Prof. Ryuji Kohno
IEEE Life Fellow & IEICE Fellow
Yokohama National University, Japan

Ryuji Kohno received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1984. He was a Professor and the Director of Centre on Medical Information and Communication Technology, in Yokohama National University in Japan for 1998-2021 and then Professor Emeritus. In his currier he played a part-time role of a director of Advanced Telecommunications Laboratory of SONY CSL during 1998-2002, directors of UWB Technology and medical ICT institutes of NICT during 2002-2012. For 2012-2020 he was CEO of University of Oulu Research Institute Japan – CWC-Nippon Co. and since 2020 Vice-President of YRP International Alliance Institute. The meanwhile for 2007-2020 a distinguished professor in University of Oulu in Finland and since 2006 a member of the Science Council of Japan. In IEEE he was a member of the Board of Governors of Information Theory Society in 2000-2009, and editors of Transactions on Communications, Information Theory, ITS, IEEE802.15 standardization TG6ma Chair and IEEE Life Fellow. In IEICE he was Vice-president of Engineering Sciences Society of IEICE during 2004-2005, Editor-in chief of the IEICE Trans. Fundamentals during 2003-2005 and IEICE Fellow. He is a founder and a chair of steering committee of international symposia of medical information and communication technologies (ISMICT) since 2006.

 

Prof. Pengcheng Hu
Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Pengcheng Hu (Senior Member, IEEE) is a permanent professor, doctoral supervisor of Harbin Institute of Technology, vice president of Precision Instrument Engineering Research Institute and deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Ultra-Precision Instrument Technology and Intelligent Chemical Industry and Information Technology. His research field is around ultra-precision laser measurement and optoelectronic instruments, engaging in basic research, key technological breakthroughs, and instrument development and testing. He undertakes major national science and technology projects, technology basic projects, major national engineering projects, National Natural Science Foundation international cooperative research projects, National Natural Science Foundation major research plan projects, National Natural Science Foundation general projects, etc. He has published 60 SCI indexed papers, published and edited 1 book, and applied for/authorized 152 domestic and foreign invention patents.

 

Prof. Yifan Chen
IET Fellow
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Dr. Yifan Chen is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He received his B.Eng. (Hons. I) and Ph.D. in electrical and electronic engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has held various academic and leadership positions in top-tier universities in China, New Zealand, UK, and Singapore across disciplines such as electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, and computer science and engineering. He is a Fellow of Engineering New Zealand, a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK, and a Fellow of The European Alliance for Innovation. He is a Senior Editor/Associate Editor/Guest Editor for several cross-disciplinary journals such as IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, and IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. His current research interests include in vivo computation where computing meets bio-sensing, molecular and biological communications where communicating meets bio-transporting, and electromagnetic biomedicine where RF sensing meets bio-imaging. His research has been supported by NSFC and MOST (China), MBIE and HRC (New Zealand), EPSRC (UK), FP7 and COST (European Union), etc., and received media coverage from IEEE Spectrum, IET, Engineering New Zealand, The New Zealand Herald, etc.