Professor Alistair Young,
Professor of Cardiovascular Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, King’s College London, United Kingdom
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Prof. Alistair Young work is multidisciplinary, across a variety of fields including engineering, anatomy, radiology, cardiology, computer science and bioinformatics. These include new methods for evaluating heart performance using statistical model (atlases) and computational biomechanics. Associated with this is fast analysis of heart function using time-varying 3D mathematical models, analysis of strain imaging in MRI, and atlas-based analysis of patient populations. He is a founding member of the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and serve associate editor of Medical Image Analysis, and the board of Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. He has an ongoing research collaboration with Siemens Healthcare. He is Principal Investigator for the Cardiac Atlas Project, a NIH funded world-wide consortium for the re-use of imaging data (R01 HL087773).
Prof. Alistair Young leads the King’s College London arm of the Cardiac Atlas Project, which brings together a world-wide consortium of researchers to map heart structure and function from medical imaging examinations. To date there are over 3000 imaging cases contributed to the CAP database, and over 50 groups around the world have been approved for data access. This project was the first to make large numbers of cardiac imaging evaluations available to the general research community. New tools have been developed for quantifying remodeling due to myocardial infarction, and correction of bias arising from imaging protocol.
Prof. Alistair Young has developed software for the fast efficient analysis of cardiac function from imaging examinations. This includes the quantification of ventricular function and tissue strain from magnetic resonance imaging. Several of my workflows and algorithms have been implemented in the Siemens MRI product suite, by virtue of an ongoing collaboration with Siemens Healthcare. He also has evaluated disease processes in patients with cardiovascular disease, including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, diabetes, dilated cardiomyopathy and hypertension. These studies have demonstrated successful collaborations with many different groups worldwide.
Prof. Alistair Young has pioneered novel methods for the quantification of heart muscle stiffness and contractility from medical imaging examinations. These include finite element analysis of cardiac mechanics and parameter estimation for non-linear and anisotropic stiffness parameters. He has developed novel methods for the evaluation of cardiac function and blood flow in patients with valvular disease, including aortic regurgitation and aortic stenosis.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Afizan Azman,
Associate Professor and Director for Impact Lab Digital Innovation & Smart Society, Taylor’s University, Malaysia
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Afizan Azman is an Associate Professor and a Director for Impact Lab Digital Innovation & Smart Society at Taylor’s University, Selangor He was a former Deputy Vice Chancelor (DVC) at University College of Islam Melaka (KUIM), Malaysia now known as Universiti Melaka (UniMel). Previously he was a President/Chief of Executive at Melaka International College of Science and Technology (MiCoST), Melaka and a former Deputy Dean at Multimedia University, Malaysia. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Afizan Azman has completed his PhD in Computer Science from Loughborough University, United Kingdom and his Masters of IT from University College of London (UCL), United Kingdom. His interest are in several areas in IT and Computer Sience like Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Analytics and Machine Learning, Vehicle System and Technology and Internet of Things.
In research, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Afizan Azman has actively doing research in the field of AI, Data Analytics and Vehicle Technology. He was awarded with two research grants from Telekom Malaysia (TM) for two projects: Connected Car Services – Automatic Facial Expression Recognition for Driver Satisfaction Detection and for Vehicle Data Analytics (RM 701,911.00) and Fatigue Attentive System for Driver (FATs) (RM 322,827.54) as a project leader. He was also a project member to many more research projects under FRGS, Multimedia University, Universiti Melaka, and Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan (KPKT). He also was a Ketua Editor Jurnal Tuah at Universiti Melaka. In terms of recognition, he is an Honorary Member of the National Economic Digital Movement Association (NEDMA), Member of Malaysian Board of Technologies (MBOT), Certified Volunteer for Mercy Malaysia, Rakan Strategik dan Sukarelawan Yayasan Food Bank Malaysia (YFBM), Grant Recommendation and Project Monitoring Assessor for Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation Sdn Bhd (MDEC). He is also an Adjunct Professor/External Examiner/Academic Advisor to several universities such as Universiti Malaya (UM), Multimedia University (MMU), Universiti Teknikal Melaka Malaysia (UTeM), Perdana University Malaysia, Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology Coimbatore India, Anna University India and Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India.
Dr. Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan,
Deputy Head for Climatology – Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG), Indonesia
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Dr. Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan is the Deputy Head for Climatology, Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG), where he provides leadership for overall climate services in BMKG and contributes actively in international organization. He is presently the Vice-President of the Commission for Weather, Climate, Water and Related Environmental Services and Applications (SERCOM), World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He is now also serving as the Chair of the Indonesian Association for Atmospheric Expert (A3I).
– The leadership role in BMKG encompass of comprehensive services include regional climate analysis, the provision of seasonal forecast in BMKG, and applied sectoral applications. Quality control of long-term historical data, trend- and indices-analyses are also part of the procedure. Presently also spearheading the implementation of national air quality information services and the implementation of Integrated Global Greenhouse Gases Information System (IG3IS) in Indonesia.
– As the Vice-President of SERCOM-WMO: coordinating services-standard setting-guidance-and-development in the area of climate services, agriculture, aviation, disaster risk reduction support, water/hydrology, and marine and oceanographic services. In the past, had served as the Co-Lead of the Expert Team on Cataloging Hazardous Event, a core member of the Expert Team of Climate Monitoring and Assessment, Chair of the Working Group on Climate Services in Regional Association – V, South East Asia & West Pacific, and the Co-Lead of the Expert Team on WMO Climate Statement, World Meteorological Organization.
Applied mathematician as background, modeling and simulation specialist.
– Focusing on environmental services supporting the nexus of climate to water-food-and-energy.
– In the past specializing in modeling and numerical simulation of phenomena and practical problems arising from nature, variational description of natural phenomena. Experiences in (past) research in the area of linear and nonlinear optical phenomena, modeling and simulation of optical waves in photonics- and plasmonics-devices.
– Also, in the area of water waves (tsunamis and hydrodynamic laboratory waves).