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

ajb97@leicester.ac.uk  


Spencer GibsonDr 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

Information


Risha Jadeja

Project Manager

Qualifications

  • BA(Hons) Business Information & Systems
  • ILM 5 Coaching and Mentoring

Interest

  • Travelling
  • Volunteering
  • Spending time with family and friends

rj96@leicester.ac.uk


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

Information


Gregory Warren

Research Software Engineer

Qualifications

  • BSc (Keele)
  • MSc (Leicester)

Interests

Graph databases and big data.

gsw10@leicester.ac.uk


Sanna Aizad

Research Software Engineer

sa1046@leicester.ac.uk 


Sean Raisi

Research Software Support Officer

Qualifications

  • BA Computer Science

  • MSc Medical Statistics (University of Leicester)

Interests

  • Medical and Healthcare Data,
  • Data Analysis and Discovery,
  • Statistics

Information


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

yw554@leicester.ac.uk


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

san31@leicester.ac.uk


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

Information

tsr15@leicester.ac.uk


Deepthi Vettipuzha Sukumaran,

Research Software Support Officer

Qualifications

  • BTech in Computer Science and Engineering
  • MSc Advanced Computer Science (University of Leicester)

Interests

  • Full Stack web development

  • Data Analysis

  • Machine Learning

dvs6@leicester.ac.uk


Collaborator: Dr Tim Beck

Lecturer

Qualifications

  • BSc (Leeds)
  • MRes (Leeds)
  • PhD (Sussex)

Interests

Semantics to connect health-related research big data.

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