Yuan-Ting Zhang received the Ph.D. from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada,in 1990. He now serves as the Director of Key Laboratory for Biomedical Informatics and Health Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is Director of the Joint Research Center for Biomedical Engineering and Head of the Division of Biomedical Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He also serves as the Chairman (Adjunct) of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou,

China. He was a Research Associate and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, from 1989 to 1994. He chaired the Biomedical Division of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers in 1996/97 and 2000/01. His research interests include neural engineering, wearable medical devices, and body sensor networks particularly for mobile health and telemedicine. He has published more than 300 scientific articles in the area of biomedical engineering. Dr. Zhang has been very active in the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). He was the Technical Program Chair of the 20th Annual Int’l Conference in 1998 and the General Conference Chair of the 27th Annual Int’l Conference in 2005. He served the TPC Chair of IEEE-EMBS Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors (ISSS-MDBS) in 2006 and 2007. He was elected as an AdCom member in 1999 and served as Vice-President (Conferences) in 2000. He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He was also the Guest Editor of IEEE Communication Magazine and IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. He has been selected as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. He is currently on the Editorial Board of the Book Series of Biomedical Engineering published by the IEEE press, the IEEE-EMBS Technical Committee of Wearable Systems and Sensors, the editorial committee of China Medical Device Information, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Neuro-engineering and Rehabilitation. He is an honorary advisor of Hong Kong Medical and Healthcare Device Manufacture Association.