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Oxford Immune Algorithmics is a deep biotech company incubated by the University of Oxford. Our team is divided into five major overlapping working groups representing the breadth and depth of our company's core areas: AI & Computer Vision, Biomedicine, App and Cloud development, IoT Engineering and Business Innovation.
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The cross-disciplinary team consists of AI experts, medical leaders, and pioneers in IoT and optical engineering working at the forefront of science and technology and able to tackle some of the most pressing human health challenges such as cancer, infection, antibiotic resistance and tropical diseases.
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Board of Directors
Dr. Hector Zenil
Founder & CEO PhD in Comp Sci (Lille), PhD in Epistemology (Paris, Sorbonne) with 20+ years experience in 6 countries. He worked for 7 years at the Unit of Computational Medicine as a researcher and Assistant Professor before becoming a Lab Leader at the Karolinska Hospital and Institute (the institution that awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine). He was a NASA Payload team member at MIT for the Mars Gravity Biosatellite to test health effects of artificial microgravity on mammals. He helped develop the factual answering AI engine behind Siri reporting to WolframAlpha's CEO. He was Senior Researcher (faculty member) at the University of Oxford and has published > 100 papers. He was appointed by the Alan Turing Institute at the British Library in London to advice the UK and allies on AI for Scientific Discovery in the next 30 years. |
Dr. Jürgen Riedel
Co-founder, CTO and DPO PhD in Physics (Germany) with over 25 years of working experience at major companies in two continents. A theoretical physicist (PhD) by training. He has conducted research into black holes and dark matter, quantum gravity, and boson stars, and cellular automata and complexity science. His expertise encompasses extensive knowledge of database systems, data migration, business intelligence, analytics, data science, data visualisation, data governance and compliance. He has worked for major corporations in the private banking, automobile, manufacturing, and energy industries, including UBS, Citibank, Volkswagen, Zalando, Munich RE, Eon and, most recently, Rabobank. |
Pamela Winsor
Chair of the Board EMBA (SMU, Halifax, NS, Canada). As a Senior Healthcare Executive, Pam was formerly Director of Health Policy, Stakeholder Engagement and Chief Marketing Officer for Medtronic, Canada. Medtronic is the world's largest medical devices company. With more than 25 years in the healthcare industry, she began her career as a Critical Care Nurse and then moved to the pharmaceutical industry successfully supporting women’s health, neurology and oncology faculties. Pam is a visionary leader in the area of value-based healthcare strategies and is skilled in understanding how to position new solutions and technologies in today’s dynamic healthcare marketplace. |
Allan Bezanson
Board Director CEO of BW Founders Ltd and of Range Energy Resources. He is an active investor, primarily in the oil and gas sector and technology. He has been a director of a number of public and private companies and is currently a director and the CEO of Range Energy Resources Inc., listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange. His background includes hedge funds, corporate oil and gas, private equity and financial services executive, with experience and knowledge of capital markets from both the buy and sell perspectives. He has spent time financing and advising a number of private and public entities, achieving notable success with Altus, Bluewave Energy, FCF Capital, Polaris Infrastructure. |
Leadership & Management
Dr. Lionel Khalil
Chief Financial Officer PhD in Applied Maths (École Polytechnique) and J.D. (Ph.D. in law from UPEC) with vast experience working as a strategic advisor for organisations like KPMG, Société Générale and Mars as a Strategic Advisor developing Economics of Mutuality and working in the areas of IP and intangible assets including technology for impact investments. He has experience in Data Science for Derivative Trading, Market risk and Credit risk for Investment Banks, and in Marketing Insight. An expert in Business Development for BioTech and FinTech Startups. |
Dr. Kourosh Saeb-Parsy
Chief Medical Officer MD & PhD in Neurosciences (Cambridge), NHS Consultant Transplant Surgeon, University Reader in Transplantation & Clinical Research Group Leader at the Department of Surgery at the University of Cambridge, specialising in immunogenicity of regenerative cellular therapies. More than 15 years of experience in industry with large corporations and startups, including biotech companies. He is the director of the Cambridge In Vivo Assessment Platform and the Cambridge Biorepository for Translational Medicine. He has over 50 papers published in top journals such as Nature and Science. |
