Staff Profile

Hugo Hiden is a Principal Research Associate in the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University. His current role is as the software development lead on the Mobilise-D and SUSTAIN projects, which are developing clinically validated Digital Mobility Measurements for a range of degenerative diseases including Parkinsons, COPD, MS and Conjestive Heart Failure.

He is also the principal developer of the e-Science Central platform, a cloud based data processing system which has been used in a number of academic and commercial contexts. Prior to his University role, he spent 6 years in industry developing advanced data integration, analysis and modelling tools at Avantium Technologies and GSE Systems Inc. Hugo holds a PhD in the application of Genetic Programming to chemical process data analysis and has published numerous papers on the subjects of cloud computing, process monitoring, computer security and collaborative R&D.

• Articles

  • Lumsdon J, Wilson C, Alcock L, Becker C, Benvenuti F, Bonci T, van den Brande K, Brittain G, Brown P, Buckley E, Caruso M, Caulfield B, Cereatti A, Delgado-Ortiz L, Del Din S, Evers J, Gracia-Aymerich J, Gassner H, Arieh TG, Hansen C, Hausdorff JM, Hiden H, Hume E, Kirk C, Maetzler W, Megaritis D, Rochester L, Scott K, Sharrack B, Sutton N, Vereijken B, Vogiatzis I, Yarnall A, Keogh A, Alma Cantu A. Cocreating the visualisation of digital mobility outcomes: a Delphi-process with patients. JMIR Formative Research 2025, 9, e68782.
  • Kluge F, Brand YE, Mico-Amigo E, Bertuletti S, Gazit E, Bonci T, Kirk C, Kuderle A, Palmerini L, Paraschiv-Ionescu A, Salis F, Soltani A, Ullrich M, Alcock L, Arminian K, Becker C, Brown P, Buekers J, Carsin AE, Caruso M, Caulfield B, Cereatti A, Chiari L, Echevarria C, Eskofier BM, Evers J, Garcia-Aymerich J, Hache T, Hansen C, Hausdorff JM, Hiden H, Hume E, Keogh A, Koch S, Maetzler W, MacLean MK, Megaritis D, Niessen M, Perlman O, Schwickert L, Scott K, Sharrack B, Sillen H, Singleton D, Vereijken B, Vogiatzis I, Yarnall AJ, Rochester L, Mazza C, Del Din S, Mueller A. Real-world gait detection using a wrist-worn inertial sensor: Validation study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2024, 8, e50035.
  • Kirk C, Küderle A, Micó-Amigo ME, Bonci T, Paraschiv-Ionescu A, Ullrich M, Soltani A, Gazit E, Salis F, Alcock L, Aminian K, Becker C, Bertuletti S, Brown P, Buckley E, Cantu A, Carsin A, Caruso M, Caulfield B, Cereatti A, Chiari L, D'Ascanio I, Garcia-Aymerich J, Hansen C, Hausdorff JM, Hiden H, Hume E, Keogh A, Kluge F, Koch S, Maetzler W, Megaritis D, Mueller A, Niessen M, Palmerini L, Schwickert L, Scott K, Sharrack B, Sillén H, Singleton D, Vereijken B, Vogiatzis I, Yarnall A, Rochester L, Mazzà C, Eskofier B, Del Din S, Mobilise‑D consortium. Mobilise-D insights to estimate real-world walking speed in multiple conditions with a wearable device. Scientific Reports 2024, 14, 1754.
  • Palmerini L, Reggi L, Bonci T, Del Din S, Micó-Amigo ME, Salis F, Bertuletti S, Caruso M, Cereatti A, Gazit E, Paraschiv-Ionescu A, Soltani A, Kluge F, Küderle A, Ullrich M, Kirk C, Hiden H, D'Ascanio I, Hansen C, Rochester L, Mazzà C, Chiari L. Mobility recorded by wearable devices and gold standards: the Mobilise-D procedure for data standardization. Scientific Data 2023, 10, 38.
  • Micó-Amigo ME, Bonci T, Paraschiv-Ionescu A, Ullrich M, Kirk C, Soltani A, Küderle A, Gazit E, Salis F, Alcock L, Aminian K, Becker C, Bertuletti S, Brown P, Buckley E, Cantu A, Carsin A, Caruso M, Caulfield B, Cereatti A, Chiari L, D'Ascanio I, Eskofier B, Fernstad S, Froehlich M, Garcia-Aymerich J, Hansen C, Hausdorff JM, Hiden H, Hume E, Keogh A, Kluge F, Koch S, Maetzler W, Megaritis D, Mueller A, Niessen M, Palmerini L, Schwickert L, Scott K, Sharrack B, Sillén H, Singleton D, Vereijken B, Vogiatzis I, Yarnall AJ, Rochester L, Mazzà C, Del Din S, Mobilise-D consortium. Assessing real-world gait with digital technology? Validation, insights and recommendations from the Mobilise-D consortium. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2023, 20, 78.
