Paul Watson FREng FBCS CEng is Director of the UK’s National Innovation Centre for Data and Professor of Computer Science at Newcastle University. He began his career at Manchester University before moving to industry to design parallel database servers based. In 1995 he joined Newcastle University where his research and teaching has focussed on scalable data engineering. Professor Watson is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a Chartered Engineer. He received the 2014 Microsoft Jim Gray eScience Award.

Majid Mirmehdi is a Professor of Computer Vision in the School of Computer Science. His research interests include natural scene analysis for monitoring and understanding the behaviour of humans and animals, and medical imaging. He has more than 250 refereed conference and journal publications in these and other areas of computer vision. Professor Mirmehdi is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition and a Distinguished Fellow of the British Machine Vision Association. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal of IET Computer Vision.

George Oikonomou is an Associate Professor of IoT Networking, with 7 years of post-doctoral research experience in the UK (University of Bristol and Loughborough University). Education Director, School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering. Originally a statistician, with an MSc in Information Systems and a PhD in Computer Networking, both from the Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Co-founder, steering group member and maintainer of Contiki-NG, the next generation, open source operating system for the IoT. 

Aisling O’Kane is the Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction for Health at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on understanding how health and wellbeing technologies are used in the wild. She employs qualitative and participatory design approaches to studies of interactive technologies such as fitness apps, medical devices, and wearable technologies. Past and current studies include the examination of the use of Type 1 Diabetes devices, mobile phone apps for running, wearables in the gym, hearing aids, and high tech wearable baby monitors. 

Silvia Del Din has been working in the Newcastle University’s Brain and Movement (BAM) Research Group since 2012, where she has been contributing to build the digital health theme. Her translational research focus is enhancing the use of wearable technology and developing novel analytics to support remote monitoring and clinical management in ageing and age-related diseases (e.g., Parkinson’s). She is currently PI and involved as Co-I with leadership roles in various clinical trials and digital health projects including Mobilise-D, IDEA-FAST, Deep & Frequent Phenotyping and Exenatide.

Kenton O’Hara is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Computer Science.  He has over 30 years of research and innovation experience developing human-centred research agendas and multidisciplinary teams in world renowned research organisations including Microsoft Research, Xerox EuroPARC, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Appliance Studio. An experienced leader of multi-disciplinary teams with proven success translating research concept to product. His research combines computing and social sciences and spans Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health, Hybrid Work Futures and Ubiquitous Computing. 

Alan Whone leads a programme of research in Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders at the Bristol Brain Centre, Southmead Hospital. Since 2010 Alan has been Principal Applicant or Co-applicant on £5-million of peer reviewed grant funding (Parkinson’s UK, NIHR) and £1 million of industry or local charities research funding. Alan collaborates in studies led by Drs Coulthard and Grogan to understand cognitive changes in Parkinson’s and the role of dopamine in the formation of memory. Alan is Neurology lead for NBT – one of the largest providers of Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Movement Disorders in the UK, and integrated with this service is a programme of DBS research that involves both novel stimulation devices and novel targets for stimulation.

Alison Yarnall is a Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University; Deputy Director of the Clinical Ageing Research Unit; Honorary Consultant in Older People’s Medicine at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; and DeNDRON Subspecialty Clinical Research Lead for Parkinson’s disease in the North East of England. She has a particular interest in mobility (including digital mobility), cognition, gait and falls in people with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.  She runs a specialist clinic for older adults with Parkinson’s and complex health needs, in addition to a general medical memory clinic.

Dave Kirk is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Co-Director of Open Lab in the School of Computer Science, Newcastle University, where he also leads the EPSRC Next Stage Digital Economy Centre for Digital Citizens. He has a background in psychology, ergonomics and human-centred design.

Raul Santos-Rodriguez is a Turing AI Fellow and Professor in Data Science and AI at the University of Bristol. His research interests lie around the study of the foundations of machine learning and the way machine learning systems and humans interact and collaborate in different healthcare domains.

James Pope is a Lecturer in Data Science in the School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology at the University of Bristol. He previously worked on the EurValve and SYNERGIA projects.  His research interests include embedded AI/ML and graph neural networks for healthcare and cybersecurity applications.

Em Tonkin is a Research Fellow working with Digital Health. Much of her work relates to law, ethics and best practice in data management and processing of healthcare-related data. Her research focuses include fault-tolerance, observability and auditability in domestic digital health deployments, robust architectures for digital health systems, and interdisciplinary applications of data analysis, machine learning and visualisation.

Lenia (Eleni) Margariti is a Postdoctoral Researcher in TORUS project, based at Open Lab, Newcastle University, UK. Her focus is on Human-Building-Interaction research, Design research and Mixed-methods research in the context of wellbeing in the built environment. Her past works include designing & deploying awareness technologies for climatic data in smart buildings, exploring the experiences of the building occupants utilizing embedded and wearable sensors, and co-design activities with a focus on workplace wellbeing and data use in the built environment.

After obtaining her PhD in Musculoskeletal Biomechanics in 2012, Lisa Alcock joined Newcastle University where she is currently working as a Senior Research Associate, and leads the Human Movement Laboratory at the Clinical Ageing Research Unit. She has published widely in the field of clinical biomechanics, movement science and neuroscience (>100 publications) and secured significant research and capital investment funding.

Elaine Czech is a Design Researcher in the Human-Computer Interaction field. She has a BFA in Art and Design from the University of Michigan and an MA in Media Design from Keio University. Her PhD focused on design technologies to improve accessibility of community spaces for members of the dementia community.

Amirhossein (Amir) Dadashzadeh is a Research Associate in Computer Vision, having recently completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Bristol. His focus is on developing innovative algorithms for monitoring Parkinson’s patients, utilising advanced methods to analyse human actions in video data.

Guanxiong Sun specialises in computer vision, particularly in video analysis. His PhD research focuses on tasks such as video object detection, video instance segmentation, and tracking. His research interests are in multimodal representation learning and advancing video language models. Guanxiong is driven by a deep passion for projects that can generate real-world impacts.