Christopher J. James
Professor of Healthcare Technology and Director of the Institute of Digital Healthcare, University of Warwick, UK
Christopher James was born in Malta, received the B.Elec.Eng. (Hons) degree in from the University of Malta (1992) and a Ph.D from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand (1997). He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the EEG department of the Montreal Neurological Institute, of McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1997-1998), and a postdoctoral research fellow (1998-2001), and then Lecturer (2001-2003) with the Neural Computing Research Group of Aston University, Birmingham, UK. From 2004-2010 he was a Reader in Biomedical Signal Processing at the University of Southampton, UK. He is now at the University of Warwick, UK.
Professor James is a biomedical engineer and his research activity centers on the development of biomedical signal and pattern processing techniques; primarily his work has concentrated on the development of advanced processing techniques applied to the analysis of the electromagnetic activity of the human brain, primarily in brain-computer interfacing. Prof James has over 150 papers in neural engineering in varied biomedical engineering journals and refereed conferences.
He is currently Chair of the IEEE UK & Republic of Ireland (UKRI) EMBS Chapter; member of IEEE EMBS ADCOM as Europe Representative, Chair of the IEEE UKRI Section Executive committee (2010-2012) and past Chair of the Executive Committee of the IET Healthcare Technology Network. Professor James is Series Editor for the Biomedical Signals and Systems book series of Artech House Publishers; Editor in Chief of the Open Medical Informatics Journal and sits on the editorial advisory board of the IEEE Spectrum magazine. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE EMBS Conference Editorial Board (Neural Engineering Theme) and he has been actively involved in many EMBS committees – mainly on student activities. He has instigated and organises the PGBIOMED series of biomedical engineering student conferences which have taken place from 2003 to date.