Steve Syme
Head of Operations Former senior R&D engineer at Johnson &Johnson, and Product Manager at Intelligent Ultrasound, he has developed and released 11 medical devices (Class IIb) to the market. MBA qualified engineer with >17 years technical and commercial experience across the regulated medical diagnostic devices market and biotech industries. As a customer facing team leader at FMB Oxford, he doubled sales revenue as a direct result of improved management of their product portfolio, and improved the operating margin by 2.5% on product development and installation contracts. |
Dr. Isaac G.F. Jones
Head of Product PhD in digital microfluidics (University of Southampton) and former R&D Engineer at Nordson Corporation, he has a particular interest in biosensors, medical diagnostics and imaging with experience predominantly in the development of biomedical and healthcare devices, particularly in the realisation of new and innovative products. Worked at the Centre for Hybrid Biodevices (Nano Research Group, ECS), working in partnership with Sharp Labs Europe and Public Health England. His former roles have encompassed customer engagement, product development and the exploration of future technologies. |
Imad Alabed
Product Manager & UAE Branch Manager B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in semiconductors, communications and computer systems, and M.Sc in Management Information System and Decision Sciences. Former Senior Director for Product Management, responsible for developing cloud transformation strategies and reporting directly to Avolin's CEO. CRM and KM Guru, SaaS strategist with 20+ years of experience in the computer software industry. Has consulted with some of the world’s largest organisations and delivered business solutions across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. |
Beverley Scott
Chief Safety Officer NHS accredited Clinical Safety Officer with more than 20 years experience. Expert in clinical & patient safety, quality standards, risk assessment, CE marking and compliance. She has vast experience in medical devices, medical apps, and the medical technology and equipment sector serving large health technology organisations. |
Mariana G. Castellón
Procurement and Localisation Manager Masters in Translation and Interpretation specialising in communication in the legal & medical fields. She has experience in corporate communication at multinational electronics & manufacturing companies such as Jabil (Research in Motion, Cisco), in journalism, localisation, automatic translation, compliance & ISO standards auditing. |
Daniel Mannion
HR & Compliance Manager Medical Device Compliance Quality Assurance Specialist (CE Marking, FDA (510(k)), ISO 13485 Lead Auditor, 6 Sigma Green Belt, Dipl. Leadership and Management. Several years of experience as a Quality Engineer with global high-tech electronic medical device companies. Has also implemented and worked on IATF 1694, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, TS16949 and AS9100 quality standards and VDA 6,3 process audits. NEBOSH General Certificate. |
Kim Williams
Communications & Events Manager BASc focused in Business Administration and Management and currently finishing an MBA. She was the global president of Welcome Clubs International 2019-2021 and has experience working with for-profit and non-profit organisations to link people with a view too promoting greater understanding and sharing of knowledge across cultural lines. |
Cloud Development
Richard Guiver
Head of IT and Cloud Services Skilled IT professional managing and supporting desktop and server environments and .NET-based programming, SQL Server. AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft Teams Administrator. In-depth knowledge of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Remote Desktop. Experience with VMWare, Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), Duo 2FA security, GDPR compliance. Hyper-V, Web programming. |
Edmond de los Reyes
Senior Mobile App Developer Expert full-stack web developer and with solid knowledge in cloud-based web and mobile application. – ReactJS/Redux, Angular, TypeScript, MongoDB, HTM5, PHP, REST API, JSON, Hybrid web and mobile application development framework – Ionic/Cordova, ReactNative, FeatherJS and MEAN. Experienced in databased such as MongoDB, MS SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, SAP and Intergraph SmartPlant |
Md. Rashedul Amin
Lead Cloud Engineer IoT expert with several years experience in embedded systems in industry, as senior engineer and team leader, among other leadership positions. He has been involved in projects for smart home technology and energy, and has published on IoT and embedded technology. |
Mehul Bhatt
Cloud App Developer Full-stack Computer Science Engineer with experience in web and cross-platform mobile apps handling all aspects of the system from prototyping to deployment. Has worked in markets such as e-commerce, real estate, and IT. |
