Biography: Dr. Eddie obtained Ph.D. at Cambridge Univ. with a Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship.

He is elected as:
• Fellow (inaugural) for National Academy of Technology (USA);
• Academician for European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EU-Austria);
• Academician for European Academy of Sciences (EU-Greece);
• Fellow (Life) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (USA);
• Fellow of Institute of Engineering and Technology (United Kingdom);
• Fellow of Industry Academy: International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (HK),
• Fellow of International Engineering and Technology Institute (Hong Kong),
• Fellow of Asia-Pacific Technological Sciences Academy (Hong Kong),
• Distinguished Fellow for Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, (China), and,
• Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (USA) with his citation reads: "For outstanding contributions in non-contact, early detection of human-health abnormality non-invasively with infrared-physics-technology".
Eddie received 2022 Alumni Highly Commended Award from the VC of Newcastle University, UK for his contributions to the society and achievements as academia. Winner of the 2024 2nd IETI (International Engineering and Technology Institute) Ramesh Agarwal Lifetime Achievement Award in Science, Engineering or Technology. This award honors individuals with lifetime achievements in research, education, and service towards the advancement of any discipline of engineering and technology.

Since 1992, he works as Faculty in the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the: Lead Editor-in-Chief for the ISI Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology for dissemination of original research in all fields of mechanics in medicine and biology since 2000; & Lead Editor-in-Chief for the ISI Journal of IET - AI in Surgery for dissemination of original research in integrating of artificial intelligence, surgery, and biomedical engineering, since 2024; https://www.worldscientific.com/page/iet/ai-surgery

He is included in the Stanford list of the World’s top 2% Scientists since 2019 (ranked <80 out of 64,425 as 0.001% in the field of Biomedical Engineering). The ranking method is calculated by removing the self-citation of the literature. His Google Scholar (h-index: 73+) can be found in: [http://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=9QW1LYAAAAAJ].

Biography: Esteban Peña Pitarch holds a doctorate in the UPC. He has carried out his teaching work at the Technical College of Manresa (EPSEM), since 1988 and belongs to the department of mechanical engineering. He collaborates with the Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC), UPC, since 2008, in the robotics division. His research is focused on rehabilitation and simulation of stroke survivors, the creation of medical devices and the application of kinematics and dynamics to the human body by way of mathematical tools used in robotics. He manages a group with doctors specialized in physical medicine, rehabilitation, and engineers from a number of different fields. This group has published articles in magazines and congresses and owns two patents relating to medical apparatus. Esteban Peña Pitarch belongs to the Service and Industrial Robotics (SIR) research team and is currently working on two competitive projects as the main researcher of one and collaborating in the other. He is a professor and ex-dean of college Escola Politècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Manresa (EPSEM) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). His teaching expertise are in Kinematics and Dynamics, and Machinery Design for Undergraduate and Graduate degree for more than 30 years. He has two patents and more than 100 papers on international journals and conferences. Research interests are in Virtual Human Modeling, Rehabilitation, and Human Exoskeleton Construction.