
Prof. Dr. ir. André Dekker
Smart Health Lead | Principal Investigator
Andre is a professor of Clinical Data Science at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Science and focuses on the Smart Health theme of BISS. In this theme, the use of often sensitive health data and the use of such data in AI applications to improve health and healthcare are the main topics of interest.
Andre is an accomplished scientist, has authored over 250 publications, mentored more than 50 PhD students and holds multiple awards and patents on the topic of federated data and AI. He has held visiting scientist appointments at universities and companies in the UK, Australia, Italy, USA and Canada. He typically gives 50 invited lectures every year on the topic of AI in Health.
Andre is a board-certified medical physicist with an MSc in physics and a PhD in medicine.
Keywords:
- Opinion leader
- Engineer
- Scientist
- Clinical impact
My work at BISS
BETTER: Responsible data analytics in healthcare
In the BETTER project, we are working on the integration of technical (and administrative) with the ethical and societal aspects during AI development.
FAIR4AI: making AI models practically usable
In the suite of FAIR4AI projects, we are improving the practical usability of AI models by implementing the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles.