Franek is an MRes student at UCL (Medical Imaging), contributing to research in the field of computer-assisted laparoscopic surgery. In 2023, he completed his dissertation on the advantages of image augmentation and transfer learning for small imaging datasets to aid in the classification of Necrotising Enterocolitis. His experience working in both the public health sector and defense R&D has equipped him with valuable human factors skills, which already prove useful in developing patient-safety technologies.