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Christopher Nugent is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Head of the School of Computing at Ulster University. He received his BEng in Electronic Systems and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Ulster University. Since joining in 1999, he has held roles including Research Fellow, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Reader before becoming a Professor in 2008.
- Biomedical Engineering
- Smart Environments
- Human Activity Recognition
His research focuses on ambient assisted living through smart environments, with applications in mobile-based reminding solutions, behavior modeling, and technology adoption modeling. Recent work includes formal verification in stochastic environments, attention-based neural networks, and few-shot learning for activity recognition.
His 2025 publications highlight trends in sensor-based human activity recognition, data fusion, and transformer models for biomedical applications. Awards include the Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship (2016) and multiple best paper awards (2020-2022).
- Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship (2016)
- Best Research Paper Award - Ulster University (2022)
- CCF TPCI Best Paper Award (2021)
- Digital Innovation of the Year (2020)
- Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence (2015)
- Outstanding Research Partnership of the Year (2019)
As Director of the Pervasive Computing Research Centre and co-Principal Investigator of the Connected Health Innovation Centre, he leads projects funded by national and international bodies, including the iMPAKT App: Second Generation (2023-2025) and Adaptive Modeling Method for Deep Belief Rule Base (2025-2028).
