Name Primary Position Organization Amanda Randles Assistant Professor, Duke University Biomedical Engineering Expertise Description Large-scale applications solving health issues Amit Etkin Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences Stanford University Neural basis of emotional disorders and treatment Novel treatment intervention Basic mechanisms involved in emotion regulation Ben Glocker Lecturer in Medical Image Computing Imperial College London Medical image computing Bjoern Schuller Reader Imperial College London Machine learning - Speech recognition Byron Yu Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon Electrical and Computer University Engineering; Associate Profess(...) Associate Professor Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Darren Lipomi Assistant Professor, Nano-Engineering Ding Qiurong Professor, Laboratory of Institute for Human Genetics and Nutritional Metabolic Diseases Sciences, Chinese Academy of Faculty Carnegie Mellon University Nanoengineering Electronic skin for biosensing (self-healing, elastic, & biodegradable) mechanical properties of semiconducting polymers design and synthesis of stretchable semiconductors, Science - genome editing Cynthia Collins Elissa Aminoff University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Synthetic biology Microbial community dynamics and behaviours natural and bioengineered microbial communities Science: memory visualisation & computer vision models Fabio Sciarrino Associate Professor, Physics Department University of Rome Physics / Quantum optics la Sapienza Gabriela Hug optimized operation of the electric power system to enable a renewable energy future increase of the transfer capacity of the existing transmission system Gabrielle Thomas Associate Professor, ETH Zurich Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Research Associate Imperial College London Gerardo Adesso Associate Professor University of Nottingham Quantum science Gong Jinlong Professor Tianjin University Environmental Engineering Catalysis & Kinetics; Surface Science; Materials Science; Micro- and Nanotechnology; Green Chemistry; Chemistry (energy related); Gregory Schwartz Principal Investigator Northwestern University Sensory computation Jackson Mohlopheni Marakalala Postdoctoral Researcher Harvard Medical School Immunology & infectious diseases Jenny Mortimer Director, Plant Systems Lawrence Berkeley Science - plant physiology - plant bioengineering Biology, Joint BioEnergy National Laboratory Institute Ji Heng Edward P. Hamilton Development Chair Associate Professor Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) space-based laser remote sensing Computer science, Natural language processing Information extraction on a massive scale Jin Xianmin Professor; Founder, Shanghai Jiao Tong Quantum photonics Laboratory of Quantum University Integrated Photonics Johnson Samuel Assistant Professor, Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Julie Cairney Professor, Materials Characterization Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Mechanical Engineering Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Design Material behaviour & systems for aerospace, defense, automotive and healthcare University of Sydney New microscopy techniques. Relationship between the atomic scale structure and properties of materials for fuel cells and biofuel production Karen Davies Staff Scientist Lawrence Berkeley Science - biophysics - structural biology - protein structure - bioenergetic membranes National Laboratory cellular organisation - electron cryo tomography Kellie Charles Senior Lecturer; Research Group Leader, Cancer Therapeutics Research Group Assistant Professor, Robotics University of Sydney Kim Ayoung Kirill Veselkov Komminist Weldermariam Cancer and inflammation interactions with patient outcomes Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Waters Lecturer in Imperial College Computational Medicine London Robust perception and robot navigation Robots autonomous mobility in challenging environment Manager & Research Scientist IBM Research Africa Computer Science + tech education Caribbean Research and Management of Biodiversity (CARMABI) Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) University of California, Berkeley Coral reef ecology; Microbial ecology Molecular basis of behavior; Science communication and marine biology advancement University of Strasbourg Molecular and Cell biology Kristen Marhaver Marine Biologist Computational Medicine Human disease personalisation Lee Seung-Hee Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Mahesh Srinivasan Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Maria Elena Torres Padilla Group Leader and Director Mei Lin Neo Research Fellow, National University Marine conservation and ecology Giant clams Tropical Marine Science of Singapore Institute Michael Bowen NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Research Fellow Nicole Joller Assistant Professor, University of Zurich Institute for Experimental Immunology Assistant Professor; National University Leader, Green Catalysis of Singapore Lab Ning Yan Osman M. Bakr Associate Professor, Material Science and Engineering Ozgur Sahin Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Physics University of Sydney Molecular, cellular and behavioural neuroscience Developmental psychology Neuropsychopharmacology Novel drug treatment for alcohol-use disorders Compounds targeting social deficits in psychiatric and neurological disorders Immune system Green Chemistry & Sustainability Transformation of waste biomass into platform chemicals and fuels in environmentally benign solvents such as water King Abdullah Mechanical science & Engineering University of Science and Technology Columbia University Biological systems Rob Knight University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Genomics, molecular evolution and the microbiome Sander Kasteren Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science Leiden University Biology / Immunology Cancer vaccines Shi Qihui Professor, Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine Shanghai Jiao Tong Biomedicine & Biochemistry University Tolu Oni Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Division of Public Health Town Medicine, School of Public Health Professor Tianjin Medical University Biology - Epidemiology Yasuaki Kakehi Associate Professor, Keio University Faculty of Environment and Information Studies Physical materials incorporating digital information Bridge between engineering, art and design Yu Kyoungsik Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering Zhang Chengdong Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering Wang Yan Professor Breast Cancer Cell Neurodegenration Epigenetic control Korea Advanced Optoelectronics & photonics Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Nankai University Environmental microbiology, bio-impact of engineering nanoparticles Carbon nanotubes, graphene,