Raghavendra Koushik
Cloud Developer MSc in Business Intelligence and Analytics from the University of Westminster. Software engineer with > 5 years of experience with experience working for companies such as Levi Strauss and Morrisons in the UK. |
Salman Rahman
Software Developer |
IoT & Engineering
J. Santiago Zenil-Araiza
Team Lead Engineer Engineering degree in mechatronics, robotics and automation with experience in mechanical, & electronic engineering in Germany, working for multinationals such as Siemens, Schneider Electric, and SSI Schaefer. |
Md. Motin Sobuj
Mechanical Engineer and 3D Modeller Mechanical Design Engineer with Master's studies and Solidworks Professional-CSWP certification in Mechanical Design. He has more than 5 years of experience in Product Design, ECAD, MCAD, from concept drawing to 3D modelling, & complete bill of materials for IoT products. |
Dr. Maximus Byamukama
Senior Embedded Systems Engineer PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, postdoctoral research engineer at the University of Oxford with wide experience in software development for Embedded Systems, back-end & front-end software development, multi-platform mobile apps, hardware & IoT devices. |
Dr. Rafael G. González-Acuña
Senior Optical Engineer PhD in Nanotechnology and Industrial Physical Engineer with a Master's Degree in Optomechatronics. He is the author of the solution to the problem of designing bi-aspheric single lenses free of spherical aberration widely covered by the world press. |
Biomedical & AI
Dr. Shivani Amdekar
Medical Consultant MD Royal College of Anaesthetics (FRCA) certified (Obstetric) Anaesthetic senior registrar and NHS Clinical Entrepreneur at University College Hospital (UCL) and The Royal Marsden Hospital covering emergency adult and paediatric cases, high risk obstetrics, complex cancer, peri-operative and intensive care medicine at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. She is a policy advisor at NHS England, focusing on Pan London Critical care. |
Amir Hejri
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineer PhD candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology and TI:GER MBA from the Scheller College of Business. Research experience developing new technologies for less invasive and targeted gene and stem cell delivery and in vivo pre-clinical research. |
Kaye Ashley
Lead Biomedical Scientist Degree in Medical Technology, certified Biomedical Scientist at HCPC and BMS certified in the UK & at the American Society of Clinical Pathology in the U.S. Her main expertise is in biochemistry, haematology & blood transfusion. |
Dr. Florent Michel
Lead AI Researcher PhD in in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics with seven years' experience in mathematical modelling. Expert in mathematical machine learning with applications ranging from fundamental science to real-world problems in finance and data analysis. Held a postdoctoral position at Durham University in the UK. |
Dr. Santiago Hernández O.
Senior AI Researcher PhD in Mathematics (UNAM) and 6+ years experience in research programming and R&D, postdoctoral experience at the Unit of Computational Medicine at the Karolinska Institute. He designs neurosymbolic AI and implements new AI algorithms in application to cell biology. |
Dr. M. Elena Martínez-Pérez
Senior Computer Vision Scientist PhD in Computer Science (Imperial College), postdoctoral researcher at the École Nationale Supérieure des Telecommunications (Paris), she is a world renowned researcher in medical image processing, pattern recognition & computer vision, and a distinguished professor at UNAM in Mexico. |
Dr. Atoany Nazareth Fierro Radilla
AI Researcher PhD in Communications, Electronics and Machine Learning/Deep Learning (IPN). Former Wireless Engineer for Huawei. Has more than 5 years of experience with Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms. Built Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems with ML. Has published > 12 papers in these areas. |
Dr. Mario Alberto Mercado Sánchez
AI Researcher PhD in robotics and mechatronics (IPN). His training includes electronics and AI (especially on Natural Language Processing and generative neural networks GANS), with focus on quantum information and image quantum coding models to implement a quantum convolutional network for image classification. |
Jasper Riedel
Machine Learning Assistant Data assessment, gathering, cleansing, & classifying in connection to machine & deep learning as applied to image processing, automatic input recognition & science-oriented micro-services. |
Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)SAB members actively participate in the development and operation of OIA, they meet at least twice a month with company officials and they help design OIA's offerings, evaluate OIA's science and promote OIA's technology.
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