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.