Moi Hoon Yap

Professor Moi Hoon Yap is a Professor of Image and Vision Computing and Lead of Human-Centred Computing at The Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on computer vision, deep learning, and medical image analysis, particularly in early cancer detection and diabetic foot ulcer tools. She leads projects funded by The Royal Society, EU, EPSRC, Innovate UK, and industry partners. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computers and Programs in Biomedicine and has developed datasets and grand challenges for reproducible research, such as the DFU-2021 challenge. Her work includes facial analysis, gesture interpretation, and human behavior quantification.

• Key Projects: FAST Healthcare NetworksPlus Award (2020-2021), Royal Society PhD Studentship (2018-2022), FootSnap Cloud Infrastructure (2019-2021).
• Awards: Royal Society Industry Fellowship, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network Grant.
• Research Interests: Medical imaging, facial/gesture analysis, human behavior analysis, dataset creation, and sustainable software development.

Professor Yap supervises PhD students and teaches Data Analytics, Deep Learning, and related courses. She is actively involved in international collaborations to advance biomedical data sharing and federated learning mechanisms.