Personal Chair in Software Testing and Verification
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Professor Ajitha Rajan is Chair of Software Testing and Verification in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. She joined the School of Informatics in 2013 as a Chancellor’s Fellow after having done her postdoc in University of Oxford and University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble. She graduated with a PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2009. She is a Royal Society Industry Fellow. Her research is directed towards bridging the gap between theoretical foundations and practical applications, addressing real-world challenges across several application domains that include medical diagnostics, automotive systems, compilers and hardware devices. Over the last few years, she has been working on trustworthiness of artificial intelligence applied to cancer treatment. She is the Edinburgh lead on a European H2020 project, KATY, that aims to build personalised treatment prediction for Renal cancer patients. She has an ongoing collaboration with radiologist, Dr. Rishi Ramesh, in NHS Lothian to build clinically relevant explainable AI techniques for Chest X-ray diagnosis. She is a co-I on the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems node on Responsibility and a recent MRC grant, MANIFEST, on cancer immunotherapy response. She is an Associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology and guest editor for a special issue in Philosophical Transactions Royal Society. She has been awarded grants from EPSRC, Royal Society, H2020, Facebook, GCHQ, Huawei, and SICSA. She is a winner of the Facebook Testing and Verification Award, both in 2018 and 2019.
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