About us
Where are you all from?
We thought it would be nice to know where you are all from, we suspect we have a big international group on the course. You can do this by putting a pin in the Padlet below. You can attach your name to it if you like but there's no need to if you prefer not to.
About Your Instructors
Ian Simpson (e-mail)
My research group are largely focussed on studying various aspects of neurodevelopmental diseases from both genomic and clinical perspectives and use a wide range of data types and analytical techniques to learn more about disease aetiology with one of our key objectives being to close the genotype-phenotype gap. Much of our current work is centred on autism spectrum disorders & intellectual disabilities. In these projects we are using knowledge representation implemented as feature rich network (graph) structures. Using both computational statistical and graph learning approaches we can examine the features of these graphs to better understand patients. I am an avid Road, Cyclocross and MTB cyclist riding with Edinburgh Road Club for whom I also coach as a GO-Ride, Regional & National cluster coach. I have been a STEM Ambassador for many years working with local Schools in particular and enjoy taking part in public engagement activities. My family is obsessed with board-gaming so if you want some tips about good games do please ask! |
Barry Ryan (e-mail) Hi, I’m a PhD student in the School of Informatics. I’m from Cork in Ireland and my research interests include: • Multi-modal Data Integration I enjoy Sport and the outdoors and in particular watching Rugby. I took Bioinformatics 1 last year so if you have any questions feel free to reach out at any stage. |
