The IDA was well reperesented at AIME 2025 this year. Visiting student Chiara Pullega presented her poster, Federico Castagna presented his work on the risks of LLMs in healthcare, and Allan Tucker was keynote speaker the XAI workshop.
Congratulations to everyone who presented at the dept PhD colloquium, and in particular to the prize winners Anna Pazola, Sophie Chaveli and Areej Athama 
The IDA group’s founder Professor Xiaohui Liu celebrated 30 years of his annual symposium at IDA 2025 in Konstanz, Germany. He, Stephen Swift and Allan Tucker were awarded the IDA Founder’s Award.
Digital health products, from smartphone apps to AI-enhanced diagnostic devices, are increasingly beneficial for patients and healthcare professionals alike – and the UK is a global pioneer in this sector. However, the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence and medical technologies presents complex regulatory challenges that must be addressed to ensure innovation thrives while safeguarding patients and users.
To tackle this issue, a new Centre of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI) in Transformative Digital Health and AI will be established, with £1 million funding from the UK’s Innovate UK, the Medical Research Council, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, and the Office for Life Sciences.
RADIANT is the interdisciplinary consortium behind this CERSI. Led by Brunel University London and with key expertise provided by The IDA group.
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The Dean’s Prize for Innovation and Impact in Doctoral Research has been awarded to Tasin Islam, who studied for his PhD under the supervision of Professor Yongmin Li and Dr Alina Miron in the Department of Computer Science. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Xiaohui Liu and Kezhi Wang for appearing in the highly cited researchers this year.
The group has had an extremely successful year with grants totalling over £3 million from EC Horizon, EPSRC, Innovate, NERC, & Others. As well as many publications in top class journals the following achievements have been made:
Isabel Sassoon:
Alina Miron:
Xiaohui Liu:
Allan Tucker:
Congratulations everyone!
Congratulations to:
Barbara Draghi for her paper “Bias-aware synthetic data generation: a tailored use case-driven approach” that had been accetped to the “4th Workshop on Bias and Fairness in AI” at the European Conference on Machine Learning 2024.
Barbara Puccio for her paper “Phenotype identification in pseudo time series: exploring trajectories in the ageing process” that has been accepted to the “9th Workshop on Data Science for Social Good” at the European Conference on Machine Learning 2024.
Congratulations to Ben Evans, who successfully defended his thesis entitled “Towards an Automatic Camera Trap Pipeline” this week! Good luck with the post doc at ZSL!
