Dr. Roderick Melnik is a Full Professor at the Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. He is a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Modelling. He is also affiliated with the University of Waterloo and the Centre for Applied Mathematics BCAM in Europe. Before his appointment in Canada, Dr. Melnik held full professorships in the U.S.A. and Denmark, and he held the position of senior mathematician at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Sydney, Australia, working in the Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences. Dr. Melnik has received many awards, including prestigious fellowships in Italy, Spain, England, and Denmark. He has published over 300 refereed research contributions in mathematical modelling for sciences and technology, including biomedicine and bioengineering. Prof. Melnik serves on editorial boards and has been a guest editor of many international journals and book series.
Erwin Woff is Professor of Nuclear Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He is a staff member of the Nuclear Medicine Department at the Institut Jules Bordet, Hôpital Universitaire de Bruxelles (H.U.B). His research work focuses on the development and validation of prognostic and predictive imaging biomarkers by 18F-FDG-PET/CT. He has worked on Artificial Intelligence in the field of Molecular Imaging as part of an active collaboration between multiple institutions. He is also currently coordinator of an AI working group within the Belgian Society of Nuclear Medicine. He is author and co-author of many peer-review publications in high-impact journals.
Adam G. Polak received the M.Sc., Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees in Technical Sciences from the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (WUST), Poland, in 1988, 1994 and 2008, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at WUST. His research includes: modelling and identification of biomedical systems, biomedical signal processing, indirect measurements, machine learning in disease detection and differentiation. In 1992/1993 he held a fellowship from the British Council at the City University, London, and he was on a contract with the Boston University in 2000. He was a recipient of the awards of the Foundation for Polish Science (1995), Department IV of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) (2008), and the scholarship “Enhancing science linkages between New Zealand and Europe through Poland” (2010). He is a member of the Committee on Metrology and Research Equopment PAS, and an IEEE Member. He serves as an Associate Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
