Schedule at a Glance
*All Times are CDT UTC-05:00 on October 30, 2021
*All Times are CST UTC-06:00 on November 1- 5, 2021
| Saturday, October 30, 2021 (Pre-Conference Workshops & Student & YP Events Pre- Registration Required) | |
| 7:30am‑9:00am | YP Webinar Series: What can I do next? |
| 7:30am‑11:30am | Workshop: Accelerating Innovation: From Ideas to Standards – Organizer: Carole C. Carey |
| 7:30am‑11:30am | Workshop: Bio-Inspired, Bio-Mimetic and Bio-Hybrid (Cyborg) Systems – Organizer: Hirotaka Sato |
| 7:30am‑1:00pm | Workshop: From Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI) to Neurorobotics: Challenges and Opportunities – Organizer: Andrei Dragomir |
| 9:00am‑1:00pm | Workshop: Modeling & Validation of the Cardiopulmonary System – Part I Organizer Nicholas Chbat |
| 9:30am‑11:00am | Student Activity I: Improving EMBS for Students – Open Forum |
| 11:30am‑1:00pm | ’YP Webinar Series: Reading and writing a paper with IEEE EMB Editors’’ |
| 1:00pm‑3:00pm | Break |
| 3:00pm‑4:30am | Student Activity II: Insight into SAC – Lecture |
| 3:00pm‑7:00pm | Workshop: Multimodal Imaging: Functional MRI and Electrophysiological (EEG, ECoG, and sEEG) Signals Acquisition and Processing – Organizer: Giorgio Bonmassar |
| 3:00pm‑5:00pm | Workshop: Modeling & Validation of the Cardiopulmonary System Part II Organizer: Nicholas Chbat |
| 7:00pm‑8:30pm | Student Activity III: Delving into Linkedin & IEEE Collabratec. |
| Monday, November 1, 2021 | |
| 7:30am-9:00am | Opening & Awards Ceremony |
| 9:00am‑9:30am | Break |
| 9:30am‑11:00am | Opening Keynote Speaker – Gordana Vunjak-Kovacevic |
| 11:00am‑11:30am | Break |
| 11:30am‑1:00pm | Mini Symposium – HealthCare Democratization through Biomedical Engineering Disruptions – Organizer: Michael Friebe |
| 11:30am‑1:00pm | Special Session – Engineering and Medicine in Extreme Environments- Organizer: Tobias Cibies |
| 1:00pm‑3:00pm | Break |
| 3:00pm‑4:30pm | Mini Symposium: New Trends in Perinatal and Pediatric Imaging Organizer: Yalin Wang |
| 3:00pm‑4:30pm | Meet with Leaders I ( Pre-Registration Required) |
| 4:30pm‑5:00pm | Break |
| 5:00pm‑6:30pm | Mini Symposium – ADVANCES in SLEEP BIOENGINEERING III: New Developments in the Quantitative Assessment of Sleep, Daytime Sleepiness and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Organizer: Thomas Penzel |
| 5:00pm‑6:30pm | Recent Advances in Wearable Sensing and Machine Learning for Biomechanics – A & B Organizers: Omer Inan & Todd Freeborn |
| 6:30pm‑7:00pm | Break |
| 7:00pm‑8:30pm | Special Session: CE’s Professional Roles and Responsibilities in a Post-COVID World Organizer: Fabiola Martinez-Licona |
| 7:00pm‑8:30pm | Special Session Machine Learning in Healthcare Organizer: Aristeidis Sotiras |
| Tuesday, November 2, 2021 | |
| 7:30am‑9:00am | Mini Symposium: The New Domain of Internet of Things and Big Data: Wildlife Conservation – Organizer: Nadja Bressan |
| 7:30am‑9:00am | Special Session: Tips on Effective Presentation Design and Delivery – Organizer: Christopher James |
| 9:00am‑9:30am | Break |
| 9:30am‑11:00am | Keynote Speaker Theme 1 – Catherine Marque |
| 9:30am‑11:00am | Keynote Speaker Theme 11 – Ann Saterbak |
| 11:00am‑11:30am | Break |
| 11:30am‑1:00pm | Mini Symposium: Causality and Coupling in Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems: Techniques and Applications – Organizers: Sonia Charleston-Villalobos and Luca Faes |
| 11:30am‑1:00pm | Meet with Leaders II (Pre Registraton Required) |
| 1:00pm‑2:00pm | Break |
| 2:00pm‑3:00pm | Keynote Speaker – Fei Fei Li |
| 3:00pm‑4:30pm | Mini Symposium: Estimation and Processing of Physiological Signals and Parameters Employing mHealth, Wearable and Robotic Solutions – Organizer: Bersaín Alexander Reyes |
| 3:00pm‑4:30pm | Special Session: Bioimpedance. Organizer: César A González |
| 4:30pm‑5:00pm | Break |
| 5:00pm-6:30pm | Keynote Speaker Theme 3 Micro/Nano-bioengineering Cellular/Tissue Engineering & Biomaterials- Roberto Olayo |
| 5:00pm‑6:30pm | Trending Keynote Speaker – Hector Gomez Dantes |
| 6:30pm‑7:00pm | Break |
| 7:00pm‑8:30pm | Special Session: Present and Future Challenges in Educating Biomedical Engineers, Part 2: New Approaches to Curricular Design – Organizer: Joaquin Azpiroz |
| 7:00pm‑8:30pm | Special Session: Starting your own Company Part II – Organizer: Dorin Panescu |
| Wednesday, November 3, 2021 | |
