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He is the Principal Investigator for Transforming the Objective Real-world measUrement of Symptoms (TORUS) and previously, he was the Director of the EPSRC funded SPHERE IRC (£12M, ~30 postdocs and 10 PhD students).

Ian’s interests are pervasive healthcare, technology for self-management of long term health conditions, data fusion and clinical decision support.

She oversees day-to-day operations, coordinating across each of the Hub’s programmes, managing resources and fostering strategic partnerships across the Hub.

Rachel has worked in various research management and administration roles at the University of Bristol for 6 years. Her previous roles include managing complex industrial partnership projects in Engineering, and coordinating collaborative events and hackathons with the Jean Golding Institute and the Alan Turing Institute.

His research interests are Machine Learning and Data Science, focusing on self-supervised learning, anomaly detection, and explainable AI. During his PhD in representation learning and anomaly detection, he focused on using deep learning approaches for the purpose of identifying anomalies in image data.

Outside his PhD, he has worked on a variety of Machine Learning projects in different areas such as healthcare, climate change, and electric vehicles.

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His research interests are in fundamental Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science with focus on uncertainty quantification, optimal decision making, model training with imperfect data, and trustworthy AI.

He earned a BSc degree in Technical Engineering on Computer Systems and an M.Sc. degree in Artificial Intelligence (Catalonia, Spain), an M.Sc. degree in Machine Learning and Data Mining (Finland), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (UK).

He joined the University of Bristol in 2015 and has held multiple research positions involving the application of AI and ML to health care.

His research has been published in top international conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICDM, KDD, AIDA) and journals (e.g. Machine Learning, Neurocomputing, Scientific Data).

For the Hub, Miquel is providing his expertise on Data Science for Digital Health applications.

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His research group focuses on the acceleration of health sciences research and new clinical diagnostics through novel artificial intelligence and statistical data science methodology, as well as data collection and management platforms. His team works in highly multidisciplinary environments to both lead and support investigations across three strands of research:

• Profiling the protein and metabolite content of biological fluids and tissues using mass spectrometry for understanding disease mechanisms, and to discover biomarkers
• Developing predictive models from health records and environmental data to develop interventions for One Health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance
• Intensive longitudinal health, activity and behavioural monitoring at the level of individual animals and groups of animals for welfare and environmental sustainability

He has a joint position in the Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, and Bristol Veterinary School. He is Director of Enterprise & Impact for the Faculty of Health Sciences and a Turing Fellow.

In 2020 he was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Department of Management Science and Engineering. He has an academic background in management, decision sciences and computer science and has held positions at UCL, Westminster and St. George’s Universities in London, and the University of British Columbia in Canada. Before embarking on his academic career, he spent several years in industry as a software engineer and systems analyst.

His research focuses on developing and putting in place modelling methods and analytical tools for assisting those delivering and managing health services. He is also interested in the evaluation of the likely impact of healthcare interventions and policy initiatives using empirical and systems modelling methods. He has set up several collaborative research projects with regional health and care organisations through different funding mechanisms and models of collaboration.

His research interests are in mathematical modelling applied to healthcare improvement.

An author of 30+ peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings, his research was awarded with several prizes at international conferences such as INFORMS healthcare. He received the Cardiff University’s Celebrating Excellence 2019 Rising Star Award and the OR Society’s Lyn Thomas Impact Medal in 2021.

Daniel is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Co-Editor-in Chief for Health Systems.

The impactful mathematical modelling work that he carries out in his NHS role with colleagues in MATHS lead to significant cost savings and carbon footprint reductions. Daniel also co-designed a programme with the NHS to support clinicians and managers in healthcare analytics and mathematical modelling, creating a network and community of modelling fellows.

PenCHORD is a research team within the National Institute of Health Research funded South-West Applied Research Collaboration (NIHR SW ARC) based at University of Exeter: Medical School.

PenCHORD works in close collaboration with health and care organisations both in the south-west of the UK, nationally and internationally to improve health and care delivery using Operational Research and Data Science approaches.

Martin has wide ranging experience in healthcare modelling ranging from economic modelling in health technology assessment to discrete event simulation and operational models for service re-design. His research interests are the application of modelling techniques and data science to improve health and care with a particular interest in the implementation of these approaches to policy and decision making process.

He leads the Health and Care Operational Research Network (HaCORN) and is a founding director of the Modelling and Simulation Network (MASHnet). He was appointed as first President of the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts (AphA) the organisation which represents health service analysts across the NHS and other care service organisations.

His research interests are in stochastic modelling, including queueing theory, simulation methods, optimisation and game theory, and applications to healthcare.

Author of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, Paul has been a named investigator on over £18million of funded research grants, recipient of a Times Higher Education award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology’ and the UK OR Society’s Lyn Thomas Impact Medal.

He is a founding editor-in-chief of the international journal Health Systems (Taylor & Francis), an elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW), recipient of the 2018 ‘Companion of OR’ Award (The OR Society) and was a panel member of the UK Government’s Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) for Mathematical Sciences.

He conducts interdisciplinary research in Operational Excellence, Industry 4.0/5.0, Business model innovation, and circular economy. With over 180 publications, he explores topics like Healthcare Process Innovation and Industry 4.0/5.0 integration.

He has received more than £6 million research funding from EPSRC, ESRC, Welsh Government, Innovate UK, and Highway England. Recognized with the ‘Business Innovation’ Award at Cardiff University, he received the ‘Distinguished Professor Award’ from the IEOM Society.

He is regularly invited as a keynote speaker at international events and provides Lean Six Sigma training, impacting industries worldwide including Admiral and NHS. Acknowledged for teaching excellence, he contributes significantly to academia and industry alike.

She is part of the Hub’s core team and is responsible for marketing, social media and events as well as day-to-day administration duties. Emma’s joined the University of Bristol in 2023. She previously worked as Student Project Coordinator for the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and Engagement Officer for Bristol Museums.