Event Chairs

Ana Fred Instituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) Portugal

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Ana Fred received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 1989 and 1994, respectively, both from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is a Faculty Member of IST since 1986, where she has been a professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and more recently with the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She is a researcher at the Pattern and Image Analysis Group of the Instituto de Telecomunicações. Her main research areas are on pattern recognition, both structural and statistical approaches, with application to data mining, learning systems, behavioral biometrics, and biomedical applications. She has done pioneering work on clustering, namely on cluster ensemble approaches. Recent work on biosensors hardware (including BITalino – and ECG-based biometrics (Vitalidi project) have been object of several nacional and internacional awards, as well as wide dissemination on international media, constituting a success story of knowledge transfer from research to market. She has published over 160 papers in international refereed conferences, peer reviewed journals, and book chapters. ... More >>

Hugo Gamboa Nova University of Lisbon Portugal

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Hugo Gamboa is an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the Sciences and Technology Faculty of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and member of LIBPHYS. PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. As a Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer Portugal coordinates the Lisbon Office research group with the focus on Intelligent Systems. He is a founder and President of PLUX, a technology-based innovative startup in the field wireless medical sensors, focused on microelectronics, biosignal processing and software development.

Alexandre Douplik Toronto Metropolitan University Canada

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Alexandre (Sasha) Douplik is a Professor, Head of Ryerson Photonics Group in Physics Department at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) since 2011, and also a Scientist of St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, specialized in Advanced Optical Biomedical Imaging and Laser Surgery and Therapy. In 2008-2011 he was Research Professor of Nuremberg-Erlangen University, Germany where he defended Biomedical Engineering Habilitation (Dr. of Science degree) in 2011. Before 2008 Dr. Douplik was a Scientific Associate at Biophysics/Bioimaging Division in Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto (2007) and Senio r Researcher of Xillix Technologies Corp., Vancouver (2002-2007). ... More >>

Federico Cabitza Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Italy http://federicocabitza.net

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Federico Cabitza, MEng, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy) where he teaches Human-Computer Interaction and where he coordinates the research activities of the MUDI Lab (Modelling Uncertainty, Decisions and Interaction). Since 2016 he has also had a research appointment with the IRCCS Orthopaedics Institute Galeazzi in Milano (Italy) and more recently with San Raffaele Hospital. His current research interests regard the design and evaluation of interactive systems and decision support based on machine learning techniques in the Healthcare domain.

Silvana Quaglini Dept. of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia Italy www.labmedinfo.org

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Silvana Quaglini is Full Professor of Health Care Information Systems Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy, where she teaches Medical Informatics and Decision Support in Medicine. Se is author of more than 200 articles in International Journals and Scientific Books. Her research interests regard decision support systems in medicine and more particularly basic areas such as decision theory, clinical process modeling, artificial intelligence, probabilistic systems, biomedical statistics, knowledge acquisition. Application areas include support systems for diagnosis, therapy and monitoring, such as computerized gu idelines, economic evaluation models based on decision analysis, telemedicine systems and workflow management within healthcare organizations. The main medical areas covered by such applications are stroke, chronic diseases, cardiovascular risk, motor and cognitive rehabilitation. The recent push toward personalized medicine has focused the latest applications on the "shared decision making" and "context-aware home-monitoring patients ... More >>