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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

Professor Michael Chai
Professor in Internet of Things & QM Director of Joint Programme with BUPT
Engineering, Eng 208
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

Professor Eirini Marouli
Professor of Computational Biology, AI, and Emerging Technologies
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

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