Keynote Speakers

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  Yu-Dong Zhang

  Research field：Deep Learning; Convolutional Neural Networks; Graph Convolutional Networks; Attention Networks; Explainable AI; Biomedical Image Analysis; Bio-Inspired Computing; Pattern Recognition; Transfer Learning; Medical Sensor.

  Professor, IEEE/ACM/IES Senior Member, University of Leicester, UK.

  Prof. Yudong Zhang serves as a Chair Professor at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, UK. He is the Fellow of IET, Fellow of EAI, and Fellow of BCS. He is the Senior Member of IEEE, IES, and ACM. He is the Distinguished Speaker of ACM. He was included in Most Cited Chinese Researchers (Computer Science) by Elsevier from 2014 to 2018. He was 2019, 2021 & 2022 recipient of Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. He is included in World’s Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University from 2020 to 2022. He won Information Fusion 2022 Best Paper Award, etc. His three papers are included in Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021. He has (co)authored over 400 peer-reviewed articles in the journals: Ann Oncol, JACC, JAMA Psychiatry, IJIM, Inf Fus, IEEE TFS, IEEE TII, IEEE TIP, IEEE TMI, IEEE IoTJ, Neural Networks, IEEE TITS, Pattern Recognition, IEEE TGRS, IEEE JBHI, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TETCI, IEEE TCSS, IEEE JSTARS, IEEE TNSRE, IEEE SJ, ACM TKDD, ACM TOMM, IEEE/ACM TCBB, IEEE TCAS-II, IEEE JTEHM, ACM TMIS, etc. There are more than 60 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 5 ESI Hot Papers in his (co)authored publications. His citation reached 24192 in Google Scholar (h-index 86). He is the editor of Neural Networks, IEEE TITS, IEEE TCSVT, etc. He has conducted many successful industrial projects and academic grants from NIH, Royal Society, GCRF, EPSRC, MRC, BBSRC, Hope, British Council, Fight for Sight, and NSFC. He has given over 120 invited talks at international conferences, universities, and companies. He has served as (Co-)Chair for more than 60 international conferences and workshops (including more than 20 IEEE or ACM conferences). His research outputs have been reported by more than 50 news press, such as Reuters, BBC, Telegraph, Physics World, UK Today News, EurekAlert! Science News, India Times, Association of Optometrists (AOP) news, Medical Xpress, etc.
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  Jingshan Huang

  Research field：Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, and Biomedical Informatics, Ontology Matching/Alignment, Ontology Development, Ontology Quality, Semantic Web and Web Services. Semantics-Enhanced Data Mining, Biological and Biomedical Informa.

  Professor, University of South Alabama, USA

  Prof. Jingshan Huang received the PhD degree in University of South Carolina in May 2007, under Dr. Michael N. Huhns. He is currently a Professor with the Biomedical Informatics Group housed in the School of Computing at the University of South Alabama (South). His research areas are Data Science and Computational Life Science in general, in particular, the semantics and analysis of data as well as their innovative applications on human genomics and transcriptomics.
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  Carlos M. Travieso-González

  Research field：Biometrics, Biomedical signals and images, Data mining, Classification system, Signal and image processing, Machine learning, and Environmental intelligence.

  Professor, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

  Carlos M. Travieso-González received the M.Sc. degree in 1997 in Telecommunication Engineering at Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain; and Ph.D. degree in 2002 at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC-Spain). He is a full professor of signal processing and pattern recognition and is head of the Signals and Communications Department at ULPGC, teaching from 2001 on subjects on signal processing and learning theory. His research lines are biometrics, biomedical signals and images, data mining, classification system, signal and image processing, machine learning, and environmental intelligence. He has researched in 52 international and Spanish research projects, some of them as head researcher. He is co-author of 4 books, co- editor of 27 proceedings books, guest editor for 8 JCR- ISI international journals, and up to 24 book chapters. He has over 450 papers published in international journals and conferences (81 of them indexed on JCR– ISI- Web of Science). He has published seven patents in the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office. He has been a supervisor on 8 Ph.D. theses (11 more are under supervision), and 130 master theses. He is the founder of The IEEE IWOBI conference series and the president of its Steering Committee, as well as the founder of both the InnoEducaTIC and APPIS conference series.He is an evaluator of project proposals for the European Union (H2020), Medical Research Council (MRC, UK), Spanish Government (ANECA, Spain), Research National Agency (ANR, France), DAAD (Germany), Argentinian Government, and the Colombian Institutions. He has been a reviewer in different indexed international journals (& lt; 70)and conferences (& lt; 250) since 2001.
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  Caterina La Porta

  Research field：Cancer Biology, Apoptosis, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Cell Biology, Cell Culture, Cell Signaling, Flow Cytometry, Gene Expression, Cell Proliferation, Immunohistochemistry.

