Bilal A Mateen trained as a physician while concurrently engaging in academia within the machine learning for health sector. They have held prominent roles, including Clinical Data Science Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute and Senior Manager at Wellcome Trust, leading initiatives focused on digital health technology. Currently, Bilal leads Digital Square, a market-shaping initiative aimed at transforming health systems for global health equity, while also serving as a Professor in Machine Learning for Health at the University of Birmingham. Their educational background includes multiple distinctions in public health and medicine from UCL and The University of Edinburgh.