Below is a summary of my activity within the research community.

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow of The Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (FIMA)
• Chartered Mathematician (CMath)
• Fellow of The Royall Statistical Society (FRSS)
• Committee Member Manchester Local Group of the Royal Statistical Society (September 2018 – present)

Committee & Board membership

• Conference Board member for the Royal Statistical Society International Conference, with responsibility for the “Data Science & AI”, and  “Business, Industry & Finance” conference streams  (2021 – Present).
• Chair of the Royal Statistical Society Manchester Local Group (December 2024 – Present).
• Committee member of Royal Statistical Society Manchester Local Group (2018 – 2024).
• Membership Committee member for the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (2025 – Present).

Judging panels

• Computing Magazine’s AI & Machine Learning Awards 2020
• Computing Magazine’s AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019

Invited Talks

• Open Data Science Conference AI West 2025, (ODSC West 2025), Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, Burlingame, California, USA, 28^th-30^th October 2025. Online bootcamp tutorial session on “Introduction to Math for Data Science”.
• Tech Europe, World Trade Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 29^th September – 1^st October 2025. Talk on “Using quantum computing to solve constrained optimization problems in retail data science”.
• Open Data Science Conference East 2025 (ODSC East 2025), Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, USA, 13^th – 15^th May 2025. Online bootcamp tutorial session on “Introduction to Math for Data Science”.
• MLOps Meetup, Fuzzy Labs Ltd, Manchester, UK, 23^rd January 2025. Talk on “Demand Modelling – it’s more than just a model”
• Manchester Statistical Society AI Study Group, Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Manchester, UK, 14^th January 2025. Talk on “Demand Modelling – it’s more than just a model”.
• Data Science Festival, 23^rd May 2024. Online webinar on “To buy or not to buy, that is the question: Predicting what shoppers will buy in grocery retail”.
• North West Analytics Festival – Event for the community of Manchester-based Civil Service Analysts and Data Scientists across several UK Government departments, 16th May 2024. Provided an external speaker talk on “Customer Data Science: What is it? What skills do you need to do it?”
• Manchester AI Meetup, Robert Walters Ltd., 29^th November 2023. Talk on “To buy or not to buy: Predicting what shoppers will buy in grocery retail”.
• Big Data Analytics conference, Millennium Gloucester Hotel Conference Centre, London, 16th June 2022.Talk on “Quantum computing for the uninitiated”.
• Tech Leaders Summit on Quantum Technologies, Twickenham Stadium, London, 28^thSeptember, 2021. Talk on “Lessons learnt adopting quantum computing in a Customer Data Science company”
• Big Data Analytics Virtual Conference (keynote presentation), online, 16^thJune, 2021. Talk on “What are the right tools and systems to support innovation in a Data Science team?”
• Eye News Symposium on “AI and New Technology in Ophthalmology”, 20^th January 2020.
• Data Science Conference DSC5.0, Belgrade, 19^th – 20^th November 2019.
• Computing Magazine’s AI & Machine Learning Live (keynote presentation), London, 19^th November 2018.
• ISBIS2018, International Symposium on Statistics in Business and Industry, University of Piraeus, Greece, 4^th -6^th July 2018.
• 3^rd AI Summit, ExCel Exhibition Centre, London, 4^st June 2018.
• Big Data Analytics June 2018, Victoria Park Plaza, London, 13^th June 2018
• Royal Statistical Society workshop on the Industrialization and Professionalization of Data Science, University of Manchester, 10^th May 2018.
• 16^th EURETINA Congress, Copenhagen, September 8^th-11^th , 2016.
• 3^rd IMA International Conference on Mathematics in Sport, Salford, June 22^nd-24^th , 2011.
• Symposium on Applications of Linear & Multi-linear Algebra in Life Sciences and Engineering, Pisa, June 21^st-25^th, 2010.
• HealthGrid 2009 Conference, Berlin, 28^th June – 1^st July 2009.
• MANTAWOR 09 Workshop on Medical & BioStatistics, University of Tampere, Finland, May 19^th -20^th, 2009.
• Microsoft eScience Workshop, collocated with 4^th IEEE eScience conference, Indianapolis, December 2008.
• Royal Statistical Society – Manchester Local Group, University of Manchester, October 2008.
• Workshop on Bio-Health Applications and Multi-core Reconfigurable Supercomputing, University of Manchester, July 2008.
• Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, April 2008
• Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, January 2008. Invited to give one of the opening talks during an six-month Institute workshop on Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data. Visiting Fellow during six-month workshop.
• Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, March 2007. Invited to attend week long workshop on Similarity-based Clustering and its Application to Medicine and Biology.
• Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), North Carolina, September 2006. Invited to give one of the opening talks during a six-month long workshop on Random Matrices and High Dimensional Inference.
• Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Workshop on Random Matrices, Santander, July 2005.
• British Computer Society Exeter Bioinformatics Summer School, September 2004.
• Conference on Learning Theory, COLT04, Banff, Canada, July, 2004.
• BBSRC Cogeme Consortium Conference, Manchester, February 2003.
• of Trade & Industry Software Outreach Meeting, London, November 2002.
• EPSRC Interface Meeting, on MicroArrays, UMIST, September 2002.
• John Innes Institute, Norwich, August 2002.
• UK Affymetrix Users Meeting, Cardiff, May 2002.
• CCP11 MicroArray Conference, Manchester, March 2002.
• Oxford Brookes University, April 2000.

