Speakers

Keynote Speakers

                                                      

   Dr. Yuan-Ting Zhang is currently the Head of the Division of Biomedical
Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also serves as
the Director of the Key Lab for Biomedical Informatics and Health
Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Director of the
SIAT-Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering of Chinese
Academy of Science. He chaired the Biomedical Division of Hong Kong
Institution of Engineers in 1996/97 and 2000/01. Dr. Zhang was the
Technical Program Chair of the 20th IEEE-EMBS Annual Int’l
Conference in 1998 and the General Conference Chair of the 27th
IEEE-EMBS Annual Int’l Conference in 2005. He was elected as an
AdCom member in 1999 and served as Vice-President (Conferences) of
IEEE-EMBS in 2000. Dr. Zhang serves currently as a member of
IEEE-EMBS Technical Committee of Wearable Systems and Sensors,
and the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans. On Information Technology in
Biomedicine.

Dr. Zhang’s research interests include neural engineering, wearable
medical devices, and body sensor networks particularly for mobile health.
He has published more than 300 scientific articles in the area of
biomedical engineering and filed over 30 patent applications. Dr. Zhang
and his team received more than 30 awards and recognitions which
include the Fellow of International Academy of Medical and Biological
Engineering, IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow, the APICT2009 Award, and
the recipient of 2006 Distinguished Service Award of IEEE-EMBS.