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Professor Christopher Nugent

Head of School of Computing

Chris is the Head of School of Computing and holds the position of Professor of Biomedical Engineering.

Chris received a BEng Electronic Systems and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering both from the University of Ulster.  From 2015-2017 he was the Director of the Computer Science Research Institute at Ulster University and in 2017 he was appointed Head of the School of Computing.  He is currently serving his second term in this role.

His research interests include the development and evaluation of technologies to support pervasive healthcare within smart environments. Specifically, this has involved research in the topics of mobile based reminding solutions, activity recognition and behaviour modelling and more recently technology adoption modelling.

He has published extensively in these areas with papers spanning theoretical, clinical and biomedical engineering domains. He has been a grant holder of Research Projects funded by National, European and International funding bodies.  He is the director of the Pervasive Computing Research Centre and is also the co-Principal Investigator of the Connected Health Innovation Centre.  In 2016 he was awarded the Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship from Ulster University.

Chris has focussed on the development of impact from his research through a number of industrial partnerships in the form of Innovation Centres.  He is Principal Investigator at Ulster for the PWC Advanced Research and Engineering Centre which has a focus on digital transformation, and co-investigator for the BT Ireland Innovation Centre which is developing computational solutions in the domain of the Internet of Things and cyber security.

Since 2008 he has served as an Associate Editor for the Editorial Board of the IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Conference,  Healthcare Information Systems Theme and he is currently serving as a member of Ireland’s Commission on Care for Older People.