The Team

Meet our team in the CDT Biomedical AI Data Intelligence Hub

Dr Emma Pead Data Scientist and DIH Lead

Emma Pead is a Senior Data Scientist and heads up the newly created Data Intelligence Hub for the CDT, bringing experience across both academia and industry. Her research has spanned retinal image analysis, clinical data pipelines, AI/ML driven biomarker discovery,  generative AI for synthetic pathology modelling and change detection. She has also developed novel methods for quantifying vascular morphology to predict a range of clinical outcomes. In industry, Emma has worked in a software as a medical device start up as Product Manager, translating research into products, establishing best practices in data science and software development, and leading company-wide compliance for Class II medical devices.

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Dr Mat Bieniek

Mateusz (Mat) Bieniek is a Scientific Software Developer with experience across academia and industry, specialising in computational chemistry. He holds a PhD in biophysics and has experience in free energy calculations, force field parameterisation, drug discovery and applying machine learning in the life sciences. 

Mat Bieniek

Dr Vishal Panda

Vishal is a Data Scientist with experience across industry and academia, developing end-to-end machine learning and AI pipelines for healthcare and biomedical applications that transform complex data into interpretable, scalable, and impactful solutions driving research and innovation.

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Piyush Borole

Piyush Borole is a Data Scientist at the Data Intelligence Hub. His research focuses on biomedical AI, with an emphasis on developing accurate and transparent solutions.

Piyush Borole