Hugo Gamboa Nova University of Lisbon Portugal

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Hugo Gamboa is an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the Sciences and Technology Faculty of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and member of LIBPHYS. PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. As a Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer Portugal coordinates the Lisbon Office research group with the focus on Intelligent Systems. He is a founder and President of PLUX, a technology-based innovative startup in the field wireless medical sensors, focused on microelectronics, biosignal processing and software development.

Giovanni Saggio University of Tor Vergata, Rome Italy

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Giovanni Saggio is recognized among the “World’s Top 2% Scientists” (Stanford University ranking, 2020-2025) and has been appointed “Distinguished Researcher” by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC). Having earned his M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991 and his Ph.D. in Microelectronics and Telecommunications in 1996, he currently serves as an Associate Professor of Electronics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” where he also holds the National Scientific Qualification as a Full Professor.
Professor Saggio holds the chairs of both Fund amental and Advanced Electronics within the Faculties of Engineering and Medicine at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His international teaching record includes courses on “Wearable Technologies” at the Hautes Écoles Spécialisées de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO), “Business Opportunities for Wearable Technology” at the School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR) in Switzerland (2022-23), and “Biomedical Signals” for TAIEX (the European Commission’s Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument) in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2018). Furthermore, he served as a Keynote Speaker at the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC, 2023) and at the NUIST summer school at Nanjing University, China (2025).
On behalf of the European Commission, he coordinated the “IDIH” (International Collaboration Digital Transformation Healthy Ageing) international expert group on “Preventive Care” (2020-22), which involved Japan, South Korea, the USA, China, and Canada. During the same period, he also served as a Scientific Consultant for the Italian Vice-Minister of Health. His professional excellence has been recognized with several prestigious accolades, including the “Promotori Tecnologici per l’Innovazione” award (Provinciattiva SpA, 2010), the “Cuore Digitale Award” (2020), the “Innovation Business Award” (National ANGI Award, 2020), and the “Golden Wheel” (Rotary Club, 2022).
An accomplished author, Professor Saggio has written numerous monographs and 10 textbooks in the field of electronics; notably, as a reference author for CRC Press, his work has been adopted by 23 universities across four continents. He has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific articles and maintains significant editorial roles, serving as Topic Editor and Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers (Lausanne, Switzerland), as well as Guest Editor, Academic Editor, and member of the Section and Editorial Boards for the journal Sensors (MDPI, Basel, Switzerland).
His research activity is primarily focused on sensors and analog electronics for medical and sports applications. In this capacity, he has served as the principal investigator and coordinator for scientific projects funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), Armaereo (Ministry of Defense), INAIL, and the Ministry of Health. A prolific innovator, Professor Saggio is the inventor or co-inventor of 16 patents and has founded three successful spin-offs: Captiks Srl (wearable devices for medical and sports applications, 2012), Seeti Srl (telemedicine and remote monitoring, 2015), and Voicewise Srl (diagnosis of medical conditions and emotional states via voice analysis, 2019). ... More >>

 

Liliane Ventura Dep. Electrical Engineering (Ophthalmic Instrumentation Lab), University of Sao Paulo Brazil www.sel.eesc.usp.br/lio

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Liliane Ventura holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from IFQSC–USP (1987) and a Master’s and PhD in Optics from IFSC–USP. She completed postdoctoral training in Ophthalmology and Electrical Engineering. She has been an Associate Professor (A3) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the São Carlos School of Engineering (EESC–USP) since 2004 and obtained her Habilitation (Livre-Docência) in Electrical Engineering in 2007. She is the Head Coordinator of the Ophthalmic Instrumentation Laboratory and the CERTIFICA–LIO Certification Laboratory at EESC–USP. Her expertise includes Biomedical Engineering, with em phasis on ophthalmic instrumentation since 1996 and on standards and testing of sunglasses since 1998. She is a consultant to ABNT CB-49 and INMETRO. Her research focuses on conformity assessment of sunglasses and national standard development for solar eye protection. She coordinates international collaborations with ARC–IBM San Jose and the University of Lisbon. ... More >>

Huacheng He Oujiang Laboratory China

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Dr. Huacheng He is a Professor at Oujiang Laboratory in Wenzhou of China. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at College of Pharmacy of University of South Carolina at Columbia in USA in 2016. After then, he joined the faculty of College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering at Wenzhou University. In 2023, he moved to Oujiang Laboratory as a principal investigator. His research interests mainly focus on biomaterials, sensors and flexible devices for targeted wound healing. He is also the co-founder for several medical companies which emphasize on the development of medical devices. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed papers and granted more than 16 patents. He used to serve as the guest editor for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, and Frontiers in Materials. ... More >>

