Keynote Speakers
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Insup Lee, Ph.D. |
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Cecilia Fitler Moore Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
Speaker Biography: Insup Lee is the Cecilia Fitler Moore Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, Director of PRECISE Center, and Co-Director of Penn Health-Tech at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering. His research interests include cyber-physical systems (CPS), real-time systems, embedded systems, high-confidence medical device systems, formal methods and tools, run-time verification, software certification, and trust management. The theme of his research activities has been to assure and improve the correctness, safety, and timeliness of life-critical embedded systems. He is ACM fellow and IEEE fellow and received IEEE TC-RTS Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award in 2008.
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Scott Acton, Ph.D. |
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Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia |
Speaker Biography: Scott T. Acton is Professor and Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia. He is also appointed in Biomedical Engineering. For the last three years, he was Program Director in the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering directorate of the National Science Foundation. At NSF, Acton served on the Smart and Connected Health working group. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Texas at Austin, and he received his B.S. degree at Virginia Tech. Professor Acton is a Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to biomedical image analysis.” Professor Acton’s laboratory at UVA is called VIVA - Virginia Image and Video Analysis. They specialize in biological/biomedical image analysis problems. The research emphases of VIVA include image analysis in neuroscience, tracking, segmentation, representation, retrieval, classification and enhancement. Recent theoretical interests include machine learning, active contours, partial differential equation methods, scale space methods, and graph signal processing. Professor Acton has over 300 publications in the image analysis area including the books Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking and Biomedical Image Analysis: Segmentation. He was the 2018 Co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. Professor Acton was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2014-2018).
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Juan P. Wachs, Ph.D. |
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Program Director, National Science Foundation |
Speaker Biography: Dr. Juan Wachs is a Professor and Faculty Scholar in the Industrial Engineering School at Purdue University, Professor of Biomedical Engineering (by courtesy) and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Surgery at IU School of Medicine. He is currently serving at NSF as a Program Director for robotics and AI programs at CISE. He is also the director of the Intelligent Systems and Assistive Technologies (ISAT) Lab at Purdue, and he is affiliated with the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering. He completed postdoctoral training at the Naval Postgraduate School’s MOVES Institute under a National Research Council Fellowship from the National Academies of Sciences. Dr. Wachs received his B.Ed.Tech in Electrical Education in ORT Academic College, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem campus. His M.Sc and Ph.D in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is the recipient of the 2013 Air Force Young Investigator Award, and the 2015 Helmsley Senior Scientist Fellow, and 2016 Fulbright U.S. Scholar, the James A. and Sharon M. Tompkins Rising Star Associate Professor, 2017, and an ACM Distinguished Speaker 2018. He is also the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions in Human-Machine Systems, Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
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Mark Cohen, MD, FSSO, FACS |
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Dean, Carle Illinois College of Medicine |
Speaker Biography: Dr. Mark Cohen is the Dean of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine and Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer for Carle Health. He is a practicing surgical oncologist and endocrine surgeon and a tenured professor in the College of Medicine and the Grainger School of Engineering in the Department of BioEngineering at UIUC. His research covers several areas including novel approaches to tissue engineering to create functional organs from fat stem cells; creation of a novel class of anticancer drug compounds that target chaperone proteins; nanoparticle drug-delivery systems for cancer and bone regeneration; and use of mixed reality and AI/ML technologies to improve telemedicine, clinical care delivery as well as health care workforce training and education. He has been continuously funded by the NCI (NIH) for 15 years and his work has also been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Komen Foundation, the American Cancer Society, the Department of Defense, and even NASA. He has published over 120 peer reviewed manuscripts and has held multiple leadership roles in national medical and surgical societies and is a founding member of the international holomedicine association. He is also a serial entrepreneur founding 5 companies in the digital health, medical device, and medical therapeutics sectors and has mentored over 250 students and faculty on innovation projects and startups, helping them raise over $25M of capital. He also managed a small internal venture fund focused on surgical innovation and is the author of a textbook on Surgical Innovation in Academic Medicine published through Springer-Nature. For his work in mixed reality applications in medical education he was awarded the 2019 Distinguished Faculty Award for Innovation and the 2021 Provost Award for Innovation in Education at the University of Michigan. He recently was Co-PI of a collaborative NSF IUCRC Center grant focused on Medical Innovations in eXtended Reality (MIXR) between University of Maryland Research Park, University of Maryland Shock Trauma Hospital and University of Michigan along with 10 industry partners including Microsoft, Meta, Google, Sony, GigXR, ApoQlar, and the FDA.
