Research Fellow, Centre for Cancer Biology
Assistant Professor
William and Sylvia Rubin Chair of Orthopaedic Research;
Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering
Snow Medical Postdoctoral
Research Fellow
Dean’s Chair Professor
Snow Medical Postdoctoral
Research Fellow,
The University of Sydney
Dean’s Chair Professor,
National University of Singapore
Professor and Clifford Chair in Neural Engineering,
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
The University of Melbourne
Dr. Sarah Boyle is an Australian Research Council DECRA Research Fellow at the Centre for Cancer Biology, Adelaide University, South Australia. Leading the Cancer Matrix and Mechanics Group in the Tumour Microenvironment Laboratory, Sarah’s research focusses on the mechanisms and interplay between mechanical force, mechanotransduction, and various aspects of the tumour microenvironment in progression and metastasis of breast and other cancers. She has established an emerging leadership profile in the fields of cell, cancer, and mechano biology, evidenced by publications in multi-disciplinary journals including Nature Cell Biology, Science Advances, Journal of Cell Science, Advanced Science, and Oncogene, and has previously held fellowships from the Royal Adelaide Hospital Research Committee and Australian Breast Cancer Research through The Hospital Research Foundation Group.
Dr. Lei Li is an Assistant Professor of National University of Singapore (NUS). Previously, she was a Lecturer at University of Southampton and a Postdoc at University of Oxford. She serves as President of Women in MICCAI (WiM) and Area Chair of MICCAI 2024-2026. She is also the Guest Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) and Editorial Board Member of Information Fusion. Her research interest is AI for healthcare, specifically focusing on cardiac digital twins, medical imaging, and multi-modal AI.
Zong-Ming Li, PhD, is currently the William and Sylvia Rubin Chair of Orthopedic Research and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona. With more than 35 years of research in musculoskeletal biomechanics, Dr. Li’s work has advanced scientific understanding and informed clinical applications that improve patient outcomes. Dr. Li is recognized as a Fellow of several science/engineering and medical organizations, including American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), American Society of Biomechanics (ASB), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences (AAIS), International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE), International Combined Orthopaedic Research Societies (ICORS), International Society of Biomechanics (ISB), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS). Dr. Li is the recipient of the ASME Savio L-Y. Woo Translational Biomechanics Medal.
Raye Yeow received his PhD in Bioengineering (NUS) in 2010, and his post-doctoral training in BioRobotics (Harvard University) from 2010-2012. He is a Dean’s Chair Professor and Deputy Head (Outreach & Industry) with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Advanced Robotics Center, NUS, and the President of the Biomedical Engineering Society (Singapore). He was the Program Lead for the Soft and Hybrid Robotics Program under the National Robotics Programme Office in Singapore. He was a Visiting Professor at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2023. His research group specializes in soft robotics, with focus on fundamental mechanisms and building market-ready systems. He has published >200 journal and conference papers, with >40 research and innovation awards, and co-founded 6 soft robotics/AI startups that are translating his technologies into the healthcare, food assembly, logistics and maritime sectors.
Professor David B. Grayden is Clifford Chair of Neural Engineering in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology and the Graeme Clark Institute for Biomedical Engineering. He is Co-Director of the Victorian Medtech Skills and Devices Hub and Director of the ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies. Prof Grayden’s main research interests are in understanding how the brain processes information, how best to present information to the brain using medical bionics, such as the bionic ear and bionic eye, and how to record information from the brain, such as for brain-machine interfaces. He is also conducting research in epileptic seizure prediction and electrical stimulation to prevent or stop epileptic seizures. Prof Grayden teaches BioDesign Innovation in collaboration with the Melbourne Business School, and he is Co-Director of Biodesign Australia.
Dr. Wenting Zhao is a faculty member in the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Biotechnology at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and a Principal Investigator in the Institute of Digital Molecular Analytics and Science (IDMxS). She received her Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and completed her postdoc training at Stanford University. Her research group aims to reveal the nanoscale interplay between membrane morphology and protein assembly using advanced nanofabrication and nanomaterials. Specific focuses of her studies include nanoscale topography-guided protein clustering and complex assembly, as well as their impacts on disease progression, such as cancer progression, viral replication, and immune activation.
