Dr. Abhirup Banerjee is a Royal Society University Research Fellow (URF) and Principal Investigator in the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. He received his B.Sc. (Hons) and Master's degrees in Statistics and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in March 2017 from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He joined the University of Oxford as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in August 2017, started as the URF and PI in the Department of Engineering Science in October 2022, and officially started the MultiMeDIA Lab in March 2023. His research interests span biomedical engineering, computer science, and classical statistics, focusing on various topics including biomedical image analysis, machine learning, AI, multimodal imaging, geometric deep learning, etc.
Prof. Dr. Vicente Grau is a Professor of Biomedical Image Analysis at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) and a Professorial Fellow in Engineering at Mansfield College. He holds a Ph.D. in medical image analysis from Universidad Politecnica de Valencia in Spain. After spending two years at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University, and the ONH Biomechanics Lab at LSU Health Sciences Center, he joined the University of Oxford in 2004. He was awarded the title of Professor in 2015. His research focuses on the development of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled methods to improve the understanding of human anatomy and physiology and provide solutions for healthcare. He is particularly interested in the combination of medical images with other information sources to build multimodal algorithms and in leveraging the power of large databases for population-level studies. His research ranges across multiple clinical applications, with a special interest in cardiovascular medicine.