Dr. Jens Rittscher

Biography

Jens Rittscher is a Professor of Engineering Science and a Professorial Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. He joined the university in 2013 and has since taken up roles including Senior Research Fellow in the Nuffield Department of Medicine. He was elected to his current professorship in 2014 and has been involved with various prestigious institutions, including the Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research and the Wellcome Centre for Human Genomics. Rittscher leads the Oxford Big Data Institute's research group and has a significant background in computer vision, having previously led the Computer Vision Laboratory at GE Global Research. He completed his doctorate at Oxford and was a Marie Curie Fellow funded by the EU. His research focuses on the development of new algorithms and computational platforms for biomedical imaging, particularly in enhancing the mechanistic understanding of cancer care through quantitative image data analysis. Rittscher's work has included extensive studies on video surveillance, automatic annotation, and seismic data analysis. Additionally, he co-founded Ground Truth Labs Ltd to commercialize his research in computational pathology. Rittscher has also served as an adjunct assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is currently co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Health Data Science.

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