George Wright
Biography
George Wright is a third-year (2022-) PhD student in Computer Science at the Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre, University of Warwick, supervised by Fayyaz MinhasLink opens in a new window. His research interests are in machine learning and its practical applications to medicine such as Computational Pathology.
Following a career in Civil Engineering, George received his MSc degree with the award for best MSc Dissertation in Computer Science from the University of Warwick in 2022.
Patents
GB2416405.5 - The University of Warwick (Filed: 7 November 2024)
Publications
George Wright, Paul Brighton, Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Joe Thornton, Joanne Muter, Jan Brosens, and Fayyaz Minhas. ASTER: Automated Segmentation of Endometrial Histology Images for Reproductive Health Assessment. In Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, pages 43–57, Cham, 2026. Springer Nature Switzerland. (Best Paper - Runner Up)
Wright, George, Slawomir Michniewski, Eleanor Jameson and Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas. “Machine Learning to Hunt for Phage Proteins to Catch Klebsiella,” in proc. Machine Learning in Drug Discovery (MLDD) Workshop, in Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations (Virtual), April 29, 2022. https://openreview.net/forum?id=WjqRD8uRkXt.Link opens in a new window
Preprints
George Wright, Slawomir Michniewski, Eleanor Jameson, Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas. “DepoRanker: A Web Tool to predict Klebsiella Depolymerases using Machine Learning” arXiv, January 27, 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16405.
Awards
MIUA 2025 Best Paper Award (Runner-up) - Frontiers in Computational Pathology Special Session
WPCCS 2024 Best in Session - Machine Learning Session - Machine Learning for Histological Assessment of Pregnancy Loss Risk
WPCCS 2023 Best in Session - Machine Learning (Problem Exploration) Session - Machine Learning for Histopathology Images
Best MSc Dissertation in Computer Science 2022 -
Teaching
- CS909/CS429Link opens in a new window Data Mining (22/23, 23/24, 24/25)
- CS917 Foundations of Computing (23/24, 24/25)
- CS146 Discrete Mathematics and its Applications 1 (24/25)
- CS933/CS413 Image and Video Analysis (23/24)
- Guest Lecturer
- CS908Link opens in a new window Research Methods - Introduction to Latex (24/25)
- Lab Sessions
Contact
Room CS 3.18Link opens in a new window
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL