Sam Nallaperuma

Biography

Sam is a Senior Research Associate at the department of Computer Science, a fellow of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Science and Society at the Accelerate Programme and a bye fellow at Murray Edwards College. Sam contributes to the application of AI to solve modelling and optimisation problems in real world networks. Recently, being awarded the Accelerate Programme’s fellowship, Sam develops digital twin models for biological networks to accelerate the healthcare sector in the context of diagnosis and treatment recommendation for sleep disorders. Moreover, Sam has been awarded further funding and collaboration support for this project through Centre of Integrative Neuroscience Discovery (CIND) early career award and Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE) grand challenge for devices and systems for healthcare. Sam collaborates with researchers from multiple disciplines and invites interested researchers in AI, digital twins, sleep research, health sciences and healthcare professionals to collaborate for the project developments to support affordable and accessible digital healthcare for everyone in the world. Sam also accepts research proposals from students who would like to purse their thesis projects in the applications of AI in digital health.