Prof. Ryuji Kohno
IEEE Life Fellow & IEICE Fellow
Yokohama National University, Japan

Ryuji Kohno received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1984. He was a Professor and the Director of Centre on Medical Information and Communication Technology, in Yokohama National University (YNU) in Japan for 1998-2021 and then Professor Emeritus of YNU teaching in Toyo University. In his currier he played a part-time role of a director of Advanced Telecommunications Laboratory of SONY CSL during 1998-2002, directors of UWB Technology and medical ICT institutes of NICT during 2002-2012. For 2012-2020 he was CEO of University of Oulu Research Institute Japan – CWC-Nippon Co. and since 2020 Vice-President of YRP International Alliance Institute. The meanwhile for 2007-2020 a distinguished professor in University of Oulu in Finland and since 2006 a member of the Science Council of Japan. In IEEE he was a member of the Board of Governors of Information Theory Society in 2000-2009, and editors of Transactions on Communications, Information Theory, ITS, IEEE802.15 standardization TG6ma Chair, and IEEE Life Fellow. In IEICE he was a vice-president of Engineering Sciences Society of IEICE during 2004-2005, Editor-in chief of the IEICE Trans. Fundamentals during 2003-2005, and IEICE Fellow. He is a founder and a chair of steering committee of international symposia of medical information and communication technologies (ISMICT) since 2006. He has played a role of member in radio regulatory committee of the Ministry of Internal affairs and Communications (MIC) Japan and ITU-R. He has been chairing the IEEE802.15 task group (TG) 6ma on wireless BAN with enhanced dependability.

Prof. Björn Schuller
IEEE Fellow
Imperial College London, UK

Björn W. Schuller received his diploma, doctoral degree, habilitation, and Adjunct Teaching Professor in Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing all in EE/IT from TUM in Munich/Germany. He is Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Head of GLAM at Imperial College London/UK, Full Professor and Chair of Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing at the University of Augsburg/Germany, co-founding CEO and current CSO of audEERING – an Audio Intelligence company based near Munich and in Berlin/Germany, independent research leader within the Alan Turing Institute and Royal Statistical Society Lab’s Data, Analytics and Surveillance Group, as part of the UK Health Security Agency, Guest Professor at Southeast University in Nanjing/China and permanent Visiting Professor at HIT/China amongst other Professorships and Affiliations. Previous stays include Full Professor at the University of Passau/Germany, Key Researcher at Joanneum Research in Graz/Austria, and the CNRS-LIMSI in Orsay/France. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Golden Core Awardee of the IEEE Computer Society, Fellow of the BCS, Fellow of the ISCA, Fellow and President-Emeritus of the AAAC, and Senior Member of the ACM. He (co-)authored 1,000+ publications (40k+ citations, h-index=96), is Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Digital Health and was Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing amongst manifold further commitments and service to the community. His 30+ awards include having been honoured as one of 40 extraordinary scientists under the age of 40 by the WEF in 2015. He served as Coordinator/PI in 15+ European Projects, is an ERC Starting and DFG Reinhart-Koselleck Grantee, and consultant of companies such as Barclays, GN, Huawei, Informetis, or Samsung.

Prof. Yifan Chen
IET Fellow
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Dr. Yifan Chen is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He received his B.Eng. (Hons. I) and Ph.D. in electrical and electronic engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has held various academic and leadership positions in top-tier universities in China, New Zealand, UK, and Singapore across disciplines such as electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, and computer science and engineering. He is a Fellow of Engineering New Zealand, a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK, and a Fellow of The European Alliance for Innovation. He is a Senior Editor/Associate Editor/Guest Editor for several cross-disciplinary journals such as IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, and IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. His current research interests include in vivo computation where computing meets bio-sensing, molecular and biological communications where communicating meets bio-transporting, and electromagnetic biomedicine where RF sensing meets bio-imaging. His research has been supported by NSFC and MOST (China), MBIE and HRC (New Zealand), EPSRC (UK), FP7 and COST (European Union), etc., and received media coverage from IEEE Spectrum, IET, Engineering New Zealand, The New Zealand Herald, etc.