  Professor, University of Milan, Italy.

  Prof. Caterina La Porta is professor of General Pathology at the University of Milan where she coordinates the research group Oncolab and is member of the steering committee of the Center for Complexity and Biosystems. In 2018, she co-founded the startup ComplexData where she serves as CEO. During her scientific career, Prof. La Porta published more than 200 papers in international journals mainly on cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, receiving thousands of citations.  In the past 15 years, she shifted her interest to quantitative biology and digital health.  The focus of her current research activity focuses on understanding cancer heterogeneity using tools from cell biology, biophysics and data science.  Her interdisciplinary view of cancer is summarized in a book published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 entitled “The Physics of Cancer”.  Prof. La Porta was selected as one of the 100 most important female scientists in Italy (https://100esperte.it/) and was visiting scientist in many universities around the world, including MIT, Cornell University, Aalto University, Rice University, the ENS Paris, the Weizmann Institute of Science and LMU in Germany.  Prof. La Porta has a long track record of public outreach activities, including the organization of several editions of the EU Researcher’s night, and is involved in many other science dissemination activities.
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  Paola Serena Ginestra

  Research field：Biomanufacturing, Bioprinting, Mechanical Technology.

  Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, Italy.

  Prof. Paola Ginestra graduated at the Polytechnic Institute of Milan in Biomedical Engineering, obtaining the Master Degree in 2012. She worked at the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute in Bologna as Biomedical Engineer from 2012 to 2014. She has completed his PhD from University of Brescia in Italy in 2017 and has been a visiting PhD student at the University of California Irvine, USA and in The Centro Renato Archer Campinas, Brazil. She carried out her postdoctoral studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the research coordinator of the Manufacturing for Biomedical Applications Lab (BIOMBS) and part of the Directors Board of the European Scientific Association for Material Forming (ESAFORM). He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. She has been part of the Scientific Committee in international conferences on biomanufacturing.
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  Huifang Chen

  Research field：Bioengineering, Pharmaceutical Technology, Medical Nutrition, Medical Immunology.

  Professor, Guangxi Normal University, Guangdong Lingnan Institute of Technology, Guangzhou Pearl-River Vocational College of Technology, China.

  Prof. Chen serves as the reviewer for SCI journal- Frontiers in Bioscience-landmark (Singapore) and SCI journal Medicine (United States), and was hired as review editor for the core journal 'Frontiers of Medicine' in China. He is hired as a professional paper reviewer by academic institutions such as AEIC and IAAST. Employed by the Degree Evaluation Center of the Ministry of Education as a graduate student and undergraduate thesis review expert in medicine; as a member of the National Petroleum and Chemical Vocational Education and Teaching Steering Committee; and served as a member of the teaching material construction committee of the 14th Five-Year Plan for Pharmaceutical and Pharmaceutical Specialty of Vocational Education of China Chemical Industry Education Association and Chemical Industry Publishing House. He is served as the keynote speaker of the International Conference on Biology and Medicine in 2024.
  

  In June 1991, he graduated from East China University of Science and Technology with a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry Engineering, and Master degree from Guangxi Normal University. He has published for more than 100 papers, including 15 SCI papers, 3 SCI papers in Q1, 4 SCI papers in Q2, 8 EI papers, 1 Chinese core paper and 30 scientific and technological core papers. He compiled and published 31 books, of which 15 were the first editor-in-chief, and the health law textbooks edited by him were selected as the first batch of "14th Five-Year Plan" national planning textbooks. He has obtained 5 national invention patents, including 1 patent transfer, which has produced greater economic and social benefits. Completed more than 30 scientific research projects, including the completion of the national Ninth Five-Year scientific and technological research project, the completion of the national Natural Science Foundation project, the national Natural science Foundation of the research project, the completion of the national Class II new drug industrial production of 1 project, presided over the completion of provincial and above teaching and research projects more than 20. He has won more than 20 awards, including more than 2 national awards, including 2 first prizes for teaching and scientific research achievements of the Ministry of Education.
  
