Prof. ZHANG, Yuan-Ting
IAMBE Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow
Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest Cardiovascular health informatics
Unobtrusive sensing and wearable devices
BSN/BAN security
Neural muscular modeling
pHealth technologies


Phone: +852 3442-9002
Email: yt.zhang@cityu.edu.hk

Address: YEUNG-P6722



BIOGRAPHY
Prof. Yuan-Ting Zhang is currently the Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. He was the founding Director of the Key Lab for Health Informatics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the founding Director of the CAS-SIAT Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering. Professor Zhang dedicated his service to the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) from 1994 to 2015 in the Department of Electronic Engineering. He was the founding Director of the Joint Research Center for Biomedical Engineering and the first Head of the Division of Biomedical Engineering at the CUHK, where he led the efforts in developing and launching three education programmes (BEng, MSc and MPhil/PhD) all in biomedical engineering. He was the Sensing System Architect in Sensing Hardware and Health Technology at Apple Inc., Cupertino in California, USA. Before joining the CUHK, he was a Research Associate and Adjunct Assistant Professor between 1989 and 1994 at University of Calgary, Canada. He started his academic career at Department of Electronics from Shandong University, China in 1976.
Prof. Zhang serves currently as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, Chair of 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Advanced Health Informatics, Chair of the Working Group for the development of IEEE Standard on Wearable Cuffless Blood Pressure Measuring Devices (IEEE 1708), Chair of 2016-2018 IEEE Award Committee in Biomedical Engineering, and a Member of the Fellow Membership Committee and Award Committee of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE). Prof. Zhang was the Editor-in- Chief for IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine and the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
He served as Vice Preside of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Technical Program Chair of the 20^th IEEE-EMBS Annual Conference (EMBC’1998) in Hong Kong, General Conference Chair of EMBC’2005 in Shanghai, International Committee co-Chair of EMBC’2007 in Lyon, International Committee Chair of EMBC’11 in Boston, International Committee Chair of EMBC’13 in Osaka and Technical Program Co-Chair of EMBC’2017 in Korea. He is a co-founder (with Professor John Webster) of the IEEE EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Biosensors and Medical Devices (ISSS-MDBS). He served as a member of Advisory Board and Scientific Committee at POSTECH in Korea, Adjunct Chair of Department of Biomedical Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, and a member of Scientific Committee of the National Key Lab for Bioelectronics at Southeast University in Nanjing, China.
Prof. Zhang's research interests include cardiovascular health informatics, unobtrusive sensing and wearable devices, BSN/BAN security, neural muscular modeling and pHealth technologies. Prof. Zhang was the Chief Scientist for a National “973” Project on multi-modality sensing and imaging of plaques in vascular systems founded by the Ministry Of Science and Technology (MOST) of China, a Coordinator of the CAS-FEB Innovation Team for developing multi-modality and high resolution medical imaging, and an Investigator/Co-PI in several international research collaboration projects including European Union FP7 “HeartCycle” project led by Philips Research. He served on grant reviewing panels/committees of more than 10 different countries/regions including Wellcome Trust in UK, NIH in USA, NSERC in Canada, ITC in Hong Kong SAR, NSFC in China, MOST of Israel, MOST of India, a National Founding Agency in Netherland, etc. He was frequently invited to speak at academic, healthcare and industrial conferences all over the world on topics related to cardiovascular health informatics, unobtrusive sensing and wearable technologies. He was selected on the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 lists of China’s Most Cited Researchers by Elsevier. He won a number of international awards including IEEEEMBS best journal paper awards, IEEE-EMBS Outstanding Service Award, IEEE-SA 2014 Emerging Technology Award, IEEE-SA award for contributions to standard development, IEEE Greece Chapter Award for recognizing his contributions to biomedical and health informatics, and the Grand Award on e-Health from Asia Pacific ICT Alliance in Melbourne. Prof. Zhang is elected to be IAMBE Fellow, IEEE Fellow and AIMBE Fellow for his contributions to the development of wearable and m-Health technologies.
Professor Zhang completed his undergraduate studies in 1976 and Master degree in 1981 both in Shandong University, and received his PhD degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering in 1990 from University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
NQ Luo, J Zhang, XR Ding, Z Zhou, Q Zhang, YT Zhang, SC Chen, JL Hu, …, "Textile‐Enabled Highly Reproducible Flexible Pressure Sensors for Cardiovascular Monitoring
Pulse Transit Time Based Continuous Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation: A New Extension and A Comprehensive Evaluation
Continuous Blood Pressure Measurement From Invasive to Unobtrusive: Celebration of 200th Birth Anniversary of Carl Ludwig
Multi-wavelength Photoplethysmography Method for Skin Arterial Pulse Extraction
Continuous Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation Using Pulse Transit Time and Photoplethysmogram Intensity Ratio
Flexible Piezoresistive Sensor Patch Enabling Ultralow Power Cuffless Blood Pressure Measurement
