Previous Invited Speakers
The researchers below were distinguished invited speakers at previous BIOSTEC conferences.
We are indebted to them for their contribution to heighten the conference level.
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2024
Connected Sensors for Health and Autonomy 
Norbert Noury, University of Lyon, France From Models to Knowledge: Fusing Multimodal Information from Physiological Data Anna Maria M. Bianchi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy The Three Worlds of MRI Robert Turner, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, United Kingdom The Role of Sensing for Health and Well-being Juan C. Augusto, Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
2023
Towards the Virtual Human Simulator Giovanni Saggio, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy Academia and Industry: Partners in Leveraging Engineering, Science and Medicine for Clinical Translation Elazer Edelman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Ground-Truthing in the European Health Data Space Mireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Machine Learning Applied to Electronic Health Record Data: Opportunities and Challenges Riccardo Bellazzi, Universita di Pavia, Italy
2022
Wirewalking over Two Medical AI Chasms: Results and Open Problems in Making "Valid AI" Also Useful in Medical Practice Federico Cabitza, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi, Italy On Trust and Trustworthiness of Interpretable AI Methods for Decision Support in RadiologyKatja Bühler, VRVis, Austria Value-based Healthcare: Contributions from Biomedical Engineering Ana Rita Londral, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2021
Capitalizing on Patient Reported Outcome Measures, Wearables, and Smartphones Towards Developing New Clinical Decision Support Tools for Frequent, Remote, Longitudinal Monitoring of Chronic Disorders Athanasios Tsanas, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Psychological Perspectives and Challenges Towards Information Technology and Digital Health Interventions Thomas Ostermann, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Germany ETERNITY: European Training Network on Electromagnetic Risks in Medical Technology Mireya Fernández Chimeno, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Democratizing Data-driven Healthcare Tiago Guerreiro, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2020
Visualizing Health Data – From Fundamental Research to Successful Applications Roy Ruddle, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Patient Innovation - When Patients Innovate and Improve Their Lives Helena Canhão, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal Uncertainty Modeling and Deep Learning Applied to Food Image Analysis Petia Radeva, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain AI in Medicine: "Lessons Learned" from the 70s to the Present Day and Needs for New Synergies and Professional Roles Silvana Quaglini, Dept. of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy
2019
Non-Invasive Disease Diagnosis using Wearable Sensing Technologies Hossam Haick, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Project based Learning and Biomedical Devices: The UBORA Approach towards an International Community of Developers Focused on Open Source Medical DevicesAndres Diaz Lantada, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Ehealth in Portugal and EU Henrique Martins, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018
3D Interaction in Virtual Reality using Eyes, Hands, and Brain Anatole Lécuyer, Inria Rennes/IRISA, Hybrid Research Team, France Designing for Self-management of Mental Ill-health - The Need to Extend Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Agenda Corina Sas, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Affordable Diagnostics with Biosignal Analysis Dinesh Kumar, RMIT University, Australia The New Paradigm of Industrial Design for Disability Maximiliano Romero, Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy
2017
Brain-inspired Medical Image Analysis for Computer-aided Diagnosis Bart H. Romeny, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands Designing for Somaesthetic Experiences - Focusing on Actuation Rather than Sensing? Kristina Höök, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden An Unobtrusive System to Measure, Assess, and Predict Cognitive Workload in Real-World Environments Bethany Bracken, Charles River Analytics Inc., United States Off-the-person ECG-based Biometric Recognition Hugo Plácido da Silva, IT- Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
2016
Deep Learning in Medical Applications Hayit Greenspan, Tel Aviv University, Israel Virtual Humans - Challenges and Opportunities from a Psychological PerspectiveMarcus Cheetham, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland Magnetically Guided Biomedical Micro- and Nanorobots Salvador I., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland Organic Bio-electronic Sensors for Ultra-sensitive Chiral Differential Detection Luisa Torsi, University of Bari "A. Moro", Italy
2015
Advances and Challenges in Dynamic Bioimage Analysis Erik Meijering, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia How to Cross the Border from R to D? - The Example of Conception of New Medical Devices Lionel Pazart, Tech4Health/ F-CRIN, Inserm, CHU Besançon, France Enchanted Objects - Design, Human Desire and the Internet of Things David Rose, Independent Researcher, United States
