Prof. Paolo Missier

I am currently a Professor of Computer and Data Science at  University of Birmingham, UK, School of Computer Science. My core expertise is in data and knowledge management, and data science and engineering, and applied machine learning. You can find my list of Publications (on BibBase) - most recent first

Current research interests:

1. Improving Data Science to Improve Science: 
   • Exploring how to make Data Science responsible and trustworthy by instrumenting complex data processing pipelines. This includes exploring new techniques for collecting and making sense of data provenance and audit traces and enhancing, specifically within the emerging context of Data-Centric AI.
2. Health Data Science at scale for participatory, preventative, personalised care:
   • The future of healthcare is not only data-driven, it is also participatory: we explore health technology and models aimed at motivating and empowering individuals to engage with their own health, enabling disease prevention and early onset detection. We envision "AI-enabled", trusted personal advisors who have current knowledge of our health trajectory and are able to track risk factors without the need for periodic clinical visits.
   • Exploring the potential of integrated care systems, including Health Records but also data from self-monitoring devices, to prevent and better manage multiple long-term conditions. What models and tools can we provide to best support the patient-clinician-carer ecosystem through the life course, and how can we measure and then improve the Quality of Life of multi-morbid chronic patients?

Teaching: my main interest is in Scalable Distributed Data Processing architectures.