  
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  Shweta Gupta

  Research field：BioInformatics, Biomedical Electronics, Bionics.

  Associate professor, Woxsen University, India.

  Dr. Shweta Gupta has worked in Multinational Companies Like Patni Computers, Techmahindra, Reliance Infocomm and is presently an Associate Professor in Woxsen University, India with academic experience of 13 years. Her research lines are BioInformatics, Biomedical Electronics, and Bionics. She has expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with application in Cognitive Diseases.
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  Muhammad Attique Khan

  Research field：Medical Imaging, MRI Analysis, Video Surveillance, Human Gait Recognition, Remote Sensing.

  Assistant Professor, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia.

  Muhammad Attique Khan (Member IEEE) received the master's and Ph.D. degrees in human activity recognition for application of video surveillance and skin lesion classification using deep learning from COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2018 and 2022, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor with AI Department, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. His primary research focus in recent years is medical imaging, COVID-19, MRI analysis, video surveillance, human gait recognition, and agriculture plants using deep learning. He has above 350 publications that have more than 18 000+ citations and an impact factor of 1250+ with h-index 76 and i-index 250. He is the Reviewer of several reputed journals, such as the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transaction of Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition Letters, Multimedia Tools and Application, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, IET Image Processing, Biomedical Signal Processing Control, IET Computer Vision, EURASIP Journal of Image and Video Processing, IEEE Access, MDPI Sensors, MDPI Electronics, MDPI Applied Sciences, MDPI Diagnostics, and MDPI Cancers.
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  Chinmay Chakraborty

  Research field：Internet of Medical Things (IoMT); Medical Imaging; AI/ML; Wireless Communication.

  Assistant Professor, Birla Institute of Technology, India.

  Dr. Chinmay Chakraborty is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Jharkhand, India. His primary areas of research include Wireless Body Area Network, Internet of Medical Things, Energy-Efficient Wireless Communications and Networking, Point-of-Care Diagnosis. Prior to BIT Mesra, he worked at Faculty of Science and Technology, ICFAI University, Tripura, India. He worked as a Research Consultant in Coal India project at Industrial Engineering & Management, IIT Kharagpur, project coordinator in the Indo-US project at IIT Kharagpur, and also worked as a Network Engineer in System Administration at MISPL, India. He received his Ph.D. in Electronics & Communication from BIT Mesra, India. He did his Masters in Telecommunication Engineering from G. S. Sanyal School of Telecommunication, IIT Kharagpur, India. He did his B. Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from MAKAUT (formerly, WBUT), India. He has published more than 30 technical papers in various journals, book, book chapter, and conferences. He has also been an Editor for a book published by a reputed international publisher. He is an Editorial Board Member in Journal of Wireless Communication Technology and also a member of International Advisory Board for Malaysia Technical Scientist Congress, and Machine Intelligence Research Labs. He got Outstanding Researcher Award from TESFA, 2016 and also got Young Faculty Award from VIFA 2018.
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  Mohana Kumara P

  Research field：Plant Physiology, Bioprospecting, Plant metabolism, metabolic pathways, Multiomics.

  Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology and Crop improvement, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, India.

  Dr. Mohana Kumara P is an eminent agricultural scientist with a B.Sc in Agriculture and Ph.D in Crop Physiology. He has authored over 25 impactful papers and holds two patentes. His achievements include a number of high-profile fellowships and awards, including the Commonwealth Fellowship, Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at IIT Madras, and travel grants from DST/FAOB and the Science Academy in India, InRes C V Raman Prize and S Ramanujan Award for Outstanding Scientists. Dr. Mohana has been able to secure research grants from various organizations and has successfully completed ten distinct projects. His research interest areas include biochemical methods, bioprospecting, molecular approaches, and multi-omics approaches in medicinal plant research. His main research interests are: a) identification of anticancer drugs from plants and conserving them; b) Using mass spectrometry imaging to study the distribution patterns of secondary metabolites in plants; c) Performing tissue and cell type transcriptome analyses to discover pathway genes for metabolic engineering; and d) Studying boundary chemistry, i.e., the chemicals released during interaction between microbes, plants, and insects (chemical ecology) etc.