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Meet the Team

Dr Mark Kennedy

Director

Mark Kennedy leads the Data Science Institute (DSI) at Imperial and teaches on Ph.D., Masters, and Executive courses in the Business School and the DSI. His current projects include the evolution of AI and its impact on work, organisations, and society, and understanding how individuals pick the people they rely on for friendship, help, and advice in work and life.

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Dr Rossella Arcucci

Director of Research

Rossella is a Senior Lecturer in Data Science and Machine Learning at Imperial College London where she leads the Data Assimilation and Machine Learning (Data Learning) Group. She is also the elected speaker of the Artificial Intelligence Network of Excellence at Imperial College, where she represents ~300 academics working on AI.

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Dr Kai Sun

Institute Manager

Dr. Kai Sun is the Institute Manager of the Data Science Institute, responsible for managing operations and research projects. She earned her PhD in Computing from Imperial College London in 2014. Her research interests include translational data management, network analysis, and blockchain-based decentralised systems.

Kai is currently out of office on maternity leave and her work is covered by Kate Heyworth.

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Anastasia Dimitroulaki

Research Group Administrator

Anastasia manages day to day operational support in the DSI in regards to finances, HR, recruitment and estates management as well as general office queries of the DSI members and visitors.

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Dr Wenjia Bai

Senior Lecturer

Dr Wenjia Bai is a Senior Lecturer in AI in Medicine. He is jointly affilitated with Department of Computing and Department of Brain Sciences. His research focuses on developing novel medical image computing and machine learning algorithms to enhance our understanding about health and diseases.

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Brython Caley-Davies

Systems Engineer in Large Scale Data Visualisation

Brython operates the DSI's visualisation facilities, including the Data Observatory and Visual Corridor. He also helps administer the DSI Cloud and develops the Open Visualisation Environment.

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Florian Guitton

Systems Engineer and Infrastructure Manager

Mr Florian Guitton received a BSc in Software Engineering from Epitech (France) in 2011 and a MSc in Advanced Computing, specialized in Computational Intelligence, from the University of Kent (United Kingdom) in 2012.

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Ping Huang

Manager of Events and Education

Ping orchestrates a wide array of events and educational initiatives, including research seminars, conferences, workshops, summer/winter schools, short training courses, and research-focused programs. She actively fosters DSI's relationships with academic and industrial partners, as well as stakeholders, to ensure long-term success.

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Dr Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Associate Professor

Dr Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing and Research fellow at the Data Science Institute where he heads the Computational Privacy Group.

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Gemma Ralton

Communications Officer

Gemma manages all internal and external communications for the DSI including website content, digital publications, social channels alongside overseeing any other outreach or public engagement work for the institute.

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Dr Ovidiu Șerban

Data Observatory Team Leader

Ovidiu leads the research and development of the Data Observatory. Ovidiu’s research focuses on modern data science techniques, including large-scale visualisation and real-time natural language processing. He is also a contributor to the Science Actually Podcast.

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Data Learning Group

Computational Privacy Group

Medical Vision Group

	Berke Doğa Basaran Research Postgraduate	Doğa is a postgraduate researcher pursuing a PhD in the AI4Health CDT studying Multiple Sclerosis brain lesion segmentation using machine learning.
	Kate Čevora Research Postgraduate	After several years in industry as a reserach Data Scientist, Kate is now working towards a PhD in improving generalisation of machine learning models for automated medical image segmentation.
	Marco Visentin Research Postgraduate	As a PhD student, Marco is dedicated to the development of trustworthy deep learning models in the field of medical image analysis, especially in the context of thyroid ultrasounds.
	Dr Mengyun Qiao Research Associate	Dr. Mengyun Qiao is a Research Associate. Her primary research area revolves around the development of machine learning algorithms specialized for medical image analysis. Her current focus centers on pioneering deep generative models with the capacity to comprehend spatio-temporal variations in cardiac anatomy. Additionally, she investigates the clinical applications of generative models. Dr. Qiao's research interests span medical image analysis, machine learning, generative models, data augmentation, and causality.
	Dr Qiang Ma Research Associate	Dr Qiang Ma is a Research Associate working on machine learning for 3D temporal cardiac surface reconstruction and analysis. His research interests include 3D shape reconstruction and geometric deep learning for medical image analysis.

Data Curation, Knowledge Management and Visualisation

Biomedical Informatics

The Biomedical Informatics Group is led by Dr Kai Sun and Florian Guitton.

