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.

 

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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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://www.uni-bremen.de/en/csl/institute/team/staff/dr-hui-liu

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Hui Liu is a post-doctoral researcher at the Cognitive Systems Lab (CSL), University of Bremen, focusing on biomedical engineering, biosignal processing, human activity recognition (HAR), rehabilitation assistance, machine learning (ML), robotics, virtual reality, and music information retrieval (MIR). Hui Liu developed the first mobile system that senses and recognizes its users' movements in real-time, utilizing proximity wearable sensors integrated into a knee bandage. He invented Motion Units, a human activity modeling method with interpretability, generalizability, and expandability, rationalizing knowledge from kinesiology and automatic speech recognition into HAR research (2021). In 2022, Hui Liu proposed novel variants of the pitch histogram, the merged pitch histogram and the pitch-duration histogram, and successfully applied them to ethnomusicology studies and singing aids. Currently, Hui Liu has two technology patents pending. ... 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.

 

Jun Xu School of Future Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology China https://imic.nuist.edu.cn/info/1034/1048.htm

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Jun Xu is the Director of Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medical Image Computing (IMIC) and the Vice Dean of the School of Future Technology at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. He had been a postdoctoral scientist and visiting professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University and Case Western Reserve University in the United States, respectively. He and his IMIC research group are developing and applying novel quantitative image analysis, natural language processing, signal processing, and machine learning tools for disease prevention, di agnosis, and prognosis in the context of breast, liver, colorectal, prostate, brain disease, and ophthalmology. His group is also exploring the utility of these methods in studying correlations of disease markers across multiple scales and modalities-- from digital pathology to X-ray, CT, multi-parametric MR images, electronic health records, and biosignals. ... More >>