Institute for Analytics and Data Science

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World-class data experts

We are a multi and interdisciplinary Institute, bringing together expertise in analytics and data science from across our University.

Our academics and researchers are leading the way internationally in advanced analytics and data science. We're shaping new thinking, accelerating discovery and nurturing bright ideas to improve lives.

Our experts

Core Institute members

Professor Haris Mouratidis

Director of IADS

Professor School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Security and privacy requirements engineering, cybersecurity risk prediction and management, cybersecurity threat intelligence, privacy by design, data security and privacy, internet of things (iot), 5g/6g and cloud computing security.

Dr Marta Fernandez De Arroyabe Arranz

Deputy Director of IADS

EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE), University of Essex

Research interests: Innovation, Digitalisation & Cybersecurity, Environmental Management, and Entrepreneurship.

Dr Spyros Samothrakis

Chief Scientific Adviser for the county of Essex

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Field of study: Reinforcement learning, machine learning, neural networks, role playing games.

Research Fellow (IADS)

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), University of Essex

Research interests: Machine learning, energy-efficient machine learning, trustworthy AI, tinyML, federated learning, kernel methods, signal processing, FPGAs, numerical linear algebra, the mathematical and computational foundation of energy-efficient machine learning, accuracy and stability analysis of machine learning according to dynamically varying environments, and incorporating numerical linear algebra properties into machine learning frameworks.

Research Fellow (IADS)

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Cybersecurity.

Dr Yuchen Zhang

KTP Associate

Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex

David Barragan Alcantar

Postgraduate Research Student

Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex

Postgraduate Research Student

Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex

Laila Alqahtani

Postgraduate Research Student

Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex

Postgraduate Research Student

Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex

Rehab Hamdi

Postgraduate Research Student

Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex

Postgraduate Research Student

Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex

Dr Khaoula Hidawi

Senior Research Officer

Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex

Institute Administrator

Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex

Alumni

Professor Maria Fasli - Founding Director of IADS.
Dr Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill - biological machine learning, computational palaeobiology, quantifying evolutionary convergence.
Dr Ana Matran-Fernandez - Brain-Computer Interfaces, machine learning applied to biomedical signals, Event-Related Potentials (ERPS), memory, decision-making, algorithmic fairness, neural engineering.
Dr Akitaka Matsuo - computational analysis of political texts, scaling of survey responses and political behaviour, online survey experiments.
Dr Sefki Kolozali - internet of things, machine learning, semantic web, signal processing, time series analysis, internet of things in healthcare.
Dr Haider Raza - big data and analytics, Brain-Computer Interfaces, deep learning, transfer learning, non-stationary learning and domain adaptation, artificial intelligence and machine learning, EEG and MEG signal processing, AI in decision making for healthcare.
Dr Lina Barakat - Decision making under uncertainty, Service-oriented systems, Optimisation algorithms, Trust and reputation mechanisms, Incentive engineering, Machine learning, Multi-agent Systems, Provenance of data and Semantic modelling.
Dr Kitty Kioskli - Cybersecurity in healthcare, e-health, behaviour change, psychosocial and human factors in critical infrastructures, as well as cognitive and psychological assessment and interventions.
Dr Alejandro Quiroz Florez - Former Chief Scientific Adviser for the county of Essex.
Dr Annalivia Polselli - Econometric methods for panel data models, jackknife method, machine learning, labour and gender economics.
Damian Machlanski - Former Postgraduate Research Student.
Charmin Pramodya - KTP Associate
Nikilkumar Patel - KTP Associate

Visiting researchers

Professor David García Rosado, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Dr Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Dr Shitharth Selvarajan, Kebri Dehar University, Ethiopia
Professor Antonio Santos-Olmo Parra, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Professor Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Dr Elton Sbruzzi, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil
Damiano Duranti, University of Trento, Italy
Samara Souza, Federal University of Pará, Brazil

Honorary appointments

Professor Stephen Kavanagh QPM DL, Executive Director of Policing, Interpol.le

Bioinformatics and biomedical scientists

Professor Alex Dumbrell - genomic and transcriptomic microbial deep sequencing data and ecoinformatics.
Dr Antonio Marco - genomics and bioinformatics.
Professor Terry McGenity - genomic and transcriptomic microbial deep sequencing data.
Dr Metodi Metodiev - proteomics - protein expression and mapping.
Professor Christine Raines - metabolic pathways and mapping.
Professor Leo Schalkwyk - epigenomics and gene-environment interaction in mouse and human, bioinformatic data integration.
Dr Benjamin Skinner - R for life sciences.
Professor Graham Underwood - environmental and microbial data sets.
Dr Vlad Teif - Modelling gene regulation, Cancer epigenetics, Stem cell differentiation, Nucleosome positioning, Transcription factor binding, Liquid biopsies based on cell-free DNA, Augmented reality tools for education and science outreach

