Academic Members
Edinburgh

Dr Marta Vallejo
Position: Assistant Professor
Role: Group Lead (Edinburgh) and Founder of ML-Health Research Group
Programme Director of the Graduate Apprenticeship in Data Science and Head of the ML-Health Research Group. Dr Vallejo is an expert in applying machine learning to neurodegenerative diseases, particularly ALS and Parkinson's, for diagnosis and personalised treatment.

Dr Alistair McConnell
Position: Assistant Professor
Public engagement and outreach expert, collaborating on community-focused initiatives.

Dr Chengjia Wang
Position: Assistant Professor
Specialist in machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and medical image analysis.

Prof Michael Lones
Position: Professor
Researcher in bioinformatics and machine learning applications in healthcare.

Dr Wei Pang
Position: Associate Professor
Expert in evolutionary computation and machine learning for healthcare.
Lab Lead of the BCML Lab

Dr Dongdong Chen
Position: Assistant Professor
Focuses on machine learning for rehabilitation and sensor-based healthcare solutions.

Dr Theo Georgiou
Position: Assistant Professor
Researcher specialising in motor deficiencies in neurological conditions.

Dr Christos Chrysoulas
Position: Associate Professor
His research interests are big data analytics, machine learning, smart grids, NLP, and IoTs.

Dr Babis Koniaris
Position: Assistant Professor
His research interests are computer graphics, especially in real-time, applied to neurosciences and game development.

Dr Mario Soflano
Position: Assistant Professor
His research interests are in the areas of games-based learning, immersive technologies, e-health and data analysis and visualisation.

Dr Daniel Hernandez Garcia
Position: Research Fellow
He is interested in topics such as human-robot interaction, human-robot collaboration, machine learning algorithms, interactive task learning, learning from demonstration, knowledge representation and reasoning, artificial intelligence, and cognitive systems.
Dr Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad
Position: Assistant Professor
His area of interest is optimisation, bio-inspired algorithms, and machine learning.
Dubai

Prof Hind Zantout
Position: Professor
Role: Group Lead (Dubai)
Focuses on the development of machine learning solutions in the health sector.

Dr Neamat Elgayar
Position: Associate Professor
Expert in machine learning, data analytics and computational intelligence for multi-modal and time-series NLP applied to customer analytics, tourism, healthcare, transportation, and sustainability.

Dr Esraa Khatab
Position: Assistant Professor
She is interested in the intersection of healthcare and AI, like breast cancer and facial recognition.

Ms Heba Elshimy
Position: Provost Fellow
Focuses on applications in healthcare, in particular cancer, using different machine learning techniques.
Malaysia

Dr William Weimin Yoo
Position: Assistant Professor
He works in Bayesian nonparametric both in theory and methodology. He studies and develops Bayesian procedures for nonparametric models (estimation and uncertainty quantification).