Nathan Topping

Nathan Topping is a Lecturer in Data Science at the University of Salford's School of Science, Engineering & Environment. He holds leadership roles including Programme Lead for the DipHE Data Science programme and contributes to MSc teaching in Data Science, AI, and IoT. His affiliations include the Informatics Research Centre.

His research spans:

• AI fairness and bias mitigation
• Medical data mining
• Generative AI applications

with recent work on deep learning for cancer diagnosis. He leads the KTP project (2025-2027) developing AI transcription tools for academic research.

Teaching integrates industry experience with focus on:

• Databases & big data tools
• Statistics & data visualization
• Machine learning applications