Bioinformatics and Health Data science group
People
The Brookeslab includes interdisciplinary expertise in genetics, computer science, biotechnology, mathematics and statistics. The group’s core activities are focussed on Health Data Science, including bioinformatics, statistics, network modelling and machine learning with computer vision. This is supported by extensive experience in full stack web development, software development, implementation and security. Privacy technologies and information governance provide a robust underpinning to our work.
Professor Anthony Brookes
Bioinformatics Group Lead
Dr Spencer Gibson
Research Associate
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons.) Biotechnology (De Montfort)
- Ph.D (University of Nottingham)
Interests
- Development of intuitive metadata standards to capture use conditions associated with bio-resource
- Use of sensitive personal data via appropriate data governance, ethics and safeguards
- Multimedia communication of research.
- The use of consumer GPT LLM systems to mine text information relating to the responsible use of bio resources.
- Applied molecular biology
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Risha Jadeja
Project Manager
Qualifications
- BA(Hons) Business Information & Systems
- ILM 5 Coaching and Mentoring
Interest
- Travelling
- Volunteering
- Spending time with family and friends
Umar Riaz
Research Software Engineer
Qualification
- Master in Advanced Software Engineering (University of Leicester)
- BS(Hons). Computing (University of Gujrat Pakistan)
Interests
- Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
- Open-Source Contributions
- Data Gathering, Visualisation and Discovery
- Trading
- Travel
- Photography
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Gregory Warren
Research Software Engineer
Qualifications
- BSc (Keele)
- MSc (Leicester)
Interests
Graph databases and big data.
Sanna Aizad
Research Software Engineer
Sean Raisi
Research Software Support Officer
Qualifications
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BA Computer Science
- MSc Medical Statistics (University of Leicester)
Interests
- Medical and Healthcare Data,
- Data Analysis and Discovery,
- Statistics
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Yunze Wang (Patrick)
Research Software Support Officer
Qualifications
- BSc at Northwestern Polytechnical University, Computer Science
- MSc at University of Leicester, Advanced Computer Science
Interests
- Full stack development
- Protocol and architecture research
- Embedded and hardware development
Sadegh Abadijou
Research Software Support Officer
Qualifications
- BSc in Computer Software Engineering
- MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Interests
- Model-driven engineering
- Computer vision and Image processing
- Deep learning
- Self-supervised learning
ResearchGate or other info link
Sai Anuhya Nalagandla
Research Software Support Officer
Qualifications
- B Tech (India)
- MSc Advanced Computer Science (University of Leicester)
Interests
- DevOps,
- Software development
- Travelling
Thomas Rowlands
Research Software Support Officer
Qualifications
- BSc (hons) Computer Science – Wolverhampton University
- MSc Advanced Computer Science – Birmingham City University
Interests
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Full Stack Development
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Deepthi Vettipuzha Sukumaran,
Research Software Support Officer
Qualifications
- BTech in Computer Science and Engineering
- MSc Advanced Computer Science (University of Leicester)
Interests
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Full Stack web development
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Data Analysis
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Machine Learning
Collaborator: Dr Tim Beck
Lecturer
Qualifications
- BSc (Leeds)
- MRes (Leeds)
- PhD (Sussex)
Interests
Semantics to connect health-related research big data.