Dr Phil Lord

I have been a member of the School of Computing at Newcastle since Sept 2005. I am also Dean of Postgraduate Research for the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering.

Dr Huizhi (Elly) Liang

I’m currently working as a Senior Lecturer of the Scalable Computing Research Group. Before joining Newcastle University, I worked as a lecturer of the Department of Computer Science of University of Reading, research fellow at LIP6, Pierre et Marie Curie University and French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Department of Computing and Information Systems of University of Melbourne, and Research School of Computer Science. I did my Ph.D study in Web Intelligence and Data Mining Group, QUT, Australia. I am a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK. 

My research interests include: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Recommender Systems, Personalisation. You can find more detailed information from my personal website. 

Dr Alaa Alahmadi

Alaa Alahmadi is a Lecturer in Computing at the School of Computing, based in the Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems (ICOS) research group. She has also held an honorary position at the University of Manchester since 2021.

She completed her MSc and PhD at the University of Manchester (2016-2021), working on data visualisation across multiple clinical trials (with AstraZeneca) during her MSc, and then devising, developing and evaluating novel ECG monitoring approaches during her PhD. Her research enables the general public for the first time to accurately interpret an electrocardiogram (ECG) and intuitively monitor a life-threatening condition that can be caused by many commonly prescribed medications (clinically known as drug-induced long QT syndrome). She developed novel methods combining explainable artificial intelligence and science-of-perception-based novel data visualisation approaches, collaborating with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Cancer Research UK, and AstraZeneca. 

Her research has been recognised with numerous accolades, including the MIT Innovators Under 35 Award, the IET Healthcare Technology Awards (Highly Commended), and the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee STEM for Britain Awards (only Computer Science finalist). She also won multiple university awards, including the University of Manchester Outstanding Doctoral Paper in Computer Science (2019), Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Computer Science (Runner Up, 2022), and UK-SACB Saudi Excellence Doctoral Research Awards in 2019, 2020 and 2021. She has since undertaken postdoctoral work, securing funding for two research grants, and presented her work through an invited talk at the ISCE 2023 conference in Palm Springs, USA, one of the biggest international annual meetings on computerized electrocardiology, bringing together computer scientists, clinicians, and FDA, supported by top ECG companies, including Philips and GE Healthcare.