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Since receiving a Masters degree in Physics followed by a PhD in Electronic Engineering, Marcin Lewandowski has headed many projects in R&D, commercial product design and medical devices development and certification. He has also authored numerous publications in scientific journals on the medical and industrial applications of ultrasound. Over the course of 25+ years working in ultrasound, electronics and software development, Marcin has strived to apply his research expertise in projects with a strong potential for innovation and commercialization. Today, he balances his continued work in science with his role as CEO at us4us Ltd., who produce original ultrasound platforms for research, biomedical and industrial applications.
Novel ultrasound imaging solutions and GPU implementation have formed a key part of Marcin’s work for several years. us4us products all employ software processing on GPUs for real-time access to raw ultrasound data, and garner interest from universities, research institutes and commercial clients looking for powerful, versatile and fully programmable imaging solutions.

Mickael Tanter is a research professor of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm), elected member of the european Academy of Science, distinguished professor of ESPCI Paris and AXA Chair Professor. He is heading the laboratory Inserm “Physics for Medicine Paris” (Inserm, CNRS, ESPCI Paris), Paris, France. He is also the director of the first Inserm Technology Research Accelerator created in 2016 and dedicated to Biomedical Ultrasound. Mickael Tanter is an expert in biomedical ultrasound and wave physics. He authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and is the recipient of 50 international patents. In the last 20 years, he co-invented several major innovations in Biomedical Ultrasound: Transient Elastography, Ultrafast Ultrasound and Shear Wave Elastography, functional Ultrasound (fUS) imaging of brain activity and Superresolution Ultrasound based on Ultrasound Localization Microscopy. He received many national and international distinctions (among them the Honored Lecture of the Radiology Society of North America in 2012, the Grand Prize of Medicine and Medical Research of Paris city in 2011, the Grand Prize of Fondation de la Recherche Médicale in 2016 and the Carl Hellmuth Hertz Prize of IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control society in 2017, and the highest distinction of the European Society in Molecular Imaging ESMI in 2018). M. Tanter is also the co-founder of several MedTech companies in Biomedical Ultrasound (Supersonic Imagine, CardiaWave, Iconeus).

Yonina Eldar is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. She was previously a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, where she held the Edwards Chair in Engineering. She is also a Visiting Professor at MIT, a Visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute, and an Adjunct Professor at Duke University and was a Visiting Professor at Stanford. She received the B.Sc. degree in physics and the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering both from Tel-Aviv University (TAU), Tel-Aviv, Israel, in 1995 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 2002. She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, an IEEE Fellow and a EURASIP Fellow. She has received many awards for excellence in research and teaching, including the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award (2013), the IEEE/AESS Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award (2014) and the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2016). She was a Horev Fellow of the Leaders in Science and Technology program at the Technion and an Alon Fellow. She received the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation, the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences, the Wolf Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, the Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research (twice), the Hershel Rich Innovation Award (three times), the Award for Women with Distinguished Contributions, the Andre and Bella Meyer Lectureship, the Career Development Chair at the Technion, the Muriel & David Jacknow Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Technion’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (two times). She received several best paper awards and best demo awards together with her research students and colleagues, was selected as one of the 50 most influential women in Israel, and was a member of the Israel Committee for Higher Education. She is the Editor in Chief of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing and a member of several IEEE Technical Committees and Award Committees.

Thomas L. Szabo received the B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA in 1966, the M.S.EE from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY in 1968, and the Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Bath, Bath, U.K. in 1993. From 1970-1981, he was a Research Scientist at Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (later Rome Air Development Center) doing basic research on surface acoustic wave devices and nondestructive evaluation. For 1979-1980, he was on the staff, School of Engineering Sciences, Oxford University, UK. During 1981-2000, as a Senior R&D Engineer, he conducted research and development
on diagnostic ultrasound imaging systems at Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies in Andover, MA. Since 2001, he has been a Research Professor with the Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering Departments at Boston University, Boston, MA. He is author of Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging: Inside Out, referenced 1500 times, as well as over 100 papers and twelve book chapters, and holds four patents. He is a leader of international and U.S. technical and standards committees. His wide range of interests include ultrasound tissue and spine characterization, wave equations, novel imaging systems, brain imaging, therapeutic ultrasound, nonlinear phenomena and geophysical exploration.
Dr. Szabo is a Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2007) and the Acoustical Society of America (2000) and a Life Senior member of the IEEE(2009). He has been a U.S. delegate to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), Technical Committee 87, since 1986 and a Convenor of working Group 6 on high intensity therapeutic ultrasound and focusing since 1988. He was a recipient of a 1973 U. S. Meritorious Service Medal, a Hewlett Packard Fellowship and the 1974 best paper award in the IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics.

Olivier Couture is a Research Director at CNRS. He received his B.Sc degree in physics from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 2001, and his Ph.D degree from the department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada, in 2007. After a postdoctoral fellowship at ESPCI in Paris (France), he was hired at CNRS, based within the Langevin Institute. In 2019, as a Research Director, he founded the Physiology and Pathology of the Microcirculation team at the Laboratoire d’Imagerie Biomedicale (Sorbonne University, CNRS, INSERM). He was awarded the “2017 IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigation Award” for the development of ultrasound super-resolution and plane-wave contrast imaging and the Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine for the Best Paper published in Medical Physics in 2011. He received the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for the application of ultrasound localization microscopy to medical diagnosis. His current research interests include ultrasound localization microscopy, ultrafast ultrasound imaging, drug delivery, velocipede oscillations, contrast agents, NASH, diabetes and stroke.