Keynote Speakers of BioMRH 2025

(Alphabetize by Last Name)

Prof. Jan Awrejcewicz
Lodz University of Technology, Poland

Jan AWREJCEWICZ received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the field of Mechanics from the Technical University of Lodz in 1977 and 1981, respectively. He received also his bachelor's degree in Philosophy in 1978 from the University of Lodz, and DSc. degree in Mechanics from the Technical University of Lodz in 1990. He is an author or co-author of (1113) publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings, monographs (56), text books (2), edited books (39), conference proceedings (23), journal special issues (51), and other books (10) and other short communications and unpublished reports (523). He is now the Head of Department of Automatics and Biomechanics, and the Head of Ph.D. School on 'Mechanics' associated with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Lodz. In 1994 he earned the title of Professor from the President of Poland, Lech Wałęsa, and in 1996 he obtained the golden cross of merit from the next President of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski. He is a contributor to 60 different research journals and to 308 conferences. During his scientific travel he visited 63 different countries. His papers and research cover various disciplines of mathematics, mechanics, biomechanics, automatics, physics and computer oriented sciences.


Prof. LEONG Wai Yie, IEEE Senior Member
INTI International University, Malaysia

Professor Wai Yie earned her Ph.D. and bachelor’s degree (Hons I) in Electrical Engineering from The University of Queensland, Australia, in 2005 and 2000, respectively. She is the author of 10 book series on innovations in Electronics and Biomedical Engineering and has held several prestigious roles, including Immediate Past Chairperson of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia, IET UK Council Member, Vice President of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) 2020/2022, and Vice President of the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES) 2020/2023. Specializing in medical signal processing and telecommunications, her research spans IR4.0, wireless sensor networks, ultra-wideband communications, and EEG-based brain signal processing for mental task classification. She has developed commercially licensed systems for gait and upper limb tracking, which have improved healthcare and business innovation.


Prof. Amine Bermak , IEEE Fellow
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Prof. Amine Bermak is a Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Science and Engineering. He received his Master's and PhD degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Microelectronics and Microsystems) from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. His research can be best described as being at the crossroads between algorithmic solutions and hardware-friendly VLSI architecture for sensors, microsystems, and Artificial Intelligence applications. He has published 539 papers (230 journals, 8 book chapters, 286 conference papers, and 15 patents), mostly in top-tier venues. Prof. Bermak has delivered 26 invited keynotes and won 7 best paper awards. He is the recipient of the Best Researcher Award at CSE in 2019, the Best Innovator Award at HBKU in 2022, the Service Excellence Award at HBKU in 2023, and the Research Excellence Award at HBKU in 2024. He is the General Chair of IEEE DELTA 2008, IEEE BioCAS 2009, and ICM 2024. He has also served on multiple editorial boards of IEEE journals. Prof. Bermak is a Fellow of IEEE and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He has been the Chair of the HBKU University Senate since 2024.


Prof. Subhas Mukhopadhyay, IEEE Fellow
Macquarie University , Australia

Subhas holds a B.E.E. (gold medallist), M.E.E., Ph.D. (India) and Doctor of Engineering (Japan). He has over 35 years of teaching, industrial and research experience. Currently he is working as a Professor of Mechanical/Electronics Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia and is the Discipline Leader of the Mechatronics Engineering Degree Programme. His fields of interest include Smart Sensors and sensing technology, instrumentation techniques, wireless sensors and network (WSN), Internet of Things (IoT), Mechatronics etc. He has supervised over 60 postgraduate students and over 180 Honours students. He has examined over 80 postgraduate theses. He has been co-inventor of 14 patents and published over 500 papers in different international journals and conference proceedings, written ten books and sixty two book chapters and edited eighteen conference proceedings. He has also edited forty five books with Springer-Verlag and forty journal special issues. He has organized over 25 international conferences as either General Chairs/co-chairs or Technical Programme Chair. He has delivered 460 presentations including keynote, invited, tutorial and special lectures. As per Scholargoogle, his total citation is 26977 and h-index is 84. He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), a Fellow of IET (UK), a Fellow of IETE (India). He is a Topical Editor of IEEE Sensors journal. He is also an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements and IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (RBME). He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council from 2017 to 2022. He chairs the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society NSW chapter.


