CDT Management

The team responsible for the day to day running of the Centre


Aldo Faisal
Centre Director
Britta Ross
Centre Manager
Ahmed Fetit
Senior Teaching Fellow
Safa Abu-Sway
Centre Project Manager

Management Board

The management board is responsible for the overall management of the Centre and the delivery of its strategy. It oversees the direction of the Centre development and the major decisions needed. Board members are:

Aldo Faisal (Chair)

Deborah Ashby

Mauricio Barahona

Anil Bharath

Ara Darzi

Hamed Haddadi

Stefanos Zafeiriou

Jeremy Levy

Marek Rei

Jennifer Quint


External Advisory Board

The external advisory board main role is to oversee the strategic direction and the impact of the CDT and advise on relevant trends in AI and the applications of AI in health research and in practice.  

Chair: Professor Cathie Sudlow, University of Edinburgh
Dr Ravi Sresthra Bickram, Canon Medical Systems
Professor Aldo Faisal, Imperial College London and University of Bayreuth
Dr Andrew Garrett, ICON plc
Professor Dr med Bernd Hamm, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany 
Professor Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh
Professor Angela Wood, University of Cambridge


Training Board

The training board focusses on student selection, taught courses, monitoring student progress, student support, and quality student experience. Student representatives join in with Training Board meetings.

Mauricio Barahona

Anil A. Bharath

Graham Cooke

Aldo Faisal (Chair)

Richard Festenstein

Thomas Heinis

Jeremy Levy

Marek Rei

Reiko Tanaka

Student Representatives:

Noura Ezaz-Nikpay


This work is supported by UK Research and Innovation grants EP/S023283 1 and EP/Y030974 1