Artificial intelligence: Let’s Keep it Real!

We live in an era of pervasive sensors capturing new forms of data about our daily lives, behaviour, and health. In this talk, I will explore how various types of pervasive sensors, such as mobile phones, smart watches, and even your keyboard, may be predictive of behaviour related to health. We are just beginning to understand how such data can be modelled to make predictions on various health-related behaviours. The goal is to enable personalised healthcare in the long run while emphasizing the importance of coming up with novel methods to ensure privacy.

Vehicle technologies can provide an incredible wealth of information, some of which we could use to guide driver behaviour, helping to make them safer, more efficient drivers. But what types of information would be most useful? How should we present this information? Just because we can, does that really mean we should? Or should we simply wait for automated vehicles to solve all of our problems? This talk will cover various issues, from freedom of behavioural choice, distraction and workload, and the cost and availability of technology, hopefully sparking some friendly debate along the way.

Identifying genes presenting variation has been a challenging task due to the structural and genomic properties between gene-disease and genes that have never been related to disease.
The field of machine learning aims to develop algorithms that improve with the experience to interpret large and complex data sets. Therefore, we applied machine learning method to characterise gene properties that have acted on the causal and susceptibility alleles underlying human genetic disorders.

Over 40 public engagement and outreach talks, workshops and demonstrations throughout the UK including Winchester and Brighton Science Festivals, the Big Bang Birmingham, BBC Stargazing Live Portsmouth and work with Out of this World Learning.

Founding member of Bright Club Southampton and accidental performer at first ever event!

Project Manager of the RCUK-funded School-University Partnership Initiative (SUPI) public engagement project Talk to US! hosted by the University of Southampton Education School.