By Dr Javier Escudero-Rodriguez is a Chancellors Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and was part of the 2014 cohort of Crucibilists.
Javier’s group focus on processing biomedical signals and images in clinical applications. Their main aim is to reveal the subtle changes that major diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s and epilepsy) cause in the brain activity.
In collaboration with researchers at Edinburgh, across the UK and overseas, they are currently working in the processing and analysis of biomedical signals, particularly human brain activity. By applying advanced mathematics, they aim at increasing our understanding of how several brain conditions progress. Of particular interest is the evaluation of brain functional connectivity in both neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases to understand how they affect the way in which different brain regions interact with each other.
The team are also interested in the interplay between structure and function in the brain and in the application of pattern recognition techniques to highly-dimensional clinical datasets to support decision making. Finally, they also work in the development of non-invasive methods for rehabilitation purposes, being either the dexterous controls prostheses for amputees or brain-computer interfaces.
Research Interests
- Multiway analysis
- Brain connectivity
- Complex network theory
- Adaptive multivariate signal processing
- Interplay between brain structure and function
- Data fusion
- Applications of pattern recognition to physiological data
For more information on Javier, see his webpage at the University of Edinburgh.