Keynotes 2025
Emine Ulku Saritas is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University. She received her Ph.D. degree in 2010 from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Bioengineering at University of California, Berkeley between 2010-2013. Her research focuses on developing novel contrast methods and high-resolution imaging techniques, particularly for magnetic particle imaging (MPI) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems. She is the recipient of the Lucent Technologies Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Siebel Stem Cell Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, and Turkish Academy of Sciences Young Scientist Outstanding Achievement Award. Dr. Saritas is the associate director of National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM) at Bilkent University, and is currently serving as the chair of ISMRM Turkish Chapter and the chair of IEEE Turkey EMBS.
Jeff W.M. Bulte, Ph.D., is a Professor of Radiology, Oncology, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the inaugural Radiology Director of Scientific Communications, and serves as Director of Cellular Imaging in the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering. He is a Fellow and Gold Medal awardee of the ISMRM, a Fellow of WMIS, AIMBE, and IAMBE, and a Distinguished Investigator of the Academy of Radiology Research. He specializes in the development of new contrast agents and theranostics as applied to molecular and cellular imaging, with particular emphasis on in vivo cell tracking and regenerative medicine.
Takashi Yoshida is Professor of Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, and Research Institute of Superconducting Science and Systems at Kyushu University. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2003 from the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering at Kyushu University. He received Excellent Research Award of the Magnetics Society of Japan in 2023. His research focuses on developing magnetic particle imaging (MPI) systems, particularly a High-Tc superconducting MPI system, and characterization of magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications, particularly for MPI application.