BIBE 2024 Committee

Conference Chair

Prof. Habib Zaidi

Prof. Habib Zaidi

IEEE Fellow

Geneva University Hospitals, Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, Switzerland

Areas of Expertise:
Brain imaging, brain networks, technique development

Bio: Habib Zaidi is Chief physicist and head of the PET Instrumentation & Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital and full Professor at the medical school of Geneva University. He is also a Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), Adjunct Professor of Medical Physics and Molecular Imaging at the University of Southern Denmark (Denmark), Adjunct Professor of Medical Physics at Shahid Beheshti University visiting Professor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Distinguished Professor at Óbuda University (Hungary). He has been elevated to the grade of fellow of the IEEE, AIMBE, AAPM, IOMP, AAIA and the BIR and was elected liaison representative of the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Chair of Subcommittee on Part 1 Examination of the International Medical Physics Certification Board (IMPCB) and the Imaging Physics Committee of the AAPM in addition to being affiliated to several International medical physics and nuclear medicine organisations. His academic accomplishments in the area of quantitative PET imaging have been well recognized by his peers and by the medical imaging community at large since he is a recipient of many awards and distinctions. Prof. Zaidi has been an invited speaker of over 160 keynote lectures and talks at an International level, has authored over 900+ publications, 470 conference proceedings and 42 book chapters and is the editor of four textbooks.

Conference Co-Chair

Prof. Seongho Kim

Prof. Seongho Kim

Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, USA

Areas of Expertise:
Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) data analysis; High-throughput data analysis; Disease progressive modeling; Metabolomics

Bio: Dr. Kim's research interests lie in the data analysis and the methodology development for biological and clinical cancer data. He has participated in various research projects, including pattern recognitions, decision support systems, comparative genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics, biomarker discovery, high-dimensional data analysis, pathway analysis, clinical trial design and cancer screening.

Prof. Xueli Chen

Prof. Xueli Chen

Director of Biomedical-photonics & Molecular Imaging Lab, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, China

Areas of Expertise:
Multiscale biomedical photonics imaging in innovation, application, and clinical translation

Bio: Xueli Chen, Professor of Xidian University, Director of Biomedical-photonics & Molecular Imaging Lab, Director of Advanced Diagnostic-Therapy Technology and Equipment Key Laboratory of Higher Education Institutions in Shaanxi Province, Director of Xi’an Key Laboratory of Intelligent Sensing and Regulation of trans-Scale Life Information. Chen carried out his undergraduate and doctoral studies at Xidian University of China from 2003 to 2012. Chen received his Bachelor degree in Biomedical Engineering and PhD degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System in 2007 and 2012 respectively. His doctoral dissertation was selected as the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Xidian University. Chen joined Xidian University in 2012 as Assistant Professor in School of Life Science and Technology, promoted to Associate Professor in 2014 and Full Professor in 2017. During 2015 to 2017, he worked as a research postdoctoral fellow at Purdue University (Ji-Xin Cheng\'s group) on stimulated Raman scattering microscopy. Chen and his team have been constantly at the most forefront of multiscale biomedical photonics imaging in innovation, application, and clinical translation. Professor Chen has co-led the development of Cerenkov luminescence endoscope and further explored the application in early detection of clinical gastrointestinal tumors. Professor Chen has also developed the stimulated Raman projection tomography technology which can perform the volumetric imaging of single cells in a label-free manner. Professor Chen has served as the member of SPIE, OSA, IEEE (senior member), Vice president of Shaanxi Society of Biomedical Engineering, and as a committee member of the Computational Imaging Committee of the Chinese Society of Optical Engineering, Branch of Biomedical Imaging Technology in China Medicinal Biotech Association, Micro and Nano Committee of the Chinese Society of Optical Engineering, Microscopic Instrument Branch of China Instrument and Control Society, Biomedical Photonics Committee of the Chinese Society of Optics, Medical Image and Device Committee of the China Graphics Society, etc.

Technical Committee Chair

Prof. YuDong Zhang

Prof. YuDong Zhang

IET&EAI&BCS Fellow, ACM Distinguished Speaker

Department of Informatics, University of Leicester, UK

Areas of Expertise:
Medical image processing, Biomedical engineering, deep learning and medical image analysis.

