2025 Keynotes
Dr. Jonathan Pan, Chief, Disruptive Technologies Office, and Director, xCybersecurity, Enterprise Group, Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX), Singapore
BIO: Dr. Jonathan Pan leads the Disruptive Technologies Office of the Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX), Singapore. This office explores the frontiers of Science and Technologies, like Artificial Intelligence and Quantum, for homeland security application through their applied Research and Development endeavors. He also concurrently leads the cybersecurity team in HTX. Jonathan conducts his own research in Artificial Intelligence & Cyber Security. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor with Nanyang Technological University Singapore where he teaches Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence courses.
TOPIC TITLE: Advancing Technology for Public Safety
ABSTRACT: This keynote explores the crucial role of collaborating together to advance technology for public safety. It highlights the importance of partnerships across academia, industry and communities to drive innovation and develop solutions to deal with public safety challenges. Attendees will be inspired to embrace collective action in our efforts to make impactful technological advancements.
Jose I. Reyes-De-Corcuera, Associate Professor,Agricultural and Biological Engineering,University of Florida, USA
BIO: Dr. Reyes is developing strategies for enzyme stabilization to fabricate enzyme biosensors with extended operational life and cost-effective biocatalytic enzyme processes for the food and agricultural industries. Dr. Reyes has characterized the stabilizing effects of high hydrostatic pressure (HHP) of several enzymes including oxidases that are used in the fabrication of biosensors as well as lipases that can be used in the manufacture of natural flavors as well as in the modification of the physical and nutritional properties of edible oils.
Dr. Reyes’ research also includes the development of sensors to detect biofilm formation in water distribution systems and food contact surfaces as well as better understanding how different microorganisms contribute to the formation and the ecology of biofilms. Dr. Reyes is also leading an international collaboration to study minimize the variability of cacao fermentation to produce ultra-premium chocolate. This research aims at developing and deploying cost-effective technologies to smallholders in cacao-producing developing countries thereby increasing smallholders’ income and quality of life.
From 2005 to 2013, he served as Assistant and then Associate Professor of Food Processing Engineering at the University of Florida, Citrus Research and Education Center. In 2013, Dr. Reyes joined the University of Georgia as Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator at the Department of Food Science and Technology. Dr. Reyes returned to the University of Florida in 2022.
May Dongmei Wang, Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Full Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, USA
BIO: May Dongmei Wang is Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Fellow and full professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and Emory University (EU). She is the Director of Biomedical Big Data Initiative, Georgia Distinguished Cancer Scholar, Petit Institute Faculty Fellow, Kavli Fellow, AIMBE Fellow, IAMBE Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and Board of Directors of American Board of AI in Medicine.
Her research is in Biomedical Big Data with AI-Driven Intelligent Reality (IR) for predictive, personalized, and precision health (pHealth). She has 20+ years of academic professorship and ~4 years industrial research experience, published 290+ articles in referred journals and conference proceedings with 15,000+ Google Scholar citations, and delivered 280+ invited and keynote lectures. Dr. Wang received BEng from Tsinghua University China, and MS with PhD degrees from GT.
She is a recipient of GT Outstanding Faculty Mentor for Undergrad Research Award, and EU MilliPub Award (for a high-impact paper that is cited over 1,000 times). At Georgia Tech, Dr. Wang is in 2022 President LeadingWomen Program and 2021 Provost Emerging Leaders Program. She was 2018-2021 Carol Ann and David Flanagan Distinguished Faculty Fellow, and 2015-2017 GT Biomedical Informatics Program Co-Director in Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI). Before 2016, Dr. Wang was Director of Bioinformatics and Biocomputing Core in NIH/NCI-sponsored U54 Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, and Co-Director of GT Center of Bio-Imaging Mass Spectrometry for over 10 years.
Dr. Wang’s research has been supported by NIH, NSF, CDC, VA, Georgia Research Alliance, Georgia Cancer Coalition, Shriners’ Hospitals for Children, Children’s Health Care of Atlanta, Enduring Heart Foundation, Coulter Foundation, Imlay Foundation, Microsoft Research, HP, UCB, and Amazon.
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