Professor Jim Davies
Colleges
Jim Davies
Professor of Software Engineering
- Director, Oxford EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Health Data Science
- Lead Data Scientist, National Consortium for Intelligent Medical Imaging
- Governing Body Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford
Jim Davies is Professor of Software Engineering and Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Health Data Science. He is leading the development of data standards and infrastructure for clinical and laboratory data across a network of NIHR Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs), as part of the NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative. He is also the Lead Data Scientist for the National Consortium for Intelligent Medical Imaging, funded by Innovate UK.
His research focuses on the development of new model- and metadata-driven techniques for big data engineering: techniques that support the automatic generation and configuration of software, and the automatic management and processing of data, based upon precise, abstract descriptions of structure, process, and intended interpretation. This work has been informed by practical, large-scale application in clinical research, healthcare delivery, and electronic governance.
Recent publications
Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Treatment Eligibility in the UK: Retrospective Longitudinal Cohort Data to Explore the Impact of Changes in Clinical Guidelines.
Journal article
Campbell C. et al, (2025), Journal of viral hepatitis, 32
Supporting cancer research on real-world data: extracting colorectal cancer status and explicitly written TNM stages from free-text imaging and histopathology reports.
Journal article
Tamm A. et al, (2025), BMJ health & care informatics, 32
Using ontologies to facilitate healthcare process mining and analysis
Journal article
Dwyer O. et al, (2025), Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
UK nationwide study of adults admitted to hospital with diabetic ketoacidosis or hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state and COVID-19.
Journal article
Field BCT. et al, (2023), Diabetes, obesity & metabolism, 25, 2012 - 2022