Rate My Professor Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes

Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes is Professor of Biomedical Computing in the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL). He earned his Medical Doctor (MD) degree in Clinical Medicine from the Luis Razetti School of Medicine at Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas in 1993. Following clinical training, he completed a life-sciences doctorate (DPhil) focused on molecular medicine, along with an MSc. His interdisciplinary career bridges medicine, computational statistics, and artificial intelligence, with prior roles including Reader in Paediatrics, Global Health, Infectious Diseases and Computational Statistics, and Honorary Senior Lecturer. Appointed Professor at UCL in 2016, he is affiliated with the Intelligent Systems Group and serves as an adjunct professor in paediatrics.

Professor Fernandez-Reyes specializes in biomedical computing, applying machine learning and AI to healthcare challenges such as automated disease diagnosis, computational pathology, and digital health interventions. His research includes data-driven predictions for malaria prevalence in mobile populations (Scientific Reports, 2020), wisdom-of-crowds detection of COVID-19 severity (Scientific Reports, 2021), deep learning for red blood cell morphology analysis (British Journal of Haematology, 2024), circulatory hepcidin in childhood malaria (Blood, 2013), biomarker discovery via sparse canonical correlation analysis (PLOS Computational Biology, 2013), and diagnostic markers for tuberculosis using gene expression microarrays (The Lancet, 2006, cited over 360 times). He has secured major funding, including the EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund for advanced MRI research in collaboration with Professor Daniel Alexander. His contributions extend to leading the MSc programme in AI for Biomedicine and Healthcare at UCL, expert-level automated malaria diagnosis on blood films, federated learning for cross-institutional medical image analysis, and digitally enabled rehabilitation for Long COVID patients. Fernandez-Reyes has influenced fields like infectious diseases, paediatrics, and computational medicine through high-impact publications and collaborative grants.