TIA Centre: Our Team
Core Faculty
Nasir Rajpoot
Director, TIA Centre & Co-Director, PathLAKE CoE
Professor
Computer Science
David Epstein FRS
Emeritus Professor
Mathematics
Fayyaz Minhas
Deputy Director
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Shan Raza
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Associate Faculty
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu
Professor
Computer Science
Ioannis Nezis
Professor
School of Life Sciences
Tom Sorell
Professor
Politics and Philosophy
Lawrence Young
Emeritus Professor
Medical School
Research Fellows and Graduate Students
Admin and IT team
Honorary Associates
Mohsin Bilal
Honorary Associate, TIA
Associate Professor, AI and Data Science,
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
Visiting Academics and Students
- Dr Zhao Chen, Donghua University, 2024
- Dr Umar Hayat, Quaid-I-Azam University, 2024
Clinical Affiliates
- Prof Ian Cree (Head of the Tumor Classification Group, IARC, WHO, France)
- Dr Hesham Eldaly (Consultant Histopathologist, UHCW NHS Trust, Coventry)
- Dr Kishore Gopalakrishnan (Consultant Histopathologist, UHCW NHS Trust, Coventry)
- Prof Louise Jones (Professor of Breast Pathology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary, University of London
- Prof Ali Khurram (Professor & Honorary Consultant Pathologist, School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield)
- Dr Hanya Mahmood (NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Oral Surgery & Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield)
- Dr Mohammed Nimir (Pathology Trainee, UHCW NHS Trust, Coventry)
- Dr Yee-Wah Tsang (Consultant Histopathologist, UHCW NHS Trust, Coventry)
Alumni
- Mostafa Jahanifar (PhD 2025; now Senior AI Scientist and Engineer at Histofy Ltd)
- Rob Jewsbury (PhD 2025, now AI Engineer at ExTrac)
- Ruoyu Wang (PhD 2025; now Machine Learning Specialist at GTL)
- Dang Vu (PhD 2024; now Senior AI Architect at Histofy Ltd) Faculty Thesis Prize 2024
- Hammam Alghamdi (PhD 2024; now Assistant Professor at the University of Jeddah)
- Muhammad Dawood (PhD 2024; now Machine Learning Researcher at the University of Oxford)
- Amina Asif (Postdoc fellow 2022-24; now Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick)
- Ammar Khairi (Research Assistant 2024; now Research Scholar at Cohere Labs)
- Rawan Albusayli (PhD 2024)
- Ayesha Azam (PhD 2024; now Consultant Histopathologist, UHCW NHS Trust, Coventry)
- John Pocock (PhD 2023; now Software Engineer at Helsing)
- Saad Bashir (PhD 2023; now Machine Learning Specialist at GTL)
- Srijay Deshpande (PhD 2023; now Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Oracle)
- Jev Gamper (PhD 2022; now Staff Decision Scientist at Vinted)
- Nima Hatami (Postdoc fellow 2019-2021; now at INSA Lyon, France)
- Mieke Zwager (Visiting student during 2020 from UMCG, Netherlands)
- Mary Shapcott (PhD, Jan 2021)
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Navid Alemi Koohbanani (PhD, Jan 2021; now Principal Computer Vision Scientist at Novo Nordisk)
- Muhammad Shaban (PhD, Dec 2020; now Machine Learning Scientist at Harvard Medical School, USA)
- Simon Graham (PhD, Oct 2020; now Co-Founder and CTO of Histofy Ltd) Faculty Thesis Prize 2021
- Hadi Saki (Senior Research Fellow 2019-20; now Principal System Engineer Advanced Architecture at Eutelsat Group)
- Talha Qaiser (PhD, Apr 2019; now Senior Principal Data Scientist at Daiichi Sankyo) Faculty Thesis Prize 2019
- Moazam Fraz (Rutherford Postdoc Fellow 2018-19, now Professor at NUST School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)
- Najah Alsubaie (PhD, Jan 2019; now Assistant Professor at the Princess Nourah University, KSA)
- Sajid Javed (Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-18, now Assistant Professor at Khalifa University)
- Anna Lisowska (MPhil student, 2017-18, now Insights Analyst at University of Dundee)
- Tzu-Hsi Song (PhD, Sep 2017; now Research Fellow at Boston Children's Hospital, USA)
- Nicholas Trahearn (PhD, Dec 2016; now Postdoc Fellow at the Institute of Cancer Research London, UK)
- Korsuk Sirinukunwattana (PhD, Mar 2016; now Co-founder and CTO at GTL) Faculty Thesis Prize 2017
- Guannan Li (PhD, Jan 2016; now CEO of a startup in China)
- Violeta Kovacheva (PhD, Dec 2015; now Senior Data Scientist at Arup, UK)
- Samuel Jefferyes (PhD, Jan 2015; now Software Engineer Manager at the CME Group, UK)
- Adnan Khan (PhD, 2014; now Principal AI Architect at Histofy Ltd) Faculty Thesis Prize 2015
- Shan E Ahmed Raza (PhD, Feb 2014; now Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK)
- Suraj Bangalore-Nagaraj (MRes 2011; now Head of Product - Loyalty & Customer Experience at Tesco, UK)
- Nerin George (MSc 2010; now Web Software Developer at the Cademix Institute of Technology, Austria)
- Vinay Kalasannavar (MSc 2010; now Director at Kalasannavar Consulting Services Ltd, UK)
- Khalid Masood (PhD 2010; now Associate Professor at the Lahore Garrison University, Pakistan)
- Irfan Butt (MSc 2009; now Lead Software Engineer at Ejada, KSA) Best Thesis Prize
- Adnan Osmani (MRes 2009; now Engineering Manager at Google)
- Hammad Qureshi (PhD 2009; now Image Analysis Scientist at Cirdan Ltd, UK)
- Zhen Yao (PhD 2007; now Founder at Hangzhou Trailcatcher Creative Ltd, China)