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
Rawan Albusayli
PhD Student
Arwa Alrubaian
PhD Student
Ruqayya Awan
Research Fellow
Ayesha Azam
PhD Student
Rob Jewsbury
PhD Student
Manahil Raza
MRes Student
Adam Shephard
Research Fellow
Noorul Wahab
Research Fellow
Mostafa Jahanifar
Research Fellow
PhD Student
PhD Student
Yijie ZhuLink opens in a new window
PhD Student
Researcher Assistant
Research Fellow
Jiaqi LvLink opens in a new window
PhD Student
Esha NasirLink opens in a new window
PhD Student
Admin and IT team
Karen Thomas
Senior Project Manager
TIA Centre Coordinator
Systems Administrator
Systems Administrator
Honorary Associates
Mohsin Bilal
Honorary Associate, TIA
Associate Professor, AI and Data Science,
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
Simon Graham
Honorary Associate, TIA
CTO, Histofy Ltd
Honorary Research Fellow, TIA
Diagnostic Computer Vision Leader, Precision Medicine at AstraZeneca, UK
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)
- 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)
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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 Postdoc Fellow at Imperial College London, UK) 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)