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Health and Wellbeing Technologies research

Improving people’s health and wellbeing and saving lives using computer science and technology

Health and wellbeing technologies are a multidisciplinary field that stands at the intersection of healthcare, social care, and computer science, with the main objective to revolutionise the way we monitor, maintain, and improve our physical and mental health and wellbeing. Driven by the latest advances in medical informatics, machine learning, wearables, smart environments, and data science, health and wellbeing technologies research is at the forefront of addressing pressing health and social care challenges through computer science innovations.

Our work utilises strong links and partnerships with healthcare providers, social care organisations, and health technology companies to facilitate adoption of our research by industry to create tangible and lasting impact on people’s health and wellbeing. Our work with the Royal College of Physicians has set a new standard for assessing the severity of acute illness (known as the "National Early Warning Score" or NEWS). This process is now used by 100% of paramedics and 76% of hospitals across NHS England.

The range of problems that we are addressing in our work covers in-hospital care, including intensive care units and surgery, post-treatment rehabilitation for conditions like stroke, and promotion of independence and wellbeing in residential and business settings, including ageing population, long term health conditions, health and safety at work, and mobile health.

Research topics

Our research covers the following topics:

Partners

Some of our partners include:

  • Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Southampton
  • Hobbs Rehabilitation
  • Bournemouth University

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Members

Taiwo Adegbaye Adedeji Portrait

Dr Taiwo Adedeji

Lecturer

Taiwo.Adedeji@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

Faculty of Technology

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Dr Elisavet Andrikopoulou

Senior Lecturer

Elisavet.Andrikopoulou@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

Faculty of Technology

PhD Supervisor

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Dr Mohamed Bader-El-Den

Reader in Data Science and Machine Learning

Mohamed.Bader@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

Faculty of Technology

PhD Supervisor

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Professor Jim Briggs

Professor of Informatics

Associate Dean (Research)

Jim.Briggs@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

Faculty of Technology

PhD Supervisor

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Dr Dongxu Gao

Lecturer

Dongxu.Gao@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

Faculty of Technology

PhD Supervisor

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Dr Alice Good

Senior Lecturer

Alice.Good@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

Faculty of Technology

PhD Supervisor

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Dr Ivan Jordanov

Associate Professor in Computational Intelligence

Ivan.Jordanov@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

Faculty of Technology

PhD Supervisor

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Professor Zhaojie Ju

Professor of Machine Learning and Robotics

Zhaojie.Ju@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

Faculty of Technology

PhD Supervisor

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Dr Rinat Khusainov

Associate Head (Research and Innovation)

Innovation and Impact Development Manager

Rinat.Khusainov@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

Faculty of Technology

PhD Supervisor

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Professor Honghai Liu

Professor of Human Machine Systems

Honghai.Liu@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

Faculty of Technology

PhD Supervisor

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Dr Haythem Nakkas

Senior Lecturer

Haythem.Nakkas@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

Faculty of Technology

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Miss Carrie Toptan

Teaching Fellow

Carrie.Toptan@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

Faculty of Technology

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Dr Dalin Zhou

Associate Professor in Intelligent Sensing and Rehabilitation

Dalin.Zhou@port.ac.uk

School of Computing

Faculty of Technology

PhD Supervisor

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Robotics

Our research is exploring the use of robotics and advanced sensor technologies for rehabilitation, diagnostics, and assisted living applications

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