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EMBS Career Achievement Award

Presented to Jose Principe "For an outstanding career in biomedical engineering as exemplified by pioneering technical innovation, mentorship and publication of innovative textbooks."

EMBS Service Award

Presented to Nathalie Gosset "For visionary leadership in EMBS chapter development."

Early Career Achievement Award

Presented to Tejal Dasai "For pioneering work int he field of bioMEMS focusing on implantable therapeutic microtechnology, drug deliver, tissue engineering, and cell-based sensing, and for advancing biomedical engineering education in micro-to-nano biotechnologies."

IEEE EMBS Fellows

• Ronald Aarts, Philips Research Labs, The Netherlands

  "for research and application in signal processing for acoustics and sound reproduction"

• Amir Amini, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

  "for contributions to cardiovascular imaging and medical image analysis"

• Zeungnam Bien, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

  "for contributions to development of assistive robots and human-robot interaction systems"

• Shangkai Gao, Tsinghua University, China

  "for contributions to the study of brain-computer interface"

• Dmitry Goldgof, University of South Florida, Florida, USA

  "for contributions to computer vision and biomedical applications"

• Jerome Liang, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, USA

  "for contributions to medical image reconstruction and virtual colonoscopy"

• Jaakko Malmivuo, Ragnar Granit Institute, Finland

  "for contributions to theoretical and experimental aspects of bioelectromagnetic phenomena"

• Xiaochuan Pan, The University of Chicago, Illinois, USA

  "for contributions to nuclear and non-invasive imaging"

• Alan Sahakian, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA

  "for contributions to electrophysiology of atrial cardiac arrhythmias"

• Maximus Viergever, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

  "for leadership and contributions to medical imaging"

• Yuang-Ting Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  "for contributions to the field of wearable devices and signal processing algorithms for mobile healthcare"

EMBS Student Paper Competition

Student Paper Competition Award Recipients

First Place
Yan Tat Wong, University of New South Wales, Australia

 

Second Place
Valentina Corino, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

 

Third Place
Javier Escudero, University of Valladolid, Spain

Geographic Finalists

• Europe:  Javier Escudero, University of Valladolid, Spain
  "Magnetoencephalogram Blind Source Separation and Component Selection Procedure to Improve the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease Patients"

• North America:  Justin Haldar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
  "High-Resolution Diffusion MRI"

• Asia Pacific:  Louis Hyunsuk Jung, University of New South Wales, Australia
  "A Dual Band Wireless Power and FSK Data Telemetry for Biomedical Implants "

  
  Note:  The minimum requirement for nominations was not met for the Geographic Units Middle East & Africa and Latin America; therefore the Student Paper Competition Committee chose to include two additional Open Finalists

Open Finalists

• Samuel Au, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  "Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis for the Improvement of Amputee Ambulation"

• Sebastian Aron Kisban, University of Freiburg, Germany
  "Microprobe Array with Low Impedance Electrodes and Highly Flexible Polyimide Cables for Acute Neural Recording"

• Stephen Joseph Ball, Queen’s University, Canada
  "A Planar 3DOF Robotic Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation and Assessment"

• Federico Aletti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  "Multivariate Parametric Model for the Identification of Diastolic Pressure and Pulse Pressure Components"

• Valentina Corino, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  "A Gaussian Mixture Model for Time-Frequency Analysis of Atrial Fibrillation Electrocardiograms"

• Faraz Oloumi, University of Calgary, Canada
  "Detection of Blood Vessels in Fundus Images of the Retina Using Gabor Wavelets"

• Chang Won Lee, University of California, Irvine, USA
  "An Efficient Algorithm for Current Source Localization with Tetrodes"

• Julien Cohen-Adad, University of Montreal, Canada
  "Methodology for MR Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Cat Spinal Cord"

• Disha Gupta, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  "Narrowband vs. Broadband Phase Synchronization Analysis Applied to Independent Components of Ictal and Interictal EEG"

• Chung Chan, University of Sydney, Australia
  "Minimum Cross-Entropy Reconstruction of PET Images with Anatomically Based Anisotropic Median-Diffusion Filtering"

• Guillermo Medrano, Aachen University, Germany
  "Modeling the Influence of Body Position in Bioimpedance Measurements"

• Yan Tat Wong, University of New South Wales, Australia
  "Optical Imaging of Electrically Evoked Visual Signals in Cats: I. Responses to Corneal and Intravitreal Electrical Stimulation"