Invited 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.