Prof. David Clifton
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Biography
David Clifton is Professor of Clinical Machine Learning, in the Department of Engineering Science of the University of Oxford. He is a Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and leads the Computational Health Informatics (CHI) Laboratory, which focuses on creating healthcare interventions based on AI. His research focuses on the development of machine learning for healthcare technologies. Prof. Clifton's research has been awarded 21 scholarships and prizes, including a Grand Challenge award from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, which is a personal award that provides long-term strategic support for "future leaders in healthcare". In 2018, his lab of 27 researchers opened a second site in China, with support from the Chinese government, and in 2019 will open the Wellcome Trust's first "Flagship Centre", which aims to improve hospital care in resource-constrained settings from its base in Vietnam. He is the AI Research Director of Sensyne Health, a British "Clinical AI" company listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2018. With collaborators, he was Overall Winner of the inaugural Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Award in 2018 which aims to recognise leading interdisciplinary research across the entirety of Oxford University. This talk will introduce AI-driven technologies that are being developed to improve patient outcomes within the UK National Health Service (NHS) and beyond.
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