Aras Asaad

Aras is developing Oxford Drug Design’s topological data analysis pipeline to build topological fingerprints from molecules. The work mainly involves using algebraic topology methods to design novel anti-infectives and other therapeutic agents. He is also combining topological methods with machine learning approaches to enrich our pipeline of molecular featurisation methods.

Aras obtained his MSc and D. Phil in mathematics both from The University of Buckingham in the area of applied topology. His doctoral thesis developed novel topology-based algorithms for various image analysis tasks such as fake face detection and biomedical image analysis. He was appointed Honorary Research Fellow by the School of Computing at The University of Buckingham.