Christopher Nugent is the Director of the Computer Science Research Institute and holds the position of Professor of Biomedical Engineering. He is based within the School of Computing and Mathematics at Ulster University. He received a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Systems and a DPhil in Biomedical Engineering both from Ulster University. Chris joined the University as a Research Fellow in 1999 and was appointed as Lecture in Computer Science in 2000. Following this, he held positions of Senior Lecturer and Reader within the Faculty of Computing and Engineering before he was appointed Professor of Biomedical Engineering in 2008. In 2016, he was awarded the Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship from Ulster University. His research within biomedical engineering addresses the themes of the development and evaluation of technologies to support ambient assisted living. Specifically, this has involved research in the topics of mobile-based reminding solutions, activity recognition, behavior modeling, and more recently, technology adoption modeling.