Our Team
Developing next generation of AI technologies for real world research into multiple sclerosis
Arman Eshaghi
MS-PINPOINT lead, Principal InvestigatorArman leads the methodological developments and its clinical applications to solve impactful problems in multiple sclerosis (MS). Arman is an NIHR Advanced Fellow and UCL Principal Research Fellow (Associate Professor). He works across ten hospitals in the MS-PINPOINT project in the UK, Netherlands, Germany and Canada.
Jon Stutters
Data EngineerJon is responsible for data management and engineering for the PINPOINT project.
Philipp Goebl
PhD StudentPhilipp Goebl has been a Research Assistant within our group since 2023 and a PhD student from Oct 2024. He studied medicine at the Medical University of Vienna. He wrote his doctoral thesis on brain arteriovenous malformations and later pursued a neurosurgical residency in Switzerland. Philipp also studied medical informatics. His research focus on real-world segmentation of medical images of the brain using privacy-conscious machine learning.
Barbara Brito Vega
PhD StudentBarbara Brito Vega is a PhD student at UCL, working on AI-enabled image processing algorithms for MS clinical trials and patient care. She is developing AI models for processing routine care spinal cord MRI of those living with MS. She holds a BEng in Biomedical Engineering from UPM, Madrid, and an MSc in Neuroimaging from KCL, London. She has experience in the neuroimaging CRO industry. She is part of the EPSRC CDT i4Health in collaboration with IXICO.
Ben Ford
PhD StudentBen Ford joined the MS-PINPOINT team in 2024 as a PhD student. His work focuses on improving prognostics and treatment planning for MS patients using machine learning models. He holds an MEng in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London, where he worked on non-invasive neural interfaces using electromyography. Ben focuses his PhD on predictive models using routine-care datasets which can eventually improve outcomes for MS patients. Ben is another member of the i4health Centre for Doctoral Training in collaboration with Icometrix.
Stef Piatek
Senior Software Engineer at UCL ARCStef is a Senior Research Software Engineer in UCL’s Centre for Advanced Research Computing. He specialises in healthcare projects, enabling researchers timely access to data and developing environments that enable analysis and display of this data. Stef is leading software development for anonymising and preparing NHS data at UCLH for the MS-PINPOINT project.
