Biography
Lei is affiliated with the "AI for Healthcare'' CHI Lab led by Prof David Clifton, and currently leads a group of 3-4 researchers in the Nuffield Department of Population Health. She also leads analytical work in the Pandemic Science Institute on effective pandemic preparedness and response. Lei is a senior advisor of the NIHR Research Support Service team, which provides free advice on research design to researchers.
Lei was awarded a PhD in Statistical Machine Learning in 2007 from UMIST (now the University of Manchester), and subsequently worked as a post-doctoral researcher and then a medical statistician in the University of Oxford. She enjoys painting watercolours and playing violin, both amateurishly, in her spare time.
Other Information
Statistical and machine learning expertise in large-scale clinical records.
Research Interests
Lei's research interests are in the field of medical statistics and AI, for large-scale observational studies and electronic health records.