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Anna will be joining the 2025 cohort at the Alan Turing Institute exploring “Improved estimation of global-scale changes in groundwater storage using machine learning”

Congratulations to the following members of the IDA Group who are in the Top 2% cited researchers in the last year (published by Stanford University and Elsevier)!:

• Professor Zidong Wang (career list)
• Professor Kezhi Wang (career list)
• Professor Xiaohui Liu (career list)
• Professor Yongmin Li (career list)
• Dr Weibo Liu (single year list)
• Dr Matloob Khushi (single year list)

Congratulations to Ylenia Rotalinti who co-hosted the SynDAiTE workshop: Synthetic Data for AI Trustworthiness and Evolution, at ECML 2025.

Allan Tucker also gave a keynote on synthetic data and appeared on a panel exploring “Responsible AI”

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.

For more info click here

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:

• Invited to Editorial Board member at Real World Data Science – Royal Statistical Society and American Statistical Society
• Invited to the EPSRC Peer Review College (From Feb 2024).

Alina Miron:

• Elena Abrusci, Hayleigh Bosher, Alina Miron, House of Lords Select Committee on Communications and Digital, Inquiry on Large Language Models, 2023

Xiaohui Liu:

• Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Computer Science – 2023 (Fewer than 100 computer scientists in the world were named as HCR in 2023)
• The Daniel Berg Award, 2023
• Ranked in the world’s top 2% scientists, 2023 (Elsevier/Stanford)
• Ranked 13^th, Top Electronics and Electrical Engineering Scientists in the UK – 2024 (research.com)
• Ranked 25^th, Top Computer Science Scientists in the UK – 2024 (research.com)
• Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award – 2024
• Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United Kingdom Leader Award – 2024

Allan Tucker:

• Invited to the Governance Board of the MHRA airlock

Congratulations everyone!