Sano

President of the management board and head of a research team. Previously employed at IBM and Philips Research in Cambridge. In 2006-2015, assistant professor in the department of radiology at Harvard Medical School and a physicist at Radiology Departments of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. His professional interests are focused on the use of computing in healthcare. He specializes in the application of statistical methods in medicine, medical data visualization, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Graduated in Technical Physics at the AGH University of Science and Technology, where he subsequently obtained a PhD in Computer Science. Alongside conducting research at Sano, he heads the Laboratory of Information Methods in Medicine of the Cyfronet AGH Academic Computer Centre. He is a member of the research and teaching personnel at the Institute of Computer Science, AGH, and Professor (Emeritus) of Distributed Systems Engineering at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam. Co-editor of the journals: FGCS, Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems as well as The Computer Science Journal. He has co-authored about 230 scientific publications and played crucial roles in 15 international research projects of the Framework Programmes of the European Commission. He was involved in the organisation of international conferences: ICCS, EuroPar, CCGrid, eScience.

Hailing from Italy, with a PhD from the University of Florence. He is Professor in Computational Biomechanics at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, where he founded the prestigious Insigneo: Institute for In Silico Medicine. He is an expert in the biomechanics of the neuromusculoskeletal system, particularly in the use of physical modelling for medical decision support. Prof. Viceconti is recognised as one of the greatest authorities in the international in silico medicine community. He is the President of the VPH Institute, an international non-profit organisation that coordinates this research community, and board member of the Avicenna Alliance, an organisation representing the interests of the biomedical industry in this area.