Keynote Lectures

Connected Sensors for Health and Autonomy

 

Brief Bio
Norbert Noury is a Distinguished Professor at University of Lyon, France. His lectures cover Electronics and Physics in Medical devices and his research interests are in eHealth, connected health sensors, Ambient assistive living environments. After a MSc in Electronics (Grenoble University, 1985), he was R&D engineer in several industrial companies during 8 years. He then defended his PhD in Medical Telematics (1992) and joined the University of Grenoble (1993), where he initiated a new field of researches in Health Smart Homes and wearable health sensors and he created and directed his own research group at laboratory TIMC in Faculty of Medicine Grenoble (1998-2008). In 2008 he moved to University of Lyon, where he took various responsibilities - Director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Polytech'Lyon School of Engineering, Director of the Master in Regulations of Medical devices, Director of the BSc in Medical Technologies at IUT Lyon 1. Since 2008, he was also with the Biomedical Sensors research group at INL-INSA Lyon where he launched a Living Lab for Health and developed several innovative wearable non-invasive smart sensors for continuous monitoring of humans (actimetrics, fall detection, thermal measurement, non-invasive blood pressure). He is also an entrepreneur who contributed to launching 2 Start Up, exploiting his works and (15) patents. He guided 21 PhD students, authored or co-authored more than 250 scientific papers (H-index 38). He is an expert and reviewer at the European Commission, ESF, CRSNG. He is an active member of the French Chapter IEEE EMBS (President 2015-19, secretary 2013-15, VP since 2019). He was one of the founders of the “Groupement National de Recherche Biomédicale” GDR STIC-Santé in which he led the “wearable health sensors” group (2002-14). He also is frequently involved in the organization committees of international scientific events (General Chair IEEEHealthcom2010 in Lyon and IEEE-Healthcom2018 in Ostrava, local organizing committee IEEE-EMBC2007 in Lyon, pHealth2011 in Lyon, member of the steering Committee of the IEEEHealthcom conference from 2010 to 2020).

From Models to Knowledge: Fusing Multimodal Information from Physiological Data

 

Brief Bio
Anna M. Bianchi is full professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano. She received the Laurea in Electronic Engineering from the same University. In the period 1987-2000 she was research assistant in the Lab. of Biomedical Engineering of the IRCCS S.Raffaele Hospital in Milano; in 2001 joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano.  Her teaching activities are in the field of Biomedical Signal Processing (Bachelor degree) and Medical Informatics (Master degree). She is among the Lecturers of the PhD program in Bioengineering and since 2004 she is in the board of the same PhD program. She is author of more than 100 papers published on peer reviewed international journals (h-index = 26). She collaborated in many EU (MyHeart, HeartCycle, Neuropt) research projects and was Unit coordinator in the EU project Psyche (FP7), Pickfiler (FP7), and in now Unit coordinator of the EU project LINK (H2020).She is member of the IEEE-Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, and member of the technical committees on  Cardiopulmonary Systems and on Neuroengineering. She is fellow of EAMBES (European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering).

The Three Worlds of MRI

 

Brief Bio
Robert Turner played a key role in the invention of actively shielded gradient coils used widely in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in the development of diffusion weighted imaging of human brain, and in the discovery of functional MRI by measurement of the effects of blood oxygenation changes. As Director from 2006 until 2014 of the Department of Neurophysics at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, he worked on the creation of native cortical anatomical maps of individual living human brains using ultra-high field MRI, developed the use of cerebral blood volume mapping using MRI to map brain functional activity, and pioneered the study of cortical laminar-specific brain activations.Robert Turner studied maths and physics at Cornell University and completed his doctorate in physics at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. As a lecturer at Nottingham University from 1984 until 1988, he built his own MRI scanner, designed and built gradient coils for MRI, and assisted Sir Peter Mansfield in the development of snapshot echo-planar MRI. Between 1988 and 1994 he was a Visiting Scientist at NIH, where he demonstrated the importance of echo-planar imaging for measurement of diffusion and brain function. He then became a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor at the Functional Imaging Laboratory of the Institute of Neurology in London. He has published nearly 300 scientific papers in a broad range of disciplines. Now living in Cambridge, England, he is Emeritus Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, and Honorary Professor in the Physics Department, University of Nottingham and in the School of Psychology, Cardiff University. In 2020 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

The Role of Sensing for Health and Well-being

 

Brief Bio
Dr. Augusto is Professor of Computer Science at Middlesex University, London, UK.  His main research interest is in the design and implementation of Intelligent Environments, especially on applications which had to do with health and well-being.  He is the Head of the Research Group on Development of Intelligent Environments and of the Smart Spaces Lab. This research group and lab won the 2019 edition of the “Real A.I.” competition organized by the British Computing Society. He has contributed to the research community with in several ways: more than 280 publications, several keynotes and tutorials for international workshops and conferences, created workshops to stimulate discussions on specific areas which need further development,  taken prominent roles in some of the most important events in this area, is Editor in Chief of a book series and scientific journals, participated an directed numerous research projects, assessed for the European Union and for several other national scientific organizations.