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Professor Ian Simpson is a faculty member at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics, holding the Chair in Biomedical Informatics and serving as Director of the UKRI Artificial Intelligence CDT in Biomedical Innovation. He teaches courses including Foundations in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence Research and supervises PhD students across multiple programs.
- Current Supervision: Aidan Marnane, Antoine Lain, Barry Ryan, Tariro Chatiza, Sebestyén Kamp, Maria Dolak, Hanane Issa, Juliana Rodriguez Cubillos
- Past Supervision: Xin He (2017), Maciej Pajak (2018), Emilia Wysocka (2019), Samuel Heron (2019), Alba Crespi (2022), Magdalena Navarro (2022), Michael Yates (2023), Jamie Campbell (2023), Nicholas Moir (2024)
Research Focus: Developing computational and machine learning methodologies for biological systems analysis, particularly brain development and neurological diseases. Key interests include high-throughput brain data analysis, graph-based biological modeling, molecular phylogenetics, and brain disease molecular modeling.
Publication Trends: Recent work emphasizes multi-omic data integration through graph neural networks (MOGDx), batch correction challenges in breast cancer datasets, and longitudinal stratification approaches for Parkinson's disease. His articles demonstrate applications of AI in heterogeneous disease diagnosis while preserving biological validity.
Scientific Recognition:
- Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute (2021-)
- Member of RSE Young Academy of Scotland
- BBSRC Pool of Experts member (2021-)
- STEM Ambassador
Laboratory Affiliations: Leads the Biomedical Informatics group within the Institute for Adaptive & Neural Computation, with affiliations to Edinburgh Neuroscience, Patrick Wild Centre, and the Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain.
