Professor Alicja Rudnicka is a Professor in Statistical Epidemiology in the Population Health Research Institute. Professor Rudnicka has been involved in a wide spectrum of epidemiological enquiry including large-scale population based studies and the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology for analyzing retinal images for risk prediction and disease detection. She is involved in evaluating AI technology to analyse retinal images to detect sight-threatening diabetic eye disease patients with diabetes attending for annual screening for eye disease. She is a co-investigator on a Welcome Trust Collaborative award examining novel AI applications to retinal images and biomedical phenotypes to predict diabetes related complications, with the ultimate aim to improve prognosis among those living with diabetes