Plenary Speakers

Prof. Dr. Roozbeh Jafari, Ph.D.

Tim and Amy Leach Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering Presidential Impact Fellow Texas A&M University,
Tx, USA

Prof. Dr. Warren L Grayson, Ph.D.

Professor of Biomedical Engineering Translational Tissue Engineering Center Johns Hopkins University,
MD, USA

Prof. Dr. Luke P. Lee, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine Brigham Women’s Hospital Harvard University School of Medicine,
MA, USA

Prof. Dr. King Li, MD, MBA

Founder and President ROSforcure, Inc. Dean Emeritus Carle Illinois College of Medicine Adjunct Professor of Radiology Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, USA

Keynote Speakers

Elazer R. Edelman, S.B., S.M., Ph.D., MD

Director of Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science Professor, Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School,
MA, USA

John Hardy

Lancaster University
United Kingdom

Ge Wang, Ph.D.

Chair Professor and Director of Biomedical Imaging Center, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
NY, USA

Michael Levin, Ph.D.

Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering, The School of Arts and Sciences Tufts University,
MA, USA

Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, Sc.D., FRSC, FAIMBE, FIEEE, FBMES

Founding dean College of Engineering, Anderson University,
SC, USA

Frederick H. Silver, Ph.D.

Founder of OPTOVIBRONEX, LLC Professor of pathology and Laboratory Medicine Rutgers University,
NJ, USA

Susan Drapeau, Ph.D.

VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & COMMERCIALIZATION, BRUDER CONSULTING & VENTURE GROUP, MA, USA

Parisa Rashidi, Ph.D.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, FL, USA

Gulden Camci-Unal, Ph.D.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL, USA

Invited speakers

Sella Brosh, M.D.

Chief Executive Officer, NVision Imaging Technologies, Germany

Hansang Cho, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Biophysics or Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Hana Vaisocherova – Lisalova, Ph.D.

Head of Laboratory of Functional Biointerfaces, FZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Sajanlal R. Panikkanvalappil, Ph.D.

Scientist II, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Research Associate in Radiology, Harvard Medical School,
MA, USA

Minseok S. Kim, Ph.D.

FOUNDER AND CEO OF CTCELLS, INC. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPT OF NEW BIOLOGY, DGIST,
REPUBLIC OF KOREA.

Gou-Jen Wang, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering National Chung-Hsing University
Taiwan

Hongki Kang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology)
South Korea

Qing-Xiang Sang, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Florida State University
FL, USA

Featured Speakers

Vijayan K. Asari, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON, OH, USA

Bela Suki, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, BOSTON UNIVERSITY,
MA, USA

Christopher McGregor, Ph.D.

Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota,
MN, USA

Ara Nazarian, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
MA, USA

Jerome C. Mertz, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University,
MA, USA

Umer Hassan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY, NJ, USA

Chandler Benjamin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY,
TX, USA

Douglas Clarkson, Ph.D.

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, UNITED KINGDOM

Pamela C. Yelick, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Orthodontics, TUFTS UNIVERSITY,
MA, USA

Meltem Elitas, Ph.D.

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, SABANCI UNIVERSITY,
TURKEY

Xin Ren, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY,
CHINA

Arash Ghorbannia, Ph.D.

Department of Biomedical Engineering, MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN & MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY, WI, USA

Ryon-Shin Su, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Engineering in Medicine, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, MA, USA

Li Xu, Ph.D.

School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering
Southeast University,
China

Zhengpeng (Jason) Wan, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical Engineering, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MA, USA

Jose E. Krieger, MD, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Cardiopulmonology, UNIVERSITY OF SAO PAULO, BRAZIL

Mahla Poudineh, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO, CANADA

Marco Antonio Gutierrez, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Director of Informatics, UNIVERSITY OF SAO PAULO, BRAZIL

Marimelia Porcionatto, Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry, UNIVERSITY OF SAO PAULO
BRAZIL

Saeed Hassanpour, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE,
NH, USA

Aaron B. Baker, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, TX, USA

Amir M. Sodagar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, YORK UNIVERSITY, ON, CANADA

Wenzhuo Wu, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, PURDUE UNIVERSITY,
IN, USA

Arian Mansur, B.A.

Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, MA, USA

Yichen ding, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, TX, USA

Andrew D. Stephens, Ph.D.

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL,
MI, USA

Taylor Bertucci, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, NEURAL STEM CELL INSTITUTE,
NY, USA

Dhruv Seshadri, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of BioEngineering, LEHIGH UNIVERSITY,
PA, USA

Jie Xu, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor, Center for Advanced Models and Translational Sciences and Therapeutics (CAMTraST), UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL, MI, USA

Raissa Schiavoni, Ph.D.

Researcher in Engineering of Complex Systems, UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO,
Italy

Robert Guidoin, Ph.D.

Professor of surgery, Department of surgery, LAVAL UNIVERSITY,
CANADA

Xiaomo Wu, Ph.D.

DERMATOLOGY HOSPITAL OF FUZHOU,
CHINA

Maysam Chamanzar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY,
PA, USA

Chengwei Huang, Ph.D.

ZHEJIANG LAB,
HANGZHOU,
CHINA

Kuangwen Hsieh, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Scientist, DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY,
MD, USA

Nicolo Colistra, Ph.D.

UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA,
ITALY

Ahmet F. Coskun

Georgia Institute of Technology,
USA

Patrick Bhola

Harvard Medical School
USA

Olwyn Mahon

University of Limerick and Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Ireland