Zhang, Yuan-Ting

Yuan-Ting Zhang received his Ph.D. from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, in 1990. He is currently the Director of Joint Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Head of the Division of Biomedical Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He serves also the Chairman (Adjunct) of Department of Biomedical Engineering at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. He was a Research Associate and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada between 1989 and 1994. His present research interests include neural engineering, bio-models, wearable medical devices and body sensor networks particularly for mobile health and telemedicine. Dr. Zhang authored and co-authored more than 260 scientific publications in the area of biomedical engineering. Dr. Zhang served the Technical Program Chair of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). He was the Chairman of Biomedical Division of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) in 1996/97 and 2000/01. He was elected as an AdCom member of IEEE-EMBS in 1999 and the Vice-President of the IEEE-EMBS (2000 and 2001). He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He currently serves an Associate Editor of International Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation, an Editorial Board member for the Book Series of Biomedical Engineering published by the IEEE press and for the Journal of China Medical Device Information. He was the Conference Chair of the 27th Annual International Conference of IEEE-EMBS held in Shanghai in 2005.