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Dr Chun-Hung Yeh is an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute for Radiological Research, Chang Gung University. He received dual PhDs in 2011 – one in Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences from National Yang Ming University; one in Physics from the University of Paris-Sud 11, where he spent three years at the CEA NeuroSpin Centre in France. He worked at the Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang Ming University (2013-2014) and then at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne (2014-2019), both as a postdoctoral research fellow. He joined his current appointment at Chang Gung University in 2020. Dr. Yeh has extensive experience in methodological innovations for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particularly in the development of techniques for mapping brain anatomy, microstructure, and connectivity. He is interested in translating advanced brain imaging techniques to address neuroscience problems and has contributed to several real-world neurological and psychiatric applications including stroke, autism, and bipolar disorder.

Dr Terence Essomba received his M.S degree in Mechanics in 2009 from the University of Poitiers and his Ph.D in Robotics from the University of Orleans in 2012 (both in France). After a two-year Postdoc in medical robotics in Taiwan, he was recruited in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of National Central University as an Assistant Professor in 2015 and promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. He is teaching courses related to robotics and mechanism. His research mainly focuses on the mechanical design of medical robots, the synthesis of optimal mechanisms, the mechatronic design for medical devices and the mechatronic augmentation of medical instruments.