Keynote Talks


Prof. Eung Je Woo

Prof. Eung Je Woo

CTO of BiLab, Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine at Kyung Hee University, Korea
Speech Title: Development of an EIT system: challenges and opportunities

Biography: Eung Je Woo is CTO of BiLab and Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Medicine at Kyung Hee University in Korea. In 1990, he received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University in 1983 and 1985, respectively. His primary research interests include electrical impedance tomography (EIT), magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MREIT), conductivity tensor imaging (CTI), and bioelectromagnetism. He was Director of the Impedance Imaging Research Center (IIRC) at Kyung Hee University, which he founded in 2002. He served as a member of the IEEE EMBS AdCom, an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and a member of the International Advisory Board for Physiological Measurement. He was the Program Chair of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC2006) and the IEEE EMBC17. He was the president of the ISEBI from 2019 to 2022 and the president of the ISBEM from 2021 to 2022. In 2020, he was elected as a fellow of the IAMBE. He founded a company, BiLab, to commercialize the EIT technologies and innovations from his long-term R&D efforts for noninvasive cardiopulmonary monitoring.