Chairs:
  • Prof. Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa
    • Dr. Valdes-Sosa graduated as an MD from the University of Havana in 1972, as a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in 1974 in the National Center for Scientific Research and did his postdoc at NYU. He started his work on EEG analysis in 1969 as part of the team that developed the first Cuban computer. He is a co-founder of the Cuban Neuroscience Center CNEURO (1990) and the Cuban National Network of Clinical Neurophysiology (1983), and is the coordinator of many of CNEURO’s international collaborations. His main area of expertise is analysis methods for Neuroimaging, especially Electrophysiological Source Imaging, EEG/fMRI fusion and the evaluation of Brain Effective Connectivity. He organized the Cuban EEG Brain Mapping project in the ‘80s and the multimodal Cuban Human Brain Mapping Project in the past decade. He is currently Meeting-Liaison of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. He has published more than 230 peer reviewed articles since 1969. Seventy seven of these publications have been in the period 2001-2010 with an h factor of 33. Currently he is the General Vice-Director for Research at CNEURO, is a Senior Researcher, Senior Professor, and Member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences.

  • Keith Kendrick
    • Professor Keith Kendrick is currently a one thousand talent award Professor in China at the School of Life Science and Technology in the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu and an Emeritus Professor at Gresham College in London. He received his Bachelor and PhD degrees in Psychology from the University of Durham in the UK with post-doctoral fellowships in the Institute of Zoology in London and the University of Cambridge. Before moving to China in 2011 he worked at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge for 25 years and was Head of the Neurobiology Department there. As Gresham Professor of Physic in London he has delivered 26 public lectures covering a wide range of topics in biomedical science and which are available on the internet. He has published >200 papers, including seven in Nature or Science, and is in the top five of the most cited neuroscientists currently working in China. His research has mainly been in field of social and cognitive neuroscience. He played a key role in the original discovery of the importance of the neuropeptide oxytocin in social bonding and its role in the brain, and is currently investigating its influence on social reward and empathy in humans and its therapeutic potential for psychiatric disorders. He has also made fundamental contributions to understanding how the brain controls social recognition through face and odour processing and the role of nitric oxide in neuroprotection, neural plasticity and learning. He has also made contributions to establishing functional connectivity and structural changes in the brain associated with depression and schizophrenia.

  • Dezhong Yao
    • Dr. Yao got his Bachelor degree in Physics from Southwest University at Chongqing (1985), Master degree from Zhejiang University at Hangzhou (1988), and PhD degree at Chengdu University of Technology (1991) and at Aalborg University (Denmark) (2005). Since 1991, he has been a postdoctor (till 1993) in electromagnetic field and a faculty member in Biomedical Engineering (since 1993) at UESTC. He was appointed as a full Professor in 1995, and a Cheung Kong Professor in 2006.He is the founder of the School of Life Science and Technology (2001 - to date), the National International Joint Research Center of NeuroInformation(2013 - to data) and the Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education (2008 - to data). The Team Leader of the National “111” Project (2012-2016).


    Member:
  • Huafu Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  • Rainer Goebel, Maastricht University
  • Mitchell Valdes-Sosa, Cuban Neuroscience Center
  • Bahrat Biswal, New Jersey Medical School
  • Benjamin Becker, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  • Peng Xu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  • Daqing Guo, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China