Keynote Speakers

Professor Guang-Zhong Yang received Ph.D. in Computer Science from Imperial College London, and served as a senior and then principal scientist of the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Unit of the Royal Brompton Hospital prior to assuming his current full-time academic post and becoming head of the Visual Information Processing (VIP) Group, Department of Computing, Imperial College in 1999. The Department was rated 5* at the last RAE (research quality assessment), and has been placed among the top ten departments worldwide by several academic surveys.

The VIP group currently has a team over 40 members, including six full-time academic staff. Professor Yang's research has been focussed on cardiovascular magnetic resonance, pervasive computing, computer vision, perceptual intelligence, biomedical simulation and augmented reality systems. Professor Yang received several major international awards including the I.I. Rabi Award from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). He is Director of Medical Imaging, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College, Chairman of the Imperial College Imaging Sciences Centre, founding Director of the Royal Society/Wolfson Medical Image Computing Laboratory at Imperial College, and co-founder of the Wolfson Surgical Technology Laboratory. In 2001, he was honoured the Royal Society Research Merit Award Chair in Medical Image Computing.

Professor Yang Hao received the Ph.D. degree from the Centre for Communications Research (CCR) at the University of Bristol, U.K. in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, he was a postdoc research fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Birmingham, U.K. In May 2000, he joined the Antenna Engineering Group, Queen Mary College, University of London, London, U.K. first as a lecturer and was promoted to Reader in 2005 and to Professor in 2007.

Professor Hao is active in a number of areas including computational electromagnetics, electromagnetic bandgap structures and microwave metamaterials, antennas and radio propagation for body centric wireless networks, active antennas for millimetre/submillimetre applications and photonic integrated antennas. His work on metamaterials and body-centric wireless communications has been reported in the Engineer(I), the Engineer (II), Electronics Times, Microwave Engineering and the IET E&T Magazine. He is a co-editor of book 'Anntennas and Radio Propagation for Body-Centric Wireless Communications' (Artech House, 2006). He has published over 200 technical papers (book chapters, Journal papers and conference publications) and served as an invited (ISAP07) and keynote speaker (ANTEM05), a conference organiser and session chair at many international conferences.

Professor Hao is an associate editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, an associate editor and a guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and also a member of Technical Advisory Panel of IET Antennas and Propagation Professional Network. He is elected as a Fellow of ERA Foundation in 2007.