Jaume Bacardit

Newcastle University

Jaume Bacardit is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Newcastle University in the UK. He has received a BEng, MEng in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science from Ramon Llull University, Spain in 1998, 2000 and 2004, respectively. Bacardit’s research interests include the development of machine learning methods for large-scale problems, the design of techniques to extract knowledge and improve the interpretability of machine learning algorithms, known as Explainable AI, and the application of these methods to a broad range of problems, mostly in biomedical domains. He leads/has led the data analytics efforts of several large interdisciplinary consortiums: D-BOARD (EU FP7, €6M, focusing on OA biomarker identification), APPROACH (EI-IMI €15M, focusing on OA disease phenotype identification) and PORTABOLOMICS (UK EPSRC £4.3M focusing on synthetic biology). He has 100+ peer-reviewed publications.