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Hugo Gamboa Nova University of Lisbon Portugal

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Hugo Gamboa is an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the Sciences and Technology Faculty of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and member of LIBPHYS. PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. As a Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer Portugal coordinates the Lisbon Office research group with the focus on Intelligent Systems. He is a founder and President of PLUX, a technology-based innovative startup in the field wireless medical sensors, focused on microelectronics, biosignal processing and software development.

Giovanni Saggio University of Tor Vergata, Rome Italy

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Giovanni Saggio is recognized among the “World’s Top 2% Scientists” (Stanford University ranking, 2020-2025) and has been appointed “Distinguished Researcher” by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC). Having earned his M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991 and his Ph.D. in Microelectronics and Telecommunications in 1996, he currently serves as an Associate Professor of Electronics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” where he also holds the National Scientific Qualification as a Full Professor.
Professor Saggio holds the chairs of both Fund amental and Advanced Electronics within the Faculties of Engineering and Medicine at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His international teaching record includes courses on “Wearable Technologies” at the Hautes Écoles Spécialisées de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO), “Business Opportunities for Wearable Technology” at the School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR) in Switzerland (2022-23), and “Biomedical Signals” for TAIEX (the European Commission’s Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument) in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2018). Furthermore, he served as a Keynote Speaker at the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC, 2023) and at the NUIST summer school at Nanjing University, China (2025).
On behalf of the European Commission, he coordinated the “IDIH” (International Collaboration Digital Transformation Healthy Ageing) international expert group on “Preventive Care” (2020-22), which involved Japan, South Korea, the USA, China, and Canada. During the same period, he also served as a Scientific Consultant for the Italian Vice-Minister of Health. His professional excellence has been recognized with several prestigious accolades, including the “Promotori Tecnologici per l’Innovazione” award (Provinciattiva SpA, 2010), the “Cuore Digitale Award” (2020), the “Innovation Business Award” (National ANGI Award, 2020), and the “Golden Wheel” (Rotary Club, 2022).
An accomplished author, Professor Saggio has written numerous monographs and 10 textbooks in the field of electronics; notably, as a reference author for CRC Press, his work has been adopted by 23 universities across four continents. He has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific articles and maintains significant editorial roles, serving as Topic Editor and Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers (Lausanne, Switzerland), as well as Guest Editor, Academic Editor, and member of the Section and Editorial Boards for the journal Sensors (MDPI, Basel, Switzerland).
His research activity is primarily focused on sensors and analog electronics for medical and sports applications. In this capacity, he has served as the principal investigator and coordinator for scientific projects funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), Armaereo (Ministry of Defense), INAIL, and the Ministry of Health. A prolific innovator, Professor Saggio is the inventor or co-inventor of 16 patents and has founded three successful spin-offs: Captiks Srl (wearable devices for medical and sports applications, 2012), Seeti Srl (telemedicine and remote monitoring, 2015), and Voicewise Srl (diagnosis of medical conditions and emotional states via voice analysis, 2019). ... More >>

Vaidotas Marozas Kaunas University of Technology Lithuania

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Prof. Vaidotas Marozas is Director of the Biomedical Engineering Institute and Professor of Electronics Engineering at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania. His research focuses on biomedical signal processing, modeling, machine learning, and wearable systems for personal health monitoring. He is the KTU principal investigator in several international projects, including Horizon Europe projects ThrombUS+ and CVDLINK, EURAMET project QUMPHY, and the Swedish Institute Visby programme. He has also led national research projects and more than 15 industrial R&D contracts. Prof. Marozas has published in lea ding journals, including IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and has co-authored monographs on photoplethysmography and atrial fibrillation published by Elsevier and Springer. His distinctions include KTU Researcher of the Year in 2016 and KTU Project Manager of the Year in 2025. He coordinates KTU’s Biomedical Engineering master’s programme and has supervised seven PhD graduates. He has served several times as an Associate Editor for the IEEE EMBC conference and currently serves as an Associate Editor for several international journals. ... More >>

Raquel Bailon Independent Researcher Spain

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Dr. Raquel Bailón is a Full Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Communications at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), and a senior researcher at the Aragón Institute for Engineering Research (I3A) and the CIBER-BBN research center.

Her research primary focus is on biomedical signal processing, with a particular emphasis on the non-invasive assessment of the autonomic nervous system using cardiovascular and respiratory signals. Her contributions include heart rate variability analysis, cardiorespiratory interaction modeling, wearable sensing, and the development of digital biomarke rs for cardiovascular, metabolic, and mental health applications.

Dr. Bailón has led and collaborated on numerous national and international research projects in close partnership with clinical and academic institutions. ... More >>

Huiguang He The University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences China

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Hugo Gamboa Nova University of Lisbon Portugal

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Hugo Gamboa is an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the Sciences and Technology Faculty of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and member of LIBPHYS. PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. As a Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer Portugal coordinates the Lisbon Office research group with the focus on Intelligent Systems. He is a founder and President of PLUX, a technology-based innovative startup in the field wireless medical sensors, focused on microelectronics, biosignal processing and software development.