Dr. Sandra Barteit is a research group leader in Digital Global Health at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University Hospital Heidelberg. Her research sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, data science, and sensor-based and wearable technologies, with a focus on the health impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. She leads the PULSE-AI project, funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation, which uses AI and wearable sensors to study climate-related health risks and develop scalable health interventions.

Sandra Barteit holds a Dr.sc.hum. in Global Health from Heidelberg University and master's degrees in Analytics (Georgia Institute of Technology), Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HEC Paris), and Computational Linguistics (Heidelberg University). She is completing her Habilitation in Global Health at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University and coordinates the Faculty's Global Health elective track.

Prof. Wei Tu is a distinguished professor of Urban Informatics in Shenzhen University. He is the Head of the Department of Urban Informatics, Shenzhen University. He received the PhD degree in Photogrammetry and Remote sensing engineering from Wuhan University in 2013. He has been the visiting scholar of MIT and the visiting professor of University College London. His research focuses on urban big data and urban artificial intelligence. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers in Science, Nature Health, IJGIS, and CEUS. He is the PI or co-PI of the Projects of National Key Research and Development Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, and the Science and Technology Commission of Shenzhen, He has been awarded the first prize of geographic information Technology Progress, the first prize of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology, the Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress of the Ministry of Education.

Sandra Bucci is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester and an NIHR Senior Investigator. She is an Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, where she co-directs the Complex Trauma and Resilience Research Unit. Professor Bucci trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and worked in Early Intervention in Psychosis services before relocating to the UK.

Her research focuses on developing, evaluating and implementing digital approaches to support people living with severe mental health problems. Grounded in service-user involvement and co-design, her work spans discovery science, intervention development, clinical evaluation, and real-world implementation. She leads a major research portfolio funded by all the major funders and contributes to shaping digital mental health research and practice nationally. She is co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer of CareLoop Health, a digital therapeutics company spun out of the University of Manchester.

Dr. Sheng Xu is a tenured professor and the inaugural Director of Emerging Technologies in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Electrical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. He earned his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Peking University and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Subsequently, he pursued postdoctoral studies at the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He then spent 10 years on the faculty at UC San Diego before joining Stanford in 2025. His research group is interested in developing new materials and fabrication methods for soft electronics. His research has been presented to the United States Congress as a testimony to the importance and impact of NIH funding.