Prof Christopher Yau

(Former)

Links:

Group website

Biography

Christopher is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Manchester, a UKRI Turing AI Fellow and Director of the Health Data Research UK-Turing Wellcome PhD Programme in Health Data Science. He received his undergraduate degree in Engineering at the University of Cambridge in 2004 and a D.Phil in Statistics from the University of Oxford in 2009. He was previously a Lecturer in Statistics at Imperial College London, Associate Professor in Genomic Medicine at the University of Oxford, and Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Birmingham.

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

(2020-) MRC Methodology Research Panel

(2018-) Academy of Medical Science Taskforce Future Leaders in Innovation, Enterprise and Research

(2018-) Royal Statistical Society Computational Statistics and Machine Learning

Fellow, Royal Statistical Society

External positions

Director of Wellcome PhD Programme in Health Data Science, Health Data Research UK

1 Apr 2021 → …

Scientific Lead (Kheiron-NHSX AI Award)

1 Jan 2021 → …

Areas of expertise

Research Networks and Beacons

Cancer
Institute for Data Science and AI

Keywords

Statistics, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Digital Health, Computer Science, Mathematics

Education / academic qualifications

2009 - Doctor of Philosophy, Statistics, Oxford University (2004 - 2008)
2004 - Master of Engineering, Information and Computer Engineering, University of Cambridge (2000 - 2004)