Dr. Winston’s research develops and applies computational neuroimaging approaches to assist people with refractory focal epilepsy undergoing neurosurgical treatment, and to better understand the cognitive comorbidities and outcomes from surgery. His research group has improved the detection of brain abnormalities causing seizures using novel quantitative contrasts and machine learning techniques. He contributes to two international multicentre neuroimaging studies, MELD (Multi-Centre Epilepsy Lesion Detection) and ENIGMA Epilepsy.

His current work includes exploring cognitive impairment present in people with epilepsy using robotics and neuroimaging and predicting risk of seizure recurrence after a first seizure using multimodal biomarker-based models incorporating MRI, EEG and cognition. He is a supervisor in the Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Translational Medicine Graduate Program and School of Computing at Queen’s University and has supervised over 20 graduate students and was elected an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2018 for research and teaching.