 

Catarina Veiga University College London United Kingdom

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Catarina Veiga is an Associate Professor at University College London (UCL) and principal investigator of the Paediatric Radiotherapy and Imaging (PRIma) research group. She completed her PhD at UCL in 2016 focused on adaptive radiotherapy, having spent 6-months as visiting scholar at University of Pennsylvania. She later joined the UCL Centre for Medical Image Computing (now Hawkes Institute) as postdoctoral researcher developing image analysis for radiation-induced lung damage. In 2018 she was awarded a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship. Her research interests span radiation physics, medical i maging and image analysis, computer simulation and other disruptive technologies aiming to improve radiotherapy delivery and understand radiation-induced side-effects, particularly in young patients. Her scientific contributions were recognised with the 2020 Academic Early Career Award given by the UK’s Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. Catarina is also an advocate for outreach activity particularly with people with lived experience of radiotherapy. ... More >>

Hongming Shan Fudan University China

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Hongming Shan is a Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University. His research focuses on machine learning, computer vision, and medical imaging, with particular interests in generative AI, medical image reconstruction, and multimodal foundation models for medical imaging. He received his Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Fudan University in 2017 and previously worked as a Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He currently serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

 

James Li Georgetown University United States

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James Li, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics at Georgetown University. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and machine learning for bioinformatics and biomedical data science, including omics data analysis, multimodal data integration, predictive modeling, and AI-enabled biomedical discovery. Dr. Li leads the OmicsAI Research Group, which develops computational methods, software tools, and open-source resources for omics and biomedical AI research. He also oversees research computing support within the department. At Georgetown, Dr. Li teaches Sta tistical Programming with AI Assistance, Data Science and AI Engineering, Machine Learning for Bioinformatics, and Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence. ... More >>

Jin Tu Southeast University China

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Vaidotas Marozas Kaunas University of Technology Lithuania

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Prof. Vaidotas Marozas is Director of the Biomedical Engineering Institute and Professor of Electronics Engineering at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania. His research focuses on biomedical signal processing, modeling, machine learning, and wearable systems for personal health monitoring. He is the KTU principal investigator in several international projects, including Horizon Europe projects ThrombUS+ and CVDLINK, EURAMET project QUMPHY, and the Swedish Institute Visby programme. He has also led national research projects and more than 15 industrial R&D contracts. Prof. Marozas has published in lea ding journals, including IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and has co-authored monographs on photoplethysmography and atrial fibrillation published by Elsevier and Springer. His distinctions include KTU Researcher of the Year in 2016 and KTU Project Manager of the Year in 2025. He coordinates KTU’s Biomedical Engineering master’s programme and has supervised seven PhD graduates. He has served several times as an Associate Editor for the IEEE EMBC conference and currently serves as an Associate Editor for several international journals. ... More >>

Raquel Bailon Independent Researcher Spain

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Dr. Raquel Bailón is a Full Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Communications at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), and a senior researcher at the Aragón Institute for Engineering Research (I3A) and the CIBER-BBN research center.

Her research primary focus is on biomedical signal processing, with a particular emphasis on the non-invasive assessment of the autonomic nervous system using cardiovascular and respiratory signals. Her contributions include heart rate variability analysis, cardiorespiratory interaction modeling, wearable sensing, and the development of digital biomarke rs for cardiovascular, metabolic, and mental health applications.

Dr. Bailón has led and collaborated on numerous national and international research projects in close partnership with clinical and academic institutions. ... More >>

Huiguang He The University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences China

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Hui Liu Independent Researcher Germany https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=GyLOsRwAAAAJ

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Hui Liu is a researcher focusing on biomedical engineering, human activity recognition (HAR), rehabilitation assistance, machine learning (ML), virtual reality, music information retrieval (MIR), and general application of artificial intelligence (AI) in multidisciplinary fields. He developed the first mobile system that senses and recognizes its users' movements in real-time, utilizing proximity wearable sensors integrated into a knee bandage (2019), and contributed Motion Units, a human activity modeling method with interpretability, generalizability, and expandability, rationalizing knowledge from kinesiology and automatic speech recognition into HAR research (2021). ... More >>

Bing Zhang Nanjing University China

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Hugo Gamboa Nova University of Lisbon Portugal

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Hugo Gamboa is an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the Sciences and Technology Faculty of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and member of LIBPHYS. PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. As a Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer Portugal coordinates the Lisbon Office research group with the focus on Intelligent Systems. He is a founder and President of PLUX, a technology-based innovative startup in the field wireless medical sensors, focused on microelectronics, biosignal processing and software development.