CDT Doctoral Researchers

Meet our current students.

2024 Cohort

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Melina Müller

Data-driven model-based control of neural dynamics to restore function in human neurological conditions

Supervisors: Nina Kudryashova, Matthias Hennig
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Artur Miralles Méharon

Multimodal ML for stratifying people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis using data from the Visible app and the DecodeME genetics project

Supervisors: Chris Ponting, Dr Sjoerd Beentjes
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Bianca Branco

Predicting Heterogeneity in Depression Across the Life-Course

Supervisors: Heather Whalley, Professor Peggy Seriès
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Zhijie Yao

Inferring cell state in disease progression from gene expression data using tractable deep probabilistic models

Supervisors: Linus Schumacher, Guillaume Blin
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Jamie Davies

Self-supervised Learning for Cardiac MRI: Fast Image Reconstruction and Prescription

Supervisors: Mehrdad Yaghoobi, Lucy Kershaw 
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Núria Fàbrega Ribas

Mining the Multi-Omic Literature

Supervisors: Ian Simpson, Kenny Baillie
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Rodrigo Lara Molina

Robust experimental design with an antibiotic resistance model

Supervisors: Michael Gutmann, Andrea Weisse
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Emilia Agasi

Network-based multimodal AI approaches to address heterogeneity in ovarian cancer

Supervisors: Ian Simpson, Charlie Gourley
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Rishi Ramessur

Reliable Vision-Language Models for Healthcare Applications

Supervisors: Steven McDonagh, Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris
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Binjie Chen

Engineering enzyme replacement therapies for Mucopolysaccharidosis Type IVA

Supervisors: Giovanni Stracquadanio, Eve Miller-Hodges
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Elisa Castagnari

Improving digital healthcare solutions with data interoperability and large language models

Supervisors: Ian Simpson, Ole Eigenbrod, Pinar Wennerberg

2025 Cohort

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Tesni Walsh

AI and the Dark Genome: Using protein-DNA structure modelling and genomic language models to predict the impacts of non-coding genetic variation

Supervisors: Joseph Marsh, Simon Biddie
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Mario Navarro Veiga

Genetic regulation of antibiotic resistance in the major pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae

Supervisors: Andrea Weisse, Thamarai Dorai-Schneiders
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Anthos Makris

Discover novel imaging features in OCTs and/or statistical data that predict visual outcome after macular hole surgery and that can be used to inform clinical decision making

Supervisors: Heather Yorston, Stuart King
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Eleanor Harrison

How do different ways of making a home warmer affect risk of preschool respiratory infections? Using artificial intelligence to make homes and children healthier.

Supervisors: Olivia Swann, Sohan Seth
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Mohammad Kouli

AI-driven continuous physiological monitoring to predict deterioration following surgery

Supervisors: Ewen Harrison, Annemarie Docherty
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Joanne Igoli

Causal healthcare analytics for Real-World Evidence with Targeted Learning: A cross-disciplinary, cross-sector approach

Supervisors: Sjoerd Beentjes, Ava Khamseh
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Hailey Deckers

Stratifying cancer treatment responses in mesothelioma with AI-driven bioimaging

Supervisors: Carsten Hansen, Yunjie Yang
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Nardiena Pratama

Explainable and Transparent AI models for Glioma Diagnosis from Brain MRI

Supervisors: Ajitha Rajan, Paul Brennan
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Stephen Binaansim

Finding the rhythm: detection of metabolic events in mental health conditions from time series data

Supervisors: Karl Burgess, Diego Oyarzun
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Iva Jankovic

AI for discovering affordable therapies against neglected tropical diseases

Supervisors: Diego Oyarzun, Shay Cohen
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Sim Mei Choo

Operationalizable clinical risk predictions using machine learning-driven multi-state models

Supervisors: Sohan Seth, Bruce Guthrie
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Nikou Moradi

Artificial Intelligence EEG Biomarkers for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Supervisors: Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser, Javier Escudero
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Han Jiang

AI-driven investigation of the neural circuit dynamics supporting online motor adaptation

Supervisors: Ian Duguid, Angus Chadwick
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Lachin Soufizadeh

Using machine-learning approaches to predictively genotype ASD model rats based upon large-scale, high-density neuronal network data

Supervisors: Peter Kind, Paul Rignanese