About the Contributors

Anupam Shukla, is an Associate Professor in the Information and Communication Technology Department of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He has 21 years of teaching experience. His research interest includes Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, Biometrics, Bio-Medical Engineering, Bioinformatics Robotics, Animation and Signal processing. He has published around 100 papers in various national and international journals/conferences, authored nine book chapters and a book from CRC press. He is the editor and reviewer for reputed international journals/books/conferences; and also member of program and technical committees at international conferences. He received Young Scientist Award from Madhya Pradesh Government and Gold Medal from Jadavpur University in his post graduation.

Ritu Tiwari, is a Professor in the Information and Communication Technology Department of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. She has 09 years of teaching experience. Her field of research includes Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, Biometrics, Bio- Medical Engineering, Robotics and Speech Signal processing. She has published around 40 papers in various national and international journals/conferences. She is the editor and reviewer for international journals/books/conferences and also members of program and technical committees at international conferences. She received Young Scientist Award from Chhattisgarh Council of Science & Technology and also received Gold Medal in her post graduation.

Albert Asunción Marí, Pharm D in 1993, BPS in Pharmacy in 2002 from the University of Valencia and specialist in Hospital Pharmacy in 1996. She is currently a hospital pharmacist at the Pharmacy Department in the Hospital Universitario Dr Peset in Valencia and has collaborated as a part-time professor at the Pharmacy and pharmaceutical technology Department in the University of Valencia (Spain). Her main research interests are strategies to improve patient safety and technologies of health information. Currently she co-directs the Diploma of Oncology Pharmacy and teaches courses of Pharmacotherapy Patient Safety and Quality.

Alexandra Galatescu graduated in Mathematics at University of Bucharest with PhD diploma at Polytechnic University of Bucharest. She is senior researcher with experience, theoretical and practical results and publications in conceptual modeling, formal ontologies, knowledge representation, databases, multi-agent systems, service-oriented enterprise systems, business process re-engineering, software engineering. She was responsible for developing general software tools and information systems in industry, public administration and health care areas. She is in charge with the scientific coordination of national and European research projects and with consultancy in designing and developing information systems. She is author/co-author of papers published in international journals, books, proceedings of international/national scientific meetings.

Alexandru Adriana received her MSc in Automatic Control from University "Politehnica" Bucharest (PUB) in 1976 and in Mathematics from University of Bucharest in 1982. Since 1998, she is PhD in Applied Informatics from PUB. She is Head of Department at National Institute for R&D in Informatics, Bucharest and Professor at Valahia University Targoviste. Her main scientific interests include: eHealth, eLearning, energy efficiency, and renewable energy sources. She coordinated several Romanian research projects in the fields of eHealth, energy efficiency and renewable energies and was scientist in charge of 11 European research projects. She was expert in ISTC - Working Party Meeting on Health care and Persons with Special Need (2000), member of Romanian and international associations, chairman in European conferences and evaluator in FP V Programme (1999) and in Romanian research programmes. She is author of 3 books, co-author of 5 books and wrote over 100 articles published by international publishing.

Amparo Soldevila-Orient was born in Valencia in 1969. She received a B.Sc. degree in Medicine from the University of Valencia in 1992, and a M.Sc. in Nephorology in 1997, after completing a 4-year training program in the University Hospital La Fe (Valencia, Spain). She has been with the Nephrology Unit of the University Hospital La Fe since 2001, where she deals with patients undergoing Chronic Renal Disease, both in dialysis and pre-dialysis.

Andrew Handorf is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Biomedical Engineering. His current research focuses on enhancing the differentiation of human mesen- chymal and embryonic stem cells into the chondrogenic lineage through soluble factor administration.

Antonio José Serrano López received a BS degree in Physics in 1996, a MS degree in Physics in 1998 and a Ph.D. degree in Electronics Engineering in 2002, from the University of Valencia. He is currently an assistant professor in the Electronics Engineering Department at this same university. His research interest are machine learning methods for biomedical signal processing. Currently, he teaches courses of analog electronic design and digital signal processing.

