Professor Conrad BessantProfessor of BioinformaticsEmail: c.bessant@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: https://calendly.com/bessant Room Number: Third Floor, Empire House (Whitechapel Campus)Website: https://bezzlab.github.io/ProfileTeachingResearchPublicationsSupervisionProfileConrad Bessant has over 20 years’ experience of data science, tackling research questions in analytical chemistry, biomolecular science, and qualitative healthcare studies. His overarching research interest is the automation of scientific discovery in the biomedical domain. While some aspects of biomedical research such as data acquisition and routine analysis are already commonly automated, fundamental research activities such as hypothesis generation, identification of relevant datasets and interpretation of results still require extensive input from human experts. This is becoming increasingly intractable as available datasets grow in size and complexity – innovative solutions to automate the process are needed. Technologies being used by Conrad’s research group to automate the scientific discovery process include machine learning, logic modelling, network science and Bayesian inference. Conrad is based in QMUL’s Digital Environment Research Institute and is a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. He leads QMUL’s MSc Bioinformatics programme and is the academic lead of the UKRI AI for Drug Discovery Doctoral Training Programme.Undergraduate Teaching Essential Skills for Biochemists (Tutorials) (BIO101) Biomedical Sciences Research Project (BMD600) Postgraduate TeachingTeaching on our Bioinformatics MSc AI and Data Science in Biology (BIO720P) Bioinformatics Software Development Group Project (BIO727P) Bioinformatics research project (BIO702P) ResearchResearch Interests:Conrad’s overarching research interest is the automation of scientific discovery in the biomedical domain. While some aspects of biomedical research such as data acquisition and routine analysis are already commonly automated, fundamental research activities such as hypothesis generation, identification of relevant datasets and interpretation of results still require extensive input from human experts. This is becoming increasingly intractable as available datasets grow in size and complexity – innovative solutions to automate the process are needed. Technologies being used by Conrad’s research group to automate the scientific discovery process include machine learning, logic modelling, network science and Bayesian inference. Research department Biochemistry Publications Browse a list of publications by Conrad Bessant See Conrad Bessant's Google Scholar Citations SupervisionCurrent PhD opportunities Towards an autonomous in silico researcher: Can we automate scientific discovery? Conrad’s group hosts students from the following doctoral training programmes: BBSRC LIDo, UKRI AIDD, Wellcome Trust HDiP. PhD supervision Nikhil Branson George Elder Esteban Gea Magdalena Hübner Martina Occhetta Antara Labiba (co-supervised with Prabs Rajan, Barts Cancer Institute) Hajar Saha (co-supervised with Will Alazawi, Blizard Institute)Yoana Bobeva (co-supervised with Andrea Malaspina, Blizard Institute)