Professor Zhang Yuanting is Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong; Director of the Hong Kong Centre for Cerebro-cardiovascular Health Engineering (COCHE); founding Head of Biomedical Engineering Division at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, founding Director of the Key Laboratory for Health Informatics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); and founding Director of CAS-SIAT Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering.

Professor Zhang serves currently as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering and Chair of Working Group for IEEE 1708 Standard. He was Vice-President of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

Professor Zhang’s research interests include cardiovascular health informatics, unobtrusive sensing and wearable devices, neural-muscular physiological modeling and m-Health technologies. He was the Chief Scientist for a national “973” project founded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, China, on multi-modality sensing and imaging of plaques in vascular systems. Moreover, he was an Investigator/Co-PI for several international research collaboration projects, including the European Union FP7 “HeartCycle” project led by Philips Research.

Professor Zhang has served on grant reviewing panels/committees for more than 10 countries/regions. These include the Welcome Trust in the UK, National Institutes of Health in the US, and National Science Foundation of China. Professor Zhang won more than 30 national and international academic awards and he was elected as IAMBE Fellow, IEEE Fellow and AIMBE Fellow for his contributions to the development of wearable and m-Health technologies.