General Chair

Sos Agaian

Professor, The City University of New York, USA.

Research fields: Healthcare, Biomedical Data Mining, Object Recognition, Signal Processing, Computer-Aided Food Quality Inspection, 3D Imaging Visible and Thermal Sensors, Computational Photography, Multimedia Security, Needs-Driven Medical and Biomedical Technology.

Dr. Sos Agaian is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, CUNY. Before joining CUNY, he was the Peter T. Flawn Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He also served as a Visiting Professor at Tufts University and a Lead Scientist at Aware, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts. His research spans computational vision, machine learning, AI, multimedia security, remote sensing, and biomedical imaging. Dr. Agaian has received funding from NSF, DARPA, Google, and other agencies. He has published over 850 articles, 10 books, and 19 book chapters and holds 56 patents/disclosures, many of which have been licensed. He has mentored 45 PhD students and received multiple awards for research and teaching, including the MAEStro Educator of the Year, the Distinguished Research Award, the Innovator of the Year, the Tech Flash Titans-Top Researcher Award, and recognition as an Influential Member of the School of Engineering at Tufts University. He is an Associate Editor for several journals, including the IEEE Transaction of Cybernetics. He is a fellow of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), the Optical Society of America (SPIE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and Member of Academia Europaea. He has delivered over 35 keynote speeches and 100 invited talks and co-founded/chaired over 200 international conferences. He has also been a Distinguished IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Lecturer.

Co-chair

Ram Bilas Pachori

Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India.

Research fields: Signal and Image Processing, Biomedical Signal Processing, non-stationary signal Processing, peech Signal Processing, Brain-Computer Interface, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things in Healthcare.

Before joining IIT Indore, India, he was Post-Doctoral Fellow at Charles Delaunay Institute, UTT, France (2007-2008) and Assistant Professor at Communication Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India (2008-2009). He has delivered more than 300 talks and lectures in conferences, workshops, short term courses, and academic events organized by various institutes. He has authored the textbook titled “Time-Frequency Analysis Techniques and their Applications” (CRC Press, 2023). He has 368 publications, which include journal articles (231), conference papers (96), books (11), and book chapters (30). He has also eight patents, including two granted (Australian patent and Indian patent) and six published (Indian patents). His publications have been cited ~19000 times with h-index of 75 according to Google Scholar. He is Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA, IETE, and IEI. He has been appointed as IEEE EMBS Distinguished Lecturer (2025-2026). He was Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (2021-2024). Currently, he is Associate Editor of Electronics Letters, IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Computers and Electrical Engineering, and Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. He is also serving as Handling Editor of Signal Processing and Editor of IETE Technical Review journal.

Tingzhong Yang

Professor, Zhejiang University, China.

Research fields: Social and Behavior Science in Public Health, Tobacco Control and Mental Stress.

Tingzhong Yang, Prof and Director,Research Center for Tobacco Control ,Zhejiang University and Research center for digital health theory and management, ZJU National Health Big Data Institute. He was an advisor for the World Health Organization in delivering policy and program on tobacco control to health professions students, and served as an expert in updating CRDs section in the WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2013-2020. He was an external faculty affiliate of Injury Control Research, West Virginal University, U.S, and also was invited to serve as academician of Russian Academy of Social and Fundamental Sciences named after M.V. Lomonosov(77-DVM,024010049). In recent years he published more than 120 international papers（ORCID id：0000-0001-8234-0938）and more than 170  Chinese papers. Dr. Yang s research on tobacco control was officially reported by the World Health Organization, had been selected as one of the Research Highlights of the University at the celebration of the 120th anniversary of Zhejiang University, and was introduced under the title of "Using Cultural Understanding to Stub out Killer Habit" in Nature journal. He was the Asian Editor for the American Journal of Health behavior, and currently is editor of the Global Journal of Social Sciences Studies.

Academic Committee Member

Aamir Jalal Al-Mosawi, the Children Teaching Hospital of Baghdad Medical City, Iraq

Ahmed Hashash, UNiversity of North Carolin, USA

Ahmed Sedik, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt

Amir Ashraf, University of Ha'il, Saudi Arabia

Ayush Dogra, Chitkara University, India

Balasubramanian Kishore, Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering & Technology, India

Bechan Sharma, University of Allahabad, India

Belgin SEVER, Anadolu University, Turkey

Congcong Zhou, Zhejiang University, China

Dada A. Oluwasogo, Landmark University, Nigeria

Emin Taner Elmas, Igdir University, Turkey

Farid Menaa, University of California San Diego, USA

Francesco Chirico, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Heba Afify, Egyptian University, Egypt

Hemachandran Kannan, Woxsen University, India

Huseyin Canbolat, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey

Jafar Mohammadzadeh, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Iran

Jeevithan Elango, UCAM Catholic University San Antonio de Murcia, Spain

Jingshan Huang, University of South Alabama, USA

Joanna Bojarska, Lodz University of Technology, Poland

Laura Gabriela Sarbu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania

Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, University of Almeria, Spain

Maki Habib, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Mechael A. Nitsche, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Mihail Lucian Birsa, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania

Muhammad Attique Khan, HITEC University, Pakistan

Neelam Singh Sangwan, Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, India

Omkar Singh Kushwaha, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai, India

Qiang Cheng, University of Kentucky, USA

Ramendra Pati Pandey, School of Health Sciences and Technology, India

Ramin Safa, Ayandegan Institute of Higher Education, Iran

Shahid Mohammad Ganie, Woxsen university, India

Siddharth Singh Chouhan, VIT Bhopal University, India

Stalis Norma Ethica, Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang, India

T.Muthuramalingam, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India

Vuanghao Lim, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia