Dr. Imtiaz Khan is an Associate Professor of Data Science with a mission to increase the veracity and value of big data. Having PhD in Bioinformatics from Cardiff University, UK and Marie Curie post-doctoral fellowship at Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, USA, he currently leads the Centre for Industry 4.0 and Blockchain Research at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. This centre has a wide range of AI and Web 3.0 technologies (blockchain, digital twin etc.) related research and development projects. He has recently been awarded the Wales Technology Award (Best Blockchain Application category) and was the recipient of the Longitude Prize on Dementia. He led several industrial projects with companies like Airbus and government organisations like Companies House, UK and National Health Services, UK. He also led several Innovate UK projects with SMEs facilitating industry 4.0 transformation. He is also a steering committee member of the Wales Digital Twin Network and Blockchain Connected Council, Wales. He is an editorial board member of several international journals like Blockchain for Healthcare Today, Frontiers in Blockchain, Springer Nature Humanities and Social Sciences.

He is the founding programme director of the first-of-its-kind Degree Apprenticeship Data Science programme in Wales, which he designed, developed and delivered in collaboration with the Office of National Statistics, UK.