Meet our Plenary Speakers
Professor Istvan TOTHis Chair in Biological Chemistry & Professor of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia; Affiliated Professorial Research Fellow and Group Leader, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, UQ. He graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University, Budapest, Hungary in 1969 and was awarded his PhD in 1972 for research in Alkaloid Chemistry. In 1994 he was awarded a DSc for his work on drug delivery. Prof. Toth moved from the School of Pharmacy at the University of London to the University of Queensland in 1998, and leads a productive medicinal chemistry research group (presently 30 members). He is an elected RACI Fellow, Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences and Fellow (External) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2009 he was awarded the Adrian Albert award for sustained and outstanding research in medicinal biochemistry. He has over 450 peer-reviewed publications (>500 citations/year since 2012), 45 patents, and a strong record in research commercialization. His research has attracted over $84 million in competitive grants, research contracts and investment funds in the past 10 years, including an NHMRC Program grant, which is now in its fourth successive 5-year term and a recent NHMRC Project Grant.
Dr. Dayong Gao is the ORIGINCELL Endowed Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, and Director of the Center for Cryo-Biomedical Engineering and Artificial Organs at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA (2004-present). Prior to joining the University of Washington, Dr. Gao was the Baxter Healthcare Endowed Chair of Engineering and the Alumni Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Center for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA (1998-2004). Over the past 30 years, Dayong Gao has made original contributions with outstanding achievements in: (1) low-temperature biomedical engineering and cryobiology: (a) investigating biophysical mechanisms of both cryoinjury and cryoprotection, which determine the life-or-death of biomaterials in bio-preservation and cryosurgery; and (b) developing novel technology and instruments for long-term cryopreservation of living cells and tissues with innovative applications in gene-cellular therapy, regenerative medicine, stem-cells/organ transplantation, treatments for cancer-diabetes-cardiovascular diseases, tissue engineering, vaccine/drug development, disease screening, in-vitro fertilization, and conservation of endangered species, etc.; (2) artificial organs (artificial kidney-liver system) for the life-saving treatment of end-stage multi-organ-failure diseases; and (3) bio-instruments and biosensors for clinical diagnostics. Dr. Gao has published over 500 peer-reviewed research papers, numerous patents, chapters in over 20 academic books. Invited as a plenary or keynote speaker, he has delivered over 200 scientific meeting presentations worldwide. Dr. Gao is a recipient of numerous national or international honors and awards, including the Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow of International Society for Cryobiology with the Basil Luyet Medal, American Heart Association Award, American Cancer Society Award, Asian American Engineer of the Year 2013 Award, Bill-Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Research Award, Whitaker Foundation Young Investigator Award, Washington Foundation Innovation Award, and International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories Special Service Award, etc. In 2019, the International Society for Cryobiology established the Dayong Gao Young Investigator Award in Dr. Gao’s honor to recognize each year’s most outstanding young cryobiologist and cryo-biomedical engineer in the world.
Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi is born in Hamedan, Iran in 1972. He received his Ph.D degree from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran in 2002. He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering (from Bu-Ali University, 2014), he works at Tongji University in Shanghai. He has published two books: Advanced Engineering Mathematics with Applied Examples of MATHEMATICA Software (2007) (320 pages) (in Persian), and Mathematical Modelling of Nonlinear Flows of Micropolar Fluids (Germany, Lambert Academic Press, 2011). He has published over 300 journal articles and 45 conference papers.