Changchun Liu received the B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1999. He got his M.S. degree in mechatronics from the Shenyang Automation Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2002. He then received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, in 2009. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer with The Mathworks Inc., Natick, MA, where he is responsible for algorithm and data management infrastructure for automatic control and signal processing tools. His research interests include human-machine interaction, pattern recognition, machine learning, robotics, and signal processing.

Elena Jitaru has economic sciences degree, and is senior researcher in informatics. She was involved in several Romanian research projects on eHealth field and in 5 European projects in the field of energy efficiency and environment protection in SAVE and IEE European programmes. She also participated in Several European and Romanian research projects including large databases, data warehouse, business intelligence, data mining, complex information systems. She has expertise in dissemination and communication tools for information and products, multimedia database on Internet, design and development of websites, dynamic web pages. The results of her research activity was concluded in more than 100 papers presented at national and international conferences or published in national journals.

Elnaz Afshari, Ms. Elnaz Afshari obtained her high school diploma in Mathematics and Physics. She was then admitted in the biomedical engineering bachelor's program at Amirkabir University of Technology in 2003. She started her master's program in biomedical field in the same university in 2007 without the need to take the entrance exam because of her outstanding grades. Currently, she is working on her master's thesis in Artificial Tactile Sensing and Robotic Surgery Laboratory at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology. Her main research topic is the application of artificial tactile sensing in urologic surgeries.

Emilio Soria-Olivas was born in Albacete, Spain in 1969. He received his B.Sc. in 1982 in Physics and his Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering in 1997 from the Universitat de Valencia (Spain). Since 1994 he has been with the Department of Ingenieria Electronica at the University of Valencia, where he belongs to the GPDS (Digital Signal Processing Group). He is an Associate Professor. His research activities include advanced signal processing using neural networks and fuzzy systems.

Florin Gheorghe Filip received his MSc and PhD in Control Engineering from University "Po- litehnica" Bucharest (PUB) in 1970 and 1982 respectively. He was elected as a member of the Romanian Academy in 1991. He has been with the National R&D Institute for Informatics (ICI) since 1970 and was the managing director of ICI from 1991 to 1997. He was elected and re-elected in 2002 and 2006 as a vice-president of the Romanian Academy. He was the chair of the technical committee "Large Scale Complex Systems" of IFAC. His main scientific interests include: control and optimization of large-scale systems, decision support systems, technology management, and models for knowledge & information society. He is author/co-author of six monograps, editor/co-editor of 19 volumes and the author/coauthor of over two hundred articles published in specialty volumes and publications (http://www.acad.ro/cv2006/birou_vice02Filip.htm)

Gopalakrishnan Raghavan is a Senior Researcher of Biomedical Engineering at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a MSE in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Akron in 2004, a BSE in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from the University of Madras, India, in 2002. Since 2004, he has been at the Cleveland Clinic as a lead engineer on research funded through NASA aimed to mitigate bone loss and muscle atrophy in astronauts during spaceflight through exercise countermeasures. He is also a key researcher in the Multiple Sclerosis research team at the Cleveland Clinic focused to improve image processing techniques to assess disease progression and correlate them to clinical outcomes. His research focus also includes the use of discrete Hermite transforms for biomedical applications. His areas of interest include medical signal and image processing.

Ho K.Y., Ho Khek Yu is Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and Chairman of the University Medicine Cluster, National University Health System, Singapore. He is concurrently a Senior Consultant of Gastroenterology, and Clinical Director of Endoscopy Centre at the National University Hospital, Singapore. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1986 with a first class honours in MBBS and obtained his Doctorate in Medicine from the National University of Singapore in 1998. His distinguishing career as a physician, and academician and spanned over twenty years and his professional achievement is evident from the numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters he has published. Prof. Ho's research interests cover various aspects of gastrointestinal medicine and technology innovations for clinical use. These include mechanism-based studies of disease processes, evaluation of emerging endoscopic technologies for early diagnosis and prevention of gastrointestinal cancers, and development of advanced innovations such as robotics to fulfill unmet needs in clinical practices.

