Matthew Watson

Dr. Matthew Watson is a Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University, specializing in machine learning applications for healthcare. His research develops explainable ML models for clinical prediction tasks and examines issues of bias and fairness in medical AI systems.

Key research contributions:

• Developing attack-agnostic adversarial detection methods for medical data
• Creating techniques to improve model explanation consistency in EHR applications
• Predicting chemotherapy-induced organ dysfunction across cancer types
• Clinical deterioration prediction in emergency admissions

His collaborations with NHS Trusts focus on creating clinically actionable machine learning tools for patient risk stratification and personalized monitoring.