Eben Alsberg, Ph.D., Richard and Loan Hill Professor, is the director of the Alsberg Stem Cell & Engineered Novel Therapeutics (ASCENT) Lab, which is focused on engineering strategies to replace or regenerate damaged or diseased tissues in the body. His lab uses the complex signals that are implicated in tissue morphogenesis, repair, and homeostasis as a template for the development of innovative systems to drive functional tissue regeneration. Some areas of active investigation include engineering new biomaterials and drug delivery vehicles for functional tissue regeneration and cancer therapy, controlling stem cell fate decisions, developing technologies to control the temporal and spatial presentation of signals to regulate cell behavior, understanding the influence of mechanics on cell behavior and tissue formation, therapeutic angiogenesis, organoids and organogenesis, and studying cell-cell interactions. Alsberg has been a pioneer in the tissue engineering and biomaterials research community, with more than 125 peer-reviewed articles published since 1999,and 25 patents pended or granted. He has also received many academic honors and awards, including being elected into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows, the UIC President’s Distinguished Hire award, the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award, and the Crain’s Cleveland Business 2009 Forty Under 40 Award. Description Our laboratory focuses on engineering functional biologic replacements to repair damaged or diseased tissues in the body. We use the complex signals that are implicated in tissue morphogenesis, repair, and homeostasis as a template for the development of innovative biomaterials for tissue regeneration. Through the precise temporal and spatial presentation of soluble bioactive factors, mechanical forces, and biomaterial physical and biochemical properties, we aspire to create microenvironments that regulate cell gene expression and new tissue formation. Some areas of active investigation include controlling stem cell differentiation, delivering bioactive factors sequentially, developing spatially patterned constructs, understanding cell-cell interactions, and determining mechanical influences on cell function.
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Meet our Keynote Speakers
Dr. Bechan Sharma is presently working as a Professor and Ex-Head, Department of Biochemistry, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India. He has completed his higher education such as B.Sc. (Honours)-1980; M.Sc. (Biochemistry)-1982 and Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1988) from BHU-Varanasi. The areas of his research interest include Molecular Biology of HIV/AIDS, Tropical Diseases (Filariasis/Malaria), Drug design and development and Biochemical Toxicology. He has received number of Awards/ Honors and successfully completed numerous important Academic/ Administrative Assignments. He has thirty years of teaching / research experience. He has carried out several research projects and published over 200 research papers including book chapters, molecular methods in peer reviewed International and National Journals of repute. He has one US patent on HIV-1 genome structure based antiHIV-1 drugs design to his credit. He has supervised 18 PhDs and six PDFs. He is member/life member of several national/international scientific societies and attended numerous symposia/conferences in India and abroad. He is Chief-Editor/Associate Editor/Executive Editor and Member Editorial Board of over 130 peer reviewed International and National Journals. He has been acting as honorary reviewer for over 150 International/National scientific journals. His 5 books have been published by International publishers and 2 are in print. He has worked as a visiting scientist in USA for over three years and visited different labs at Italy, France, Iran, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Germany and Brazil to conduct different collaborative research projects related to Molecular Virology and Drug resistance. Prof. Sharma has been awarded with ICMR’s Senior Scientist Fellowship 2014-15 in Biomedical Sciences under Indo-USA joint research programme to work at NIEHS-NIH,NC, USA with Prof. Samuel Wilson on DNA repair. Recently Prof. Sharma has been included as a member in World Virology Society-Sweden and in an Indo-Japanese research initiative towards eradication of HIV/AIDS in India. Prof. B. Sharma is a Fellow of Academy of Environmental Biology (AEB) and Bioved Research Society (BRS).
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Dr. Peter Eze is a research fellow in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for decision support at the University of Melbourne Australia. His research focuses on harnessing AI techniques in conjunction with computational decision science techniques to provide evidence for optimum decision-making in both clinical and public healthcare settings. Peter is passionate about providing understandable evidence to aid human-in-the-loop decision-making as well as creating an explainable AI technique that allows transparent autonomous systems. He also works as a Software Engineer, especially in the area of building district Health Information Systems and medical data security
