The School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton is a world-leading centre of excellence for research, teaching, enterprise and innovation and is now one of the largest schools of its kind in the world.

Role in HealthAgents

They hold a preponderant function in the definition of the Agent Technology and Medical Ontologies. Prof Lewis is the scientific head of HealthAgents.

Background

The School consistently achieves the highest ratings and was rated 5* by the RAE in 2001, and is now rated 6* by HEFCE. Within the school, the IAM (Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia) Group focuses on the design and application of computing systems for complex information and knowledge processing tasks. IAM is an international leader in the three major themes of intelligent and adaptive behaviour, agent-based design and implementation and multi-modal multimedia analysis, communication and management.  

People

Paul Lewis Professor with the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science. His main research interests are in the area of image and video analysis, semantic annotation and their application to multimedia information handling. He is a principal investigator on the EU funded SCULPTEUR project investigating technologies for search, retrieval and semantic navigation of multimedia museum archives, in collaboration with museums over Europe. He was also a co-investigator on the EPSRC e-Science MIAKT (Medical Imaging with Advanced Knowledge Technologies) project, investigating the application of knowledge technologies in support of medical decision making. Other details: DOB 16.6.56; B.Sc. (London), Ph.D. (London)

Srinandan Dasmahapatra Lecturer with the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, affiliated with the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) IRC. His current research activities are in knowledge representation and reasoning in Artificial Intelligence, involving logic-based and probabilistic formalisms. He has been a co-investigator for the MIAKT (Medical Imaging with Advanced Knowledge Technologies) project where he has helped in the development of domain ontologies. Other details: DOB: 20.6.64; B.Sc. (Calcutta), PhD (Stony Brook)