Professor Ian Craddock Dean, Faculty of Engineering & Design
Ian is responsible for teaching, research and strategic planning in the Faculty of Engineering & Design.
Contact details
Tessa Ryall - Faculty Executive Coordinator tpk30@bath.ac.uk
Role
Professor Ian Craddock was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Engineering & Design in 2026.
He is a Professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.
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He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Research
Professor Ian Craddock’s research focuses on the development of technologies that support pervasive healthcare, self-management of long-term health conditions and digital biomarkers of disease. He is the PI and Co-Director of the EPSRC-funded TORUS Programme Grant (IRC) and of the LEAP Digital Health Hub. His research interests span ultra-low-power wireless communications, computer vision, data fusion and clinical decision support systems.
Career
Professor Craddock previously held the role of Head of School for Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering at the University of Bristol. He has also held roles as Research Director for the Faculty of Engineering and as Institutional lead for Digital Health at Bristol.
He has experience working across the whole of Engineering and into areas of Medicine as Principal Investigator (PI) of the SPHERE and TORUS EPSRC programme grants, of the LEAP Digital Health Hub, and as founding PI the Digital Health Centre for Doctoral Training. He also has eight years' experience in industry as Managing Director of Toshiba’s Bristol Research Laboratory, and six years’ experience on Bristol University’s Board of Trustees. He was previously on the REF Computer Science panel and EPSRC’s Strategic Advisory Board for Healthcare Technologies.
Education
Professor Craddock holds a BEng in Electronic and Communications Engineering and a PhD in electromagnetics from the University of Bristol.