about

I am an associate professor in health data science at the University of Birmingham and associated with the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. My research is concerned with the application of machine learning and data science to clinical and medical research questions. Before my current position, I was a Rutherford Research Fellow with the Health Data Research UK initiative also at the University of Birmingham .

Prior to this appointment, I was a research fellow in the Institute of Computer Science of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany and the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK in the field of data mining and machine learning applied to computational Biology.