Dr Amaia Irizar

Amaia is the Director of ForecomAI. She has over 25 years’ experience within the healthcare and consumer products industries and as an independent consultant firstly in toxicology but also clinical research. She holds a Pharmacy degree from University of Navarra, and MSc and PhD in Toxicology from University of Surrey. She is a European Registered Toxicologist, UK Chartered Biologist, and a member of the US Society of Toxicology, American College of Toxicology, British Toxicology Society, European Societies of Toxicology, European Society for Toxicology In Vitro, and the American Society for Cellular and Computational Toxicology. She brings her broad experience and understanding of the biological and health sciences into the analysis and interpretation of challenges in the field that can be addressed with machine learning solutions.

Professor Miroslaw Bober

Miroslaw is the lead AI scientist at ForecomAI. He has over 25 years of R&D experience in industry and academia, with a strong track record of developing cutting-edge solutions in machine learning, computer vision, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence for a range of industries (consumer, healthcare, manufacturing). His recent work includes design of novel algorithms for retinopathy screening, tumour characterisation and object recognition in images and videos. He is in the top 250 data scientists globally on Kaggle and his algorithm for object recognition recently won the Google Landmark retrieval challenge.

Miroslaw is a professor at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey, UK. Previously, for 15 years he was leading the Mitsubishi Electric R&D Center Europe as the Principal Scientist and the Head of Research. He is an author of over 100 scientific publications and the inventor of over 70 patents in the areas of AI, signal processing and computer vision. He received Mitsubishi presidential awards for the Best Invention Worldwide (2009) and for his Contributions to Business (2010). Miroslaw holds an Msc in Electronics with Distinction (1990, AGH, Krakow); MSc in Machine Intelligence, with Distinction (1991, Univ. of Surrey, UK), and a PhD in Computer Vision (1995, Univ. of Surrey).