Luxia Zhang

Peking University, China

Bio: Luxia Zhang, professor in nephrology, Peking University First Hospital; Associate Dean, National Institute of Health Data Science and Professor at Institute for Global Health and Development, Peking University; Vice President and Secretary-General of Health Data Application and Management Committee; Chinese Hospital Association; Vice President of Committee on Health Data Science and Digital Medicine, China International Exchange and Promotion Association for Medicine and Healthcare; Vice President of Beijing Young Nephrologists Society; Deputy Editor of Health Data Science (a Science Partner Journal); Member of Lancet Digital Health International Advisory Board; member of Editorial Board of Clin J Am Soc Nephrol and Am J Kidney Dis; Her researches focus on prevalence, risk factors, intervention and management of kidney disease in China; the application of cutting-edge technology including big data and artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Joon Lee

University of Calgary, Canada

Dr. Joon Lee is the Director of the Data Intelligence for Health Lab and an Associate Professor of Health Data Science in the Departments of Community Health Sciences & Cardiac Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. He is a member of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute and the O'Brien Institute for Public Health.

He received an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science in 2016, a Discovery Award from the Banting Research Foundation in 2015, and an Outstanding Performance Award from the University of Waterloo in 2017.

Mohamad Sawan

IEEE Fellow, Westlake University, China

Bio: Mohamad Sawan is Chair Professor in Westlake University, Hangzhou, China, and Emeritus Professor in Polytechnique Montreal, Canada. He is the founder and director of the Center of Excellence in Biomedical Research on Advances-on-Chips Neurotechnologies (CenBRAIN Neurotech) in Westlake University, Hangzhou, China, and of the Polystim Neurotech Lab in Polytechnique Montreal. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. He is Co-Founder, Associate Editor and was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (2016-2019). He is the founder of the flagship IEEE International NEWCAS conference and co-founder of the International IEEE-BioCAS and IEEE-AICAS Conferences. He was General Chair hosting both the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) and the 2020 IEEE International Medicine, Biology and Engineering Conference (EMBC). He was awarded the Canada Research Chair in Smart Medical Devices (2001-2015), and was leading the Microsystems Strategic Alliance of Quebec (ReSMiQ), Canada (1999-2018). Dr. Sawan published more than 1000 peer-reviewed papers, one Handbook, three books, 13 book chapters, and 12 patents, and 20 other patents are pending. He received several awards, among them the most prestigious and first Polytechnique Montreal Research and Innovation Award, the J.A. Bombardier and Jacques-Rousseau Awards from the ACFAS, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, the Medal of Merit from the President of Lebanon, the Barbara Turnbull Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Shanghai International Collaboration Award, the Zhejiang Westlake Friendship Award, and the Qianjiang Friendship Ambassador Award. Dr. Sawan is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering Institutes of Canada, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and an “Officer” of the National Order of Quebec.