Prof. Rongshan Yu(SMIEEE, FIET)

Vice Director, National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University

Dr. Rongshan Yu received his bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering with minor in Applied Mathematics from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China in 1995, and the PhD degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS, Singapore) in 2004. He is currently with the Department of Computer Science, Xiamen University as a professor, and vice-director of the National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University. His research interests include high-throughput multi-omics data analysis, precision medicine, and medical artificial intelligence. He has more than 180 journal/conference publications and holds more than 20 US/International patents. Dr. Yu was a member of the Technical Committee of the Multimedia Systems and Applications of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society, and chair of Internet of Thing (IoT) Special Interest Group (SIG) of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He served as standard project editors of ISO/IEC 14496-3/AMD.5 (MPEG Audio Scalable Lossless Coding) and ISO/IEC 14496-5:2001/Amd.10 (SSC, DST, ALS, and SLS reference software), and associated editors of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing and IEEE Access. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). In 2007, he received the National Technology Award, Singapore in 2007 in recognition of his contributions to international standards.

Prof. Yasukazu Nakamura (H-index: 66)

National Institute of Genetics

 

Professor Yasukazu Nakamura is a faculty member in Division of Informatics at National Institute of Genetics (NIG), part of The Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) in Japan, where he leads the Genome Informatics Laboratory. His research focuses on the analysis and annotation of various genomes, the construction of genome databases, and the development of tools and workflows to enhance the quality of genomic data. He has played a crucial role in analyzing critical microbial, plant, and animal genomes, advancing our understanding of genetics at the molecular level. Professor Nakamura is also instrumental in managing the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), a partner of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC), one of the world’s largest public repositories of genetic information. As Head of International Collaboration, he promotes the open sharing of nucleotide sequence data, ensuring DDBJ remains an invaluable resource for the global scientific community. According to Scopus, his genomics research includes 194 peer-reviewed papers and an h-index of 66. He is actively involved in international collaborations and partnerships, improving genome annotation accuracy, enhancing genome databases' value, and establishing standards for genome analysis and database development.

 

 

 

Previous Speakers

 

Prof. Yuan-Ting Zhang City University of Hongkong	Prof. Alexander Suvoror Institute of Experimental Medicine, St. Petersburg	Prof. David Zhang The Chinese University of Hongkong, China (Shenzhen)
Prof.Tun-Wen Pai National Taipei University of Technology	Prof. Dong-Qing Wei Shanghai Jiaotong University	Prof. TSUI Kwok-Wing Stephen The Chinese University of Hongkong
Prof. Cathy Wu University of Delaware	Prof. Xuegong Zhang Tsinghua University	Prof. Yi Pan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. Bairong Shen Sichuan University	Prof. Wing-Kin Sung The Chinese University of Hongkong, and Hongkong Genome Institute	Prof. Chanchal Mitra University of Hyderabad
Assoc. Prof. Jie Zheng ShanghaiTech University	Prof. Peiyu Zhang Henan University	Prof. Zheng Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. Le Zhang Sichuan University	Prof. Fei Guo Central South University	Prof. Bin Liu Beijing Institute of Technology
Mr. Xiaoqiang Li China National GeneBank DataBase	Prof. Guan Ning Lin Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Assoc. Prof. Hon-Cheong So The Chinese University of Hongkong
Prof. Limsoon Wong (ACM Fellow) National University of Singapore	Prof. Bing Zhang Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Prof. An-Yuan Guo West China Hospital, Sichuan University
Prof. Pui-Chi Gigi Lo City University of Xiamen	Asst. Prof. Mengsha Tong Xiamen University	Prof. Jose Nacher Toho University