Arthur Thomas, PhD

Arthur Thomas has over 30 years’ experience at the boundary between informatics and the life sciences, with a particular emphasis on applications of artificial intelligence. He was founder and CEO of Proteus Associates, originally in the United States and more recently in the United Kingdom. He is also a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, working on health-related issues, an SAB member for the Global Health Network, Oxford, and a Graduate Adviser in Biomedicine at Balliol College, Oxford. Arthur’s principal expertise is in knowledge representation, image and data analytics and modelling of complex systems. He has served as a consultant to a large number of companies (ranging from startups to global corporations) in the life sciences and finance, and to government and academic institutions. He has also been an entrepreneur, having been a co-founder or founding consultant to a half-dozen companies in the life science space including BioWisdom/Instem, Caristo Diagnostics, CloudBroker and Paracel/Celera Genomics.

Arthur holds a BA degree in Physiology from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University. He also performed post-doctoral work at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.