Rahman Attar is a computer scientist specialising in Artificial Medical Intelligence. He currently holds the position of Lecturer (which is the British equivalent of a tenured Assistant Professor in the USA) at the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. Prior to this, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London. Rahman completed his PhD under the supervision of Professor Alex Frangi at the University of Sheffield and the University of Leeds. His primary research area involves combining Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Medicine to create unbiased and ethical AI technologies that can improve healthcare strategies.

Ruihua Hou is a professor of biological psychiatry. She qualified in medicine and trained as a psychiatrist. She completed a clinical fellowship followed by her PhD in psychopharmacology, both in the Department of Psychiatry Queen’s Medical Centre at the University of Nottingham. She then joined the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Southampton. Her research interest is in human psychopharmacology focusing on the role of the locus coeruleus in the development of neurodegenerative diseases using MRI imaging technique. She led the ARUK-funded project investigating the role of the locus coeruleus using neuromelanin-sensitive MRI in Alzheimer’s disease. Her work aims to identify early biomarkers for cognitive decline and develop early intervention approaches to prevent disease progression.

Sofia is a Consultant Clinical Scientist and Head of Nuclear Medicine Physics at University Hospital Southampton and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at University of Southampton. In her clinical role, Sofia leads a team of clinical scientists supporting and developing radionuclide therapy and diagnostic SPECT/CT and PET/CT services. She also teaches medical imaging at BSc and MSc modules and delivers part of the Fellows of Royal College of Radiology physics module. Her research focuses on the development and evaluation of imaging and inflammation biomarkers for disease characterisation and the use of artificial intelligence for dementia diagnosis support.

Ruben Sanchez-Garcia is a Professor in Mathematics at the University of Southampton, member of the Institute for Life Sciences, and Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. He does interdisciplinary work in network science and applied topology motivated by real-world, particularly biomedical, applications. His research publications include work on network modelling and analysis, applied topology, and mathematical biology.