Congratulations to Anna Markella Antoniadi who successfully passed her PhD viva this afternoon.
Anna’s thesis title is “The Application of Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Modelling Quality of Life and Caregiver Burden in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis to Inform Clinical Decision-Making”.
Many thanks to her examiners, Prof. Pierangelo Veltri, University of Catanzaro, and internal examiner Dr Mark Matthews. Many thanks also to Associate Prof. Gianluca Pollastri for arranging and chairing the viva via zoom, and to Anna’s Research Studies Panel (Prof. Pádraig Cunningham and Dr Marguerite Barry) for their support and guidance of Anna over the last four years. Finally, a big thank you to our collaborators, Prof. Orla Hardiman, Miriam Galvin and Mark Heverin in Trinity College Dublin for closely working with Anna throughout her PhD.