedChairs: Lionel Pazart and Norbert Noury
Submission: November 26, 2021Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Preventive Healthcare and Clinical Decision Support - Cognitive Computing for HealthcareChairs: Tahir Hameed and Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari
Submission: November 26, 2021Remote Management and Health Monitoring - RMHMChairs: Zafar Yuldashev, Vladimir Kublanov and Sergey Selishchev
Submission: November 26, 2021Smart Living Environments to Support Aging-in-Place in Vulnerable Older Adults - Smart CommuniCareChairs: Thomas TANNOU and Nathalie Bier
Submission: November 26, 2021Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Phenotyping Models from Mined Administrative Healthcare Data - SERPICOChairs: Athanasios Tsanas, Holly Tibble and Maram Zahraa
Submission: November 26, 2021Machine Learning in Bioinformatics - MLBChair: Paulo Ambrosio
Submission: November 26, 2021
It is planned to publish a short list of revised and
extended versions of presented papers with
Springer in a CCIS Series book (final approval pending)
Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: