Rate My Professor Aiden Doherty

Aiden Doherty is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He leads a research group of more than twenty researchers focused on wearable sensors, machine learning, and genomics. Doherty studied Computer Science for his undergraduate degree from 2001 to 2005 and completed his PhD from 2005 to 2008 in Ireland. He joined the University of Oxford in 2010 as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow.

Doherty has played a key role in the UK Biobank and China Kadoorie Biobank activity monitoring projects, which collected accelerometer data from approximately 150,000 participants. His team developed self-supervised learning methods that advanced physical activity and sleep measurement, with a 2024 paper in npj Digital Medicine receiving over 160 citations. He chairs the UK Biobank international expert working group on remote monitoring technologies and serves on the scientific advisory boards of the EU-IMI IDEA-FAST project and the EU iPROLEPSIS project. Doherty also advises the World Health Organization on the use of wearables in disease surveillance. He is Vice-President of Reuben College and has mentored fifteen early career researchers who secured £8.8 million in fellowships. His awards include the 2022–2027 Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship, the 2015 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND Award, a 2015–2017 British Heart Foundation Centre for Research Excellence fellowship, a 2010–2013 Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship, and a 2005–2008 Irish Research Council science PhD scholarship.