  • Mazzà C, Alcock L, Aminian K, Becker C, Bertuletti S, Bonci T, Brown P, Brozgol M, Buckley E, Carsin A, Caruso M, Caulfield B, Cereatti A, Chiari L, Chynkiamis N, Ciravegna F, Del Din S, Eskofier B, Evers J, Garcia-Aymerich J, Gazit E, Hansen C, Hausdorff J, Helbostad J, Hiden H, Hume E, Paraschiv-Ionescu A, Ireson N, Keogh A, Kirk C, Kluge F, Koch S, Küderle A, Lanfranchi V, Maetzler W, Micó-Amigo EM, Mueller A, Neatrour I, Niessen M, P Luca, P L, Reggi L, Salis F, Schwickert L, Scott K, Sharrack B, Sillen H, Singleton D, Soltani A, Taraldsen K, Ullrich M, Van Gelder L, Vereijken B, Vogiatzis I, Warmerdam E, Yarnall A, Rochester L. Technical validation of real-world monitoring of gait: a multicentric observational study. BMJ Open 2021, 11(12), e050785.
  • Zhu G, Cassidy S, Hiden H, Woodman S, Trenell M, Gunn D, Catt M, Birch-Machin MA, Anderson KN. Exploration of sleep as a specific risk factor for poor metabolic and mental health: a UK Biobank study of 84,404 participants. Nature and Science of Sleep 2021, 13, 1903-1912.
  • Zhu G, Catt M, Cassidy S, Birch-Machin MA, Trenell M, Hiden H, Woodman S, Anderson KN. Objective sleep assessment in >80,000 UK mid-life adults: associations with sociodemographic characteristics, physical activity and caffeine. PLoS ONE 2019, 14(12), e0226220.
  • Woodman S, Hiden H, Watson P. Applications of Provenance in Performance Prediction and Data Storage Optimisation. Future Generation Computer Systems 2017, 75, 299-309.
  • Blanquer I, Brasche G, Cala J, Gagliardi F, Gannon D, Hiden H, Soncu H, Takeda K, Tomas A, Woodman S. Supporting NGS pipelines in the cloud. EMBnet.journal 2013, 19, 14-16.
  • Missier P, Woodman S, Hiden H, Watson P. Provenance and data differencing for workflow reproducibility analysis. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 2013, n/a, n/a.
  • Hiden H, Woodman S, Watson P, Cala J. Developing cloud applications using the e-science central platform. Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2013, 371(1983), 20120085.
  • Cała J, Hiden H, Woodman S, Watson P. Cloud computing for fast prediction of chemical activity. Future Generation Computer Systems 2013, 29(7), 1860-1869.
  • Hobona G, Fairbairn D, Hiden H, James P. Orchestration of Grid-enabled Geospatial Web Services in Geoscientific Workflows. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 2010, 7(2), 407-411.
  • Watson P, Hiden H, Woodman S. e-Science Central for CARMEN: Science as a service. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 2010, 22(17), 2369-2380.
  • Norman SJ, Lawson SEM, Olivier P, Watson P, Chan AMA, Dade-Robertson M, Dunphy P, Green D, Hiden H, Hook J, Jackson DG. AMUC: Associated Motion Capture User Categories. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2009, 367(1898), 2771-2780.
  • Periorellis P, Cook N, Hiden H, Conlin A, Hamilton MD, Wu J, Bryans J, Gong X, Zhu F, Smith R, Watson P, Wright AR. GOLD infrastructure for virtual organizations. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 2008, 20(11), 1273-1288.
  • Lennox B, Kipling K, Glassey J, Montague G, Willis M, Hiden H. Automated production support for the bioprocess industry. Biotechnology Progress 2002, 18(2), 269-275.
  • Lennox B, Montague GA, Hiden HG, Kornfeld G, Goulding PR. Process monitoring of an industrial fed-batch fermentation. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 2001, 74(2), 125-135.
  • Albert S, Hiden H, Conlin A, Martin EB, Montague GA, Morris AJ. Inferential quality assessment in breakfast cereal production. Journal of Food Engineering 2001, 50(3), 157-166.
