Ian Simpson
Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Director UKRI Artificial Intelligence CDT in Biomedical Innovation
- Institute for Adaptive & Neural Computation
- School of Informatics
Contact details
- Email: ian.simpson@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Group Website
- Web: Group GitHub Site
Address
- Street
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School of Informatics
The University of Edinburgh
10 Crichton Street - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AB
Postgraduate teaching
Programming for Biomedical Informatics (INFR11260)
Foundations in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence Research (INFR11262)
Inter-Disciplinary Biomedical Artificial Intelligence Research (INFR11274)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Areas of interest for supervision
I am not currently accepting new students into our research group.
Current PhD students supervised
PhD Students
As primary supervisor:
- Tariro Chatiza
- Sebestyén Kamp
- Maria Dolak
- Hanane Issa
- Stefi Tirkova
- Chaeeun Lee
- Emilia Agasi
- Nuria Fabregas
- Eisa Castignari
As assistant supervisor:
- Juliana Rodriguez Cubillos
- Megan Saathoff
Past PhD students supervised
Graduated PhD and MD Students
- Xin He (2017)
- Maciej Pajak (2018)
- Emilia Wysocka (2019)
- Samuel Heron (2019)
- Alba Crespi (2022)
- Magdalena Navarro (2022)
- Michael Yates (2023) (MD)
- Jamie Campbell (2023) (MD)
- Nicholas Moir (2023)
- Aidan Marnane (2024)
- Antoine Lain (2024)
- Barry Ryan (2025)
Research summary
Developing novel computational, statistical and machine learning methodologies to understand biological systems. In particular the development and function of the brain in relation to neurological diseases.
Current research interests
- Analysis of High-Throughput Data from the Brain - Graph-Based Approaches for the Analysis of Biological Data - Molecular Phylogenetics - Molecular Modelling of Brain DiseaseKnowledge exchange
- Member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland (https://www.youngacademyofscotland.org.uk)
- Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute (2021-)
- Member of the BBSRC Pool of Experts (2021-)
- STEM Ambassador