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Jonathan Birchall, PhD

Research Associate

Department of Radiology

Areas Of Expertise:

Git, Matlab, Data visualisation, Big data, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Data architecture, Version control, Experimental design, Data storage, Code sharing, Writing/publishing data papers, Surveys, Imaging, Textual data, Digital illustration

Contact Information

jb2455@cam.ac.uk

ORCiD:

0000-0003-3920-4038

Biography

I am currently a Research Associate in the Gallagher Group, where my goals are to develop novel screening techniques for cancer using pre-clinical hyperpolarised 13C-MRI, with an aim towards evaluation, documentation and eventual translation of these techniques into human imaging. This work is jointly funded by the University and The National Cancer Imaging Translational Accelerator (NCITA), where I am a member of the QA/QC Unit responsible for developing Standard Operating Procedures and performing data analysis on NCITA exemplar studies towards the creation of an MRI Core Lab.

I received my PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2017, researching experimental methods for improving 129Xe hyperpolarisation with an application to clinical functional lung imaging. I continued in a postdoctoral role for one year, performing QA/QC duties for the clinical Hyperpolarised Imaging Lung Facility (HILF), before moving to Wayne State University, Detroit, USA to take up a 2.5 year postdoctoral role developing pre-clinical hyperpolariser technologies for 13C, 15N and 129Xe.

I have always had a passion for statistics and communication, and as a Data Champion in the Department of Radiology, I hope that I can collaborate with my peers across a diverse range of projects, advocating for good record-keeping, analysis, dissemination and other facets of research data management.

Ali Abbas, PhD

Senior Data Scientist, MRC Epidemiology Unit

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, R language, Git, SQL, C/C++/C# language, Java, Data visualisation, Big data, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Version control, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, FAIR Data, Writing/publishing data papers, Geospatial data

Contact Information

aa797@cam.ac.uk

Biography

Ali is Senior Data Scientist and public-health/transport modeller in the Public Health Modelling (PHM) group at the MRC-Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. He is interested in active travel, specifically cycling research.

Coming from a Computer Science background, with a focus on modelling in his PhD, for over a decade, he has been doing data-driven research and development. This includes Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), Statistical Modelling (or Machine Learning), Interactive Visualization, all with a focus on collaborative, transparent and reproducible research. In addition, he leads in project management and managing, training, guiding, and teaching of junior staff in his Unit. His work can be seen on GitHub at https://github.com/usr110.

Fiona Love

Research Associate

Cambridge Institute for Medical Research

Areas Of Expertise:

Electronic Laboratory Notebooks, Code sharing, Data analysis, Version control, R language, Git, Data visualisation

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Luisa Fassi

PhD Student

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Statistical analysis, Experimental design, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, Writing/publishing data papers

Contact Information

Luisa.Fassi@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

@FassiLuisa

ORCiD:

0000-0002-0520-6425

Biography

I am a PhD student based at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. My research is aimed at disentangling the relationship between technology use and youth mental health. I am passionate about Open Science, and I am a junior representative of Rotterdam RIOT a science club that promotes reproducible, interpretable, open and transparent research practices. Before my PhD, I graduated in Psychology from Erasmus University Rotterdam and subsequently attended an MSc in Research Methods at the University of Oxford.

Máté Aller

Research Associate

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, Git, Matlab, Data visualisation, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Version control, Experimental design, Data storage, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, Imaging

Contact Information

mate.aller@mrc-cbu.ac.uk

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I am a neuroscientist studying human speech perception with the aim of advancing assistive speech (neuro)technologies and AI speech recognition systems. My background is in cognitive neuroscience and medicine.

I am an expert in human neurophysiology methods (electro- and magnetoencephalography, EEG/MEG) combined with machine learning and artificial neural network modelling (deep learning).

Since the beginning of my PhD, I’ve been passionate about reproducible and open science practices such as data and code sharing, and good coding practices including version control. In my department I am leading the adoption of the standardised Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) for storing and sharing human neurophysiology (MEG/EEG) data.

Raquel Manzano

Bioinformatician

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

Areas Of Expertise:

Big data, Sensitive data, Code sharing, Data analysis, Bioinformatics, Coding, Python, R language, Git, Data visualisation, Data mining, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Electronic Lab Notebooks, Data collection, Version control, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Discipline-specific repositories, Data sharing, Data archiving, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

raquel.manzanogarcia@cruk.cam.ac.uk

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ORCiD:

0000-0002-5124-8992

Biography

I am bioinformatician who has been working in Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute since 2017. I have a background in biology and have experience with HPC, version control, R and python, and confidential data. I work with big volumes of cancer patient data on a daily basis.

Additional areas of expertise:

High Performance Computing (HPC) - cluster.

Shoko Hirosue

MB/PhD Student

MRC Cancer Unit

Areas Of Expertise:

Big data, Code sharing, Data analysis, Bioinformatics

Contact Information

sh822@cam.ac.uk

@shokohirosue

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Biography

I am an MBPhD student, currently in my 2nd year of PhD at MRC Cancer Unit. I analyse data of various sequencing technologies using bioinformatics and computational genomic approaches.

Tirtharaj Dash

Research Associate

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, Git, SQL, Matlab, Other programming languages, C/C++/C# language, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Research data ethics, General repositories, Data sharing, Code sharing, Open data, FAIR Data, Writing/publishing data papers, Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, Textual data

Contact Information

td522@cam.ac.uk

Website

ORCiD:

0000-0001-5965-8286

Biography

I am a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, UK. I am also a Postdoctoral Affiliate of Trinity College, Cambridge. I am currently working on several exciting research problems concerning codon usage, optimality and, in general, knowledge discovery from large-scale genomic data. I am focusing on developing novel ML approaches, such as Neuro-Symbolic Models and Deep Neural Networks, to learn from genomic sequences. For more details, please visit my homepage, which is usually updated often: https://tirtharajdash.github.io/

Xiaohui Zhao

Bioinformatician

Department of Medicine

Areas Of Expertise:

Big data, Code sharing, Data analysis, Bioinformatics

Contact Information

xz289@cam.ac.uk

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ORCiD:

0000-0001-9922-2815

Biography

I provide statistics and bioinformatics support for CTR research groups. I also collaborate with Plant Science Department and XIamen University of China.

Jonathan Birchall, PhD

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Ali Abbas, PhD

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Fiona Love

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Máté Aller

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Raquel Manzano

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Shoko Hirosue

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Tirtharaj Dash

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Xiaohui Zhao

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