	Guanyu Tao Research Assistant	Guanyu Tao works on the IDEA-FAST project contributing to data management platform and analytical environment developed and hosted by Imperial College London. His research interests include data analysis, deep learning and data management.
	Jianfeng Wang Research Assistant	Jianfeng Wang works on the IDEA-FAST project contributing to the data management platform and analytical environment developed and hosted by Imperial College London. His research interests are in natural language processing, computer vision, and their applications: medical visual question answering and multimodal pretraining.
	Dr Jingqing Zhang Research Associate	Jingqing's research focuses on language models, natural language processing, deep learning, and their applications in healthcare and life science. Jingqing obtains his PhD from DSI under Yike's supervision and is now a Research Associate.
	Nazanin Zounemat Kermani Research Associate	Nazanin is lead data analyst of the PIONEER project (https://prostate-pioneer.eu), a European Network of Excellence for Big Data in Prostate Cancer, consisting of 32 partners across 9 countries. She is interested in the clinical aspects of machine learning, combining and analysing patients' records and omics data to better understand disease mechanisms.
	Siyao Wang Research Assistant	Siyao is a postgraduate researcher working under the supervision of professor Yi-ke Guo. He works in the IDEA-FAST project contributing to data management platform developed and hosted by Imperial College London. His research interests includes data management, data analysis and deep learning.
	Isha Kshirsagar Software Developer	Masters graduate in advanced computer science from the University of Leeds, I'm set to embark on a role as a software developer at Imperial College London's Data Science Institute. Committed to crafting innovative app features, I bring a passion for technology and a drive for excellence.

	Andrianirina Rakotoharisoa Research Postgraduate	Andrianirina is a PhD student who's research combines air pollution data from remote sensors and satellites with machine learning and data science to analyse the corporate environmental impact.
	Arianna Olivelli Research Postgraduate	Arianna is a PhD student in chemical oceanography at the Grantham Institute and the Department of Earth Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on tracing lead pollution from sources on land to the ocean.
	Che Liu Research Postgraduate	As a Postgraduate Student, My primary research interest is using Machine Learning and Data Assimilation on Mulitmodal Medical Data (such as image, signal, text, etc.), as well as their translation to clinical research and healthcare. He is also interested in Machine Learning and Data Assimilation for Dynamical Systems.
	Georgia Ray Research Postgraduate	Georgia is a PhD student using machine learning to improve downscaling of global climate models, with the intention of generating science-accurate and corporate-feasible sustainability metrics for companies.
	Jake Lever Research Postgraduate	Jake's research focuses on using data science and machine learning to increase the accuracy of natural disaster models and predictions and improve the social response to these types of events.
	Ollie Pitts Research Postgraduate	Ollie is a PhD student on the AI4Health CDT who's time is also split between the NHLI and Royal Brompton & Harefield. His work focuses on applying explainable AI models to characterise/classify airway diseases and longitudinally map pathogenesis
	Robert Platt Research Postgraduate	Rob is a PhD student applying Machine Learning models to hyperspectral remote sensing data of Mars, to characterize the surface geology and mineralogy, specifically of Oxia Planum.

	Bozhidar Stevanoski Research Postgraduate	As a Research Assistant, Bozhidar studies the intersection of machine learning and privacy with a focus on machine learning-based attacks against query-based systems.
	Euodia Dodd Research Postgraduate	Euodia obtained her BSc in Computer Science from The University of Sheffield, and an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in 2022. Her interests include privacy attacks on ML systems, privacy-preserving ML, and interoperability.
	Florient Guepin Research Postgraduate	Florent's research interests include privacy attacks against machine learning systems and generative systems such as GANs.
	Igor Shilov Research Postgraduate	Igor obtained his undergraduate degree in computer science in 2013 and had been working as a software engineer since, most recently at Meta AI. His research interests include differential privacy and privacy attacks against ML systems.
	Matthieu Meeus Research Postgraduate	Matthieu's research interests include privacy attacks against computer vision and language models and bias and fairness in machine learning.
	Natasa Krco Research Postgraduate	Natasa's interests include explainable AI, algorithmic fairness and privacy-preserving machine learning.
	Yifeng Mao Research Postgraduate	Yifeng's research interests include privacy-preserving ML, synthetic data generation protecting personal anonymity, and attach methods against census datasets and ML models.

Meet the Team

Management Team

Dr Mark Kennedy

Director

Dr Rossella Arcucci

Director of Research

Dr Kai Sun

Institute Manager

Core Team

Anastasia Dimitroulaki

Research Group Administrator

Dr Wenjia Bai

Senior Lecturer

Brython Caley-Davies

Systems Engineer in Large Scale Data Visualisation

Core staff 2

Florian Guitton

Systems Engineer and Infrastructure Manager

Ping Huang

Manager of Events and Education

Dr Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Associate Professor

Core team 3

Gemma Ralton

Communications Officer

Dr Ovidiu Șerban

Data Observatory Team Leader

Researchers, Postdocs and PhD students