AI-Powered Digital Innovation
Led by Patrick McAllister
16 December 2026
Future Technology Leaders
Our Future Research Leaders are early-career academics driving innovation across a wide range of digital health technology disciplines, from AI and computer vision to nano-sensors and community health monitoring.
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Dr Richard Gault
Computer Vision for Medical and Microscopy Imaging
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Dr Joanna Ward
Sensor Surfaces for Diagnostics
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Conor McClure
Belfast School of Arts — Graphic Medicine
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Dr Zoe Bradley
Novel Diagnostics Systems and Nano Sensors
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Dr Amir Faroch Payam
Quantum and Precision Sensing
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Dr John O’Connor
Modelling and Image Processing of Patients
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Dr Rashid Kamal
Secure AI in Healthcare
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Dr Jonathan Acheson
Patient Centric: Models and Materials
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Dr Matthew Burns
Community Based Activity Monitoring
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Dr Min Jing
Image Analysis in Healthcare
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Dr Idongesit Ekerete
Rehab Technology
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Mary Murphy
Tech for remission journeys
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Dr Matias Garcia-Constantino
Thermal and Air Quality monitoring
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Dr Aftab Ali
Trust in digital health
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Dr Roy Sterritt
Agentic AI
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Dr Naveed Ijaz
Privacy and confidential AI
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Dr Lajos Csincsik
Imaging the eye
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Dr Mehwish Mehmood
Lightweight AI models
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Dr Min Jing
CVD digital diagnostics
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Dr Usman Hadi
Emergency Cardiology Drones
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Dr Cheng Yin
AI Rehab assessment
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Dr Jorge Martinez Carracedo
Ambient Home monitors
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Dr Kyle Boyd
Digital Community Safety
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Dr Fiona Quigley
Digital Communication for Obesity Management
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Dr Patrick McAllister
Digital Mental Health
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Dr Nikhil Bhalla
Novel Lateral Flow biomarkers
Sandpit Events
A series of twelve Future Technology Leader Sandpits, each led by an emerging research leader, exploring different facets of digital health technology.
