Team

Academics

Dr Anne Hsu

Dr Anthony Constantinou

Dr David Mguni

  • Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Machine Learning and Decision-Making Theory.
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Dr Evangelia (Lina) Kyrimi

  • Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.
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Dr Fabrizio Smeraldi

  • Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Artificial Intelligence.
  • Deputy Director of Graduate Studies (Research).
  • Co-Founder of Mebomine.
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Ms Jane Reid

  • Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Information Retrieval.
  • Director of Development.

Dr Manolis Chiou

  • Lecturer (Assistant Prof) in Human-Robot Teaming and Human-Robot Interaction.
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Prof Martin Neil

Dr Muhammad Salman Haleem

  • Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in AI for medical and healthcare data analytics.
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Dr Mustafa Bozkurt

Dr Nickos Paltalidis

Prof Norman Fenton

  • Emeritus Professor (Chair) of Risk Information Management.
  • Joint Founder and Director of Agena Ltd.
  • Former Director of the Risk and Information Management (RIM) research group.
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Dr Tassos Tombros

  • Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Information Retrieval.
  • Director of Education.
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Dr Thomas Roelleke

  • Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Integration of Database and Information Retrieval Technologies.
  • Former Director of the Information Retrieval (IR) research group.
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Prof Venet Osmani

Dr William Marsh

Dr Ying He

  • Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Cybersecurity.
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PhD, Postdoctoral and Visiting Researchers

Mr Alessio Zanga (Doctoral Visitor: in-person)

  • Doctoral Research Visitor in Causal Discovery applied to Endometrial Cancer.
  • PhD candidate at the University of Milano – Bicocca, Italy.
  • Visit supervised by Dr Anthony Constantinou.
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Mr Bruno Petrungaro (PhD)

  • PhD student in Applied Causal Structure Learning.
  • Senior Data Scientist at the Financial Conduct Authority, UK.
  • Supervised by Dr Anthony Constantinou.

Mr Ciaran O’Flynn (PhD)

  • PhD student in Applications of Adaptive Risk and Bayesian Networks to Pet Health.
  • Research Manager Data Science at Mars Petcare, UK.
  • Supervised by Prof. Norman Fenton.
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Dr Cynthia Amai Ikamari (Postdoc Visitor: remote)

  • Postdoctoral Research Visitor in Climate Index for East Africa.
  • Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
  • Visit supervised by Dr Rendani Mbuvha.
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Mr Erhan Pisirir (PhD)

  • PhD student in Bayesian Networks.
  • Supervised by Dr William Marsh.
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Ms Eya Meddeb (Doctoral Visitor: in-person)

  • Doctoral Research Visitor in Bayesian network structure learning to manage employee turnover.
  • PhD student at the University of Worcester, UK.
  • Visit supervised by Dr Anthony Constantinou.
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Mr Jeinis Patel (PhD)

  • PhD student in Statistics and The Law.
  • Supervised by Prof. Norman Fenton.
  • Barrister at JS. Patel, Canada.
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Ms María José Barrera-Chávez (PhD)

  • PhD student.
  • Supervised by Dr William Marsh.
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Dr Neville (Ken) Kitson (PhD, Postdoc)

  • PhD student in Bayesian network structure learning for Health Informatics.
  • Postdoctoral Research Visitor (2019-20) in Bayesian network structure learning for Health Informatics.
  • Former CTO of OneWorld UK.
  • Supervised by Dr Anthony Constantinou.
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Mr Nicholas Higgins (Research Visitor: remote)

  • Research Visitor in causal discovery to decode the game engine of Hattrick football manager.
  • Visit supervised by Dr. Anthony Constantinou.

Mr Phil Mercy (PhD)

  • PhD student.
  • Supervised by Prof. Martin Neil.

