The Team

Professor Nazarpour is Professor of Digital Health. His research is motivated by the potential of digital technology to promote physical activity and to restore function to individuals with a disability. He has raised £11M of research funding including an EPSRC Challenge Award and is a recipient of the UNESCO Netexplo 2018 award. 

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Dr Webb is a Senior Researcher in Informatics with 25+ years of experience co-designing digital solutions in the health, care, and energy sectors. Her passion is ensuring innovation is fit for purpose, which can be achieved by involving stakeholders in all stages of the design process. She has contributed to raising c. £16M funding.

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Dr. Saber Mirzaee Bafti holds a PhD in Electronic Engineering and currently serves as a research associate at the School of Informatics. His research revolves around assistive technologies and translational studies in digital healthcare. With expertise spanning electronics, embedded computing, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and pattern recognition, his work is focused on advancing the field of digital healthcare solutions and implementing edge computing solutions in real-world healthcare applications.

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Irene’s Fellowship is on the development of machine learning models that can predict the success of bone-healing after a fracture. Irene has a PhD (Oxon) in MSK and a Bachelor in Medical Science (Sydney). Previsouly she was an RA with Hamish Simpson at Centre for Inflammation Research at The University of Edinburgh.

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Ken’s career started in the pharmaceutical industry where he engaged in the development and introduction of a number of major breakthroughs in the treatment of a wide range of medical conditions.  He subsequently spent over 15 years consulting on how to optimise innovations and led major collaborations with universities in both the UK and USA.   In his current role within the School of Informatics Ken supports industry partners’ ambitions to build balanced research portfolios and attain commercially viable returns from their innovation strategies.  In addition Ken also coordinates the development of research agreements and management of commitments across the value chain.

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Wei Ju is pursuing a PhD affiliated with the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, University of Edinburgh. He completed his first degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology at University of Greenwich in 2018 and an MSc degree in Electronics from University of Edinburgh in 2019. His present research focuses on the development and miniaturisation of wearable medical electronics for the rehabilitation of overactive bladder syndrome (OBS) associated with urinary incontinence (UI).

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Katarzyna Szymaniak is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics. Her doctoral research is supported by the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence. Her research focuses on adaptability and robustness in myoelectric control, using active learning, transfer learning, domain generalisation and representation learning.

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Aidan McConnell-Trevillion is a PhD student with the School of Informatics’ Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation. His research focuses on the application of novel neuromodulatory techniques for the treatment of Overactive Bladder (OAB). Applying a background in traditional neuroscience, his present work includes computational neuroscience, machine learning, patient outreach, and large-scale statistical analysis.

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Ms Jones was a Research Asscoaite, joining the lab in 2016 at Newcastle University. Hannah studied how collaborative research theory and methodologies work within an academic context. Her background is in industrial design, graduating with an Intel Scholarship, with a focus on design methodologies that address unmet user needs. Hannah left the lab in Nov 2023, returning to Newcastle University. 

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Hancong joined the lab in Dec 2019 and left April 2023 to take up an associate professorship at South China University of Technology.

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Alex Mellers is a seasoned Engineer and Researcher with a rich background in the Medical and Renewable Energy sectors. During his tenure with MedEngine, he led initiatives to enhance Parkinson's care and chronic care through technology-enabled objective measurements. His accomplishments include the development of innovative medical products, mobile and web applications. He is a PhD student in Energy Resilience at UCL, having previosuly received an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge and a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Newcastle University.

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Sigrid joined the lab in Aug 2018 and left in May 2022 to take up an SFI-IRC Pathway Fellowship at University College Dublin.

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