General Chair (In no particular order)
Wei Chen
Professor, XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang), China.
Research field: Smart Chips, Sensing Technology, New Semiconductor Materials, Wearable Technology, Detection and Prevention of Diabetes and Early Cancer.
Dr. Wei Chen is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in the United States and the Dean of the School of CHIPS at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the School of Earth Sciences at Jilin University, his master's degree from the School of Geophysics at Central South University, and his Ph.D. from the School of Chemistry and molecular Engineering at Peking University. He previously served as the Deputy Director of the Semiconductor Materials Development Laboratory at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and received the CAS Young Scientist Award. Professor Wei Chen has long been engaged in cutting-edge nanotechnology research, and has published over 355 papers in internationally renowned academic journals such as Advanced Materials, PNAS, Nano Letters, and Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. His papers have been cited 22372 times so far, with an h-index of 76, and he holds 22 US patents. He was selected for the "Annual Scientific Impact" and "Lifetime Scientific Impact" lists in the "2024 Global Top 2% Scientists" ranking. Professor Chen has received the CAS Young Scientist Award, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and has been honored with the Pencis Award for Excellence in Oncology and Cancer Research. In 2022, he was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and in 2023, he became a Fellow of the Distinguished Scholars College at the University of Texas at Arlington, the highest honor the university bestows on faculty members. Through the efforts of Professor Chen and his team, the School of CHIPS has signed agreements with over a 30 companies and research institutes in the semiconductor field, jointly engaging in close cooperation in talent development, technological research and development, and other areas.
Pier Paolo Piccaluga
Associate Professor, University of Bologna, Italy.
Research field: Genomics of Hematological Malignancies, Metabolomics of Hematological Malignancies, Molecular Diagnostics, Digital Pathology, Precision Medicine, Biobanking.
Pier Paolo Piccaluga is an Associate Professor of Pathology at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences at the Bologna University School of Medicine. He is also a co-founder and Executive Physician at the Biobank of Research, IRCCS S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital in Italy. He has led the Molecular Hematopathology Laboratory for many years. In 2018, he was appointed to teach at Queen Mary University of London (UK) and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Nairobi (Kenya), and since 2023, at the University of Nairobi and the University of Botswana. He is the author of several international publications indexed in the Current Contents (including Nature Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood, Lancet Oncology, and Lancet Infectious Diseases, with a total impact factor >1,000, a mean impact factor >6, and an H-index of 62 (ranked among the VIA-Academy Top Italian Scientists). He is the author of several presentations at national and international conferences. Dr. Piccaluga has participated in several clinical trials as a coordinator or sub-investigator and has won multiple awards for his contributions to study and research. He has served as a Principal Investigator (PI) in various research projects funded by national and internationally recognized organizations. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Hematology, Digital Medicine and Healthcare Technology, Advances in Precision Medicine, and the Journal of Cancer Biomoleculars and Therapeutics.
Mukesh Prasad
Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Research field: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Natural Language Processing.
Dr. Mukesh Prasad is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He has made significant contributions to the fields of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Natural Language Processing. His research interests also span several emerging areas, including Big Data, Computer Vision, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Evolutionary Computation, and the Internet of Things (IoT). These technologies are shaping next-generation applications across diverse sectors such as healthcare, biomedical science, agriculture, smart cities, education, marketing, and finance. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed research papers in leading journals and conferences, including publications in high-impact venues such as IEEE, ACM Transactions, Springer Nature and Elsevier. His academic achievements are complemented by strong industry experience. He served as Principal Engineer at TSMC Semiconductor Manufacturing Company from 2016–2017, where he developed advanced image processing and pattern recognition algorithms using machine learning. He was a postdoctoral researcher leading a Big Data and computer vision team at National Chiao Tung University (2015). He holds an M.S. in Computer and Systems Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2009), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University (2015).
Peixin Dong
Researcher, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Research field: Epigenetic And Genetic Mechanisms That Underpin Cancer Stem Cells, Emt, Chemoresistance, And Cancer Metastasis.
Dr. Dong Peixin currently is the Researcher of Hokkaido University, Japan. He is interested in the epigenetic and genetic mechanisms that underpin cancer stem cells, EMT, chemoresistance, and cancer metastasis. Dr. Dong has developed expertise via more than 70 papers in international journals. Dr. Dong is an Associate Editor for the journals Frontiers in Pharmacology, Frontiers in Oncology, BMC Cancer, Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and Current Gene Therapy. Dr. Dong is also a member of the Editorial Boards of Clinical & Experimental Metastasis, PLOS ONE, Genes, Biomolecules, Bioengineered, Chinese Clinical Oncology, and Gynecology and Pelvic Medicine. Dr. Dong has earned several awards for his contributions to the field.
