Maciej Ogorzalek

Roderic I. Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D.

Director
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), USA
Roderic I. Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D., is the first Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the NIH. Prior to his appointment at the NIH, he was Professor of Radiology, Medicine (Cardiology) at Emory University and Bioengineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the Emory Center for MR Research, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta , Georgia .

Dr. Pettigrew is known for his pioneering work at Emory University involving four-dimensional imaging of the heart using magnetic resonance (MRI). Dr. Pettigrew graduated cum laude from Morehouse College with a B.S. in Physics, where he was a Merrill Scholar; has an M.S. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from Rennselear Polytechnic Institute; and a Ph.D. in Applied Radiation Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Whitaker Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Scholar. Subsequently, he received an M.D. from the University of Miami School of Medicine in an accelerated two-year program, did an internship and residency in internal medicine at Emory University and completed a residency in nuclear medicine at the University of California , San Diego . Dr. Pettigrew then spent a year as a clinical research scientist with Picker International, the first manufacturer of MRI equipment. In 1985, he joined Emory as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow with an interest in non-invasive cardiac imaging.

Dr. Pettigrew's awards include membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the Bennie Award (Benjamin E. Mays) for Achievement, and being named the Most Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Miami . In 1989, when the Radiological Society of North America celebrated its 75th Diamond anniversary scientific meeting, it selected Dr. Pettigrew to give the keynote Eugene P. Pendergrass New Horizons Lecture. He has also served as chairman of the Diagnostic Radiology Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, NIH. He has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine and fellowship in the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and the Biomedical Engineering Society.

Jing Bai

IEEE Fellow
Professor
Tsinghua University, China
Jing Bai obtained the M.S. and Ph.D. from Drexel University, Philadelphia, in 1983 and 1985. From 1985 to 1987 she was a Research Associate and Assistant Professor with the Biomedical Engineering and Science Institute of Drexel University. In 1988, 1991, and 2000 she become an Associate Professor, Professor, and Cheung Kong Chair Professor at Biomedical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Her research activities have included optical molecular imaging, mathematical modeling and simulation of cardiovascular system, optimization of cardiac assist devices, medical ultrasound, telemedicine, and home health care network and home monitoring devices. She has published four books and over 200 journal papers. She is a Fellow of IEEE. From 1997, she becomes associate editor for IEEE Trans on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

Francis Chin

IEEE Fellow
Taikoo Professor of Engineering
Assoicate Dean of Engineering
University of Hong Kong
Professor Chin received the B.A.Sc. degree from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1972, and the M.S., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, in 1974, 1975, and 1976, respectively. Since 1975, he has taught at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, University of California, San Diego, University of Alberta, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and University of Texas at Dallas. He joined the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 1985, where he is the Chair of the Department of Computer Science and was the founding Head of the department from its establishment until December 31, 1999. Between 1992-1996, he served as the Associated Dean of Graduate School. He is now the Associate Dean of Engineering. Prof. Chin was elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow in 1996 and served on the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee in 1998.

Professor Chin is currently serving as Manager Editor of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science and is also on the editorial boards of several journals. He has served on the program committees and as conference chairman of numerous international workshops and conferences, including the conference chair of the 5th Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2007). Professor Chin's research interests include design and analysis of algorithms, on-line algorithms, and bioinformatics.