Dr. Salil Patel is a computational neuroscientist (Oxford) and NIHR funded academic radiologist at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital (London). His research aims to diagnose and monitor diseases, with expertise in geometric deep learning, time series classification and multimodal fusion. He has won multiple national research prizes and fellowships. He has written for The Economist, enjoys reading (especially Woolf, Calvino, and Borges), and despite living in land-locked London is a qualified free-diver.