Data Analytics Research and Technology in Healthcare
(DARTH group)
Faculty
Athanasios Tsanas ('Thanasis') FAcadMathSci FRSE FRSM
Chair (Full Professor) in Digital Health and Data Science
Thanasis originally trained in Biomedical Engineering, and completed a PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Oxford (2012). Since 2022 he holds the Chair (Full Professor, tenured) in Digital Health and Data Science at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh.
He received the Andrew Goudie award (top PhD student across all disciplines, St. Cross College, University of Oxford, 2011), the EPSRC Doctoral Prize award (2012) as one of only 8 Oxford PhD students across 11 departments, the young scientist award (MAVEBA, 2013), the EPSRC Statistics and Machine Learning award (2015), and the BIOSTEC/Biosignals Best paper award (2021). He is Co-founder of the NHS Digital Academy, the first national digital health informatics leadership programme, where he led one of the six core Themes (Clinical Decision Support and Actionable Data Analytics, 2018-2022).
He was a Turing Fellow (2021-2024) and a Bayes Innovation Fellow (2023-2024), and held Visiting Professorships at Imperial College London (UK) and Zhejiang University (China). He is a Founding Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (UK National Academy of Mathematics), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland's National Academy of Sciences), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (exceptionally considered due to his significant contributions to Medicine).
Post-doctoral researchers
PhD students
Filip Mendusic
PhD student
Filip comes from a Computing background (Zagreb, Croatia), and has completed an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh (2018). He has been passionate about computers since his childhood years.
His research focuses on developing novel and applying existing machine learning approaches to healthcare, in an effort to improve patient diagnosis and recovery. He is currently working on clustering and feature selection techniques to tackle myocardial infarction. Filip is primarily based at the Centre for Cardiovascular Science being supervised by Prof. Nick Mills (primary supervisor) and Thanasis at the Usher Institute (secondary supervisor).
Funding: Filip is a British Heart Foundation (BHF) funded research student on the BHF PhD programme in Cardiovascular Science at the University of Edinburgh (full 3-year scholarship covering fees+stipend).
MSc students
Finlay Scheib
MSc in Computational Applied Mathematics, 2026
Finlay studied for his BSc in Mathematics at the University of Glasgow, achieving the prize for the 'most distinguished student' in both his third and fourth year, before joining the MSc Computational Applied Mathematics programme. Alongside his studies, he tutors mathematics to high school and pre-honours university students. His interests lie in Data science and Machine learning, particularly for medical applications.