About PI

Animesh Acharjee is an Assistant Professor of Integrative Analytics and AI  and Deputy Programme Director, MSc in Health Data Science (Dubai) in the Cancer and Genomic Sciences. Dr. Acharjee did his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from North Eastern Regional Institute of Technology (NERIST) , Itanagar, India and Masters in Bioinformatics from Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology[ , Bangalore , India. After his Masters, he earned his PhD from Wageningen University. The Netherlands, on applied machine learning and data analysis. After his PhD he moved to Lyon, France, for his post-doctoral study with Synergie Lyon Cancer Centre as a Biostatistician where he extensively worked on big data analytics, cloud computing. After his post-doctoral study he was offered a scientist position with BASF Cropdesign, Belgium. Before joining University of Birmingham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital he was working with University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK focusing on metabolic driven diseases like Obesity, Type 2-diabetis using high throughput metabolomics, lipidomics technologies. His research interests includes integrative data analytics, predictive biomarker discovery, bioinformatics methods for diagnostics and network biology. Throughout his career, he was offered many fellowships from British Council, Dutch Government and Newton fellowships. He has published many papers in the international journals and actively collaborate with many Universities, for example Harvard University and University of Cambridge.