Mohamed Samir Hefzy served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Administration of the College of Engineering (COE) at The University of Toledo (UT), Toledo, Ohio for 14 years from 2004 to 2018. He is a tenured Professor of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME) and served as Graduate Program Director of the MIME department from 2000 to 2007, and again from 2018 to the present, and also was the first to hold that position during the 1994-95 academic years. Additionally, he serves as the Director of the COE Biomechanics and Assistive Technology Laboratory at UT. He has been on the faculty of The UT since 1987. He graduated from Cairo University, Egypt, with a BE (Honors) in Civil Engineering in 1972, and a BSc in Mathematics from Ain-Shams University in 1974. He earned his MS in Aerospace Engineering in 1977 and his PhD in Applied Mechanics in 1981, both from The University of Cincinnati. He then received training as a Postdoctoral Research Associate for two years in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. In 1983, Dr. Hefzy joined the faculty of Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan as their first engineering faculty. He then returned to the University of Cincinnati as a Research Assistant Professor in 1985.

Xiaoping Hu his Ph.D. in medical physics in 1988 from the University of Chicago. From 1990 to 2002, he was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota. In 2002-2016, he was Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Imaging in the Wallace H. Coulter joint department of biomedical engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. In July 2016, Dr. Hu joined UC Riverside as professor and chair of bioengineering and director of center advanced neuroimaging. Dr. Hu has worked on the development and biomedical application of magnetic resonance imaging for almost 4 decades. Dr. Hu has authored or co-authored 300+ peer-reviewed journal articles, with a total of 28,000+ citations and an h-index of 90. As one of the early pioneers, Dr. Hu conducted extensive and seminal work in functional MRI (fMRI). He has been credited with significant contributions to fMRI acquisition and analysis methods, mechanism and applications. His group is currently working on ascertaining the dynamics in resting-state fMRI data and studying of the locus coeruleus circuit. Another of his recent interests is the development of MRI biomarkers for the diagnosis and early detection of Parkinson’s disease. He is currently on the editorial board ofBrain Connectivity and an associate editor of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He is a fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance, a fellow of IEEE and a fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.

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Din Ping Tsai received Ph.D in Physics from University of Cincinnati, USA in 1990. He worked at Micro Lithography Inc., California, USA, Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Center, Toronto, Canada, and National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan from 1990 to 1999. He joined National Taiwan University (NTU) as an Associate Professor in 1999, and became Professor and Distinguished Professor of Department of Physics at NTU in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He served as the Director General of the Instrument Technology Research Center (NARL) located in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan from 2008 to 2012, and the Director of Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan from 2012 to 2019. He is Distinguished Research Fellow of Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica now.

Professor Luis Sobrevia is a biologist holding MSc in Physiology from Universidad de Concepcian (Chile), PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Kings College London (UK). He is Fellow of The Physiological Society (FTPS), UK. He is Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Pontificia Universidad Catalica de Chile and is Honorary Professor at University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR), Australia, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, and Medical School (Faculty of Medicine), Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil. His research interest is vascular physiology focused on cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating gene expression, transcripts and protein products associated with plasma membrane transporters and receptors in micro and macrovascular endothelium of the human placenta under pathological conditions, including gestational diabetes mellitus, gestational diabesity, and preeclampsia.

Dr. Dilber Uzun Ozsahin is graduated from the Department of the Physics in 2006 from Çukurova University. She has worked at CERN, Geneva during 2008-2010 for her Master thesis. She completed her Master studies in 2010 in Master of Natural and Applied Science, High Energy Physics. She completed her PhD studies on Medical Imaging for Breast Cancer in Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, 2014. Between 2015-2016, she worked at Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, NMMI Radiology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School as a post-doctoral researcher. She has worked on a new technique called laser induced optical barriers (LIOB) technique to improve nuclear medicine imaging devices cost and performance. Currently, she is working on the Mathematical Modelling and Artificial Intelligence Applications on Healthcare. She has been affiliated at Near East University as an Assoc. Prof. in Biomedical Engineering Department since 2016 and DESAM Institute since 2019.

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Douglas McCloskey obtained his PhD in 2017 in bioengineering in the lab of Bernhard O. Palsson at the University of California, San Diego. During his studies, he was awarded the prestigious Siebel’s Scholars Foundation grant. Douglas McCloskey is currently a group leader at the NNF Center for Biosustainability (CfB) at the Technical University of Denmark. At the CfB, He is leading a group of automation engineers, software engineers, and analytical chemists to develop Big –Omics data generation workflows and leading a group of PhDs and Postdocs to develop advanced machine learning and biochemical modeling algorithms to learn from Big –Omics data.