Professor Gabriel Kabanda the Most Notable and Top Distinguished Full Professor of Computer Science and Information Systems who is an exceptional strategist, seasoned academician, expert evaluator, shrewd business consultant and leader talented with competences for dealing with business and with people. He is a Visiting Professor of Machine Learning at Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India; an Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity at California State University, Chico (USA); and Professor of Applied Business Informatics (BIS/MIS) at the University of Zimbabwe Business School since January 2000. Gabriel is a Board Member of Board of Trustees of Crown University International Chartered Inc.; Vice Chairman of the Leadership Advisory Board of the IT Governance & Cybersecurity Institute (New York); Fellow of the African Scientific Institute (USA); Fellow and Secretary General of Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences; and Secretary General of the Africa-Asia Dialogue Network. Prof. Kabanda is the Former Pro Vice Chancellor (Research, Innovation & Enterprise Development) at Zimbabwe Open University for 13 years; and is currently an External Examiner of Computer Science programmes at the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe; and the Information Systems programmes at the Midlands State University, ZIMBABWE. He is the Editor of the Journal of Signal and Information Processing, Scientific Research Publishing Inc. (USA); an Editorial Board member of the LC International Journal on STEM; and an Editorial Board Member of Africa Journal of Leadership & Governance. Professor Kabanda was appointed jointly by the International Science Council (ISC), the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) and the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) in March 2019 to review the 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report. Gabriel received an international award on Outstanding Contributions to Education, the Golden Academic Excellence and Professional Achievement award in 2013 in Malaysia at the World Marketing Summit. He was also profiled by the South African Department of Science and Technology as one of Africa's accomplished scientists and outstanding researchers in the Africa Day commemoration newsletter Science News of 25th May, 2017, titled "ICT guru loves to educate". He was awarded the world-wide honour of Who's Who of Professionals in 1997. Gabriel is technically-savvy with outstanding relationship building, training and presentation skills. He holds a Post-Doctorate of Science, Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Computer Science from Atlantic International University (USA), a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (California, PWU), Master of Science in Computer Science (Swansea University, United Kingdom), B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics (University of Zimbabwe), Gold Diploma in Computer Programming (London), a Certificate in Applied Meteorology (Reading, UK), a Certificate in E-Moderation (University of Cape Town) and a Certificate in Management of Higher Education Institutions (Galilee International Management Institute, Israel). Professor Kabanda has published 107 publications (11 books, 8 book chapters, 8 edited volumes and 80 research papers published in international refereed journals) and supervised 11 PhD candidates in Information Technology/ Computer Science/ Information Systems and over 100 Masters dissertations.
Biography - Camillo Porcaro After a PhD in Neuroimaging at the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy) in 2008, I moved to Birmingham for a post-doc on multimodal brain imaging at The Univerity of Birmingham. In 2011, I joined the Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, after being awarded a highly competitive independent research position. In 2012, I moved back to Italy, where I have held an Independent Research Position at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) – National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy. In 2014 and 2015, I was invited as Visiting Professor at the Neural Control of Movement Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technologies ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. From 2016 to 2020, I have also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Human Kinesiology, Movement Control & Neuroplasticity Research Group, KU Leuven, Belgium. From 2015 to 2022, I have been an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Information Engineering – Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Ancona. Since the 1st of October 2021, I have been an Associate Professor at the Department of Neuroscience & Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC), University of Padova, Padova, Italy. I have published more than 100 full papers in international scientific journals. In addition, I have participated in more than 20 national and international conferences, most of the time invited to present my innovative research in computational neuroscience. I have also been invited lecturer in many Universities & Research Center. My most successful contribution has involved information extraction from time series using advanced mathematical-statistical models, including Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and a modification of this algorithm that I have developed, called Functional Source Separation (FSS). I have developed various temporal and spectral constraints (the basis of FSS algorithms) to extract and validate primary cortical areas. I have also applied FSS to EEG data recorded in the MRI environment to improve the quality of EEG data at the single-trial level. My current research focuses on developing functional constraints for identifying complex cortical networks using the FSS algorithm. Moreover, I am working on identifying resting-state networks (RSNs) from EEG and fMRI recordings with the ultimate goal of characterizing the neuronal dynamics of these networks using nonlinear methods such as the Fractal Dimension. In addition, I am coordinating a team to develop Artificial Intelligence approaches to predict clinical outcomes and therapeutic responses.
Dr. Md Nurul Islam Siddique studied Civil Engineering at the Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh, and graduated as MS in 2012 from University Malaysia Pahang. He then joined the research group of Prof. Zularisam at the Institute of University Malaysia Pahang. He received her Ph.D. degree in 2015 at the same institution. After that, he obtained the position of Assistant Professor at the University Malaysia Pahang. After finishing a successful 3 years of contract he changed his position as a Senior Lecturer in University Malaysia Terengganu. He has published more than 40 research articles in ISI journals.
