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With its multidisciplinary approach, Digital Twins for Sustainable Development Goals (DT4SDG) brings together a range of subject-matter experts. Have a look at our ‘who’s who’ and find out more about their work.
Who we are and what we do:
- Director and Industry Engagement: Dr Mona Jaber (IoT/ML/Digital Twin)
- Technology Lead: Dr Jesús Requena Carrión (AI/ML expert)
- Cloud/AI expert: Dr Ahmad Sayed
- IoT expert: Dr Matthew Tang
- Communication expert: Professor Michael Chai
- Domain expert in Cyber-Physical Systems for smart grids (University of Manchester): Dr Mahdieh Sadabadi
- Domain expert in Energy: Professor Christian Beck (Digitally twinned grid)
- Domain expert in Intelligent Transportation: Dr Jun Chen (multimodal journey – airport airside)
- Domain expert in Future Mobility and Environmental and Climate Technologies: Professor Sergey Karabasov
- Domain expert in Human Geography: Professor Phillippa Williams
- Domain expert in Earth-Centric AI: Professor Cedric John
- Domain expert in Social Science for Smart Cities (LSE): Dr Anushri Gupta
- Supporting academic - Professor Greg Slabaugh: Director of DERI – expert in AI/ML
- Supporting academic - Dr Eirini Marouli expert in computational biology
- Supporting academic - Dr Caroline Roney expert in computational medicine
- Research staff - Dr Ruikang Zhong leading DASMATE research
- PhD candidate - Chia-Yen Chiang working on multimodal data for smart mobility.
- PhD candidate - Zunaira Nadeem working on machine learning for energy theft detection using IoT energy consumption data.
- PhD candidate - Yuqin Liu working on energy efficiency in 5G and beyond multiple access schemes.
- PhD candidate - Moudy Alshareef working on privacy-preserving deep learning for remote stress detection using IoT data

Professor Christian Beck
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Sciences Building, Room: MB-121
+44 (0)20 7882 3286
c.beck@qmul.ac.uk

Dr Michael Chai
Reader in Internet of Things & QM Director of Joint Programme with BUPT
Engineering, Eng 208
+44 20 7882 5343
michael.chai@qmul.ac.uk

Ms Chia-Yen Chiang
Peter Landin, CS 321
c.chiang@qmul.ac.uk


Dr Ahmed M. A. Sayed
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Director of MSc Data Science Programme, DERI Fellow
ENG 153a, Engineering Building
ahmed.sayed@qmul.ac.uk

Dr Eirini Marouli
Reader in Computational Biology, Deputy Lead MSc Genomic Medicine, Lead Post Graduate Taught Courses (PGT), Deputy Lead EDI, Fellow Digital Environment Research Institute (DERI)
Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine
e.marouli@qmul.ac.uk

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Professor Greg Slabaugh
Director of the Digital Environment Research Institute (DERI) & Prof of Computer Vision and AI
Empire House, Ground Floor, Desk G1
g.slabaugh@qmul.ac.uk

Dr Philippa Williams
Professor of Human Geography
Geography Building, Room 215
+44 (0)20 7882 6977
p.williams@qmul.ac.uk
