Azzam Taktak, BEng (Hons), PhD, DipStat, CEng, CSci, FIPEM is Consultant Clinical Scientist at the Royal Liverpool UniversityHospital and an Honorary Professor at the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester. He is a former Vice President of Engineering,CEng Registrar and a Director of the IPEM. He is a national assessor at the Association of Clinical Scientists and lead assessorat the National School for Healthcare Scientists. His main research interests are mathematical and statistical modelling and theuse of artificial intelligence and machine learning in medicine. To date, he has published more than 75 peer-reviewed articlesand edited 2 books. He has in the past led a European project on ocular oncology under the Biopattern Network of Excellence which was funded by the European Commission.