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University of California San Diego, USA
Plenary Speaker
Adam J. Engler is a Professor and Chair of Bioengineering at UC San Diego, where he has been on the faculty since 2008. He also is a resident scientist at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Engler previously trained at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his PhD studying how ECM stiffness regulated stem cell fate. He also trained as a postdoc at Princeton University's Department of Molecular Biology, funded by the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Engler has received numerous awards in recognition of this research, including awards from the Biomedical Engineering Society, American Society of Matrix Biology, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, and American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Engler is a fellow of the American Institute for Biomedical Engineering, the Biomedical Engineering Society, and a recipient of an NIH New Innovator Award.
University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Quanyin Hu is an Robinson Distinguished Chair, Associate Professor at the School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). He received his Ph. D. degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) and North Carolina State University from 2014-2018. Before he joined UW-Madison, he was a postdoc associate at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2018-2020. Dr. Hu is a newly elected AIMBE fellow and currently serving as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Nanobiotechnology. He has published more than 100 research papers, including Nature Biotechnology (2024, 2026), Nature Nanotechnology (2025), Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology (2026), Nature Review Bioengineering (2024), Science Translational Medicine, with over 18,000 citations. Dr. Hu is recognized as NCI R01 awardee, NIBIB R01 Awardee, NIBIB Trailblazer, American Cancer Society (ACS) Research Scholar, V Foundation Scholar, the MIT Innovators under 35 (TR35) China, the 2023 BMES-CMBE Rising Star Junior Faculty, 2023 Journal of Nanobiotechnology Rising Star, 2022 iCANX Young Scientist, UW Madison Early Career Innovator, Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2022-2025), Young Investigator from many societies and Foundations, Emerging Investigator from many journals.
Rice University, USA
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Lei Li is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering at Rice University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology in 2019. He received his MS at Washington University in St. Louis in 2016. His research focuses on developing next-generation medical imaging technology for understanding the brain better, diagnosing early-stage cancer, and wearable monitoring of human vital signs. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2025, the Charles and Ellen Wilts Prize from Caltech in 2020, and was selected as one of the Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review in 2019. He was selected as a TED fellow in 2021 and a rising star in Engineering in Health by Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University (2021). He is also a two-time winner of the Seno Medical Best Paper Award granted by SPIE (2017 and 2020, San Francisco).