Speakers

Faisal Amin is currently serving as a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Riphah International University, Islamabad. He is pursuing his Ph.D.
in Biomedical Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad. Faisal Amin holds MS degree in Biomedical Engineering from NUST and a BS in
Biomedical Engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi. His research focuses on assistive technologies for stroke rehabilitation and broader applications within
rehabilitation engineering. He is particularly focused on developing innovative solutions that enhance mobility and functional recovery in individuals with neurological impairments.

Turki Abualait is an associate professor, chair of Physical Therapy Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi
Arabia. Abualait is a consultant and clinical researcher in cognitive neuroscience and neurorehabilitation, interested in investigating motor recovery after neurological disorders. Additionally, he has an interest in using brain imaging and utilizing non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) as neuromodulation techniques to investigate the potential therapeutic applications on the functional recovery on patients with neurological disorders or cortical lesions.

Professor Raymond Kai-Yu Tong is a distinguished leader in the field of Biomedical Engineering and has been a Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) since 2014. He established Hong Kong’s first Biomedical Engineering Department, focusing on innovation, practical applications, and regulatory processes. His contributions to research and education have earned him numerous prestigious accolades, CUHK’s highest teaching honour. His global recognition as one of the Top 10 Global Ageing Influencers, acknowledged by both the industry and Ageing Asia at the World Ageing Festival in Singapore, and his election as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2022, Best Teacher Award in 2021 and the University Education Award in 2022, underscore his significant impact on the biomedical engineering field. He was also named one of Hong Kong’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons in 2013. He and his team have established three startup companies as co-founder: Mind Control Technology Limited (2017), Hopebotics Ltd (2021), and Hope4Care Ltd (2022).

Dr. Shahid Bashir is a neuroscientist and research lead at King Fahad Specialist Hospital-Dammam (KFSH-D). His expertise includes non-invasive brain stimulation, neuroimaging (EEG, MRI), and the integration of artificial intelligence in neuroscience research. He collaborates with leading institutions such as Harvard Medical School, Riphah International University, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam University), and Brno University on international projects addressing epilepsy, stroke, aging, and neurorehabilitation. Dr. Bashir has authored numerous publications in translational neuroscience and brain health.

Dr. Sadia Shakil is a Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Before joining CUHK she has worked as a Senior
Researcher in the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology in
Czech Republic, as an Adjunct Research Associate with the Turner Institute of Brain & Mental
Health at the Monash University in Australia, and as an Assistant Professor of Electrical
Engineering at the Institute of Space Technology in Pakistan. She was the founding director
of the ‘Bio-signal Processing and Computational Neuroscience’ lab at the Institute of Space
Technology in Pakistan and is co-leading the Neurorehabilitation and Robotics lab at CUHK.
Dr. Shakil has successfully supervised theses of more than forty undergraduate and
graduate students.
Dr. Shakil completed her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute
of Technology after securing a Fulbright Scholarship award. Her focus during PhD was to
analyze and develop algorithms for the study of spatiotemporal dynamics in brain networks.
Dr. Shakil did her postdoctoral fellowship in ‘Computational Connectomics’ from Rotman
Research Institute at the Baycrest Health Sciences in Canada, after securing Schlumberger
Faculty for the Future Fellowship award. During Postdoc, her focus was to understand the
relationship between brain and behavior using brain data collected during music listening.
Dr. Shakil’s research is highly inter- and multi-disciplinary, and she works with multiple
neuroimaging data modalities such MRI, fMRI, and EEG. Her research focus is on integrating
AI and algorithms from various domains to study brain structural and functional dynamics.
She is working on various mental and brain health issues such as stress, stroke, brain tumor,
Alzheimer’s disease, and effects of naturalistic stimuli such as movies on mental health.