8^th International Conference & Exhibition on Biosensors and Bioelectronics September 27-28, 2017 Chicago, Illinois USA

Mahmoud Almasri received BSc and MSc degrees in physics from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, TX, in 2001. He is currently an associate professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri. From 2001 to 2002 he was a research scientist with General Monitors, Lake Forest CA. From 2002 to 2003 he was with College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Albany, NY, as a post doctoral research associate, and from 2004 to 2005 he was with Georgia Institute of Technology as a post doctoral fellow, and a research scientist. His current research include impedance biosensors, MEMS capacitors for power harvesting, Si-Ge-O infrared material, metasurface based uncooled IR detectors, and MEMS Coulter counter for studying time sensitive cell. His research is funded by agencies such as NSF, USDA, ARO, Leonard Wood Institute, and Coulter Foundation.

impedance biosensors, MEMS capacitors for power harvesting, Si-Ge-O infrared material, metasurface based uncooled IR detectors, and MEMS Coulter counter for studying time sensitive cell

Ibrahim Abdulhalim is a professor in Electrooptic Engineering at Ben-Gurion University. He worked in the academic institutions and companies such as the OCSC in UC at Boulder, the ORC at Southampton University, the Thin Films Center of the University of Western Scotland, in KLA-Tencor where he was the lead inventor of optical scatterometry for CD and overlay measurements, Nova and GWS Photonics. His current research involves: LC devices, optical biosensors, optical imaging. He published over 200 articles, 2 books, 10 chapters and 18 patents. he acts as a Fellow of IoP and SPIE besides an associate editor for Journal of NanoPhotonics and Journal of Imaging.

LC devices, optical biosensors, optical imaging.

Dr. Anis Rahman is an acclaimed scientist in the field of nanotechnology. He is a winner of many scientific awards including NASA Nanotech Brief’s “Nano-50” award twice; CLEO/Laser Focus World’s “Innovation award;” and “2015 MP Corrosion Innovation of the Year,” by the NACE. Dr. Rahman is the founder of a terahertz company in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (see http://arphotonics.net). He is also the recipient of awards by community organizations such as FOBANA; OMICS International keynote recognition; Center for Dermal Research, Rutgers University; and Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership award by the Juniata College of Pennsylvania (see http://anisrahman.org/awards.html). Dr. Rahman is a recognized scientific leader and member of professional organizations including the American Chemical Society (ACS), The Optical Society of America (senior member), and the SPIE. He is the current chair of the Small Chemical Businesses Division of the ACS (www.acs-schb.org). Dr. Rahman has been an author or co-author of more than 100 papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He lives in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania with his wife Anju Rahman and sons Aunik Rahman and Anaam Rahman. See more information at www.anisrahman.org. He can be reached at a.rahman@arphotonics.net.

life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biomedical, semiconductor imaging, analytical and fine scale materials characterization

Prof Xueji Zhang obtained his Ph.D from Wuhan University in 1994 and postdoctoral studies from National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia, ETH, Switzerland and New Mexico State University respectively. He is the director and national chair professor of research center for bioengineering and sensing technology(BEST center). He has published more than 350 papers in reputed journals, 65 patents and 7 books. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Bioscience, American Journal of Biomedical Sciences and editorial board member of 19 international Journals. He has developed numerous biomedical sensors, instruments and devices for commercialization. He has received many awards and honors including Fellow of American Institute for Medical & Bioengineering, Fellow of RCS, Member of Russian Academy of Engineering and W. Simon Fellow of ICSC-World lab, United Nations.

numerous biomedical sensors, instruments and devices for commercialization ,bioengineering and sensing technology

Gheorghe Pop is a clinical cardiologist, who finished medical school and got a degree in philosophy as well. He finished his medical PhD in 1992 at the Thoraxcenter in Rotterdam on the relation between heart and brain in patients with stroke. He co-founded a start-up company in 2000 to develop an on-line blood viscosity measurement technique and published more than 50 papers in reputed journals. He was also involved in several large clinical trials and is actually working at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

On-line blood viscosity measurement technique,Relation between heart and brain in patients with stroke

Yongji Fu is currently Director of Innovation at Hill-Rom where he is leading technical development in the Early Innovation team. Prior to joining Hill-Rom he was a technical manager with Becton Dickinson (BD) where He led the development of smart wearable devices including the continuous glucose monitor and artificial pancreas. Prior to joining BD, he worked at Sharp Labs of America, Siemens Medical Solutions and Welch Allyn Medical Monitoring System. He has numerous pending/issued patents and papers in biomedical sensing and algorithm development. He is a senior member of IEEE and served as a member of several conference technical committees. Yongji Fu received his B.S degree in 1999 and M.S degree in 2002 from Tsinghua University, China and PhD degree in 2008 from Oregon Health and Science University, US; all three degrees are in biomedical engineering.

Medical sensing technologies, Signal processing algorithm, Machine learning, Information driven treatment and therapy, Pervasive computing