Henry Woodruff (H.C.A.)

Henry is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Precision Medicine and Head of The D-Lab. Holding a PhD in astrophysics he now employs machine learning techniques and advanced quantitative image analysis methods to bring precision medicine closer to clinical implementation (see www.radiomics.world). Currently he is working on dozens of projects focused on finding prognostic and diagnostic imaging biomarkers related to diseases such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and stroke. Henry is a passionate educator and wishes to bring AI into the curriculum for biomedicine and medicine. He also organizes the international quantitative image analysis course AI4Imaging.

Expertises

Applying advanced machine learning and image processing methods on vast amounts of medical data in order to improve the lives of patients, with a focus on decision support systems and precision medicine

Career history

2017—2020 Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Maastricht, The Netherlands

2014—2017 Postdoctoral Researcher, Central Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia

2011—2014 Postdoctoral Researcher, Hunter Cancer Research Alliance, Newcastle, Australia

2009 PhD Astrophysics, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

2003 MSc Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany