Event Chairs

Conference Co-Chairs

Hugo Gamboa
LIBPHYS-UNL / FCT - New University of Lisbon
Portugal
http://www.plux.info

Brief Bio
Hugo Gamboa founded Plux in 2007 together with 4 other partners and has grown the company from an individual research project to product medical device company with growing international sales and research seeking second round of financing.
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. His thesis entitled "Multi-Modal Behavioral Biometrics Based on HCI and Electrophysiology" presents new behavioral biometrics modalities which are an important contribute for the state-of-the-art in the field.). From 2000 to 2007 he was a Professor at Escola Superio r de Tecnologia de Setúbal, where he taught in the field of Artificial Intelligence. In recognition of his work by the European Biometric Forum, he was among the three finalists of the EBF Biometric Research Award 2007. In 2008 he was the winner of the Portuguese National Award “Futuras Promessas” ISA/Millennium BCP, granted to the best PhD thesis on Physics, Electronics, Informatics or Biomedical Engineering fields. ... More >>

Ana Fred
Instituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon)
Portugal

Brief Bio
Ana Fred received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 1989 and 1994, respectively, both from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is a Faculty Member of IST since 1986, where she has been a professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and more recently with the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She is a researcher at the Pattern and Image Analysis Group of the Instituto de Telecomunicações. Her main research areas are on pattern recognition, both structural and statistical approaches, with application to data mining, learning systems, behavioral biometrics, and biomedical applications. She has done pioneering work on clustering, namely on cluster ensemble approaches. Recent work on biosensors hardware (including BITalino – and ECG-based biometrics (Vitalidi project) have been object of several nacional and internacional awards, as well as wide dissemination on international media, constituting a success story of knowledge transfer from research to market. She has published over 160 papers in international refereed conferences, peer reviewed journals, and book chapters. ... More >>

Sergi Bermudez i Badia
Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal
Portugal
https://neurorehabilitation.m-iti.org

Brief Bio
Sergi Bermúdez i Badia is a Senior Researcher at the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (Madeira-ITI), and Assistant Professor at the University of Madeira (UMa) and Adjunct Faculty of the Human Computer Interaction Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (HCII, CMU). He received a degree in telecommunications engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ). He has pursued research at several institutes in Europe and the USA, including the Laboratoire de Production Microtechnique at the EPFL (Lausanne), the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the ETHZ (Zurich), at the Institute of Audiovisual Studies at the Technology Department of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and the Quality of Life Technologies and Entertainment technology centers of the Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh). Since he arrived in Madeira, he contributed to the establishment of the NeuroRehabLab research group (http://neurorehabilitation.m-iti.org) with the scientific goal of investigating the use of multimedia, interactive technologies and robots to exploit them in real world applications, with special emphasis in neuro-rehabilitation systems, educational and entertainment applications. ... More >>

BIODEVICES Program Chair

Alberto Cliquet Jr
University of São Paulo & University of Campinas
Brazil

Brief Bio
Alberto Cliquet Jr. has a PhD from the University of Strathclyde in 1988. He then followed two careers: at USP and Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP): Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor ,1993; being a full Professor in the Dept of Orthopedics, Fac of Medical Sciences/UNICAMP from 2003 and full Professor in the Dept of Electr & Comp Engr/USP since 1998. He Coordinates Outpatient Rehabilitation Clinic for the spinal cord injured (University Hospital, UNICAMP) and Works in undergraduate, postgraduate teaching at USP and UNICAMP. Currently is the Coordinator of the Surgery Post graduate course- UNICAMP and Vice- D irector of the Centre for Engr Applied to Health- USP. ... More >>

BIOIMAGING Program Chair

Sheldon Wiebe
University of Saskatchewan
Canada

Brief Bio
Dr. Wiebe obtained his MD in 1995 from the University of Saskatchewan. He then completed post-graduate residencies in Family Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2002. He then undertook Fellowship training in Pediatric Radiology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada from 2002 to 2004. In July 2004 he returned to Saskatoon and joined the Department of Medical Imaging of the University of Saskatchewan. Since that time, in addition to his academic clinical practice he significantly contributes to the Biomedical Imaging pro gram centered on the research techniques at the Biomedical Imaging and Therapy Beamline (BMIT) at the Canadian Light Source, Canada’s National Synchrotron Facility. He obtained an MSc degree related to this work in 2012. In 2017 he achieved the rank of Full Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. Since 2018 he has been the Provinical Department Head of Medical Imaging for the Saskatchewan Health Authority and College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Association of Radiologists and recently received Canadian Certification Physician Executive title. ... More >>

BIOINFORMATICS Program Chair

Paul Anderson
College of Charleston
United States

Brief Bio
Paul Anderson graduated in 2004 from Wright State University with a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering. He received his Master of Computer Science in 2006 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering in June 2010. After graduation, Dr. Anderson was awarded a Consortium of Universities Research Fellowship to study as a Bioinformatics and Computational Research Scientist for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Dr. Anderson has published 30+ peer-reviewed articles in the fields of genomics, data mining, machine learning, computational intelligence, metabolomics, genomics, e-Science, bioinformatics, cloud c omputing, biomedical informatics, cancer informatics, and computer science & engineering education.
At present, Dr. Anderson is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the College of Charleston. He is the director of the Data Science Program, the first such undergraduate program in the country. Dr. Anderson is the Director and Principal Investigator (PI) of the Data Science Research Group. He is also the PI for the Charleston Computational Genomics Group (C2G2). His research lab at the College of Charleston specializes in developing and applying data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to the fields of bioinformatics, genomics, biomedical informatics, and metabolomics. The overarching goal is to develop algorithms and software to tackle some of the most challenging and interesting big data intensive problems in the life sciences. Dr. Anderson’s research interests include data science, big data, pattern analysis in high-dimensionality data sets, evolutionary computation and optimization, machine learning, computational genomics, cloud computing, computational metabolomics, and e-science. He currently has multidisciplinary projects underway in metabolomics, human cognition and fatigue, toxicology, marine biology, cancer informatics, and medical and marine genomics. Dr. Anderson is also the primary investigator for the Omics NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates at the College of Charleston.
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BIOSIGNALS Program Chair

Giovanni Saggio
University of Tor Vergata, Rome
Italy
http://www.hiteg.uniroma2.it/

Brief Bio
Giovanni Saggio received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, in, respectively, 1991 and 1997. Since 1997 he's an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. His research interests include analog electronics, sensors, biomedical engineering, wearable devices, human-machine interface, brain-computer interfaces.

HEALTHINF Program Chair

Reyer Zwiggelaar
Aberystwyth University
United Kingdom

Brief Bio
Reyer Zwiggelaar received the Ir. degree in applied physics from the State University Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and electrical engineering from University College London, London, U.K., in 1993. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, U.K. He is the author or co-author of more than 250 conference and journal papers. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (formely IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine) and Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition. His cu rrent research interests include biometrics and medical image understanding, especially focusing on mammographic and prostate data, pattern recognition, statistical methods, texture-based segmentation, and feature-detection techniques. ... More >>

Doctoral Consortium Chair

Alberto Cliquet Jr
University of São Paulo & University of Campinas
Brazil