BENNY LO
Imperial College - UK

Enabling technologies for health and wellbeing

The current care services are failing to provide the quality of care required to cope with the growing population of older adults with chronic illness. The recent pandemic has induced significant load onto the already overstretching care services, and many public health services have failed to provide the needed quality care to the patients. With the aim of improving patient care, many pervasive sensing technologies have been introduced.  With the aim to support continuous monitoring of patients and capture the context information, recent research has demonstrated the potentials of using pervasive sensing and wearable technologies to improve patient care meanwhile lowering the cost. Apart from improving care, recent research has shown the potential of introducing wearable technologies as enabling technologies enhancing the sensing and perceptual abilities of the end users. 
In this talk, I will demonstrate some of our recent work in pervasive sensing and enabling technologies and discuss how the technologies can potentially transform care.

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Dr Benny Lo is a Senior Lecturer of the Hamlyn Centre/Dept of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College. His research mainly focuses on Pervasive Sensing, Biomedical Engineering, Micro-Electronics, Surgical Vision, Wearable Robotics and Machine Learning for healthcare, well-being and sports applications. He is one of the pioneers in body sensor networks research and led a number of the translational projects on applying sensing technologies in clinical applications.  His research work has been highly recognised by academic and industrial and led to numerous awards, such as the Best Paper award at BSN2021 and BSN 2019, the FAU’s Open Challenge, etc. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) and a member of the Editorial board of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN). He is the past-Chair of the IEEE EMBS Wearable Biomedical Sensors and Systems (WBSS) Technical Committee and the Steering Committee member of the IEEE EMBS Standards Technical Committee.