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?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
UG4, MInf, MSc & PhD students
Current PhD students supervised
- Aidan Marnane - PhD Student (CDT in Data Science)
- Antoine Lain - PhD Student (School of Informatics)
- Barry Ryan - PhD Student (CDT in Biomedical AI)
- Tariro Chatiza - PhD Student (Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in Translational Neuroscience)
- Sebestyén Kamp - PhD Student (CDT in Biomedical AI - with Giovanni Stracquadanio)
- Maria Dolak - PhD Student (CDT in Biomedical AI)
- Hanane Issa - PhD Student (HDR UK-Turing Wellcome PhD Programme in Health Data Science)
- Juliana Rodriguez Cubillos - PhD Student (EASTBIO DTP) with Andrew Millar and Jason Swedlow
- Stefi Tirkova - Project Student (CDT in Biomedical AI)
- Chaeeun Lee - Project Student (CDT in Biomedical AI)
- Monishka Aswani - Project Student (MSc in Data Science, Informatics)
Past PhD students supervised
- Xin He (2017)
- Maciej Pajak (2018)
- Emilia Wysocka (2019)
- Samuel Heron (2019)
- Alba Crespi (2022)
- Magdalena Navarro (2022)
- Michael Yates (2023)
- Jamie Campbell (2023)
- Nicholas Moir (2024)
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