Future Technology Leaders

Exploring funded digital health technology projects addressing healthcare challenges across Belfast and Northern Ireland.

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.

  • Dr Richard Gault

    Computer Vision for Medical and Microscopy Imaging

  • Dr Joanna Ward

    Sensor Surfaces for Diagnostics

  • Conor McClure

    Belfast School of Arts — Graphic Medicine

  • Dr Zoe Bradley

    Novel Diagnostics Systems and Nano Sensors

  • Dr Amir Faroch Payam

    Quantum and Precision Sensing

  • Dr John O’Connor

    Modelling and Image Processing of Patients

  • Dr Rashid Kamal

    Secure AI in Healthcare

  • Dr Jonathan Acheson

    Patient Centric: Models and Materials

  • Dr Matthew Burns

    Community Based Activity Monitoring

  • Dr Min Jing

    Image Analysis in Healthcare

  • Dr Idongesit Ekerete

    Rehab Technology

  • Mary Murphy

    Tech for remission journeys

  • Dr Matias Garcia-Constantino

    Thermal and Air Quality monitoring

  • Dr Aftab Ali

    Trust in digital health

  • Dr Roy Sterritt

    Agentic AI

  • Dr Naveed Ijaz

    Privacy and confidential AI

  • Dr Lajos Csincsik

    Imaging the eye

  • Dr Mehwish Mehmood

    Lightweight AI models

  • Dr Min Jing

    CVD digital diagnostics

  • Dr Usman Hadi

    Emergency Cardiology Drones

  • Dr Cheng Yin

    AI Rehab assessment

  • Dr Jorge Martinez Carracedo

    Ambient Home monitors

  • Dr Kyle Boyd

    Digital Community Safety

  • Dr Fiona Quigley

    Digital Communication for Obesity Management

  • Dr Patrick McAllister

    Digital Mental Health

  • Dr Nikhil Bhalla

    Novel Lateral Flow biomarkers

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