Conference & Workshop Organization

• Programme Committee member – Royal Statistical Society International Conference, Aberdeen, UK, September 12^th-15^th 2022.
• Programme Committee member – Royal Statistical Society International Conference, Manchester, UK, September 6^th-9^th 2021.
• Programme Committee member – IDEAL ’13, conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, Hefei, China, October 20^th-23^rd 2013.
• Programme Committee member – NABIC2012, 4^th world congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, Mexico City, Mexico, November 5^th-9^th 2012.
• Programme Committee member – IDEAL ’12, conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, Natal, Brazil, August 29^th -31^st 2012.
• Programme Committee member – IDEAL ’11, conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, University of East Anglia, England, September 7^th-9^th 2011.
• Programme Committee member – IDEAL ‘10, conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, University of the West of Scotland, Spain, September 1^st-3^rd 2010.
• Programme Committee member – IDEAL ‘09, conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, University of Burgos, Spain, September 23^rd-26^th 2009.
• Steering committee member – Manchester Cancer Prevention Research Network. Workshop held at University of Manchester, 3^rd October 2008.
• Programme Committee member – IDEAL ‘08, conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, University of Daejeon, South Korea, November 2^nd-5^th 2008.
• Programme Committee member – IDEAL ‘07, conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, University of Birmingham, UK, 16^th-19^th December 2007.
• Programme Committee member – NNAM 2007, Second International Conference on Neural Networks and Associative Memories, National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico, November 4^th-9^th 2007.
• Programme Committee member – IDEAL ‘06, conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, University of Burgos, Spain, 20^th-23^rd September 2006.
• Programme Committee member – NNAM 2006, First International Conference on Neural Networks and Associative Memories, National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico, November 21^st-24^th 2006
• Reviewer for CIBCB 2005 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB 2005), La Jolla, California, November 14-15, 2005.
• Programme Committee member IJCNN 2006, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vancouver, Canada, July 16^th -21^st, 2006.
• Programme Committee member – 1^st International Postgraduate Conference on Pattern Analysis for Applications in Physical and Life Sciences, Bath, UK, August 22^nd-25^th, 2005.
• Programme Committee member – IDEAL ‘05, conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, University of Queensland, Australia, 6^th-8^th July 2005.
• Programme Chair – British Computer Society Bioinformatics Summer School, Exeter, 29^th August – 3^rd September, 2004.
• Programme Committee member – IDEAL ‘04, conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, University of Exeter, UK, 25^th-27^th August, 2004.

Reviewing
I have acted as a reviewer for the following,

• Journals: Manuscript reviewer for,
  • Bioinformatics
  • BMC Bioinformatics
  • Evolutionary Bioinformatics
  • International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
  • Journal of Engineering in Medicine
  • Knowledge and Information Systems
  • PLoS One
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics – Part B
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • European Physical Journal B
  • Pattern Analysis and Applications
  • Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
• Grant awarding bodies: Reviewed grant applications for,
  • MRC
  • BBSRC.
• Research Theses:
  • Internal Examiner (x2) for PhDs submitted to University of Exeter
  • Internal Examiner (x3) for PhDs submitted to University of Manchester
  • External Examiner for PhD submitted to University of Edinburgh