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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
Assistant Professor
Computer Science

David Snead
Director (PathLAKE CoE)
UHCW NHS Trust

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

DCS

Bashayer Abdallah

PhD Student

Agrima Agarwal

PhD Student

DCS

Arwa Alrubaian
PhD Student

DCS

Ethar Al-Zaid

PhD Student

Ruqayya Awan

Ruqayya Awan
Research Fellow

Mark Eastwood
Research Fellow

Behnaz Elhaminia

Research Fellow

Gozde Gunesli Noyan

Gozde Gunesli Noyan
PhD Student

Mostafa Jahanifar
Research Fellow

Rob Jewsbury

Rob Jewsbury
PhD Student

DCS

Piotr Keller

PhD Student

Manahil Raza

Manahil Raza
MRes Student

Adam Shephard
Research Fellow

Noorul Wahab
Research Fellow

Ruoyu Wang
PhD Student

Made Wibawa
PhD Student

george

George Wright
PhD Student

kesi

Kesi Xu
PhD Student

Admin and IT team

Karen Thomas
Senior Project Manager

DCS

Katie Martin

TIA Centre Coordinator

DCS

Skiros Habib

Systems Administrator

Salinder (Simon) Tandi

Systems Administrator

Honorary Associates

Mohsin Bilal

Mohsin Bilal
Honorary Associate, TIA

Associate Professor, AI and Data Science,

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan

Simon Graham

Simon Graham
Honorary Associate, TIA

CTO, Histofy Ltd

Talha Qaiser

Honorary Research Fellow, TIA

Senior Principal Data Scientist at Daiichi Sankyo

 

 

Previous Visiting Academics

  • Zhao Chen, Donghua University, 2024
  • 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)
  • Professor Louise Jones, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary, University of London
  • Dr 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

  • Dang Vu (PhD 2024; now AI Scientist at Histofy) Faculty Thesis Prize 2024
  • Hammam Alghamdi (PhD 2024; now The University of Jeddah)
  • Muhammad Dawood (PhD 2024; now Machine Learning Researcher at Oxford University)
  • Amina Asif (Postdoc fellow 2022-24; now Assistant Professor at The University of Warwick)
  • Ammar Khairi
  • Rawan Albusayli (PhD 2023)
  • Ayesha Azam (now at UHCW)
  • John Pocock (PhD 2023; now AI Engineer at Histofy)
  • Saad Bashir (PhD 2023; now Machine Learning Specialist at GTL)
  • Srijay Deshpande (PhD 2023; now AI/ML Researcher at IIT-Bombay)
  • Jev Gamper (PhD 2022)
  • 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)
  • Navid Alemi Koohbanani (PhD, Jan 2021; now at PAIGE.ai)
  • Muhammad Shaban (PhD, Dec 2020; now Postdoc Fellow at the Harvard Medical School, USA)
  • Simon Graham (PhD, Oct 2020; now Data Scientist at the University of Warwick, UK) Faculty Thesis Prize 2021
  • Dr Hadi Saki (Senior Research Fellow 2019-20; now at Digital Catapult London, UK)
  • Talha Qaiser (PhD, Apr 2019; now

    Senior Principal Data Scientist at Daiichi Sankyo) Faculty Thesis Prize 2019

  • Dr Moazam Fraz (Rutherford Postdoc Fellow 2018-19)
  • Najah Alsubaie (PhD, Jan 2019; now Assistant Professor at the Princess Nourah University, KSA)
  • Dr Sajid Javed (Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-18)
  • Anna Lisowska (MPhil student, 2017-18)
  • Tzu-Hsi Song (PhD, Sep 2017; now Postdoc Fellow at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
  • Nicholas Trahearn (PhD, Dec 2016; now Postdoc Fellow at the Institute of Cancer Research London, UK)
  • Korsuk Sirinukunwattana (PhD, Mar 2016; now at the Uni of Oxford, UK) Faculty Thesis Prize 2017
  • Guannan Li (PhD, Jan 2016; now CEO of a startup in China)
  • Violeta Kovacheva (PhD, Dec 2015; now at Nimbus Maps, UK)
  • Samuel Jefferyes (PhD, Jan 2015; now Development Lead at the CME Group, UK)
  • Adnan Khan (PhD, 2014; formerly at the Institute of Cancer Research London, UK) Faculty Thesis Prize 2015
  • Shan-e-Ahmed Raza (PhD, Feb 2014; now Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick, UK)
  • PC Suraj Bangalore-Nagaraj (MRes 2011; now Senior Product Leader at BoroughBox, 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 General Manager at Hangzhou Trailcatcher Creative Ltd, China)