Alistair Hann
English, co-founder of online travel search start-up Zoombu (sold to skyscanner) and now development leader at skyscanner. Formerly did PhD in artificial intelligence and was consultant to biotech spin-out.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~ahann |
| Industries: | Biotech, Health, Internet, Travel |
| Skills: | AJAX, Business, C/C++, Chinese, Computer Engineering, Database Administration, Databases, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, French, German, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, Marketing, PHP, Software Engineering, Spanish, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web Development, Windows |
| Location: | Oxford, UK |
| Groups: | CUTEC, Oxford Entrepreneurs |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Helping friends, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company |
| Tags: | Artificial Intelligence, Medical Devices, signal processing, travel search |
| Schools: | Princeton University, University of Oxford |
FEATURED STARTUP
zoombu
zoombu
A travel search engine that finds integrated routes from your front door to your destination.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
FULL BIO
I studied engineering science at the University of Oxford, spending one year at Princeton University on an exchange program. Immediately afterwards I did a PhD in biomedical engineering at the University of Oxford, working on an alarm system for patients in high-dependency care. During my PhD I worked as a consultant for a med-tech startup that commercializes the intellectual property generated in our research group.
In February 2008 I was the joint winner of Oxford Enrepreneur's "Idea Idol" business idea competition, with 'zoombu'. I left my post-doc in 2008 to found zoombu, after 2.5 years zoombu was acquired by skyscanner where I now work.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | University of Oxford |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | October 2007 - June 2008 |
| Description: | My research continues that of my DPhil - designing alarm systems that detect when hospital patients are deteriorating and are at risk of an adverse event, such as cardiac arrest.
The latest phase of research involves including depth of consciousness in the system, and developing methods of continuously monitoring a patient's depth of consciousness using the EEG. |
| Employer: | Oxford BioSignals Medical |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | January 2005 - June 2008 |
| Description: | algorithm development, analysis of clinical trial results, writing patient monitor software. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Oxford |
| Time period: | 2004 - 2008 |
| Degree: | Biomedical Engineering, DPhil |
| University: | Princeton University |
| Time period: | 2003 - 2004 |
| Degree: | Electrical and Information Engineering |
| University: | University of Oxford |
| Time period: | 2000 - 2004 |
| Degree: | Electrical and Information Engineering, MEng |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | A randomised controlled trial of the effect of continuous electronic physiological monitoring on the adverse event rate in high risk medical and surgical patients.
Watkinson PJ, Barber VS, Price JD, Hann A, Tarassenko L, Young JD. Anaesthesia. 61(11) pp.1031-9, 2006 The value of data fusion for predicting alarms in critical care. Hann A, Tarassenko L, Patterson A, Barber V and Young D. 3rd IET Int. Conf. MEDSIP 2006 Integrated monitoring and analysis for early warning of patient deterioration. Tarassenko L, Hann A, Young D. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 97(2):pp.64-68, 2006 Multi-parameter monitoring for early warning of patient deterioration. Tarassenko L, Hann A, Patterson A, Braithwaite E, Davidson K, Barber V and Young D. 3rd IEE International Seminar on Medical Applications of Signal Processing, 2005 |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Princeton University Sailing Team, Oxford University Yacht Club, Swimming, Squash |
| Hobbies: | Travel, Cooking, Camping, Hiking |
| Clubs: | Oxford Entrepreneurs |
| Memberships: | IET |
| Awards: | Winner of Idea Idol, Said Business School Oxford, 2008
IET Posgraduate Scholarship, 2006 Rolls Royce Commendation at the SET for Britain competition at the House of Commons, 2006 |
Alistair's Startups (2)
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zoombu
A travel search engine that finds integrated routes from your front door to your destination.
Alistair's Contacts (11)
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Pärtel Tomberg
Estonian, 23, CEO of isePankur.ee - an Estonian-based peer-to-peer banking platform providing the most profitable social banking loans across the globe with annualised returns averaging at 20 per cent
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William Steward
British, 19, currently working at Zoombu.co.uk primarily doing front-end development & search engine optimisation, also CEO & Founder of FileDen.com.
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Steve Gotz
Innovation Evangelist, Skeptical Optimist, Probability Surfer, Nonconforming Mind and DIY-guy!