Yuan-Ting Zhang
| Cardiovascular Health Informatics: Sensing and Imaging Plagues in Arteries |  |
| Yuan-Ting Zhang | |
| Head of the Division of Biomedical, Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Director of the Key Lab for Biomedical Informatics and Health Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Kong |
Abstract
Abstract - This keynote will address a spectrum of health informatics topics, ranging from physiological and biomedical information acquisition processing, to transmission and data fusion for the non-invasive monitoring of cardiovascular diseases. It will closely examine important issues on the topic of body sensor networks with applications, and will define the concepts of the Cardiovascular Health Informatics (CHI) area. Topics will include core technologies highlighting wearable medical device design as well as the importance of standards for achieving optimized system performance.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Yuan-Ting Zhang is currently the Head of the Division of Biomedical Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Director of the Key Lab for Biomedical Informatics and Health Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Founding Director of the SIAT-Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering of Chinese Academy of Science. Dr. Zhang was a Research Associate and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada from 1989 to 1994. He chaired the Biomedical Division of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers in 1996/97 and 2000/01. Dr. Zhang was the Technical Program Chair of the 20th IEEE-EMBS Annual Int’l Conference in 1998 and the General Conference Chair of the 27th IEEE-EMBS Annual Int’l Conference in 2005. He was elected as an AdCom member in 1999 and served as Vice-President (Conferences) of IEEE-EMBS in 2000. He was a Co-Chair of IEEE-EMBS Summer School on Medical Devices and Biosensors. Dr. Zhang serves currently as a member of IEEE-EMBS Technical Committee of Wearable Systems and Sensors, and the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans. On Information Technology in Biomedicine. Dr. Zhang’s research interests include cardiovascular health informatics, neural engineering, wearable medical devices, and body sensor networks particularly for mobile health. He has published more than 300 scientific articles in the area of biomedical engineering and filed over 20 patent applications. Dr. Zhang and his team received more than 30 awards and recognitions which include the Fellow of International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, IEEE Fellow, the Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the recipient of 2006 Distinguished Service Award of IEEE-EMBS.