  • Lennox B, Hiden HG, Montague GA, Kornfeld G, Goulding PR. Application of multivariate statistical process control to batch operations. Computers and Chemical Engineering 2000, 24(2-7), 291-296.
  • Hiden HG, Willis MJ, Tham MT, Montague GA. Non-linear principal components analysis using genetic programming. Computers and Chemical Engineering 1999, 23(3), 413-425.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Watson P, Hiden H. The e-Science Central Study Data Platform. In: IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science 2022). 2022, Salt Lake City, UT, USA: IEEE.
  • Simpson M, Woodman S, Hiden H, Stein S, Dowsland S, Turner M, Hanson VL, Watson P. A platform for the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data about the built environment and its users. In: Proceedings - 13th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2017. 2017, Auckland, New Zealand: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
  • Hiden HG, Woodman SJ, Watson P. Prediction of workflow execution time using provenance traces: practical applications in medical data processing. In: 2016 IEEE 12th International Conference on e-Science. 2016, Baltimore, MA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
  • Del Din S, Hickey A, Woodman S, Hiden H, Morris R, Watson P, Nazarpour K, Catt M, Rochester L, Godfrey A. Accelerometer-based gait assessment: pragmatic deployment on an international scale. In: IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP 2016). 2016, Palma de Mallorca, Spain: IEEE.
  • Woodman S, Hiden H, Watson P. Workflow Provenance: An Analysis of Long Term Storage Costs. In: WORKS '15 Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science. 2015, Austin, Texas: ACM.
  • Woodman S, Hiden H, Turner M, Dowsland S, Watson P. Monitoring of Upper Limb Rehabilitation and Recovery after Stroke: an Architecture for a Cloud-based Therapy Platform. In: 2015 IEEE 11th International Conference on e-Science. 2015, Munich: IEEE.
  • Hiden H, Woodman S, Watson P. A framework for dynamically generating predictive models of workflow execution. In: WORKS '13 Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science. 2013, Denver, CO: ACM Digital Library.
  • Hiden H, Woodman S, Watson P, Catt M, Trenell M, Zhang S. Improving the scalability of movement monitoring workflows: An architecture for the integration of the Hadoop File System into e-Science Central. In: Digital Research. 2012, Oxford, UK.
  • Cala J, Hiden H, Woodman S, Watson P. Fast Exploration of the QSAR Model Space with e-Science Central and Windows Azure. In: Microsoft Cloud Futures. 2012, Berkeley, California, USA.
  • Cala J, Hiden H, Watson P, Woodman S. Cloud computing for fast prediction of chemical activity. In: 2nd International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Scientific Applications (CCSA). 2012, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Watson P, Hiden H, Woodman S, Leahy D, Cala J, Missier P. The Panel of Experts Cloud Pattern. In: Proceedings of the third international workshop on Cloud data management (CloudDB). 2011, Glasgow, Scotland: ACM.
  • Woodman S, Hiden H, Watson P, Cala J. Drug Design Experiments in the Cloud. In: Microsoft e-Science Workshop. 2011, Stockholm, Sweden: Microsoft.
  • Woodman S, Hiden H, Watston P, Cala J. Developing Applications using the e-Science Central API. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting. 2011, York.
  • Woodman S, Hiden H, Watson P, Missier P. Achieving Reproducibility by Combining Provenance with Service and Workflow Versioning. In: 6th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science. 2011, Seattle, Washington, USA: ACM Digital Library.
  • Watson P, Hiden H, Woodman S, Leahy D, Cala J. e-Science Central: e-Science on the Web, powered by Clouds. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting. 2010, Cardiff.
  • Hiden H, Watson P, Leahy D, Cala J, Searson D, Sykora V, Woodman S. Accelerating Chemical Property Prediction with Cloud Computing. In: Microsoft e-Science Workshop. 2010, Berkeley, CA: Microsoft.
  • Perioellis P, Cook N, Hiden H, Conlin A, Hamilton MD, Wu J, Bryans J, Gong X, Zhu F, Wright A. The GOLD Project: Architecture, Development and Deployment. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2006. 2006, Nottingham, UK: National e-Science Centre.
  • Periorellis P, Cook N, Hiden H, Conlin A, Hamilton MD, Wu J, Bryans J, Gong X, Zhu F, Wright A. GOLD Infrastructure for Virtual Organisations. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2006. 2006, Nottingham, UK: National e-Science Centre.
