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Dr Neda Azarmehr
n.azarmehr@sheffield.ac.uk
Personal Webpage

School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Information School

Research interests

My current research focuses on developing computational models using advanced computer vision and multimodal Artificial Intelligence to support clinicians in decision-making. I am also interested in the domain of trustworthy AI, involving issues such as bias, fairness, interpretability, and ethical considerations in algorithm development and inference. These efforts aim to ensure that AI solutions are not only technically robust but also ethically sound and socially responsible, paving the way for equitable and trustworthy AI applications.

PhD supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD students who are passionate about advancing AI research with real-world impact, particularly in healthcare applications. Some potential PhD research topics are as follows. If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in any of these areas, please feel free to reach out for discussions on potential research directions:

-- Multimodal AI for Healthcare Diagnostics: Develop deep learning models that integrate medical imaging (e.g., ultrasound, MRI, CT, Digital Pathology) with clinical, genomic, and sensor data to enhance disease detection, segmentation, and prognosis for precision medicine.

-- Design lightweight and efficient AI architectures for deployment on portable ultrasound and other portable imaging devices, supporting triaging, diagnosis, and treatment planning in resource-constrained settings.

-- Explore generative AI, diffusion models and synthetic data generation to address data scarcity, improve AI model robustness, and enable privacy-preserving AI in healthcare.

-- Investigate methods to identify and mitigate bias in medical AI, ensuring fairness across diverse populations. Develop interpretable AI frameworks to enhance clinician trust. Explore privacy-preserving AI approaches, including federated learning and differential privacy, to protect patient data.

--Using deep learning techniques for motion prediction, surgical tool tracking, and automated image analysis to enhance precision in minimally invasive procedures. This are will focus on real-time segmentation or tracking algorithms to support clinicians during image-guided interventions, such as ultrasound-assisted biopsies, endoscopic procedures, and interventional radiology.

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Dr Kushwanth Koya
k.koya@sheffield.ac.uk
Personal Webpage

School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Information School

Research interests

My current research interests lie at the intersection of society, information needs and digital technologies, specifically investigating how different sections of society have their information needs met through accessing various digital technologies. Additionally, I' am also interested in digital transformation in organisations in general and information governance in the age of Industry 4.0 and 5.0.

PhD supervision

Information needs, information seeking, information governance, digital transformation.

Dr Suvodeep Mazumdar
s.mazumdar@sheffield.ac.uk
Personal Webpage

School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Information School

Research interests

I am an applied AI researcher and data scientist and my research involves studying how AI and data science can be applied to different domains and contexts. My research explores developing scalable techniques and mechanisms for understanding very large complex multidimensional datasets for specific problems. I conduct inter-disciplinary research on highly engaging, interactive and visual mechanisms in conjunction with complex querying techniques for seamless navigation, exploration and understanding of complex datasets. I am also interested in the use of citizen science and crowdsourcing to enrich datasets with local knowledge.

Research supervision

Areas of PhD supervision:

  • Applied AI and data science on domain-specific topics (e.g. healthcare, smart cities, sports analytics)
  • XAI - Explainable AI and human centred AI
  • Large scale visual analytics of data
  • Knowledge graphs, ontologies and semantic web
  • Citizen science and crowdsourcing techniques for complementing traditional sources of data (e.g. mobile, wearable sensing) using multimodal interactions
Professor Michael Thelwall
m.a.thelwall@sheffield.ac.uk
Personal Webpage

School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Information School

Research Interests

I am interested in research evaluation methods and bibliometrics, including with artificial intelligence approaches.

Bibliometrics involves primarily quantitative analysis of academic publications, including factors like citation rates, the role of collaboration, gender differences, and the relationship between citations and research quality. It also includes altmetrics, in the form of alternative quantitative indicators of research impact. The AI component involves using traditional machine learning or Large Language Models to predict research quality or to perform other tasks within the research assessment ecosystem.

Research supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas:

  • Artificial intelligence and particularly Large Language Models in research assessment.
  • Bibliometrics and research evaluation, whether methods development, broad applications, or the assessment of the influences of factors like gender and collaboration.
  • The accuracy and limitations of various types of scholarly peer review in research assessment.
  • Equality and diversity in research assessment.
  • Qualitative-quantitative methods to analyse social media data for social research goals, such as testing theory or investigating online or offline phenomena.
  • Artificial intelligence methods for social media analysis.