Bo Yang
Professor, Wenzhou Medical University, China.
Research field: Lipid Nutrition, Human Mind-Body Health, Bioinformatics, Sports Nutrition.
Bo Yang, PhD, FRSM, is a Research Professor and Director of the Institute of Lipids Medicine at Wenzhou Medical University. He earned his PhD in Food Science from Zhejiang University, completed postdoctoral training in Nutritional Psychiatry at China Medical University, and is a Visiting Researcher in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Karolinska Institute (KI). Dr. Yang is an internationally recognized scholar specializing in lipid nutrition and human mind-body health, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (FRSM, UK). His research group bridges multi-centric population cohorts with cutting-edge causal inference frameworks, bioinformatics, and experimental validation. He has authored over 70 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals, accumulating nearly 3,000 citations with a H-index of 27. He also brings extensive editorial and organizational leadership to the international scientific community, serving as Deputy Editor-in-Chief (Statistics) for the British Journal of Nutrition and as a member of the Editorial Board for Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. Additionally, he holds senior executive roles across prominent councils, including Vice Chairman of the Sports Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society and Executive Director of the Nutrition and Food Branch of the Chinese Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics.
Organizing Committee Chair (In no particular order)
Na He
Dean & Professor for the School of Public Health, Fudan University, China.
Research field: HIV Epidemiology, Health and Epidemic Prevention Technology.
Dr. Na He is currently a Professor of Epidemiology and the Dean of School of Public Health, Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Dr. He has extensive research and implementation experience in HIV epidemiology, prevention and intervention and has served as a consultant for China nationwide anti-HIV/AIDS campaigns since 2004. Dr. He has been Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI for over 30 research grants including NIH/R01 projects, and has led the Comparative HIV and Aging Research in Taizhou (CHART) cohort since 2016, now expanded to the multicenter HIV and Aging-related Noncommunicable Diseases Study (HANDS) in China, which employs epidemiological and multiomics approaches to investigate risk factors and mechanisms of aging and aging-related NCDs in HIV population. Dr. He has over 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Lancet HIV, Lancet Healthy Longevity, Nature Communications, Nature, Cell, JAMA, EBioMedicine, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Clinical Microbiology and Infection, American Journal of Epidemiology, and AIDS. By serving as a key member in a number of national academic and scientific societies, Dr. He has made enormous contributions to public health education and policy making in the country. Dr. He received a bachelor's degree in medicine in 1991 and MSc in Epidemiology in 1994 from Shanghai Medical University, and PhD in Epidemiology from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in 2003, and extensive training in molecular biology at the Hadassah Medical School of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel from 1995-1997.
Xiang Gao
Dean & Professor for the Institute of Nutrition, Fudan University, China.
Research field: Nutrition, Sleep, Neurological Disorders, And Aging.
Dr. Gao is the Distinguished Professor and Dean of Institute of Nutrition, Fudan University. He is also the Chair of Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Fudan University School of Public Health. Formerly, he was Assistant Professor (2010-2014) at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Professor(2014-2020) and Full Professor (2020-2022) at the Penn State University. He was also the Schreyer Distinguished Honors Faculty at the Penn State University. His research interests include nutritional epidemiology, neurological diseases, and aging. He has served as the PI of several NIH-funded R01/R21/R03 projects since 2009 to study risk factors and clinical consequences of sleep disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. He has published more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals and served on several national committees., such as UNESCO International Center for Creativity and Sustainable Development Advisory Committee; Committee of nutrition, trauma, and the brain, Institute of Medicine(IOM); and American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He serves as co-editor of Nutrition Journal (IF=5.4).
Organizing Committee Executive Chair (In no particular order)
Ling Tao, Principal Investigator, Fudan University, China
Zefeng Wang, Distinguished Professor, Huzhou University, China
Shuwen Han, Laboratory Director, Tarim University, China
Organizing Committee Member (In no particular order)
Ahmed G. Hegazi, National Research Center, Egypt
Chun Zhou, Zhejiang University, China
Feng He, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China
Guodong Lu, Fudan University, China
Haibo Wang, Hangzhou Institute of Medicine Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jinlan Zhang, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
Jintao Wang, Shanxi Medical University, ChinaJintao Wang, Shanxi Medical University, China
Kai Zhang, Shanghai Cancer Institute, China
Kuan Hu, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
Michael Thompson, University of Toronto, Canada
Qiming Liang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Shouhua Zhang, Jiangxi Provincial children's Hospital, China
Tiangen Chang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Vladan Radosavljevic, Military Medical Academy, Serbia
Xin Wang, China Medical University, China
Xue Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Yuhan Chen, Seventh Medical Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital. China
Zhenlan Du, Seventh Medical Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, China
Zhiqiang Huang, Nanjing University