Who we are
Prof Danail Stoyanov, Director
Prof Dan Stoyanov is a Professor of Robot Vision at the Department of Computer Science at UCL, Co-Director of the UCL Hawkes Institute, and Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. He is elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (FIEEE), Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (FIET), Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), and Fellow of the MICCAI Society (FMICCAI). His research is focused on developing surgical robotics and artificial intelligence for improving minimally invasive interventions.
He leads the Surgical Robot Vision group at the UCL Hawkes Institute.
Prof Sarah Bohndiek, Co-Director
Prof Sarah Bohndiek is a Professor of Biomedical Physics in the Department of Physics and at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Her research interests lie in advancing our understanding of tumour evolution using next-generation imaging sciences and in translating these findings into first-in-human clinical trials. Sarah is an elected Fellow of SPIE and was recently awarded the CRUK Future Leaders in Cancer Research Prize and SPIE Early Career Achievement Award in recognition of her interdisciplinary research innovation.
She leads the VISIONLAb research team at the University of Cambridge.
Prof Daniel Elson, Co-Director
Daniel Elson is a Professor of Surgical Imaging and Biophotonics in the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Institute of Global Health Innovation and Department of Surgery and Cancer at St. Mary's Hospital. Research interests are based around the development and application of photonics technology to medical imaging, including multispectral imaging, near infrared fluorescence, structured lighting, light sources in endoscopy and diffuse and fluorescence spectroscopy.
He leads the Surgical Imaging and Biophotonics group at the Hamlyn Centre.