David Dagan Feng Head of School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney; Chair Professor of Information Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Chair, IFAC Technical Committee on Biological and Medical Systems; Fellow of ACS, HKIE, IET, IEEE, and Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

Professor (David) Dagan Feng serves as Head of School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney. He received his ME in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1982, MSc in Biocybernetics and Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1985 and 1988 respectively. He has been Head of Department of Computer Science, Associate Dean of Faculty of Science, Research Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, at the University of Sydney; Chair Professor of Information Technology, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Honorary Research Consultant, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the largest hospital in Australia; Scientific Advisor, the 3D Anatomical Human European Institute / Project involving 7 countries; Advisory Professor, Chief Scientist and Chair of the International Advisory Committee, Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Guest Professor, Tsinghua, Northeastern, Northwestern Polytechnic, Beijing Post & Telecommunication, Shenzhen and Xiamen Universities; and Adjunct Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He is the Founder and Director of the Biomedical & Multimedia Information Technology Research Group at the University of Sydney, has published over 500 scholarly research papers, pioneered several new research directions, and made a number of landmark contributions in his field. More importantly, however, is that many of his research results have been translated into solutions to real-life problems and have made tremendous improvements to the quality of life for those concerned. He has been served as Chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on Biological and Medical Systems, and Special Area Editor / Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine and other 7 key journals in his area. 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 has been elected as Fellow of ACS, HKIE, IET, IEEE, and Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and is currently serving as Deputy Chair, Health and Technology Forum, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering. He has also received several awards, including the Crump Prize for Excellence in Medical Engineering from USA and the Sanqin Friendship Award, the highest award issued by the Shaanxi Government for making significant contributions to the Shaanxi Province Economic and Cultural Development.