Raheleh Kafieh

Rahele Kafieh is an Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at Durham University and serves as an EPSRC Women in Engineering Ambassador. With a career spanning over 13 years in health-related projects and AI-driven medical data analysis, her contributions to the field are evidenced by over 120 research articles she has authored. Rahele has many projects, including grants such as the EPSRC IAA, UKRI MRC Ageing Research Development Award, Switzerland research seed money, Einstein Forum grant, National Institute for Medical Research Development grant, and TÜBİTAK grant. She has earned the Article of the Year Award from the Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine journal and honored with the Best Paper Award in the COVID domain by the Ministry of Health in Iran. Rahele is currently leading the EPSRC IAA project titled "Enhancing Healthcare with AI-Based Home Monitoring for Retinal Diseases," conducted in collaboration with Siloton Limited. One of her flagship projects, funded by the UKRI MRC award, is titled "OCTage: monitoring the ageing brain via Optical Coherence Tomography of the eyes" (MR/Y010825/1). She is a member of BioMedEng Association and Institute of Physics & Engineering in Medicine (IPEM). She was a Research Associate, at the Institute of Biosciences, at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom from 2021 to 2022. And she was a guest researcher at Neurocure Clinical Research Center, Charite University, Berlin, Germany in 2018 and 2019.