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Digital Health and Biomedical Engineering

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Our group brings together engineers and computer scientists to discover new approaches to prevent, diagnose and manage health and medical conditions. Our research is end-to-end across digital health from sensors and meditech through to data science, AI and decision systems.

Part of Electronics and computer science

About

Our interdisciplinary research addresses a wide range of topics from fundamental research through to translational patient-centred research and innovation. Examples include:

  • sensors and biosensors
  • control system design and rehabilitation technologies
  • lab-on-a-chip and microfluidics
  • biomedical signal processing and machine learning
  • wearable technology for healthcare
  • digital behavioural interventions
  • autonomous disease management
  • AI and health
  • data trusts for healthcare
  • consent and privacy management

 

Facilities

Researchers can make use of our dedicated multi-function biocontainment lab, the Centre for Hybrid Biodevices.

Our dedicated engineers and technicians respond to both research and industrial needs within our Nanofabrication cleanrooms. 

People, projects and publications

People

Dr Rujie Sun

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Medical Robotics (Micro/Nano Robotics, Soft Robotics)
  • Flexible Electronics
  • Wearable Devices

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Rujie

Email: Rujie.Sun@soton.ac.uk

Dr Samuel Senior

Research Engineer
Connect with Samuel

Email: S.Senior@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Shelly Vishwakarma PhD

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Designing and developing hardware and software frameworks for contextual sensing applications
  • Concurrent physical activity recognition and indoor localization
Connect with Shelly

Email: S.Vishwakarma@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 26872-Teams number

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Dr Shiyang Tang PhD, BEng, FHEA, CEng, MRSC, MIET

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Liquid metal
  • Intelligent microfluidics
  • Biosensors

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Shiyang

Email: Shiyang.Tang@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8839

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Dr Stefano Modafferi

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • Risk modelling
  • Data-driven business models
  • Enterprise Architectures

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Stefano

Email: S.D.Modafferi@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8866

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Dr Stephen Phillips

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • Cyber-security
  • Risk management
  • Secure systems
Connect with Stephen

Email: S.C.Phillips@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Steve Taylor

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • risk management
  • cybersecurity
  • trust
Connect with Steve

Email: S.J.Taylor@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8866

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Dr Zehor Belkhatir

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Design of estimation and control techniques, with convergence guarantees, for finite and infinite-dimensional systems
  • Robust predictive modelling and analysis of high-dimensional data (e.g., network, time-series, imaging)
  • The cross-over between artificial intelligence and mathematics for interpretable and robust computational algorithmic designs

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Zehor

Email: Z.Belkhatir@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 2380591680

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