Prof. Micky Rakotondrabe
University of Technology of Tarbes Occitanie Pyrénées , France

Micky Rakotondrabe graduated from the Institut Catholique des Arts et Métiers (ICAM engineering school, Lille France) in 2002, obtained the MSc on Control Systems from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA, Lyon France) in 2003 and the PhD on Control Systems from the University of Franche-Comté at Besançon (UFC Besançon France) in 2006 with research works at FEMTO-ST Institute, Besançon France. Applications are in various domains such as: interaction, medical, cobotics and robotics, micromechatronic systems and related high precision and/or high dynamics positioning, autonomous systems and harvesting energy in these, bio-inspired systems...


Prof. Paolo Soda
Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy

Paolo Soda graduated with honors in Biomedical Engineering at Campus Bio-Medico University (UCBM) of Rome in 2004 and obtained the PhD in Biomedical Engineering (IT area) in 2008 at the same University. He is Full Professor of Information Processing Systems at theUCBM, Visiting Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Umeå University, Sweden. He is also the coordinator of the National Doctorate in Artificial Intelligence, for the area Health and Life Sciences (cycles XXXIX and XL) and vice coordinator for cycles XXXVII and XXXVIII. His research interests include artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, big data analytics, data mining, 2D and 3D image processing and analysis, and video. He is a member of program committees of international conferences and a reviewer of international journals, as well as a guest editor of high-impact international journals. Since 2012, he has been associate editor of the proceedings of the Annual Int Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society. From 2018 to 2021, he chaired the steering committee of the IEEE Int Symposium of Computer-Based Medical Systems. He has been co-PI of national and international projects. His research activity is certified by >165 scientific publications, >2400 citations, h-index 26 (Scopus, 21/11/2024). He is co-author of 4 papers in proceedings of international conferences that received an award (IEEE LSC 2018, IEEE BIBM 2018, IEEE ICCI*CC 2019, IEEE CBMS 2021).



Prof. Qingsong Xu, IEEE Fellow, ASME Fellow, AAIA Fellow
University of Macau, Macau, China
Speech Title: Development of Robotic Micromanipulation Systems for Biomedical Applications

Dr. Qingsong Xu is a Professor at the Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, and Director of the Smart and Micro/Nano Systems Laboratory. He was a Visiting Scholar at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland, National University of Singapore, Singapore, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. His research involves intelligent micro/nanosystems, precision robotics, and biomedical applications. He has published four books and over 450 papers in international journals and conferences. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). He was a Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH) and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Prof. Xu has received more than a dozen best paper awards from international conferences and multiple times of Macao Science and Technology Awards from Macao SAR, China. He has been selected into the top 2% of the world's top scientists released by Stanford University since 2019. He is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).


Invited Speakers of BioMRH 2025


Dr. Maria Guix Noguera
University of Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Maria Guix received her PhD in Chemistry, M.S. degree in Nanotechnology and B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). During her PhD she worked in the Prof. Merkoçi’s group at Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), working on the integration of nanomaterials in biosensing platforms. As a PhD candidate, she did two short internships related to the development of catalytic nanomotors, first in EMPA (Switzerland) and then in the University of California San Diego (USA) under the supervision of Prof. Joseph Wang. She later joined Prof. Oliver Schmidt’s group as a postdoctoral researcher at IFW Dresden, developing biocompatible micromotors for biomedical applications. Afterwards, she moved to Purdue University to work on the automation of magnetic microrobots for safe manipulation tasks by using visual-based control methods. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) for 4 years under the supervision of Prof. Samuel Sánchez’ group, focusing her research line in the development of advanced functional living robots. She recently moved to the University of Barcelona at Prof. Josep Puigmartí group as Ramon y Cajal senior researcher.