Dear All,
Thank you for your participation for BHI2012. The conference photos will soon be available online for download. Thank you again for your support and hope to see you all in near future.
"Development of Medical Devices: China's Perspectives"
Xian-En Zhang, Ph.D.
Director General, Basic Research Department
Ministry of Science & Technology, China
"Eradicating Heart Attacks with Screening for Early Detection and Treatment of Asymptomatic Atherosclerosis: The SHAPE Initiative"
Morteza Naghavi, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Fairway Medical Technologies, USA
Chairman, Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication (SHAPE)
Metin Akay, Ph.D.
IEEE Fellow
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, USA
Editor-in-Chief, Biomedical Engineering Book Series
"Real-time interaction between computer simulations and electrophysiological experiments: A novel paradigm for biological experiments"
Robert Butera, Ph.D.
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Faculty Director of Graduate Studies, Georgia Tech
Vice President of IEEE-EMBS (Finances)
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (2007-2010)
"International Collaborations"
Semahat S. Demir, Ph.D.
AIMBE Fellow
Program Director, Biomedical Engineering (BME)
National Science Foundation
"Biomedical Optical Imaging Technologies for Clinical and Personalized Healthcare Applications"
Atam P. Dhawan, Ph.D.
IEEE Fellow
Distinguished Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Bin He, Ph.D.
IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow
Distinguished McKnight University Professor,
Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
University of Minnesota, USA
Director, Biomedical Functional Imaging and Neuroengineering Laboratory
Director, Center for Neuroengineering
Director, NIH Training Program in Neuroimaging
Past President, IEEE-EMBS (2011)
"DEP-Well: a new technique for electrophysiology"
Michael P. Hughes, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Mechanical,
Medical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Surrey, UK
Editor in Chief, IEEE Trans. on NanoBioscience
Andrew Laine, Ph.D.
IEEE Fellow
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology,
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, USA
Vice President, IEEE-EMBS (Publications)
Zhi-Pei Liang, Ph.D.
IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow, ISMRM Fellow
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-chair, Integrative Imaging Theme, Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
President, IEEE-EMBS (2011-2012)
"Personalized System for Remote Health Monitoring and Care"
Ratko Magjarević, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Chair, Department of Electronic Systems and Information Processing
University of Zagreb, Croatia
President-Elect, Int'l Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering(IFMBE)
"Information for Informatics: Cardiac Biophysical Monitoring"
Michael R. Neuman, Ph.D.
Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Michigan Technological University, USA
Editor in Chief, IEEE Pulse
Shu-Ming Nie, Ph.D.
AIMBE Fellow
The Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering & Professor,
Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Director for Emory-Georgia Tech Cancer Nanotechnology Center
Xiao-Chuan Pan, Ph.D.
Fellow of AIMBE, IEEE, OSA, SPIE
Professor of Radiology, Radiation and Cellular Oncology,
The University of Chicago, USA
Committee on Medical Physics, and the Cancer Research Center at The University of Chicago
"Somatosensory BMIs"
José C. Príncipe, Ph.D.
IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow
BellSouth Professor, University of Florida, USA
Director of Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory
Editor in Chief, IEEE Reviews on Biomedical Engineering
Past President of the International Neural Network Society
Past Editor-in-Chief, Trans. of Biomedical Engineering
"Retrieval of Information in Medical Image Databases"
Christian Roux, Ph.D.
IAMBE Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow
Dean, Research with TELECOM Bretagne, France
Past President, IEEE-EMBS (2000-2002)
"Quantitative assessment of the extent and severity of vascular disease"
Milan Sonka, Ph.D.
IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow
Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Professor of Radiation Oncology, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences,
and Applied Mathematical & Computational Sciences,
The University of Iowa, USA
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging
"Translational Biomedical and Health Informatics for
Personalized Healthcare
Biomarker Pipeline and Molecular Tissue Imaging Informatics Tool TissueWiki"
May D. Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University
School of Medicine, USA
Director of Biocomputing and Bioinformatics Core in Emory-Georgia
Tech Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar
""Grand Challenge in Neural Engineering: Can We Forward Engineer a Living Brain?"
Bruce Wheeler, Ph.D.
IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow
Professor & Interim Chair, Biomedical Engineering Department,
University of Florida, USA
Editor in Chief, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering
"Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging: from Morphology to Function"
Guang-Zhong Yang, Ph.D.
FREng, FIEEE, FAIMBE, FIET
Director, The Hamlyn Centre
Imperial College London
London, UK
"What can imaging contribute to drug development?"
Gudrun Zahlmann, Ph.D.
Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Switzerland
Vice President of IEEE-EMBS (Member & Student)
Yuan-Ting Zhang, Ph.D.
IAMBE Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow
Head, Division of Biomedical Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Director, Key Lab for Health Informatics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (HI-CAS)
Director, CAS-SIAT Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering (IBHE)
Editor in Chief, IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine