Perry Xiao

Professor Perry Xiao is a Professor of Physics and Electronics, and Course Director of MRes in General Engineering, from the Bioengineering Research Centre, School of Engineering, London South Bank University. He got his BEng in Opto-Electronics, MSc in Solid State Physics, and PhD in Photophysics. He is a fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) and a senior fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

His main research interest is to develop novel infrared and electronic sensing technologies for bio-engineering applications as well as industrial applications. He is an expert in AI, and has done many projects in the area of Health care. To date, he has successfully supervised 15 PhD students, got 2 UK patent applications with 2 new patent applications in process, and got over £1M research generated incomes. He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He also authored four books and three are with the renowned published Wiley:

• Designing Embedded Systems and the Internet of Things (IoT) with the ARM mbed

• Practical Java Programming for IoT, AI, and Blockchain

• Artificial Intelligence Programming with Python: From Zero to Hero

He is also a Director and Co-founder of Biox Systems Ltd, an university spin-out company, which designs and manufactures the state of the art skin measurement instruments AquaFlux and Epsilon. AquaFlux is for skin water loss measurement, and Epsilon permittivity imaging system is for skin water content measurements. AquaFlux and Epsilon have been used in over 200 organizations worldwide, including universities, hospitals and leading international pharmaceutical / cosmetic companies such as Unilever, P&G, and L'Oreal, GSK, Gillette, Boots, Johnson & Johnson, Colgate-Palmolive and Pfizer etc.