Built by students and staff at King's

Leads

Isaac Ng

Medical student at King's and MPhil in Epidemiology at Cambridge. Came up with qVault, designs it and leads its research. NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, Cohort 9.

Founder and co lead

Dr Mandeep Gill Sagoo

Reader in Anatomy and Inclusive Education and Faculty Inclusive Education Lead in the Biosciences at King's. Has led qVault's funded programme since 2023, including its race equity and inclusive education work.

Academic co lead

Victor Lau

Computer Science graduate from King's who built most of the platform you use today, from the question bank to Lenny in Anki.

Lead developer

Research team

Medical students at King's who work on qVault's studies with the leads.

Oscar Ho

Medical student at King's.

Research

Johnathan Sun

Medical student at King's.

Research

Nicolas Hau

Medical student at King's.

Research

Natalie Leung

Medical student at King's.

Research

What we believe, and who backed it

Free for every student

qVault is free for UK students, with no advertising or sale of student data. Our first King's Academy award funded work on AI written exam questions and flashcards, so medical students could practise with material from their own course.

• College Teaching Fund: AI. King's Academy, 2023–24
• AI powered personalised SBA questions for progress tracking. IFAA 2024
• Enhancing AI generated single best answer questions in medical education. ICERI 2024

Built with students, as partners

A medical student and an academic lead qVault together and share principal investigator status. Students help decide what we build. A 2024 focus group asked for questions, notes and flashcards from their own slides. Those requests became Create, qNotes and qCards.

• Student Partnership Impact Award. SEDA and Jisc, 2024
• qVault.ai: Student Staff Co Design and Personalised Learning. 12th Change Agents' Network Conference, University of Plymouth, 2025
• Synergistic feedback: personalisation with community quality assurance. EDULEARN24, 2024

Inclusive by design

qVault is led in part by a Faculty Inclusive Education Lead and designed to meet WCAG 2.2 AA. Our second King's Academy funding drew on what students and NHS staff told us to bring diverse cultural contexts into AI written clinical cases.

• College Teaching Fund: Race Equity and Inclusive Education. King's Academy, 2024–25
• Inclusive OSCE Reform: AI Case Generation and Real Time Communication Simulation. King's Academy Education Conference, 2025

Tested and published

We study how people learn with qVault and publish the findings. Lenny has been through a randomised crossover trial, with further work on the gap between perceived ease and performance. Our third King's Academy award supports research into how students learn from explanations.

• Evaluating a custom chatbot with first year medical students. Behavioral Sciences, 2025
• When easy feels effective: perception and performance in AI assisted anatomy. Journal of Anatomy, 2026
• College Teaching Fund: TASK. King's Academy, 2025–26
• Finalist, King's Engaged Research Awards. Integrated Education, Research and Service, 2026

Governed from the start

qVault is registered with the ICO and studied under King's ethics approval. Results are reported in aggregate, with small groups combined to protect individuals. Student content is never used to train AI.

• ICO registration. ZC218575
• King's College London ethics approval. LRM 25/26 40754

Ready for other universities

King's Innovation Catalyst funded our first pilots beyond King's. We have presented qVault to university educators and research audiences, and our founder joined the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme.

• SPARK Innovation. King's Innovation Catalyst, 2026
• NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. Cohort 9
• qVault at the AI in Education Innovation Showcase. King's College London, 2026
• Transforming Medical Education with qVault.ai. RIDE 2025, University of London
• Transforming Education through qVault.ai: Staff, Students and Beyond. AI in Education Showcase, King's College London, 2025

Past members

Many people have shaped qVault since 2023. Thank you to everyone who has been part of the team.

• Abirami Muthukumar
• Ananyaa Gupta
• Anjali Arackal
• Anthony Siu
• Chantelle Gaza
• Claire Han
• Eren Park
• Lavish Kumar
• Rojus Cesonis
• Sophia Wooden
• Syed Nafsan
• Tanzil Islam
• Yassin Ali
• Zhen Chien Ong

Lenny

Lenny is named after the real cat who lives on Guy's Campus.

Get involved

Questions or ideas about qVault? Email team@qvault.ai.