2014
Managing Systems in Remote Monitoring - A Complex Challenge Turned into an Important Clinical Tool Mário Oliveira, Independent Researcher, Portugal Frontiers of Surgical Robotics Cesare Stefanini, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy GWAS Across Space and Time - What Have We Learned? Arcadi Navarro, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Image Analysis Challenges in Translational Molecular Imaging Research Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
2013
Voice as a Vehicular Tool to Organic and Neurological Disease Tracking: How Far we May Go? Pedro Gómez Vilda, Independent Researcher, Spain Source Separation for Biomedical Signals: Blind or not Blind? Christian Jutten, Images and Signal,, France The Present and Future of Devices for Neural Recording Adam Kampff, Independent Researcher, Portugal All a Matter of Timing: Neuroscience and Neural Engineering of Abnormal Human Movement Richard Reilly, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Multimodal Interfaces: Capture, Tracking and Recognition Vladimir Devyatkov, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russian Federation Methodologies for Systems Medicine: Time to Join the Forces of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Pietro Lio, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2012
SOMATOSENSORY IN BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACES José C. Príncipe, University of Florida, United States THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIO IMAGING Richard Bayford, Middlesex University, United Kingdom KINESIOLOGICAL ELECTROMYOGRAPHY - Applications and Challenges Jan Cabri, LIROMS - Luxembourg Institute of Research in Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Science, Luxembourg CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY - Engineering and Medicine Mamede de Carvalho, Institute of Physiology-Institute of Molecular Medicine- Faculty of Medicine- University of Lisbon, Portugal BIOMEDICAL 2D AND 3D IMAGING - State of Art and Future Perspectives in Ophthalmology, Dentistry, Prosthesics and Forensic Medicine Franco Docchio, Università degli studi di Brescia, Italy NOVEL TRENDS IN MULTIMODAL IMAGING AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH IN SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE Miguel Castelo-Branco, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2011
CARDIOVASCULAR VARIABILITY SIGNALS - Towards a Quantitative Assessment of the Complexity of Autonomic Controlling Systems with Novel Application Tools Sergio Cerutti, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy BIOSIGNALS AND INTERFACES Tanja Schultz, Cognitive Systems Lab (CSL), University of Bremen, Germany THE APPLICATION OF BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION FOR SENSORY-MOTOR RECOVERY AND FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT IN SPINAL CORD INJURED INDIVIDUALS Alberto Cliquet Jr, University of São Paulo & University of Campinas, Brazil THE APPLICATION OF SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITION OF EEG AND FUNCTIONAL MRI IN EPILEPSY Mário F. Secca, CEFITEC, Departamento de Fisica, FCT/UNL, Portugal MAKING MICROROBOTS MOVE Bradley Nelson, Independent Researcher, Switzerland INFORMATICS-DRIVEN INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH Bruno Sobral, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, United States
2010
DATABASES AND ALGORITHMS FOR PATHWAY BIOINFORMATICS Peter D. Karp, , United States HEALTH AND MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS - A Demanding Perspective Rui C. Ferreira, Independent Researcher, Portugal HEALTH AND MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS - A Demanding Perspective Rui César das Neves, Directorate-General of Health, Portugal MOLECULES TO DEVICES - The Role of Engineering in Next Generation Point of Care Tests Tony Cass, Imperial College London, United Kingdom PERSONAL HEALTH - The New Paradigm to make Sustainable the Health Care System Vicente Traver, ITACA, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
2009
Technology for the Independent Living of People with Activity Limitations Pier L. Emiliani, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy Pattern Recognition and Statistical Learning Techniques for Applications in Skin Cancer DiagnosisMaciej Ogorzalek, Jagiellonian University, Poland Cognitive Science Approach to Understanding Human-Computer Interaction in Medicine Vimla L. Patel, Independent Researcher, United States Biomedical Informatics: Its Scientific Evolution and Future Promise Edward H. Shortliffe, Arizona State University, United States
2008
Multivariate, Multiorgan and Multiscale Integration of Information in Biomedical Signal ProcessingSergio Cerutti, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy ICT and Persons with Disabilities: The Solution or the Problem? Albert Cook, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada The cancer informatics ecosystem: A case study in the accretion of federated systems based on service oriented architectures, semantic integration, and computing gridsDavid Hall, Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina, United States From the Bench to the Bedside: The Role of Semantics in enabling the vision of Translational Medicine Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System, Clinical Informatics R&D, United States Outthinking and Enhancing Biological BrainsKevin Warwick, University of Reading and Coventry University, United Kingdom