Biomedical Engineering Innovation in Bangladesh: From Frugal Devices to AI-Driven mHealth Solutions for Advancing Population Health
Hosted by the International Center for Maternal & Newborn Health and the Center for Global Digital Health Innovation
The special lecture will be delivered by Dr. Taufiq Hasan, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, and an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID), USA.
The seminar is sponsored by the International Center for Maternal & Newborn Health and Center for Global Digital Health Innovation. W1020.
Dr. Taufiq Hasan is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, and an Adjunct Faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID), USA. His research interests include biomedical signal processing and AI, medical image analysis, and global health engineering design, with a mission to advance accessible, scalable healthcare innovations in the global south.
Dr. Hasan completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) in 2006 and 2008 at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in 2014, specializing in machine learning and signal processing. Following his Ph.D., he worked as a Research Scientist at Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center (RTC) in Palo Alto, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley, which is renowned as a global hub of innovation. His industry R&D works include advanced user interaction technology, including speech/audio analysis, augmented reality, and healthcare applications.
Dr. Hasan leads the mHealth Research Group, developing AI-powered wearable health monitoring systems, medical images, biomedical signal analysis algorithms, and innovative medical devices. His most important invention, the OxyJet CPAP ventilator, a low-cost, electricity-free solution for COVID-19 patient care, was the first Bangladesh-designed device to receive regulatory approval. This achievement won him several international awards and was featured in reports published by the UN and the WHO as a noteworthy innovation in the global south during COVID-19. His team's innovations include DengueDrops, an IV management app for dengue patients approved for clinical use, and RadAssist, an AI-driven teleradiology platform that has earned national awards for its impact on medical imaging in Bangladesh. He received multiple grants/awards, including the MIT Solve (2019), Kaggle Open Data Research Grant (2020), ICT Ministry Special Grant (2019), NVIDIA GPU grant (2017), and grants from the University Grants Commission (2017) and Bangladesh Society of Medicine (2023), and UNICEF (2024). He is also the principal investigator of several ongoing clinical studies aiming to evaluate the effectiveness of his innovations.
A distinguished academic and innovator with over 50 peer-reviewed publications and several US patents, Dr. Hasan's work has been cited extensively, earning him an h-index of 24 and over 2,500 citations. He was recently awarded the prestigious Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) Dr. M. O. Ghani Memorial Gold Medal Award 2023.
