Practical and leadership experience in developing AI solutions across disciplines and skilled in cross-disciplinary collaborations. External funding to the Department of Computer Science/School of Science, Loughborough University was £1.37M.

[PI]: Principal Investigator, [Joint-PI]: Joint Principal Investigator, [Co-I]: Co-Investigator, [R]: Research Associate under my supervision

2023-2027	[PI] Developing AI-based tools for Vehicle Condition Monitoring and Maintenance. Royal Air Force (RAF). £148k. R/PhD: Sebastian Cheshire.
2023-2025	[PI] KTP project on intelligent SENSE software tool for Government departments. UKRI. £199k. Partner: SVGC technologies. R: Daniel Blake
2022	[PI] Research Consultancy via Loughborough University. ~£4K.
2022-2025	[Co-I] DECODE: Data-driven machinE-learning aided stratification management of multiple long-term COnditions (MLTCs) in adults with intellectual disabilitiEs. NIHR. Total: £2.8 million (To the School of Science: £747,973). PI is Dr Thomas Jun. Partners: Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, University of Leicester, King’s College London, Swansea University, University of Plymouth, University of Nottingham, and DeMontfort University. Rs: Dr Rania Kousovista and Dr Emeka Raphael
2022-2024	[Joint-PI] I-SIRch: Using AI to improve the investigation of factors contributing to adverse maternity incidents involving black mothers and families. THF/NIHR. Total: £180k (To the School of Science: £109,630). Joint-PI is Professor Patrick Waterson. Partner: Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch – HSIB. R: Dr Mohit Kumar
2022-2023	[PI] Themis. AI: Ethical AI for Improving Decision-Making Processes. £75k. Funders: Loughborough’s Enterprise Project Group (EPG grant) and Leicestershire County Council. R: Dr Eufrasio Lima Neto.
2020-2023	[PI] Defect Detection on Wind Turbine Surfaces using AI. £80k. Funder and partner: Railston & Co Ltd jointly funded with LU. R/PhD: Clifford Zhang  Selected media Articles: Loughborough University – New AI tool, developed by Loughborough experts, 85% accurate for recognising and classifying wind turbine blade defects The Engineer – AI tool locates and classifies defects in wind turbine blades The Civil Engineer – Artificial Intelligence tool identifies wind turbines defects See here for more
2020-2023	[PI] Responsible and Explainable AI in healthcare with a focus on military and healthcare patient data. £20k. Partner and sponsor: Academic Department of Military Rehabilitation (ADMR). R/PhD: Andrew Houston.

Completed Grants (Researchers (R) & Line Management) – Nottingham Trent University 

Each project has the following researchers (R) under my supervision. 

2016-2019	[PI] Novel Approaches for Constructing Optimised Multimodal Data Spaces. The Leverhulme Trust (RPG). £115,355. R: Dr A. Taherkhani
2019-2022	[Co-I] Managing Affective-learning Through Intelligent Atoms and Smart InteractionS (MATHISIS). EUROPEAN COMMISSION H2020. £467k. R: M. Taheri
2018-2019	[Co-I] Gender Recognition Act Consultancy. Government Equality Office. Research/consultancy. £24k. R: S. Salesi and O. Oloruntoba
2018-2019	[PI] Gender Recognition Act Consultancy. Government Equality Office. Research/consultancy. £12k QR funds. R: S. Salesi and O. Oloruntoba
2018-2019	[PI] Design and development of an instant messaging mobile app. Nottingham Business School. £10k. R: T. Thomas
2018 -2019	[CO-I] Prostate cancer blood data collection and data preparation. NTU Health and wellbeing funds. £15k. R: Dr Simon Hood
2018 -2019	[PI] AI-based welding defect detection system (x-ray images and other data). Laser Optical Engineering ltd £20k. R: S. Salesi and T. Thomas
2018 -2019	[PI] AI-based multi-modal biometrics system. Secure Socialising Ltd. Enabling Innovation fund. £10k. R: B. Pandya
2017-2018	[PI:] AI-based system for coding medical records. Health and Wellbeing grant (Care IS ltd). £20k. R: D. Nagades Carlon and G. Vourgides
2015-2016	[Co-I] Barriers & Inequalities: Towards a Better Understanding of the Poor Prognostic Outcomes for Prostate Cancer in the African-Caribbean Community. Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group (NCCG). £48,000.