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Academic Members

Edinburgh

Dr Marta Vallejo

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.

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Dr Alistair McConnell

Dr Alistair McConnell

Position: Assistant Professor

Public engagement and outreach expert, collaborating on community-focused initiatives.

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Dr Chengjia Wang

Dr Chengjia Wang

Position: Assistant Professor

Specialist in machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and medical image analysis.

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Prof Michael Lones

Prof Michael Lones

Position: Professor

Researcher in bioinformatics and machine learning applications in healthcare.

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Dr Wei Pang

Dr Wei Pang

Position: Associate Professor

Expert in evolutionary computation and machine learning for healthcare.

Lab Lead of the BCML Lab

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Dr Dongdong Chen

Dr Dongdong Chen

Position: Assistant Professor

Focuses on machine learning for rehabilitation and sensor-based healthcare solutions.

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Dr Theo Georgiou

Dr Theo Georgiou

Position: Assistant Professor

Researcher specialising in motor deficiencies in neurological conditions.

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Dr Christos Chrysoulas

Dr Christos Chrysoulas

Position: Associate Professor

His research interests are big data analytics, machine learning, smart grids, NLP, and IoTs.

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Dr Babis Koniaris

Dr Babis Koniaris

Position: Assistant Professor

His research interests are computer graphics, especially in real-time, applied to neurosciences and game development.

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Dr Mario Soflano

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.

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Dr Daniel Hernandez Garcia

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.

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Dr Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad

Dr Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad

Position: Assistant Professor

His area of interest is optimisation, bio-inspired algorithms, and machine learning.

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Dubai

Prof Hind Zantout

Prof Hind Zantout

Position: Professor

Role: Group Lead (Dubai)

Focuses on the development of machine learning solutions in the health sector.

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Dr Neamat Elgayar

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.

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Dr Esraa Khatab

Dr Esraa Khatab

Position: Assistant Professor

She is interested in the intersection of healthcare and AI, like breast cancer and facial recognition.

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Ms Heba Elshimy

Ms Heba Elshimy

Position: Provost Fellow

Focuses on applications in healthcare, in particular cancer, using different machine learning techniques.

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Malaysia

Dr William Weimin Yoo

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).

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