Academic Members
Edinburgh
Dr Marta Vallejo
Role: Group Lead (Edinburgh) and Founder of ML-Health Research Group
Position: Assistant Professor
Programme Director of the Graduate Apprenticeship in Data Science and Co-Champion of the Sensing Capability in the Global Research Institute in Health and Care Technologies. 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
Expertise in machine learning and optimisation applied to biomedical problems.
Dr Chengjia Wang
Position: Assistant Professor
He is a specialist in machine learning, deep learning and hybrid multi-agent systems.
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 Pierre Le Bras
Position: Assistant Professor
He is widely interested in Data Visualisation and Machine Learning. In particular, he likes to build interactive visualisation systems that communicate and explain complex machine learning processes..
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
Role: Group Lead (Dubai)
Position: Full Professor - Deputy Academic Head, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (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 nonparametrics, both in theory and methodology. He studies and develops Bayesian procedures for nonparametric models (estimation and uncertainty quantification).