Vinod Singh Gour M. Sc., Ph D Telephone: +91-9414914732 (Mob.) E.mail: vinodsingh2010@gmail.com and vkgaur@jpr.amity.edu Present Address: Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Rajasthan Amity House, C 119, Lal Kothi Scheme, Behind Vidhansabha,Jaipur 302015 Date of Birth: October 10, 1980 Present status: Associate Professor at Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur. Experience: a. Research: 5 Years: September 2003 to January 2008 Doctoral study as CSIR-fellow 1 Year: November 2009 Post-doctoral study in a project funded by NMPB, Govt. of India b. Teaching: 6 Months: Adarsh Mahavidyalaya, Jodhpur 3 Months: The University of Dodoma, Tanzania 11.5 Years: Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur c. Administrative: Assistant Dean students’ welfare, Deputy Dean students’ welfare, Presiding officer and member of various committees Research Contribution: Completed a project funded by SERB. New Delhi Currently running three research projects funded by DST (Govt. of Rajasthan; ICMR, New Delhi and DST, Govt. of India) Two students have been awarded PhD under my supervision. Three students are currently registered as PhD scholars. Publications: No. of Scopus listed papers: 28 No. of SCI papers:17 Total impact factors: 65.168 Highest Impact factor: 10.588 Total papers: 37 No. of Books: 01 No. of chapters in edited books: 07 H index: 08; i-10 Index: 07; Citations: 252 ORCID: 0000-0003-2135-8995 SCOPUS ID: 16303954700 Awards and Fellowships: Award: I was selected to join an invitation program carried out under framework of SAKURA SCIENCE Exchange Programme (Sakura Science Plan) administered by Japan Science and Technology Agency and organized by University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki from 16 December to 22 December 2019. Award: I have been awarded Amazon Echo and Wiley Researcher Academy trophy for Learn and Win contest (Part II), a part of Willey Research Academy pilot training in 2018. Award: Awarded “Best Junior Scholar Award†for the best presentation in National seminar on “The role of NGOs and Educational Institutions in Environmental Education and Ecotourism†organized by Govt. Kalidas Girls College, Ujjain (M.P.) from 28th Feb-1st March, 2007. Fellowship: UGC-CSIR NET (National Eligibility Test) Junior Research Fellow. Qualified the Exam for the fellowship held on June 2002.  Life member of Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Dr. Aruna Tiwari is an Associate Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Indore, India. Her all degrees B.Tech., M.Tech., Ph.D. are in Computer Science & Engineering from SGSITS Indore. She has more than 20 years of research experience in the areas, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Soft-Computing. Her work is around artificial neural networks, fuzzy clustering, evolutionary computation and their applications to bioinformatics, medical diagnosis. Her research directions are towards the design of intelligent computing algorithms for classification, clustering and feature selection which can handle Big Data. She has more than 30 journal publications of international repute including more than 10 IEEE transactions & Elsevier journals of high impact factor, has published more than fifty research articles in the ranked conferences. She has established a Big data handling lab in IIT Indore which is funded by Council of Science & Industrial Research (CSIR) Govt. of India in 2017. She has enabled two MOUs, collaborating with Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Indore and CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, India. She is working on various Government funded projects: a consortium project on Artificial Intelligence which is approved from Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) Govt. of India., DST funded National Supercomputing project and CSIR funded project. Under her guidance,eight PhDs and more than 30 masters awarded.
Dr. Pranjit Das is an Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science & Engineering at SRM Institute of Science and Technology (Formerly SRM University), Delhi-NCR Campus, India. His B.Tech is in Computer Science & Engineering from Tezpur University (Central University) and M.Tech is in Information Technology from Tezpur University (Central University). He holds Doctoral Degree in Computer Science & Engineering from National Institute of Technology Nagaland, India. He has 5 years of research experience in the area of Biomedical Imaging, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision. He has published various research articles in the highly reputed journals with SCI indexing and also, published various conference papers in different premier forums including book chapters. Currently, two research scholars are pursuing their Ph.D. work under his guidance (as supervisor). He has been awarded with the Best Research Award, International Research Awards on New Science Inventions 2021 Awards.
Dr.Raja Krishnamoorthi received his B.E. Degree from Anna University, Chennai, India in 2007. His M.E degree from Anna University, Coimbatore, India in 2011. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai in 2017. He has 12 years of teaching experience. His primary area of research activity is Low power VLSI Design, Wireless Sensor Networks, Neural Network, Digital Signal Processing, Cloud Computing, IoT and Biomedical Engineering. He has published many research articles in refereed journals. He is currently working as Professor and Dean R&D in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Vignan’s Institute of Management and Technology for Women, Hyderabad, Telangana.
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