Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 128) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health in over 30,000 patients. His technology is also being used in commercial products to improve sustainability and renewable energy. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Brown University, Saveetha University, Hebei University of Technology, UFPI, and others. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); 2022, Best Materials Science Scientist by Citations (Research.com); and is a fellow of over 8 societies. Prof. Webster is a former President of the U.S. Society for Biomaterials and has over 1,350 publications to his credit with over 55,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prof. Webster also recently formed a fund to support Nigerian student research opportunities in the U.S.

Tanaka worked for TERUMO Co. (Leading Medical Devices Company in Japan). In 2000 he moved to Hokkaido University and in 2007 he moved to Tohoku University. His developed medical devices are commercially available in the global clinical market as a world share No.1. He was a Visiting Scientist, at Dept. of New Materials and Biosystems, Max-Planck-Institute (2008-2009). In 2009 he was awarded a full professorship at Yamagata University. Since 2015, he has been at Kyushu University as a full Professor. Thus far, he has published over 220 papers in peer reviewed journals (H-index 60), 50 book chapters, 135 others, 250 patents, over 100 invited talks at International Conferences including Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting. He is a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering and an executive director of the Japanese Society for Biomaterials, and a committee member at IUPAC polymer division, and organized many international conferences as an international advisory board. He received the Japanese Society for Biomaterials Award, the SPSJ Asahi Kasei Award, and the British Council PMI2 Connect-Research Co-operation (UK) Award etc.

Prof. Lipo Wang received the Bachelor degree from National University of Defense Technology (China) and PhD from Louisiana State University (USA). He is presently with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interest is artificial intelligence for image and data processing. He has 400+ publications, 2 patents and14,000+ Google Scholar citations. He was keynote speaker for 40+ international conferences. He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA), Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. He is/was Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of 30+ international journals, including 2 other IEEE Transactions, and guest editor for 10+ journal special issues. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), and the IEEE Biometrics Council. He served as CIS Vice President for Technical Activities and Chair of Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, as well as Chair of Education Committee of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). He was President of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA, renamed as APNNS – “Society”) and received the APNNA Excellent Service Award. He was founding Chair of both the EMBS Singapore Chapter and CIS Singapore Chapter.