Robert Istepanian

Robert S. H. Istepanian is a Professor of Data Communications at Kingston University and a visiting Professor in the Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at St George's, University of London.

He completed his studies and obtained his PhD from the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department of Loughborough University, UK in 1994. Since then he held several academic and research academic posts in UK and Canada including senior lectureships in the University of Portsmouth and Brunel University in UK and was also an associate Professor in the Ryerson University, Toronto and adjunct Professor in the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

He is investigator and co-investigator of many EPSRC and EU research grants on wireless telemedicine and other research /visiting grants from the British Council and Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering with a total external funding of £1M since 2001. He was also the UK lead investigator of several EU -IST and e-Ten projects in the areas of mobile healthcare ( m-health), including OTELO project (IST -2001-32516- 2001-04) and C-MONITOR (eTen- Contract C27256) on Chronic Disease Management ( 2002-04) and e-Dispute (2004-06). Professor Istepanian is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology (Formerly IEE) and Senior Member of the IEEE. He currently serves on several IEEE Transactions and international journals’ editorial boards including IEEE Transaction on Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioScience and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He has also served as guest editor of three special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (on seamless mobility for healthcare and m-health systems, 2005) and IEEE Transactions of NanoBioScience (on Microarray Image Processing, 2004).

He was the co-chairman of the UK/RI chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology in 2002. He also served on numerous technical committees, expert speaker and invited keynote speaker in several international conferences in UK and USA and Canada including, the Harvard and Partners Telemedicine conference on ‘Optimising Care Through Communication Technologies’ (Boston-2005) and the second International Conference on Smart homes and health Telematics, ICOST (Singapore-2004) and the ‘Building on Broadband Britain’ Conference (London-2005). He also presented papers and chaired sessions/ tracks on several national and international IEEE conferences in these areas including the Telemed conferences of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, IEEE- Engineering in Medicine and Biology International Annual Conferences (IEEE-EMBS 97, 98, 99, 06), the 2000 World Medical Congress, Chicago all in the areas of mobile E-health systems. He is on the technical committee of the IEEE HealthComm International Workshops (Nancy, France2002),(Los Angeles, 2003) and (Seoul, 2005) He was also the Co-Chair of the Technical Committee of the IEEE-EMBS Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB) in Birmingham, UK, April 24-26, 2003. He is also on the technical committee of the International Congress of Medical and Care Compunetics- ICMCC (La Hague, 2004 and 2005).

He has published more than 160-refereed journal and conference papers and edited three books including chapters in the areas of biomedical signals processing and mobile communications for healthcare and m-health technologies.

He lives in Hampshire, England, with his Mum, wife Helen and his two daughters Carolyn and Sarah Istepanian.

ee also

* mHealth
* telemedicine

References:

* - Kingston University, London –Mobile Information and Network Technologies Research Centre- Professor Robert Istepanian
* http://cism.kingston.ac.uk/momed/leader.htm
* - Kingston University, London- Staff Web Pages
* http://dircweb.king.ac.uk/RIS/Queries/Pages/home_page.asp?authorID=317