General Chair

Zhongchao Han

Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College; Academician, French Academy of Medicine & French Academy of Technologies; Director, National Stem Cells Engineering Technology Research Center; Director, National Engineering Research Center of Cell Products; President of Beijing Health-Biotech Group.

Research Interests: Molecular biology of blood vascular cells; Biotechnology; Stem cells and regenerative medicine.

Professor Zhongchao Han has been engaged in the research work of hematology, stem cells biology & engineering technology for many years. Altogether, he has published over 500 academic theses, among which 250 English theses appear on international journals. He is the chief editor/ editor of six English academic monographs and eight Chinese academic monographs. He has authored and co-authored multiple peer-reviewed scientific papers and presented works at many national and International conferences. In the Elsevier International Assessment, he was selected for China's high-income laborer list for 5 consecutive years. (2015-2019). Professor Zhongchao Han and his team has won more than 20 national and international prizes for the scientific and technological work they accomplished.

Co-chair

Lau Bee Theng

Professor, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, Malaysia.

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence in activity recognition, natural scene text recognition, audio event detection, road accidents recognition, wafer surface defect detection, financial risks recognition, aesthetic preference of design objects; Smart/creative technologies for the healthcare and well being of people with visual impairment, autism, cerebral palsy, intellectually giftedness, paediatric cancer etc.; Alternative learning methods in education and STEM education; Rural informatics for bridging the digital divide; Impact study of digital devices on students.

Lau Bee Theng is currently a professor in ICT and the Director School of Research, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus.She has been actively contributing to her research areas with various edited books, peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings, masters by research and PhD completions, and funded research projects on assistive technologies for special children, facial expression recognition-based communication, social skills acquisition with animations, real time behaviour recognition, smart technologies for the visually impaired, creative art therapies for Autism, STEM education etc. In addition, she also involves actively in community services working with special education schools, NGOs for the people with visual impairment and other disabilities. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and Association of Computing Machinery, Professional Technologist (Malaysia Board of Technologist) and Certified Tester (International Software Testing Qualifications Board). She has involved actively in national and international professional bodies in the executive committees, education, professional and humanitarian projects, winner of IEEE Malaysia Outstanding Volunteer 2018 and IEEE Asia Pacific Outstanding HTA Volunteer 2021.

Academic Committee

Alessandro Parodi, Sechenov University, Russia

Andrea Kwa Lay Hoon, Singapore General Hospital; Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

Fei Ye, Association des Médecins et des Biologistes Chinois en France, France

Jie Zhou, Chinese Medical Association in Germany, Germany

Jiang Yu, Sweden China Life Science Association, Sweden

Changbin Yu, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, China

Xiao’ou Li, Shanghai University of Medicine & Health Sciences, China

Xufeng Yao, Shanghai University of Medicine & Health Sciences, China

Qiujin Qian, Peking University Sixth Hospital, China

Shaozheng Qin, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, China

Haijing Niu, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, China

Zhijian Song, Digital Medicine Research Center, Fudan University, China

De’an Ta, Academy for Biomedical Engineering Technology, Fudan University, China

Xiaolong Sun, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Mario Allegra, University of Palermo, Italy

Michael J. McPhaul, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Pietro Morasso, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy

Heng Li, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Xiaobo Mao, Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Patricio Yankilevich, Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires (IBioBA), CONICET - Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society, Argentina

Wolfgang Orthuber, UKSH University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel University, Germany

Murtaza Hasan, Department of Biotechnology, The Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Nanda Gopal Sahoo, Kumaun University, India

Sebastian Beyer, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Akram Alefbae, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Bright E. Igere, Western Delta University Oghara, Nigeria

CHAIMAE TAOUSSI, Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco

Yahya Absalan, University of Ferdowsi, Iran

Organizing Committee Chair

Linhua Jiang, Overseas Chinese Science and Technology Innovation Alliance