Dr Max A. Little

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• D.Phil. (Oxon) in Applied Mathematics, University of Oxford
• B.Sc. (Honours) in Mathematics, Open University

• Ugur Kayas, The mathematical structure of deep learning (provisional title), University of Birmingham, UK, 2018 – present (primary supervisor)

• Yazan Qarout, Identifying surprising user behavior from wearable devices (provisional title), Aston University, UK, 2018 – present (co-supervisor)

• Adam Farooq, Bayesian nonparametrics for high dimensional signals (provisional title), Aston University, UK, 2018 – present (co-supervisor)

• Anna Beukenhorst, Wearable devices for digital epidemiological study of musculosketal diseases (provisional title), University of Manchester, 2017 – present (co-supervisor)

• Alex Oldroyd, Title TBA, University of Manchester, 2017 – present (co-supervisor)

• Katy Weihrich, Identifying patterns of physical activity in musculoskeletal disease (provisional title), University of Manchester, 2017 – present (co-supervisor)

• Reham Badawy, Detection of pre-clinical Parkinson’s disease using smartphones (provisional title), University of Birmingham, UK, 2014 – present (primary supervisor)

• Jordan Raykov, A deterministic inference framework for discrete nonparametric latent variable models, Aston University, UK, 2013 – 2017 (primary supervisor)

• Paul Moore, Mathematical modelling, forecasting and telemonitoring of mood in bipolar disorder, University of Oxford, UK, 2008 – 2014 (primary supervisor)

• Ben Fulcher, Highly comparative time-series analysis, University of Oxford, UK, 2009 – 2012 (co-supervisor)

• Athanasios Tsanas, Accurate telemonitoring of Parkinson’s disease symptom severity using nonlinear speech signal processing and statistical machine learning, University of Oxford, UK, 2008 – 2012 (co-supervisor)

Causal inference in machine learning, statistical machine learning in signal processing, wearable devices for neurological disorders.

National and international steering committees, advisory roles:

• Parkinson’s UK College of Experts, UK, 2019 (by invitation)

• Data Science Prize Review Panel, Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, NY, USA, 2017

• Udall Center P20 External Advisory Board Member, Rochester University Medical Center, NY, USA, 2015 – present

• Nesta Health Lab “NHS in 2030” Report, Nesta, UK, 2015 (advisor)

• Wearable Technology Research Committee, Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, NY, USA, 2016 – present

• National Institute on Aging Alzheimer’s Disease Summit 2015, National Institutes of Health, MD, USA, 2014 – 2015

• X-Prize Foundation, CA, USA, 2014

• Accelerometry Data Steering Group, UK Biobank, Wellcome Trust, UK, 2014 – present

• Data Sharing Steering Group, Parkinson’s UK, 2014 – present

• Dementia Innovation Unit Citizen Science Platform, Department of Health, UK, 2014

 Reviewer, national funding bodies:

• Health Research Council, New Zealand, 2019
• MRC, UK, 2018
• National Institutes for Health, USA, 2017
• Networks of Centers of Excellence, Canada, 2013
• EPSRC, UK, 2009
• Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands, 2014, 2019
• National Science Centre, Poland, 2013, 2016, 2017
• Czech Science Foundation, 2016
• Icelandic Research Fund, Iceland, 2011
• Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, USA, 2016 – present
• Parkinson’s UK, 2014