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Team

The Advanced AI for Multi-modal Spatial Biology DFA will be delivered by an experienced team of academics, with oversight from external advisors and, most importantly for the future, significant input from our students.

Meet the team behind the DFA:

Photo of Professor Paul ChappleProfessor Paul Chapple

Director

 

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Paul is Deputy Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and has extensive experience supporting PhD students across disciplines. A bioscientist by training, his research integrates advanced molecular imaging and multi-omics analysis.

Photo of Professor Greg SlabaughProfessor Greg Slabaugh

Co-Director

 

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Greg is Director of QMUL Digital Environment Research Institute (DERI) and Academic Liaison to The Alan Turing Institute. He is a computer scientist, with extensive industrial experience (Huawei, Siemens, Medicsight) and academic expertise in ML and deep learning for biomedical image analysis.

Photo of Samuel WhiteSamuel White

DFA Acting Manager

 

 

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Sam is the Barts Charity Doctoral Training Programme Manager and Acting Manager for the DFA.

 

 

Photo of Conchi Vera-ValderramaConchi Vera-Valderrama

Programme Officer

 

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Conchi is the Postgraduate Research Programmes Officer within the William Harvey Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry. Conchi provides administrative and operational support for the DFA.

 

 

Photo of Professor Stuart McDonaldProfessor Stuart McDonald

Co-Lead - Spatial Biology Training Lead

 

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Stuart works with multi-omic data including spatial technologies to study the development of premalignant disease into cancer.

No photo shownDr Qianni Zhang

Co-Lead - Artificial Intelligence Training Lead

 

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Qianni is a Senior Lecturer based within School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science.

Photo of Professor Cleo BishopProfessor Cleo Bishop

Lead - Projects Oversight Committee

 

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Cleo is Director of the QMUL Phenotypic Screening Facility which supports interdisciplinary high content imaging, multiplex, multiomics spatial microscopy and phenomics based research at scale. She has >20 years experience in fundamental discovery science leveraging spatial and genome-wide technologies.

Photo of Dr Jun WangDr Jun Wang

Lead - Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

 

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Jun’s research lies in developing and applying bioinformatics and computational approaches to analyse large-scale multimodal data to uncover molecular insights in normal and disease tissue.

Photo of Francesca CiccarelliProfessor Francesca Ciccarelli (QMUL & Crick)

Co-Director

 

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Francesca is Lead of the Centre for Cancer Evolution at Barts Cancer Institute and Co-Lead of the Spatial Biology Hub at QMUL. She has pioneered the use of spatially resolved approaches based on both high-dimensional proteomics and transcriptomics to interrogate cell-cell communications.

Photo of Professor Ginestra BianconiProfessor Ginestra Bianconi (QMUL)

Co-Director

 

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Ginestra is an internationally recognised expert in network science, complex systems and AI, having made foundational contributions to the mathematical modelling of multilayer and higher-order networks, with particular relevance to spatial data integration and systems biology.

Photo of Professor David LeslieProfessor David Leslie (QMUL & Turing)

Co-Lead Delivery of Transparent and Responsible AI

 

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David is the Director of Ethics and Responsible Innovation Research at The Alan Turing Institute and Professor of Ethics, Technology and Society at QMUL. David is the author of the UK Government’s official guidance on the responsible design and implementation of AI systems in the public sector.

Photo of Professor Zion TseProfessor Zion Tse (QMUL)

Computational Skills Training Co-Lead

 

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Zion is a biomedical engineer with expertise in AI-driven imaging, robotics, and medical device innovation, he leads interdisciplinary research at the interface of engineering and life sciences.

Photo of Dr Ahmed SayedDr Ahmed Sayed (QMUL)

Lead for Student Experience

 

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Ahmed’s research expertise is in distributed systems, large-scale ML, cloud computing and computer networks. He is the PI on the EPSRC KUber project.

Photo of Dr Saqib ShamimDr Saqib Shamim (QMUL)

Co-Lead Transferable and Entrepreneurial Skills

 

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Saqi’s research interests include innovation management, digital transformations, dynamic capabilities and strategic alignment.

Photo of Himadri GuptaProfessor Himadri Gupta

Co-Lead for Project Oversight

 

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Himadri is an expert in multiscale synchrotron X-ray imaging of biological tissues. He has over 20 years of experience in developing quantitative techniques to map out spatial nanostructure and nanomechanics of hierarchical biological materials.

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