🏛️ I am a Professor of Machine Learning at the School of Computer Science and the Head of AI Research Engineering at the Centre for Machine Intelligence, University of Sheffield. I am also the Director of the UK Open Multimodal AI Network (UKOMAIN), funded by EPSRC, building on the Meta-learning for Multimodal Data interest group at the Alan Turing Institute.

🖥️ My research focuses on deployment-centric multimodal AI for healthcare and scientific discovery:

• Multimodal AI: Foundation models, generative AI, domain adaptation, and transfer learning.
• Healthcare: Cancer research, brain imaging and cardiac imaging.
• Scientific discovery: Protein engineering, drug discovery and materials discovery.

I lead the development of the open-source software library PyKale, part of the PyTorch ecosystem, enabling accessible machine learning for interdisciplinary research.

🧩 Editorial Service

• Editorial Board Member, Science and AI (Springer Nature), 2026–present
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2022–2025
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2022–2025

🏅 Selected Awards

• Turing Network Development Award
• Amazon Research Award
• NIHR AI in Health and Care Award
• Wellcome Trust Innovator Awards: Digital Technologies

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