  • Conlin A, English P, Hiden H, Morris J, Smith R, Wright A. A Computer Architecture to Support the operation of Virtual Organisation for the Chemical Development Lifecycle. In: European Symposium on Computewr Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE). 2005, Barcelona, Spain: Elsevier.

• Notes

  • Kirk C, Kuderle A, Mico-Amigo ME, Bonci T, Ullrich M, Soltani A, Gazit E, Salis F, Alcock L, Aminian K, Becker C, Bertuletti S, Brown P, Buckley E, Cantu A, Carsin A-E, Caruso M, Caulfield B, Cereatti A, Chiari L, D'Ascanio I, Garcia-Aymerich J, Hansen C, Hausdorff JM, Hiden H, Hume E, Keogh A, Kluge F, Koch S, Maetzler W, Megaritis D, Mueller A, Niessen M, Palmerini L, Schwickert L, Scott K, Sharrack B, Sillen H, Singleton D, Vereijken B, Vogiatzis I, Yarnall AJ, Rochester L, Mazza C, Eskofier BM, Del Din S, Van Gelder L, Vaci L, Radford A, Priest D, Pattanaik D, Patel S, Paling D, Nair S, Mubarak-Mohamed A, Moll S, Misraq S, McNeil J, Long M, Lanfranchi V, Islam M, Ishmail A, Ireson N, Haslam L, Han S, Ciravegna F, Brittain G, Birchall S, Shi JQ, Pantall A, Packer E, Neatrour I, Amigo EM, Lirani-Silva E, Fernstad SJ, Hinchliffe C, Hart A, Gibson A, Galna B, Cordova-Rivera L, Brown P, Bailey H, Bacardit J, Armitage G, Philip M, Mac Namee B, Kechadi T, Ifrim G, Goulding C, Bevilaqua A, Winkler J, Weitzenfelder A, Stirnweiss T, Stallforth S, Seifferth S, Rothhammer V, Regensburger M, Nickel F, Marxreiter F, Klucken J, Jukic J, Huhn K, Greinwalder T, Gassner H, Dettmer S, Zumbrunnen V, Spielmanns M, Spielmanns S, Sigrist T, Riegler T, Puhan M, Polhemus A, Maggi-Beba M, Keller M, Hackl K, Frei A, Buesching G, Zaffaroni M, Tacchino A, Rodegher M, Martinis M, Mahajneh A, Leocani L, Giancarlo C, Costa GD, Brichetto G, Bonanno V, Manca A, AndreaCereatti, Chynkiamis N, Yehezkyahu S, Saban A, Mirelman A, Hillel I, Herman T, Hausdorff J, Giladi N, Thumm PC, Buzaglo D, Brozgol M, Shnider S, Reich M, Melamed M, Loupe P, Gordon M, Fry L, Tolkoff M, Merlo-Pich E, Dowling A, Ciucchiuini A, Chambers M, Jouannin M, Cariou M, Bonche F, Bascle S, Ammour N, Zoller V, Wohlrab M, Uysal E, Schwab M, Rapp K, Mikolaizak S, Litz E, Klenk J, Kinner B, Jansen C-P, Jaeger S, Huber C, Gierka M, Endress C, Brenner N, Zimmermann I, Watz H, Russ M, Paash K, Kirsten A-M, Zhang H, Tarachandani A, Stokes E, Psaltos D, Mather J, Karahanoglu I, Junrui D, Gameiro M, Demanuele C, Cai X, van Steenbergen L, Schluechter S, Roubenoff R, Praestgaard J, Miller R, Maahs S, Lukawy J, Penna SH, Hariry S, Hache T, Grenet O, Erdemli G, Dartee W, Bunte O, Taraldsen K, Skaslien E, Saltvedt I, Odden M, Midtsand I, Marcuzzi A, Johnsen LG, Helbostad J, Gronvik KB, Engdal M, Diaconu M, Berge MA, Hyvert Y, Aydemir A, Siepman L, Mouthaan N, Frouws S, Evers J, Cornelisse L, Wuyts M, Witvrouw M, Vanhoutte T, Troosters T, Nieuwboer A, Janssenns W, Hulzinga F, Hulst L, Haerens V, Glorie L, Ginis P, Ghosh N, Demeyer H, Breuls S, Wenn D, Jackson M, Williams P, Polkey M, Philip K, Perkins A, Hopkinson N, Buttery S, Skerrit B, Skackov M, Schueler P, Chavez IR, Quinn G, Mc Carthy M, Ramanna KM, Malouvier A, Lalor R, Kelly S, Kelly S, Howard K, Holt B, Fox R, Edieux M-S, Borlikova G, Froehlich M, Ahmad A, Jose A, Gimeno-Santos E, Aymerich JG, Garcia MF, Ortiz LD, Llobet AD, Cobo I, Cardenas G, Buekers J, de Basea MB, Serrano VA, Eskofier B, Ionescu A, Ionescu A, Sowalsky K, Sekaram A, Reed D, Raymond S, Pletneva N, Nica N, Krieger S, Imeri S, Horak F, Gizdic A, Folaron P, Beckstrom K, Arnera V, Schlenstedt C, Maetzler C, Kudelka J, Hildesheim H, Emmert K, Berg D, Verissimo A-S, Murauer E, Miot S, Kaan C, Galtier F, Driss V, Dagneaux L, Cerret F, Canovas F, Broussous S, Blain H, Ahachad H, Trubel H, Piraino P, Kramer F, Knezevic I, Boettger M, Saraiva G, Rohou SC, Mugnier P, Jornten-karlsson M, Jarretta D, Havsol J, Simon J, Shen L, Radcliffe H-S, Pourbaix N, Pocrzepa M, Knusel B, Kassner A, Gnacadja G, Elliot-Davey M, Doyle M, Desmond J, D'Apote L, Viceconti M, Reggi L, Ranciati S, Galimberti G, De Michele R, Davico G, Curreli C, Bottin F. Correction to: Mobilise-D insights to estimate real-world walking speed in multiple conditions with a wearable device (Scientific Reports, (2024), 14, 1, (1754), 10.1038/s41598-024-51766-5). Scientific Reports 2024, 14(1), 28878.
