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Dr. Yifan Chen is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Life Science and Technology at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He has held various academic and leadership positions in top-tier universities in China, New Zealand, UK, and Singapore. He is a Fellow of Engineering New Zealand, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), and the European Alliance for Innovation. He is a Senior Editor/Associate Editor/Guest Editor for several cross-disciplinary journals, such as IEEE TNB, TMBMC, JERM, OJAP, TAP, and JBHI, as well as the General Chair for ACM NanoCom 2025 and EAI BICT 2020, 2023, 2024, and 2025. His current research interests include in vivo computation where computing meets bio-sensing, molecular and biological communications where communication meets bio-transportation, and electromagnetic biomedicine where RF sensing meets bio-imaging. His research has been supported by the NSFC and MOST (China), MBIE and HRC (New Zealand), EPSRC (UK), FP7 and COST (European Union), etc., and he has received media coverage from the IEEE Spectrum, IET, Engineering New Zealand, The New Zealand Herald, etc.

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Francesca Vipiana is a Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. Her main research activities concern the modelling, design, implementation, and testing of microwave imaging and sensing systems for medical and industrial applications. Moreover, her research interests include numerical techniques based on integral equations and the method of moments, with a focus on multiresolution and hierarchical schemes, domain decomposition, preconditioning and fast solution methods, advanced quadrature integration schemes, and glide-periodic structures. She received the Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) in 2017, she was an Associate Editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2018–2024), and the Founder of the Women in Engineering Column in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (2019–2024). She was the Founder and Chair of the EurAAP Women in Antennas and Propagation Working Group (2021–2024), and she is a member of the EurAAP Board of Directors and the Vice-Chair of the IEEE AP-S Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Sense of Belonging Committee.

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Elise Fear is a Professor and the Associate Head of Research in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary. She was the Alberta Innovates Technology Futures iCORE Strategic Chair in Multimodality Imaging and Sensing from 2013 to 2017. Her research interests include microwave imaging and sensing for biomedical applications, including the development of prototype systems and pilot feasibility studies with human subjects. Dr. Fear’s work has been recognized through the Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2007), the Killam Interdisciplinary Research Prize (2012), the Killam Annual Professorship (2018), the ASTech Award for Innovation in Healthcare (2023), and a Fellowship in the Engineering Institute of Canada (2024). Together with Jeremie Bourqui, Dr. Fear co-founded Wave View Imaging in 2020, a spin-off company aimed at commercializing medical microwave imaging. Wave View Imaging was one of three Canadian companies selected for Pfizer’s Healthcare Hub program in 2023.