Prof. Yuanting Zhang
Steering Committee Chair
Chinese University of Hong Kong; Wearable Intelligent Sensing Technologies
Prof. Zhang is currently the Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Visiting Professor of Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research. He serves as the Chief Scientist of Unobtrusive Continuous Blood Pressure Technology of Honor Device Co., Ltd and is a LRG member of Karolinska Institutet MWLC. He was the funding Director and Chairman of Hong Kong Centre for Cerebro-cardiovascular Health Engineering (COCHE). He was a Chair Professor at the City University of Hong Kong and the Sensing and System Architect at Apple Inc. Prof. Zhang was also the founding Director of the Key Lab for Health Informatics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the founding Director of the CAS-SIAT Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering.
He serviced as the founding EiC of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics and the EiC of IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. Prof. Zhang's research interests include cardiovascular health informatics, unobtrusive sensing and wearable devices, BSN/BAN security, neural muscular modeling, and pHealth technologies. He won a number of international awards, including IEEE William J. Morlock Award, IEEE-EMBS best journal paper awards, IEEE-EMBS Outstanding Service Award, IEEE-SA 2014 Emerging Technology Award, IEEE SA Award for contributions to standard development, IEEE Greece Chapter Award for recognizing his contributions to biomedical and health informatics, and the Grand Award on e-Health from Asia Pacific ICT Alliance in Melbourne. Prof. Zhang is elected to be IAMBE Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow and AIAA Fellow for his contributions to the development of wearable and m-Health technologies.