About
Dr Nic Fair is a Senior Knowledge Engineer in the IT-Innovation group within the Digital Health and Biomedical Engineering group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science within the University of Southampton, with a particular focus on knowledge representation, knowledge application and knowledge exchange.
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- Ontology development
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Biography
Dr Nic Fair is currently leading work packages and tasks on a range of health, data science and AI projects funded by the EU Horizon, Wessex ARC, and NIHR programmes. He is a founder and Chief Technology Officer for an early-stage spin-out company providing a smartphone app that reduces impulsive spending among people with Bipolar Disorder.
He is a founding member and core community builder of MITHRA: The Multi-Domain Intelligence-Assisted Threat and Risk Assessment Community.
He supervises 3 PhD students researching different aspects of VR/AR/XR, including immersive information search and retrieval and non-expert XR content creation for secondary school health education.
He has a PhD in Digital Education and Web Science and is a serving member of the University of Southampton Senate.
He belongs to the BERA, BDVA (Skills and Education for Big Data and AI Task Force) and the IFNTF.
Previously he has:
- successfully lead work packages responsible for the dissemination, awarding and managing of 5.7million Euros of Open Call funding to 40 SMEs and institutions across the European technology and manufacturing sectors via two large EC Horizon projects
- jointly developed the Biomedical Burden Ontology and the Skills for Organisational Objectives Ontology
- led the development of an app to optimise fertiliser application to maximise crop yields and minimise environmental impact
- been a Policy Advisor to the UK Cabinet Office Open Innovation Team
- led the development of LifeLab Online, a unique research-based educational project from the University of Southampton, the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and University Hospital Southampton to empower children and young people to understand the science behind the health messages they see and hear
- been a UNESCO Open Education Resources mentor supporting the Bahraini Ministry of Education
- led the development of innovative web-based interactive Showcase dissemination materials for the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub project
- been mentor to the 'Research while you sleep - SleepeR' intelligent study buddy project with the Winchester School of Art
- led the 'Living and Working on the Web' module at Southampton
- been an expert reviewer for the AHRC Responsive Mode Standard Research Grants
- been lead academic and developer for the FutureLearn MOOC 'Learning in the Network Age'
- been an Editorial Assistant on the Journal for Higher Education Pedagogies
- been Co-ordinator of the joint Parliamentary Digital Service and Web Science Institute ‘Ontology & Data Platform Development’ project
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