Prof. Dr.
Aldo Faisal
University of Bayreuth

Christian Thiel/Deutscher Ethikrat
Focus of the commitment in the German Ethics Council
- Human ethomics and digital biomarkers
- Human–robotics interaction
- Computational neuroscience and neurotechnology
- AI in healthcare and policy
- Behaviour analytics
Professional background
- Since 2024 Co-Director, School of Human and Artificial Intelligence, Imperial College
- Since 2022 Hightech Agenda Professorship for Digital Health and Data Science, University of Bayreuth
- Since 2023 Co-Director at the Alan Turing Institute, London
- 2021–2025 UKRI Turing AI Fellowship
- Since 2020 Professor of AI and Neuroscience at the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Computing, Imperial College London
- Since 2019 Director at the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare, Imperial College London
- Since 2016 Director of the Behaviour Analytics Lab at the Data Science Institute, Imperial College London
- Since 2013 Deputy Group Leader at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences
- Since 2010 Affiliate Faculty of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
- 2006 PhD at the University of Cambridge
- Doctoral Fellowship for basic biomedical research from the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation
- Fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation
Memberships
- Deputy Chairman of the Global AI Action Alliance, World Economic Forum Davos
- Member of the IEEE Standardisation Group for Neurotechnologies
Distinctions
- 2022 Rosetree Interdisciplinary Award for the “AI Clinician”
- 2018 Research Discovery Prize of the Toyota Mobility Foundation
Selected publications
- Kadirvelu, B.; Gavriel, C.; Nageshwaran, S.; Chan, J.P.K.; Nethisinghe, S.; Athanasopoulos, S.; Ricotti, V.; Voit, T.; Giunti, P.; Festenstein, R.; Faisal, A.A. (2023): A wearable motion capture suit and machine learning predict disease progression in Friedreich’s ataxia. Nature Medicine, 29 (1), 86–94. DOI: 10.1038/s41591-022-02159-6
- Deisenroth, M.P.; Faisal, A.A.; Ong, C.S. (2020): Mathematics for Machine Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781108679930
- Komorowski, M.; Celi, L.A.; Badawi, O.; Gordon, A.C.; Faisal, A.A. (2018): The Artificial Intelligence Clinician learns optimal treatment strategies for sepsis in intensive care. Nature Medicine, 24 (11), 1716–1720. DOI: 10.1038/s41591-018-0213-5
- Faisal, A.A.; Selen, L.P.J., Wolpert, D.M. (2008): Noise in the nervous system. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9 (4), 292–303. DOI: 10.1038/nrn2258