| 7:30am‑9:00am | Mini Symposium Driver Drowsiness: Causes, Detection, Prediction and Alert Organizer: Natividad Martinez Madrid |
| 7:30am‑9:00am | Mini Symposium: Verification and Validation of Computational Models in Electrotherapeutics Organizer: Marc Horner |
| 9:00am‑9:30am | Break |
| 9:30am‑11:00am | Keynote Speaker Theme 2 Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing – Julia Schnabel |
| 9:30am‑11:00am | Keynote Speaker Theme 4 Computational Systems, Modeling and Simulation in Medicine, Multiscale Modeling – Ricardo Armnetano |
| 11:00am‑11:30am | Break |
| 11:30am‑1:00pm | Mini Symposium: Emerging Methods in Signal Processing, Machine Learning and Control for Novel Investigations of High-Dimensional Brain Data Organizer: Catherine Stamoulis |
| 11:30am‑1:00pm | Mini Symposium: Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering towards Wellness through Prediction and Prevention Organizer: Ricardo Luis Armentano |
| 1:00pm‑3:00pm | Break |
| 3:00pm‑4:30pm | Keynote Speaker Theme 7 Biomedical Sensors and Wearable Systems – Cesar Gonzalez |
| 3:00pm‑4:30pm | Trending Keynote Speaker – May Wang |
| 4:30pm‑5:00pm | Break |
| 5:00pm‑6:30pm | Keynote Speaker Theme 5 Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems Engineering – Anna Bianchi |
| 5:00pm‑6:30pm | Keynote Speaker Theme 12 Translational Engineering for Healthcare Innovation and Commercialization – Guy Jean Savoir |
| 6:30pm‑7:00pm | Break |
| 7:00pm‑8:30pm | Mini Symposium: Complexity in Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems Organizer: Guadalupe Dorantes Méndez & Sonia Charleston-Villalobos |
| 7:00pm‑8:30pm | Meet with Leaders III ( Pre Registration Required) |
| Thursday, November 4, 2021 | |
| 7:30am‑9:00am | Mini Symposium: Integrative Multiscale Modelling Approaches to Tissue Engineering Organizer: Paula Faria |
| 7:30am‑9:00am | Special Session: Intelligent Monitoring and Diagnostics in Lung Diseases Organizer: Nikolaos Maglaveras |
| 9:00am‑9:30am | Break |
| 9:30am‑11:00am | Keynote Speaker Theme 8 Biorobotics and Biomechanics – Arianna Menciassi |
| 9:30am‑11:00am | Keynote Speaker Theme 10 Biomedical & Health Informatics – Christos Davatzikos |
| 11:00am‑11:30am | Break |
| 11:30am‑1:00pm | Special Session: Clinical Decision Support Systems for Enhancing Health Outcomes and Patients Experience in Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity Organizer: Konstantia Zarkogianni |
| 1:00pm‑3:00pm | Break |
| 3:00pm‑4:30pm | Special Session: Digital Transformation of Health Care in the 21st Century: Key Enabling Technologies Organizer: Giuseppe Fico |
| 3:00pm‑4:30pm | Women in Engineering ( Pre-Registration Required ) |
| 4:30pm‑5:00pm | Break |
| 5:00pm‑6:30pm | Keynote Speaker Theme 6 Sridevi Sarma |
| 5:00pm‑6:30pm | Keynote Speaker Theme 9 Therapeutic & Diagnostic Systems and Technologies – Zhen Xu |
| 6:30pm‑7:00pm | Break |
| 7:00pm‑8:30pm | Mini Symposium: Coronary Physiology Assessment in Coronary Artery Disease Organizer: Liang Zhong |
| 7:00pm‑8:30pm | Special Session: COVID-19 in Latin America, Efforts, Success, and Lessons to Learn – Part 2 Organizer: Luis Jimenez-Angeles |
| Friday, November 5, 2021 | |
| 7:30am‑9:00am | Mini Symposium: Recent Advances on Cuff-Less Blood Pressure Measurement I & II Organizers: Ramakrishna Mukkamala & Josep Sola |
| 7:30am‑9:00am | Special Session: Innovation Oriented Biomedical Engineering — Curriculum Discussion and Workshop with Students and Educators Organizer: Michael Friebe |
| 9:00am‑9:30am | Break |
| 9:30am‑11:00am | Keynote Speker James Moore |
| 11:00am‑11:30am | Break |
| 11:30am‑1:00pm | Mini Symposium: Upper and Lower Extremity Rehabilitation Robotics: Current Trends and Future Directions Organzier: Karen J. Nolan |
| 11:30am‑1:00pm | Mini Symposium: Brain-Computer Interfaces for Lower Extremity Rehabilitation, Language Decoding, Elucidation of Early Dementia Onset, and Control of a Robotic Hand-Orthosis for ALS Patients Organizer: Alexander Lechner |
| 1:00pm‑3:00pm | Break |
| 3:00pm‑4:30pm | Mini Symposium: New Diagnostic Tools and Algorithms for COVID-19 Organizer: Richard Ribon Fletcher |
| 3:00pm‑4:30pm | Organizing Committee Appreciation (Invite Only) |
| 4:30pm‑5:00pm | Break |
| 5:00pm‑6:30pm | Keynote Speaker Michael Miller |
| 6:30pm‑7:00pm | |
| 7:00pm‑8:30pm | |
| 7:00pm‑8:30pm | |
*On Demand Sessions will be available to all registrants through December 10, 2021