Huynh V.A., Mr. Huynh Van A received his Degree of Bachelor of Engineering (School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with Honors and Specialization in Mechatronics in the year of 2007. Thereafter, he is pursuing his Degree of Master of Engineering in Nanyang Technological University from the year of 2008 onwards. He currently works as a Research Engineer in Robotics Research Centre in Nanyang Technological University. His field of research is on the development of a master and slave robotic system applied to endoscope for natural orifice translumenal surgery. Furthermore his master project is to design a tagging mechanism as a therapeutic device of ingestible capsule for gastrointestinal tract.

Janghel R R, RR Janghel is a PhD student in Department of Information Technology at Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior. His areas of research are hybrid system design, artificial intelligence and soft computing and application of soft computing in biomedical field. He has published 3 papers in various international and national journals/conferences. He received secured first position in his post graduation from NIT, Raipur.

Jose David Martin-Guerrero was born in Valencia, Spain in 1974. He received a BS degree in Physics (1997), a BS degree in Electronics Engineering (1999), a MS Degree in Electronic Engineering (2001) and a PhD Degree in Electronic Engineering (2004) from the University of Valencia (Spain). He is with the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Valencia. His research interests include Machine Learning algorithms and their potential real application. Lately, his research has been especially focused on the study of Reinforcement Learning algorithms.

Kala Rahul, Mr. Rahul Kala is a student of final year of 5-year Integrated Post Graduate Course (BTech + MTech in IT) in Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior. His areas of research are hybrid system design, robotic planning, design of algorithms, artificial intelligence and soft computing. He has published 18 papers in various international and national journals/conferences. He also takes a keen interest towards Free/Open Source Software.

Kencana A.P, Mr Andy Prima Kencana is currently pursuing M.Eng at Nanyang Technological University and expected to graduate on July 2010. He obtained his B.Eng in mechanical engineering specialized in Mechatronics in 2007. He was awarded the Best Student Paper at the International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology (I-Create 2007). Currently he is working as a Research Engineer in the Bio Robotics Lab with Asst Prof Phee Soo Jay, Louis.

Khandoker Ahsan received the B.Sc. Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1996, M. EngSc in 1999 from Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia and M. Engg in 2001 & Doctor of Engineering in physiological engineering from Muroran Institute of Technology (MIT), Japan in 2004. Currently, he is an ARC Research Network Program Manager and Senior Research Fellow at University of Melbourne, Australia, where he researches in the area of mathematical processing and machine classification of physiological signals. His research interests focus on the diagnosis of sleep disordered breathing, gait analysis and its pattern recognition, biomedical instrumentation, artificial intelligence techniques in physiological modeling, and perinatal cardiac physiology. He has published over 60 articles in journals, conferences, and book chapters.

Kumar Vinod is Professor & Head of Electrical Engineering Department of IIT Roorkee. He received his school education at Ludhaina, Engineering degree from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, M.Tech. & Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee (erstwhile University of Roorkee). He has many academic awards, distinctions and scholarships to his credit including the Khosla Research Awards of University of Roorkee, The Corps of Engineers Prize: Institution of Engineers (I), Ist IETE-R S Khandpur Medical Instrumentation Gold Medal in recognition of life time achievements and outstanding contribution in the field of Biomedical Instrumentation, KS Krishna Memorial Award of IETE. Vinod Kumar has about 150 research papers to his credit in the area of Medical Instrumentation and Signal Processing. He has taken of more than 75 assignments as consultant in diverse fields which includes development of instruments, signal processing packages, residual life assessment of power plants and e-governance. He has 33 years of rich experience of teaching & research. He is a life fellow of IETE and IE (I) and is a senior member of IEEE. His areas of interest are Medical Instrumentation, Digital Signal Processing, Telemedicine and e-Governance.

