Dr. Ashe is a Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology at the University of Minnesota, USA. He trained as a medical doctor at University College Dublin and had further training in neurology and neurophysiology at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore. His laboratory uses both functional imaging in human subjects and neural recording in non human primates to examine issues related to the cognitive underpinnings of action, motor learning and adaptation and the control of sequential behaviors.

Dr. Fabio Babiloni got a PhD in Computational Engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology with a dissertation on the multimodal integration of EEG and fMRI. He is currently an Associate Professor of Human Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy. He is the author of more than 85 papers on bioengineering and neurophysiological topics in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and more than 200 contributions to conferences and book chapters. Current research interests are in the field of multimodal integration of EEG, MEG and fMRI data, cortical connectivity estimation and Brain Computer Interface. Dr. Babiloni is an Associate Editor of Clinical Neurophysiology and IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.

Dr. Andrew CN Chen (born in Taiwan) is a professor and director at the Center for Higher Brain Functions, Capital Medical University, Beijing. He received his Ph.D. in neuropsychophysiology from University of Washington, Seattle and worked as an associate professor from 1980-1988 there, then at UCLA from 1988-1991. He moved to Europe in 1991, first at Hamburg Medical School then at the Manchester University Medical School from 1993-1998. From 1998-2005, he was a reader and the professor and director of the Human Brain Mapping Laboratory at Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg University, Denmark. In August 2005, he came to China to build up the Center for Higher Brain Functions. His research is focused on the elemental cognitive processing and major emotional processing of the ¡°rapid brain dynamics¡± in human brain. Recently, he has received a national grant to study ¡°brain and anesthesia¡± from 2008-2010.

Prof. Jyh-Horng Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. on May 17, 1960. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1982. In 1986, he received his M.S. degree in Medical Engineering from National Yang-Ming Medical College. Dr, Chen had his Ph.D. study in the intercampus Bioengineering Program at UCB and UCSF (University of California, at Berkeley and San Francisco) where he received the Ph.D. degree in 1991. Dr. Chen joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University (NTUEE) as an associate professor in 1991. He is a professor since 2000 and is acting as the chair of Institute Biomedical Engineering at NTU since 2002. Dr. Chen established an interdisciplinary MRI lab at NTU (IMRL, NTU) with a 3T MR imager to work on functional magnetic resonance imaging. He is also the director of Molecular Imaging Lab at National Taiwan University and is currently conducting a 7T animal MRI Lab for Genome Center and Neural Science Center of NTU. Prof. Chen is a member of IEEE, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) and Society of Molecular Imaging. Dr Chen also serves as AdCom (Administration Committee) and Chair, Education Committee of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)

Dr. Zoltan Koles received the B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 1965 and 1970. He then spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Engineering in Medicine Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering at Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, England. Currently, Dr. Koles is Professor and Associate Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alberta. His areas of interest include statistical pattern recognition, physiological signal processing, medical imaging and the localization of the sources of biopotentials recorded from the brain. He is a member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society and is a former President of the Western Clinical Neurophysiology Society (Portland Oregon).

Dr. Jin Keun Seo is currently a professor of Yonsei university, Korea, director of the interdisciplinary group at National Institute of Mathematical Science (NIMS), the principal investigator of the algorithm group at the Impedance Imaging Research Center (IIRC), and a editor of the journal 'Inverse problems and Imaging'. He received Ph.D. degree of mathematics from the University of Minnesota in 1991 and his BS degree at Yonsei University in 1985. Dr. Seo has worked on a wide range of interdisciplinary area including EIT (electrical impedance tomography), Magnetic Resonance-EIT, PDE-based image processing, mathematical modeling, PDE, and so on. He had received distinguished research prize from Korean Mathematical Society in 2000 and from Yonsei university. Dr. Seo was a conference co-chair of the International Conference on Electrical Impedance Imaging held in Korea in 2006.

Dr. Daming Wei received Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from Zhejiang University in 1985. He was a deputy director of the Biomedical Engineering Section at Zhejiang University before joining Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1986. He is currently a professor at faculty of Computer Science and Engineering and the director of Information Systems and Technology Center, University of Aizu, Japan. He served as Director of Software Department and Chair of Graduate Department of Information System in past years. Prof. Wei is well known for state-of-the-art computer heart modeling and simulation of electrocardiogram. His recent research directions include biomedical modeling and computer simulation, information technology in biomedicine. Prof. Wei serves as a council member of the International Society of Bioelectromagnetism, and an Associate Editor of International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism. He is a founder and co-chair of IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT). He is the founder and CEO of QRS Corporation Japan.

Dr. Eung Je Woo received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, in 1990. Currently, he is a professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Electronics and Information, Kyung Hee University, Korea. Since 2002, he has been the director of the Impedance Imaging Research Center (IIRC) in Korea. In 2006, he was the scientific program chair of the triennial international conference of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC2006). His research interests include electrical impedance tomography (EIT), magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MREIT), bioelectromagnetism, medical instrumentation and biomedical image/signal processing. Recently. He has been focusing on new spectroscopic conductivity/permittivity imaging using multi-frequency EIT and in vivo high-resolution conductivity imaging using the latest MREIT techniques.

Dr. Shanan Zhu is a professor in College of Electrical Engineering at Zhejiang University. He received both his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Zhejiang University. From 1990 to 1992, he was a Postdoc in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UMIST and an RA in the Department of Engineering Science at University of Oxford in UK. From 1992 to 1995, he worked as a visiting scholar at Argonne National Laboratory, and as a research associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Utah in USA. During 1995 and 1998, he was a research fellow in Department of Electrical Engineering at National University of Singapore. His research work includes adaptive control, signal processing, biomedical functional imaging and source imaging.