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Dr Sridhar Thiagarajan
I am a Consultant Clinical Oncologist based at the University Hospitals of Leicester. I have a special interest in exploring the use of radiotherapy in Mesothelioma.
I am the Clinical Lead for Stereotactic radiotherapy and have instrumental in establishing Leicester as one of the first few centres to be commissioned for Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy in the UK.
Prof. Sylwia Bujkiewicz
Sylwia Bujkiewicz is Professor of Biostatistics based in the Biostatistics Research Group at the University of Leicester. She is an expert in Bayesian evidence synthesis methods for combining data from diverse sources including multivariate meta-analysis (of multiple outcomes), network meta-analysis and meta-analysis of data from mixture of study designs (randomised and non-randomised studies). The main focus of her research is in development of such methods for evaluation of surrogate endpoints and predictive biomarkers and application of these methods in the context of health technology assessment decision-making and in a range of clinical areas including cancer. She is a member of NICE Decision Support Unit and NICE Guidelines Technical Support Unit.
Prof. Catrin Pritchard
Catrin Pritchard is a professor of cancer biochemistry in the Leicester Cancer Research Centre, with research focusing on preclinical cancer models.
Dr. Min Zhang
Dr. Amrita Bajaj
Amrita Bajaj is a Dr and a Consultant Cardiothoracic Radiologist with special interest in mesothelioma and lung cancer. She is also a site Reviewer for Clinical Trials at University Hospitals of Leicester and an interventionalist in performing image guided biopsies at diagnosis and progression in research trials.
Dr. Jin Li Luo (Honorary)
Dr. Maurice Dungey
Maurice is a Medical Oncology Specialty Trainee at the University Hospitals of Leicester and an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow with the University of Leicester. Prior to studying medicine, he gained research experience when he completed a PhD in exercise physiology and inflammation in patients living with kidney failure. His main interests are in testing novel anti-cancer therapies in clinical trials and he is developing his skills as a clinical academic in the Oncology department.
Prof. Ed Hollox
Prof. Hiuyu Zhou
Prof. Huiyu Zhou received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Dundee of United Kingdom, respectively. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, supervised by Professors Patrick Green (Psychology) and Andrew Wallace (Computer Engineering).
Prof. Zhou heads the Applied Algorithms and AI (AAAI) Theme and leads the Biomedical Image Processing Lab (BIPL) at University of Leicester. He was Director of MSc Programme (2018-2019) and Coordinator of MSc Distance Learning at Informatics (2018-2022), and is PGR Director and Deputy Director of Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Modelling (AIDAM). Prior to this appointment, he worked as Reader (2018-2020) at University of Leicester, and Lecturer (2012-2017) at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB). He was a visiting scholar of QUB during 2018-2020.
Prof. Zhou has published widely in the field. He was the recipient of “CVIU 2012 Most Cited Paper Award”, “MIUA2020 Best Paper Award”, “ICPRAM 2016 Best Paper Award in the Area of Applications” and was shortlisted for “ICPRAM 2017 Best Student Paper Award” and “MBEC 2006 Nightingale Prize”. He serves as:
Editor-in-Chief of Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Associate Editor/EBM of IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Pattern Recognition, PeerJ Computer Science, Security and Safety, Scientific Reports, Machine Intelligence Research, International Journal of Image and Graphics, Intelligent Marine Technology and Systems and IEEE Access, Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor of several refereed journals.
Associate Editor of ICRA (2019-2023) and Area Chair of BMVC (2019-2023) and IJCAI (2021,2024).
Reviewer for high profile journals (e.g. Nature/Lancet/IEEE TPAMI/TIP/TMI/TNNLS/TCybernetics/TRobotics) and Technical Program Committee/Reviewer for major conferences (e.g. NeurIPS/ICLR/AAAI/IJCAI/CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/ICRA/CHI/BMVC/MICCAI).
Prof. Zhou has been an external examiner for under- and post-graduates/PhD candidates from universities of UK (e.g. Imperial, Manchester, QMUL, Surrey, Reading, Essex, Ulster, Heriot-Watt, Kent and Brunel), Hong Kong (e.g. HKU and PolyU), Australia (UNSW Sydney), India (e.g. Anna and Andhra) and China (e.g. SHU and XJTLU), and Digital Design and Branding MSc of Brunel University London (2018-2019). He also serves as:
Technical Committee of “IEEE Cognitive and Developmental Systems”, “Information Assurance & Intelligence Multimedia-Mobile Communications in IEEE SMC Society”, “Biometrics Task Force” and “Robotics Task Force” of the Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and “Task Force on Secure Learning” of the IEEE CIS Neural Networks Technical Committee.
Interview/SIFT Panel Member of UKRI FLF, UKRI AI CDT and Hubs.
Assessor of Promotion of Faculty Members of UK, China/HK, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan.
Grant reviewer for the research proposals submitted to Horizon Europe, EU H2020, SNSF of Switzerland, South Africa’s NRF, SF of Republic of Serbia, CHIST-ERA, RA of Slovakia, CSF of Czech, AME IRG&YIRG of Singapore, RGC of Hong Kong, QNRF (Qatar), Cara (Syria Programme), NIHR, MRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, UKRI FLF, NC3Rs, Wellcome Trust, Heart Research UK, NICHS, NEAT and RSE.