Noninvasive Characterization of Vascular Tone by ModelBased System Identification in Healthy and Heart Failure Patients
Attenuation of Systolic Blood Pressure and Pulse Transit Time Hysteresis During Exercise and Recovery in Cardiovascular Patients
An armband wearable device for overnight and cuff-less blood pressure measurement
Unobtrusive Sensing and Wearable Devices for health informatics
An Inaugural Message for the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Health Informatics: Unobtrusive Physiological Measurement Technologies
Advances in Medical Devices and Medical Electronics
Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section: 4G Health—The Long-Term Evolution of m-Health
The effects of pre-ejection period on post-exercise systolic blood pressure estimation using the pulse arrival time technique
Analog integrated Circuits Design for Processing Physiological Signals
The Non-Invasive and Continuous Estimation of Cardiac Output Using Photoplethysmogram and Electrocardiogram during Incremental Exercise
A 0.5Hz Highpass Cutoff Dual-Loop Transimpedance Amplifier for Wearable Nir Sensing Device
A Fully-Integrated Transimpedance Amplifier for Photoplethysmographic Signal Processing with Two-Stage Miller Capacitance Multiplier
Editorial Note on the Processing, Storage, Transmission, Acquisition, and Retrieval (P-STAR) of Bio, Medical, and Health Information
Evaluation Scale to Assess The Accuracy of Cuff-Less Blood Pressure Measuring Devices
Guest Editorial Body Sensor Networks: from Theory to Emerging Applications
An Evaluation of the Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation Based on Pulse Transit Time Technique: a Half Year Study on Normotensive Subjects
Tissue Characterization Using Terahertz Pulsed Imaging In Reflection Geometry
Editorial Note on Health Informatics
Improved sample characterization in terahertz reflection imaging and spectroscopy
The acute effects of running on blood pressure estimation using pulse transit time in normotensive subjects
An efficient motion-resistant method for wearable pulse oximeter
Perspectives on High Technologies for Low-Cost Healthcare – the Chinese Scenario
Recent Developments of Terahertz Technology in Biomedicine
Using the Timing Information of Heartbeats as an Entity Identifier to Secure Body Sensor Networks
A Novel Temporal Fine Structure-Based Speech Synthesis Model for Cochlear Implant
Wearable Medical Systems for p-Health
Relations between the Timing of the Second Heart Sound and Aortic Blood Pressure
A Note From the Incoming Editor-in-Chief
Theoretical Study on the Effects of Sensor Contacting Force on Pulse Transit Time
An Integrated-And-Fire Based Auditory Nerve Model and Its Responseto HighRate Pulse Train
The Effect of Applied Sensor Contact Force on Pulse Transit Time
The Effects of Local Mild Cold Exposure on Pulse Transit Time
A new Implementation of Discrete Bionic Wavelet Transform: Adaptive Tiling
A Novel Biometrics Method to Secure Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks for Telemedicine and m-Health
Reduction of Motion Artifact in Pulse Oximetry by Smoothed Pseudo Wigner-Ville Distribution
A Near-Infrared Heart Rate Measurement IC with Very Low Cutoff Frequency Using Current Steering Technique
A Surface Plasmon Resonance System for the Measurement of Glucose in Aqueous Solution
Introduction to the Special Section on MHealth: Beyond Seamless Mobility and Global Wireless Health-Care Connectivity
The Effect of Contacting Force on Photoplethysmographic Signals
Implementation of A WAP-Based Telemedicine System for Patient Monitoring
Signal Processing Techniques in Genomic Engineering
Bionic Wavelet Transform: a New Time-Frequency Method Based on an Auditory Model
A new method for experimental simulation of EMG using multi-channel independent stimulation of small groups of motor units
Fuzzy EMG Classification for Prosthesis Control
A Fast Recursive-Least-Squares Adaptive Notch Filter and its Applications to Biomedical Signals
Estimation of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions
Synthesis and Decomposition of Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions Based on an Active Auditory Model
EMG-force Relation in Dynamiclly Contracting Cat Palntaris Muscle
The Effect of Muscle Length on Eletrically Elicited Muscle Vibrations in the In-situ Cat Soleus Muscle
Relationships of the VMG to the Surface EMG of the Human Rectus Femoris
Mechanism of Electrically Elicited Muscle Vibrations in the In-Situ Cat Soleus Muscle
The Behavior of Rectus Femoris and Vastus Lateralis during Fatigue and Recovery: An Electromyographic and Vibromyographic Study
EMG-force Relation of the Cat Soleus Muscle and Its Association with Contractile Conditions during Locomotion
Adaptive cancellation of muscle contraction interference in vibroarthrographic signals
EMG-force relationship of the cat soleus muscle studied with distributed and non-periodic stimulation of ventral root filaments
Assessment of muscular fatigue using vibromyography
Measurements of vertebral movements in unembalmed human cadavers using bone pins, surface markers and accelerometers
Analysis of Knee Vibration Signals Using Linear Prediction
Mathematical Modeling and Spectrum Analysis of The Physiological Patello-Femoral Pulse Train Produced by Slow Knee Movement
A Comparative Study of Vibromyography and Electromyography Obtained Simultaneously from Active Human Quadriceps
Control Performance Characteristics of Myoelectric Signal with Additive Interference
A Study of the Effects of Motor Unit Recruitment and Firing Statistics on the Signal to Noise Ratio of Myoelectric Control Channel
Motor Unit Power Spectrum and Firing Rate", Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 14-18, 1989.





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