Barry Ryan, PhD profile page

Dr. Barry Ryan joined Professor Jacques Fellay’s Lab of Human Genomics of Infection and Immunity in October 2025, after completing his PhD at the University of Edinburgh under Professor Ian Simpson in the area of biomedical artificial intelligence. Ryan comes from a computational background, having studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. He first began to train in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) during a master’s year at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. This was where he first developed an interest in interdisciplinary biomedical applications of ML and AI. Ever since, Ryan has enjoyed tackling problems of biological data integrations, characterising Parkinson’s Disease phenotypes, and now, identifying clinical insights for HIV disease research.