Anna Maria Bianchi (female) is Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) of the Politecnico di Milano. In 2014 she received the National Qualification for full professor in Biomedical Engineering. Her research interests are mainly related to the processing of biomedical signals and images and to the development of innovative methodologies for feature extraction, for enhancement of the information content and the formulation of new interpretative models. Applications are both in physiological studies and in clinics. The methodological efforts focused mainly on the development of time-frequency analysis; parametric recursive identification; multi-variable parametric modeling; non-linear feature extraction; linear and non-linear synchronization of biomedical series; data, signal and image fusion related to the cardiovascular system and to the central neural system and their integrated analysis. In the last years, great part of her research has been dedicated to sleep, both for physiological studies and for development of automatic procedures for sleep assessment and home monitoring.
Dr. Bianchi is author of 19 book chapters and >90 peer reviewed papers in ISI international journals ISI, H-index=23, total citations >2050). In 2011, she was awarded with the Martin Black Prize for the best article published in Physiological Measurement during 2010; since 2012 she is Fellow EAMBES. Dr. Bianchi serves as a scientific expert in the EMBS Technical Committees on Biomedical Signal Processing, and on Cardiopulmonary Systems. In 2011-2012 she was Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and is currently reviewer of many international journals on Biomedical Engineering.

Enrico Gianluca Caiani (male) has a Master degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (1996) and has obtained a PhD degree in Bioengineering in 2000 with a thesis on development of methods for the analysis of left ventricular function (Paolo Durst Award for the best PhD thesis). Since 2005 to Nov 2014, he was assistant professor (researcher). Since Dec 2014, he is Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano.
In 2014, he has received the Italian Certification (ASN2012) for tenured Full Professorship. His teaching activities include the class of Biomedical Image Processing Laboratory, and the class of Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis.
Since 2000, he collaborates with the Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Laboratory, University of Chicago, where he was Research Associate in 2000 and 2003.
He is author of 3 book chapters and >60 peer reviewed papers in ISI international journals (total impact factor: 171, ISI H-index=17, total citations >1200). In 2002, he received the Rosanna Degani Young Investigator Award (Computers in Cardiology Society) in 2007 the Arthur E. Weyman Young Investigator Finalist Award (American Society of Echocardiography).He was the National Coordinator of the project “SurgAid”, currently, he is the Principal Investigator of several international projects in the context of bed-rest studies supported by the European Space Agency.Since 2009, he serves as Nucleus member of the Working Group on e-Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology, first as Secretary (2012-2014) and now (2014-2016) as Vice-Chairman (Chariman-elect for 2016-2018). Since 2014, he is member of the Editorial Board of the European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging. 

Linda Pattini (female) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano, where she teaches Advanced data analysis for medicine and bioinformatics (Master degree in Biomedical Engineering), and is Adjunct Professor at University Vita-Salute San Raffaele where she teaches Bioinformatics (Bachelor Degree in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology). Her research activity concerns the development and the application of methods of processing that improve extraction and integration of information as a complement of different experimental procedures that pertain to the cellular scale. Specifically, her interests include the study of the signals involved in the functional specification of genomic sequences, data analysis of gene expression for the study and the modeling of interactions in a systems biology perspective, computational approaches for data processing in the large scale proteomics workflow and statistical genetics.

Riccardo Barbieri (male) has a Master degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (1992) and has obtained a PhD degree in Bioengineering from Boston University in 1998. Is Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2014, he has received the Italian Certification (ASN2012) for Associate Professorship, and in June 2015, he will be Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano. He leads an active research program centered on physiological signal processing and computational neuroscience, examining complex mechanisms of cardiovascular control and neural dynamics. He is currently a Principal Investigator for his main project investigating cardiovascular control during anaesthesia and sedation, as well as a small exploratory grant from the Mind and Life Institute investigating the potential benefits of meditation. He further lends his special expertise as an essential Co-Investigator on four major projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and by the Defence Advanced Research Project Agency. Dr. Barbieri is recognized internationally for his research in cardiovascular control, modelling, and computational neuroscience, and is frequently invited to lecture on these topics around the world. He is currently serving as Chair at the Annual International Meeting of the IEEE-Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, where he is responsible for organizing the entire editorial activity of Theme 1: Biomedical Signal Processing. Dr. Barbieri serves as a scientific expert in the EMBS Technical Committees on Biomedical Signal Processing, on Cardiopulmonary Systems, and on Neuroengineering. He also serves as a reviewer for more than twenty national and international scientific journals. Dr. Barbieri is author of >60 peer-reviewed original articles in high-impact journals, >50 proceeding papers, 2 review articles and 1 book chapter, collecting 1336 citations of his most prominent research papers, with a continuous increase in the rate of citation of his work over the last years (more than 190 citations per year for 2011 and 2012) with a total h index of 18. Dr. Barbieri teaches several topics each year in the classroom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School and currently serves as the direct mentor in the laboratory for seven faculty/postdoctoral fellows and six graduate students. Dr. Barbieri is a Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the European Society of Hypertension, the Society for Neuroscience, and Senior Member of IEEE and the Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Society.