4.1. About the instructor

Alex Casson is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Manchester. He is a specialist in non-invasive bioelectronic interfaces: the design and application of wearable sensors, and skin-conformal flexible sensors, for human body monitoring and data analysis from highly artefact prone naturalistic situations. This work is highly multi-disciplinary, spanning ultra-low power sensing, signal processing and machine learning in power constrained rich environments, and real-time data analysis towards closed loop systems for remote monitoring and digital therapeutics. He has research experience in:

• Manufacturing using 3D printing, screen printing, and inkjet printing.

• Ultra low power microelectronic circuit and system design at the discrete and fully custom microchip levels.

• Sensor signal processing and machine learning for power and time constrained motion artefact rich environments.

• Using bespoke and off-the-shelf wearable devices in a wide range of environments.

Further details on his research are available on his main research website. He is currently based in the Royce Institute for Advanced Materials, and has previously been a Fellow of the Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

At the University of Manchester he has taught on a wide number of undergraduate courses (in addition to this course):

• First year: Small group tutorials.

• Second year: Digital Systems Design II.

• Second year: Signals and Systems.

• Third year: Individual project.

• Fourth year: Team project.

• Masters: Digital Control and Systems Identification.

• Masters: Individual dissertation.

• All years: Academic advisor.

Examples of Professor Casson’s work are below. He also has a Youtube channel where you can watch videos describing this work.