Wei Gao is a Professor of Medical Engineering and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator in Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego in 2014 as a Jacobs Fellow and an HHMI International Student Research Fellow. In 2014-2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

He is an Associate Editor of Science Advances, npj Flexible Electronics, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, and Sensors & Diagnosis. He is a recipient of NSF Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, IAMBE Early Career Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, Pittcon Achievement Award, IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, and Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year in Engineering and Technology. He is a World Economic Forum Young Scientist, a Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science), and an AIMBE fellow. His research interests include wearable biosensors, digital medicine, bioelectronics, flexible electronics, and micro/nanorobotics. For more information about Gao’s research, visit www.gao.caltech.edu.

Chwee Teck Lim is the NUSS Chair Professor and Director of the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include human disease mechanobiology and microfluidic and wearable technologies for next-generation biomedical applications. Prof Lim is also a serial entrepreneur having co-founded six start-ups, including one that went public in 2018.
Prof Lim’s groundbreaking research has been recognized with over 100 awards and honours, including the President’s Science Award, President’s Technology Award, Nature Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentoring in Science, Otto Schmitt Award, Vladimir K. Zworykin Award, Asia’s Most Influential Scientist Award, and the Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Award. He is Fellow or Member of 11 distinguished academies worldwide, including the National Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Inventors, Singapore National Academy of Science, and the Academy of Engineering Singapore.

Joseph Wang is a Distinguished Professor of Nanoegineering, a SAIC Endowed Professor  and the Director of the Center of Wearable Sensors (CWS) at University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA. Dr. Wang has made pioneering contributions to the fields of wearable sensors, biosensors, and microscale robots. He is a member of the US National Academy of Inventors, and of the European Academies of Engineering and of Science and Arts,  and a fellow of the RSC, ECS and AIMBE. He has authored over 1300 research papers, 12 books, and 60 patents. He has been a has been a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher since 2015 (H Index 216). Wang holds Honorary Professor from 11 different universities and is the recipient of 3 National American Chemical Society Awards for Analytical Chemistry (2024), Electrochemistry (2006) and Instrumentation (1999), of the Ralph Adams Pittcon Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry, of the  Talanta Medal, 2021 IUPAC Analytical Chemistry Medal, the Breyer Medal (Australia), Heyrovsky Medal (Czech Republic) the Speirs Medal (RSC), and the IEEE Sensor Achievement Award, 2021.

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 a courtesy appointment in Electrical 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. His research group is interested in developing new materials and fabrication methods for soft electronics, with a particular focus on wearable ultrasound technology. His research has been presented to the United States Congress as a testimony to the importance and impact of NIH funding. He has received numerous honors, including the NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, NIH Trailblazer Award, Sloan Fellowship, IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award, ETH Zürich Materials Research Prize for Young Investigators, MRS Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award, and a finalist of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. He is a Fellow of AIMBE, IEEE, and MRS.