COMMITTEES
CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
Chair: Atam P. Dhawan, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean, NJIT, USA
Co-Chair: Manjunatha Mahadevappa, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Technology, IIT Kharagpur, India
PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Chair: P K Dutta, Ph.D. ,Professor and Head SMST, IIT Kharagpur, India
Co-Chair: Metin Akay, Ph.D., Founding Chair, Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Nicolas Chbat, Ph.D., Philips Research North America
Donna Hudson, Ph.D., Professor, School of Medicine, UCSF, USA
Vinod Kumar, Ph.D., Professor in EE Department, IIT Roorkee, India
Manjunatha Mahadevappa, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Technology, IIT Kharagpur, India
Jayanta Mukherjee Ph.D., Professor and Head, Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India
Elliot Sloane Ph.D., Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University, USA
Nitish Thakor Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Gudrun Zahlmann, Manager, Imaging Infrastructure, ROCHE, Switzerland
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM CHAIRS
Chair: Nitish Thakor Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Co-Chair: Gudrun Zahlmann, Manager, Imaging Infrastructure, ROCHE, Switzerland
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Jayanta Mukherjee Ph.D., Professor and Head, Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Rama Subba Reddy, Ph.D., Professor and Head, Applied Mechanics Department, BME Division, IIT Madras, India
Vinod Kumar, Ph.D., Professor in EE Department, IIT Roorkee, India
Jayesh Bellare, Ph.D., Professor, Bioengineering and Biotechnology, IIT Bombay, India
Ramesh Galgikere, Ph.D., Professor and Head, Biomedical Engineering Department, Manipal University, India
Sneh Anand, Ph.D., Professor, Center for Biomedical Engineering, IIT Delhi, India
Ramgopal Rao, Professor, IIT Bombay, India
S Mukherjee, Ph.D., Professor, Bioengineering and Biotechnology, IIT Bombay, India
N K Kishore Ph.D.,Professor , Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India
STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION
Lei Ding, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, USA
Matthias Reumann, Ph.D., Research Staff Member, IBM Research Collaboratory for Life Sciences – Melbourne, Australia
Debdoot Sheet, PhD Candidate, IIT Kharagpur
Subhamoy Mandal, DAAD PhD Scholar, Technische Universität München
Important Dates
July 15, 2012
Submissions of manuscript for 4-page papers and poster presentations due
September 28, 2012 (extended)
1-page late-breaking papers on POCHT clinical studies and trials for poster presentations
September 28th, 2012 (extended)
Notification of acceptance
November 1st, 2012
Final submissions
November 15, 2012
Industry exhibits proposals
November 1, 2012
Early conference registration begins
October 15, 2012
Keynote Speakers
- Balram Bhargava - M.D.
Professor AIIMS, Stanford-India Biodesign Program, India
Y.T. Zhang Ph.D.
Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Editor-In-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Informtaion Technology in Biomedicine,
Director, Key Lab for Health Informatics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (HI-CAS), Hong Kong.
Anurag Mairal, Ph.D.
Director, Global Exchange Program, Stanford-India Biodesign Program,
Consulting Assistant Professor, School of Medicine,
Executive Vice President of Orbees Medical, India Stanford, CA USA
May D. Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University School of Medicine, Director, Biocomputing and Bioengineering, USA
Soumyadipta Acharya, MD, PhD.
Graduate Program Director, Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design.
Assistant Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering.
Kenji Sunagawa, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University, Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Kyushu University Hospital, Japan
Shuming Nie, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Ven Manda
Vice President, Medtronic Science, Technology and New Therapies, USA
Roderic Pettigrew, M.D. Ph.D.
Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH, USA- Kenji Sunagawa M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University
Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Kyushu University Hospital, Japan.
Welcome to Bangalore
We are looking forward to seeing everyone in this conference! We have worked hard this past year to bring you a fantastic conference!