Our Team
We Believe That Changing the Future, Means Thinking Differently.
Meet The Team
Dr Sylvester Gomes
FOUNDER & CHIEF INVESTIGATOR
Sylvester Gomes is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Evelina London Children’s Hospital and Founder & Chief Investigator of AiSEPTRON. His work focuses on bridging frontline paediatric emergency medicine with AI-driven healthcare technologies, translating research into clinically deployable tools across NHS practice, data science, and digital health. He leads several multicentre collaborations focused on real-world implementation and the co-design of AI-enabled solutions with clinicians and families. He is a member of the King’s College London MedTech Accelerator, a programme supporting the translation of research innovations into viable healthcare ventures.
Ewan Carr
STATISTICIAN
Ewan holds a MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics and a PhD in Social Statistics. His research interests are in applying novel statistical techniques to longitudinal and routine clinical datasets. His experience extends over a wide range of analytical methods, including latent variable techniques, multilevel modelling, and more recently, machine learning and topological data analysis. He is a keen user of R and Python, and has many years of experience with Mplus and Stata. He teaches on a wide range of statistical techniques and lectures on courses in R, ‘Statistical Programming’, ‘Statistical Modelling’, ‘Research methods for multilevel data’ and supports delivery of other modules within the department.
Lawrence Adams
LEAD ANALYTICS ENGINEER
Lawrence is a data engineer and data scientist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital, where he leads work to transform complex electronic health records into research-ready data. Drawing on his clinical background, he helps connect data from multiple NHS trusts to support large-scale research, using modern tools to ensure the data is accurate, consistent, and meaningful for improving patient care.
Emily Jin
SENIOR PRODUCT DATA SCIENTIST
Emily Jin is a medical doctor and data scientist at the London AI Centre (part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust), where she applies her clinical expertise to develop AI-based solutions using electronic health data. She sits at the intersection of healthcare and technology, helping translate complex hospital data into insights that drive improved patient outcomes.
Aleksandra Foy
DATA ANALYST
Aleksandra is the Natural Language Processing (NLP) lead for Cogstack and is based at the Guys and St Thomas' Hospital. She will play a crucial role for data extraction from EPIC and our NLP platform, CogStack. She will guide the methodology and undertake the data analysis aspects of this project, coordinate with the data teams, develop the machine learning algorithms, and analyse results in conjunction with the clinical experts and statisticians.
Vitaliy Onlinyk
SENIOR PRODUCT DEVELOPER
Vitaliy is a passionate and innovative software engineer who leads the product development team at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Trust. He is responsible for designing, developing and delivering cutting-edge solutions that improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services. He has over 10 years of experience in various domains such as web development, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. He is also a Scrum Master and a mentor for junior developers. He enjoys learning new technologies and sharing his knowledge with others.
Dika Vilić
HEAD OF CLINICAL SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
Dika leads the technical development of AiSEPTRON, overseeing system architecture, EHR integration, and platform delivery. She is a clinical scientist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust with a background in computing science, psychology, and medical physics. Her expertise includes clinical AI infrastructure, healthcare data systems, and AI delivery within NHS environments.
Anil Mistry
CLINICAL SCIENTIST, REGULATORY & CLINICAL SAFETY LEAD
Anil leads regulatory, safety, and quality management for AiSEPTRON, including the MHRA pathway and technical documentation. He is a clinical scientist in medical physics with expertise in healthcare AI and regulatory frameworks. His work focuses on governance, quality systems, and the safe implementation of AI technologies within NHS environments.
Dr Harpreet Dhanoa
DATA SCIENTIST, Phase 1
Harpreet has PhD in Astrochemistry and Computational Astrophysics from the University College, London. She is a DiRAC (Distributed Research Utilising Advanced Computing) Fellow seconded to the Guys and St Thomas’s Hospital. She has as expertise in working with large datasets, using machine learning in multiple contexts including healthcare, and working with clinical teams to support and improve patient care through data analysis.
Phil Assheton
STATISTICIAN, Phase 1
Phil has extensive experience in tutoring and advising statistics for courses and academic projects at the University of Lincoln. He has years of experience in coding statistical models at investment banks in London. He has a PhD in Probabilistic Neural Networks (Durham/ Lincoln Universities), MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Artificial Intelligence from Durham University (First Class Honours).