 Professor Guang-Zhong Yang received Ph.D. in Computer Science from Imperial College London, and served as a senior and then principal scientist of the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Unit of the Royal Brompton Hospital prior to assuming his current full-time academic post and becoming head of the Visual Information Processing (VIP) Group, Department of Computing, Imperial College in 1999. The Department was rated 5* at the last RAE (research quality assessment), and has been placed among the top ten departments worldwide by several academic surveys.
The VIP group currently has a team over 40 members, including six full-time academic staff. Professor Yang’s research has been focussed on cardiovascular magnetic resonance, pervasive computing, computer vision, perceptual intelligence, biomedical simulation and augmented reality systems. Professor Yang received several major international awards including the I.I. Rabi Award from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). He is Director of Medical Imaging, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College, Chairman of the Imperial College Imaging Sciences Centre, founding Director of the Royal Society/Wolfson Medical Image Computing Laboratory at Imperial College, and co-founder of the Wolfson Surgical Technology Laboratory. In 2001, he was honoured the Royal Society Research Merit Award Chair in Medical Image Computing.
Keywords: Biocompatibility, Body sensor networks, Context awareness, Low power RF, Machine learning, Power scavenging, Quality of service, Wearable/implantable sensing
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