Anando Sen is a quantitative expert with particular interest in healthcare-related applications. He is currently part of the IDEAS National Evaluation Team at Northumbria University. Before joining Northumbria University, he was a Data Scientist at Newcastle University (John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre) working on the standardisation of paediatric clinical trial data. He has held previous positions at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Imaging Physics), Columbia University (Biomedical Informatics), and University of Houston (Biomedical Engineering). He was awarded his PhD (in Mathematics) from University of Houston in 2012.