Robert F. Labadie received the B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, in 1988, the Ph.D. degree in bioengineering, and the M.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, in 1995 and 1996, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN. He is also with the Department of Bioengineering, Vanderbilt University. His clinical specialty is otology, with emphasis on surgical rehabilitation of the hearing impaired, including cochlear implantation. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, has presented his research nationally and internationally, and has ongoing National Institutes of Health grant support to study image-guided otologic surgery, including cochlear implantation.

Lahiri Uttama received the M.Tech. degree in Instrumentation Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 2004. She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. She was with Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, where she was engaged in different plant automation projects. Among the different industrial projects were the implementation of a Neural Network based system for non-destructive determination of mechanical properties of cold rolled steel sheets at Cold Rolling Mill, Digital Signal Processor based real-time non-destructive wire diameter measurement at Wire Rod Mill. Her current research interests include machine learning, adaptive response systems, digital signal processing, human computer interaction, and robotics.

Lomanto D., Dr Davide Lomanto graduated with distinction in Medicine & Surgery in 1983 at University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy. He then completed specialty training obtaining a post-graduate diploma in General Surgery in 1992 from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy. He obtained his PhD in 1990 from the the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy. He is currently the Director of the Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre (MISC) at the National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore and Director of the Khoo Teck Puat Advanced Surgical Training Centre (ASTC). He is also Senior Consultant Surgeon at the Department of Surgery and of Paediatric Surgery, National University Health System of Singapore (NUHS). He won numerous awards for his distinguished research achievement and holds memberships of many prestigious surgical Societies (SAGES, EAES, ELSA, EHS). In addition, Dr Lomanto is editor and reviewer of 5 high level peer-reviewed international journals in general surgery.

Low S.C., Dr. Low Soon Chiang graduated from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with Honours and specialisation in Mechatronics in 2004. Following this, he took up a Ph.D program under full scholarship from Nanyang Technological University and obtaining his degree in 2009. His field of research is on the development of a micro multi degrees of freedom robotic system for endoscopic and natural orifice translumenal surgery. His knowledge also extends to the art of tendon sheath actuation and haptics for master slave robotic system. Currently he is working in Defense Science Organisation, Singapore as a senior researcher.

Luis Pallardo Mateu Received his Ph.D. degree in Medicine in 1978 from the Universitat de Valencia (Spain). He is head of the Nephrology Department in Hospital Universitario Dr. Peset, Valencia, Spain. Also is Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Valencia. He is the supervisor of six doctoral theses and he has published over 400 comunications in congress and more than 100 papers in specialized journals. His research interests are the analysis of risk factors of graft and patient survival in renal transplantation.

Maheshwari Ranjan obtained B.E. (Electrical) degree from erstwhile MREC (Now MNIT) Jaipur in 1987. He completed his M.E. (Measurement & Instrumentation specialization) and Ph.D. (on thesis "Physiological manifestations under venom interactions and their analysis") from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in years 1996 and 2007 respectively. Currently, working as Associate Professor and Head, Department of Electronics Engg., Rajasthan Technical University, Kota (Rajasthan), he is actively engaged in research and development related to venom interaction, ECG signal processing, biomechanics of bipedalism, as well as energy conservation using non-conventional energy sources and applications of ultra-capacitors in Hybrid Electric Vehicles for enhanced performance.

Majumder Swanirbhar did his ITI, Diploma, and B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engg from North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh then under the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) Central University, Shillong, Megha- laya in 2000, 2002 and 2004 respectively. After a brief stint in Siemens, Kolkata he joined University of Calcutta and completed his M.Tech in Instrumentation and Control Engg. There he worked in the field of biomedical signal processing and image processing. He after completion of his M.Tech joined NERIST (Deemed University) as Lecturer in the department of Electronics and Communication Engg. He has several publications in journals and conferences of repute in the field of ECG signal processing, image processing and biometrics. His major fields of interest are Biomedical Signal Processing and instrumentation, image processing and iris biometrics.