Dr Fredrik Edfors earned his Ph.D. at the Royal Institute of Technology in 2017 and did a post-doc at Stanford University before starting as a group leader at the Science for Life Laboratory (Stockholm) in the Systems Biology Division of KTH. He is managing the mass spectrometry infrastructure at KTH SciLifeLab, leading a group of PhDs and Postdocs to develop tools for plasma profiling and at-home sampling. His research involves data-driven integration of omics analysis with a focus on precision medicine.

JingweiXie received his B.S. and M.S. from Nanjing University of Technology, China, and his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore (2007). He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Xia group at Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Surgery‐Transplant and Holland Regenerative Medicine Program at University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is also an adjunct Faculty in the Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has won a number of awards including UNMC New Investigator Award 2015, Most Promising Invention Award 2017, Licensed Technology Award 2017 and 2018, Dr. Harold & Beverly Maurer Scientific Achievement Award, The Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures 2019,WashU patent award 2019 and 2020, and UNMC Distinguished Scientist Award 2020. His research interests include biomaterials, drug delivery, nanomedicine, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, wound infection and healing, and hemostasis.

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Dr. Hettie is an NCI/NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Fellow (PI/PD) in the Departments of Radiology and Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery within the School of Medicine at Stanford University that specialized in the design, development, and implementation of near-infrared-I/II peptidyl-, nucleic acid-, and immuno-based activatable bio-/molecular probes, biosensors, theranostics, and nanoparticles targeting biomarkers of brain cancers and their tumor microenvironment for their early detection, direct visualization, and surgical removal via utilizing image-guided surgery. He focuses on their rational design, bio-/chemical synthesis, and bio-/analytical evaluation in both a basic science research and preclinical setting. He has a Ph.D. in synthetic bio-/organic chemistry and previously was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University pursuing the development of nucleic acid-templated near-infrared-I (NIR-I) fluorescent probes.

Glen Atlas, MD, MSc. is a professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and an adjunct professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology

Dr. Spector received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics in 1981. He also received Dr. Sci. degree in 1991. In 1992-1993, he was a visiting scientist at the University of Missouri. Since 1994, he has been a member of the faculty (Research Professor) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA where he worked in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the areas of Cell and Tissue Mechanics and Engineering.He is an author of numerous papers in the Journalof Biomechanical Engineering, Biophysical Journal, Scientific Reports, etc. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing.He also develop and teach courses for the on-line masters Applied Biomedical Engineering Program at Johns Hopkins University. He received awards (twice) for his research collaboration with students, and he was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Dr Wei Min Huang is currently an Associate Professor (tenured) at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. With over 20 years of experience on various shape memory materials (alloy, polymer, composite and hybrid), he has published over 190 papers in journals, such as Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, and Materials Today, and has been invited to review manuscripts from over 280 international journals (including Progress in Polymer Science, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, and Advanced Functional Materials, etc), project proposals from American Chemical Society, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, etc, and book proposals from Springer, Elsevier and CRC. He has published two books (Thin film shape memory alloys – fundamentals and device applications, Polyurethane shape memory polymers) and is currently on the editorial board of over three dozen of journals.

