Chair
Ahmet Erdemir, Ph.D.
Cleveland Clinic, Department of Biomedical Engineering & Computational Biomodeling (CoBi) Core
Assistant Staff (BME); Director (CoBi Core); Co-Chair IMAG/MSM: Committee on Credible Practice of Modeling & Simulation in Healthcare; Co-Chair: IMAG/MSM: Biomechanics Working Group
Email: erdemira@ccf.org
TC Interests: Multiscale modeling in musculoskeletal biomechanics and tissue mechanics; model reporting & model/data sharing practices
Co-Chair
Herbert Sauro, Ph.D.
University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering
Assoicate Professor at University of Washington; IMAG/MSM Model & Data Sharing WG co-lead
Email: hsauro@u.washington.edu
TC Interests: Model reproducubility, modeling software, standards, cellular dynamics and control systems.
Members
Arvind Anathan
MathWorks
Medical Devices Industry Manager
Email: arvind.ananthan@mathworks.com
Victor Barocas, Ph.D.
The University of Minnesota, Department of Biomedical Engineering
co-EIC of the ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering
Email: baroc001@umn.edu
TC Interests: Biomechanics, multiscale models
James Bassingthwaighte, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering & Radiology
Professor at the University of Washington; IMAG/MSM Model & Data Sharing WG co-lead
Email: jbb2@u.washington.edu
TC Interests: cardiovascular and respiratory multiscale models, metabolic systems
Philip Bourne, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences & RCSB Protien Data Bank
Associate Vice Chancellor, Professor, Associate Director at UCSD; Founding Editor in Chief, PLoS Comp. Biol
Email: bourne@sdsc.edu
Sergio Cerutti
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Professor at Politecnico di Milano; MSM Model & Data Sharing WG co-lead
Email: sergio.cerutti@biomed.polimi.it
TC Interests: Signal and Image Processing, Physiological modeling
Jean Louis Coatrieux, Ph.D.
SEU, Nanjing, China, Department of Computer Science
Emeritus Research Director at SEU; Inserm, France
Email: jean-louis.coatrieux@univ-rennes1.fr
TC Interests: Signal and image processing, modeling
Clifford Dacso, M.D.
Baylor College of Medicine & Rice University, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology & Medicine & Department of Electrical and Computer Egineering
University Professor & Adj. Professor at Baylor College of Medicine & Rice University; Co-EIC IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
Email: cdacso@bcm.edu
TC Interests: Clinical practice, remote patient monitoring, metabolomics
Atam Dhawan, Ph.D.
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Department of Biomedical Engineering
Distinguished Professor at NJIT; Co-EIC IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
Email: dhawan@ADM.NJIT.EDU
TC Interests: Multi-Scale Models
Alejandro Frangi, Ph.D.
CISTIB Centre for Computational Imaging & Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Professor of Biomedical Image computing, Director of CISTIB
Email: a.frangi@sheffield.ac.uk
TC Interests: Image-based computational physiology modelling, model-based imaging, medical image computing, computer assisted interventions, application in cardiovascular science, musculoskeletal science, and neurosciences
Bin He, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Professor and Director of Institute for Engineering in Medicine at University of Minnesota; EIC IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Email: binhe@umn.edu
TC Interests: neural and cardiovascular modeling and imaging
Alfredo Hernandez, Ph.D.
French Insitutes of Health and Medical Research
Research Scientist
Email: alfredo.hernandez@univ-rennes1.fr
Michael Hucka, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Member of the Professional Staff, Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Email: mhucka@caltech.edu
TC Interests: software infrastructure for computational modeling in systems biology. Interests: improved support for dissemination of reproducible models.
Peter Hunter, Ph.D.
University of Auckland, New Zealand, Department of Bioengineering
Director at the University of Auckland; IMAG/MSM Model & Data Sharing WG co-lead
Email: p.hunter@auckland.ac.nz
Daniel Katz, Ph.D.
University of Chicago, Computation Institute; National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Program Director at NSF; Senior Fellow in the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago; IMAG – NSF representative
Email: dkatz@nsf.gov; d.katz@ieee.org
TC Interests: interested in reproducible science, credit & citation issues for software developers and other digital product creators, and better career paths in academia for them
Reinhard Laubenbacher
University of Connecticut Health Center; Center for Quantitative Medicine
Co-Director
Email: laubenbacher@uchc.edu
TC Interests: Future co-editor in Chief Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
Leslie Loew
University of Connecticut Health Center, Department of Cell Biology & Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
Boehringer Ingelheim Chair in Cell Sciences; Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Director, R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling; Editor in Chief, Biophysical Journal
Email: les@volt.uchc.edu
TC Interests: computational cell biology; cell signaling; Virtual Cell Project/model publication and visualization
Niegel Lovell, Ph.D.
University of New South Wales, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Scientia Professor
Email: N.Lovell@unsw.edu.au
Interests in TC: Biosignal processing and computational modelling of retina and cardiac systems. Markup languages
Luca Mainardi
Politecino di Milano, Department of Electical &Bioengineering
Professor at Politecino di Milano
Email: luca.mainard@gmail.com
Roger Mark, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Health & Science Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering
Professor at MIT; IMAG/MSM Model & Data Sharing WG co-lead
Email: rgmark@mit.edu
Interests in TC: Data sharing via PhysioNet, critical care databases (MIMIC II). physiologic signal processing, database mining, modeling, and machine learning for clinical decision support..
Elebeoba May, Ph.D.
University of Houston, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor at the University of Houston
Email: eemay@central.uh.edu
TC Interests: Multi-scale models to capture cellular interactions involved in various types of disease processes
Lealem Mulugeta
Universities Space Research Association, Division of Space Life Sciences
Project/Lead Scientist of NASA’s Digital Astronaut Project; Co-Chair IMAG/MSM: Committee on Credible Practice of Modeling & Simulation in Healthcare, IMAG – NASA representative
Email: Mulugeta@dsls.usra.edu
Linda Pattini
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering
Senior Researcher
Email: pattini@biomed.polimi.it
Jim Patton, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago /
National Center for Rehabilitation Robotics, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), Department of Bioengineering
Assoc. Professor & Director
Email: JamesLPatton@gmail.com
Michael Sacks
Email: msacks35@gmail.com
Asawari Samant
Mathworks
Computational Biology Application Engineer
Email: asamant@mathworks.com
Lotfi Senhadji, Ph.D.
University of Rennes
Director
Email: lotfi.senhadji@univ-rennes1.fr
Kenji Sunagawa, M.D, Ph.D.
Kyushu University, Division of Cardiology
Chief, Distinguished Professor and Chairman at Kyushu University
Email: sunagawa@cardiol.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
TC Interests: Cardiovascular modeling, cardiovascular regulation
Rachael Vizzi, M.S.
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIH,NIBIB)
Program Analysist, Biomedical Engineer
Email: vizzira@mail.nih.gov
Interests in TC: Implement, disseminate and encourage new methods of data/model sharing
Beth Winkelstein, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Bioengineering
Professor & Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, School of Engineering & Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania; co-EIC of the ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering
Email: winkelst@seas.upenn.edu
Hengyong Yu, Ph.D.
Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Director of CT Lab; Assistant Professor
Email: hyu@wakehealth.edu
TC Interests: Developing a new paper model named data paper. Different from the current open access paper, one data paper will include two parts: a data description and the raw data. This will provide standard datasets to evaluate the state-of-the-art algorithms in signal/image processing and analysis. The datasets will be credited by the citation of the data paper
