At the 6th Asian-Pacific Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering (APCMBE) held in Japan, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., a postgraduate student of BME Lab, was awarded Young Investigator's Award (YIA) for the paper "A new symmetric cryptosystem of body area sensor networks for telemedicine". She also won the YIA Best Presentation Award in the YIA finalist session. Besides, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. was awarded Young Investigator Encouragement Award for the paper "The aging effect on the characteristic of photoplethsmogram waveform".

The conference was held from 24th to 27th April 2005, co-sponsored by the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE). It is one of the most flourishing conferences, reflecting rapid growth of Asian-Pacific region in both scientific and economic sense.