  • Mico-Amigo ME, Bonci T, Paraschiv-Ionescu A, Ullrich M, Kirk C, Soltani A, Kuderle A, Gazit E, Salis F, Alcock L, Aminian K, Becker C, Bertuletti S, Brown P, Buckley E, Cantu A, Carsin A-E, Caruso M, Caulfield B, Cereatti A, Chiari L, D'Ascanio I, Eskofier B, Fernstad S, Froehlich M, Garcia-Aymerich J, Hansen C, Hausdorff JM, Hiden H, Hume E, Keogh A, Kluge F, Koch S, Maetzler W, Megaritis D, Mueller A, Niessen M, Palmerini L, Schwickert L, Scott K, Sharrack B, Sillen H, Singleton D, Vereijken B, Vogiatzis I, Yarnall AJ, Rochester L, Mazza C, Del Din S. Correction to: Assessing real-world gait with digital technology? Validation, insights and recommendations from the Mobilise-D consortium (Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, (2023), 20, 1, (78), 10.1186/s12984-023-01198-5). Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024, 21(1), 71.

• Reports

  • Hiden H, Woodman S, Watson P. Prediction of workflow execution time using provenance traces: practical applications in medical data processing. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1499.
  • Li B, Koutny M. Unfolding CSPT-nets. University of Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1463.
  • Freitas L, Jones CB, Velykis A, Whiteside I. How to say why (in AI4FM). Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1398.
  • Hiden H, Woodman S, Watson P. A framework for dynamically generating predictive models of workflow execution. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1396.
  • Missier P, Woodman S, Hiden H, Watson P. Provenance and data differencing for workflow reproducibility analysis. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2012. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1353.
  • Hao F, Clarke D. How to Delete a Secret. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2012. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1364.
  • Watson P, Leahy D, Cala J, Sykora V, Hiden H, Woodman S, Taylor M, Searson D. Cloud Computing for Chemical Activity Prediction. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1242.
  • Hiden H, Watson P, Woodman S, Leahy D. e-Science Central: Cloud-based e-Science and its application to chemical property modelling. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1227.
  • Norman SJ, Lawson S, Olivier P, Watson P, Chan A, Dade-Robertson M, Dunphy P, Green D, Hiden H, Hook J, Jackson D. Data Services for Associated Motion Capture User Categories. AHRC/EPSRC E-Science Demonstrator EP/E005624/1. AHESSC website: Newcastle University, 2007. AHRC/EPSRC E-Science Demonstrator EP/E005624/1.
  • Periorellis P, Cook N, Conlin A, Hiden HG, Watson P, Smith R, Wright A. Service Oriented Middleware for the Formation and Operation of Virtual Organisations: The GOLD Project. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2006. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 940.
  • Conlin A, Hiden H, Wright A. A chemical process development case study as a source of requirements for the GOLD project. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, 2006. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 968.
  • Conlin A, Cook N, Hiden H, Periorellis P, Smith R. GOLD Architecture Document. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2005. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 923.