Talks

July 2025 AI in Biology Lecture. Doctoral Seminars for the PhD program in AI. University of Salerno, Italy.

July 2025 Invited talk. Digital Health Research Group Meeting. Manchester University, UK.

July 2025 Multimodal AI and metabolic modelling: a comprehensive framework for enhancing biological insights. Invited Talk. Net4Brain. COST Action annual meeting. Bucharest, Romania.

May 2025 Integrating infrared spectroscopy and digital pathology: an explainable AI multi-modal framework for breast cancer diagnosis. Invited Talk. CLIRPath-AI Conference 2025. EPSRC Network. Warwickshire, UK

March 2025 Panel Member. International Women's Day. AI for Women's Health, The Alan Turing Institute

December 2024 Our work in AI and healthcare has been featured by BBC Politics on the 12th of December https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0025qh2/politics-north-north-east-and-cumbria-01122024  

November 2024 Participated in the Panel Discussion at Yarm School as part of the Computer Science Career Cluster Event

November 2024 Member of the Panel Discussion on AI, Education, and Technology at AltLabs

November 2024 Invited Talk at "The British Society of Breast Radiology" meeting in Liverpool to present my research work on Multimodal AI for breast cancer.

October 2024 British Computing Society - Invited talk - Discussing applications of AI in Healthcare 

October 2024 Invited talk at Imperial College, London

October 2024 Invited speaker at the "G2W: Genomics to Whole Cell Workshop" in Sheffield 23rd-25th October, as part of the AIBIO-UK network. Link to the event page; AIBIO-UK

September 2024 Guest Editor of the Collection on AI for Multimodal Biomedical Imaging, Communications Engineering

September 2024 Invited Speaker "Integration of multi-modal data and AI for predicting Ovarian Cancer Survival". World Gynecologic Oncology Day Event. National Horizons Center, UK. 

June 2024 Invited Talk "Single Cell Metabolomics for Breast Cancer: Characterising metabolic disruptions across subtypes" University of Catania, Italy.

March 2024 Press Media Contribution to "What Challenges Exist in Researching AI in Women’s Health?", part of The Alan Turing Institute interest group "AI for Women's Health" Link to media contribution

March 2024 Frontline Genomics Webinar Series  “Single-cell for Cancer Biology”. Invited Speaker

January 2024 Keynote speaker. AIBIO-UK Network Launch Event (BBSRC). “Multimodal AI and Metabolic Modelling:
a comprehensive framework for enhancing biological insights”.  Birmingham.  https://aibio.ac.uk/

January 2024 (onward) BBSRC member of Pool of Experts and Fellow on Fund Committee.

July 2023 GirlsWhoML.  Outreach. Organiser of a series of ML workshops to encourage more women in the field of ML.

June 2023 EPSRC Peer Review Member - UKRI Artificial Intelligence Innovation to Accelerate Health Research Funding Call.

June 2023 Hello World Outreach. Organiser of a workshop for young women in Years 9 and 10, to get inspired in technical and creative areas of Computer Science. Teesside University.

June 2023 Invited Talk. AI in Biomedicine and Healthcare event. The Alan Turing Institute. Teesside University.

March 2023 Leader and Organiser of “What can Data Science and AI do for cancer research?” event. The Alan Turing Institute Fringe Event Series.

February 2023 Panel Member. STEM Career Insight Panel, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.

February 2023 World Cancer Day. Speaker “Can AI truly outsmart cancer?”. National Horizon Center.

December 2022 – present EPSRC Peer Review Member Standard research grant, responsive mode.

November 2022 – present   Leader of the Research Group “Interpretable and Beneficial AI”, Teesside University.

September 2022 EPSRC Peer Review Member – UKRI Digital health hub pilot scheme Funding Call.

Aug 2022 Outreach Speaker at “Reducing the skills gap in Data Science.” Grayce event, online, August 2022

Aug 2022 Nuffield Student Research Placement Supervisor – Application of Machine Learning to Cancer Research. Project selected for CREST award.

July 2022 Panel member of “Career Focus: Women in STEM” event, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.

February 2022 Speaker.  Application of Data Science and Machine Learning Workshop, Business Durham

January 2022 – present Member of North-East HEIs Women in Engineering and Computing Network.

September 2021 – September 2023 Delivery of 16-week Data Analytics Skills Bootcamp. Funded by DfE.

Sept 2021 Interviewed by “Women in data Podcast”– Data Science and Cancer Research [Podcast Link].

May 2021 Organiser of “Healthcare and AI: Promising Applications for Cancer Prediction”. Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Summer School. Teesside University.

March 2021 Speaker “Computational Modelling of Breast Cancer For Personalised Medicine”. Building Bridges in Medical Sciences 2021, University of Cambridge. Best Talk Award.

Feb 2021 Speaker “Computational Models of Cancer for Survival Prediction”. Research Seminars. Teesside University.

March 2020 – August 2021 Delivered 6-week training courses on Business Intelligence – “Digital Skills for Growth” program, Teesside University. European Structure and Investment Fund (ESIF).

July 2019 Computational Models of Cancer for Survival Prediction. Invited Talk, KMUTT University, Thailand.

Our next "AI for Women's Health" at community meeting will be on the 9th of October at 12pm BST. This is part of The Alan Turing Institute Clinical AI Interest Group. Register here:  Link 

I was Chair of the Bioinformatics Track as part of the "19th conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics in September 2024 - CIBB2024" 

24th May 2024. Organised the "Present Anything" Workshop to support our PGR community.

15th May, 2024. AI in Health - In Conversation with Annalisa Occhipinti - Invited Talk @ Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia

9th May, 2024.  Women In Stem @SCEDT. Research Talks

25th April 2024. Frontline Genomics Webinar Series  “Single-cell for Cancer Biology”. Invited Speaker.

8th March, 2024. Featured among the inspiring AI researchers in celebration of International Women's Day. The Alan Turing Institute

11th January 2024. Keynote speaker. AIBIO-UK Network Launch Event (BBSRC).  Birmingham.  https://aibio.ac.uk/

4th December 2023. My work has been featured as part of the Lucy Cavendish Research Series. University of Cambridge. Link to article