Dr Rendani Mbuvha (Research Fellow)

Ms Sheresh Zahoor (Doctoral Visitor: in-person)

  • Doctoral Research Visitor in identification of early risk predictors and interventions for skin cancer and type 2 diabetes.
  • PhD student at the Munster Technological University, Ireland.
  • Visit supervised by Dr Anthony Constantinou
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Mrs Tong Xin

  • Research Associate in Cybersecurity investment decision-making.
  • Supervised by Dr Ying He.
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Mr Zahir Nikraftar (PhD)

  • PhD student in Probabilistic Machine Learning for Climate Science.
  • Supervised by Dr Rendani Mbuvha.
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Affiliates

Mr Austin Plunkett

Dr Barbaros Yet

Dr Maryam Abdollahyan

Past members since 2019

Dr Ali Fahmi (PhD)

  • PhD student (Graduated in 2021) in Decision-Support for Rheumatoid Arthritis Using Bayesian Networks.
  • Supervised by Dr William Marsh.
  • Joined The University of Manchester, UK.
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Mr Arian Amirkhizi (Doctoral Visitor: remote)

  • Doctoral Research Visitor (remote in 2022-2023) in Causal Structure Learning.
  • Undergraduate student in Applied Mathematics at Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
  • PhD researcher in Statistics at the University of Toronto, Canada.
  • Visit supervised by Dr Anthony Constantinou.

Mr Bo Peng (MRes)

  • MSc by Research student (2018-19) in Bayesian Network structure learning.
  • Supervised by Dr Anthony Constantinou.
  • Joined Huawei in Hong Kong.

Dr Haoyuan Zhang

  • PhD student (Graduated in 2019) in Bayesian models for Making inspection and maintenance decisions.
  • Supervised by Dr William Marsh.
  • Joined University College London (UCL), UK.
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Dr Huange (Maggie) Wang (Postdoc)

  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant (2017-2022) in algorithms for learning Probabilistic Graphical Models.
  • Supervised by Prof. Norman Fenton.
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Dr Jiali Wang (PhD)

  • PhD student (Graduated in 2021) in Cybersecurity using Bayesian networks.
  • Supervised by Prof. Martin Neil.
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Dr Joshua Hunte (PhD)

  • PhD (Graduated 2023) student in Risk assessment and perception for product safety.
  • Supervised by Prof. Norman Fenton.
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Dr Kiattikun Chobtham (PhD)

  • PhD student (Graduated in 2023) in Latent Variable Models.
  • Supervised by Dr Anthony Constantinou.
  • Joined the Hydro-Informatics Institute, Thailand.
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Dr Mariana Raniere Neves (PhD)

  • PhD student (Graduated in 2021) in Decision support systems for the diagnosis and management of chronic conditions.
  • Supervised by Dr William Marsh.
  • Joined the Ministry of Justice, UK.
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Dr Mohammad Bahrani (PhD)

  • PhD student (Graduated in 2023) in Information Retrieval.
  • Supervised by Dr Thomas Roelleke.
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Dr Morghan Hartmann (PhD)

  • PhD student (Graduated in 2022) in Bayesian networks for improved diagnosis of chronic health conditions.
  • Supervised by Prof. Norman Fenton.
  • Joined The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.
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Mr Praharsh Nanavati (Research Visitor: remote)

  • Research Visitor (remote in 2022-2023) in Causal structure learning.
  • Undergraduate student in Data Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India.
  • Visit supervised by Dr Anthony Constantinou.
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Dr Scott McLachlan (PhD, Postdoc)

  • PhD student (Graduated in 2019) in Health Informatics.
  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant (2019-21) in Health Informatics.
  • Supervised by Prof. Norman Fenton.
  • Joined Kings College London, UK.
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Dr Tuomas Ketola (PhD)

  • PhD student (Graduated 2023) in Information Retrieval.
  • Supervised by Dr Thomas Roelleke.
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Dr Yang Liu (PhD)

  • PhD student (Graduated in 2023) in Causal structure learning in the presence of measurement error.
  • Supervised by Dr Anthony Constantinou.
  • Joined the Hong Kong Baptist University.
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Dr Zhigao (Buckley) Guo (Postdoc)

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (2019-21) in Bayesian network structure learning for high dimensional problems.
  • Supervised by Dr Anthony Constantinou.
  • Joined The University of Manchester, UK.
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