Organizing Committee
Conference Chair – James Weiland, University of Michigan
Conference Chair – Michelle Khine, University of California-Irvine
Finance Chair – Thomas Penzel, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Program Chair – Gregg Suaning, University of Sydney
Program Co-Chair – Olaf Doessel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Conference Editorial Board Chair – James Patton, University Illinois at Chicago
Workshop Chair – Atam Dhawan, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Local Organizing Committee Chair – Aaron Ohta, University of Hawaii
Exhibits-Sponsorship Chair – Jack Judy, University of Florida
WIE Chair – Lisa Lazareck-Asunta, EMBS-WIE Representative
WIE Chair – Jennifer Shin, KAIST
Webmaster – Hans van Oostrom, van Oostrom Consulting
Executive Office – Janice Sandler, IEEE, EMB
International Program Committee
Dominique Durand, Case University, Cleveland, USA
Zhongze Gu, Southeast University, China
Bin He, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Ellis Meng, University of Southern California, USA
Konstantina S. Nikita, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Christian Roux, Institut Mines-Telecom, France
Mohamad Sawan, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Thomas Stieglitz, University of Freiberg, Germany
Kenji Sunagawa, Kyushu University, Japan
Nitish Thakor, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA)/National University of Singapore
Ewaryst Tkacz, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Bruce Wheeler, University of California, San Diego USA
Eung Je Woo, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Theme Chairs & Co-Chairs
1. Biomedical Signal Processing
Chair: Laura Astolfi, Sapienza University, Italy
Co-Chair: Luca Faes, University of Palermo, Italy
2. Biomedical Imaging & Image Processing
Chair: Marius Linguraru, George Washington University, USA
Co-Chairs:
Julia Schnabel, Kings College, U.K.
Chulhong Kim, POSTECH, Korea
Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester, ICREA/Pompeu Fabra University of Spain
3. Micro- & Nano-bioengineering; Cellular & Tissue Engineering
Chair: Esmaiel Jabbari, University of South Carolina, USA
4. Computational Systems & Synthetic Biology; Multiscale Modeling
Chair: Socrates Dokos, University of New South Wales, Australia
Co-Chair: Jie Liang, University of Illinois, Chicago
5. Cardiovascular & Respiratory Systems Engineering
Chair: Thomas Heldt, MIT, USA
Co-Chairs:
Rama Mukkamala, Michigan State University
Philip de Chazal, University of Sydney
6. Neural Engineering, Neuromuscular Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering
Chair: Silvestro Micera, Ecole Politechnique Federale de Lausanne, France
Co-Chair:
Michela Chiappalone, Italian Institute of Technology (ITT)
7. Wearable Biomedical Sensors & Systems
Chair: Stephen Redmond, University of New South Wales
Co-Chairs:
Alan Bourke, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Brian Caulfield, University College Dublin
8. Bio-Robotics, Surgical Planning and Biomechanics
Chair: Alicia Casals, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Co-Chairs:
Leonardo Ricotti, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. Italy
Jorge Dias, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research
9. Therapeutic & Diagnostic Systems, Devices and Technologies, Clinical Engineering
Chair: Punit Prakash, Kansas State University, USA
Co-Chairs:
Jie Chen, University of Alberta
Dieter Haemmerich, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
10. Biomedical and Health Informatics
Chair: May Wang, Georgia Tech, USA
Co-Chair: Konstantina S. Nikita, National Technical University of Athens
11. Biomedical Engineering Education and Society
Chair: Metin Akay, University of Houston, USA
12. Translational Engineering for Healthcare Innovation & Commercialization
Chair: Atam Dhawan, NJIT, USA
Co-Chair: Steve Schacheter, Harvard Medical School
13. Pharmaceutical Engineering
Chair: Kyungsoo Park, Yonsei University, Korea
Co-Chairs:
Andrew Hooker, Uppsala University
Jong Mo Seo, Seoul National University