Monica Climente-Martf. She received a Pharmacy degree in 1991 and a Ph.D. degree in Pharmacy in 1997 from the Universitat de Valencia (Spain). She specialized in Hospital Pharmacy in 1994 after completing a 3-year residency program at Hospital Universitario Dr. Peset (Valencia), where she works since 1997. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutics at the University of Valencia since 2008. Her research activities have been specially focused on the study of tools and systems for improving the quality of pharmacotherapy and patient safety.

Mugler Dale H. is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. He received a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Northwestern University in 1974 (R.P. Boas, dissertation advisor), a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1970. He has taught at Syracuse University, Santa Clara University, and has been at the University of Akron since 1989. He was a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for research at the TH Aachen, Germany, in 1983-4. He has spent five summers at two different NASA Research Centers (computational biology at NASA-Ames and NASA-Glenn) under the NASA-ASEE program. He has two patents, and two presently in process. Dr. Mugler's research involves computational methods related to signal and image processing, particularly biomedical applications of Fourier analysis and wavelet theory.

Najarian Siamak, Prof. Siamak Najarian has completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Oxford University, England and had a pos-doc position at the same university for one year. Prof. Najarian serves as a Full-Professor at Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). His research interests are the applications of artificial tactile sensing (especially in robotic surgery) and design of artificial organs. He is the author and translator of 25 books in the field of biomedical engineering, 8 of which are written in English. Prof. Najarian has published more than 150 international journal and conference papers in the field of biomedical engineering.

Omid Majdani completed Medical School degree in pathology from the Charite' Universita'tsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, in 1999 and his Ph.D. degree in pathology from the Charite' Universita'tsmedizin, Berlin, in 2002. Then he received the Residency degree in otolaryngology from the Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, in 2004. Since 2004, he has been a Senior Surgeon in the Department of Otolaryngology, Medical University of Hannover, Hanover, Germany. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, during 2007-2008. His current research interests include computer-assisted surgery and medical robotics as well as development of new cochlear implant devices.

Pal Saurabh did his B.Sc. with Physics (Hons.) and B.Tech in Instrumentation Engg. from University of Calcutta, India in 1997 and 2000 respectively and joined Fisher-Rosemount (I) Pvt. Ltd. as junior engineer. Later he left the MNC and joined in an engineering institute under West Bengal University of Technology, India as a faculty in the Dept. of Electronics and Instrumentation Engg‥ He did his M.Tech in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from University of Calcutta and started working in the field of ECG Signal Processing and analysis as his Ph.D work. He is presently working as Assistant Professor in the Dept of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering of Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India. He has several publications in journals and conferences of repute in the field of ECG signal processing. His major fields of interest are Biomedical Signal Processing, Process Control and Process Instrumentation.

Phee S J, Dr Louis Phee is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He graduated from NTU with the B.Eng (Hons) and M.Eng degrees in 1996 and 1999 respectively. He obtained his PhD from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy in 2002 on a European Union scholarship. His research interests include Medical Robotics and Mechatronics in Medicine. Dr Phee is the Principal Investigator of a few interdisciplinary projects with more than S$6 million in grants. He was awarded the National Academy of Science (SNAS) Young Scientist Award and the Outstanding Young Persons of Singapore Award in 2006 and 2007 respectively. He has published over 30 international journals and book chapters.

