{"id":2,"date":"2018-05-25T09:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T08:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/dsai\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:55:13","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/dsai\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Core Academic Staff<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/dr-xiaomin-chen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Xiaomin Chen<\/a> (Head of Group)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/professor-atta-badii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prof Atta Badii<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/dr-nachiketa-chakraborty\">Dr Nachiketa Chakraborty<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/dr-ferran-espuny-pujol\">Dr Ferran Espuny-Pujol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/professor-xia-hong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prof Xia Hong<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/dr-martin-lester\">Dr Martin Lester<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/dr-zahra-pooranian\">Dr Zahra Pooranian<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Affiliate Academic Staff<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/professor-james-ferryman\">Prof James Ferryman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/dr-alan-guedes\">Dr Alan Guedes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/dr-asad-hussain\">Dr Asad Hussain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/dr-ka-man-lam\">Dr Ka Man Lam<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/professor-richard-mitchell\">Prof Richard Mitchell<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/dr-pat-parslow\">Dr Pat Parslow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/dr-hong-wei\">Dr Hong Wei<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/computer-science\/staff\/dr-lily-sun\">Dr Lily Sun<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>PhD Students<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Aadil Sattar<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Gaoxuan Li<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core Academic Staff Dr Xiaomin Chen (Head of Group) Prof Atta Badii Dr Nachiketa Chakraborty Dr Ferran Espuny-Pujol Prof Xia Hong Dr Martin Lester Dr Zahra Pooranian Affiliate Academic Staff&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#100;&#115;&#97;&#105;&#47;&#112;&#101;&#111;&#112;&#108;&#101;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":16,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>People - Data Science &amp; 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