University of Sydney
Professor (David) Dagan Feng is Director, Biomedical & Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT) Research Group, and Funding Head, School of Information Technology (renamed as Computer Science recently) and Funding Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology Institute, the University of Sydney. He received his Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1982, Master of Science in Biocybernetics and PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1985 and 1988 respectively, where he received the Crump Prize for Excellence in Medical Engineering. In conjunction with his team members and students, he has been responsible for more than 50 key research projects, published over 1000 scholarly research papers, pioneered several new research directions, and made a number of landmark contributions in his field. He has served as Chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on Biological and Medical Systems, Special Area Editor / Associate Editor / Editorial Board Member for a dozen of core journals in his area, and Scientific Advisor for a couple of prestigious organizations. He has been invited to give over 100 keynote presentations in 23 countries and regions, and has organized / chaired over 100 major international conferences / symposia / workshops. Professor Feng is Fellow of ACS, HKIE, IET, IEEE, and Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.