Computer and electronic engineering scientists

Dr Renato Amorim - machine learning, exploratory data analysis
Dr Zulfiqar Ali - adaptive and autonomic systems, digital speech processing, machine learning applied to biomedical signals, privacy protection, real-time predictive analytics, audio forensics/authentication, data analytics
Dr Javier Andreu-Perez - AI and machine learning
Dr Hossein Anisi - Internet of Things, wireless sensor and actuator networks, sensor networks applications, green and energy-efficient data communication, mobile ad hoc networks, wireless heterogeneous networks, opportunistic networks, wireless body area networks, intelligent transportation systems
Dr Michael Barros - AI and engineering in medicine
Dr Anirban Chowdhury - brain-computer interfaces, assistive technology, neurorehabilitation, human-robot co-operation, autonomous mobile robots
Professor Luca Citi - machine learning, learning from biological signals and data (EEG, etc)
Dr Ian Daly - Brain-computer interfacing, machine learning
Dr Faiyaz Doctor - AI in computer vision
Dr Shoaib Ehsan - computer vision, robotics, embedded systems, AI
Dr Michael Fairbank - neural networks, adaptive dynamic programming, game artificial intelligence, financial forecasting.
Professor Maria Fasli - agent-based modelling, simulation, analysis of structured/unstructured data, machine learning, adaptation, semantic information extraction, ontologies, recommendation technologies.
Professor John Gan - machine learning for data modelling and analysis, dimensionality reduction and feature selection in high-dimensional data space.
Professor Hani Hagras - explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), data science
Dr Sebastian Halder - brain computer interfaces
Professor Huosheng Hu - intelligent systems and autonomous mobile robots, networked robots and network enable systems/devices, smart sensors, actuators and mechatronics, sensor integration and data fusion algorithms, tele-rehabilitation, tele-care, tele-health, intelligent wheelchairs, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic and neural networks in robotics, pervasive computing, mobile computing, eLearning, distributed computer architecture and parallel processing, AI and robotics.
Dr Delaram Jarchi - AI and machine learning
Dr Michael Kampouridis - applications of machine learning to finance
Dr Panagiotis Kanellopoulos - algorithmic game theory, algorithmic mechanism design, design and analysis of algorithms, reinforcement learning
Dr Maria Kyropoulou - algorithm game theory, design and analysis of algorithms, and approximation algorithms
Dr Junhua LI - machine learning and artificial intelligence (developing novel algorithms for classification and recognition; detecting brain diseases based on neuroimaging data; developing systems of monitoring human health)
Dr Zilong Liu - machine learning for communication systems
Professor Klaus McDonald-Maier - embedded systems and system-on-chip design, cybersecurity and advanced computer architectures, AI and data analytics
Professor Leila Musavian - machine learning for communication
Dr Mays AL-Naday - cyber security
Professor Dimitri Ognibene -AI
Dr Serafeim Perdikis - brain computer interfaces, machine learning
Professor Riccardo Poli - machine vision, image and signal processing, AI
Professor Francisco Sepulveda - brain computer interfaces, intelligent systems (both artificial and natural)
Dr Ravi Shekhar - natural language processing, cross-lingual representation, language and vision interaction, and social media analysis
Dr Amit Singh - embedded AI
Professor Nikolaos Thomos - machine learning for communication
Professor Edward Tsang - applied AI, constraint satisfaction, computational finance and economics, agent-based simulations
Dr Morteza Varasteh - machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning
Professor Kun Yang - AI for communications
Professor Stuart Walker - large scale (4/8k) video data compression and streaming, self-service infrastructure containers for data intensive applications, hypercube-based code generation strategies for secure communications
Professor Kun Yang - wireless networks, future internet architecture, network virtualization, cloud networking and applications
Dr Xinruo Zhang - machine learning for wireless communications

Economists, finance and business experts

Dr Maged Ali - big data technologies and methodologies.
Professor Carlos Carrillo-Tudela - macroeconomics, computational/quantitative methods, labour economics.
Professor Thomas Cornelison - microeconometrics, labour economics, family and health economics.
Professor Jerry Coakley - asset pricing, M&As, international finance, behavioural finance.
Professor Marcus Chambers - continuous time dynamic models, commodity price analysis, time series econometrics.
Professor Mehmet Demirbag - big data and firm performance.
Professor Marco Francesconi - microeconometrics, labour economics, economics of gender.
Professor Claudia Girardone - international banking, bank strategy and risk.
Dr Abhimanyu Gupta - econometric theory, spatial econometrics, applied econometrics, statistical theory.
Dr Lingqing Jiang - microeconometrics, sports economics.
Dr Shin Kanaya - econometric methods.
Professor Neil Kellard - high frequency financial data, development and finance, commodity pricing and food security.
Dr Atika Kemal - digital innovation and management; mobile banking for financial inclusion; ICTs and socio-organisational change; digital technologies and socio-economic development; digital economies, digital payment innovation in social cash programmes; digital identities for inclusion; data governance; e-Government; e-Health
Dr Elif Kubilay - microeconometrics , development economics.
Dr Abhisek Kuanr - consumer behaviour, anti-consumption, influencer marketing, body image, AI & chatbots, wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Professor Niraj Kumar - big data management.
Professor Caleb Kwong - machine learning.
Dr Lukas Mayr - macroeconomics, computational/quantitative methods, public economics.
Professor Simon Price - data analysis: cross sectional, panel and qualitative data methods.
Dr Nick Reynolds - microeconometrics, health economics.
Professor Ileana Steccolini - algorithms and data.
Dr Neslihan Sarkaya - econometric methods.
Dr Francesca Salvatti - microeconometrics, labour economics, health economics.
Professor Robert Taylor - time series econometrics, financial econometrics, non-stationary time series analysis, bootstrap methods.
Dr Sahar Validi - supply chain analytics, operational research, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Intelligent Decision Support Systems, AI and net zero.
Dr Yikai Wang - macroeconomics, computational/quantitative methods, monetary and public economics.
Dr Xiaoyu Xia - microeconometrics, labour economics.
Dr David Zentler-Munro - macroeconomics, computational/quantitative methods, labour economics.

