About the Author
Paulo J G Lisboa is Professor and co-Director of the School of Computer Science and Mathematics at Liverpool John Moores University. He is past chair of the Horizon 2020 Advisory Group for Societal Challenge 1: Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing, the world's largest coordinated research programme in health, and of the Healthcare Technologies Professional Network and JA Lodge Prize Committee in the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is a long-time advocate of interpretable machine learning with over 250 peer-reviewed publications. In 1992 edited the first book on applications of neural networks. He studied mathematical physics at Liverpool University where he took a PhD in particle physics in 1983. He was appointed chair of Industrial Mathematics at Liverpool John Moores University in 1996 becoming Head of Graduate School and Head of Department of Applied Mathematics.
Alfredo Vellido is an associate professor and former Ramn y Cajal fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech) in Barcelona, Spain. Currently, he is a coordinator of the Health, Wellbeing and Inclusion area of the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDEAI-UPC) Research Center and chair of the Task Force on Medical Data Analysis for the IEEE-Computational Intelligence Society Data Mining and Big Data Analytics Technical Committee. He is also a member of the CIBER-BBN Spanish network and the Big Data, Inteligencia Artificial (BIGSEN) group of the Spanish Nephrology Society. He was awarded a PhD in Neural Computation from Liverpool John Moores University (Liverpool, UK) in 2000. He has devoted a good share of the last 25 years to research in medical applications of machine learning.
