Hub Leadership Team:
Professor Rajiv Ranjan
Hub Director
Professor Savvas Papagiannidis
Research Impact Director
Professor Julie McCann
Cross-Hub Collaboration Director
Dr Tejal Shah
Responsible Innovation Director
Professor Omer Rana
Cross Council Director
Professor Carston Maple
Research Innovation Director
Professor Liana Cipcigan
EDI Director
Gaurav Kaushik
Hub Manager
Wayne Bryant
Business Impact Manager
Sydnee O’Brien
Research Project Coordinator
Our Leads at our 15 Partnering Universities:
Professor Omer Rana
Cardiff University
Dr Yang Long
Durham University
Professor Dhaval Thakker
University of Hull
Professor Julie McCann
Imperial College London
Professor Peter Garraghan
Lancaster University
Dr Zheng Li
Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Gopal Ramchurn
University of Southampton
Dr Blesson Varghese
University of St. Andrews
Professor Xianghua Xie
Swansea University
Professor Jose Alcaraz Calero
Aston University
Professor Carston Maple
University of Warwick
Professor Qi Wang
University of Leicester
Dr Omprakash Kaiwartya
Nottingham Trent University
Professor Radu Calinescu
University of York
Our Research Theme Leads:
Professor Savvas Papagiannidis
Research Theme 1 Lead: Edge AI Hub Engagement and Impact
Newcastle University
Dr Bo Wei
Research Theme 2 Lead: Cyberdisturbance modelling and detection for Edge Computing
Newcastle University
Professor Shishir Nagaraja
Research Theme 2 Lead: Cyberdisturbance modelling and detection for Edge Computing
Newcastle University
Dr Tomasz Szydlo
Research Theme 3 Lead: Edge Computing for AI
Newcastle University
Dr Blesson Varghese
Research Theme 3 Lead: Edge Computing for AI
University of St Andrews
Dr Varun Ojha
Research Theme 4 Lead: AI Driven Edge Data and Model Guard
Newcastle University
Dr Yang Long
Research Theme 4 Lead: AI Driven Edge Data and Model Guard
Durham University
Professor Phil James
Research Theme 5 Lead: Data Sensitive Application Use-Cases Driven Validation
Director of the Urban Observatory
Newcastle University
Dr Ellis Solaiman
Research Theme 5 Lead: Data Sensitive Application Use-Cases Driven Validation
Newcastle University
Dr Jonte Hance
Research Theme 6 Lead: Quantum Machine Learning
Newcastle University
Our Research Theme Researchers:
Professor Carsten Maple
Research Theme 2 Researcher
University of Warwick
Dr Gregory Epiphaniou
Research Theme 2 Researcher
University of Warwick
Dr Ligang He
Research Theme 2 Researcher
University of Warwick
Professor Peter Garraghan
Research Theme 2 Researcher
Lancaster University
Professor Neeraj Suri
Research Theme 2 Researcher
Lancaster University
Dr Zheng Li
Research Theme 2 Researcher
Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Hui Wang
Research Theme 2 Researcher
Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Hamza Shakeel
Research Theme 2 Researcher
Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Omer Rana
Research Theme 2 Researcher
Cardiff University
Dr Charith Perera
Research Theme 2 Researcher
Cardiff University
Dr Neetesh Saxena
Research Theme 2 Researcher
Cardiff University
Dr Jennifer Williams
Research Theme 3 Researcher
University of Southampton
Professor Julie McCann
Research Theme 3 Researcher
Imperial College
Professor Gopal Ramchurn
Research Theme 3 Researcher
University of Southampton
Professor Jose M. Alcaraz Calero
Research Theme 3 Researcher
Aston University
Professor Dhaval Thakker
Research Theme 4 Researcher
Professor Xianghua Xie
Research Theme 4 Researcher