Bio:Prof. Yudong Zhang works at University of Leicester. His research interests include deep learning and medical image analysis. He is the Fellow of IET, Fellow of EAI, and Fellow of BCS. He is the Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. He is the Distinguished Speaker of ACM. He was 2019, 2021 & 2022 recipient of Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. He has (co)authored over 400 peer-reviewed articles. There are more than 60 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 6 ESI Hot Papers in his (co)authored publications. His citation reached 28912 in Google Scholar (h-index 95). He is the editor of Neural Networks, IEEE TITS, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE JBHI, etc. He has conducted many successful industrial projects and academic grants from NIH, Royal Society, British Council, GCRF, EPSRC, MRC, BBSRC, Hope, and NSFC. He has served as (Co-)Chair for more than 60 international conferences (including more than 20 IEEE or ACM conferences). More than 70 news presses have reported his research outputs, such as Reuters, BBC, Telegraph, Mirror, Physics World, UK Today News, etc.

Technical Committee Member

Prof. Bin Chen

Prof. Bin Chen

State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering Energy and Power Engineering School, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Areas of Expertise:
Bio-Heat Transfer and Multiphase Flow in Biomedical Engineering, Numerical simulation techniques of multiphase flow, Hydrogen production by biomass gasification in supercritical water

Prof. Jens Haueisen

Prof. Jens Haueisen

Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany

Areas of Expertise:
Investigation of active and passive bioelectric and biomagnetic phenomena, Measurement, analysis, forward and inverse modeling of bioelectric and biomagnetic data, Numerical computation of bioelectric and biomagnetic fields, Methods for validation and verification in bioelectric and biomagnetic phenomena, Techniques for electric and magnetic stimulation of the brain, Neuro-ophthalmology

Prof. Jingwei Xie

Prof. Jingwei Xie

Department of Surgery-Transplant, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA

Areas of Expertise:
synthesis, surface modification, self-assembly of materials at nanometer scale to address problems in the field of tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and drug/gene delivery

Prof. Bin Liu

Prof. Bin Liu

ACM&CCF Senior Member

International School of Information Science & Engineering (DUT-RUISE), Dalian University of Technology, China

Areas of Expertise:
Computer-Assisted Preoperative Planning and Simulation, Medical Image Processing and 3-D Reconstruction, Computer Vision and Graphics

Dr Alexandre G. de Brevern

Dr Alexandre G. de Brevern

French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, France

Areas of Expertise:
Molecular modelling, molecular dynamics, protein docking

Prof. Jyh-Cheng Chen

Prof. Jyh-Cheng Chen

Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, China

Areas of Expertise:
Imaging, PET, SPECT, Computed Tomography, PET Imaging

Prof. Ming Chen

Prof. Ming Chen

Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, China

Areas of Expertise:
Omics big data integration and mining, Plant non-coding RNAs, Systems biology and integrated network modelling, Algorithm development & Artificial intelligence (Precision medicine)

Prof. Yanen Wang

Prof. Yanen Wang

School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Areas of Expertise:
Biomechanical Engineering, Computational Biomechanics, Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, Tissue Mechanics, Biomedical Modeling

Assist. Prof. Faez Iqbal Khan

William Cho

Department of Clinical Oncology, China

Areas of Expertise:
Cancer Studies to Discover Biomarkers for Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment Prediction and Prognostication.

Prof. Gema Prats Boluda

Prof. Gema Prats Boluda

Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

Areas of Expertise:
Biomedical Engineering, specifically in the development of non-invasive systems of ad-doc capture and instrumentation of bioelectric signals and their processing, as well as the development of prediction systems and aid in diagnosis and decision making

Prof. Yangchao Chen

Prof. Yangchao Chen

School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Areas of Expertise:
Epigenetics in cancer, histone modification particularly methylation, long and short non-coding RNAs, development of novel therapeutics for liver and pancreatic cancer

Binh Phu NGUYEN

Binh Phu NGUYEN

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Areas of Expertise:
Health data sciences and informatics, Deep learning, Biomedical image analysis, Bioinformatics, Drug discovery

Prof. Guang-Zhong Wang

Prof. Guang-Zhong Wang

Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Areas of Expertise:
Our group is interested in how to integrate the analyses and explanation of brain-scale datasets to gain a global level of understanding how the brain works. In addition, we are also interested in the transcriptome dynamics of early brain development and the general design principles of the transcriptional and translational system.

Prof. Lin Zhang

Prof. Lin Zhang

School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, China

Areas of Expertise:
RNA methylation data processing, signature gene identification, multi-omics big data integration, medical imaging, medical big data

Assist. Prof. Faez Iqbal Khan

Assist. Prof. Faez Iqbal Khan

Department of Biological Sciences at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Areas of Expertise:
Protein engineering, Protein folding, drug design, and Protein dynamics