Kaushik Chattopadhyay, Ph.D.

Dr. Kaushik Chattopadhyay is an Associate Professor in Evidence Based Healthcare at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is a global health researcher, particularly worked in the UK and Asian countries like India, Nepal, China and Bangladesh. His main research interest is in non-communicable diseases. He is also a medical doctor and health economist by training. He is a management committee member and core staff at The Nottingham Centre for Evidence Based Healthcare, a JBI Centre of Excellence. He is an invited expert group member of the JBI Evidence-based Practice Database.

He has secured highly competitive educational scholarships and collaborative research grants as a principal investigator and co-investigator and published high-quality research in top journals. He has been invited by funding agencies to review educational and research grant applications and to examine doctoral theses. His research work has been covered in national and international media, and he has been interviewed for expert opinion. He has also been invited as a speaker/panellist and journal guest editor and to write editorials and book chapters. He has received several awards for his work including some of the highest Indian diaspora awards.

Title of Speech: Clinical Guideline to Manage Type 2 Diabetes in Adults by Ayurvedic Practitioners

Chao Wang, Ph.D.

Chao Wang is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care Statistic at Kingston University, London. He is an experienced statistician and have been doing research, especially in the field of medicine and health, using applied statistics throughout his academic career, including PhD at Loughborough University, various research and statistician positions previously held at Loughborough University, University of Oxford, and Queen Mary University of London. Throughout his career, he has gained excellent statistical expertise and has research interests in a wide range of topics, including Bayesian analysis, discrete response models, spatial analysis, multilevel and panel data analysis, feature / variable selection, time-series data analysis, structural equation models, missing data handling, and survival analysis. He is also interested in "machine learning" techniques such as artificial neural networks, and medical image analysis such as mammographic feature extraction. Chao's research has attracted over millions (£) of research funding from government or charities, such as UK's National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). He also serves as a consultant for one of UK's major NHS Trusts. His papers have been widely published in academic journals such as Breast Cancer Research.

Title of Speech: Image Analysis for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction

Lili Asma Ismail, Ph.D.

Dr Lili Asma Ismail is a lecturer and Associate Professor at the School of Optometry, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She obtained her Bachelor of Optometry and Masters in Health Sciences from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in Community Health from Universiti Putra Malaysia. She is an experienced researcher in optometry and vision sciences. Her previous research includes the visual functions and outcomes of hypertensive retinopathy, contact lens microbial keratitis and dry eye in post contact lens related infection. She started her career at Kobayashi Optical as a practising optometrist. She later joined the public sector and worked as a clinical optometrist at the Department of Ophthalmology, Hospital Kuala Lumpur and Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan Kuantan. She then joined academia as a lecturer in 2004 at the International University of Technology Twintech (IUCTT) and SEGI University as a senior lecturer in 2010. She furthered her career at UCSI University in 2014. Dr Lili is currently active in research and is a principal investigator for a research grant. Her research involves investigating the role of anthocyanins and astaxanthin in myopia progression. Her research interests include myopia control, orthokeratology,contact lens, dry eye disease and community health optometry.

Title of Speech: The Therapeutics Effects of Anthocyanins on Vision, Eye Health and Myopia Progression

Sheiladevi Sukumaran, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Dr. Sheiladevi Sukumaran is a program leader and senior lecture in Segi University. She obtained her Bachelor of Science (Hons), Master’s in Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Education Management from the University of Malaya. Her job scope currently is managing research postgraduate students. She has taught subjects like Research Method and Statistics, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Psychology, Human Anatomy and Physiology.Her interest in research involving Biotechnology, STEM, Science and Technology. She currently involved in numerous research includes FRGS, Grant Program Pembangunan Masa Depan Malaysia, REIG Grants, Seed Grant, PSIF grants and two Segi University Internal Grants. She also has several Scopus publications, ebook, conference proceeding publication and poster presentation. One of the publication in Asia Pacific Journal Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, that won best poster is Knowledge, Attitude and Perception towards Cancer Prevention Practice among Public in Putrajaya Cancer. She has four industrial collaborations that involved eye specialist center, natural product, health device industry and berry product distributor. She is also actively involved in National STEM Malaysia organizing many activities in school and higher education level.