Richard Charnigo has completed his Ph.D. in Statistics at Case Western Reserve University. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor at University of Kentucky.

Theory and methods for mixture modeling, Theory and methods for nonparametric regression and Functional data analysis, Applications in cardiology, Psychology, Engineering, Organizational behavior, and Public health

Seliktar is Professor and Vice Director of the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems at Drexel University. He holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Strathclyde University in Galsgow, United Kingdom. Dr. Seliktar has substantial research and practical experience in the fields of control of limb prosthesis, assistive technology, human performance analysis, orthopedic and occupational biomechanics. Dr. Seliktar research has been supported by the Scottish Home and Health department, Israelrsquo Department of Defense, the US National Science Foundation NSF and the National Institutes of Health NIH, the Easter Seal Research Foundation, The National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research NIDRR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and hospitals. More than 100 publications have been resulted from his research.

Rehabilitation engineering, Limb prostheses, Biomechanics, Human motion, Orthopedic biomechanics

Professor Snehasis Mukhopadhyay has received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1994. Currently, he is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis. In the past, he has also served as an Associate Director of Bioinformatics in Indiana University School of Informatics. He has authored over eighty research articles/books. He has served in the Program and Advisory Committees of many conferences such as IEEE Biocomputing workshop, IEEE International Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Systems, IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Intelligent Control etc. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 1996.

Bioinformatics, Data and Text Mining, Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning

Dr. Peng Li is currently an Application Scientist at Rheonix, where he works closely with biologists and engineers to develop sample-in result-out microfluidics-based molecular diagnostic devices. He has authored and co-authored 15 papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings and he currently holds 2 US provisional patents in the area of microfluidics. He is also a reviewer of several reputed journals including Lab on a Chip, Applied Physics Letter, Nanotechnology, etc.

Microfluidics

J.T. Efird completed his Doctorate in Epidemiology Biostatistics Concentration at Stanford University School of Medicine. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University ECU and has a joint appointment as Epidemiologist/Chief Statistician in the Center for Health Disparities Research. Prior to joining ECU, Dr. Efird was Director of the Biostatistics Facility at the John A. Burns School of Medicine Honolulu, Hawaii and an Associate Member of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii.

Statistical methods for gene-environment interaction, High-speed computational methods, and efficient sample size estimation for correlated data

Dongfeng Wu has received her Ph.D. in Statistics in University of California, Santa Barbara during the period of 1995-1999. Currently, she is working as an associate professor and Master’s program director in University of Louisville. She is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods. She has authored/coauthored more than 20 research articles/book chapters. She is a member of the American Statistical Association ASA and International Biometric Society-East North American Region ENAR.

Probability modeling and statistical inferences in periodic cancer screening, Bayesian inference, Statistical decision theory, Time series, Wavelet regression, Smoothing spline, etc.

Amandio Vieira has received Ph.D. from University of Alberta. Dr. Amandio Vieira Currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Faculty of Science, Simon Fraser University.

Oxidative stress and antioxidant nutrients, Transport and metabolic activity of nutrients, biochemistry, cell biology, nutrition and metabolism, epigenetics, protein structure and function, Hormones and growth factors, lipids and membranes, Receptor-mediated endocytosis

Professor Shahzad is currently affiliated with University of Vienna, Austria. Professor Shahzad is one of the pioneers, working for the progress of translational medicine field. He is serving as a secretary general and director of administration for “international society for translational medicine (ISTM)”. He is serving as visiting professor of translational medicine, at the First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China. He is also appointed as associate professor of translational medicine (Adj), at the First Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, China. Professor Shahzad has won many prestigious international fellowships and awards. Professor Shahzad is invited speaker for many international life sciences conferences.

Translational Research and Clinical Diagnostics

Recai Yucel\'s research is motivated by methodological issues in health services research and prevention research. Specifically, his work focuses on computational algorithms and software development, hierarchical and latent variable models, models and methods for response errors and applied Bayesian statistics. Yucel has worked with investigators at the Methodology Center at Pennsylvania State University to develop a statistical methodology for analyzing incomplete multivariate multilevel data. He was awarded a fellowship by the American Statistical Association and the National Center for Health Statistics to develop and disseminate methods for handling item nonresponse in complex sample surveys.

Kesheng Wang has received Ph.D. in Population Genetics and Biostatistics from the University of Goettingen, Goettingen. Presently he is working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA.

Genetic epidemiology/Statistical genetics, Genome-wide linkage and association studies of complex diseases, Fine mapping and re-sequencing of loci relevant to susceptibility and outcomes, investigation into the causal gene variants; Development and application of statistical methods in analysis of clinic, gene expression and genotypic data, linkage analysis and association studies for binary and quantitative traits as well as survival data; Detection of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions of complex diseases; Identification of disease subtypes and subgroups; Statistical methods in QTL/gene mapping in animal models of complex diseases; Statistical Population genetics; Statistical methods in application of genetic markers (microsatellite, SNPs, DNA sequences and copy number variations) for estimation of genetic variation, detection of natural selection and recombination hot spot, inference of haplotype and population stratification as well as population history; Population genetic analysis of natural populations, structural variation and gene expression profiling; development and application of methods based on the coalescent theory; Biostatistics; Application of multivariate methods for analyzing multivariate phenotypic data; Statistical methods using linear and non-linear mixed models; Survival analysis in human samples and animal models

Liuquan Sun has received PhD in Statistics from Peking University, Beijing, China. Currently, he is working as Professor, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Biostatistics, Interval-censored survival data analysis, Longitudinal data analysis, Statistical analysis of data with Informative censoring, Applied statistics and statistical computation, Survival Analysis