Runthala Ashish, popularly known as Dr. Kelvin joined the BITS, Pilani Family in 2005, where he is working as a lecturer, in Biological Sciences Department. His research is focused on protein structural conformations. He graduated with an M.Sc in Biological Sciences from BITS, Pilani in 2005, where he later joined as Teaching Assistant and simultaneously got enrolled in M.E. with Biotechnology. After around 3 years, he started his PhD in Bioinformatics, because of his dedicated interest in computer science. He is one of the greatest fellows in BITS, who has wide knowledge of lot many disciplines and thus his teaching reflects his multiple area of interest. He has taught courses on Genetics, Instrumental Analysis, Shell Programming, and Instrumental Analysis. He has been coordinator of Network Security Forum also in this institute for a year, where he designed some websites too. He is quite an interesting fellow to work with.

Sarkar Nilanjan (S'92-M'93-SM'04) received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, in 1993. He was with the Queen's University, Kingston, ON Canada, as a Postdoctoral Fellow and an Assistant Professor with the University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI. He joined Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering, and computer engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University. His research interests include human-robot interaction, affective computing, dynamics, and control. Dr. Sarkar served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS.

Sun Z.L., Zhenglong Sun received his B.Eng degree with Honors in the school of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2005, and the M.Eng degree in the school of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2007, both at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Following this, he worked in the Robotics Research Center at NTU as a Research Associate. From May to November 2008, he worked under Dr. Iulian Iordachita and Dr. Russell Taylor as a visiting scholar at the CISST ERC center at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in USA. He is currently a 1st year Ph.D. student in the Robotic Research Center at Nanyang Technological University. His main field of research is haptics feedback, force sensing, teleoperation and surgical robotics.

Torres N. Victor Jimenez, PharmD in 1966, and PhD in Pharmacy in 1970 from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He is currently the Director of the Pharmacy Department at the Hospital Uni- versitario Dr Peset in Valencia and full professor of Biopharmacy and Pharmacokinetics at the Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology Department in the University of Valencia (Spain). His main research interests are clinical pharmacokinetics, pharmaceutical care, strategies to improve patient safety and technologies of health information. Currently he co-directs the Diplomas of Oncology Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy Patient Safety and Quality.

Tyler Allee is currently pursuing a Ph. D. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Biomedical Engineering. His research interests involve electrospinning, the development of engineered tendon and ligament tissues for clinical applications, and the tenogenic differentiation of human mes-enchymal stem cells.

Verma H.K. is the Deputy Director of the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Professor of Electrical Engineering and the senior-most professor in the Institute. He graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1967 from University of Jodhpur and obtained Master of Engg. and Ph.D. degrees in 1969 and 1977, respectively, from the University of Roorkee (which became Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2001). He has been on the Faculty of Department of Electrical Engg., University of Roorkee/Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee since Sep. 1969. For two years during 1980 to 1982, Dr. Verma worked as R&D Manager of a public limited company. Prof. Verma has published more than 180 research papers. His current research interests include smart sensors and sensor networks, digital relays and power system protection, biomedical instrumentation and telemedicine, embedded systems, and building automation. His professional activities emcompass three diverse areas, namely digital instrumentation, small hydro power development and e-governance.

Wan-Ju Li received his Ph.D. degree in Cell and Tissue Engineering from Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, and completed his post-doctoral training at National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, in the United States. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation and the Department of Biomedical Engineering in University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Li is the head of the Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Laboratory. His research interests are focused on stem cell biology, nanostructured biomaterial, and orthopedic regenerative medicine. He has published more than 20 research papers and book chapters on electrospinning.

Yang K., Dr Kai Yang is a research fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He graduated from Shandong Medical University, China in 1991 and worked as orthopaedic surgeon for about 10 years. From 1998 to 1999, he worked in Orthopeadic Research Laboratory as a visiting scholar sponsored by Minister of Education, China. He obtained his PhD from NTU, Singapore in 2007. His research interest is focused on computer aided surgery and medical robotics. Dr Yang's strength is to apply the advanced engineering solution to solve the current needs in clinical practice. So far, he has been involved ten multidiscipline projects in biomedical field and published over 20 international journals and book chapters.