Special Session A
Title: AI-Driven Transformations in HealthTech & MedTech: From Predictive Diagnostics to Personalized Medicine
Organizer: Dr. Jyoti R Munavalli
Professor, ECE & Head, Innovations, BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore
Email: jyotirmunavalli@bnmit.in
Session Description:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing healthcare through intelligent diagnostics, predictive analytics, robotic surgeries, smart biosensors, and virtual healthcare platforms. This special session aims to bring together researchers, healthcare professionals, technologists, and industry experts to discuss the latest innovations at the intersection of AI, HealthTech, MedTech, and Biomedical Engineering.
The session will focus on how AI-powered solutions are enhancing clinical decision-making, improving patient outcomes, optimizing hospital workflows, and enabling scalable and affordable healthcare delivery across urban and remote settings.
Topics of Interest (but not limited to):
- * AI for medical imaging and diagnostics
- * Predictive analytics for patient risk stratification
- * Smart wearable biosensors and remote health monitoring
- * Robotic and autonomous systems in surgery and elderly care
- * AI in drug discovery and vaccine design
- * Blockchain and secure health data management
- * Chatbots and Virtual Health Assistants
- * Human-AI collaboration in healthcare workflows
- * Ethical, legal, and privacy challenges in AI healthcare adoption
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Special Session B
Title: Energy storage integration and electric systems for space applications
Organizer: Prof. Linda Barelli, Dr. Dario Pelosi
Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Italy
Email: linda.barelli@unipg.it
Session Description:
Space is a harsh and very challenging environment. Moreover, very high standards of reliability have to be guaranteed and fault tolerance is required at both component and system levels. Solar energy is a reliable power source in space, requiring energy storage integration in on-board and surface electric systems to deal with periods of solar energy oscuration.
Space applications include multiple power supply applications, e.g. for satellites, rovers, and surface systems during night-time operation or to satisfy peak power. Multiple secondary batteries can be integrated to guarantee specific services, such as power supply for payloads, launch vehicles, or portable devices. Such complex architecture can be optimized according to multiple key performance indexes (e.g. power, capacity, weight, volume, lifespan, activation rate, cost).
As example, the number of satellites is expected to significantly grow in the next future. Satellite power and energy requirements vary in a wide range in consideration of satellite size (with effect on installed power) and mission, increasing the needed energy capacity with mission’s duration and paylod. Higher performance batteries are required, not only in terms of energy density since lifespan issues and the use of raw critical materials will increasingly impact space applications.
These aspects are of interest of this special issues, together with topics related (but not limited) to:
- * space electric systems and energy storage management (electric and thermal management),
- * power electronics,
- * electro-magnetic compatibility,
- * control optimization,
- * components/systems design to address vibrational, thermal issues and other specific operating conditions typical of battery and electric systems operation in space invironment
