Prof. Vaidotas Marozas is Director of the Biomedical Engineering Institute and Professor of Electronics Engineering at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania. His research focuses on biomedical signal processing, modeling, machine learning, and wearable systems for personal health monitoring. He is the KTU principal investigator in several international projects, including Horizon Europe projects ThrombUS+ and CVDLINK, EURAMET project QUMPHY, and the Swedish Institute Visby programme. He has also led national research projects and more than 15 industrial R&D contracts. Prof. Marozas has published in leading journals, and has co-authored monographs on photoplethysmography and atrial fibrillation. His distinctions include KTU Researcher of the Year in 2016 and KTU Project Manager of the Year in 2025. He coordinates KTU’s Biomedical Engineering master’s programme and has supervised seven PhD graduates. He has served several times as an Associate Editor for the IEEE EMBC conference and currently serves as an Associate Editor for several international journals.
Lecture title: “Case Studies from Recent Horizon Europe Projects”
Introduction: Opportunities at KTU
Project case studies:
- CVDlink: A Federated Paradigm for Utilizing Real-World Data Sources to Improve the Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Risk Assessment of Cardiovascular Conditions
- ThrombUS+: Wearable Continuous Point-of-Care Monitoring, Risk Estimation, and Prevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis
- QUMPHY: Uncertainty Quantification for Machine-Learning Models Applied to Photoplethysmography Signals