Dr. Christian Baumgartner is professor and head of the Institute of Health Care Engineering with European Testing Center of Medical Devices at Graz University of Technology, Austria. He received his MSc (1994) and PhD degrees (1998) from Graz University of Technology, and his habilitation in biomedical engineering from UMIT Tyrol, Austria (2006). Diploma in organ and choral conducting (1998) from the Conservatory of Graz, Austria. From 1998-2002 Dr. Baumgartner worked as an R&D systems engineer in the medical device industry. From 2007-2008, he joined the Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis, Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, where he conducted research in the field of bioinformatics. In 2009, he was appointed full professor and director of the Institute of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at UMIT Tyrol. Since 2015, he has been head of the Institute of Health Care Engineering with European Testing Center of Medical Devices at Graz University of Technology, Austria. Dr. Baumgartner is the author of more than 200 publications in refereed journals, books and conference proceedings and patents, and is a reviewer for more than 40 scientific journals. He is associate editor of Frontiers in Physiology (Computational Physiology and Medicine), section editor of Sensors (biomedical sensors), co-section editor of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics (sensors, signals and imaging informatics), and is an editorial board member of Cell Biology and Toxicology and Methods of Information in Medicine. He teaches and has taught more than 20 courses in physics, biology, electronics and electrical engineering, computer science, biomedical engineering, and medical device regulation. His main research interests include biomedical sensors, cellular electrophysiology and signal processing, biomedical modeling and simulation, machine learning and computational biology, and medical device development, safety and regulatory affairs.

Dr. Sandra Avila is an Assistant Professor and Research Scientist in the Institute of Computing at the University of Campinas. She has a PhD in Computer Science, with a double degree, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Sorbonne Université (formerly Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UPMC Sorbonne, Paris 6), in 2013; master in Computer Science from UFMG, in 2008; and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), in 2006. From Nov/2013 to Jan/2016, Sandra was a post-doctoral scientific researcher at UNICAMP, at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC), in agreement with SAMSUNG. President (2015) and Vice-President (2019) of IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) South Brazil Section. She won the UNICAMP Inventores Awards, in the Licensed Technology category (2018), Google Latin America Research Awards (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) and Google Awards for Inclusion Research (2022). In 2022 and 2023, she was named among the top 2 most influential scientists in the world according to research conducted by Stanford University and Elsevier. She is currently head of the Department of Information Systems (DSI). His research is focused on Artificial Intelligence, more specifically Machine Learning and Computer Vision, with an emphasis on Health, Sensitive Media Analysis, Precision Agriculture and other applications. In 2020, Sandra Avila was selected to represent Brazil at the BRICS Young Scientists Forum (YSF), in the area of Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Robert A. Avery is a pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmologist in the Division of Ophthalmology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and holds the Richard Shafritz Endowed Chair in Pediatric Ophthalmology Research. Dr. Avery is also an associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Avery completed his pediatrics residency training at the A.I. duPont Hospital for Children. He then completed both his pediatric neurology residency and neuro-ophthalmology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Avery also received his Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Avery’s unique clinical and research expertise enables him to perform cutting-edge research involving multiple disciplines, including neuro-oncology, radiology, ophthalmic imaging, neurosurgery, neurology and ophthalmology. His primary research interest investigates advanced ocular and brain imaging methods for monitoring and treating children with brain tumors affecting their vision. He is the principal investigator of two grants from the National Cancer Institute and one grant from the National Eye Institute that investigate visual outcomes in low grade gliomas known as “optic pathway gliomas (OPGs)”. He is passionate about the ophthalmic care of children with Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). He is the lead ophthalmologist for a phase-2 and three different phase-3 clinical trials testing treatments for children with brain tumors causing blindness. He is also part of the Gilbert Family Foundation’s “Visual Restoration Initiative”, a multi-disciplinary team engaged to develop first-in-kind therapies to restore sight in children with Neurofibromatosis type 1.

Dr Enzo Ferrante completed his PhD in Computer Sciences at Université Paris-Saclay (Paris, France) and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London in the UK. He has also been a visiting student at the CVGL Lab at Stanford University (2014), Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard Medical School, 2021) in Boston, and DATAIA Invited Professor position at Université Paris-Saclay in France (2023-2024). He returned to Argentina in 2017, holding a faculty researcher position at Argentina's National Research Council (CONICET). He regularly serves as a member of the program committee of important medical imaging conferences like MICCAI, MIDL, ISBI and IPMI, and he has organized several workshops in this context. He is currently part of the Applied Artificial Intelligence Lab (LIAA) at the Institute of Computer Sciences from Universidad de Buenos Aires & CONICET. Dr Ferrante received the Google Award for Inclusion Research (2022), the Young Researcher Award from the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina (2020) and the Mercosur Science & Technology Award (2020) for his scientific contributions to AI for medical imaging and fairness of AI in this context. His research interests span artificial intelligence and biomedical image analysis, currently focusing on fairness, domain adaptation and generalization, calibration and anatomical segmentation of medical image.