Welcome to the AI4H Lab
We are a dynamic research group at the Institute of Health Informatics (IHI), University College London (UCL). Our aim is to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in healthcare and implement them in real healthcare systems. Specifically, our work includes practical algorithm design, chronic disease care, hospital & patient management, precision medicine, health informatics, medical wearable technology, etc.
To this end, we develop ML & AI algorithms to estimate and predict events in various healthcare scenarios using data ranging from biomarker time series to hospital EHR. With the help of clinicians, patients and researchers, we also embed and deploy the proposed methods in hospitals & clinical trials, promoting AI from papers to healthcare systems to make real impact in improving human’s wellbeing.
We are located at University College London (UCL), the birthplace of Deepmind, and have close collaborations with NHS hospitals (UCLH, etc). Our Institute is home to a unique range of expertise and talent resulting in highly impactful, world-changing research using large scale data and advanced analytics.
We are looking for passionate new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (more info) !
We are grateful for funding from NHS-X, Rosetrees Trust, UKRI CDT, and UCL Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
News
Dec 2025Dr Joseph Farrington wins the OR Society’s prestigious Doctoral Award for his outstanding PhD research at UCL. His work brings together operational research, machine learning, and high-performance computing to develop scalable, real-world solutions for platelet inventory management in hospital blood banks.
Nov 2025Dr. Li and team wins the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 6th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Medical Sciences (SAIMS 2025) in Wuhan for their work “Advancing Blood Glucose Prediction through Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models in Simulated and Real-World Environments.”
Oct 2025Dr. Li and team receive the Outstanding Oral Presentation Award at IEEE GCCE 2025 for their paper “A Multi-Class Valvular Heart Disease Diagnosis System Using a Two-Stage Lightweight Model.”
Jul 2025Dr. Li was invited as speaker for the workshop of AI and applications in healthcare for Peking University, Oxford Campus.
Jun 2025Dr. Li and team wins the Best Application Award at the IEEE Global Blockchain Conference in Shanghai, receiving a 1000 USD prize for their innovative project.
May 2025Thomas Frost wins 1st Prize at the Institute of Health Informatics Three Minute Thesis Competition for his talk “Optimisation of Titrable Infusions in the ICU using Reinforcement Learning,” supervised by Prof. Steve Harris and Dr. Kezhi Li.
May 2025Amelia participates in the FPHS AI & Digital Health Hackathon, selected as the overall winners among more than 20 students across the faculty.
May 2025AI4H’s collaborator at Imperial College, Dr. Zhipeng Wang, will start his lectureship in University of Manchester, focusing on AI privacy and safety.
Apr 2025Hengrui Zhang presents his work on IDF World Diabetes Congress 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand.