Danail Stoyanov

Dan Stoyanov is a Professor at UCL Computer Science and Co-Director of the UCL Hawkes Institute. His research is focused on surgical AI and robotics with a particular focus on computer vision in surgical endoscopy and minimally invasive surgery. He is a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies, in addition to leading large-scale projects from the Wellcome Trust and EPSRC. He was Chief Scientist at Digital Surgery (acquired by Medtronic plc); and co-founder of Odin Vision Ltd (acquired by Olympus), Panda Surgical Ltd, and EnAcuity Ltd. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Academy of Medical Sciences, IEEE, IET and the MICCAI Society.