Digital humanities experts

Dounia Bissar - new technologies for learning and teaching.
Dr Antonio Da Silva - AI and language learning/teaching.
Professor Timo Jütten - philosophical foundations of human rights (the relationship between human dignity and human rights, mental capacity and human rights, human rights and big data).
Ignazia Posadinu – technology and language learning, computer aided translation and interpreting.
Dr Laetitia Vedrenne - technology-enhanced language learning.

Legal, ethics and human rights experts

Dr Alexandros Antoniou - communications law, intellectual property law and asset management, cyber-obscenity, media ethics and media regulation.
Dr Belma Bulut Sahin - shipping technology law, autonomous ships, maritime cyber security.
Dr Antonio Coco - international law applicable to information and communication technologies, and in cyberspace.
Dr Andrea Fejos - FinTech.
Professor Geoff Gilbert - legal consequences of mass forced displacement and how data can help respond to the legal challenges raised by the scale of the movement.
Dr Audrey Guinchard - cybercrime, data protection and related human rights issues.
Professor Paul Hunt - international human rights (especially economic, social and cultural rights), the right to development.
Professor Stavroula Karapapa - legal challenges of AI, big data and blockchain technology.
Professor Theodore Konstadinides - digital justice.
Dr Esin Küçük - use of AI in migration management.
Dr Marios Koutsias - privacy and data protection.
Professor Noam Lubell - regulating the use of emerging technologies by law enforcement and the military, cyber-war.
Professor Lorna McGregor - relationship of big data with human rights and access to justice.
Professor Ahmed Shaheed - human rights and emerging technologies.
Professor Maurice Sunkin - how judicial review and other redress mechanisms are used, by whom, in what matters, against which public bodies and with what effects.
Professor Christopher Willett - smart tech.
Professor Lorna Woods - data protection and privacy (as part of communications/internet law).

Statisticians and mathematicians

Dr Chris Antonopoulos – complex networks, complex systems, chaos theory, dynamical systems, computational neuroscience.
Dr Joseph Bailey - mathematical biology/ecology, individual and group movement, random walk theory, movement and time-series data analysis, mathematical education.
Dr Yanchun Bao – longitudinal data analysis; survival analysis; mendelian randomization; causal method (instrumental variable method, structural mean model); covariance modelling, machine learning.
Professor Edward Codling – animal movement and dispersal; random walks and diffusion; analysis of movement data; collective behaviour; human crowd behaviour; animal social network analysis; fisheries modelling, assessment, and management; modelling population dynamics.
Dr Wenxing Guo - statistical machine learning.
Dr Stella Hadjiantoni - numerical methods for the development of recursive regularisation and machine learning algorithms, data science.
Dr Junlei Hu - optimal robust insurance; actuarial and financial modeling and optimisation.
Dr Peng Liu - teaches: survival analysis (ma216); capstone project: data science and analytics (ma838); advanced capstone project: actuarial science, data science or mathematics (ma930).
Dr Jianya Lu - applied probability, financial mathematics.
Dr Felipe Maldonado - supply chain & logistics - machine learning approach, operational research.
Dr Alexei Vernitski - machine learning in mathematics; reinforcement learning applied to knot theory.
Professor Spyridon Vrontos - actuarial and financial modelling, asset-liability management, evaluation of funds performance, predictability, risk management.
Professor Matthew Woollard - research integrity (replication/validation) of big data, curation and access to large-scale datasets for supporting research, ethical issues relating to the use and access to these data.
Dr Jackie Wong Siaw Tze - machine learning in actuarial science.
Dr Xinan Yang - dynamic programming, operational research.

Human behaviour experts

Dr Alasdair Clarke - visual perception, search, and decision making.
Dr Geoff Cole - cognitive neuropsychology, visual cognition, comparative psychology, colour vision
Dr Tom Foulsham - visual attention, social attention, eye movements, real and virtual interactions.
Dr Helge Gillmeister - interest in machine learning algorithms as applied to EEG data pattern analysis.
Dr Anna Hughes - visual search, visual camouflage and mimicry, cognitive modelling.
Dr Megan Klabunde - machine learning.
Dr Marlene Poncet - object recognition, visual neuroscience, numerosity, perception, EEG

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