Dr Vegard Engen
- Associate Professor in Digital Health and AI
- Poole House P325, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
- Keywords:
- Agent-based modelling
- Computational intelligence
- Computer science and informatics
- Computing
- Decision Making
- Education
- eHealth
- Forecasting
- Human-computer interaction
- Industrial relations
- Innovation
- Machine learning
- Marketing
- PhD Supervisor
- Public health
- Risk management
- Software engineering
- Technology
Biography
I'm Deputy Head of Department in Computing & Informatics at Bournemouth University, where I focus on external engagement / professional practice and student engagement in addition to general management, teaching and research responsibilities.
My technical expertise includes several flavours of artificial intelligence, software engineering and modelling, as well as project management and business development. I am also ITIL and PRINCE2 certified.
After completing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and network-based intrusion detection at Bournemouth University in 2010, I joined a start-up in London, working with the UK Government on population-based simulation modelling. I then joined the IT Innovation Centre at the University of Southampton as a Research Engineer, doing applied research in both national and European research and innovation projects. I moved on to a senior position at IT Innovation with technical, management, business development and marketing responsibilities, before I returned Bournemouth University in 2018...
My research is driven by real-world applications, having worked with hundreds of organisations in cross-disciplinary projects over the years. I have a keen interest in applying novel technologies to generate value to people and the environment; particularly health and well-being.
A couple of fun highlights include
> Being part of the world's first mixed reality ski-race, racing down the world cup slope in Schladming (Austria) against people joining as virtual avatars from Athens and Munich. Featured in BBC Click and CBS America.
> Presenting a business process risk management framework at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, which is the world’s largest and most prestigious exhibition for the media production industry with over 1,600 exhibiting companies and 100,000 attendees from all over the world.
> Being a founding member of the BonFIRE Foundation (set up the Operations Committee), which sustained a multi-Cloud testbed part of the European Future Internet community (since then evolved to the ‘Next Generation Internet’).
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My most recent research and innovation projects have involved population-level risk stratification to support healthcare policy making, decision support for the safe navigation of shipping voyages across the arctic, and educational gaming to encourage prosocial behaviour in children.
With a background in AI, I have researched and delivered machine learning solutions applied to different real-world problems ranging from network-based intrusion detection to medical diagnosis.
My research has delved into human-machine networks from different perspectives, including risk prediction in online communities, modelling trust, agency and behaviour, population-based simulation focusing on how humans and machines influence each other in increasingly interconnected networks.
In the past, I have researched distributed search and optimisation based on natural computing (computational intelligence). I have applied this to the area of Cloud computing, working on resource optimisation based on predicting application performance.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:
Good health and well-being
"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages"
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
"Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation"
