Professor Pengcheng Shi received his BS degree in biomedical engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1989, and his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Yale University in 1996. Before joining HKUST in 1999, he was with Yale University School of Medicine as a NRSA fellow, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIHLB), and with the New Jersey Institute of Technology as an assistant/associate professor in computer and information sciences.

Professor Pengcheng Shi's research efforts focus on medical information processing and augmentation, especially on computational cardiac modeling and information recovery. He was a recipient of the National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1996 for his pioneering work on biomechanics-based strategies for cardiac image understanding. He has also won several best paper awards for his scholarly contributions, including the biannual award from the Board of Information Processing in Medical Imaging in 2003.

Calvin Ng M.D. was trained in the University of London, and received his medical doctor degree with First Class honors in Clinical Science and honors with distinction in Surgery in 1999. He underwent training in General Surgery in Imperial College (ICSM) London, before being invited to join the Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit in CUHK, which is internationally renowned for the development of and research into minimal access cardiothoracic surgery. He is a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, U.K., and recently became a Member of Academy of Surgical Research, USA.

Dr. Ng has contributed to 3 book chapters as well as to over 60 publications in peer-reviewed, indexed journals in the field of cardiothoracic surgery. He also serves as reviewer for several international medical journals. His research interests centers on the inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects of minimal access cardiothoracic surgery, pulmonary dysfunction following cardiac surgery, as well as thoracic transplantation. Dr. Ng’s research has led to invitations by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Japanese Thoracic Society to deliver keynote and fellowship lectures, and won him accolades including the Anthony de Rothschild award and the Sir William Broadbent prize in surgery.  He is a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, U.K., Member of The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), and recently became a Member of Academy of Surgical Research, USA.