Steven Kerr

Steven Kerr is a Chancellor's Fellow at the Usher Institute within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in health data science, statistics, machine learning, and secure multiparty computation for health data analysis.

Educational background:

• PhD Mathematical Physics, University of Nottingham, 2014
• PhD Economics, University of Edinburgh, 2019

His research integrates vaccine effectiveness, epidemiology, statistical methodology, and health economics with cutting-edge secure computation techniques. A key focus involves developing frameworks for joint analysis of private health datasets without information sharing, addressing critical privacy challenges in collaborative medical research while maintaining data integrity.

Based at the Centre for Medical Informatics, Dr. Kerr actively contributes to advancing health analytics methodologies and is open to PhD supervision, fostering next-generation expertise in this interdisciplinary field.