Yuanting Zhang

Professor Yuan-Ting Zhang is the Director of the Key Lab of Health Informatics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Director of the CAS-SIAT Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering (IBHE). He is concurrently the first Head of Division of Biomedical Engineering established between Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prof. Zhang is the leader of the Guangdong Provincial Innovation Research Team, and is appointed, by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Chief Scientist of the national “973” program grant on imaging blood vessel plagues and monitoring vulnerable patients with cardiovascular diseases. In addition, Prof. Zhang also participates currently in the European Commission supported FP7 project on “HeartCycle” and involves in the “Earth No. 1” project at the China Astronaut Research and Training Center.

His research spans several fields, including wearable medical devices, body sensor networks, bio-THz imaging technologies, bio-modeling and bio-signal processing, neural engineering, health informatics, and p-Heath technologies, and is closely tied up to his teaching and publishing activities. He has authored/co-authored over 400 conference abstracts/journal papers/book chapters, co-edited 20 volumes of international conference proceedings, and filed 30 patents some of which are being licensed to companies for commercialization. His research work has won him and his students more than 30 honors and awards including the winner of two best journal paper awards from IEEE-EMBS, numerous best conference paper awards, the 2006 IEEE-EMBS outstanding service award, and the Grand Award in e-Health at the APICTA Award Competition in Melbourne in 2009.

Prof. Zhang provided extensively professional services of significant value to the local industries and global academic communities. He was elected to the AdCom of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) in 1999 and became previously the Vice-President of the IEEE-EMBS in 2000-2001. He served as the Technical Program Chair and the General Conference Chair of the 20th and 27th IEEE-EMBS Annual International Conferences in 1998 and 2005, respectively. He was the Honorary Advisor of Hong Kong Medical and Healthcare Device Manufacturers Association in 2004-2006 and the Chairman of HKIE Biomedical Division in 1997. He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, founding Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and Guest Editor for IEEE Communication Magazine.

Prof. Zhang serves at present the Chair of International Committee of the 33rd IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference to be held in Boston, USA in 2011, Editorial Board Member for the Book Series of Biomedical Engineering published by IEEE Press and Willey, and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. He also serves currently on IEEE Medal on Innovations in Healthcare Technology Award Committee, IEEE Fellow Elevation Committee, IEEE-EMBS Standard Committee, HK-ITC Projects Assessment Panel, and Chair of the working group for developing IEEE standard on wearable cuffless blood pressure measuring devices. Prof. Zhang holds the fellowships from the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the development of wearable medical devices and mobile health technologies.

Prof. Zhang completed his undergraduate and Master Degree studies in 1976 and 1981, respectively, from Shandong University and was conferred a Ph.D. from the University of New Brunswick in 1990.

Biomedical Engineering, Mobile Health, Body Sensor Network, Health Informatics