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Biography: Professor Yung-Kang Shen received his Ph.D. degree from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1995. He has been a Professor of the School of Dental Technology at Taipei Medical University (TMU) since 2014. He has been a Chairman of the School of Dental Technology of TMU since 2018. He is also the Director of Bio-Medical Nano/Micro Forming Lab of TMU, the Researcher of Nano Tissue Engineering and Image Research Center of Taipei Medical University Hospital (TMUH), the Researcher of Sleep Research Center of Taipei Medical University Hospital (TMUH), the Researcher of the Department of Otolaryngology of Taiwan Adventist Hospital (TAH). He is the Chairman of Taiwan Oral Biomedical Engineering Association, the Supervisor of SME Taipei Chapter and the Director of Taiwan Society for Abrasive Technology. He is an Adjunct Professor of University Hasanuddin (Indonesia) since 2020. He is a Visiting Professor of Changchun University of Science and Technology (China) since 2012. He is a Part-time Professor of ShanDong University (China) since 2016. He is a Guest Professor of Zhejiang University of Technology (China) since 2017. Professor Shen is a project review committee member of the Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan). His research includes biomedical nano/micro forming technology, 3D/4D/5D printing, metamaterial, medical bionics design and manufacturing, scaffold fabrication, animal model for medicine therapy. Now, he has published more than 135 journal papers and 120 conference papers. Professor Shen has served as the keynote speaker or invited speaker at more than 27 international seminars. Professor Shen was awarded the Best Paper Award for the 3rd International Forum on Systems and Mechatronics in Singapore in 2010. He was also awarded the First Prize in Poster Presentation Award for the 2nd Research Week-International Symposium 2012 of COM on Dental Technology, Oral Health Care and Biomedical Device in Taipei in 2012. He was also awarded the Most Cited Article Award, 2012 to 2013 for "International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing" (SCI Journal). Professor Shen currently serves as the Editorial Board for Biology, Engineering and Medicine; Journal of Precision Medicine and Public Health; Open Access Journal of Science and Technology; International Open Access Journal of Translational Medicine and International Journal of Manufacturing Engineering. Professor Shen also served as the Special Issue Editorial for Special Issue “Application of the Biocomposite Materials on Bone Reconstruction” on Applied Sciences (SCI Journal).

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Azli Yahya is an Associate Professor in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia since 2015 until now. He is also a Chartered and Professional Engineer, Ir. & CEng. He holds a Degree in Electro-Mechanical Power System and Masters Degree in Electronic Production from Glamorgan University, UK. He is a doctorate of Loughborough University, UK specializing in Power Electronic System. His areas of research are Analog/Digital Circuit Design, Power Supply, Electrical Discharge Machining and Biomedical Instrumentation

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Associate Professor Ir. Dr. MalarviliBalaKrishnan have acquired more than 15 years of experience in the academics as well as involvements in the biomedical industry. She received both the B. Engand M. Eng (Biomedical Signal Processing) from UniversitiTeknologi of Malaysia at Skudai, Johor, Malaysia. She then obtained Doctor of Philosophy (Medical Sciences Engineering) from The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia in 2008. Currently, she is attached to School of Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering, UniversitiTeknologi of Malaysia. She founded Biosignal Processing Research Group (BSP-RG) in 2010 within the faculty to champion the research, development and commercialization of Biomedical Instrumentation. Dr. Malarviliis actively involved in research related to medical monitoring devices that focuses on detection of neonatal seizure, sudden cardiac death, implantable cardiac defibrillator receiver screening tool, fetal heart rate monitoring, asthma severity monitoring and many more. One particular project (device) titled “Respiratory CO2 Measurement for Monitoring Severity of Asthma” is under commercialization process in local market through collaboration with two big companies which are MIMOS Bhd and Infinecs Systems Sdn Bhd. To date, she has published more than 100 papers where 32 of them are scopus indexed and 17 of them are indexed with Q1/Q2 impact factor. She also received 5 international awards, 12 national awards and many more appreciation certificates. In addition, she has chaired sessions as chair person in prestigious conference, editorial board member and technical reviewer by IEEE, EMBS and medical society. She was recently selected for an 'Outstanding Woman in Health and Medical Sciences’ award at the 4th Venus International Women Awards - VIWA 2019, Chennai, India.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Baki Karaboce was born in Denizli, Turkey in 1967. He has received BSc in 1992 at Middle East Technical University in Physics. He has a PhD at Yeditepe University in Istanbul. He has studied ultrasound in cancer therapy in his PhD. He has been working at National Metrology Institute (UME) of Turkey since 1992. He is expert on acoustics, ultrasound and metrology including medical measurement and calibrations with many noticeable publications. He has designed several medical device calibrators with patent application and technology transfer actions. He is founder and head of medical metrology research laboratory at TÃœBITAK UME, Turkey. He is marathoner and father of two children

Teaches bioelectromagnetism on biological systems and biostatistics at the Science and Engineering Division at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, where he is the Director of the Physics and Engineering Department. He received his Doctorate in Physics from The University of Guanajuato,at the same time, he spent researchyear at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He spent a year as Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, USA. He has more than one hundred and ten published articles on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Five patents and advisor on PhD, Master Science and Bachelor Science thesis. He is in the editorial board in three international journals, and He belong to the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico.