2020 Cohort

Our graduates and their projects from the 2020 cohort.

Dr Leonardo Castorina

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Cohort 2020

Thesis: Towards Efficient and Accessible Protein Design with Machine Learning

Supervisors: Kartic Subr, Chris Wood

Thesis Awarded: 10.06.2025

Socials: linkedin.com/in/leonardo-castorina  

Dr Filippo Corponi

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Cohort 2020

Thesis: Clinically-Interpretable and Large-Scale Machine Learning to Monitor Mood Disorders with Wearables

Supervisors: Stephen Lawrie, Heather Whalley, Antonio Vergari

Thesis Awarded: 07.10.2024

Socials: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filippocmc/ 

Dr Ella Davyson

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Cohort 2020

Thesis: A Multi-Omic Investigation of Major Depressive Disorder and Antidepressant Exposure 

Supervisors: Andrew McIntosh, Riccardo Marioni, Mark Adams

Thesis Awarded: 02.12.2025

 

Dr Justin Engelmann

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Cohort 2020

Thesis: Machine learning for retinal image analysis 

Supervisors: Miguel O. Bernabeu, Amos Storkey

Thesis Awarded: 19.08.2024

Socials: linkedin.com/in/engelmann

Dr Salvatore Esposito

Salvatore Esposito CDT BiomedAI 11-07-25 graduation

Cohort 2020

Thesis: Novel Applications of Signed Distance Fields in 3D Reconstruction of Thin Structures

Supervisors: Arno Onken, Oisin Mac Aodha 

Thesis Awarded: 10.06.2025

Socials: linkedin.com/in/salvatore-esposito95

Dr Rohan Gorantla

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Cohort 2020

Thesis: Machine Learning in Drug Discovery: Advancing Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Predictions

Supervisors: Antonia Mey, Andrea Weisse, Anthony Bradley

Thesis Awarded: 10.06.2025

Socials: linkedin.com/in/rohangorantla

Dr Olivier Labayle Pabet

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Cohort 2020

Thesis: Integrating Functional Genomics and Semi-Parametric Estimation to Identify

Binding Variants Likely Causal for Altering Human Traits

Supervisors: Ava Khamseh, Chris Ponting, Sjoerd Beentjes

Thesis Awarded: 04.03.2025

Socials: linkedin.com/in/olivierlabayle