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Dr Christopher Long

  • u_clong at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Principal Academic in Healthcare Statistics
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Biography

My work at Bournemouth University focuses on the development of at-scale statistical approaches for the analysis of health & social sciences data for several application domains key to these sectors. My interests are in quantitative methods for causal inference using large datasets, inverse problems in imaging, time-series analysis and system dynamics/systems thinking approaches for the analysis of large complex healthcare systems.

Prior to my role at Bournemouth, I was Technical Lead/Senior Data Scientist at Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen Germany within the Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging Business Line. In this role I developed Business Analytic hypotheses and supporting quantitative statistical models for new lines of digital services & products in the domains of operational analytics for clinical workflows, clinical decision-making in radiology, and predictive maintenance of the MR system global fleet.

Before taking the role at Siemens, I spent four years as a Research Scientist (staff scientist track) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, USA where I worked on an IARPA(Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency)-funded program focussed on next generation elicitation using Bayesian methodology for expert forecasting in several arenas including economics, finance, politics and security scenarios...

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