Thomas Monksمشاهده پروفایل
دانشیار
Thomas Monks is an Associate Professor of Health Data Science at the University of Exeter Medical School with a joint appointment at the Institute of Data Science and AI. His expertise spans computer simulation methods, optimisation, and machine learning in health service delivery, focusing on improving healthcare quality and safety through open science and AI. Current Roles: Associate Professor (joint appointment), Principal Investigator for Generative AI/Healthcare Simulation, and Lead Developer for open-source simulation tools. Prior Roles: Led NIHR CLAHRC Wessex's Data Science group (2014-2019); 10-year researcher with NIHR CLAHRC infrastructure. Research Focus: Healthcare simulation modeling, AI/autonomous agents, reproducibility, digital twins, and open-source software development. His work includes tools like sim-tools for Python/R-based healthcare simulations and frameworks for reproducible discrete-event simulation. Scientific Awards: Turing Fellow (Alan Turing Institute) Honorary Senior Research Fellow (UCL) Collaborations & Projects: Co-Investigator for SCOPE orthopaedic emergency surgery simulation project (EPSRC-funded); founder of GitHub organizations pythonhealthdatascience and TheOpenScienceNerd supporting open science practices.

