The CDT is managed by a broad group comprised of the Executive, Research & Training Leads, administrative support team, and representatives from the School of Informatics Graduate School.
The management group will work closely with internationally leading domain experts and external partners from the public and private sector to deliver the vision of the CDT.
The CDT Team are key to ensuring that our students are well supported and that our ethos of a positive research cultures is pro-actively pursued. We want our students to thrive and emerge from the program with a broad range of skills and experience in the application of artificial intelligence to real-world health & biomedical problems.
Core Team
The CDT core team oversee the activities of the CDT with the assistance of the broader management group and research & theme leaders. They co-ordinate the development of CDT strategy and its implementation with a special focus on building relationships with external partners.
Ian Simpson
Professor of Biomedical Informatics & CDT Director
Ava Khamseh
Lecturer in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence & CDT Deputy-Director
Ekaterina Churkina
CDT Programme Manager
Ken Scott
CDT Business Development Executive
Research Theme Leads
Our research theme leaders are domain experts who oversee the development of research activities in their specialist areas. We align our PhD projects with one or more of these themes to ensure we have a good balance of topics and co-develop projects and recruitment in collaboration with our external partners.
Biomedical
Engineering
Andrea Weisse
Chancellor’s Fellow & Research Theme Leader in AI for Cellular and Molecular Systems Medicine
Biomedical
Imaging
Sotos Tsaftaris
Professor of Machine Learning and Computer Vision & Research Theme Leader in AI for Biomedical Imaging
Biomedical & Health Informatics
Thanasis Tsanas
Professor of Digital Health and Data Science & Research Theme Leader in AI for Biomedical & Health Informatics
Genomic
Medicine
Ava Khamseh
Lecturer in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence & Research Theme Leader in AI for Genomic Medicine
Training Leads
Our training leads oversee the key areas of skills and knowledge development for our students working with other program team members and the wider academic community in Edinburgh University. In addition they will be working with our external partners to co-deliver masterclasses and activities such as group projects, hackathons, workshops, & seminars.
Artificial Intelligence
Jacques Fleuriot
Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Training Lead in Artificial Intelligence
Biomedical Science
Andrea Weisse
Chancellor’s Fellow & Training Lead in Biomedical Science
Entrepreneurship
Ndali Liita Cairney
Training Lead in Entrepreneurship
Responsible Research & Innovation
Luciana D’Adderio
Chancellor’s Fellow & Training Lead in Responsible Research & Innovation
Support Team
Lola Springbett
CDT Administrator
Computing Support Officer
to be appointed
